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How to Demogorgon at higher ranks

SnakeSound222
SnakeSound222 Member Posts: 4,467
edited October 2019 in General Discussions

I need some help with doing good with Demogorgon at higher ranks. When it comes to my portals, I can't decide whether to hide them or place them beside a gen or the Hatch and use them as tracking/game slowing tools. I'm also not sure when exactly to use my Shred. Should I always be trying to use it or should I wait until I have a decent opportunity?

As for perks, I was thinking about Ruin, BBQ, PGTW, and Dying Light. I have thought about switching DL for Surveillance so I can use it to track Survivors on gens, but I'm not 100% sure. I was also thinking about adding a perk to help me out in chases like M&A, STBFL, or Enduring instead of going full on gen protector.

For add-ons, I'm undecided on four combos:

Unknown Egg (reduces power cooldown by 2.5 seconds) and Mew's Guts (One extra portal and reduces missed Shred cooldown by 0.25 seconds). One add-on for each part of my power.

Red Moss (increases duration of Undetectable effect by 8 seconds and increases power cooldown by 10 seconds) and Unknown Egg. Unknown Egg is mainly there to soften the negative effect from Red Moss.

Mew's Guts and Black Heart (reduces missed Shred cooldown by 0.25 seconds). I'm only considering this because I'm not sure if they stack or not.

Mew's Guts/Black Heart and Rat Liver (Increases movement speed while charging Shred by 9%). Rat Liver is there so I'm not going as slow while charging up a Shred, so charging one up at the wrong time won't be as crippling.

Comments

  • Cyro
    Cyro Member Posts: 79

    From my experience of playing a lot of him. You have to place the portals outside of the gens sight (ideally behind a wall or something they can't see out of) try and get a survivor down quickly as you can, use BBQ to locate the survivors and hope you went around enough gens placing portals near them so you can keep up the momentum. His portals aren't really that consistent at tracking because for a start you have to charge up your secondary power and just hope they are either super gen jockeys so they won't cleanse them, or while you are in a chase and you have activated portals they simply get cleansed and that's that.

    Any other time I've tried playing Demogorgon in other ways in red ranks has usually ended badly for me at least, I've had the odd game where survivors rush me and are super alturistic so I never needed to use my portals. Pray that you have setup time and pray that your Ruin doesn't get cleansed too quickly, if you feel Ruin is going too quickly run Corrupt Intervention, it's a good perk on the Demogorgon.

    As for shred it's one of those tools I've found that are good at baiting survivors into going off their pathing in an attempt to dodge it, if you want the best results (again just from my experience) charge up shred because survivors will hear a hissing noise and most high rank survivors will try to dodge it but simply uncharge shred and enjoy the fact that you are now closer because they kept going left to right. If they keep running in a straight line they'll either try dodging at the LAST second or they are calling your bluff, and at this point you either commit to the shred or let go of it.

    Your build is very good for him, I'd swich out DL for Surveillance due to the fact that if you have an unactivated portal and the survivors go back onto the gen you can simply portal over there and catch them off guard.

    From my experience perks to help in chase with the Demogorgon don't really see a lot of use because of his shred, the fact that he can shred pallets helps him a lot during a chase, if you're already a good M1 killer, in my opinion he will suit your gamestyle well if you know what to do during a chase.