Tips for using the Spirit?

Just play play play. It's not ideal, but even if all you do is use her Phasing to cover huge area and then turn into a 110 speed M1 killer you will be okay at middle ranks. You'll learn more each game.

This does apply to most killers, use your special ability, get a few hooks with BBQ and you're getting 20k +

As Spirit you will need a good pair of headphones (5.1/7.1, stereo won't cut it) and a keen attention to detail. You can see grass move and crows fly while phase walking, you need to pay attention to this stuff to find survivors.

You need good prediction skills as Spirit. You can win at most loops by just predicting what survivors will do. If they drop the pallet and you know they will run to the window, phase walk and catch them on the other side of the window. You can also use the "stand still" mind game but smart survivors will just walk away and use it to gain distance. If you see them do this, don't try to pull this trick on them anymore because they won't fall for it. Most survivors will fall for it though, and will either try to move past what they think is your husk or do something silly like sit in a corner and wait (which you can then actually phase walk and just smack them). But if you can't predict what a survivor is going to do, you will have a hard time using Spirit because you will just get mind gamed by survivors (or worse, yourself). Unfortunately there is no "how to" book on how to predict, you just have to learn it from experience, and it's on a case-by-case basis. There is no blanket statement one can make in this regard that applies to ALL survivors.

What I like to do is try different mind games the first time I chase someone to see what they will do. You need to develop a profile of this specific survivor's actions, which can help you in future chases to out play them. If they have a habit of running from loop to loop, just expect that and try to cut them off immediately. If they like to slow vault through windows then listen more closely around windows and expect them to always be on the opposite side of where it seems like they might be. There's like 1000 other things I can say, you just have to practice.

Understanding the range of your terror radius is also important. Survivors can't hear you phase walk if they hear a heartbeat, so if you know survivors are nearby you can go after them and they might not expect it. Sometimes this means changing targets mid chase, making it look like you went for one survivor but you actually turned around to grab one off a gen or something. You need to be unpredictable yourself too, because if survivors have to constantly guess what you are doing they will mess up which you can punish. Spirit is all about making survivors mess up and punishing, that's literally what a mind game is.

Strong build is important. I try to have a perk for different needs. Something to track survivors. Something to slow them down. Something to help in a chase. Those are the 3 most important things you need to cover, as any killer. My current build is BBQ, MYC, Stridor, and Third Seal. Normally TS would be Ruin but I find Ruin boring as survivor, besides the fact it doesn't really help against top tier survivors. TS however is off-meta and unpredictable. If you get 4 stacks you essentially win the game because you can start slugging, which is the absolute best way to slow down the game. BBQ/MYC is a good combo for her because she has speed with phase walk, so you can hook someone then immediately go after a new target. MYC gives you a one shot that will shorten a chase, and it discourages survivors from healing right away so you get that benefit too. Plus since you are Spirit, and in theory can just show up at any time, it helps to slow the game since the MYC survivor will play immersed and likely not rush to do a gen or make risky plays. Finally Stridor, which as I said above is great to counter the 1 perk that hard counters phase walk, Iron Will. Stridor makes it literally impossible to hide from the Spirit if you are injured. You don't need to track scratch marks or anything, if they are injured (which is more likely because of MYC) then you will find them (assuming you have that good headset).

