The BEST and WORST PERKS in EACH CATEGORY (SURVIVORS) Dead By Daylight 

Residual manifest can come in clutch, the trick is not to get a flashlight as soon as you spawn into the map. Flashlight saves only work when the killer isn't expecting it, and killers rarely face walls if they don't see a flashlight in the lobby. Pulling a flashlight out of seemingly nowhere can get you a flashlight save on the dead-on-hook survivor who the killer had been tunneling the whole match, because the killer likely won't be expecting it.

Corrective action isn’t for new players. It’s for those friends of new players who are tired of seeing their friend run technician and causing their gen to never get done. It’s not great for solo queue at all but I never leave it behind with my newer friends cause it gives them the feeling of a safety net that doesn’t absolutely devastate gen progression

Distortion is a great perks or a useless perk, depending on what killers use in terms of add-ons/Perks. Bite the Bullet is stronger but one thing to keep in mind is that you need either Self-care, a medkit or bring Boon: Coh. Lucky Break is the better perk but I can see why you chose Distortion. Great vid! :D

During the first days when i started playing, i thought Luck would help me to stay away from the Killer longer 😅 so whenever a Killer walked past me without noticing, i thought "hell yeah, i'm really lucky! Thanks to my offering"😂😂

Aftercare is my fav aura perk for survivors. Ik it's basically kindred but you can't see the killer but this effect lasts after kindred so I like it more because when I can't find a gen or a teammate to heal then I can just see them all the time it's very good from Jeff johansen

Autodidact is actually underrated af, you just need to swf or use some aura reading perk to find the guy quickly. Imagine how you counter sloppy? At 5 stacks it's literally half the progress and it's not limited you can 2tap full health state. First 2 negative skill checks is actually a blessing, it gives you more time to get other 3 skill checks. Fun mini game You like numbers? It gives 5 Free win if you get it early Comes with 2 other God tier perks and 6.4 stealth machine of a dude.

Theres no way you said Low Profile is worse than Calm Spirit, Self-Preservation, and poised. Low profile has won me a lot of games

I like low profile! It's saved me multiple times and can activate more than once. If you're a solo player I recommend it because if your team gets slugged then it actives. You don't need to be the last person alive but the last one standing.

Resilience is the most underrated perk in the game, especially as a solo q often injured gen rusher like myself. Reactive healing and autodidact also quite underrated, have come in clutch for me in certain situations.

*-Why did you put Prove Thyself in the Buff category instead of support?* -I decided to put Prove in the buff category because it provides a direct benefit to two or more players at the same time, and you have to be repairing the generators too for the most speed. Support perks only provide buffs to others, so I thought Prove fits more the buff category *-I disagree with Buckle Up, it's underrated and one of the most useful perks I have used* 🤓 *-The gameplay in this video sucks* So this video took me over 120GB of footage, and since I am playing survivor I completely depend on other survivors and the killers in order to showcase a perk or some utility. I recorded all of this as a solo survivor, so no shot I am going to record hours and hours of footage only to get buckle up or low profile value, the games were absolutely miserable and I even got various survivors who were toxic towards me (As if Survivor Vs Killer was not enough) due to the builds I was using. *-What music are you using for this video? Why?* Mario Kart 8 music. Because there is no copyright issues then. *-What is your favourite and least favourite perk in this video?* Kindred by far. Buckle up by worst. *-Which perk is rated bad but has a lot of potential?* I think the two Ada Wong perks could have a lot of potential if they were done in a different way. Hopefully we get some tweaks in the future!

