I feel like Corrupt Intervention is a must.

I actually had an idea to buff several killer perks to make them closer to the meta, a "Its not overpowered if its all overpowered" approach. Anyway my idea was either the first 4/5/6 gens survivors touch or just all generators the survivors touch are initially blocked for say, 40/50/60 seconds. That way you don't have to worry about the time being wasted. Yeah survivors can just tap the gen and go to the next one, but that still takes more time.

That not only will take more time at the minimum, but also point you to where to go when the aura changes, I love this idea!

I used to think Corrupt was an overrated perk, but I've come around to it of late. With gens that fly so fast (especially when you're staring at multiple Commodious/BNP toolboxes at the end game screen), having 2 minutes of limiting where survivors can work is incredibly useful.

I used to run it only on Trapper, and I usually relied on a Ruin/Undying combo to try to get gen regression, but with totems spawns being continuously terrible (even on reworked maps) with a few notable exceptions, I found I was losing half my perks and all of my slowdown within the first minute to two of the game more often than not anyway, so Corrupt started looking better on many of my killer builds. (And that's only going to be worse with the Boon totems introduced). Now, instead of the totem builds, I'm running Corrupt with PGTW instead and getting solid value out of it.

I'm getting games where I secure one or two hooks before Corrupt can run out, and using that map knowledge of what could have been worked on, I'm able to Pop the gen that survivors have inevitably moved towards, giving me a solid start with, at best, one gen done somewhere and nothing else with work on it (or if things work out even better, no gens having popped and multiple downs). It's also been useful in helping me to identify 3-4 gens in an area that I know will be where I'll end up trying to defending the map if/when the game gets to that point towards the middle/end.

It's may not be a "must-run" perk, but it's definitely better than I thought initially.

I never use it, and I agree with some of the others here in that it's by far the most overrated perk in the game.

First. It is spawn dependant. Whenever I see people discuss it or youtubers try to praise it, they show graphics which are basically "Oh look, you spawned on Azarov's Resting Place and one whole side of the map is blocked." Sure in that 1% fringe case of a long narrow map, it zones out the map. In reality most maps are more square, and your spawn point isn't reliably at a far edge or corner. When it blocks the three most distant gens you COULD get a nice side of the map blocked off, or more likely you get 3 distant gens blocked with 4 still pretty spread out and scattered between them.

Second. People like to say "it's great for setting up!" Ok sure. Who likes to set up? Trapper and Hag. So this is you, you just spawned.

Now it's wonderful, you get to place your traps around the shack at the center there, and around some of the jungle gyms with unblocked gens because they want to do them right now as they're the only ones available. You know what happens later in the match? Your game goes to absolute #########. Because the same killers that want to "set up" want to do so because their power needs placing and they want to control a specific area or web of traps. Now because you used corrupt, you got into a chase eventually, and the other survivors had to do 3 of the 4 gens that weren't blocked because that's their only choice other than doing nothing. What do you have left? 3 of your last 4 gens are in distant corners of the map because they were the most distant at the start, and your power absolutely hates split up gens. Sure, you COULD play around an area like the basement, but that is completely independent of corrupt.

Third. In realistic practice, it doesn't "slow things down" for more than 5-10 seconds. You physically can only chase one survivor. I know the gigachads of the forums like to talk about how they keep all 4 survivors off gens while simultanously injuring all of them AND pleasure their girlfriend with the other hand, but we're talking reality here. One survivor will be in a chase, the other 3 will be on gens. Corrupt simply moves which gens they're doing.

Fourth. I hate temporary perks. 2 minutes into a game, no matter how wonderful you think it is, corrupt is gone. Granted that's a longer lifespan than most hexes, but even if it were a great perk, it's time-limited. I know it's personal preference, and I can see from the hoardes of people running Ruin Undying only to see both break in the first 30 seconds that people still overvalue temporary perks, but I would much rather a perk that provides me a tangible benefit for the entire match, over a perk which is guaranteed going to be a dead-weight empty slot in the match. It's the same reason I don't run noed. Yes, it's strong, but I'm going to have more better games by running a reliable perk before endgame than I am going to have running 3 perks and hoping I get the 4th at a good time to secure something with it.

