All 31 Killers Ranked Least to Most Intelligent (Dead by Daylight Updated Tier List) 

Nemesis is smarter than a majority of Claudette mains

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Myers is hella smart, passed his driving test on the first time

I feel like Clown is just a much dumber Blight. They're both chemists to some extent, but Blight concocted what is essentially a "super soldier" serum while Clown... realized that chloroform slows people down. Genius stuff from Mr. Clown.

Nemesis only does "dumb" things because Jill wouldn't last 5 seconds, otherwise. It's just the classic "I'm gonna toy with the protagonist until they find a way to defeat me" trope. Just look at when he killed Tyrell. He could have easily killed Jill but decided to "spare" her instead.

If you consider Trickster’s tome a soft reboot of his original lore (like many people do), then I would say he’s quite intelligent. He sends fake death threats to himself to get Yun-Jin off his trail, pretends to be kidnapped when he’s almost caught and has many contingency plans.

I think Nemesis is just being more lore nerfed to Jill, just because it could be impossible to run from him. But by the RE lore, he is the most intelligent Tyrant of all, if I remember right. So he could be around pretty smart bioweapon.

Have not watched yet but Wesker is literally called "the mastermind" come on hes gotta be top tier

I don't understand how wesker is not at the top, isn't he legitimately like the smartest person to ever walk the earth in RE lore or something? In DBD he's literally called "The Mastermind" and I'd say his work on umbrellas projects outclassed blight's catalogue of 34 serums (of which 33 failed)

I believe Wesker by RE standards is the smartest in the game, having nearly taken over the goddamn world requires an insane amount of intelligence to put the pieces together

I don't think Huntress is average because of the fact that she caused many kids death. She forgot to feed them or didn't knew how to do it or how frequent she should. At least Charlotte managed to take care of Victor till a point...

“The Demogorgon being the only none human character” Nemesis and Druge have left the chat

"Bubba just seems confused" that’s so true, i remember watching the movie and that scene where he gets in his room, sits down and put his head in his head like "what’s going on?!" i felt bad for that big guy

Imagine Wesker and Blight nerding out together about serums and viruses

1. Nice to see you're comfortable with updating past lists. I would put Amanda and Rin in above average intelligence though. I could see Amanda discussing machinery/tools with Trapper and Deathslinger. As for Spirit, she likely pushed herself in school to bury the thought of her chronically-ill mother back at home. Her lore doesn't do the best job of establishing her as her own person, it's heavily focused on the tragedy of her parents/Yamaoka bloodline. 2. As for Dredge, I wonder how they'll expand upon it if it ever gets a tome. Would the story be from the POV of a random Ottomarian or possibly the female journalist that was trying to expose Otto? Who knows.

In the original Halloween, Myers is actually subtly implied to be quite intelligent. There are many scenes where he not only stalks his victims, but plays on their fear to trap and outsmart them. The Myers in DBD is the original Myers too. I honestly thought Myers was way more interesting before he was just another immortal slasher killing machine.

Wesker should be the most intelligent, I mean, he has the same IQ of Albert Einstein.

Personally i'd say Wesker is the most intelligent as his scientific work led to various viruses capable of mass destruction and high casualty losses and uroburos threatening a mass genocidal epedemic. This to me exceeds Carter's in-depth analysis of the human mind and Merchant's economic and engineering skills which made her rich, powerful and a deadly foe to be acknowledged.

I would say Pinhead is probably highly intelligent. He’s obviously not a doctor or anything but he’s so well spoken and clearly educated. He also solved the lament configuration himself, which takes a lot of intelligence. Even though the in-game mechanics would make you believe it’s easy.

The reason Nemesis fails to complete his mission in RE3 is that he doesn’t want to instantly kill Jill he wants to toy with her, multiple times throughout RE3 he could kill her but doesn’t because he enjoys her suffering

I think Sadako should be put up a little higher. She understands how to use her powers very well, so that is a bit smart. She has learned to control them; that's how she made the deadly tape. I'd put Amanda a little higher too. Though Pig was very reckless, her skill in creating traps (sort of like Deathslinger's creations) showed that she is not a normal person.

I personally think that Albert Wesker and Talbot are the most inteligent here also if we include DLC I think William Birking would be on top with them. It would be nice to have dlc characters too

Wesker and Blight could group up to overthrow entity.

2:25 You could argue for Trickster being at Above Average due to the fact that he was able to hide or manipulate the screams and cries of his victims in his music. He also had to experiment with different parts of the body and know where to strike to make his music. Also in the retcon for his lore, he was very cunning with him doing many other things to get the trail off of him He also didn’t go to school much because of him being taken for training to be an idol so I get why he may be in average.

