Geez its march 19th 2019 again.
Had 5 matches against plague so far today and every one the other 3 survivors kept cleansing and she just destroys us with her power. What we somehow go back 2 years all of a sudden? Or am i missing something and the counterplays different now?
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Ever since she got a free corrupt fountain at base, she became much stronger. It also made not cleansing no longer a good strategy to use against her.
What you want to do is make it take as long as possible for her to just infect you. She has a weak early game because she has to spend time infecting survivors, slowing her down by maybe dropping a few pallets down early will stall her and make it really hard on her.
When things are looking bleak and you really need to stealth to go for a save, or you are very vulnerable, then you may cleanse in the pool that is most inconvenient for her to go to (the one that will take the most time to get). So if you see her on the far side of the map, go ahead and cleanse in a pool of devotion that is the furthest one from her if possible.
Like I get the strategy, cleansing immediately at inconvenient fountains to reset all of her corrupted ones, but it requires that everyone is on the same page and knows how to loop a pallet worshiping ranged killer.
The right move isn't always the same. It depends on how she plays, how many corrupted fountains she has, what your teammates are doing, the map, the location of the fountain you'd be using etc
I should probably take We'll Make It off the build today. :P
Use structures to break line of sight. Plague's greatest enemy is a good set of walls. You can waste so much of her time just running in circles.
If your teammates are turbo cleansing, see if you can waste her fountains. If you only see one fountain left on the map, beeline for it and drink up. It'll screw over whoever's in the middle of being chased, but in the long run, you're all way better off if she can't pull up a fountain anywhere on the map.
Oh - and because they're mainly doing it for challenges, you may be facing a lot of baby Plagues that don't really know how to aim her power and will miss a lot. Against those ones, you're better off cleansing, because they will know how to M1 loud injured people.
Killer were on the weaker end of the game for so long that people playing killer had to get good to just get a 2k or even less. On the other hand survivor was so braindead for so long and you could escape relatively easily without knowing how to loop or counter each and every killer.
Imagine if survivor actually learned how to loop each tiles properly & learn to counter each killer. They'd still destroy any killer that are slightly under their level and wouldn't have a hard time against the best of all killers.