Can someone explain the "healing meta" we're in right now?

Just the latest cope that struggling killer mains are having. There always has to be something out of their hands to justify all their shortcomings.

It does not really exist. Well, if you compare it with the stay injured meta a long time back (DH, IW, Resi, later Made for this), survivor nowadays prefer it to be healed.

But its not really a meta. Yh medkits are the strongest item, but thats not really new. It wasnt rare to play against 4 medkits two years ago.

One big change is that one of the favourite juicer builds (Finesse + Dramaturgy) requires you to be healthy, but its not really the meta build.

If we go after pickrates WoO is king.

It's hypberolated by killers who refuse to take anything but information and gen slowdown down perks instead of the actual tools they are given to help circumvent the healing. They're complaining because survivors got a buff to a nearly unused perk that brought it up to "used". And as we see, almost anytime a survivor gets something positive, killers behave like they've just been kneedcapped. Then again, as killers they should never be happy for survivor. So basically, they're just roleplaying.

I better see you on every post where someone says anything pointed to either side inciting "Tribalism".
I added sarcasm to the post, but clearly i struck a nerve. Unless you've gone through my post history (Which you probably haven't considering you're asking me to explain perk combinations when in my other posts i've stated a few in similar topics) then "EnGaGe In MeAnInGfUl, CoNsTrUcTiVe ObJeCtIvE DiScUsSiOn EvErY oNcE iN a WhIlE" doesn't apply here, because I have been..

Good counters to the "healing meta" are
Sloppy butcher, Nurses Calling, Coulrophobia, Weeping wounds, huge one is leverage, as that directly blocks Botany knowledge. It's nearly the equivalent of the lightborn to healing. 50% is a huge amount. Thanataphobia, Hex Pentamento after 2 totems lit up which isn't hard to pair with other strong perks. You have the ability to give exposed. Friends till the end, starstruck, dragons grip (Meme perk?) Devour hope which pairs well with pentamento, haunted grounds. For the more non camp heavy killers, make your choice is still in the game, just unused…There are addons for some killers with exposed etc.
Plenty of abilities that have addons that cause hemorrhage, there are so many tools for numerous killers in this game that can be used to help circumvent these heals to a degree. The point is to not make healing so bad it's not worth doing. At that point everyone might as well just run no mither if it gets to a point like several patches back where healing took so long someone recorded themselves taking 2 minutes to fully heal. Considering the amount of complaints, it seems like that's the only thing that might appease the outrage. (Obvious overexaggerating)

Medkits are 1 to 2 use things at best, and even then, paired against healing slowing builds, they still put pressure on the survivors.
Yes, medkits are better than they have been in a long time. Franklins doesn't drain, that part I think sucks, but it's still a useable perk especially paired with dredges weave attunement. Still viable so you can see when a survivor is going back to pick the item up.
Medkits can only be used 1 time, 2 at best with good addons….And any killer that is applying enough pressure will stop people from being able to just heal spam all game.
I cannot stress this enough, if a survivor is healing, they are not doing the objective.

Self care wasn't even touched, and botany knowledge didn't change it anything about the "Heal meta" for self care. It functionally pairs better now with medkits, but that's it. The only actual change that happened recently was literally the medkit effeciency decrease being taken away, and since then that's all people talk about is how OP this is now. If the complaint is a medkit is too strong with botany, you get just as much milage running we'll make it, auto at full stacks, Boon totem builds… I can go on and on, list endless perk combinations, but i feel a lot of it would fall on deaf ears. Met with "Why should I have to run these perks" etc. It's why i said. The tools are there. Use them. The game is about countering gameplay. The amount of anger i keep seeing from the community over a small buff Is why I even made the sarcastic comment about it in the first place, because it seems like "players" (Can't say killer apparently because that's tribalism) don't like this change. (Even though you will hardly see any survivor saying "Yeah the healing is too strong, it's got to go" )

Good day.

There is not really a Healing Meta. Botany Knowledge and Desperate Measures were buffed and suddenly those are the current things why Killers lose games. There has always been something, most of the time new Perks or buffed Perks.

In reality the changes were obviously not that big (the Botany Knowledge Change is the equivalent of a brown Add On for example) and while healing got a bit better, it is nowhere near problematic. We had times were Survivors could self-heal in 5 seconds, THOSE were problematic times. But not what we have now.

You may be onto something.

The Asian community plays much less altruistically and with a bigger focus on self-healing and anti-heal, if I remember right.

So things like Mangled nerfs, Botany buff, and some other things might have caused a big change in the dynamics.

They should revert the changes with mangled and hemorrhage as a whole as well as sloppy

It's just the usual crying from killer mains where they literally cannot get enough handed to them. Survivor is already miserable to play, and it is baby easy to inflict damage to survivors and they don't want survivors to heal so they easy 1 tap. It's disgusting to say we are in a "healing meta" when literally survivors can't do anything else.

idk man, no one brings them in my games, seems it's a pro player thing idk.

Nah killer is easier. I'm a super fair killer. No tunneling and no camping. I also give unhooked people time to heal and will swerve if I stumble on them on accident. I give hatch a lot. Even being chill and merciful my kill rate is average at 60% and I still manage to get 4ks regularly.

I'm significantly better at survivor and do much worse (below the 40% survival rate). I take breaks from surv solely because I get tired of losing.

Playing fair isn't going "out my way," I'm just not being a dick. I don't understand what the point of even playing is if you only get hollow wins with cheap methods. What's satisfying about slugging everyone or tunneling them out with no chance for them to recover and engage properly?

The game gives me MUCH better players as killer than as surv. I can easily identify when they're better than me yet I still beat them because, again, killer is easier. Eventually even a great survivor will screw up or misjudge.

Because my surv escape rate is low, I get saddled with both bad killers and baby survivors when in soloq. I'm a P80-something and everyone else in my lobby is like a P5. If my soloq team sucks or is selfish we can't win, even against trash killers, so I lose to killers that are worse then me. The same way I win against survivors who are better than me. That balance is the same regardless of which side I play.

Some people are just agreeing with others who don't see a healing meta emerging right now.

I've run Botany Knowledge for years. I used to pair Spine Chill with Circle of Healing, plus two floating perks depending on the match. After both of those got nerfed, my go-to setup shifted to Self-Care, Botany, Deja Vu, and one flexible slot. Honestly, I rotate builds all the time. Sometimes I go anti-slugging/camping, other times I run sabo builds.

Saying there's a healing meta feels off. Players adapt their loadouts based on perk changes and personal playstyles. Just like me, people build around what works for them, not necessarily what's dominant. There will always be combos that click for different players.

Players are always going to find something to complain about, it's just part of the game's DNA. I complain all the time too! Personally, I wish they'd introduce more comedic-style killers. Imagine something absurd like a sock puppet monster, a chaotic Muppet from the void chasing survivors while whispering nonsense. It'd be hilarious and terrifying all at once.