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What are the best gen slowdown perks?
As the title says, what are the best gen slowdown perks in your opinion?
After researching, I made a post and found that the five strongest perks are: Corrupt, Pain Resonance, Grim Embrace, No Way Out, and Eruption.
Out of these 5, would you swap out any of them & what are your favourite ones?
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No Way Out isn't a gen defense perk. It does slow down the survs' ability to leave, but it has nothing to do with gens. I would swap NWO for Dead Man's Switch.
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I hate to say it but at this point but knowing where Survivors are is a lot better then worrying about Gen regression perks
I tend to run Corrupt in a lot of my matches and Gens still get done so that's not real slowdown especially when RNG plays the biggest part in it's effectiveness
DMS is held back by it's cooldown and conditions (Hooking Survivors)
SH:PR is a shell of itself at this point… if you want good use out of it then use the Hook spawn offering and hope that Survivors don't run Sabo or Toolboxes for it
NWO is not a Gen slowdown but an Exit Gate slowdown (Survivors can't open the gate)
Eruption means you are spending just as time kicking Gens as chasing Survivors and hoping that the Gen isn't done by the time you down a Survivor
Pop is still good but again you have to hope that you can down, hook and kick a Gen within a set time limit
Hex: Ruin isn't worth running due to Totem spawn spots and Survivors getting Cursed as soon as they let go of the Gen(s)
Surveillance isn't necessarily Gen slowdown but it gives you greater hearing range of Gen repairs and if you kick a Gen then the Gen turns white and if a Survivor touches the Gen it'll turn yellow for 12 seconds
Discordance though the same as Surveillance it gives you a noise notification if 2 or more Survivors are on a Gen
Thus the point of all of this ^^^ is to say that knowing which Gen(s) are being worked on is better then actual Gen regression/ slowdown
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Corrupt is technically not a real slowdown, but more of a zoning perk.
Out of it, the best gen perks would be DMS, Grim Embrace and Eruption. Pain Res kinda fell off after latest nerf
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DMS, Pain Res, Corrupt and Grim.
NWO is not a gen slowdown perk
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lethal pursuer, they can't do gens when they are on hooks
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Self Care.
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if corrupt didn't go away after a down it would be wayyy better
eruption is garbage with the 8 kick
pain, no way and grim are just ok
i personally like trail rn and count it as a gen slowdown perk since if it goes away you'll know someone touched it but the thing about gen regression perks is you're picking from a pile of bad perks since they've been heavily nerfed over the years
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The most consistent gen slowdown combo is prob surge/pain res. They’re both inconsistent on their own but in a combo they cover each others weaknesses. Surge controls gens close to u whereas pain res can hit gens on other side of map. Best part is u don’t even have to kick gens.
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They don't exist anymore
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I think Pain res is the best on most killers, but i'd swap it with corrupt on trap killers or killers that need to play late game. Grim is similar to Pain res. As everyone else has said NWO is not gen slowdown perk. Eruption is not top 5 in my opinion, it has 2 big problems being that it has a 30 second cooldown and it costs 2 gen regression events.
I think Surge is extremely good but only on killers that regularly down with basic attack, i would put that in 4. 5 i would put Deadlock.1 -
The absolute worst one is the Unknown one where you build up burst regression when a survivor misses a skill check. I don't think I've ever gotten 1 token on it. The Unknown is a being beyond understanding and so is this ass perk
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