Autodidact Buff Idea - Chance for skill check while healing increased by 33%

I’d say exhaustion perks adrenaline is best (I don’t know if you would count it or forgot) and head on worst just bc it’s really only for memes but if you were to use it seriously it won’t be too good

Bond is a really good information perk because you can easily tell where the killer is in solo queue if a teammate is in chase also it is an easy bloodpoint farm method by seeing if anyone needs healing or healing

i gotta say, playing mostly killer, i have exactly ONCE seen a survivor use distortion, and it was pretty surprising, i was stumped why i couldnt see that one survivor, until i saw them right in front of me turning a wall and i didnt see their aura afterwards, then i figuered it out

Distortion is necessary for me now, solo and with friends. I can call out almost exactly every perk that eats a token, and I love how they let you gain another token by hiding in the terror radius. Lose one instantly? Lethal Pursuer. Lose one when someone is hooked? Barbecue and Chili. Lose one when healing? Nurse's Calling. Finish a gen? Bitter Murmur. Run past a dull totem? Undying. Vault a window? I'm All Ears. It's great and useful against almost every killer.

I can’t believe you’d do my boy Tenacity like that. Sure, by itself it’s not stellar, but on maps with heavy foliage on the ground like Jej Jah Saloon, it can become impossible to find you if they slug you for too long. It synergises super well with every other anti-slug perk. Power Struggle? Crawl to a pallet faster. Flip-Flop? Crawl and recover so that you can waste more of the Killer’s time and also have a better chance at escaping. Even Unbreakable, by crawling away faster, can get value out of Tenacity.

CoH is probably a perk to counter a 3 gen with a killer that doesn't want to commit to a chase. Killer didn't wanna give up their 3 gen but we'd just take turns running to the boon then come back to the gen. Super cool video!

Tenacity got a really good buff and I would say irs on par with unbreakable, does require another player to save you of course, but you are much more likely to lose the killer with tenacity than you are with unbreakable. So they both have their pros and cons, but I don't think you're at a disadvantage really if you run Tenacity now instead of Unbreakable.

For the longest time I’ve been hoping for some sort of in-game categorizations for the perks to organize them a bit better, but considering they can’t even add a search bar for the perks, I think this is the closest we’re gonna get lol. Fantastic video btw :)

when haddie came out everyone talked about residual manifest and overzealous being broken perks that need a nerf, now with potential energy coming i feel people really blow it out of proportion too.

For me the worst stealth perk is Iron Will, it used to be one of the strongest perks in the game after the Spirit was introduced, and now it only gives 75% silence, which might as well be nothing considering killers who rely on sound like Spirit, Ghostface and now the Knight play with the headset on 200% volume so they'll still hear you, and with the new Off the Record it might as well be deleted from the game.

Smash Hit works very well with Parental Guidance, when combined with it, it becomes one of the best stealth combo in this game

Distortion is part of my regular build, information perks are so big on killers right now, its great being able to call out what perks are being used to my SWF

I wonder when distortion will become meta because aura reading is so common and wins games for the strongest killers

I think for altruism I would put botany as the best, get 50% healing speed boost on everyone, at all times, not just on downed survivors. Wglf is only very good with for the people imo.

Dead hard is the most fun exhaustion perk to use while in chase. The dead hard change was refreshing and it actually made the perk mind-gamey which is awesome. However, the point of reworking and nerfing broken perks is not only balancing them, but also making other less strong perks more appealing to use. So in that regard, I think they have more work to do. I'm living for the moment when a new, fun to use, mind-gamey exhaustion perk (that is strong, but has counterplay) makes its appearance in this game.

Buckle up totally needs a rework. I think the worst exhaustion perk is balanced landing. It only works on so many maps, and some maps don't have any high areas to fall from, and sometimes hill drops can be finicky.

Sprint burst is a better exaustion imo, it can't be countered by deep wound, it applies consistently, 99ing, and the killer can't wait it out or counterplay like dead hard.

insane how much has changed in just 11 months since this video released. buckle up becoming full on meta and prove thyself being hard nerfed

I just knew bout ur ytube and im super excited to watch this as it was just pop up an hour ago

Another reason why Left behind is probably the worst perk in the game is the fact Clairvoyance can actually track the hatch aura alongside gens,hooks,gates and chest so it's usefull the entire game. Not only that but Left behind can only see the hatch aura for a max of 32m while Clairvoyance has a max of 64m so again 0 reason to even consider using left behind.

thanks for the consistent and great videos mintskull :3

I play Kindred with Open Handed. It's just so so good. I run them with WoO and OTR. They helps a lot in solo.

