IDV Character Strengths and Weaknesses From 2022 

Just now realizing you forgot to add Undead oh no.

Clerk is pretty strong against everyone, because she affects everything in the game. Windows, attacks, pallets, ciphers, and etc.

I would add Thief as strong against Clerk. Since his last buff he can support other survivors kite by silence the abilities and Clerk suffers specially from this.

Minds Eye is actually EXTREMELY weak to clerk, because if she gets a recording of her vaulting, it takes a long time for the recording to finish. Same goes for vaulting pallets, dropping pallets, etc.

as a professor main i also have some trouble going against the ripper when hes invisible so u cant really see the attack animation 😅

Been a top 50 clerk since her release( now top 15) and she’s not weak against decoders except for composer cus he can create distance if the clerk start catching up but if you are not chasing him then he will for sure not be able to decode at all cus you can easily record him as he takes longer to get out of the cipher. Mechanic just dies too fast against clerk and then the bot can be recorded so you basically negate her tie potential, she just becomes a burden honestly. Prisoner is also weak in terms of kiting and if he’s not kiting you can block him from decoding, but at least he can create connections for others to finish ciphers, which could come in clutch; he also can mess up you spy ability if you picked the wrong cipher to spy because of his connection. Minds eye, easy to get down, easy to block from decoding. I used to think that explorer is good against clerk and he can be but not if he wants to pop the last cipher with a page cus that animation is pretty long and the clerk has a lot of time to cancel it and then just use that decoding in reverse to slow the cipher or pop it if the clerk knows how close that cipher was to being popped. As for the other counters you are correct, i’d have to add any strong transitioner like patient( insanely good if you face a pro patient), acrobat, toy merchant etc. If you wanna beat a clerk, the answer is not decoding, it is strong transition characters, harassers and supporters and then use accelerated decoding to decode while she struggles to down someone. If you still want to play decoders you need to have at least 2 in your team and a forward, this way you can harass the clerk while she is chasing one of the decoders and the other one can cipher rush.

As a clerk main, most survivors are weak against her due to her hit range and mental fear she brings. An example is when you have doubts about dropping a pallet or vaulting a window since she can get a recording out if it. But still. Clerk can be easily overpowered if you have a team that knows what to do. Coordination, An average 30-60 second kite from all survivors and maybe 1-2 survivors that mainly kite is when you have a chance to win/tie. And Warning: A basement Clerk is seriously dangerous since her attack cooldoen is quite quick. So don't risk it if the chair is at the farthest end.

I was considering buying either antiquarian or composer and you've made my decision making process easier uwu

as a really good clerk, clown actually counters her as he makes it unlikely to get recordings if he uses his rocket seeing as aiming the hit can be hard when he's at a distance, minds eye is sorta odd? her decoding actually does counter clerk to a certain point but recording minds eye makes her vault so slowly which in return also makes blocking pallets or windows even more effective so

Great video phoenix

Honestly funny that percy just wasn't on the weeping clown tierlist

as a weepy main: 1:02 - Also you need keep dash, if BQ place mirror, then use dash and say bye bye to her ;) [ Same thing you should do with Feaster's Tentacles ] 3:45 - uh... I really hate Naiad's dash, the best thing you can do is use rocket when she has CD (or you're sure she don't have any dashes) 6:32 - EXCUSE ME, WHAT?! Like I'm Griffin, not Unicorn or Champion, so maybe I don't have very complete opinion about Clerk, but... From my experience, just loop Clerk, if she's recording you and is close to you, use rocket to transition if you're afraid about hit record, just hold dash. Also I can write 21794 lines about a lot of tricks and tips, like stun Clerk to help recorded survivors, rescue being injurected etc.... TBW Tips: > Don't use rocket when they're in wheel form, it's useless And for Wu Chang, Hermit, Percy, Ripper, Bane etc...: > Don't wait with rocket too much > Start rocket from some corner, or wall, window etc., don't start in open area or straight line close to hunter, it's so risky so if you don't have to do it, just don't do it and find better place to start dash > Try to predict foggy blade/Percy's dash/Wu Chang bell and the best option is rotice between tight passages, pallets, trees etc. DON'T RUSH IN STRAIGHT LINE Bonus Tip: Sometimes better to stun hunter, to get 2,5 seconds to transition, drop pallet, cancel Smiley Face's rocket dash etc. :) One trick: You can always start dash you need just pick Flywheel Effect: 1) When hunter is close to you, avoid hit by flywheel (or just make distance) 2) Start rocket 3) Make rocket's dash and transition :)

I would like to add that when there is a mechanic in team, you can go as hermit and if you find bot very early and everyone has the marks, he can abuse the bot by switching the polarities and getting everyone injured easily without having to actually find anyone at all. Only if you happen to find bot really early

Btw Magician can counter clerk's record he can cancelled it by using a Wand(credits from Nubspector)

They need to release more characters in 1 year ..but that will probably never happen...I wouldn't be surprised if we will only get 4 characters this year

Wait, I just realized there's no Wax artist in the pictures

Im a prof main and i think he is very underrated. Even if he is weak to stun, he can rescue detention, he can help and bodyblock. His passive dodge very well Hermit, bonbon or galatea statue. The defense is the best attack as we say.

