I really hope

You can open the Gates (as you described) and only have to wait 2 minutes from that point onwards. At max.

Or, you can force them out and cut this time short.

There are ways. If you dont want to use them, this is on you.

Spoken like someone who's either never played killer, or played a little bit at low MMR (the only time killer is relatively "easy" is right when you're starting out, even now) and thinks they know something about it.

Also bear in mind that in many (not all, I'm not saying that) cases the only reason the killer didn't kill your whole team was because they were trying to play by the "rulebook" (not hard tunneling/camping), so factoring that in before acting cocky should at least be a thought.

Usually whenever I play Hag my go to strategy is to bring HEX: Devour Hope and then build a web of traps around that and the 3 closest generators. Hook survivors far away and then guard the totem the rest of the time. It's not flawless, but it does work sometimes.

Well of the 4 killers that do well with Hex defending, Hag is the weakest, imo, though so I can understand your troubles. Like I said usually my game plan as Hag is to start the match and run straight to my totem. After trapping the totem, I slowly move outwards in a spiral and trap every darn window, pallet, and chokepoint I can between the totem and the three closest generators.

My perk build for Hag is usually Shadowborn (I run it on every single killer, FOV shouldn't need a perk slot, lmao) then Hex: Devour Hope, Brutal Strength, and either Overcharge or Call of Brine.

Now that's my ideal build.

Hex: Devour Hope is the keystone of the build, the main objective of the match is to get 5 tokens and then eat people.

Brutal Strength is the "I know what I'm doing" perk as it assists you in breaking dropped pallets within your web of traps. If you don't feel super comfortable with trap placement, Zanshin Tactics highlights pallets and windows near you making the initial web making faster.

Call of Brine is preferred since it helps you keep the 3 closest generators to your HEX: Devour Hope at a low repair level. Though if you haven't bought Sadako or the perk in the Shrine I understand completely and Overcharge is just as good for that.

If you want to mix things up, you could swap out HEX: Devour Hope with HEX: Huntress's Lullaby, and then swap Brutal Strength with Unnerving Presence. With this build, you're less focused on stylish moris and instead focused on making the last three generators a nightmare to repair as any botched skill checks offer an extra 6% regression on a failure. With Overcharge as your gen kick perk, if they fail that skill check they lose 11% progress. Mix that with Unnerving for a 10% greater skill check trigger chance (when within the Hag's 24m TR) and now you have a quirkier take on the Hag web strategy.

If this strategy isn't too your liking, some perks that might help you shore up Hag's weaknesses are as follows:

• Overwhelming Presence - The Doctor Teachable Perk - Survivors within your TR consume item durability at 2x the speed. It's one of the 2 options to stop people from light burning your traps, the other being . . .
• Franklin's Demise - The Cannibal Teachable Perk - Survivors you hit with a melee attack drop their item, the dropped item loses charges for 90 seconds (then it is depleted.
• Franklin's is more impactful if you can actually hit survivors since you can trap their item and prevent them from burning traps entirely until they pick it up again or find another. Overwhelming Presence is better if you're struggling a lot and getting constantly blinded at pallets since it chews through item charges. The reason I haven't suggested Lightborn is simply because it renders you immune to flashlights but does nothing for your traps. If anything, being immune to blinds will just encourage survivors to go after your traps.

For perks that slow down the game or speed up your objective:

• HEX: Plaything - The Cenobite Teachable Perk - After you hook a survivor for the first time, you create a unique hex totem for them that afflicts them with the Oblivious status. It takes survivors 20 seconds to cleanse a hex totem, and this adds 4 of them to the game if you hook everyone once. Even on killers that rely on their TR like Doctor and Legion, I have had people break their totems when facing me so it definitely gets people off of generators.
• Sloppy Butcher is another solid choice since it applies the Mangled status, an effect you can't get from Hag add-ons. The perk making each heal take 4 additional seconds, AND cause healing progress to regress if the heal is interrupted doesn't hurt either!
• Scourge Hook: Monstrous Shrine is also an underrated perk, especially for Hag. When a survivor is hooked on a scourge hook, they will die faster when you're at least 24 meters away. Since you can teleport to traps within a 40 meter radius, this makes the perk a solid choice. Granted the main difference is that it shaves 24 seconds off of each sacrifice timer, and that's IF you get survivors to a scourge hook, so I'll leave that up to you. Though if survivors crouch during the rescue (to avoid triggering your traps), faster deaths might actually be huge.

My final perk suggestion would be Lethal Pursuer. It's an odd pick for Hag since you usually spend the early game making a web of traps, not rushing the entire survivor team, however it's new secondary effect has some value with 2 Hag add-ons. "Any time a survivor's aura is shown, it's duration is increased for 2 seconds." Well as luck would have it, 2 Hag add-ons do actually reveal survivor auras.

The "Willow Wreath" and "Pussy Willow Catkins" add-ons both reveal survivor auras after a Phantasm trap is triggered, for 5 and 3 seconds respectively. With Lethal Pursuer, this time becomes 7 seconds for the wreath, and 5 seconds for the catkins. I'm not certain if that's useful to you or not, but I noticed the synergy and figured I would mention it.

I wish you the best of luck in the fog, The Entity knows we need more Hag players out there.

Hey, you should ignore the other commenter. Sadly, even here on the forums people will be rude and Vile.

Also for the Endgame if you lost horribly or just want a match to be over. Walk to the exit gate Switch and just hug it and stare at the wall then go on your phone or do somethingelse. Survivors will typically just wait the full 3 mins to leave. I do wish there was more I could tell you but thats it. Also, if people are being rude or hateful or your feeling down I highly recommend taking a break from the game or switching your mindset.

The other guy is just being realistic, rude? Sure, but they're not wrong