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Tell me how to counter a nurse

Mazoobi
Mazoobi Member Posts: 1,565

Tell me how to counter this killer that 99.99% brings double range, double recharge, or a mix of both who is also very well capable of bringing any of the meta perks and gets insane value out of them.

Let me predict the answers:

  • Break LOS
  • Run back at her
  • Use Dead Hard

Yeah, these aren't effective. With her having that second blink, you're bound to get hit unless you have dead hard. Oh but guess what, even if you make her whiff whether if you have DH or not, she's right behind you. What do you want me to do? I don't even blame the survivors in my lobby who kill themselves on hook. I'm done with her.

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  • Chocolate_Cosmos
    Chocolate_Cosmos Member Posts: 5,735

    Rework / Nerf her good addons and she is fine.

  • Mazoobi
    Mazoobi Member Posts: 1,565
  • Sakurra
    Sakurra Member Posts: 1,046
    edited May 2022

    I almost always kill myself on hook because she's just too boring to play against. Sorry, but I'm not forced to play if it's not fun for me, so these guys that are saying "because of people like you..." Stop it. I have the rights to choose.

  • C3Tooth
    C3Tooth Member Posts: 8,266

    The only titles that can make some mind game against her are Walls. Most of the time Walls title stand alone. You have to mind game inside a single title, you cant mind game leaving the title because you will not able to reach to another Wall one before she realizes it and coming with 32m blink, which is certain down.

    There are some few case where 2 walls title spawn next to each other: Crotus, most MacMillan maps, nasty Suffo pit middle area, Lery, Racoon, Game down floor. Which are mind game able

    I dont use DH so its always a downside vs a good Nurse.

  • ShinobuSK
    ShinobuSK Member Posts: 5,279

    Watch YT videos about it. Pretty sure theres ton of them

  • Vyne456
    Vyne456 Member Posts: 848

    Hi Nursies today I will tell you a big nurse guide of how to play as nurse

    "You Realized it was a bad video and then that's the reason why that nurses suck today."

  • MikaelaWantsYourBoon
    MikaelaWantsYourBoon Member Posts: 6,564

    Best you can do:

    1. Pray she is new.
    2. Pray she has not strong add-ons.
    3. Pray she has not strong anti-gen perks.
    4. Waste her time as you can. (If they are good.)
    5. Genrush, even Nurse is falls against generator speeds. (If they are good.)
  • MilManson
    MilManson Member Posts: 939
    edited May 2022

    Yo-Yo, loop near walls, move up and down terrain RPD is a good example of this, if you run back towards her on a second floor of a map she has trouble short blinking as it might force her to go through the floor and then she’s only got a limited time to get back up with a short blink and in that time you’ve got plenty of time to get some distance or to try and keep line of sight hidden again. (A good example is the computer room with a totem on second floor in RPD with the pallet, it’s super easy to force a nurse to blink through the floor there.)

    Ive seen quite a lot of people complaining about nurse on this forum in game when I play nurse and they just try to throw pallets down in or run in a straight line.

  • egg_
    egg_ Member Posts: 1,933

    Most good nurses I know about actually don't usually run their best add-ons because they make games so painfully easy it's not even fun

  • Brokenbones
    Brokenbones Member Posts: 5,169

    Don't forget stealth is a thing

    Nurse is a slow killer outside of blink, she doesn't have the time to fully search an area like a 115% might.

    Outside of auras helping with landing blink attacks, tracking perks also minimize stealth play which is why most Nurse players run at least one tracking perk of some kind if not multiple

    Also one trick that I'm trying to master is learning which objects the Nurse simply cannot easily blink through and use those to your advantage.

    For example: On most macmillan maps there are 2 pieces of geometry that spawn that Nurse has a hard time blinking through easily, those would be the big pile of wood logs and the water tower. You can run a Nurse around these for a decent while if you're decent and make a good read or two.

  • VikingDragonXii
    VikingDragonXii Member Posts: 2,885

    Yes but killing yourself on the hook is very unsportsmanlike behavior because of your "sacrifice" you make the job of the other three survivors that much harder. I always stay in it to the end even if I'm being face camped, because if the Killer is camping me hes not patrolling gens.

  • QwQw
    QwQw Member Posts: 4,531

    You don't.