Fifth, and I know this is a very minor benefit, but it still is one. Survivors work out your perks. There are some like Devour Hope, NOED, Spirit Fury, and countless others that come out at an unexpected time and catch them off guard. From the word go, any half-decent survivor is already working out your perks (and probably calling them out to SWF.) It's only a small downside, but there's no question in Corrupt. You can see it, it can't be something that happened by chance like aura reading, and it can't be mistaken for another perk. Once it's seen, 25% of your build is known and there's less to be careful about.

It's a gamble on Hag but for the rest pretty solid perk but not always. As others said how gens spawn and what map it is can make this perk have very mixed results.

Most killer players memorize survivor spawn locations on every map. so they know where to search at the start of the game. On average, I get about 2-3 hooks before corrupt intervention comes out (Vary based off strength of the killer).

Optimized survivor teams can complete the game in roughly 5-6 minutes even under constant hook pressure and less if you fail chases. 5 minutes is not enough to get 6 hooks vs these type of teams, in general, they tend to finish gens in < 3 hooks than you have to play Borrow time facecamping game with opened exit gates.

The way I see corrupt intervention+Deadlock is that against these teams, they tend to finish 3 gens in 1 chase and than they will do 1-2 gens between your 2nd-4th hook. Corrupt intervention will make 2 gens pop instead of 3 in a chase(it slowdown generators by 80 seconds at the start), so you can picture corrupt intervention like 4 pop goes weasels at the start of the game. Deadlock prevents survivors from completing two generators back to back.

Deadlock has counter though, the counter is 99% generators on edge of the map so that least important generator gets blocked. it slows the game down 2-3 times for total of roughly 60~ seconds.

Corrupt intervention and Deadlock in my opinion are tunneling perks because they disrupt the survivor's ability to complete generators in efficient matter(by sabotaging their objective) and once you've killed one survivor out of 4. you get best slowdown in the game which is 3vs1 for killer.

The time that these two perks give you effectively removes the cost of eating Decisive strike and reduces potency of Dead hard/Other exhaustion perks. Corrupt+Deadlock indirectly counter Dead hard and Decisive strike assuming your killer is able to win chases.

Ruin & Undying is better... but survivors tend spawn on totems and many killers have weak chases & map mobility such that Ruin is difficult to take advantage on many killers against efficient survivors.

if your losing 3 gens by first chase on any killer with corrupt, than your not playing killer correctly. the size of map and type of map will vary how effective stealthing is though in my experience, very few survivors actually stealth corrupt due to lack of solo-queue coordination.

Only swf can really stealth out corrupt however swf can also destroy ruin in record time.

There are some killers where Ruin & Undying outclasses CI&Deadlock. Its mainly on killers where they use totems as bait and traveling from gen to gen is really easy. Blight is best user of this strategy. Billy and Freddy are alternatives to this. Wraith is another alternative to the strategy. Contrary to popular belief, I actually think Run and Devour hope are best used on Trapper & Hag. The reason being is that these killers tend to 3 generator a lot because their ability is ineffective at large distances and what better way to ensure your totem stays alive than to just trap it around a 3 gen.

when it comes to killers like Huntress for example, She's just too slow to capitalize off Ruin. She needs something that is automatic and CI is exactly what doctor ordered. The same can be said for a lot of other slow 1vs1 killers like clown, deathslinger, Pyramid head,demo etc. though most of these 1vs1 killers are ass at 1vs1 if survivor is good so hardly anyone really plays them anyway.

Corrupt is a must for me on any slow early game killer, trapper, hag, myers, ghostie

Other than that, I don't think it's that amazing of a perk, rarely as a survivor I'll go 'oh no it's corrupt' unlike ruin /undying tinkerer combo I see lot of ppl running which has gotten so stale by now

I tend to use it on most Killers that have it unlocked... LOL

It feels useful even though I've had matches that 2 gens popped while Corrupt was active

It is probably the best perk in the game currently, after they nerfed hex perks by proxy.