What's your favorite off-meta build?

To preface this, i can say that i play a lot of Alien since it's my main (one of my two P100, the other being Pyramid Head). I mostly play stupid build like the one im going to explain below.

The build i want to talk about is :

Monitor/Rapid brutality/Mindbreaker/Surveillance

The immersive idea behind this is to be very informed of survivors whereabout, ambush them and seal the deal very fast or disapear.

Monitor and Rapid are the core idea. You either ambush them with the tunnels or approach them with monitor. They will have troubles pre running, even with turrets. Usually, survivors starts to flee when the beeping intensifies a lot, with 18 m/s in tunnel, you will be on top of them. You can also decide to approach from another angle and benefit from monitor, this will confuse them. Xenomorph change it's TR whenever it loses it's power or carry a survivor, with monitor, the TR will be even more inconsistent. Most of the time, they will start running too late. If you encounter a smart one, you can try a bait with the aid of the turrets (i'll elaborate this in the cereal ration part, but you can do it just with the footsteps detection, in short, make the turret beep, watch as the survivor start to GTFO, and follow them underground, then, ambush them for another control station).

When ambushing, use rapid brutality first if possible, then follow up with a tail strike to seal the deal in ~20 seconds, the goal is to chain very short and effecient chase or drop them after getting rid of ressources to further increase the chance of succes of your next ambush.

If they run to a turret, break it and leave if you sense the chase is going to be too time costing.

Mindbreaker will stop them from using sprint burst or other exhaustion to escape your ambushes and Surveillance will keep you informed of survivors activity around key generators. It also makes hearing gens from underground easier.

Nota: Spies from the shadows is nice to replace Surveillance if you want to play Semiotic keyboard. Crawler mode does not alert crows and with 16 meters of TR, you will be stealthy enough to make the survivor think they can disturb crows with impunity. The information gathered with this perk can be very decisive at time.

Fire up can replace RB, the added stats will be handy and you will lose generators.

For add ons, you can use:

Acidic blood: Usefull to have a visual indicator of the time spent in a chase and will simplify your approach.

Self-destruct bolt: Increase your ambush success rate with quick follow up (in shack for exemple).

Kayne's helmet: Just a little love tap before leaving if you have no opportunity to seal the deal fast. Keeping them injured will create opportunities for future ambushes.

Cereal ration: This add ons will let you know if your presence is revealed or not, allowing you to follow survivors who are pre running to the nearest station and potentially ambush them, countering their plans. Does not work everytime, but can be usefull.

Emergency helmet and Lambert's star map: Always usefull to resist turrets, i never use them together and rarely use them at all. They are very valuable but i simply prefer other add ons. Using them or one of them is good for using basic attack on turrets thus losing less distance, probably the two best add ons alongside self-destruct bolt. I recommend Lambert's star map over emergency helmet.

Semiotic keyboard: Can be used to switch Surveillance off for another gimmicky perk like Dragon's grip to increase your ambush potential. Unforeseen can also confuse them.

Crew headset: One of my personal favorite, it's not usefull to patrol gens since you will hear them. But it is incredibly usefull to find a weak target, cut off someone or gather informations early and late. Very usefull add on.

No One Left Behind / Mettle of Meg / Dead Hard / Empathetic Connection

The ability to safely go for an endgame save is great, and the occasional cheating accusation from tanking a hit while in Deep Wound is always a joy :)

and the occasional cheating accusation from tanking a hit while in Deep Wound is always a joy :)

Okay but what about Killer DCs? Do those also bring joy?

Enduring, Spies From The Shadows, No Way Out, and Batteries Included on Demogorgon is usually my chill build.

