Facing the doctor
Can someone tell me how to survive against the doctor?
I've played at least 20 games against him and lost every single one. Only killer that I can say this about.
Nothing works against him, he has incapacitate on demand.
I need some solid advice.
I do not play in a SWF.
Looping does not work against him.
He's not "just an M1 killer", telling me that isn't going to help me here.
Does any one have any video evidence that goes into depth about this maybe? I can't find a single helpful video on this particular killer. Others yes. Not doctor.
I don't need to watch some guy doing a bunch of tech spins on a doctor playing on controller, that doesn't help. I mean real tactics and advice.
The only people I seem to encounter playing doctor know how to play him well so these kinds of cheap YT video reel tactics don't actually work in a real game.
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Hate to tell you Doc isn't that bad of a Killer unless they are a King and Queen Doc and even then it's all about management of your madness.
You can easily loop him just remember if he's charging up a shock wait before throwing a pallet....since he can stun you for roughly 2 secs keeping you from performing a action. He is also just a M1 Killer since his power can't actually damage you.
Once you hit T3 Madness you need to get out of is asap or you will keep screaming.....and once mad don't crouch for too long because Doc can see the phantom Docs from anywhere on the map same with fake pallets since they only will spawn around Survivors with madness
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Sure. I've played a lot of Doctor over the years, and faced at least a hundred.
- If he hasn't shocked recently, anticipate him shocking as you approach a pallet or a window. If you're not confident on the timing, it's better to just keep running.
- However, shock has a delay to it, so if you're at the vault, do it.
- Predrop pallets. Don't get fancy.
- Looping is absolutely the way to handle him, he slows down while shocking.
- If you hear a distant terror radius and he hasn't done it for a while, anticipate his blast and get into a locker. It's got a horrible cooldown.
- If he's camping, you're in for a really, really bad time - as his shocks can stop unhooks. Weirdly, camping doctors are rare, but you'll learn to dread them.
- He has a few different addons - the ones to be scared of are the ones that make his terror radius increase or decrease in size, the ones that make shocks land quicker and the one that makes shocks longer.
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^^^ these are everything you need to know. If you're still struggling, go full stealth. Stay out of his terror radius and line of sight at all costs. Go work on gens far away if you have to.
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I think it's the addons making everything so much more difficult, thanks for the advice.
I think maybe I'm just not a good survivor.
I can't loop well, it always feels like there's nowhere to do it. Whenever I get to a spot, it turns a 10 second chase into a 15 second chase and that doesn't mean much or do anything for the team. Everywhere feels like a Deadzone to me.
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As someone who really started putting time into survivor early this year (I'd been a full killer main for ages), you can't go in expecting to melt faces.
Focus on getting incrementally better and practicing the fundamentals, because if you try to get fancy you'll end up outsmarting yourself.
Once you've got about 100 hours, start watching videos and you'll pick up the rest.
After that, it's just about being able to judge what you can do safely, how to handle loops and mindgames and praying your teammates don't quit the second there's a down.
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Somethin you can do if you wanna get better at general looping and stuff. On Youtube, look up OhTofu. He had a really good series on fundamentals from like 3-4 years ago. Sometimes he'd also review gameplay that people sent in. A lot of stuff has changed since then, but most of the general tips are still good. Like, tiles have a certain way to run em to get the most value (different directions for killer/survivor), best ways to hug a loop, and how/when to most effectively turn your camera to see killer. There's a bunch of things that just make more sense when you can see it played out with instructions. Other than that, just keep playing. After awhile you'll start puttin good runs together without even thinkin about it.
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Looping definitely does work, but the pathing is going to be a little different. The Doctor is going to try and time his shocks to land as you approach a pallet or window. What you need to do as a survivor is eat the shock and *keep moving*. The worst thing you can do is stop and wait for the stun to wear off.
The Doc slows down a lot to charge and release his shock, so he gains only a little distance if you never stop moving. The best thing to do is to change sides of the tile if possible. The basic flow of running a tile against Doctor is loop long side>eat the shock>rotate to shorter side>eat the shock>rotate to long side. This keeps as much distance between you and Doc as possible.
Your goal is to eventually drop the pallet with the Doctor on the opposite end of the long side. At that point he'll try to shock you again to deny the vault. What you do instead is again eat the shock (sensing a theme?) and use the dropped pallet+long side to create enough distance to make it to the next tile. You aren't playing the pallet for a vault once it's thrown against Doc. It's there to create distance.
There are other nuances at specific tiles on different maps, but that's the general theory against Doc.
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