Im genuinely curious, what the hell are killers meant to do?

Hmm those builds are pretty good I will say.

I do play a lot of Spirit, and I hope you won’t mind with a build recommendation that’s really fun and strong. Her two add ons Furin and Yakuyoke Amulet have great synergies with PR and DMS. The global phase sound can actually push people off gens and that will give DMS a ton of value, and obviously PR combines great with DMS. I’d combine it with Discordance or Face the Darkness for info, and the fourth perk can be about anything you want.

Obviously the two add ons are rarer than others so unless you leveled Spirit up a lot it’ll be hard to use this build every game. Your current build is still good and I definitely recommend still running that, but just wanted to shed light on that other build if it could maybe work better for you.

Maybe your mmr is to high? Killers at my level don't seem to have to much problems getting 4k.

Winning with killer (3k as thats when your MMR increases) in my experience relies on so many factors, that it would take quite a lengthy post to sum it all up. The two biggest contributing factors that decide the match though imo, is if you are playing against a competent SWF or a competent soloQ team, and if you are strategically tunneling and proxy camping to force people of gens. Of course your killer of choice and your skill with him matters too as well as maps and perks.

There are a few things that may help you:

1. Forget perks - focus on the basics: You could have the absolute optimum setup, but it won't work if the base game isn't right. Unfortunately, improving means you will lose chases often as you learn, but it's how you learn to out-think the opponent. This leads on to some of the other points.

2. When you start a trial, don't go in thinking about the 4k. Think smaller. Think about this time focusing on chasing loops, or maybe forgetting the power and seeing how you do with M1, or even work on how to control the map more. Make smaller goals in a trial. It removes the stress, which for me is a huge reason why some trials feel horrid compared to others.

3. Be unpredictable. Again, this come down to experimenting and having fun. I have a randomised build every single trial, using DBD Randomizer. This comes up with things survivors do not expect. It also can add into some unusually effective and interesting results. It also makes you think differently and keeps you out of a rutt, so you may probably enter a trial with a fresh mindset, which will affect your results. Also, just mix up your play. Run into a pallet one time, respect another. Make it confusing for your opponent.

4. Play in ways that reduce stress. The single most important thing I ever did in this game is forget about securing a kill and just keep hunring. I not often camped before, but sometimes (such as getting a down when all gens are done) made me think I had to secure it. This led to (for me) an intensely boring yet stressful experience. Now, I just hook and hunt. In fact, my kills have improved because this not only was unexpected by survivors for me to go on the offensive, but also removing that panic reduces anxiety and stress, which means I think clearer and have fun more. Sure some like the optimal tunnel and camp techniques, but I honestly can't think of anything more boring, predictable and removes the chances of me learning more. Also, yes, this has resulted in more kills in some trials than I reckon I'd get otherwise.

5. Realism. Unlike the 99.99% of the playerbase who apparently are all in the top 1% MMR, you're not trying to be at competition level, so don't play like you're in the pros. Don't destroy the fun for you. Once you focus on just enjoying the game, you'll naturally play better over time. You won't feel worried about putting on pressure. You won't start forcing chases which will ultimately give you a haemorrage (can't spell, sorry). Ironically, this will improve how you play as messing about or trying out new ideas will lead to vast improvement.

6. Most importantly for me is to realise this is only a game and do not let yourself be dragged down by what people write. You'll often read how people 4k all the time, or escape, or say killer/survivor is "easy mode". Please remember life isn't based around a single game, as well as - like most things online - people are often not truthful due to some bizarre idea that maybe not being the best is a sin. It's okay to mess up. It's okay to not be great compared to what others say. What's not okay is to compare yourself, which ultimately is what everyone does, subconsciously or not. You will have better games. You will also have rubbish games. Everyone does. Even the best players were once making mistakes all over and will still do!

In summary, the most important basic aspects are to refind the fun, play in ways that dom't induce stress, experiment, be random and focus on bitesized aims in a trial which you set, nobody else. If you set a goal to 1k with Hillbilly without camping and juat using a chainsaw, for example, then that's your goal. Forget what others put on you, because YOU bought the game to play as you wish, not them.

Regarding the 90% insutling statement, some survivors (and its mostly survivors that fall prey to this) will always find a way to try diminish your performance or achivment in the match. Yesterday I went against a Twitch SWF that send me to "The Game" and this usually means that they got a plan and builds for it, and I was right, one guy had a dedicated "run the killer" build and tried to get instantly in my hair, together with Kindred and Open Handed, and everyone else was running Sabotage, DH, Breakout and either Adrenalin or Unbreakable. Pretty disgusting stuff.

So right from the start I knew that the gloves were off and when they sabotaged two times in a row in a way that I couldnt get any hooks, I started slugging and caging, as I was running Pyramid Head, and also did the famous one-two combo of running towards the cage and downing the survivor the moment they got uncaged. This way I could generate enough pressure to tunnel one out and slug the rest. The last two then hid in the corner of the map with no hooks and insisted on bleeding out and after the game I was getting the full broadside of trash killer getting boosted by perks and playing like in the old times before BT with that uncaging down and that I was extra toxic for slugging instead of hooking. Oh and of course, they talked about "haven destroyed me" because I broke off several chases, when I knew that they were pointless, which probably helped me win the game. But these kind of players are always so full of themselves, you probably need to win 100% of your chases to satisfy this guys, and even then you might be "sweating, while we just play for run".

