Baby nurse advice
Any advice for a baby nurse? I’m enjoying levelling up my nurse and getting the hang of her power, however I’m really suffering with toxic survivors abusing my inexperience.
They harass me with flashlight clicks and taunt me so that I’ll engage in chase, slow vault pallets in front of me while I’m fatigued and in animation, etc.
I’m not even that bad I’m just getting really mean red rank survivors who as soon as they realise I’m new, they abuse it.
It’s normally SWF that are doing it and then teabag at the exit gates, it’s hard to push through it sometimes, so any helpful advice welcome and does hard work from practice pay off?
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Bottle your rage. Get a piece of paper and every time a survivor tries to bully you put a tally mark. Then when you finally get good enough to be in charge use those tally marks to justify your rage. Become the nurse in body and mind.
If you'd like you can even start using it as a currency. Every time you deliberately camp or tunnel, erase a tally, every time you slug someone to death erase a tally, if you decide not to give someone hatch at the end erase one too.
It'll give you something to look forward to. Weaponize that fury.
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I would highly recommend SupaAlf's nurse guide on Youtube, he has 6k hours and a lot of good advice for newer nurse players.
Overall my best quick tips are don't predict too often unless you are 100% sure you have an accurate read on that survivor in chase. Do not use add ons that affect your muscle memory such as range until you feel comfortable with her base kit (blink recovery is fine). Lastly, don't blink at every opportunity, it's okay to just follow the survivor for a few seconds until you have them in a better position and see how they react.
Watching good nurse players on Twitch or Youtube will give you some good tips and tricks that you can apply in your own matches. Remember that you will get bullied in the beginning but going against really cracked survivors will only teach you how to counter them as time goes on, baby survivors will teach you bad habits as a nurse and make you think every survivor just holds W. Practice makes perfect and use your resources to help.
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It is really hard to tell you because nurse is all mechanical skill.
The best possible advice we could give you is to use your first blink to get close to a survivor, and then use the second one to get a hit.
If they break LOS, then blink to where you last saw them to play it safe. For example, a dwight just turns right at shack therefore blocking your vision to him. Use the first blink to teleport to where you just saw him, and then the second to hit him if he kept running. If you do this, you prevent them from running backwards while you blink at them, then you can get a free hit without using the second blink.
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First: PC nurse or Console Nurse? They're really different.
As a PC player all I can say is:
1- Abuse flannel while learning. Don't be ashamed of using it and do not get into the "if you use it you'll get addicted". You'll rely on it for a while but soon enough you'll see that you don't even need the visual cue to know where you blink will lend, then you can take it off.
2- Don't believe when people say that she has "insane map pressure". Nurse has, most of the time, insane CHASE pressure. She can down someone in less than 10s (both blinks included) but she'll struggle in big maps if you don't apply pressure by slugs or chained downs. Surely she CAN have map pressure with add-ons but most of the time you shouldn't rely on them 24h.
3- Try to learn her basics without recharge add-ons, then start using the Dark Cincture, then Fragile Wheezing and when you know the recharge time of each of them by the heart you can go full recharge/old nurse on the survivors, but first you must learn how to play around recharge.
4- As said before, she doesn't have insane map pressure, so you need to learn how to pressure "points" of the maps, especially when learning. If you're too "good guy" with her, trying not to slug or trying to not force risky saves/hook stages people will just scatter through the maps and pressure different gens and that's a goner for you.
5- PC only - Use your FIRST blink to position yourself and your SECOND blink to hit. That's not enough said but you NEED to do this 9/10 times. Survivors who don't know how to play against nurse are predictable and you can get them in the first blink but nowadays a good portion of the survivors knows a thing or two against her.
6- Learn when to and when not to attack after a blink. Seriously. 1 missed attack after a blink is +1s of fatigue. If it was a double blink it is 3s total. You'll need to learn how to bait DH and double backs but you'll only learn it by playing her A LOT. Learn when and how to go BLINK - Charge blink and let fatigue. This one can throw of most double-backers by itself and when you get off the fatigue they won't be in a position to juke you anymore (they should be at a blink distance).
7 - If you lost LoS blink to where you've lost it, unless the survivor gained so much distance that it doesn't matter if you try to cut them and they double back.
8- If you blink to a survivor and loose LoS (he can crouch, turn a corner, etc) just do a quick blink looking down (watchout for vertical maps/basement) so you can have a little more time to situate yourself and go for the lunge.
9- Learn how to shorten a fully charged blink by lookin downwards (watchout for vertical maps/basement)
10- Look for SupaAlf's youtube video. Really.
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You are going to lose.
A lot.
No, seriously. You're going to fail again and again.
You might even have a few months practice and think you're good, only to get destroyed badly by people that know how to play against Nurse or your blinks are off.
Completely normal. There are people that still can't play Nurse after years because she's so difficult.
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I do love baby Megs who hold sprint burst agains me tho'. They never figure that the SB covers less distance than a fully charged blink and makes waaaaaay easier for me to get a hit since they just go ZOOOOM forward hahahaha
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The 2 most effective counters to nurse is breaking los and being unpredictable with movement. So if someone breaks los with you, blink to their last known location and then blink to them accordingly. If they're somewhere with a lot of los blocking, you should probably just leave them to pressure gens and get them later on. If a survivor double backs at your blinks 3 times in a row, there's a pattern of behavior there, so next time you blink at them don't fully charge it.
That's all I feel like typing rn.
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Practice is the only way. Ohtofu has a good Nurse guide that might help with the basics. Rayoxium plays alot of Nurse so you could probably pickup so stuff from her as well. In the end you just have to accept you'll lose alot and not let it get to you.
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