Most underrated perk in game

quick and quiet and trail of torment.

quick and quiet constantly throws killers off during some loops where they lose eye sight and have to use sound. It actually does far more during a game than one might expect.

idk... trail of torment is cool. try equiping it to tier 3 myers. :) (or the new one from the ptb when it comes out)

Trail of Torment and Coup de Grace.

Trail of Torment is a free constant stealth and can potentially give you free hits and downs, it is specially good with killers like the two chainsaw boys, specially when combined with aura reading perks. In the last update this perk was also indirectly buffed because a survivor have to repair a generator 5 seconds for cancelling the effect and frequently when a survivor see the aura of affected gen they think someone used blast mine until you surprise them for first time, other people don't even know why you were undetectable and why the generator aura, because is so underused that they don't know its effect.

Coup de Grace is a very good perk which can make the chases way shorter due reducing the loop amount and gives you a lot of hits unexpected by the survivors.

Huntress Lullaby. I swear, you'd be surprised how many times even survivors with thousands of hours still fail skill checks with this perk.

In terms of very strong effects that people constantly downplay (and to give a different answer, someone else already mentioned Light-Footed which is deeply underrated), I'm gonna pick Lucky Break.

I see that perk fairly consistently in those "bad perks that need a rework" lists people like to do from time to time, which is insane because it's far and away the strongest stealth perk in the game and one of the strongest perks period. It's largely underrated because it requires some thought to use, I think, people generally don't like "needing" to bring other perks to unlock something's potential and that's where Lucky Break sits.

Bring it with an Exhaustion perk (especially Overcome), breaking chase gets super easy. Bring those two with Bite The Bullet and a reliable method of self healing, it becomes broken. Even on its own, the value is pretty easy to see and not that difficult to achieve.

I do like using Overcome at the moment, can combine it with other lesser used perks to break chase entirely, although it can be a bit of a waste against one hit killers, especially a tier 3 Myers.

For killer, I use Spies from the Shadows a fair bit. Can help track down survivors in places you don't expect then to be, extremely useful against the stealthy style survivors who aren't good in chase. A good player will still need to be caught though which can be tricky sometimes.

deja vu... this perk is also useful when you can't do gen and you are in chase. Why? You direct your chase away from the gen

this perk is simply amazing

Info perks are generally underrated, with the exception of Windows and Kindred which I'd argue are marginally overrated.

But Deja Vu and Empathy would be my top picks due to the relevance of the info they provide. They show you the gens you need to focus on early on, and precise info on where a chased survivor is and where they're about to go down, indirectly giving you the killers location too.

*diabolic villain laugh*

Agitation. You have no pressure or lethality when you're carrying at base speed. The perk is a straight efficiency boost in multiple ways. You spend less time carrying and hooking. You can get free health states from survivors who are being aggressive. You have more flexibility about where you hook someone, which can swing games.

I think Lucky Star is the most underrated aura perk for all the info that it gives you. I tend to make full aura builds, but if I can only bring one aura perk then it's this one.

I'm really enjoying Self-Aware / Fixated at the moment. You can stealth around the map reasonably quickly and it obviously pairs well with Sprint Burst. But you can also use the info it gives to create misleading scratch marks and to break line of sight / mind game at certain loops. Now that Killers don't kick gens so much and Nowhere To Hide is less common, you can use it to walk quite far away from your gen and the Killer won't want to waste time looking for you. It's just a great perk with so many uses.

I think Self-Care / Botany Knowledge are also an underrated combo. I don't care what anyone else thinks, access to unlimited 30 second heals all game is strong and potentially game changing imho.

As for Killer perks, Iron Grasp and Lightborn are underrated. If you take both of these perks, you are near guaranteed to hook the Survivor you're carrying.

Distortion.

Now before your eyes roll and you instantly judge me as being an immersed survivor who also enjoys leaving my team mates on hook to get hatch, I am pretty decent at looping and I play aggressively and I will sacrifice myself to unhook a team mate and let them get out.

