Pig mains, I need your advice 🐷

I’m not a pig main, but some advice that I can give that I see many pigs do that can mess them up is using your crouch too much. Yes, it is a very good tool in your arsenal, but the slowdown you get makes your map presence a bit small. I suggest, and this is what I do, if you know where survivors are, don’t crouch until you are in terror radius distance and don’t crouch after every engagement cause that can make you predictable and survivors will keep their guard up more than if you were to seemingly be random with your crouches.

As a (mostly) Pig main, I'll offer the following:

-- As others have said, don't overuse your crouch. You move so slowly with it, you can't use it to get across the map. When you're nearing a gen that has someone working on it, crouch while approaching from an angle you're hidden from them, then use the ambush attack.

-- Don't be afraid to use your traps early and often. They're meant to be a slowdown -- nothing worse than having traps left when the last gen pops. They'll do no good at that point, so use them while you can. A survivor who's trapped is one likely not working on a gen.

-- You likeky will need some gen regression in your loadout. One of Corrupt/Ruin/Pop should be in your build. As pointed out, Surveillance is actually pretty good on her, especially paired with Ruin. As far as add-ons go, the Combat Straps are arguably her best (reducing crouch time, and it's a common). The Video Tape (reduced Ambush charge time and cooldown when you miss) and the Last Will (extra RBT) are good to run as well. Looking for a Trap kill? Tampered Timer + Crate of Gears is deadly -- survivors won't know unless they're super perceptive, and if the key is in the last box, it's impossible to get a trap off.

-- Speaking of trapped survivors, don't chase them. If you run across someone on a box naturally, you down them, obviously, but chasing a survivor with a trap that isn't active is a recipe for losing gens and the match.

-- Using the ambush attack in chase is underrated and not used enough by Pig players to land hits on loops. Camping a pallet then dash attacking is awesome and worth practicing.

As a Pig player who's reached Rank 1 before, hope some of this helps! 🙂

In order to play Pig better you must learn the way of the boop. Empty your mind and imagine a snoot now boop it, now repeat this thought until you reach enlightenment for that is the path towards Pig mastery.

Dont tunnel trapped Survivors because they are not working on gens but if they happen to run into you or you see them in a box and they refuse to leave it go smack them, its free pressure even if you dont hook them.

When you down someone look if there are any nearby boxes where you are going to hook, if there are 2 maybe try to hook farther away or even dont use the RBT in that scenario for he could get unhooked and get the RBT removed very fast.

Dont abuse the crouch, while it gives you stealth it also slows you down a lot and restricts pressure, something Jigsaw already lacks so use it on loops or when you have positive confirmation someone is somewhere.

Ignore this, traps stall the game and help you reaching that last gen slower, especially if there are several trapped Survivors at once for they block eachother at boxes.

Reverse Bear Traps (RBTs):

• They are used to slow down survivors and keep them off of objectives, buying you time to go after other survivors who aren't trapped — maximizing how many survivors aren't progressing the game.

Example: 3 Survivors, 1 Trapped Survivor

You don't want to chase the trapped survivor (unless they are being careless) because they have to take off the trap instead of doing generators.

Good: 2 Survivors, 1 Chased Survivor, 1 Trapped Survivor

Bad: 3 Survivors, 1 Trapped Survivor that's being chased

You can see, the good scenario has more survivors occupied than the bad one.

• If you can manage to get close enough to a survivor while crouching, don't ambush — Uncrouch and attempt to grab them from whatever they are doing. Ambushing is loud, giving experienced survivors time to run away or using their exhaustion perks.

I consider myself a PigMain.

As a first advice: Respect boop the snoot! XD

So I've gotten as far as the red ranks with her, and I'm doing pretty well with the fact of using whispers so I can time my sneaking well. 

You've gotten a lot of good tips here, and all I can say is try them out. Learn how far you can get with their sneak attack, how well you can maneuver with it. Use it only when it's worth it. If you want to try it out and just attack for a test, take Amanda's letter with you. 

Use the traps wisely. If you know all survivors are nearby and not working on generators, then downe and wait with the RBT. Use them in the middle part of the game rather than at the beginning. 

And please don't become one of those piggies who chase and possibly tunnel people with RBT activated. That makes absolutely no sense. This survivor won't touch your beloved generators unless he has a death wish. 

Did I mention that you should definitely respect boop the snoot? <3 

Oh, as Perks I take on her mostly:

Whisper

dying light

BBQ (for the points)

corrupt

Don't crouch too much; it slows you down to slower than the survivor. If you have whispers, or any other method of tracking (or if you're approaching a generator), then start crouching. You want to only crouch when you want the element of surprise.

The best perks for stealth killers are usually tracking perks, so they can approach them in stealth. BBQ, Discordance, etc. are all good.

Don't use your ambush when you could use your M1. Ambush is best for short loops, like rocks; crouch out of LoS, and then ambush from an unexpected direction. You can even moonwalk and strafe while ambushing.

Don't use all of her hats at once. Think of them as ways to drag out the game; if you're under a lot of pressure, the generators are going to fly, you want to put on a lot of hats to take those survivors out of commission for a while. Only use them to stall the game if generator pressure is too high. I usually apply one hat for the first down I get, and then save them until I get to three generators, at which I add one by one. If generator progress is too fast, I'll smack them on anybody I find.

In general, she's going to be a normal M1 killer. You want to chase normally, use your ambush when you're at short loops without LoS. Otherwise, go into stealth when you think you're approaching a survivor.

Her best add-ons are the combat straps. They make crouching and un-crouching faster. The skillcheck add-ons are pretty bad, syringe, medical file, and the video tape enhance your ambush nicely but you won't be using your ambush much, the ones that cause a status debuff aren't that great (other than exhaustion and blindness), but the last will is pretty good. One extra trap is always welcome.

Jigsaw's annotated plan is a pretty good add-on. It adds a box, but extends the trap's timer. Remember, you don't want to get kills with the bear traps, you just want to delay them, and having more boxes means that they now may have to search 5 boxes. The crate and bags of gears aren't great, but the slowdown of box searching time is a nice passive. Amanda's secret isn't great, but if you're having trouble finding survivors, it'll give you good info. Tampered timer isn't great, since it just makes traps more lethal, not time-consuming, but jigsaw's sketch is great. I usually run crate and bag of gears or jigsaw's sketch and annotated plan.

Amanda's letter isn't great. It requires you to significantly change up your play style, but if you can successfully adapt, it's pretty great wall hacks. Rule set no. 2 is pretty awful. It tries to make traps more deadly, which again, isn't what you want.

Yes, I like to stalk too. XD If I'm up for a fun round, sometimes I just crouch behind the survivors when they don't notice me and watch them. XD I think sometimes they get really nasty scares. 

I hope you have fun with the piggy. <3

people already posted a lot of advice, including scorpionz tutorial, which is probably the best thing you could watch.

but just my 2 cents.

rule of thumb when I play pig, 2 traps on heads.

if you down more people. don't put traps on them. 2 "active" traps is more than enough to do their job.

also, keep track of who reached stage 2 on hook, so you don't waste traps on them