Any tips for a new Executioner main?
I'm fairly new to the game, but I've been a fan of it for a long time. I don't have a character above level 21, so I don't have access to any teachables yet.
I don't have many killers, so I would like to know which ones to power level for their perks.
Some basic strategies for killers in general would be appreciated, and strategies for good ol' Pyramid Head would be even more so.
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Don't release your ranged attack too early when they're running for an animation lock from a pallet or window vault. Release when you see they're locked in animation as if you don't many will fake turn last second after you've comited.
Don't just send them to cages randomly. You use the cages when you know all survivors are on your side of the map, they could have a Decisive Strike active, or you have two people on the ground.
You don't always need to release the ranged attack. Lots of times the survivor just seeing you about to use it will make them do a poor decision and you can just lift up to go for the m1 hit.
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I made a guide on p head, hope it helps.
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As for perks, Leatherface‘s perk Barbeque and Chilli greatly helps because it increases for earned BP and also give you a direction to go to after each hook. His other perk Franklins Demise is also a pretty good tool if you struggle against flashlight or key users.
General tips:
Try to properly learn to use your power over trying to get the best possible end result. It is more fun and in the end more rewarding if you can play efficiently instead of for example face-camping or something like that. Though Camping also has its strategy’s especially in Endgame/after all gens are done.
Be aware of your red glow and learn to mindgame with it when looping around structures that block direct line of sight between killer and survivor.
sometimes (or often) matchmaking will screw you and match you against opponents that feel like are making fun of you. Try to stay above it. Try to focus on learning your killer gameplay, again the match result is not as important if you learned stuff in it. It can get frustrating.
Pyramid Head:
don’t create long trails everywhere to torment survivors. Place those at strategic points in loops, doorways, vaults etc.
the range attack needs lots of training, and at least for me it always felt too easy for survivor dodge. You can of course time it right when survs are stuck in vault animation or something..
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The ranged attack is very easy to dodge unless survivors are in a choke point or they're animation locked. It's extremely low percentage if they are looking at you and have free lateral movement.
You can, however, use the threat of the ranged attack to get free basic attacks. Stick the sword in the ground and start walking towards them. If they vault or drop a pallet, ranged attack. If they keep going and you get close, regular attack.
I use the cages more than most. Keep in mind that the only way for survivors to get rid of the Tormented status is to get caged or to rescue someone from a cage. You run the risk of someone losing Torment if yoy cage and another Tormented survivor rescues them. You have to manage the status effects and keep them in mind.
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Be patient when using POTD. Survivors will try to juke it. If you want to learn to hit through walls better definitely recommend running I'm All Ears or Stridor. Ruin is better the PGTW on PH. Out of chase leave trails in the main building or killer shack but everyone other loop drop in chase.
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You'll want to trick survivors with POTD at pallet loops. You have to get into their mind I recommend watching PainReliever. He's very good aat DbD
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Don't send survivors to cage unless you absolutely have to. For example, you can immediately chase after another survivor and get them down. I find it better to hook them until I can Mori them on the ground. It only takes a second after all.
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What? That is terrible advice. One of the best ways to play Pyramid is send someone to a cage and then immediately tunnel them once they are rescued. You can kill people significantly faster than usual by doing that and bypass DS.
I would only hook on Pyramid head if I was behind and needed to camp someone.
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Learn to understand survivors movements. Often times around turns survivors will turn the opposite direction of a loop to avoid you punishment.
Source:
https://youtu.be/TeUR6idHDM4
I'd highly recommend watching newer PH guides, as the older ones are just power explanations.
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There.
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When piramyd head came out I played like a freak and used BBQ, Discordance, Pop Goes the Weasel, and Son of Light, and was the first time who I can be rank 1, but now Pop Goes the Weasel and Discordance are nerfed =/, so I recomend you play without unhurriedly, play all the killer that you have and little to little you buy the others maybe some say that is recomend you buy bubba first for bbq but I recomend you buy because you want to play with that killer because I guess you will end up buying all them, first enjoy the game because after a while it becomes very competitive.
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Its just the randomness of cages can work against you. Sometimes you'll cage and it'll pop up right next to a survivor and there goes your hook pressure. Tunneling is incredibly strong PH, absolutely, but his cages can help you immediately start another chase after you've just downed someone.
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Yeah but that’s the price you pay for ignoring basically every meaningful survivor defensive perk. Sometimes it works for you and the cage spawns like 10-15 seconds away, especially on small maps.
With good addons it is trivial to torment survivors sometimes, and they can be chain caged to death. Especially with nurses or stridor to quickly locate them after they are saved.
I would never just save it for death hook, you might as well just use a mori.
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I got excited when I saw this thread, thought I'd finally be able to give some credible advice for Pyramid Head.
Seems I was a bit late.
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I'm still learning the P Head but I like playing him. His playstyle is very oppressive. Still trying out all sorts of perk combos. I get more DC with Pyramidhead than Legion or Deadslinger. People really don't like him when you are winning. He has major comeback potential too - especially if you are using his cage! Just don't be afraid to hook someone if the cage is gonna appear next to their team.
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This is one of the least efficient ways of playing Pyramid Head and tunneling one survivor out of the game with cages from the start against a team who realise you're doing this will lose you the game.
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NOBODY HAS SAID THIS YET SO HI!!
My #1 piece of advice to anyone, absolutely anyone, learning Pyramid Head is this:
DO NOT BREAK PALLETS.
Obviously there are some exceptions to the rule, for example Shack pallet/other god pallets but for the record you do not want to be breaking pallets.
His power shines when people are stuck in animations and you can get easy hits on them with POTD (Punishment Of The Damned). Breaking pallets both wastes your time and gives you less opportunities for animation locked hits.