Of course this is just one game, but it happens practically every game since the last update, where I get a leg up and not roll over and die: every little bit I do gets disected and used against me. And in not a small number of games the survivors plan actually bears fruit and I get reduced to a plaything. Killer has really become a chore again and it feels a lot like going back to pre-6.1 I can manage somewhat, but its bought with sweat, tears and getting insulted every half step of the way.

Yknow Im curious, are you just losing 99% of your matches instead?

Learn a top 3-4 Killer and sweat.

Or, accept that the game has nothing even close to resembling balance and manually adjust your MMR.

How do you know it's a SWF?

PT is good for you as a Killer. It means Survivors aren't being efficient. As for players like D3AD, they are very good and make regular players look like babies.

These guys were all chill people and decent players. Even though I don't play Billy, I was still able to 4K despite the odds. I don't think it has much to do with the severs.

If people play to win, you've gotta play to win as well.

I'm in the same boat. Gens are too easy to do and too quick as a result. I play 50/50 survivor/killer or close to it. I think most games as survivor 5 gens pop before the killer has secured more than 1 kill. For killer, I feel like if I don't have a very quick first 3 chases than the game is lost. The first 2 gens always go by instantly and the game is won or lost depending on if you can slow survivors enough for gens 3, 4 and 5 to take some time to do.

MMR has completely killed this game. The player base now has a mindset similar to that of a comp team. Are players as skilled as those from a comp team no. But I can see how similar the games are in terms of style. Gens go by very fast, killers are forced to tunnel 1 person, and it comes down to if the killer can win the game late.

If I bought this game today and played it for a week I would quit after a week. This game is not beginner friendly. I miss old DBD. I started near the end of the Pre-MMR era so I don't remember much about how those games went but they were so much better than the sweat infested games we have now. I want to play with meme builds and try goofy strategies to get kills. But you can't do that anymore. Now it's end chases in 20 sec or less and play as sweaty as possible or you will get destroyed.

Very sad to see what this game has become when it was so fun to start out.

All I can suggest is that you play with your own objectives.

For real. I started out back when the Stranger Things chapter was announced to disappear and bought into the game, planning to become a Demo main. Back then I would often play "like I played with Devour Hope" as I explained it, ie get away from a hook asap and I would sometimes chase an unhooked survivor for fun, just to nod at them when cornered and break off.

And gens would go by much more one after another then like 3 after the first chase, if you made the slightest mistake, like it was "chase and down one survivor, then another, first gen pops", then the same till the second one popped etc. And this lead to a kill at 2 gens and then things got a bit more spicy. But the MMR system bread competition into everyones mind and nearly everyone was forced to sweat at some point, which lead to way more players to learn how to play efficient.

Now we can't put the genie back into the bottle, survivors know that slamming gens and splitting up wins gens, and killers know that tunneling one out early is often their only chance of slowing the game down enough, so this tactics wont go away, unless you hardcode them out of the game.

Imagine a player of today playing a match in DBD from 4 years back, people would think that they cheat.

I mean I was doing fine before I mained blight as a nemesis/ph/bubba/hag player with mid tier builds, even with how op the survivor meta was when I finally got good at killer. Current state of the game is far more friendly to killers than that was. Although if you are playing something like legion/wraith/freddy then realistically I don't know how you would be allowed to do very well.

Although, this playbase is terrible and as someone who actually went out of there way to learn and get better, I progressed far past average far faster than an embarrassing amount of players in this game did. I feel like a vast majority of this playerbase either doesn't go out of their way to learn from outside of the game or simply came into video games late and it takes them far too long to learn.

Tunnel only if it's easy target but don't over do it. Early game you could try multiple targets/hooks and if good opportunity rises then tunnel. Camp if someone is about to reach second stage or about to die just try to take advantage of every survivor mistake. First chase has to be quick because if not gens will fly at lightspeed.

I personally use now pain res, pop, plaything on lot of my builds. I win most my games but get destroyed in games I lose often. There seems to be no middle ground for me I try to improve to be more consistent but things sometimes are just agains't you the game is still survivor sided.

This is the way.There is no one way to play killer,not due to playstyle preference ,but because not one strategy can be used over and over again to success.To succeed as killer you NEED to make a play happen. Whether that be constant pressure by having fast chases with little downtime,tunneling someone out of the game,camping when the opportunity arises,slugg to create pressure and threaten to end the game.

The most general advice that can be given is that you should prioritize killing someone as the game's dynamic changes entirely once in a 1 v 3.By chasing someone and having someone on a hook you have full slowdown as no one is doing gens.If you end the chase faster than the unhook happens,or you find them healing you can slug and threaten to end the whole game for example.

Nintendo switch player here lol