How to play survivor more efficiently | 3 important tips to keep in mind

Survivor is about efficiency in every aspect, not just looping. Being efficient is a great way to contribute to the team and will help you in the long run.

There are 3 main things you need to be good at when playing survivor:

• Knowing when to be working on generators
• Knowing how to regroup
• Knowing how to run the killer around (use up as much of the killer's time)

Overall efficient decision-making is what makes up a good survivor, there is a lot more than just these 3 points.

When to work on generators:

Generally, the start of the match is when you want to split up as survivors to go do generators. Splitting up on generators is (kinda bs ngl due to map design) extremely effective at pressuring the killer. Even a good nurse might struggle to keep up if you keep doing this. Have you ever played killer, hooked a survivor, and then see 3 survivors all on different generators with BBQ before? Well let me tell you, it is quite nerve-wracking to say the least.

If someone is on a hook, and you are close enough to get the save, then go ahead and do that. If you are on the other side of the map working on a gen, trust that your teammates will get the save. This is more efficient when using kindred since everyone can see what the team is up to.

Stacking up on generators can definitely come into play though, you don't always have to split up. Just know that if the killer interrupts you then the killer will pressure multiple survivors at once, this is very much in the killer's favor and is a situation you want to avoid. You want to work on generators with your teammates whenever you need to clutch a generator. For example, you might want to stack up on generators if you are trying to finish the last generator.

Avoiding a 3-gen scenario is also a huge deal. Make sure you don't focus gens on one side of the map so the last ones are really close together.

How to regroup:

When I say regroup, I mean reset the amount of pressure the killer has on you.

This can include saving everyone off hooks, regrouping to heal everyone, and plan what you are going to do next (better with information perks and SWF for obvious reasons). If a killer such as Wraith is chasing a healthy David around on one side of the map and everyone else is injured with one guy on a hook, the best thing to do is heal up and split up on generators. This is because 3 out of 4 survivors are in a very vulnerable state. Regrouping your team or yourself is a great strategy that can vary depending on the killer or what perks you have

Assuming this is mid-game the killer has good pressure on the survivor team, this can either make or break an escape or 3-4k for either side. This seems pretty simple, but this doesn't take into account what killer you are up against, if the killer is someone like Huntress or Billy, if one of your teammates are hiding, etc. So you will have to adapt a little bit to heal up and continue working on gens. Instead of healing immediately against a Billy, try walking around to hide and then heal since he can speed on over to where you are at and interrupt you. Same goes for other killers.

Knowing how to waste the killers time as much as possible with little use of pallets:

This is one of the most important or the most important skill to learn as a survivor. Wasting the killer's already precious time is one of the most powerful things you can do as survivor. Wasting any killers time will put them in a losing position. If you can loop the killer on windows well without using pallets or taking hits for a good time, you put the killer in an almost guaranteed loss.

I am not going to explain how to loop and be chased properly by the killer, but I will say that you have to be conservative with pallets and know when to greed at looks (by greed, I mean take a hit instead of dropping the pallet). Please go on youtube and watch guides for this specific topic, in fact you should do the same for killer.