For add-ons, my preference is speed and duration. Combined it let's you cover more distance, and gives you more options when trying to predict survivors. Duration can also act like recovery, since what it does is slow down the drain on the bar and not actually increase the bar. This means that if you normally used phase walk for 1 second and had to wait 5 seconds for that amount to recharge, you can now phase walk for 3 seconds but still only need to wait 5 seconds for the recharge, because the speed the bar refills will be the same but the speed it drains is slower. Amulet is her best all-around add-on as it does speed, duration, and recovery, so you want to save those for those tough games or to combo with other strong add-ons. Prayer Beads are hands down her strongest add-on, borderline broken IMO, and can make it a lot harder to predict your movements and let you get the drop on survivors more easily. The big catch here is that once survivors know you have PB they will become super immersed and cautious, so you need tracking perks to find them when it happens. PB is good to combo with perks like Surveillance which let's you get gen grabs, TOTH which let's you get totem grabs, and anything that inflicts Exposed. Mother's Ring is also VERY powerful, as you become a literal cheetah. You can outplay survivors very hard with this add-on because you can do stuff like run around a loop in the opposite direction and catch them. PB with MR is a super strong combo too. The catch with MR is that you can't see fresh scratch marks (you can see scratch marks that were present before you began phase walk), so that means you need good skills in tracking during phase walk and predicting survivors. This is another reason Stridor is great, because since it means you don't need to care for scratch marks MR becomes that much better.

Past all this, the biggest thing is practice and experience. Spirit is a very "mind skill" type killer, so you need to understand the game, your killer, and your opponent. This is in stark contrast to a killer like Nurse which is a "technical skill" type killer. She requires far less skill in prediction and reads, and more skill in just being able to use her power perfectly without making a technical error. (PS I'm not saying she doesn't need to have "mind skills", just that she requires less of them and more of the technical stuff).

Yea... I play at rank 1 with Spirit and good survivors will juke you if you phase walk from far away and they are healthy. It's insanely easy to avoid, and all you end up doing as Spirit is wasting your power and you end up having to chase them anyway. Like I said, you want to use it to catch up but not strictly to hit them out of phase walk. If you over use it it will be on cooldown when you need it, which is indeed very long as a full cooldown is 15s.

You act like chasing as a 110 killer is absolutely impossible. It's really not. It's harder than a 115 killer yes, but you can still run them down. You have to be more optimal with your pathing, but it's something you can easily do. Of course, you need to be a certain distance which is why I say use your power to catch up. You want to be close behind them, if you pass them there is a chance you might lose the chase and that is very punishing. If they take you to a loop then yes, use your power to land the hit, but if you are not at a loop just chase them for the hit. It might take a tad bit longer, but now that they are injured you can run them down super easy for the second hit. It's like clockwork, even against good survivors this works. That's literally my main tactic... injure them then phase walk for second hit. 1 in 10 survivors might be able to juke the attack out of phase walk, and 1 in 10 of those survivors will do it well enough to extend the chase to another loop.

And before you start going "derr proof" Here is a clip:

I had seen the Nea with BBQ on that gen. I went for Dwight and slugged him, then used my power to catch up to where I expected her to be. She had JUST ran past me and I simply chase her down without my power and get her before she gets to the hook. My power charged before the chase ended (but only because I had a recovery add-on), so if she was too far I could have used it to catch her too but I didn't need it. You can see I made it to rank 1, and I would show you another clip where I was already rank 1 but I usually only clip that first game where I reach rank 1 if it was a merciless victory. Point being you can easily chase a survivor without your power.

Two of the survivors in the video are people I've played against before and they are indeed good survivors. One of them is a Spirit main as well, so even though he knows what I'm doing I could still outplay him.

I could throw this back in your face too. If you're landing hits out of phase walk on healthy survivors then they must be potatoes, because it's insanely easy to dodge a hit out of phase walk.

Chasing as a 110 killer is not impossible even against good survivors. Especially as Spirit because of her passive shifting, you can mind game survivors without even using your power.

And I didn't post the clip to disprove you, I posted it to prove my point. That it's better to save your phase walk for when you need it. If I used it against Dwight to catch him at that pallet I wouldn't have been able to go after Nea and stop the save. Spirit's that use their power too much become predictable and you end up wasting it against healthy survivors. YES if they are running in a straight line you can get them. YES if they are at a loop you can use it to get a hit. But generally speaking, if you use your power too much it will hurt you more than help. You need to wait for the right time. One of those right times being after you land the first hit for an easy and quick second hit.