Doesn't Wesker have all the PhDs and huntress doesn't understand kids need food to not die, I'm sure clown knows that people need food.

I agree almost entirely with your placements. Nemesis literally doesn’t have free will of its own, making it impossible for it to be intelligent the way the human killers are. I will die on this hill. I would also argue that Wesker is the most intelligent killer. Not only did he create the T-virus, he also had a doctorate in Virology by the time he was 17. On top of that, he assisted Birkin in the development of the G-virus while being undercover as the leader of STARS. All the while he was plotting to screw over both Umbrella and his STARS team. RE5 kind of gives him the appearance of a comical villain, which is why some people may not realize how masterfully he played all his chess pieces up until that point.

On the topic of The Shape, judging "purely" off the original film, Michael never appeared incompetent in any part of the film, unless being caught off-guard a few times by Laurie in the final act counted as incompetence. After spending fifteen years in Smith's Grove-which, according to the first entry in the Chaos! Comic, detailing his origin, consisted of Michael feigning docility and unresponsiveness and then terrorizing his fellow patients, completely fooling the staff, barring Loomis-he managed to singlehandedly break himself and numerous other patients out of the sanitarium, then looped around Loomis and scared Nurse Chambers out of her car before driving back to Haddonfield-murdering a truck driver and stealing his coveralls on the way. Then, throughout the afternoon, he stalked Laurie and her friends, broke into a hardware store and pilfered for tools and weapons undetected, and stole his sister's tombstone before later creeping on Annie as the parents of the kids she was babysitting left the house and commencing his nearly entirely successfully killing spree, only being warded off by the combined efforts of the unshakable Laurie and Loomis' six revolver rounds. He appears *hyper*-competent if anything, especially for a mental patient that spent the better half of his entire life holed up in a hospital, isolated from even his peers.

I still feel Clown needs to be a tier higher. It was established in his lore that he was a fairly liked individual and blended in perfectly despite his homicidal tendencies. Being able to craft a persona to fit your goals is frankly a smart thing to do.

I rather think Wesker should be higher than Skull Merchant, since he not only became extremely rich in his own right but also... almost took over the world, helped create one of the deadliest viruses in the world, and created the deadliest virus in the world on his own... Not sure if I would put him over Blight or not though to be fair. The rest I agree with.

Wesker Is the smartest, because he Is the tipicila vilian that Fully relais on a science for powers, creats Uroboros, works on almost every bio weapon from umbrela And he has been made to be smart ( this especially way mention on one cutscene/flasback in RE5).

I think Amanda should be in the Above average category. It's some smarts to make a death trap that's fool proof. Many of the inescapable traps she made take a good amount of engineering. The chain/nail bomb trap. Making several bombs takes some brains, and chaining someone in ares that aren't fatal (not including the jaw one) takes a little knowledge of human anatomy. Then the angel trap, designing and making that intricate trap would require a whole lot of planning and knowledge and even of she didn't make it she did rig it to kill the victim. Rigging a trap itself would need some level of knowledge. And not to mention the times she outsmarted victims of the games in Saw 2, and how she survived the traps in Saw 1 and Saw 2. Yeah she needs guidance and gets persuaded but doesn't mean she isn't dumb.

Huntress didn't know children needed food and water and you put her above nemesis

Wesker: "who has a bigger brain than me?"

Blight is not Talbot, he no longer retains his humanity or intelligence.

Clown is actually very intelligent. He s able to kidnap people and made homemade potions. He also needs to use his mind to catch survivors because of his power.

Wesker is more intelligent than Blight. Just see how Blight turn himself as a monster and Wesker who try create a supersoldier, but try to stay human.

This is definitely a hard one, cuz what counts as intelligent, is recklessness a sign of unintelligence, are we speaking purely from a how educated they are, how much does street smarts count for, we are talking about killers so them having fight iq should count for something (ie. The oni and huntress) so its definitely not an easy one to rank

Adriana Imai being a woman in STEM, ICONIC

The Blight: Yeah this is big brain time

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Is there a list like this one for the survivors? If not I'd love to see it! Your videos are always pretty interesting and creative.

