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in The Entity's weakness revealed and proved. Comment by TheBretzel April 28, 2019

@deathsia said:
NOT using Hex : Ruin in main build. (+5)
LOL! Enjoy your gen rushes then!
Unless you have the ability to apply map wide pressure effectively they are gonna pop 1 or more gens during a single chase without ruin.
For killers like Freddy and a few others Hex: Ruin is a REQUIREMENT not an optional perk if you want to have a remote chance of hooking a single survivor before 2 or more gens are done!

If you say so lol. Altough many good Killer who main thoses killer would disagree with you.

@Poweas said:
I refuse to use Ruin, it's not necessary.

+10, the better you get, the less value ruin has

@JawsIsTheNextKiller said:
@TheBretzel - This is the best thing I've ever read on this forum. Thank you for putting so much time and effort in.

Thanks a lot I appreciate it ^^

in Your Killer's Level (Know how good you are) ! Comment by TheBretzel April 12, 2019

@SnakeSound222 Thanks I appreciate it ;)

As for your questions ;

The hard part of playing Killer is applying all theses at the same time, doing so shows complete mastery over the Killer role. Little by little you grow and eventually you manage to do more things, unconsciously, and you become a better killer. If you though of them and managed to apply them successfully, then you can count them yes.

1- Yes but not entirely. The real deal about Bloodlust transfer is to follow a survivor until Bloodlust builds up (I or II) and then either switch to a different target to keep bloodlust going longer or manage to catch up to a survivor that is hard to hit once, for a free hit. Being looped and having another survivor around doing whatever they do is a good way to do this tactic, once bloodlust builds up you switch targets to him. Or in the event you find someone out in the blue too. It's about using the weaker chains of the survivors to reach the stronger chains.

2- This is a difficult question to answer, how to devellop an innate Whispers, but just know that you need to have a lot of pre-requisites in order to develop this. It goes hand-in-hand with having a mental map of where survivors might be and also map knowledge. I'll give you some tips on how to practice it, but also know that it is one the last skills, if not the last, that you'll fully develop as a killer, hence why it's worth a lot of points.

Tips at game start : Know the survivor's spawn patterns first, also if you spawn on top of a hill or you have a clear view of a part of the map, look in the far-away to see if you see any survivor DURING the animation camera at start and also look for any movement (crows flying, random spots moving, most likely survivor's hair, grass moving). If that doesnt work, patrol gens, intentionnaly regressing them just to see if there's someone nerby when you come back in 20sec max (7-gen patrol), backtrack your patrol route and once you found where they are, make them come out. Tip : Use normal Whispers and ditch it to see if you can apply the same. This ends the visual clues for the game start, with just that you will find the first survivor in a matter of seconds when the game starts no matter what the survivors do. Tip 2: Survivors quite often spawn together, when you find one, he's most likely not alone, unless you spawned in the pure center of the map. One thing Whispers does that does not help you is, when a game starts, you can find someone in a dead end where there is no gen nor totem, and it might be an error to go investigate, it's better if you go look for people at gens instead. Your innate Whispers will instinctively go for the better choice if you train it.

Tips at middle game : This is when your innate Whispers truly shines and you see the potential once you start to acquire a mental map of the survivor's actions. Always look, if you can at the direction the unhooker came from, it might hint at a gen being done that way, if you cannot look, calculate the time it took for them to rescue the hooked person and imagine a survivor running straight to it, you get a distance. That distance might be what separated his gen to the hook, so you can guess what gen he was working on. Identifying player patterns like how they play and their skill level, identifying SWFs, watching out for subtle sounds and having a solid map knowledge are all things that, when you know which gens are being done, then you know where they are the most likely to be, and where they are most likely NOT to be too. This is where the pattern of your innate Whispers overshadows normal Whispers, since you're probably going to be into the middle of survivors, normal Whispers would just light up. TIP : You can force survivors to go at certain places depending on your actions or inactions during the trial, hovering with your terror radius around the same places will generally make the survivors go for the gens outside of it. After some time, you can go check thoses gens see if they have been touched since your goal was to attract them over that gen, why? Maybe it was a part of the map that you chased someone and almost all pallets were broken, so easy downs if they gather there,

Tips for the last survivor : This is all about the info you gathered on the last survivor during the game and evaluating what they could go for for an escape + a lot of guessing, normal Whispers is better only at this stage than your innate Whispers will ever be. Tip 1: If the last generator is almost done, DO NOT regress it, and DO NOT hover your terror radius around it, let the survivor light it up to give away his position, try to look for the hatch while having a look at the gen from far away, Tip 2: If you know the general location of the last survivor and you can get there in 10 seconds tops, apply normal Whispers triangulation strategy by imagining where the survivor might be. Tip 3: You can fake you found the hatch and camp it in a place just to make the survivor show up.

All in all it comes down to a lot of pre-requisites and goes hand-in-hand with having a mental map of their actions. I dont know if I answered properly your questions, but you'll know when you start to develop a habit of finding them after guessing what their best OR fastest places to hide might be and going there. Last Tip is to not naviguate around the map like if you chase someone while you are looking for people. I may have forgotten something but well, It can have a thread of it's own to be honest lol. Dont know if I answered your question, but hopefully I clarified it even by a little. Ask away anyways.

3- Mastering the Killer's lunge is all about hitting the survivor with the tip of your weapon and also using it for theses 5 uses : Hitting a survivor during a loop using the speed boost to loop faster, Crossing gaps in the map (Badham Preschool basement hole/Red Forest balcony/Coal Tower when you drop from upstairs and there's machinery at the bottom you can drop onto to cut the loop by about 2-3 seconds), reaching a place to bodyblock a survivor when you know you would not have hit him (very rare), passing by bodyblocking survivors if you're trying to reach someone else and finally the lunge mindgame at the pallet when the survivor cannot see you and you come out in his vision already at the end of the lunge.

Short basic attack excells at making pallets drops, interupting animations and are impossible to react to since they are almost instant. If you long-lunge at a survivor waiting at a pallet in the open, he will have time to react and probably back up to bait the lunge, but if you walk closer to him and basic hit, he will obligated to drop the pallet and you might get a hit. Also watch out for when there's a locker nearby, you can grab them instead.