Most of the advice given here is also pretty solid tho (except the tunneling one, which is not a good idea. Tunnel someone from the start of the game and people will leave them in the cage just to rush gens).
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Yeah, I just do it all the time because it doesn’t work. Getting someone completely defenseless who is already injured is a bad strategy. With one of the most powerful chasing killers in the game. Are you serious?
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Considering how from my own personal experience it doesn't work particularly effectively in comparison to splitting pressure against a coordinated team and you're significantly better off splitting pressure across multiple survivors, yes I am 100% serious have a nice day.
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You can’t split pressure with a non one shot killer unless the survivors are terrible. Medkits completely counter any hit and run strategy. The only pressure is a slug, or murdering someone outright.
Pyramid head can kill someone so quickly if you know how to use him, you will eat a DS from their first hook as you go to place them on death hook sometimes. Sorry if you are too inexperienced to have seen that yourself.
“good day” aka I got no more logical arguments
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"if you know how to use him, you will eat a DS from their first hook as you go to place them on death hook sometimes. Sorry if you are too inexperienced to have seen that yourself."
Hey @Yamaoka remember that thread where I gave you Pyramid Head gameplay? Sorry man apparently I don't know how to play him and I'm really inexperienced.
It's not like I've put 500+ hours into exclusively him or anything.
It's not like I main the guy or anything.
It's not like I've streamed it to people and they've said I'm one of the best or anything.
Clearly I'm inexperienced as a killer because I'm good enough at the game to not need to tunnel people instantly.
My bad.
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A killer that follows the rule book? That only means you are going against boosted survivors. I hate to tell you.
You can only play nice in this game with ruin undying or if the survivors are garbage. Luckily, most survivors are garbage; because ruin undying is being canned.
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I only go against boosted survivors?
Damn, I didn't realise that I've never once faced a good survivor. Didn't realise that after 3 years of rank 1 I've never once at all faced someone who's good at the game. Thanks for enlightening me mr-I've-never-seen-your-gameplay, I'm really glad you can judge my exact playstyle based on that! It's really helpful bro.
Also, Mindbreaker/PGTW/BBQ/I'm All Ears. No RuinDying there anymore, hasn't been for 2 weeks and I'm still winning.
Maybe, just maybe, you're not as good as you think you are.
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That’s a cute build, that really does mean the survivors are bad.
Try taking it into a 4 man rank 1 SWF or these guys.
Double key swap and a coldwind offering. I’m rank 2 cause I love tombstone Myers and 1 shot killers. I haven’t been using ruin for weeks.
I tunnel and camp regularly. If you think it’s bad strategy I can link you the VODs of a guy going on a 300+ win streak doing it?
But I guess a 99% win ratio is a bad strategy
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Well I'd absolutely love to try it vs these guys and whenever one of them decides to show up in my lobby I'll give it a shot! The fact that I have done in the past doesn't seem to matter to you rather unfortunately but I'll make an attempt to get another despite the fact the system is currently borked.
Had I recorded them I'd love to send you my current winstreaks as PH without doing either of those things (can give you my Freddy one but that really doesn't say much because it's Freddy) but unfortunately I don't record all of my games and just have Shadowplay on in case there's a hacker.
I don't tunnel nor camp at all and I'm doing just fine. I get teams like this a lot vs Wraith, and it's not usually that large of an issue; still always at least 2k. Speed Limiter Bubba? You betcha I've got a 4k streak as him as well.
Again, maybe you're just bad at the game. But no, I'm the inexperienced one because I recognise that you don't have to tunnel and camp to kill people.
Okay honey xo
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I wanna thank you all for helping me out (or trying to, anyway. I already run NOED, I don't want to frustrate survivors anymore than that, and camping is painfully boring anyway).
I wanna tell you all something.... I can't access youtube. The reasons are complicated and convoluted, but there's a reason I asked the forums instead of just consulting the youtube algorithm.
Special thanks to Good Boy Karu. I was still breaking pallets before this.
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if you have these perks, then use this build, it weirdly works well and it has good synergy
BBQ, Infectious Fright, Thanatophobia, and Monitor & Abuse
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Ayo, it's cool! Some pallets like the one at the Crane you'll want to break too, because it's worth noting how his power works in terms of slopes:
You can shoot down some slopes that aren't too steep, but you cannot shoot up a slope. So pallets like the Crane pallet where they can run uphill are especially... meh for your power.
I'd suggest against using NOED on him, though, because you'll be using your M2 (secondary power) a lot of the time and so you won't get much value out of Exposed- out of using only his perks and basic perks I'd suggest this build:
Sloppy Butcher, Trial of Torment, Spies from the Shadows, and Iron Grasp. I'd also say to level up Ghostface soon, because the perk "I'm All Ears" is a genuine Godsend on him (obviously the usual killer tip of get BBQ ASAP) applies. Also, levelling up The Plague is good, because Infectious Fright is helpful, as is Corrupt Intervention.
Furthermore, I'd say to keep the torment for when it's needed. Don't just cage people left right and centre, you get a lot more pressure through hooks than through cages because it takes longer to get back into the game. Use a cage when people have been recently unhooked, or when you can start a new chase almost instantly.
Best of luck buddy :)
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the cage is useless with no survivors around
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Seems like you have failed at becoming the forum PH main :( Back to the drawing board !
On a serious note it's one hell of a coincidence you mentioned my thread and the matches you provided. I literally re-watched your matches like 2 days ago. Kinda crazy coincidence considering it's been quite a while since we discussed PH's chase duration.
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Haha that's mad.
But yeah I guess I'm just not a ph main im so sorry for lying to you :(
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