• Enduring is amazing on Demo since sometimes when Shredding a Survivor through a Pallet, you hit them, but you get pushed to the same side of the Pallet they are from the stun. Enduring pretty much gives you a free hit in those situations since you can quickly 180* and hit them (unless they have any perk that modifies Vault Speed).
• Spies From The Shadows is just a comfort perk. Reliable information, helps with colorblindness, it increases in strength on Indoor Maps, where Survivors tend to hide more. Overall it is an amazing perk and I wish more people used it. Also, it helps with my colorblindness since on some maps I cant see Scratchmarks easily.
• No Way Out is No Way Out. I dont have to really worry about kicking Generators and stuff, I just get extra time in the end-game to deal with anything. Idk if people consider this perk meta anymore, especially with Grim Embrace getting buffed.
• Batteries Included pairs well with No Way Out, I can kind of just turn my brain off. It helps with loops where I cannot use Shred, and it increases the speed of Shred and the distance I travel using Shred. Technically any Haste perk functionally also works fine but Batteries Included is so hands off that I just prefer it here.

Slap on Black Heart and Rat Tail addons for the quality of life and you are set.

I tend to avoid slowperks since I find them a bit boring to play as/against, and generally speaking I rather lose fast than win slow.

Too many to list, but right now I am busy feeding the crows. Next time you bump into one, I may be watching.

Here's a few:

If you're confident in your ability to survive while injured then try this. Since using FTP to heal someone else counts as finishing a heal for Clean Break, the idea is essentially that you can stay Broken for 2 minutes and in the end you got to instant heal another survivor and eventually you get healed back up yourself too with minimal time investment, you just have to wait for FTP Broken to end and then get someone to start your Clean Break. IW is there to help you survive while injured and Empathy helps you find injured survivors to heal. You can use any item you want with this, doesn't really matter.

This basically revolves around using Dramaturgy and making it even more powerful than normal. At the start of the match you want to get Hardened active as quickly as possible, if you find a totem before you find a chest, Illumination can show you where the chests are (and then also helps you and the rest of your team find generators). Once Hardened is active, if Dramaturgy would normally make you scream, it reveals the killer's aura to you instead, making 3 out of its 4 random effects positive for you. If you do get exposed, Finesse can help you survive it.

At first glance Sloppy/BBQ/DMS looks like a somewhat meta build but there's a special gimmick to this build that makes it unique - these addons in combination with these perks help you interrupt things.

• The iridescent addon Vorpal Sword makes your dispelling sphere cause injured survivors to scream when they get revealed and also inflicts the Broken status effect for 30 seconds (you also gain the ability to break pallets with Mage Hand but that's not what we're using it for here).
• The yellow addon Glass Eye makes the dispelling sphere 2 meters bigger and makes it travel 10% faster.
• After you hook a survivor, you can see faraway survivors with BBQ and use your dispelling sphere to either force them to scream if they're on a gen (triggering DMS) or if you see someone healing you can send it to them and stop them because the addon will make them Broken.
  • When this happens, Hemorrhage (either from Sloppy or Blood Echo) will immediately kick in and regress all their healing progress while they're Broken with nothing they can do to stop it. If convenient for you, you can also go and chase them and Blood Echo will likely have them exhausted as well, on top of them being unable to heal because of your addon. You do have to get a good start to the match for this to be super effective, but Vecna is pretty good in chase and if you get this build going it can often snowball the game for you.

During the "Thrill is 45s" era, i faced a Vecna that used this add on to make us scream and interrupt the cleansing, it was counterable, but painful. He also made sure to keep us injured of course.

The Devour was in the center of the map, in the main building (asylum so great map for us), up the stairs and after some meters. It was long to go there and he could interrupt us every ~30 seconds. Not even counting it's physical presence on top.At least he could not interrupt us with FoTD.

Once the Devour kicked in, we quicky lost the trial.

With some coordination and a more tactical approach, we could have won, but damn, what a build.

Your build reminded me of this, Vecna interrupting survivors with the iri. Great build !

I like an exhaustion/made for this, Aftercare, Botany, Power of two

I am a Pig Main, and I run what I jokingly call my Perkless Pig build. It's Blood Warden, No Way Out, Remember Me, and Terminus. Then for addons I bring Video Tape and Ruleset No. 2. The reason I call it Perkless Pig is due to how often I get the 3-4K (depending on if someone boops for hatch or not) before the last generator is even finished. if your perks never activated, did you bring any perks?

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