The Jerk's Guide To The Skull Merchant | Dead By Daylight 

9:58 "she will probably be useless at higher ranks". Meanwhile Skull Merchant holding game hostage for 55min against best survivor teams.

Something I've noticed about Skull Merchant's design is thay her claw arm apparatus seems to be hydraulically boosted, allowing her to strike with vastly increased force, and removing the need for precision that a knife would require, because you're not just getting stab wounds with her weapon, you're also getting blunt force trauma and maybe a broken bone or two

I kinda feel like the oblivious addon could be REALLY good for her more stealthy playstyle. Honestly think I may tinker and try to make her into a full on ambush killer

In terms of status effects, they actually already have one that they’ve kinda forgotten about; Deafened. I would love to see that one make a comeback since it has the potential to be a really interesting addition to regular matches. Currently the only thing in the entire game that uses that status effect is a really high tier Hag addon.

To be fair the entity is confirmed to magically alter the abilitys of the killers witch can explain the add ons

4:41 WHY THIS WHOLE DESIGN They missed the perfect opportunity of making a badass transhumanist millionaire, give her a skull mask, a few robotic implants, limbs or whatever... this killer was honestly my ONLY disappointment so far, design wise

I think the arm thing might be one of those exoskeleton thingies that would let her stab with more force. Pretty sure there's some exoskeleton that exist now that let people pick up heavier things

Jerk’s Guide is the only reason ima watch a video about this chapter

The main reason I was disappointed wasn't because of the power, nor the bad design, nor the crappy story. I was just really excited for a cyborg killer designed by behavior's art team (hands down best part of behavior) and was upset when it turned out to be a random woman.

At least it’s good to know the dbd community has some immunity to the disease known as “horny”

This is the only dbd content i realy engage with anymore but its definitely some of the best

The Battle Of The Bands mention does give me a fun idea for a killer, or atleast a skin for the Trickster. Main weapon is a guitar with sharp metal crafted to it, an "Axe" (Getit?). The killer can shread on their guitar to launch violent notes forwards slowly damaging survivors. Or a "Blowout" where they place loudspeakers and deliberately blow them out to stun/hurt/confuse survivors near them. No matter how it comes out, it'd have a better Mori than Skull Merchant.

For the new status effects I wonder if some form of "Dizzy" would work. Maybe it affects you camera of movement in some way? LIke turns your camera a little or inverts your movement for a split second to kinda simulate being disorientated. Or something else like tunnel vision, where it adds a vignette around the screen, partially obstructing vision while also covering your allies so for however long you cant see their health or generator info. Better players would be able to work with this, but that's already the case for a lot of status effects.

7 seconds. 7 seconds is all I need to start watching this video.

This killer is going to be more rare than the Twins once the release hype fades. 😂

I wont lie, I knew people were pissed about this killer but didnt watch the Otz video on her so now I know what she's all about

I'm super happy that you've still remained as one of the voices of reason of the DBD community. Even just saying, "The new killer is weak, but who cares," is way better than what 90% of the community has been saying

Damn, nobody in the community seems to like the new killer ...guess you could call this chapter "Adriana Imai vs The World" In order to get the DbD community's love, she'll have to defeat their 7 evil ex "DbD killer" games

This is the closest thing to the predator the dbd community will get

I actually really like this killer and the chapter in general but i seem to be into weak killers

Skull Merchant strikes me as a "we couldn't get the rights to The Predator" backup plan. Her entire kit wouldn't feel out-of-place on a Yautja killer but I guess they couldn't get the rights in time and had to slap it all on an OC?

I don’t know if this would be balanced but I think it would’ve been neat if she was less of a damaging trap killer and more of a surveillance trap stealth killer. As in not having traps that take health states like trapper or help you get a hit like hag, but more so like setting up a device in zones that gives aura reading, but doesn’t broadcast its presence so survivors wouldn’t know it’s there unless they find it. No sounds, no obnoxious orange strobe lights. I like the idea of Adriana but it’s not executed right. She could still get buffs and have debuffs in the surveilled zone, like a speed boost or something, but the whole lock on/exposed thing I feel is too oppressive and lazy. Instead it’d be cool if she was a really mind game oriented killer with the aura reading “traps”.