Loving the mariokart music in the background;)

Distortion is one of those perks I slept on a lot until I started using it a few months before the first big 'meta shake-up perk changes'. And after that, the perk only got better. I find so much value in this perk both in solo queues and with my friends. It's really easy to figure out what arua reading perks the killers have in a match with some minor knowledge. So many killers have perks or add-ons that reveal auras and it's just so satisfying to bamboozle them. Lol. It's especially nice to warn my friends when we go up against like a Scratched mirror myers.

Low Profile is pretty good actually. You often get multiple uses per match and the 90 seconds during match collapse is more than enough to find the hatch.

I got a lot of value with Low Profile with solo queue. It really helped me a lot when I was alone and killer closed hatch. Able to disappear quickly as he looks for me but I was barely nearby. But I do want to have distortion to add for my stealth build

Hello, you could do ultimate support perks build guide, because I feel like support perks are least played (because they're the most boring ones) but insanely strong. Every team needs support, but i think support is in like 2% of all games

I love that you use Mario Karr music in the background =D

I feel the same way about distortion as you do about kindred. Now that I run it I hate playing without it. It literally hides your aura, reveals killer perks, and can be a budget spinechill as long as your not already at max stacks. Crazy.

Thank you very much for this upload! You can tell somebody put alot of effort into a video when it is so fluent that you can just relax and learn alot about this game. 😀

I made a funny build with We are gonna live forever in which I paired up with: Made for this, No one left behind, Resilience and a medkit with speed add ons. If you meet all the conditions, you can bring up a survivor from the dying state in less than 4 seconds while also gaining endurance yourself, which usually never happens but when it does its very funny.

literally every character i play runs kindred i love it so much and it’s always helpful for me and my swf teammates both

Kindred has always been one of my favourite perks, and once I got my hands on Ace's Open-Handed, it got so much better Being able to see killers 32m around a hook is so useful; I run them together in as many loadouts I can

Low profile is started to be used a little bit more because of a Bill featured in a Coconut RTS video

You are spot on. These were my choices too.

I do admit that Red Herring is the worst utility perk, but you're using the wrong perks with it. You need Iron Will, Diversion, Red Herring and Saboteur. Then you go to the corner of the map where there's a generator. After you make it there you miss skillchecks on the gen, keep entering and exiting lockers and sabo random hooks nearby. This will annoy the killer so much that he'll check every locker and every corner. And while the killer is distracted, other survivors are doing gens across the map.

One time I was trying to equip deadhard and accidentally equipped No Mither. My friend laughed his ass off, and somehow I managed to escape the trial without even being hooked. It's a meme perk, but I think it's hilarious lmao, I hope it gets built in iron will (even if it's just the current one). Just seeing it in here made me want to coerce my friend into going duo No Mither since we kinda don't care as survivors lmao (killer mains x'D)

I'll say this about Up the Ante, for a time after they had the great perk overhaul, when I would try playing survivor, a bunch of the games I would join had a survivor get hooked, and then immediatedly try to kill themselves on hook, so when I had a free perk slot, I would bring up the Ante in the hopes that if a survivor tried to kill themselves I might be able to force them to keep playing so that I could have that much better of a chance at actually being able to win that match

Distortion is awesome because if you know killer perks and add-ons, it doubles as an information perk. Lost a stack right at the beginning of the match? Killer has Lethal Pursuer. Lost a stack after completing a gen? Bitter Murmur. Lost a stack after vaulting? I'm All Ears. Lost a stack seemingly at random and hear no terror radius? You have an All-Seeing Wraith or Scratched Mirror Myers, and he's close. I also swear by Aftercare as an aura perk for support players. The best thing about it in my opinion is that it doesn't just let me see my teammates, it lets my teammates see *me.* I have had several endgames where an injured teammate knew which door was 99'd and had me waiting to bodyblock for them because they could see me waving them over through Aftercare.

