The Worst Possible Killer Build in Dead by Daylight

While it's pretty clear what the current best build in the game is for Killer (Nurse with both range addons, 4 slowdown perks, preferably Call of Brine, Eruption, Deadlock and Overcharge), I feel like there's never been a discussion for what the absolute weakest build is. I wanted to remedy that, and present what I believe to be the worst possible Killer build in the game without taking into consideration people who handicap themselves by actively not using certain aspects of their power. Technically, a Nurse with this build would overall be worse if she just chose to not use her blinks, but that's not as interesting to me. All of this comes from what the game itself allows you to put together. Here it is:

For my Killer, I am going to pick The Shape. This is due to an addon that he possesses called Scratched Mirror. This addon permanently puts me in Tier 1 of Evil Within, which makes Myers only move at 4.2 m/s, which is only 0.2 m/s faster than a Survivor's base running speed. It also severely hinders his lunge, to the point where he practically doesn't have one. While there is another addon to alleviate this, Boyfriend's Memo, I will not be using that. There are a lot of different options that straight up do nothing when used with Scratched Mirror, but I picked Reflective Fragment, as I believe this is just generally Myers' worst addon that doesn't only work while in Tier 1.

Now for the Perks. While I could just throw on four Undetectable Perks, which would be worthless, and call it a day, I'm going for something more unique. Dying Light is an obvious choice, with some very minimal slowdown coupled with that absolutely huge 33% altruistic action speed boost for the obsession. Dark Devotion is another choice for a bad Perk, as I'm already permanently Undetectable, but also, Dark Devotion allows the obsession and other people around the obsession to charge some of their terror radius-based perks, like Distortion and Stakeout, which obviously is harmful to me. My other two Perks are Hoarder and Hex: Plaything. Hoarder spawning 2 extra chests allows for the Survivors to have a higher chance of getting useful items, due to more overall search attempts, and Hex: Plaything is just there because it gives them more Bloodpoints for cleansing totems. While Hoarder does give me information, my speed doesn't allow me to capitalize on this.

I also debated on some other Perks, such as Trail of Torment and Predator. Trail of Torment would help other Survivors locate a generator that I've kicked while giving me nothing in return other than some very minor information that I, again, cannot capitalize on in any way. Predator is just an overall bad Perk and might make me miss some scratch marks on occasion, resulting in a lost chase. However, I chose to not use these two because Trail of Torment does require me to kick a generator, which means I'm regressing it and still hindering the Survivors' progress, and Predator is going to very rarely actually do something at all, positive or negative.

Finally, the Offering I'm using is a tossup between either the Crow's Eye, the Offering for the Eyrie of Crows, or Ichorous Loam, the Offering for the Garden of Joy. I couldn't decide which of these was the worse map for this build, though I do lean more towards the Eyrie of Crows because of it being much, much worse for stealth compared to Garden of Joy.

While I brought an Offering to the Eyrie of Crows, my first game with this build had a Survivor bring the Beef Tallow Mixture, the Offering to send me to the Decimated Borgo. Her addon won. Let's see how that went.

…What?

How did I get 2 Kills with this build? I'm still dumbfounded even hours after the match due to how it played out. My only guess is that the Survivors simply underestimated me. Granted, I did camp the Mikaela at endgame, but I felt like it was fair, since the game cheated me out of grabbing her on the generator moments before.

I intend to play more games with this build, in order to collect more data and know exactly just how bad this build is, but for now, this is all we have to go off of. If you have any suggestions for worse choices for a build, please let me know. If you want to have a go at this build, have at it! You might be surprised at how well you do. Even though this build is really, really weak, I had a lot of fun with this match because I was just surprised with every moment that I hit or hooked someone.

Have fun, everyone! Have a great 2023, hope to see you in the Fog! 🥂