I think she could be a good killer to catch people off guard with since her play rate will probably be low, have some sneaky builds in hand and destroy unsuspecting survivors

I honestly was worried you were just gonna say "Fuck it" like a lot of the community for this chapter, glad to know you still supply us with the fruits of your queue wait.

Hey I just wanted to say that your videos really cheer me up. I'm going through a really fucked up family emergency right now and seeing your video pop up in my notifs helped me get through the day. Thanks for being great.

Honestly although the lore is cluttered as shit, the main points that poke out actually make sense. Like, after her dad went insane and disappeared, she was trying to track him down by analyzing his manga, when she got to the darker ones she realized she could turn herself into that, being a rich bitch she had everything she needed to make these "tools of torment" at her fingertips. Wanting to be even richer and also test out her equipment, anyone that stood in her way she would hunt as a way to gain experience and get used to the blood and stuff. The more people she hunted and killed, the more skulls she'd have. After she had enough skulls she could complete her ensemble with swapping the fake skulls with real ones. Is the lore still extremely cluttered and confusing? Yes. Is the last bit about the skulls all speculation? Yes. Am i doing the best i can with the bullshit we got? Yes.

I like this killer because is so easy to pull mindgames in larger loops because the undetectable effect they focus on the drone so you can catch them or they simply leave good loops like the shack . And if they choose to stay the become exposed

I feel like the modern dbd meta people would complain about hag if she was released now because she doesn't have a strong chase power

The problem with her character is that she is a weeb, and she represents too much of the dbd playerbase

I know this is an unpopular opinion but for me, I've actually so far enjoyed The Skull Merchant. It's the first new killer I've enjoyed in almost a year. I had some fun matches both playing as survivor against her and also enjoyed playing her as killer. :)

these are one of the rare videos on skull merchant made in good faith and I appreciate it

everytime i see rowby post something i always get a little happier thanks for making videos man

Just when I finished watching one of your videos I come back home to see you having made another; you spoil us Rowby

Wasn’t expecting the return of the dreaded “Heat Syncope”

Wait, an upload ON the day that the chapter comes out? I'm so proud. For real though, seeing an update from you makes me happy and excited.

This was a surprisingly merciful guide.

You've been uploading so much recently, I appreciate it, thank you

A Zero Punctuation reference? In MY jerk's guide? Never.

you posting so much recently is makes me so happy man

I think most people are less disappointed in her and more disappointed in the fact that it was clearly a Predator killer but something fucked up. Two survivors, disjointed lore in the killer, reliance on technology, the exact same fucking weapon as predator

Actually having fun with this character. She forces survivors to either take the time to position cover between them and the drone's passive beam, stay away from key areas, let the killer know exactly where they are, or get exposed *and* show the killer where they are. Area control for the win.

The purple addon that hinders them by 5% seems good until you realize it only works for 3 secs upon ENTERING the radius. So it takes either perfect coordination or timing to get any value from it. For reference, clowns toxin hinders by 15%. So she can do a 1/3 of the effect of clown with less consistency. I think her actual best Addon is the the one that reveals the survivor aura for 6s when they are in the radius. You can see it from anywhere and it lets you know exactly what they are doing near your drone. I use it for a totem build to protect my bones and its working pretty well.

It took me a solid second to realize that the thumbnail was depicting skull mearchant as luffy and not just being horribly racist

ive found pretty decent results setting up a strong gen defence, doing hit and runs, and throwing in chase perks to get quick downs in the mid to end game

I barely engage with DbD content besides your stuff so it's fun seeing the thumbnail of a Jerk's Guide and thinking "wtf is that killer?"

I love Demi's roast calling her Wish Predator or Kris Jenner 😂

I don't need another chase-oriented killer when my chihuahua loops me around a table for ten minutes when I try to get a leash on him (my collision box is much bigger than his) So Adriana's alright enough.

