Tips for pinhead

Franklins and Hoarder are pretty good on him, his power is hard to get used to but trying to land the marker on the survivor will make it much easier since its almost guaranteed to hit point blank.

It's unfortunate but for the most part, your powers of the chain are absolutely useless. They are a high risk, low reward power that you almost should never use unless you are REALLY good at it (and even then...). The chains in the best case scenario is that you save a two seconds of chase time but the worst case scenario is you miss and the survivor just got even farther away from you (or a lot of times it's a wash as they break the chains so fast that it would have been the same amount of time for you to just keep walking to the survivor). If you insist on using your chain powers, try to put the spawn point of the chain on top of the survivor so you basically just launch it and it hits right away. That takes some getting used to but once you get used to it, it's the best way I've found to use his chains.

If a survivor starts working on the box and you see their little heartbeat thingy, teleport to them only if you are doing nothing else at the time and they're far away. If they are close, walk to them as you might get able to get a hit before they see you (since they are oblivious when they hold the box) and best case scenario you get the hit AND they keep the box in their hand (if you down them with the box in their hand, it'll trigger Chain Hunt). If you use Franklin's Demise with him, that will also cause the Chain Hunt to trigger. I do not do this but I know many Pinheads will.

Personally I find the box so hard to see and it's so quiet that I don't really bother looking for it. Play like a normal M1 killer and keep pressure on survivors like you normally would and let Chain Hunt be an additional pressure cooker. Chain Hunt is when you can really snowball things because survivors can't really do anything while it is happening.

Hopefully something in here helps you

This is bad advice imo. With this you give up half your build and it's relying on RNG. A big map and this build is useless, small maps it can be good still.

Also bad advice. Playing him as an M1 killer with a 10s slowdown? If you can't land the chains at loops, play a different character. He is labeled "very hard" for a reason. The chains are plenty to shut down most loops if you land them at the right time.

I would reccomend running 3x slowdowns and a chase perk. He is a killer who can be very painful at loops if you don't land chains like a robot so having something like bamboozle will make your life 10x easier.

His addons are still insane and he's got plenty of DC inducing combinations.

This one gets the DCs flowing. You can nail people on gens with the fang from outside his terror radius which is stupid as hell; and then hysteria usually has people running around blindly trying to figure out where you are even coming from after they eat the fang hit

i like to think of his power as nurse's power but you don't teleport. try to learn the box spawn rng; if you pick it up yourself, then you instantly start a chain hunt. do not always teleport to the box solver, sometimes it is a bait by a swf member.

survivors can see where you're opening the portal to chain (your power), so keep that in mind in order to not be juked. also, it can go through walls, if you charge it up long enough.

some loops or god pallets (gideon's) your power just can't do enough. it takes experience knowing which. just take the normal chase and break the pallet. speaking of which, you can chain survivors on the other side of a pallet before breaking it to slow them down. in the most common loops, it is in general worth it to use your power. if you do, the survivors are almost guaranteed to be hit, because then they are unable to run.

do consider using your power on survivors who insist on holding W; it can stop them from going to an insanely safe loop, or even simply running you around the 4 corners of the map. the cooldown is so short (even without addons) that there's no real downside to this, unless you use your power even though you would've gotten a hit seconds later without it anyways.

one final thing off the top of my head, you can use the power to scout things ahead without having to launch it, saving you some time, especially in indoor maps with lots of walls. with that said, one of the things that you can do is check a totem, and launch a chain to cancel a survivor's cleansing action. you can also try to chain a survivor who you know has sprint burst to prevent it.

with all that said, it's important to remember that pinhead still has 0 mobility, and chain hunt isn't always going to activate. prioritize slowdown perks in your build. (you can't go wrong with corrupt intervention)

It's not that you can't use the chains, it's just that I find it's rare that they are actually useful. In the situations they are useful in, I'll launch them

For me, Pinhead's power is the Chain Hunt, not his actual chains. My goal is to make the trial last as long as I can and let the Chain Hunt whittle away at the survivors.