    Every match I play against Nurse knocks ten years off my total life span.

  • hatchetChugger
    hatchetChugger Member Posts: 442

    2 other things :

    Understand how long she has to charge her blink for her to reach you from her current position

    Hug walls, objects, anything with a hitbox incredibly tightly. I can not tell you the amount of times I have missed a hit on a survivor because it seems like my saw has locked onto the wall rather than the survivor.

  • Aven_Fallen
    Aven_Fallen Member Posts: 16,246

    You hope that she is bad.

  • Harold_Shipman
    Harold_Shipman Member Posts: 737

    hide until she DCs

  • Mazoobi
    Mazoobi Member Posts: 1,565

    Breaking LOS is still hard AF.

    Her second blink is so forgiving so she'll use her first blink to estimate your location and that second blink to secure the hit.

    Those are good but an experienced nurse will undoubtedly land a hit after a few seconds. Her second blink really grinds my gears.

  • GannTM
    GannTM Member Posts: 10,886

    You pray that another big bug comes out and disables her for a month again.

  • Brimp
    Brimp Member Posts: 2,979
    edited May 2022

    Just... git gud. Seen plenty of good nurses get ran for long enough for 1-2 gens to get completed even on gideons.

    Not as simple as "do this" if it was really like that then nurse would be horrible. You gotta know WHEN to double back or keep holding W. Unlike all the other killers you gotta learn how the nurse plays to play accordingly.

  • DeliciousFood
    DeliciousFood Member Posts: 464

    Very little, I hardly got 'countered' during my Plaid Flannel gaming. I wasn't 'good' but I am good at killer and understand maps quite well. Even strong survivors didn't actually last long.

    Just bring a SWF to gen rush and hope to not get a nurse next game. It's abysmal gameplay, especially solo. But it's also cheap dopamine for those who need loads of DBD W's.

  • Sakurra
    Sakurra Member Posts: 1,046
    edited May 2022

    I can accept camping, don't think I kill myself if I'm facecamped. I kill myself only when I'm playing against nurse and I'm really not in the mood to face her. She's the only killer that in my opinion is way too strong with almost no counter especially on her best maps.

  • Mazoobi
    Mazoobi Member Posts: 1,565

    I'm pretty good at dealing with the first blink, but most of the nurses I face know how to position themselves with that first blink to help them secure a hit with the second one. They never go for a prediction 2nd blink, they'll just blink directly behind or on top of me. Prediction blinks are easy to read and deal with so I'm assuming nurses just stopped doing it too much

    I always run early too but it won't really matter if she has range add-ons. She'll be behind me in a few seconds. Speaking of add-ons. Double recharge is a pain. I've made nurses whiff several times, but it won't matter because she'll have her blinks already before I can make it to a decent tile or obstacle to break LOS.

  • adirgeforthedead
    adirgeforthedead Member Posts: 424

    In truth, she has no meaningful counterplay. She is the one Killer that practically ignores every aspect of the game. I am by no means an incredible Survivor, but I can last a decent chase against most Killers except Nurse.

    I can only beg to get lucky with tall walls, but even then with her new bugged addons it's pointless to even try. If she isn't bad, it will be a quick match or a painfully slow one where the Survivors keep being slugged back and forth until she can slug all or we bleed to death.

  • gnehehe
    gnehehe Member Posts: 510

    You can't ... as soon as the killer is a bit experienced. This is fact by design regarding the ability of this killer and the usual defenses from the other side.

    With both iron will and dead-hard, you may be able to extend the chase a little bit, that's where recharge/distance add-ons come in :)

  • calem
    calem Member Posts: 533

    God forbid you have to play differently against Nurse instead of holding W and pulling pallets down!

    I don't understand people who hate versing Nurse. I love it because it's different and challenging (if the Nurse is at least decent).

    One big thing I've noticed playing as Nurse is most survivors are too predictable. They use the same mind-games every chance they get. The key to beating Nurse is being as unpredictable as possible. Literally, even if it seems stupid, if it's a mind-game you haven't done so far that trial, do it. If you're positioning properly, the Nurse will have to prediction blink most of the time, and so you can waste a lot of time by moving in really weird ways.