Yeah I didn't think merchant was that bad, there's plenty of killers with worse lore/gameplay

7:56 is how I feel about this perk. Who wouldn’t want more speed?

The thumbnail is on point😂

One of TWO pieces of media that was positive about this chapter, and it's the channel that's supposed to riff on the killers. Legit nice to see =]

That opening hit me like a sack of mice, get subbed 😆

10:00 still insane that a character that just does purple for slow, yellow for fast had someone justify a 100 page thesis for them

I am new here and will sub. Appreciate the editing:)

Holy shit Rowby, that Dunderpatrullen outro music sent me into a nostalgic rabbit hole, I haven't heard his music in years

This is the first original killer I think HARD fails in the aesthetics department. Even if Twins are ugly, Legion is so edgy it hurts and Deathslinger is a Scooby-Doo villian, they all embrace their style for all it's worth and are kinda fun because of it. Skull Merchant just feels like a Mortal Kombat Fighter concept that got cut cause they had no ideas for her.

It was today I learned how much of my taste in media Rowby shares.

about implementing new status effects, we literally have the deafened one that's only used for one of the hag's addon and that's it... what a waste of an opportunity

On a serious note, thank you Rowby for not making YET ANOTHER “Skull Merchant Bad” video. I’m genuinely excited for her, but the “skull merchant bad and if you like her so are you” crowd are getting real annoying

It's nice you can cook survivors in a locker with the drone if there's multiple locker's in one area and you don't want to search them all.

Good meme build for her is impossible skill checks. You bring the iri second terror radius, the brown smaller skill checks, huntress lullaby, dark devotion, coulraphobia, and unnerving presence, and no one in your terror radius can heal and it's harder to do gens

Havent touched dbd since the iron will and calm spirit changes but i still gotta watch my mans

When I first saw her, I was meh, but once I saw that she bedazzeled her gas mask, I was all in. lol

Despite the chapter this video was one of the funniest ones you’ve put out yet, regarding DBD at least. Good shit.

Shirtless wesker approves 👌 😎

I’m getting a lot of mileage out of the Exhaustion add-on for the drones. Just leave drones on looping hotspots then any cheeky dead hard user suddenly finds themselves up shit creek without a paddle

will you ever do a guide for trickster? genuine question because your guides r the only ones that aren't a headache to follow. It's chill if not, I'm new to your channel so i have no idea if you have beef with that chapter, LOL! cheers and awesome content!

4:26 a bit he says… chess merchant laughs in the background

I have found that a very effective build for her is: Brutal Strenght - Overcharge - Call of Brine - Sloppy Butcher Addons: Shotgun Speakers - Loose Screw Basically you keep your drones up near gens, if they are taken down you go there, hit someone, kick the gen and replace your drone, repeat until one of the survivors make a mistake and go down fast, repeat until they are all dead. It's very hard to beat it even with 2 gens remaining and them being far apart because you can keep your drones on the remaining 4 gens. The bad side: I never had such long games, it takes forever if there are 4 survivors remaining with 2 gens left to be done, but so far I had 3k to 4k all games.

I actually tried her out and her style isn't as bad as I thought it would be.Its pretty unique in a way. My only real issue with her is the design.

5:29 and just like that they made a better version of the clown, fast reload same effect and the effect is instantaneous and both effects are active at the same time.

So far I love playing against her, she seems like a way more fun, intuitive, and fair version of the Knight. With him, getting good is literally just learning when your power will fuck you. After you learn that he takes 0 skill and becomes busted at zoning survivors. With her their is way more nuance and skill to her gameplay. More opportunities for counterplay as well. Fun for everyone, and she can become cracked with the right setup and experience. Zoning killers should never be overpowered without counterplay options. Just sucks that her torso, head, and legs look like they were designed by 3 different teams

*Insert "Bad to the Bone"*.mp3

I choose to think that the skull merchant might have been more fitting if it was the predator due to the arm blade and usage of technology to track

He says "probably useless at the high ranks", and 5 months later, Team Eternal almost gets timed out by one 🤣. No hate, just funny.

wow 14k to 78.5K subscribers in 2 years good stuff Rowby

Nice timing on dropping this

Bro hates every character in this game💀

Very informative thank you

I can imagine behavior adding a feature where the killer has to do a series of skill checks just to put down one drone.