However with all the aura perks in the game Distortion can allow you to hide for an unhook, pressure an essential gen and be ready for a flashy/flashbang save along and heal without being detected. I cant tell you how valuable this is as a solo queue only player!

However one caveat - if you're using Distortion simply to hide to avoid chases, you're doing it wrong and not getting the true power from the perk. I actually hope people keep sleeping on it as I don't want it nerfed

Calm Spirit.

For Survivor, I think Plot Twist is so consistently useful that it's become the best way to self heal, especially if you're bringing Unbreakable as well.

As Killer, Trail of Torment on characters without stealth can throw survivors off so bad they're already past the point of no return by the time they get a grip. People really underestimate the element of surprise. Maybe Unknown's new perk will become popular too. The scarier the game, the better : )

I started using Any Means Necessary a few days ago and I actually love it. It's a great way to save resources. Most killers kick pallets but occasionally I'll get a killer, like a Dredge I faced yesterday, who'd use his power around loops and leave the pallet. So I was able to reset a number of them.

Some of these may be more popular than others, but here's a list of a lot of perks I've used frequently that I feel others don't appreciate as much. (I upload my matches to nightlight so taken from there.)

Decisive Strike - Even a few seconds of a stun when getting tunneled can be very helpful especially against a lower tier killer.

Hope - You can be practically impossible to catch with this perk equipped, even just raw holding W is heavily boosted with this perk.

Iron Will - 75% is still a sizable reduction in volume that'll do just as good as the old one on almost every survivor.

Borrowed Time - Every killer counts to 10, but nobody counts to 20. Even more useful in endgame.

No One Left Behind - Helps immensely with end game saves, and can easily max out your points in the altruism category.

Sole Survivor - Keep struggling to escape in solo cause of those lame teammates that keep dying? This perk basically guarantees an escape.

Agitation - Edgar covered this one well, but very versatile perk that grants more freedom of where you can hook which can be huge in some games.

Overcharge - Regression boost may not be much anymore, but can still help if survivors stay off the gen for long enough, also skill check failure is always instant value no matter what which even good survivors may fail from time to time.

Brutal Strength - Great perk for zoning, even the smallest boost for kicking can make the difference between the survivor making the next pallet/window or getting hit. Works especially good on killers like Wesker or Clown.

Hex: Ruin - Recent buff to this actually did improve this a little bit, the ability to regress gens without having to kick them really can come in handy even though the base regression may be low. Especially useful on killers that can force a secondary objective or keep the survivors busy in some other sort of way. (Wesker, Singularity, Twins, Pinhead.)

Remember Me - Its buff may have been small, but was still a nice boost to make this perk quite useful in end game builds with No Way Out. Only flaw this perk has is the fact that the obsession can open the gates without being affected by this perk's penalty.

Thrilling Tremors - Fantastic information perk that can counter Distortion.

Gearhead - Not as good as other aura reading perks, but still surprisingly decent especially on someone hit and run like Wraith or Sadako.

Agreed! I thought I was the only one using SS, lol.

This combo was my go-to survivor loadout, no matter if I ran solo or in a SWF. People claim that SWFs get this perks for free, and while its true that they get a budget version of this info by just calling out to each other, there is a very direct and visceral feedback from actually SEEING whats happening in real time, instead of getting it described by someone, possible in a butchered and stumbling manner of speech, because they are chased by a cracked Billy or Huntress.

Open Handed beautifully enhances this two basic perks that get a bad rep for being baby perks, but its so good to constantly see what your team mates are doing. And Kindred with Open Handed is kinda busted. The killer has no idea they your team gets wallhacks over half the map, sometimes quite literally. You could even use is aggressively and combo it with Camaradry and someone giving you a Rebecci reassuring Thumbs Up to have 2min wallhacks per healthstate, but its also a bit risky, because the team will be one person short. Still, it can be occasionally fun to play the living recon for your team.

Yeah not many use it thats why it's underrated. I always play for the team but when there is no team around anymore you need that last line of defense. Like the goalkeeper in football or the safety in American football 😀

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