Up The Ante: the best worst perk? Or the worst best perk?

Up The Ante is undoubtedly the most unpopular survivor perk in the entire game. Luck serves only one purpose during a match: increasing the odds of successfully unhooking yourself upon your first hook, which in itself attempting to do so is a big gamble. 

The thing is Luck stacks, and it’s possible to stack a HUGE amount of it. For example, if every survivor runs Tier 3 Up The Ante, and if every survivor puts up Vigo’s Jar of Salty Lips, (whilst every survivor is still alive) every body’s Luck shoots all the way up to a whopping 76% chance to Self Unhook. This is an almost (emphasis on almost) guaranteed chance for everyone to Self Unhook in 1 of their 3 attempts to unhook themselves. 

Why is this significant? Especially when Deliverance exists?

Self Unhooks increase efficiency immensely. Particularly when everybody on the team is aware it isn’t necessary to waste time aiding someone on their first hook. Think about it. Currently the trend is that once the killer starts getting hooks, some one else might be in a chase, leaving 2 survivors working on gens, which of course requires 1 of them to go to the aid of whomever is on the hook. A really high Luck stat for all 4 survivors means up to 4 times per match an additional team mate can spend more time repairing generators when someone else is on their first hook. 

Obviously, the problem here is that this means SWF are able to get the most out of Luck, not only just from the coordinating of stacking as much Luck as possible, but also in being clear across the board that it’s unnecessary to waste time going to assist someone on their first hook. 

What about Deliverance? The drawbacks of this are pretty obvious. A survivor with Deliverance equipped could be hooked before getting it to activate. Plus in order activate Deliverance, the survivor needs to first unhook somebody else, a double hit to team efficiency even if some efficiency is gained back when the survivor with Deliverance is first hooked. 

Using Up The Ante when Solo?

It’s still possible to milk as much as you can from Up The Ante by stacking it with Slippery Meat and your strongest available Luck offering. Up The Ante + Slippery Meat + Salty Lips will still give you a 20% increased chance to unhook yourself with every available attempt while everybody is still alive in the trial, whilst also still giving your teammates a 16% increased chance if they try to unhook themselves. The gamble with betting on Luck in solo play is that you never know when more Luck may be stacked in the match, and the fact that (seemingly) many other survivors still misunderstand Luck, and rarely attempt to self unhook despite the increased odds they have at successfully doing so, (seemingly) not even understanding why I just managed to unhook myself so easily. 

I guess that’s the point of Up The Ante, and is thematically very meta as one of Ace’s perks: gambling with how lucky with Luck you can get by seeing how much more Luck may be granted/stacked before the start of the match. It’s just a shame so few other survivors try their Luck...