Low Profile is actually a lot more useful than I think you're giving it credit for in this video, but I think it's because a lot of people don't know Low Profile triggers ANY time you are the only person not in the dying state. This means if you get a sluggy Killer, and you're still up--now you leave no pools of blood, no noise, no scratch marks for a minute and a half. I've been running it off and on (ironically in lieu of Distortion after I got like 4 matches with Myers/Ghostface in a row, I decided to try Low Profile since I couldn't get my Distortion stacks back) and legit out the gate the first match I had I got four procs off it in a single match. If you REALLY wanna be spicy, you could run both Distortion and Low Profile but that's two slots dedicated to not getting found, so I can't say I recommend it, lol

As a Jeff main, i am happy distortion is getting attention, since lethal purser is in most matches now, i always run it

5:35 i use corrective action sometimes, i get happy when my stacks are going down knowing it had done its job at least.

I've been using Lucky Break a lot as I thought it was really good on paper (I'm a solo player btw), but then I didn't really notice other survivors using that much at all so I started to question whether it was a good pick or not. Still I stuck with it regardless and will keep using it so I'm glad to hear it received some positivity in this video.

I’d argue head on is the worst exhaustion perk. You don’t get rewarded much getting it and the risk of missing is too great. While smash hit if you fail your still somewhat safe due to there being a pallet between both of you.

"You saw a Coconut Video featuring this perk!" I have never thought to use that perk on Bill, I had used it before the video had came up but it was on Yui! But Low Profile is definitely a perk with potential

I literally have used Kindred in basically every build since I got it. I just realized the eye has a hook in it

I saw a nasty survivor build that was flip flop boil over(name might be wrong but the one that makes killers sway more while carrying you and gives you 33 percent of your wiggle when the killer drops from a height) unbreakable and residual manifest basically they would always go for gens on 2nd floors in houses or lead them there on a chase and hit em with a flashlight b4 Going down so not only do they get a little wiggle bar from recovering on the ground but also making it harder for them to move plus they would most likely have to jump down to get to a hook , and the flashlight hit would make the auras for the hooks not appear which alot of killers just rely on by instinct making them second guess when there already short on time, (I believe one of the perks also made it harder to see hooks) and if they decided to just drop them or the downed then again later and wouldn't pick them up, boom you got unbreakable, thou I think they would switch it sometimes with the boon that let's u recover while downed as well but I like unbreakable more.

Distortion is hands down my favourite survivor perk, just like kindred for MintSkull, I can’t play without it 😂

It might be fun to run a build with terrible perks but that kind of work together like up the ante (luck increased by 3% per survivor alive and applies to all survivors) and slippery meat (three extra escape attempts on hook)

I think low profil is underrated bc when i was doing the ada achievement i played it and i saved one teammate bc of the silent effect

i’m a firm believer that sprint burst when used correctly is amazing and the best exhaustion perk

Reactive healing is underrated. Use it to get an endgame bodyblock and hook save. One person on hook with yourself and 1 or 2 teammates. As long ss you body block the hook and take a hit. Then someone else either the Person with BT or unhooked gets hit you get 50% so if you have a green medkit with botany. You heal in like 4 seconds. Meaning you can take another hit and get everyone out even if the door is across the map. It's my most used perk by far now. It makes mettle of man a terrible perk better. Even though you are the one taking hits most of the time

honestly I love reactive healing because it can halve heal time AND double medkit usage in some cases I agree that its useless on its own, but its hard to deny that it DOES save time or help every now and then.

