Let's argue: Underrated perks.

I don't know why people are throwing up Spine Chill and Kindred as "underrated" as if anyone ever thought they were bad perks in the first place.

Sure, there's a difference between "The Meta" and what's flat-out good, but there's no denying everybody knew these perks were good a long time ago. I wouldn't call them underrated by any stretch both of these perks are literally the defining staples of my regular build as a solo survivor who regularly hangs out in red ranks (not that it matters what rank you are because rainbow ranks affect everyone) they are absolutely GOD tier perks for anybody trying to make it as a solo player.

You know what is an actual underrated perk? Hear this: Camaraderie.

Camaraderie is an amazing perk if you're a solo player who has little faith in his teammates, it has singlehandedly saved my life countless times just because I knew beforehand or had a hunch beforehand my teammates (Cosmetics = skill. Change my mind) wouldn't be great, they waste so much time crouching or walking around for no good reason, dull totem cleansing, opening chests, self-caring in a corner or even just doing a regular heal / group heal when the killer is running all manner of anti-heal perks like Thanataphobia, Sloppy butcher etc. Or even wasting time repairing a generator that isn't close to being finished instead of saving their teammate.

Just generally doing all this at the wrong time, making poor decisions (that can needlessly cost the game), and they waste so much time that by the time they start running toward you are fully aware they're going to try, but you know it's already too late.

Or just as well because it may or may not be more commonplace than teammates making bad decisions, it's an anti-camping tool. If the killer is camping you and your teammates are playing this game of cat and mouse, bait and switch trying to pull you off a hook, camaraderie gives them SO much extra time to work with. Camaraderie literally staves off DEATH

I mean think about it this way the only way you can die (without a mori) is by being sacrificed. Camaraderie delays that sacrifice time by an entire 30 whole seconds. When a generator takes only 80 seconds to fully repair that's huge. Even in SWF there's some coordination that can be made there with that extra time, so it's not like it's useless in SWF if you actually play around it and use that time to your advantage.

Save The Best For Last & Resilience.

Distortion and Iron Maiden.

Distortion gives you so much information. Even if it doesn't activate once, you know that they aren't using BBQ, aren't using Nurse's Calling, aren't using IAE, etc.

They keep adding in locker-based perks and strategies (DS, Head On, Inner Strength, Red Herring), so Iron Maiden will humiliate these people who use these perks.

Small game doesn't work on traps anymore, it's totems only

How do yall find old threads like this? This is literally from the Covid lockdown era.

When I play survivor I much prefer lithe to sprint burst. Means you can still run without being locked into your exhaustion perk until you need to be. Of course nobody runs any exhaustion other than dead hard

I always struggle with make your choice, and 99% of the time I can't find the exposed person in time

Dead Hard

I'd say Whispers... It does let you know if there are Survivors within your TR (But the down sides are that it works with Survivors on hook and Multiple floors

Unrelenting... With 360'ing becoming a thing

SH: Gift of Pain... It's effect is after a heal (which survivors will do) and slows down Gens for that Survivor

Agree with Kindred...

I run Stakeout, Leader, Kindred, and BT (I know "meta" right)

Oppression... let's you regress up to 4 Gens

Surveillance... give you Information on regressing Gens

Kindred. I play solo queue a lot and having or not having this perk can be the difference between escaping or getting absolutely annihilated by the killer. It saves so much time because teammates can (in theory) continue doing gens if they see someone else going for the unhook. Plus, it gives you invaluable information about the killer (whether they're camping, or which direction they're leaving the hook area from).

I know people universally agree this is a strong perk, but I don't see it run all too often (hence why I include it in all my solo queue builds as everyone benefits from it. It's one of those perks that benefit the team as a whole, rather than one survivor.

Also: Hope. I kinda see this perk as a simpler Adrenaline. While you don't get the health state and sprint burst, it can come in really useful in the end game (particularly if you're against an end game build killer), plus, it's not an exhaustion perk like Adrenaline so can be used alongside perks like DH, Lithe etc without the worry of there being a conflict between two exhaustion perks.

Someone necro'd it 6 hours ago.

Distortion, it has to be my absolutely favorite SWF perk, the amount of info it gives is stupid.

It has a huge downside tho, which is it's charges. I'd give up the aura hiding for like 1 more charge. The info it gives is priceless.

Also Huntress Lullaby.

Survivors ignore it, cuz it's not a dangerous perk, why cleanse it, since it doesn't have any impact, right? Except when you get a killer who knows how to pressure gens, the stress makes it really shine.

If there are deaf people playing this game, I have nothing but mad respect for them, Huntress Lullaby makes me completely useless xD