counter plauge (impossible)

accept your lose. some killers can just do that to uncoordinated solo q

You'll likely get sacrificed then.

Don't stress though. It wasn't your fault anyway.

In my experience of playing plague, the survivors lose the game more often because they refuse to cleanse (until it's to late) than because they were "over-cleansing". The whole NEVER-CLEANSE-AGAINST-PLAGUE advice kills more (mediocre) survivors than it saves, imo. That advice does only pay off if all survivors are somewhat competent in looping. But rarely thats the case, usually there are at least two weak links to target, and thats usually enough to beat the whole team.

The advice is also more harmful than good bc. most survivors using it seem to be to stubborn to question that approach even in the most dire situations. They refuse to cleanse even when they are the last standing survivor to save the others, even when the Plague is clearly prepared for this non-cleanse scenario (using Black Incense and/or IF for snow balling), not even consider that cleansing might be more safe bc. it's RPD or something, etc.

Sure, cleansing always can be an equally bad decision, but aggressive cleansing might work out for your team way better than not cleansing at all. Using corrupt purge is not an automatic win for the plague (only when the survs play it dumb), so if you can force it on the plague by using all fountains, thats often a better outcome than playing the whole game half-life. Forcing the Plague to use her Corrupt Purge also allows you to play sneaky against it, a thing you cannot do when infected. Infection is great for tracking / finding survivors, but if the survivors cleanse fast, the Plague loses that tool. I feel it's more difficult for the Plague to play with only corrupt purge than no corrupt at all, given that the survivors play it smart.

Overall, both no-cleanse and always-cleanse games can be difficult / stressful as the Plague, but the latter tends to be more fun overall, for both sides, imo.

If they all fountains are corrupted all are then pure and her corrupt purge is forced.

what I do is dependent on my team.

ideally if they don't cleanse I wont ether and we will do gens as fast as possible as plague is basically infinite tier 3 Myers where everyone can be downed in one hit but as long as they can last between 30-40 seconds in chase we can rush out gens before someone dies or just as one person dies.

but if they do cleanse I will also cleanse but try and do it at pools no ware near objectives like uncomplicated gens and just play as safe as possible avoiding chase altogether and if plague dose use her corrupt I will immediately hide and wait it out I know its not very fun but sometimes stealth is the best counter especially against snowball killers like plague, oni, nurse etc..

Sometimes you just gotta accept that your teammates will lose your games regardless of how well you play.

Depends on the map honestly. Like Plague doesn't get increase lunge or faster vaulting than Myers T3 gets. And many maps still have really strong tiles that aren't easy to play around as a purely M1 killer. Don't forget Plague is tall and has a smoke effect from her incense. She's very easy to watch over tall walls making it much harder for her to pull off successful mindgames against competent survivors.

This is not to say you should never cleanse, but not cleansing can be much safer on generally safe maps for survivors.

A lot of people also underestimate how frustrating it can be to charge and hit survs with corrupt purge in loops. It's highly effective in the open, or when a surv drops a pallet (like Huntress), but in loops I'd rather M1 all day, mind games be dammed.

And also don't forget her addons, the apples which increase the default number of corrupt pools, and the iri seal will activate corrupt purge every time a gen gets done. I also love running black incense, which lets you see a surv's aura every time they puke, which when you have all four full infected, is pretty much constantly. If your whole team is fully infected and then you she gets her power, that it the worst situation to be in against her, and it can happen even if no one cleanses.

I personally think it's six of one, half a dozen of the other. And it's super lame when people abuse a teammate for cleansing.

Wee bit op plague overturned statistically