What's Your Build?

For survivor I’m currently using Iron Will, Spine Chill and Kindred with the 3rd perk changing. I’ve been using Deliverance quite a bit recently as I’m getting sick of being hooked at the end and watching the rest of the survivors sitting in the exit gate waiting for the killer and letting me die on my first hook. I also love Autodidact and Urban Evasion if I’m playing a female character.

For killer, as I currently main Deathslinger I’m using Monitor & Abuse, PGTW, BBQ and A Nurse’s Calling.

Depends on who I'm playing.

The only character I actually have a completed build on is Nancy. Which is Inner Stregnth, Spine Chill, Kindred and Calm Spirit. I run Calm Spirit because for some unknown reason if I encounter the Doctor its only ever when I play Nancy I usually encounter many of them if I decide to only play Nancy that day.

Okay so, here are all my current builds for everyone that I play right now (my survivor build is basically identical on everyone):

Survivor

The medkit lets me heal myself twice, sprint burst is very good, iron will because ######### you spirit, and ds because ######### you tunnelers. Shirtless David because, well- look at him :3

But replace the David with anyone I have P3 50 all perks and it works just as good.

Wraith

A combination of Windstorm and Swift Hunt helps me uncloak faster, so I can use his SuperLunge at loops easier, and traverse the map easier. PGTW is a great regression perk, BBQ lets me know where to go, Sloppy on Wraith is beautiful for slowing the game, since they want to be healed so your easy first hits don't become easy downs, and Mindbreaker basically kills off Dead Hard and Sprint Burst from a gen. It's really underrated.

Nurse

Double recharge because, well; it's double recharge. RuinDying because, well, it's RuinDying on a high mobility killer. BBQ helps me know where to go and when, and Shadowborn helps me not throw up as her.

Bubba

Extra speed add-ons allow me to catch up to people significantly easier and make the chainsaw so much more deadly. Same with extra time per charge. RuinDying because- well- RuinDying. Bamboozle removes Bubba's one hard counter- windows. BBQ for the same reason as usual.

Freddy

Blindness add-on because ######### your OOO. STBFL is godly since Freddy's an M1 killer. Surge is really, really helpful too. Then, the BBQ/PGTW combo on Freddy? Basically wins you games by itself.

Pyramid Head (Daddy Dorito)

RuinUndying because- yeah. Double range add-ons makes your POTD even more deadly than it already is. I'm All Ears because wallhacks which, on a killer who can hit through walls, shouldn't ever- ever- be underestimated. BBQ finally for more points and to know which gens to pressure.

So many RuinDyingBBQ cores; I know I'm really creative.

Those are my personal reasons as to why I select those perks, however. I don't like to use problematic perk combinations that I hate facing as killer, hence the lack of DS/UB/SG/IW (which, if I wanted to have the strongest perks in the game as possible, I'd have). It's all well and good with other people selecting the perks just because they're strong perks, but I have a legitimate reason for each. Another reason for Sprint Burst over Dead Hard is that it's a very helpful counter to Spirit and Slinger, two killers I absolutely despise, as having lots and lots of distance between you and them is one of the only things you can do against them.

Again, maybe people will just stick on x perk because it's strong, but I do have actual reasons for why I use them.

I just like the increase; it really isn't much I know but it just feels faster.

trust me shirtless david with shorts is one of the few things that makes me happy anymore, i have to post it whenever i can im so gay for him.

its just kinda, a comfort if that makes sense? not really there for practicality, but moreso because i like it.

But Mindbreaker? It's sooooooooooo ######### underrated omg people be hardcore sleeping on this perk!

It kind of varies between my survivors based on what I have, but I think my favorite build to run is Iron Will, We'll Make It, Balanced Landing, and either Spine Chill or Dark Sense.

When I play killer, all my builds are different because I don't play it as often and don't have loads of perks, but Iron Grasp is a must have in all builds because I hate dealing with the wiggling effects lmao.

I don't see the point of both NOED and Rancor. A good team will only let you get 1 kill with either of them. My experiences with Rancor is that by the time you are even done with the Mori animation the survivors have opened the door. I use it just to screw with people who have DS'd me earlier but even then I prefer perks that help me never make it to the endgame in the first place and don't use either.

I also don't like NOED with ruin undying. Totem cleansing is meta now and ruin undying gives the team a reason to cleanse all 5 totems before the endgame. NOED by itself is alot stronger in my opinion since nobody has a reason to cleanse totems until they are already hit with it.

