Made for this has been around for 51 days, so roughly half of this data. Even still, newer perks tend to be used more frequently on release and then die down a bit. The fact that it's not even at #10 tells me that the pick rate is much lower than is being claimed.

It’s because the perk was not in the game for a large part of the time period this data covers. This means its usage rate was zero from April until Gabriel’s release in June, which significantly reduced its overall usage rate over the entire time period.

Next time BHVR does stats it will have been in the game for the entire time period those stats cover, and then it probably will be in the top 10.

We have no idea if its usage is growing or not. For all we know, it's top 15 or 20 at the moment. We won't know for sure until we give it time. And don't assume I'm incapable of making my own mind up.

True. At half the of the period covered, you'd expect it's usage rate to be half of what it currently is. So we can infer it's actual use rate is below 12%, which would make it at least no. 7 is not further down.

You can't make that claim.

All we know from these stats is that it's less than 12%. (because if it were more than 12% for half of the period, it would show as more than 6% for the whole period and rank above Spine Chill)

It could be anywhere from 0% to 12%. Now obviously we know it's relatively popular so it's not 0%, but that still gives a lot of room. It could still be outside of the top 10. 'Popular' can mean anything above about 3-4% in practice, so it could easily be sitting at no. 11.

Alright, so lets do some math here. So, lets say during the course of this time period, there were 100,000 games played. So for 50,000 games MFT did not exist and for 50,000 games it did. (its not quite 50% but makes the math a bit easier) Lets look at the percentage of the perks then. Now, there are 4 survivors per game, so lets take those percentages and look at the first 50,000 games and how many survivors of the total 200k used these perks.

first 50,000 games

• Windows of Opportunity - 29% [58,000]
• Adrenaline - 22% [44,000]
• Resilience - 19% [38,000]
• Lithe - 17% [32,000]
• Self-care (lol) - 13% [26,000]
• Sprint Burst - 13% [26,000]
• Prove Thyself - 11% [22,000]
• Dead Hard - 10% [20,000]
• Bond - 9% [18,000]
• Spine Chill - 6% [12,000]
• Made for this - 0% [0] {did not exist yet}

Now, anecdotally, i see probably see made for this in every single game i play lately, so i'd guess at least 1 survivor is always running it. Now, we can assume that the pick rates for these top perks didn't change much for the next 50k games, so we'll use the same percentages for those.

Now lets look at the next 50,000 games:

• Windows of Opportunity - 29% [58,000]
• Adrenaline - 22% [44,000]
• Resilience - 19% [38,000]
• Lithe - 17% [32,000]
• Self-care (lol) - 13% [26,000]
• Sprint Burst - 13% [26,000]
• Prove Thyself - 11% [22,000]
• Dead Hard - 10% [20,000]
• Bond - 9% [18,000]
• Spine Chill - 6% [12,000]
• Made for this (1 survivor per game) - 25% [50,000]

Now if we add those totals up.

• Windows of Opportunity = 116,000
• Adrenaline = 88,000
• Resilience = 76,000
• Lithe = 64,000
• Self-care (lol) = 52,000
• Sprint Burst = 52,000
• Prove Thyself = 44,000
• Dead Hard = 40,000
• Bond = 36,000
• Spine Chill = 24,000
• Made for this (1 survivor per game) = 50,000

That would barely put it at number 5, knocking spine chill off. And this is assuming that it has had a pick rate of 25% since it came out, which would put it as the number 2 perk. Generally, when i see survivors running it, they are running it with resilience. So i'd assume its pick rate, is around the same as resilience, which would then put it number 8 just above bond. And resilience is the number 3 perk there.

The other thing you need to factor in, which i think is far more important. Look how high self-care is on that list. With the nerf to self-healing and the fact that it takes nearly a full 46 seconds to heal yourself with self-care. Self-care is probably one of the worst perks in the game. Wouldn't you agree? And with that, it is STILL there as NUMBER 5?! This is because they are looking at pick rates as a whole. This means, when i get matched against survivors with 1k+ hours as i regularly do because i have so many hours as well. It is counting my games, just as much as it is counting the games of someone who has played, for 5 hours.

What would be MUCH more interesting, is if they gave us the same statistics, but also broke them out for MMR like they typically do. And what i find interesting, is that they DIDN'T. The last time they gave us data on kill rates, they broke it down by "All MMR" and "High MMR" and we could look at those. Yet they didn't here for some reason.

So, now that you realize it is taking into account ALL games, lets look at which perks ARE at the top of the list here, and think about it for 5 seconds.

• Windows of Opportunity - The biggest outlier, but probably the most "noob friendly" perk in the game
• Adrenaline - A free perk that every survivor has access to
• Resilience - A free perk that every survivor has access to
• Lithe - A perk on Feng min, by far the most played survivor in the game (should be obvious based how many skins she gets)
• Self-Care - A perk on a survivor that every player has access to
• Sprint Burst - A perk on a survivor that every player has access to
• Prove Thyself - A perk on a survivor that every player has access to
• Dead Hard - A perk on a survivor that you are given access to after completing the tutorial
• Bond - A perk on a survivor that every player has access to
• Spine Chill - A free perk that every survivor has access to

So if anything, the only interesting thing here is how much of an outlier windows of opportunity is.

In fact, the most useful statistic would be pick rates, broken down by MMR, and adjusted for OWNING those perks. Because i'd guess a ton of these "5 hour megs" don't have MFT to begin with.