ALVA MAINS LOOK HERE!!! OK for my fellow Hermit/wannabe Hermit mains Going up agaisnt a Tracy us your best friend. You know why? Cause her doll is considered another person which means you can put a pos/neg charge on it hit it and everyone shares thr damage! Iv down survs from across the map using the doll as way to spread damage. It dosent dosent go down in one hit so you can keep hitting it!

I've countered weeping clown with the ripper several times with the foggy blade. One time the gate is already opened and he tried to go to the gate with his rocket. But at the time, he's already half a health so I just aimed my foggy blade at him and bam. Got a tie but it's better than losing.

Out of topic but is it possible for Jack to hit a surv up close? then the foggy blade goes through and hits another survivor is that possible happened to me when I was playing Merc against a jack

24:34 This is when I love playing Doc the most, simply because it gives me a chance to show off my abilities as a pure healer for my team. I love being a healer in any team environment. It's my jam lol

The weakness ranking with clerk I actually disagree with. I can confidently say she counter a bit of characters especially characters that have any interaction speed debuff. Like TME has a -30% debuff and clerks record decreases it by 20% so thats 50%

But clerk can just keep pressing the record button and see the record thing above the explorer head

Can't wait for the which survivors counter Joseph and ita just 2 survivors

As an S badge Weeping you're mostly right but there are many exceptions, wp is good against bon bon as he can stun on chair + create distance which is the best strat to kite a bon bon, he is a hard counter to spider as all of you have to do is just run into the open and she wont ever catch you, he is one of THE strongest characters against clerk, he was even picked R1 in IJL finals by zeta TO COUNTER CLERK, his support is insanely strong and even with clerk being very fast she gets countered by transition kiting, which wp is very good at, he also counters geisha because if she dashes you just speed yourself up and then she is not catching you, lastly he is good against ann because she can never catch you, if you get a cat on yourself and she tries to explode it you can speed yourself up to get out of the explode range (+ He has good support against ann)

we need more characters

I would say psychologist can also be pretty weak against hermit (if she's not first target) bc she can lose her "extra health" without be needing to kite and that limits alot the majority of time and losing valuable health or forcing her to use different strategies from the usual, if she want to avoid it she would have to rotate until find a cipher machine not affected and it's very risky to heal when you have the mark also if hermit notice this he can easily interrupt it from afar

as a bloody queen main it is 15 seconds for cooldown :)

ench is really really good against hermit because the other day i managed to long stun the hermit just as i got stunned the timing was really hard to get and it was more of an accident but a good one nonetheless

I also think photographer is really strong against composer since while you are decoding you're really fragile and it's really easy to being jumpscared by him

As a professor main, I've bullied more Hermits than have Hermits bully me. I don't know, maybe it's just me?

Ento and magician are really good against clerk

Antiquarian is pretty good on Guard 26 Its Because she can destroy the bombs that guard 26 put to camp the chaired survivor

Naiad: I'm everyones enemy 😘

Omg. You forgot Wax Artist.

Well kinda have to add to weeping clown that he is weak against Ann aswell! Simmilar to Geisha, Ann can catch up fast BUT also just use cat explosion and kick weeping clown of his rocket. I would also say Ann is somewhat good against Antiquarian. Not only that Ann has her cat explosion from the beginning of the game and can always use her cat and jump, stun and cancel powers even after beeing hit. When Antiquarian has a cat she can't get close enough to Ann to hit her, without beeing stunned first. I rightnow main Ann and Antiquarian so thats just my extra ideas I have to add.

It's not related to the video, but sometimes, for having played the forward and the batter, I have the impression that the batter is better in every way, but everyone says that the forward is better. I don't understand x)

Honestly while having only 2 new hunters in 2022 helped survivors adjust to meta changes without suddenly shaking things up too much, I feel like it's pretty disappointing for hunter players lol

For clerk. Magician also counters her bc with 3 wands he can completely negate clerk abilities

I'm not trying to hate but i feel like you're spreading disinformation, maybe like 50% of what you said is true? I feel like if you would watch tournaments or ask for help with this list from top players it could be way more accurate, this way you are just confusing the lower tier players

Actualy Keigan counter’s Helena she can find Helena and Helena is dead against Keigan

you forgot that merc is also weak against hermit cause of his 1.2 damage

I feel like bq is fine with composer

I think I'd put Clerk as good against Mechanic instead of weak against Mechanic, because Mechanic really suffers from Clerk being able to record her bot while Mechanic is distracted decoding her own cipher

Same

21:56 i think mech strong against hermit because she can share damage with her doll 4 times which mean first kiter stay long and if she and her team share damage together she never get decode debuff because share damage will count as chips and she can heal herself with doll & rescue with doll if doll have Polarity i think?

You forgot Undead and he will counter all new survivors😂

I think doctors pretty weak against a good clerk