You are not wrong about No Mither in that when you are Exposed it doesn't matter. What you got wrong is that in some instances No Mither is actually the counterplay to Exposed. For example, imagine Myers gets his EW3 on a healthy survivor, and right as he lunges, you step out and sponge the hit. Now that survivor runs off and Myers is left with a choice. Stop chase and take this free hook or continue to chase with my EW3 and get a down on a healthy survivor? Other survivors know they don't need to come get you, and killer knows they lose you if they take that chase. But they might do it to get value from their exposed. If they don't even get that then you just denied them a HUGE snowball. All because they found the guy that was already injured when they wanted a healthy survivor. You basically force killers to tunnel you so the others can rush gen and escape. When you play No Mither correctly you are playing to die as like the free one while everyone else gets out.

Prove Thyself buff idea: make it like a trap perk, where it takes time working on a generator to start working at its max.

Dark Theory's only theoretical use is if everyone runs it and runs blood pact hope and break out and sabo tool boxs making it impossible for m1 killers to down you let alone hook you

Boon: Dark Theory is great when operating alongside Boon: Shadow Step in a jungle gym or similar where you can break line of sight, almost guaranteeing even the greenest of n00bs to make distance on the killer. I'd say Boon: Exponential is worse just because of how inconsistent it can be, barely getting any value in solo queue and yet potentially breaking the game with a coordinated SWF all body-blocking hooks in its area of effect.

I didn't really enjoy Survivor at first but I honestly see why so many people love it

With Nicolas Cage in the game now, the meme category actually has more than just no mither

Blast Mine was good, its kind of underwhelming now that you don't get it back though. I agree with you about Residual Manifest though, I think it should give the survivor a green flashlight and count as a free bonus rummage. Its a very underwhelming perk IMO.

I used to constantly run Kindred in pretty much every solo queue game, but I recently fell in love with bond. When someone isn't hooked, it can provide an immense amount of information on whether someone is being chased or not, and generally where the killer is. On stacked maps, it's especially helpful. When someone does get hooked, if you do decide to go for the hook, it acts as a proxy Kindred by letting you see anyone else who's also going for the hook, letting you loop around the other side to get the person/ back off if they're taken care of. Also, really helpful for when you're being chased, as you pretty much never accidentally run into allies doing gens/healing. And, it's constant value.

low profile start working if you are last walking survivor. that means that in slug situation if everyone are in dying states, low profile activates.

I admit that it's not a good perk. But Residual Manifest has Helped me "win" a game. I was doing a Blinding Challenge and running Blast mine. I was downed by a Bubba, and he went to kick the gen. Because it blinded him he was Now unable to see hook Auras. As he picked me up, he couldn't see any hooks. He was running iron grasp but I was still able to get out. He DCed and then I saw he was an Insidious Bubba. Meaning he was going to most likely camp me and use me as bait. So because of Residual Manifest, I was able to get out and get a Bubba to disconnect. So in that very specific circumstance, it's amazing.

Distortion has a lot of *potential*, but given that it is entirely reliant on the killer’s perks, it is often worth nothing.

Back when I played regularly with friends, Distortion was a must-have perk due to the abundance of BBQ users. These days though, I play rarely. Still run Distortion though.

David having all 3 teachables being the best makes sense

AutoD is one of the best healing perks in the game for flashbang runners. It keeps your hands free, and you can run Botany for

Out of all the "useless" perks, I find that Red Herring can give some excellent value some games. It pairs especially well with Kindred so you don't sell out your teammates. Some instances it can be used. -In a 3v1 or 2v1, killer is camping a hook. Red Herring is activated on a generator not in view of the hook (especially if Kindred shows your teammate(s) are not near that gen). Sneak close to the hooked survivor, then find a locker to enter and activate Red Herring. Especially in a 2v1, the killer will very likely leave the hook, especially if the survivor is ~15 seconds away from being sacrificed: too long for a theoretical gen jockey survivor to make it to the unhook in time. That will give you enough of a chance to unhook and run off without either of you taking a hit or being detected. -Great time to activate it if you're the last man standing and the last survivor is getting carried to the hook to be sacrified. It won't find the hatch for you, but at least you're not likely to be chased while you search for it. Red Herring is a cool perk. It's just about the only perk that can trick the killer into a wild goose chase that's nowhere near any other survivor. It can make them feel like there's a 5th survivor in the background everywhere. Against Expert killers like Otz, it can cause them to lose track of where the 'dead on hook' survivors are in the map. Even if the killer knows it's in play, they'll have to second guess every missed skill check on a gen from then on. Much of its power comes from the fact that it's so rare.