Given that the doctor believes in torture as an effective interrogation method, which by all accounts it is not, I don't think he is all that smart. Book-smarts maybe, but that's barely a fraction of what intelligence means

i actually wanted to do some quick googling on how smart nemesis actually is and to be honest he's both incredibly smart and not very smart at the same time, this is because nemesis possesses much higher intelligence than other tyrants but not humans but that doesn't mean he's stupid, within 4 months he's shown to understand the entire English language and how to say basic words most notably stars, follow out specific routines set by his superiors at umbrella, know how to handle advanced machinery properly such as aiming and firing rocket launchers, rationalise and deduct etc as mentioned before this was all done before even reaching 6 months old so even though he's pretty dumb right now, his ability to pick up, adapt and understand everything around him is at a much much much faster rate than humans

Nemesis isn't that non-intelligent. Read the description to his perk "Eruption." It details his intelligence to place traps. I think he's smarter than he's credited for.

‘Oni just wanna smash things …. And so he smashes things ‘ XD I don’t know why but that got me chuckling

I'd say Blight should be at the bottom of the tier list. After becoming "The Blight" he starts to behave as one of the most animalistc killers in the whole game, catching his prey using focus and instinct rater then strategy and planing ahead. Talbot on the other hand. Yeah, he should stay up there on the top of the tier list.

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7:00 That Jake was PISSED

9:29 poor Mikaela

I think the Knight is less charismatic, but more “chivalrous” .

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Take a shot every time something is said about intelligence. Probably not a good idea if you wan't to stay sober.

Albert Wesker should be top 2. He’s a complete prodigy in pretty much all categories like science, chemistry, creating weapons, virology, technology, military strategies, martial arts, even was one of the top umbrella researcher and many more that I’ve not delved in. Even Resident Evil stated he’s got a very high IQ that’s profoundly gifted and this isn’t even getting into his intelligence when he had the Prototype Virus that made him even more smarter and incredible by outsmarting multiple companies and deceiving his old team, S.T.A.R.S by playing them.

something you may want to consider about nemesis is that he knows how to use big power weapons such as the flame thrower

I agree with your ranking of Knight as above-average. Tarhos doesn't do a lot of "intellectual" things, but he clearly has strategic intelligence as a warrior and social intelligence to gather followers, and in his tome lore he does dispaly a bit of a philosophical side. It's an extremely nihilistic philosophical side, but a philosophical side nonetheless. Spirit, I would place higher than you did. It's easy to miss, but her base lore specifies that she was studying at a private university. Japanese private schools are *extremely* selective, so Rin attending one shows that she's at least intelligent enough to pass a difficult entrance exam. To me, that would place her solidly above-average. That said, I think her intelligence has taken a backseat in the Entity's realm, what with her becoming a rage-consumed onryo. Dredge is the one here I would probably rank lower than you did, because I'm not entirely sure it has a *mind* in the way we conceive of such things. It's an amalgamation of human suffering that arose from the dark thoughts of the Ottomarians as orchestrated by Otto Stamper. I don't think it really plans its actions or does things for a purpose or even truly *thinks* at all; it just does what is in its nature.

Hi Movs! I’ve been thinking of this tier list for some time but don’t know where I ask for you to cover it. I wonder if a tier list on how well you personally think the killers would fare in the trials of the entity’s realm. With tiers like: No kills, 1 kill, 2 or 3 kills and 4 kills. I don’t know if you’ve already done this but was just curious.

I actually think Hillbilly is pretty intelligent considering he makes his own tools from scrap

I think Plague was ranked higher than she deserved, I'd say she's about Average intelligence. I think is was more about her conviction and religious fervor that allowed her to climb so high. Probably very charismatic but charisma isn't necessarily tied to intelligence.

4:15 dude lucked the fuck out with that Kobe

9:27 “Get down Mr President!!”

5:10 u love that oni explanation

Wow,hearing her backstory Speed read like that makes skull merchant seem way too "mary sue-ish". I get this is a "scary" game but suspension of disbelief can only go so far. There's child prodigies and then theres....how azymovs read her backstory here.

Myers is actually very smart, and the proof of that is that you thought he has the ability to teleport, when in fact he doesn't.

Can you do one of those for cruelty, please? Could be interesting

Remember the dredge is a elder god

Does anyone else think that the Singularity would be in first, or second place? It is a literally futuristic machine.

