Camping is actually a viable and very strong Strategy

camping only works when the survivors allow it to work.

if the killer is camping a hook, that means they are not interrupting anyone on generators, so all the team has to do is repairing gens to counteract it.

additionally, there are multiple penalities in place that should make it a much less viable strategy, such as the camping penality in the chaser emblem, the hook requirement in the devout emblem, the hook counter in the malicious requirement and of course the lacking gen defense necessary for the gatekeeper emblem.

a killer that is camping therefore is a lot closer to throwing the game rather than actually playing well.

that said, camping is still often viewed as a "viable strategy" by many, as survivors tend to not want to abandon their friend on hook and then themselves end up throwing the game in the desperate hope of rescuing their friend. many run in and trade hooks or just sit around the hook for the full two minutes, waiting for an opening to rescue their friend.

if survivors do that, then camping becomes a very strong tool for the killer, where they still miss out on some emblem points, yet they still manage to get a lot more points, potentially enough to even rank up, than they would have gotten had the survivors just gone and repaired generators.

and before anyone says it: yes, a camping killer with NOED is usually able to secure themselves a second, sometimes even third kill. however, one hooking 2 or 3 survivors without having a large amount of chases or any gen defense will still get the killer to derank.

the only problematic part is, that the killer just takes all the survivors who died with him to the lower ranks, as they had no way of making any significant points throughout the match.

also i feel the need to point this out: hook defense =/= camping. the killer is not camping if they have clear knowledge of someone else being around and are looking for them / if they interrupt rescue attempts. camping means staying close to the hook for the sole reason of wanting the hooked survivor dead, without knowing anyone else is around.

Yeah, try hard camping vs good survivor team and you'll see the very grand result of 1 kill (if even assuming you aren't bubba) and 3 escapes. Hard camping without pressuring gens works on solo potatoes (as does everything) that heavily pollute even red ranks but once you face any good team be it 4 good solo players or even worse, coordinated SWF, you'll get owned if you overuse camping.

If survivors actually did gens when faced with hard camper insted of running around the hooked person hoping killer will leave which never happens, they would deter this kind of playstyle.

Unfortunately, every single time I see hard camper when I play survivor, others just run into his arms begging to be killed while I alone sit on gens hoping their ignorance will buy me enough time. If they at least knew how to properly save vs campers it wouldn't be that bad but usually they don't have any idea what to do.

Everyone knows it's viable (along with tunneling and slugging), it's just if Survivors don't like it, then it's a trash move in their book, lol.

At what rank you play for not having 2 gens pop in the first 1min-1min30 ? 3 is exagerated but 2 is very common cause most of maps are wide and it often take 30s to even find the 1rst survivor you can start a chase with. A red rank surv who can't at least loop for 30s in a fresh map (with all pallets untouched) is obvioulsy boosted.

And your math is wrong since good survivors can hit perfect skillcheck mostly and often brings toolbox (if not BNP) so 80s per gens is just theoric but in fact 60s is more close to the truth.

Facecamping is a toxic, boring and dumb move and can only works against new/bad players & ultra altruistic or braindead challenge doer.