Out of Every Character in the game, who has the worst personal perks?

PH's perks are all pretty bad, and that's AFTER they were all buffed.

But OP's probably right. Deathslinger's perks are dogfood. So many requirements, restrictions, limits, and all in service of some extremely minor, very short-term aura reading (which is useless to Deathslinger, now that he's been nerfed out of being able to actually sneak up on survivors).

I can KIND of see some use for Trail of Torment, maybe, sorta, on SOME killer out there, but definitely not PH himself. His passive walking and power use is one of the loudest, noisiest sound profiles in the game, and he's the only killer whose power has a giant "don't stand here" warning light for survivors to see. He gets zero use out of stealth anything. The other two are just awful across the board. Forced Penance needs to do something like hinder for a chase trade-off, or long-term aura reveal, or prevent them from working on gens or something. And Deathbound needs to apply Oblivious to BOTH survivors, not just the one.

PH is Pyramid Head. Ph is Pinhead. Also, PH's perks got buffed (but they're still bad), while Ph's just came out and haven't been touched.

Survivor: Ace

Killer: Wraith or Huntress

I find it odd the people saying huntress. Lullaby is decent at least, it can really F up a survivor team if you get a really good spawn location on it. The other 2 are bad I'll grant you, but all 3 of wraith's are pretty meh. Who cares about a slightly bigger field of view, or scratch marks or blood pools that last longer? So many better perks than those.

For Survivor, I'd say probably Ash. His perks have an interesting concept, but overall the concepts are either weak and unnecessary for gameplay or poorly executed.

For Killer, there's a few out there, but I have to give it to Twins (Honorable Mentions: Deathslinger, Huntress, and Wraith). Coup de Grace 99% of the time you don't get to really use because you're smacked with a pallet or miss, Hoarder helps survivors more than the killer running it (seriously, who thought this perk was a good idea?), and Oppression is alright. Oppression has more use than the other two, but I'd say there are better gen protection perks and with the current state of killer, gen protection isn't necessarily on many killers minds, just trying to make the best of the bs the devs are putting killers through at the moment.

Trying to think who is the worst reminded me how many terrible perks are in this game. Killer I think I'd have to say Huntress. All of her perks are really bad. Survivor either Ash or, as much as it pains me to say, Ace.

Survivor? Probably Ash.

Killer? Probably Wraith.

Ace's perks are not great on their own (and literally do nothgin for you when you try adept), but it least they work reasonably well in certain builds: Ace in the hole fits perfectly in for scanvenger builds with plunderers and appraisal. Open handed greatly increases the value of already good perks like bond and kindred, can also help you with plunderers, visionary or windows of opportunity. Up the ante is pretty trashy, but with slippery meat and all survivors bringing salt lips in can work like very second game.

Ashs perks are worse, imo. You pretty much have to throw the game to get mettle activated most of the time. Sure there are games were all fits together and it is a game changer. But then there will be nine other games where you play stupid to get your stacks, effectively killing you or your team. Flip flop only works somewhat "consistently" with Power struggle, but getting that to work can be even more difficult than activating mettle, at least in solo queue. There are only a few situations were you will be left on the ground long enough to recover to 50% on a pallet (being tunneled of hook and left an the ground bc of ds, being slugged for 4k). And even if you get that, most of the time another survivor will come to pick you up. Or you could just use unbreakable directly instead of wiating for the killer to pick you up. You really need a 4-man for that to work. Then it can be real fun (and frustration for the killer). Buckle Up we just do not need to talk about, it may be THE WORST of every survivor perk.

Yes, Ace's perks combo with others, but I took the question to be looking at the perks by themselves.

Survivor: Ash or Ace

Killer: Huntress

Huntress. Lullaby ain’t much out of a skill check build. Beast of Prey is in contention for worst perk. And Territorial sucks outside of everyone but Demo. Wraith, Pyramid, and Slinger

Buckle Up and Up the ante are both pretty garbage, thats for sure. And on their own, without a dedicated build to that, Up the ante does not do anything, where buckle up might give you some valuable info where the killer is (you get to see their aura when picking someone up, that effect is usually forgotten ^^) in one out of 5 matches or so.

So yeah, the absolute WORST survivor perk is likely up the ante (if it would increase chance to get better items/addons from chests it would be another deal). But the worst set of perks is Ashs, at least for me, bc with each perk you will struggle to get any use out of it. With Ace's Ace in the whole and open-handed, you get an imidiate effect (given you loot chests or have another aura perk). If we consider use of perks for adepting, then Aces perks are probably the worst, given that you will have two totally dead perks (open handed and up the ante), and only ace in the hole to help you a tiny bit.

I'd say Feng Min

Technician- can be described as a beginner perk... Makes missed skillchecks silent but lose a bonus 3% progression

Lithe- can be good... if you have a build for it... or you don't run the same loop after a vault (I used to run this a lot back when I first started playing)

Alert- can be good... if you are looking around when it activates... and if the killer breaks pallets, Gens and Breakable Walls

I'd say Pig

Hangman's Trick- Now that's a joke... After it's redesign it's useless

Surveillance- Can be good if you're running Ruin, Oppression, Eruption... but then again 8m of Gen repair noises can be beneficial

Make Your Choice- Is good for those of us whom don't camp... or at least 32m away when the save happens (but who does that)

Or Doctor

Overwhelming Presence- Item usage goes up by 100% when in TR... but who does anything but run when they hear the heartbeat

Monitor & Abuse- shrinks TR by 8m when not in chase but gives it back when in chase+ FOV sliding in and out

Overcharge- Gives a skillcheck to the survivor whom touches the Gen you've just kicked (but it can be completed while running away from the Gen)... Oh and it's difficult and if the Survivor misses that skillcheck the Gen losses a bonus 5% of progress

Or Nurse

Stridor- Makes Survivors breathing louder by 25% and if they are injured 50% (but who isn't running Iron Will

Thanatophobia- For each injured, hooked and/or dying survivor receive a 4% gen, Sabotage, cleansing speed debuff (but who isn't healing ASAP or gunning through it)

Nurse's Calling- If survivor(s) are healing within 28m of you they're aura is shown to you (But who does that... plus Shadowstep)

I can agree with Huntress, Legion and Wraith

I mean true... But that's how I feel about those perks

If they are good then why haven't been talked about being good?

Again don't get me wrong... just personally I don't use those perks... or see the benefits of using them

Plus the way the game has gone.. some of those perks aren't being used (again from what I've seen... which isn't much) cause there're better perks available

Wraith

Literally just quality of life perks and one that makes scratch marks harder to see.