I disagree with clown being in the not very intellegent tier, clown was said to have excelled academically and knows how to use different concoctions and elements to make his potions he also knows when to show restraint when chosing victims in his backstory, hes not wesker smart but hes at least a couple tiers higher than he was listed

If you want to get alcohol poisoning, take a shot every time Azhy says “intelligence” or “intelligent” 😭

i really think amanda should be higher on the list, after all shes built most of the contraptions in the saw movies once jigsaw succumbed to his illness and they show a high engineering level so she deserves more credit :]

I think almost getting caught doesn't necessarily say anything about a killers intellect, rather them having trouble controlling themselves and thinking ahead and of possible consequences if they for example kill one person rn. It feels more like lacking impulse control which a lot of psychopath have. They can still be very intelligent

I have to disagree with Nemesis, the thing literally knows how to use weapons right away without training, ex. His rpg and flamethrower. He is very smart at tracking Jill throughout the game, even when he turns into his second form. I believe he deserves a spot in green tier or somewhere higher

I wouldn't put huntress and twins at average mainly because like Bubba they've just been very confused their whole life and are detached from the outside world and how things work when it comes to people.

Do you think you might do a video on how smart each of the survivors are?

Nemesis is smart in the Comic books

Nemesis is actually one of the smarter tyrants out there, he fails at doing his job by killing Jill because he likes to toy around with his prey before eventually killing it because he wants to try out his new weapons and just make his job more fun lmao

Putting skull merchant over Wesker is wild

You should do a list of survivors who wouldn’t hate each other and would not get along

I would argue blight is as intelligent as nemesis, only because after the entity messed with blight, the serum dumbed him down to being a mindless monster

I think with how the human brain is the most complicated thing that we know of, and how nigh impossible it is to actually understand. Being able to control and manipulate it as easily as the doctor does puts him WAAAAAAAY above everyone else :>

Cool video and I love the content. I definitely agree with most of this. I always thought wesker was intelligent. There's his domination factor and manipulating ppl but he's also a virologist. He's clearly book smart too. I just always thought that was good. Ppl who can start biowarfare are always terrifying

All of them were smart enough to hone their ability to kill people to what is nearly an art form, yet none of them were smart enough to not draw some form of suspicion right before they got taken. The only exceptions are the ones that died themselves, and even some of them (looking at you, Nurse) did anyway. Egotism is a form of brain damage, as I always say.

I think you should redo the strongest killer lore wise/killer battle royal, but this time include legendary skins with that add a character. That way you could include Hunk (aka the doomslayer of the re universe), looksee, and others.

Nemesis can use rocket launchers and destroy potential target escape routes as evidenced when he blows up the chopper.

Yeah, I think when Nemesis is called a “highly intelligent bioweapon” the important word is Bioweapon. Nemesis is highly intelligent- *for a bioweapon.* compare him to a normal zombie or something like a licker, and yeah, he’s pretty smart. He can follow orders, use weapons, and say at least one human word.

We need to see Nemesis' SAT scores.

I don't think clown can be considered less intelligent than huntress. The literally has a child's mind and doesn't understand the concept of feeding the kids she kidnaps. I'm pretty sure clown would know people atleast need food.

Regarding Pinhead's intelligence, that might depend on if you're talking about book vs movie/comic. It's a bit hard because to some extent, they're three different people. The one we're dealing with is Elliott Spencer here, though. Even down to comics and the movie, Elliot has would probably be above average intelligence. He was a captain in the British Army, and was considered a great gentleman before the Battle of Flanders. So he had a charismatic air, knew how to keep up with his weaponry. When he became Pinhead, he likely gained otherworldly knowledge on top of his experiences as a human. He's had decades to practice and perfect his craft.

Nemesis is way smarter than that. He knows how vehicles work, knows what helicopters do, can wield firearms and heavy weaponry, track prey through a massive city overrun with bodies, plan ambushes and set traps. He also plays with his prey, which is usually a sign of sapience. He's above Huntress, Bubba and Clown easily, probably slightly behind average intelligence humans like Legion.

I think what others mean by nemesis being intelligent is the fact that it’s his intelligence in like a subjective way. He uses predictability and different weapons in the games (both og and remake) but I think he fails in anything basic and worthwhile. But I do think he should be higher on the list (not by much though, he is still low tier)

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Wasn’t spirit top of her class using their school uniforms

I think Clown has a bit of smart since he planned on getting this dude finger, according to his Tome lore.

..How is Wesker not the smartest one here,like the skull merchant and the doctor aren’t even close,And the blight is just a smart chemist,wesker has done wayyy more

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My man fr called legion dumber then huntress

Did you miss the scene in Re3 when nemmy pulled a rocket launcher out and aimed it so it hit the big mascot head

You need to do a street smart version next

7:17 when you for the people someone and they go afk. I hope the afk person steps on a lego

what is executioners reasoning lmaoo

For cenobite it completely depends on what movie you pick