"If someone sits and tries, I imagine they'd find a way forward for (skull merchant)" The guy who made the Chess Merchant loadout is smiling

Good video, even for the time. Couldn’t tell it was made fast until you mentioned it at the end.

First skull merchant video I'm watching in a week...

i like her design and the idea around, but im not sure how a nemesis zombie perk would work seeing as they bug out a lot and if they cant be killed by the killer they could essentially became a useless perk

Just started to play Skull Merchant, opted for a chase build and chose to do the opposite of three genning. I make sure I put drones that will favor the survivors when it comes to rushing gens. So my builds tend to be on the stealthy/tracking side as I am very confident when it comes to handling loops and chases as I myself main survivor and find most readable. It's super fun and I haven't "lost" yet. I'd like to believe I'm in mid-high mmr so at least it works now. I also ask any people who chat if I was doing well at not three genning because I truly do care about how everyone in my game is doing and if I'm being living hell or fun to go against. Idk why I guess It's just how I am but I hate three gen strategies, they are boring for me. Luckily most feedback has been positive, some people dc when they see me or hear they're going against a SM and start to trash talk but idc about those people as they instantly assumed I'd be a pain to try and survive against. Although it's understandable, try to stay till you at least realize what's going on, then leave if you believe you'll be there for an hour because not everyone SM will three gen but I agree most will.

Honestly out of everything in this chapter it's leverage that annoys me the most honestly, needs two people dead and the other two on death hook for full effect, lasts just 30 seconds and with the release "bug fix" is rendered useless if ANY of the survivors brings circle of healing. It's just a timed budget sloppy butcher that needs way more effort and by the time you're going to get it to full you won't even get much usage out of it

She gives the vibes that she is supposed to be like the predator with the wrist blade. Making me think they tried really hard with Fox to get the rights to use him, granted predator already has a isometric horror game.

I find I enjoy throwing down the drone next to one of the pallets that you can only go left or right on without breaking it. Either the survivor runs and gets snacked or stays and gets smacked when exposed. (Strategy rate of success depends on Survivor and Killer skill, success not guaranteed,)

It's NOT THAT BAD a chapter guys its just different

The hack animation should have been the same mini game but the survivor tries to grab the drone and the drone goes into a "survival mode" kind of thing and tries to get away, then the survivour pulls a Markus from DBH and they rip the blades off and then SM has to either go pick it up or use another power button on her find my iPhone app to make another drone go fix it

@Rowdy in what tier would you put Skull merchant

Nice someone acknowledge her presence on the field. I really like looking at the map covered in swirling lights or bright circles. Not sure why I like it but sucks it only takes one survivor to scoop them all up now, what a dumb nerf~

She needs a Handsome Jack Legendary skin and then I’m happy

Corrupt intervention, disillusioned, Hex:Devour Hope, and eruption. Busted with little counter play.

I knew this day would come

I loved this game for two weeks. Then I realized that I was playing the Switch version and that everyone else could see the game WAY better than I could.

Actually been kind of enjoying skull merchant cause the pallet breaking brown addon singlehandedly makes her fun

Hmmm. My theory is her story is convoluted because its that mind of a killer aspect. We can't grasp why she is doing it, maybe she fabricated everything and was just obsessed with the manga until the very idea became that, Fear. Like a Batman scenario without a troubled family death, but I do agree with the parts where they continued to ramble on. They need to explain why she has her skills and how she uses them properly, which I say for drones its a simple button and her engineers builds them. I guess with the weapon, though I like, was attempting to make an original Amanda Pig from Saw.

For a new status what about obfuscation? The survivors now see the killer as a cloud of black mist (Of the same size as the killer) while within the killers terror radius, blocking the view of the killers actions from the survivor.

Major throwback to Dunderpatrullen. I felt 16 again.