What is the benefit to the killer of hooking in the basement?

It's harder to safely rescue someone from the basement.

If you hook 2 guys in basement at same time, you win. If survivors not swarming you with flashlights you should probably not waste time trying to hook in basement. Hook in basement is time consuming for killer and for survivors. And if you not want to defend basement, you shouldn't hook in basement because you will waste big amount of time.

Defensive killers like Trapper and Hag can make basement save impossible. Bubba and Huntress are also great basement defenders. All the rest killers are good in basement only if survivors are overaltruistic.

Easy to defend, extremely difficult for the survivors to get a safe rescue.

If you're playing against a Bubba as well.. good luck lol

It takes a while to unhook survivors who are in the basement, also you may think 3 lockers to hide in is a bad thing for you, but if a survivor goes to hide in one to get away from you, just listen near the locker, you can hear them. Certain killers can make it impossible to save without a down, for example, the character in your profile pic, Trapper, can put a trap next to him while standing at the top of the staircase, and one person has to go down unless they heal or have dh.

Simple, to create better pressure.

The basement is much more out of the way than a hook above ground, so it's a time waster for them.

That and Basement Trapper. Mmm that's good.

I wouldn't mind a basement update. Give it a secret exit point. Make it so there's only one unbreakable hook. The game is now designed to punish killers for camping so they need to update this aspect of the maps.

It's a great way for me to get use out of Make Your Choice.

Even with that MYC required distance, it's not uncommon for me to get that hit in.

Thats Proxy camping.

I disagree. Camping is when you stay near the hook deliberately waiting for the save. I did not stick around with the intent of coming back. I left with the intent of resuming the hunt and the save was made while I was still nearby. It's not camping if you unhook in the killer's face.

Yes u are right becuz of the difference in the intent. But survivors won't look at it like that. And thus will claim u were proxy camping. Regardless of intent. The motion is the same.

It is not just for high quality camping, but it is also good to create pressure if you are lacking. If you can manage to hook 2 people in the basement, then you should consider staying near the basement guarding a 3 gen in you are lucky.

and this is why there are so many threads complaining about camping. The survivor's don't see the other end of the spectrum. They unhook, see the killer is upstairs and they assume he was sitting there waiting for the save. They don't consider the possibility that they made a mistake by rescuing too early. The killer wasn't far away or maybe the killer saw your tracks and came back. Which dev said your not allowed to hit someone who was pulled off a hook? Answer, no one.

Survivors, a word of advice. If your teammate isn't near stage 2 or about to die on the hook. It's okay to wait a bit just to make sure it's safe to make a rescue.

you answered it yourself already: only one entrance makes it easy (easier) to defend

I had to upload videos of my side of the match to convince survivors that I didn't tunnel after series of anger and accusations. After they saw the video from my side, 1 guy told me that he was wrong, and that I didn't camp or tunnel. The other 2 survivors didn't want to talk to me after.

I'm not sure how much of this has already been said, but I'm just going to go through every benefit I can think of in one concise list:

First of all, you have the two most basic things that all killers can use the basement for: Predictability and resource management. Basically, since there's only one way in or out and it takes a while to enter or leave, it's significantly easier to catch people running away from it, especially if you have a movement ability. It becomes even easier once you've played long enough that you sort of learn a sixth sense for when survivors are about to be unhooked. Beyond this, if someone dies in the basement, a hook isn't getting completely removed from play. Sometimes, this actually makes the difference between a 3K and a 4K.

Now, I'm going to make a bullet-point list of every killer who can get some form of unique benefit from basement:

• Trapper/Hag: You can make it take even longer for survivors to safely unhook people in the basement and then safely get out, often putting survivors in a lose/lose situation where they're either alerting you to their location or giving you enough time to see someone got unhooked down there and just walk over and be near two people.
• Billy: If you catch someone in the stairway, they're a goner.
• Nurse: You don't need to use the stairs. If you know where to do it, you can just teleport directly down into the basement from above.
• Myers: If you have T3 99'd, you can get the survivors into a really bad position by popping it when two people are right next to you.
• Doc: People being grouped up is always good for Doc. If you have static blast ready and you got to the basement entrance a little too late, you can pretty much guarantee two people are still in your terror radius.
• Huntress: If you can get to the point where you're looking at someone in the stairway, they're basically dead. There's not really much they can do in such a situation.
• Bubba: Do I even need to explain this one? It's Bubba. He was practically made for the basement.
• Clown: If you put smoke in the stairway, there's really no way for the survivors to avoid it other than waiting it out.
• Legion: Legion likes when people are near each other. Basement makes people near each other for longer.
• Plague: If neither person in basement was infected, they're probably both broken now. And if you have Corrupt Purge, it's basically the same situation as Huntress but even worse for the survivors.
• Demogorgon: You can put a portal very close to basement and if someone gets saved when you're close enough to another portal, they're in for a bad time.
• Oni: Like Billy, but with the limitation of having a full meter just like Myers.
• Pyramid Head: Pretty much the same logic as Hag, though not nearly as strong. You can make a wall around the basement entrance that survivors need to crouch over if they don't want to reveal their location, which gives you time. And, of course, if you can get two people at once with your shockwave attack, that's always pretty poggers.
• Twins: You can deploy Victor near the basement to detect survivors going in for the rescue. If you're a demon, you can also use the combination of Victor and Charlotte to fully bodyblock the stairway.

And just to cover all my bases, here's why I didn't mention other killers:

• Wraith: While Wraith can get to basement decently quickly, he doesn't really have anything that he can use to cash in on a basement hook aside from the convenience of having a better idea of where people are. It's not a bad idea to hook people in basement as him, but he's pretty weak as a basement killer.
• Fredwardo: Getting to basement quickly depends on whether gens have been completed near it or not. At most, one of the two people in basement will be asleep, meaning your snares will only work on one person. And they're likely to specifically only work when they're going in for the save, which is the less important time. It'll tell you when someone is going in for the save unless they just woke up. Ultimately, it's just not reliable enough for me to recommend as a strat. Too many moving parts that could easily misalign.
• Pig: Between having no movement and no pressure to groups of survivors, basement might as well be just another hook location.
• Spirit: The joke here is that you're gonna 4K anyways so it just doesn't matter.
• Ghostie: While I guess you could try to use the basement for some easy stalking, I doubt it'd work unless you already had the person going to the rescue 99'd because that stairway is just one massive sightline.
• Deathslinger: You can hit someone once, and then what?
• Blight: Pretty much the only thing basement has going for Blight is just the fact that Blight has crazy movement and can get across the map, like, instantly.