I thought in a way to rework no mither and make it much better... 1. You start the trial healthy and no mither activates the first time you are injured and then you will get the broken status effect 2. The killer musn't be able to see that you has the broken status effect 3. Your aura is hidden between 8/12 meters of the killer Only with those changes the perk will get a lot of value due that the killer won't be able to know that you can't heal and you will get all those boosts that are like 3 perks in 1

My favorite perk is spine chill, well before it's debuff it was amazing. Like I see you over there Ghostface

Reactive healing is underrated I use reactive healing and resurgence in one build because I solo queue, but I pair that with a medkit and built to last and its pretty useful considering most of my solo queue games are difficult and i cant rely on heals from teamates

I use lucky break with overcome. Get hit, zoom around, and completely lose the killer. Then I use kindred and babysitter, because I'm usually the only one going for saves.

Imo, AutoDidact is the best Healing Perk! ^^ yeah it does remove Healing Progress for the first 2 Skillchecks but if you reach Stack 4 and 5, healing is incredibly fast! Like if you have 5 stacks and you are at 50% and a Skillcheck comes, the Survivor is healed in an instant! It's very good imo! ^^

I run an ambulance build with yoiCHAD asakawa that goes like this; botanic, boon: healing, yoichi's healing perk and autodidact When max stacks of autodidact you can heal anyone in less of 1 sec with 1 skillcheck remember find a dull totem do the gen near it, lit the boon and open your new super cool hospital in the trial

here's the thing about residual manifest it counters nowhere to hide when comboed with blastmine

Laughed at No mitter :) I like the idea of a strong con on a perk, but the benefits are just not good enough.

corrective action literally saves my life XD I'm a super new player and my friend with 2,5k hours always brings this perk. Since I have a slow pc, I often miss skillchecks due to the delay ( I can hit them on my friends faster pc), so yeah, it really helps me

my best friend pairs Dark Theory with Shadow Step, which gives you a bit more of an edge over the killer

I personally like Low Profile. While yes, it’s basically a clutch perk, but with my friends, that’s what I need.

I would say after DH rework, it’s not the best perk exhaustiom anymore…I would give this title to sprint burst because you cam ALWAYS use it, both agressively and passively, to save time and run faster to unhook a teammate, reach exit gate faster or whatever else you want to do. It’s really efficient if you do gens because by the time killer comes or you complete the gen, you can use it. Second best perk is Overcome. It’s way more reliable than dead hard and is something like sprint burst but you dont need to worry about exhausting accidentally while running. Only downside is you can’t use it passively, like to get faster unhook etc. Also dead hard is useless against insta down killers and also sucks because you need to be injured. Sprint burst you can always use sprint burst.

Buckle Up should give you aura reading on the killer when you are close to the downed survivor, not after they are picked up. This way you could see if it was safe to go for a rescue before actually having to commit

For the worst support perk I will choose the other Rebecca perk that gives you a 1% bonus of action after healing for 16 seconds It's literally garbage

If you say corrective action is the worst, you clearly haven't played with three beginner friends that all lag.

Residual manifest + blast mine Killer kicks a generator, gets blinded, kicks it again, can't use the new knight perk

Reactive healing can be really solid when combined with self-care

Object of Obsession is my favorite information perk. It can not only reveal the killer's location, but if it lacks the aura reading at random times, it helps to solve killer builds really fast

Ngl residual manifest is an underrated perk, denying aura reading for 30 seconds is stronger than some may realize

From all perks available I use blast mine the most. Its just fun to use in every situation.

I wasn't thinking of red herring as leading the killer to the gen. I thought of it as if I take chase or do a save ik where my gen was. I tend to lose my gen after I run half the map😭