    Leave gens extremely early. If you hear a heartbeat, leave the gen. People give way too many free hits by staying on gens until the Nurse blinks on top of them. You will win more games if you don't give a Nurse free hits, it is not worth it for that extra 5-10% gen progress.

    Break LOS literally every chance you get, it does NOT have to be at a tile with a pallet and/or window. Use the rocks, trees, EVERYTHING to stop her from seeing you. A lot of survivors tend to run to pallets or windows, even against Nurse, and sacrifice distance to get there. This is a mistake. Forcing the Nurse to blink to catch up to you wastes a lot of time, rather than taking a risk and hoping she messes up using her blinks to hit you at a jungle gym.

    One last thing: try and abuse the best parts of whatever map you're playing on. Obviously some maps are way easier for Nurse (Midwich), but make sure you identify a spot on the map that is the best place to loop her. If you're on Coal Tower for example, the long line of tiles that go from main building to shack is a really difficult spot for Nurses to try and chase survivors. There are so many walls and LOS breakers that, unless the survivor positions wrong, the Nurse is forced to prediction blink nearly every time, or just drop the chase altogether. This is the same reason maps like RPD is hell for Nurse.

    Basically, a TL;DR is: Don't be predictable. Leave gens early. Break LOS every chance you get. Abuse the map to your advantage.

  • KateDunson
    KateDunson Member Posts: 714

    That's the neat part, you dont

  • Phantom_
    Phantom_ Member Posts: 1,341

    As many have said break LOS asap. Once you load into a map just look at where the main buildings/jungle gyms are so if you have to loop you can get there asap. Be unpredictable. Don't use the same mindgames against her you'd use against other killers.

    Iron Will is amazing against her (same goes for Spirits). If you don't want to loop her and just want to get away, Lucky Break can be a pretty decent perk! Combine it with IW and you're all set! :)

    Also if you have a flashlight you can burn her and stop her from blinking, though I wouldn't do that if you're the one in a chase, it's a great way to help a teammate out.

  • RisingTron
    RisingTron Member Posts: 508

    Pray she's bad and if she's not, give up on hook. Save yourself the agony.

  • hatchetChugger
    hatchetChugger Member Posts: 442

    A hard to play killer that - according to you - is also hard to counter. Seems pretty even.

  • BreadLord
    BreadLord Member Posts: 274
    edited June 2022

    how to counter nurse. D/C

  • drsoontm
    drsoontm Member Posts: 4,901
    edited June 2022

    The best advice so far.

    I would add to check her hand. The Nurse will often fake her intent. Fake yours too. Way to many survivors stop playing mind games against her.

    Also, when she is on cooldown she doesn't see far at all. Take advantage of that. She isn't deaf though.

    Finally: play her. That way you'll learn her blink distance and many limitations more easily. You'll also see what survivors do to beat you.

  • drsoontm
    drsoontm Member Posts: 4,901
    edited June 2022

    Second best advice, although a Nurse will often blink in reverse to quickly check a tile and maybe second-blink a hit.

    It's true that detection is the biggest weakness of the Nurse.

    As for hard-to-reach places, it will work even against very good Nurses : everybody makes mistakes.

    Third best advice. Don't we all despise auto-miss?


    ...


    And then on the second page there are way too many good answer : this thread is a gold-mine.

    It also show why so many players have an issue with the Nurse (praying doesn't help, neither does giving up, taking the game hostage will get you banned, ...)

  • xfireturtlex
    xfireturtlex Member Posts: 419

    Most important thing, be unpredictable. Forget everything u know about looping. Make erratic, but smart plays. Remember that killers expect certain plays/movements. Nurse games are all about predicting the survivors next move....so make their job as hard as possible.

  • hiken
    hiken Member Posts: 1,188

    there is none, if she is good you lose no matter what gimmick u try, there is no counterplay.

  • Mazoobi
    Mazoobi Member Posts: 1,565

    Recently faced a nurse who was just slugging and shaking her head no to everybody. She brought meta perks too.

    I wanted to leave so badly.

  • Gratxla
    Gratxla Member Posts: 82

    inb4 no mither profile pic guy comes in and ask for a vid of u playing as nurse and telling You how balanced a range addons nurse is..-

    Oh-.... Wait! He's already here