Favourite underrated/underused perks?

I'll list a few of my personal favourites:

Agitation

This perk saves you so much time you didn't even know you were wasting. Hooking someone is a really time-consuming action and this perk makes it so much faster. Plus you can get some hits on survivors who get too cocky and think they can outrun you.

Fire Up

This perk kinda sucks, but what redeems it is that it can stack with other perks. Want to obliterate pallets? Run it with Brutal Strength. Want to vault faster than you've ever vaulted before? Run it with Bamboozle (bonus points if you're Myers). Plus the extra pick up speed is so nice, I feel like I'm picking survivors up in slow motion at the beginning of the game.

Hex: The Third Seal

This perk has the reputation of being one of the worst Hex perks in the game. However, that doesn't mean that it still can't do some major damage. Once you get everyone blind, you can slug like mad, and the general sense of confusion people have is quite funny (I once had someone kill themselves on hook when someone was just coming for a rescue). However, this perk kinda sucks against SWF and gets it's tokens stripped when respawned by Undying. Not a great perk, but it's a fun one.

Blood Warden

It's very unreliable, but if you can get it to activate it can turn a losing match into a 4k. The definition of an Ace up the sleeve. One of my favourite perks in the game.

Slippery Meat

Are you a gambling man? Are you the first person to be hooked every time you run Deliverance? Do you fancy challenging death to a game of dice? Run Slippery Meat. You're gambling a hook stage with a 60% chance of losing, but boy is it fun when you yeet yourself off the hook. Absolutely terrible perk, loads of fun to run (but only when it works).

Windows of Opportunity

An amazing perk to run if you're solo. Having the knowledge of what resources have been used up by your team is a must have for me personally.

Mettle of Man

Groovy.

I could go on for ages, there are so many underappreciated perks out there that are overshadowed by the meta.

Aftercare is criminally underrated imo. I'd put it at least on par with Bond and Empathy, and clearly better than both for solo queue because it lets you return information to your team as well. It's also fun to use because it gives you a secondary objective of finishing heals / getting healed by teammates to improve your team's aura reading.

Distortion is another perk that I rarely see people running that I think is very strong, especially in SWF. The aura hiding effect is nice, but that's not the real reason to run the perk; the real reason is the information it gives you. Let's imagine you're healing yourself reasonably close to the killer and you lose a stack. You now know she's running Nurse's and, in SWF, you can communicate the information back to your team. Same goes for other common perks like BBQ and Undying. My favorite part about Distortion though is specifically when it helps you determine when a killer is running something uncommon and/or difficult to infer. For example, it can tip you and your SWF off about Amanda's Letter Pigs, All Seeing Wraiths, Black Incense Plagues, Scratched Mirror Myers, Compound Twenty-One Blights, Glowing Concoction Huntress, I'm All Ears, Bitter Murmur, Territorial Imperative, Hangman's Trick, etc. It also allows you to rule out these builds when you don't lose stacks after meeting the conditions for your aura to be shown by them.

It used to be so good against old Ruin! Now it's a lot weaker and hit or miss depending on the killer, but I agree, I really like running it.

Friendly advice, careful you might become addicted like me and won't be able to remove it.

Does kindred not get talked about because everybody is already aware of its brilliance? That's the only explanation I have.

It makes getting hooked first feel like valuable martyrdom, can show you if a killer is camping a hook (so you can safely do gens), gives solo survivors a sense of comradary and map awareness.... It's just, a really good perk IMO.

Using it on a "Delete Everything and Go Fast" Wraith build is one of the funnest builds in the game imo. and there are multiple incarnations. It might not guarantee a win, but both are fun.

Slightly Meta Delete Everything Wraith: Windstorm, Shadow Dance (Blood works best) Enduring, Brutal Strength, STBFL, and some kind of regression perk (most likely PGTW)

True Delete Everything Wraith, or other wise known as - ######### Looping Wraith: Shadow Dance Blood, and Shadow Dance White or The Serpent (an add-on that decloaks you while you break pallets or generators) Enduring, Brutal Strength, STBFL, and either Bamboozle, Fire Up, or Spirit Fury. This build more than likely won't get you a win, but watching Survivor's panic after you break a pallet in like less than a second is the funniest thing in this game. STBFL helps with that immensely because of Wraith's M1 nature.

I agree he's super fun but a tough killer to master for sure. I think he has a very high skill ceiling. I'm always happy to hear people playing the new killers! Keep it up!