Are you tired of Plaything/Pent combo?

Yes please waste 28 seconds booning a hex just so I can step on it with shattered hope.

Yes, very annoying lol

Or

Bring Counterforce

I'm not sure if the bonus speed is capped or not, but the Legion I used it against was NOT happy with how fast their totems were broken

Booning Plaything is fairly risky, since the killer knows where the hex is and has reason to think survivors know where it is too. It's not uncommon for the killer to check Plaything totems. But yeah, it's the best counter to Pentimento. That or just ignore the Oblivious.

I don't actually run into Plaything/Pentimento that often. It's a good combo but can be played around a few ways.

The combo doesn't really see much run, because even with survivors cleansing plaything totems the killer still has to find time to create the pentimento totem. And since generally survivors know where hexes got cleansed, it doesn't take that long for them to locate and cleanse your pentimento totems.

As good as 30% slowdown is, trying to set up and keep it around is kind of hard. And since it's not something that can just be active at the start of the match, good survivors who don't go down quickly can often not be pressured to cleanse their plaything totem.

This is probably just do bones early as counter.

Yes

Yeah, I've been meaning to do a Don't Mess with Hexes build:

• Shattered Hope - permanently destroy Boons and see survivor auras nearby
• Hex: Devour Hope - if left undestroyed builds up to Exposed hits and kills
• Hex: Pentimento - Replace destroyed totems with Pentimento. (You only really need to get 1 or 2 or 3 to get good value, getting 5 is just a rare fun luxury but not the goal.)
• A third Hex, whatever seems the most fun. Some possibilities
  • Undying would protect Devour Hope or Pentimento and also show auras of survivors.
  • Haunted Ground puts out more hex spots initially which might entice survivors to cleanse one.
  • Blood Favour is a fun one that can give good value in chases
  • Retribution gives aura info throughout the match as they destroy totems.
  • Thrill of the Hunt makes cleansing or booning the totems take much longer.

Basically Plaything is ok but I kind of prefer other hex effects to the Plaything one and you don't really need literally all five totems to be Hexes for Pentimento to get value.

Just to clarify a couple of things:

• Plaything makes survivors Oblivious is decent but not quite as good as being Undetectable because it doesn't remove the red stain. Plus Playing only affects survivors you've hooked, everybody else can still hear you coming, so it really isn't the same as Ghost Face.
• I've gotten solid value out of Blood Favour most of the time I've run it. I think that perk is a little underrated.
• I don't normally run Thrill of the Hunt. However, given how much time it adds to creating Boons, I think it's worth me taking another look at it since most matches I'm in have at least one Boon creator.
• Undying by itself isn't great, but paired with any other decent Hex it's pretty solid. Not just because it acts as insurance to make sure the other Hex stays up, but also because its auras are actually not too bad. I've definitely had matches with Undying where the auras gave me pretty decent info.
• Haunted Grounds is another one I've normally gotten value out of when I run it. 60 seconds is plenty of time to get one or two downs.
• The Hexes I tend to avoid would be Huntress Lullaby (terrible perk), Third Seal (I'll use it sometimes but its effect is kind of spotty), and after the rework Ruin (its just a little too slow now)
• NOED is obviously a good Hex too, but it doesn't exactly fit the theme of a "don't touch my totems!" type gimmick so I probably wouldn't use it for that.
• Plaything is a good perk, but like I said survivors are tending to expect it now and I think Devour Hope is a stronger effect so I'm looking to build around that.