Yeah but that's conceding two perk slots in the expectation you will lose the match. I only use NOED on killers I am new to playing, and expect to lose on. Otherwise it's a waste of a perk slot to me. It's a free cheap kill when you lost sure, but as I said I would rather never make it to the endgame.

One of the best killers I have seen did ruin + undying + pop for a while; so he had pop if ruin undying went down too fast. But he eventually stopped since ruin undying was enough of a stall perk for him in the overwhelming majority of games. He moved to discordance or surveillance depending on the killer, and I agree. Ruin undying discordance is a super strong combo and helps you control the gens enough to never make it to endgame or need NOED if you are playing the killer well and applying enough pressure for ruin to do its work.

Hmm, it's different for different killers obviously, but some builds I think are fun to play (not necessarily the most "effective" to play but fun 😄).

I want them to hear me coming

• Distressing (increases terror radius, bonus to score)
• Unnerving Presence (skill checks in the terror radius are 60% size and happen more often)
• Overcharge (after kicking a gen the next survivor need to do a difficult skill check or it explodes and suffers a penalty. Stacks with Unnerving Presence to make the skill check that's needed just slightly larger than a Great skill check, so it's not that easy to hit.)
• Four perk varies based on what's available, but ones that fit the theme are
  • Coulrophobia (halves healing speed in terror radius)
  • Overwhelming Presence (tools only last half as long in terror radius)
  • Agitation (increases terror radius and you move faster while carrying someone)
  • Hex Huntress Lullaby (reduces and eliminates the sound cue for skill checks)

This is usually a Doctor build, of course, since increasing his terror radius also increases his Static Blast range. I prefer not to use Calm with this personally so that I can use Static Blast freely without losing any terror radius. I've also occasionally used this build on other killers for fun just because I happened to get the first three perks in their bloodwebs. (I think my Trapper still has this build even. 😄)

I want them to cleanse

• Hex: Haunted Grounds (Survivors are Exposed for 60 seconds when this hex is cleansed)
• Hex: Retribution (When a hex is cleansed all survivor auras are visible for 10 seconds. Also if a dull totem is cleansed the survivor is Oblivious)
• Hex: Thrill of the Hunt (Increases cleansing time, gives sound alerts when they start cleansing)
• Fill in the blank fourth perk. Sometimes it's a fourth hex, sometimes it isn't. Undying can certainly fit the build, so can any Hex though.

This one is a favorite in the current meta of survivors being hyper focused on cleansing totems. With the way survivors are playing nowadays the Haunted Grounds hex never fails to go off early in the match, it's pretty hilarious. 😄 And because of Retribution I know exactly where the survivors are when that happens (unless they get lucky and happen to cleanse Retribution first, but even then I still know where they are.)

I want them to blind me

• Lightborn (Immune to flashlights and if someone tries to blind you then you see their aura for 10 seconds)
• Enduring (Halves time of pallet stuns)
• Brutal (Destroy pallets twice as quickly)
• Agitation (Move faster than a survivor while carrying someone)

So this one is a total gimmick but it's always good for a laugh when it works. Basically if anybody tries to flashlight blind you after a pallet stun or pallet drop you will pretty much get a hit 100% of the time since not only aren't you blinded and they aren't running away but you destroy the pallet extremely quickly and, even if they try and juke you somehow, you can see their aura. Likewise when you pick up someone you just downed, if a survivor tries to run in for a flashlight save you can outrun them even while carrying the person and get an easy hit while still being able to hook the person. The Agitation also works well in general against swf members who constantly try and bodyblock you from the hook since you can not only hit the blocker but move that much more quickly to the hook afterward.

I main Pig, so my build is fit best for her. I usually run Enduring, Bamboozle, Whispers, and BBQ. With Pig, you should usually be running two tracking perks and two chase perks. Pig's best addons are combat straps and video tape, so I run those if I feel the need.

yo where'd you get those perk icons? 👀

thank you!

For survivor, I've been running Head On + inner strength + WGLF + Kindred (or OoO if i'm in SWF)

on killer I'm more flexible, I'll run anything as long as ive got BBQ

I've fallen into a rut with survivor (solo) where I keep running Self Care + Desperate Measures + Lithe + Kindred. It works well for me, but, whenever I feel like I want to play something more interesting or fun, I end up getting frustrated because I'm used to being able to heal myself or pop through a window to get speed or see where the killer is when someone gets hooked, and suddenly not being able to do that feels awful.