Dead By Daylight: Best Builds for The Onryo

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By Lewis Smyth

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The Onryo: Best Non-Teachable Build (2024)

The Onryo: Best Build (2024)

The Onryo: Best Add-Ons

Manifesting from film to videogame, Dead By Daylight's Onryō is Behaviors' take on the haunting young well-dweller from 1998's Ringu. Players looking to take on The Onryō in Dead By Daylight may have a difficult time coming to terms with her television-dependent powers and manifestation abilities, but having the right set of perks can help drastically.

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This guide will walk players through the best perks to use on The Onryō to make the most of her supernatural powers, including the best builds for players with both teachable and non-teachable perks.

Updated on July 1, 2024, by Lewis Smyth: Over the last few years, Dead by Daylight's Onryo has received many major changes to bring her power more in-line with other Killers. As of the latest patch, her Deluge of Fear revolves around carefully building Condemned stacks by strategically teleporting and hooking Survivors. This new guide features updated builds, which incorporate the redefined aspects of her power, as well as a best add-ons list.

The Onryo: Best Non-Teachable Build (2024)

While The Onryo has some impressive base-kit abilities, many players who are entering the Entity's trails for the first time may struggle with obtaining all the perks available to other Killers. This build is aimed at those newer players, showcasing the best build for The Onryō without using other Killers’ teachable perks. Hitting Survivors with Sloppy Butcher, you'll teleport to build Condemned in chase and pressure generators while finding Survivors with Spies from the Shadows and Scourge Hook: Floods of Rage. In the endgame, Hex: No One Escapes Death will activate and give you the opportunity to secure more hooks.

Scourge Hook: Floods of Rage (The Onryo) – When a Survivor is unhooked from one of four white Scourge Hooks, the auras of all other Survivors are revealed for 7 seconds.
Spies From the Shadows (General Perk) – When within 36 meters of a crow startled by a Survivor, you gain a loud noise notification.
Sloppy Butcher (General Perk) – Basic attacks inflict the Mangled and Hemorrhage status ailments for 90 seconds, slowing down healing by 25% and regressing healing progress when left unfinished.
Hex: No One Escapes Death (General Perk) – After the final generator is completed, all Survivors suffer from the Exposed status ailment and you gain a 4% Haste effect until the Hex Totem is cleansed.

The Onryo: Best Build (2024)

Like The Trapper, The Onryō was one of the weaker Killers in Dead By Daylight until her buffs. Now, The Onryō is most effectively played by adopting a hit-and-run playstyle in the early game, injuring multiple Survivors to pressure their health states and teleporting strategically to build up their Condemned status. These perks from The Plague, The Legion, and The Artist allow her to create immense amounts of early game pressure and lock in Condemned stacks on Survivors early by teleporting near them while in the radius of a powered TV. By hooking one or two Survivors, and by teleporting to the TVs they try to get tapes from, you can quickly kill them before they even get the chance to heal.

Corrupt Intervention (The Plague) – At the start of the trial, the 3 generators furthest from the killer's starting location are blocked for 120 seconds or until the first survivor is downed.
Discordance (The Legion) – Any generators within 128 meters that are being worked on by 2 or more survivors will be highlighted in yellow.
Sloppy Butcher (General Perk) – Basic attacks inflict the Mangled and Hemorrhage status ailments for 90 seconds, slowing down healing by 25% and regressing healing progress when left unfinished.
Scourge Hook: Pain Resonance (The Artist) – The Killer starts with four tokens. For each different Survivor hooked on a white Scourge Hook, lose one token and explode the generator with the most progress, causing it to lose 25% of progress.

The Onryo: Best Add-Ons

The Onryo has a somewhat mixed bag of Add-Ons, some of which provide enormous value, while others remain very niche – even post-buff. This guide separates the best from the worst, in order of rarity on the Bloodweb.

Videotape Copy

Simple and powerful, especially on smaller Dead by Daylight maps, the Videotape Copy increases the range at which Survivors are Condemned by powered TVs during Projection by 2 meters.

Old Newspaper

Though producing a milder effect since Sadako’s buff, the Old Newspaper is still an impressive Common Add-On. This add-on increases the time that The Onryo is invisibile during Manifestation by 33%, allowing her to more easily out-mind game Survivors at more unsafe loops.

Cabin Sign

Helping The Onryo cover distances more effectively and spread Condemned more frequently, the Cabin Sign decreases the time it takes for a TV to turn back on after Projection by 4.5 seconds.

Yoichi’s Fishing Net

While not especially powerful in prior patches, with the new ability to lock in Condemned stacks, Yoichi’s Fishing Net can deprive hooked Survivors of vital information by afflicting them with Blindness at 4 stacks.

Well Stone

Like the Cabin Sign, the Well Stone helps with The Onryo’s map mobility and Condemn building by decreasing the time it takes for TVs turned off by Survivors to power on by 7 seconds.

Reiko’s Watch

Pairing well with the Old Newspaper, Reiko’s Watch similarly increases invisibility duration – this time while Demanifested – by 25%.

Well Water

To better sneak up on Survivors after Projecting, the Well Water increases the duration of Undetectable by 2 seconds while Manifesting.

Ring Drawing

Helping spread Condemned more efficiently, the Ring Drawing spreads a stack to every other Survivor when someone carrying a tape is hooked.

Mother’s Comb

Better for beginners, Mother’s Comb shows the aura of turned-off TVs in yellow. Though you’ll generally want to prevent Survivors from getting the chance to turn them off, Mother’s Comb is a useful information Add-On which can help you track who is depositing or picking up tapes.

Bloody Fingernails

The best Rare Add-On for The Onryo, her Bloody Fingernails increase the duration of her post-Projection speed by 50%, meaning you can more easily catch up to Survivors after teleporting, which you should often make use of. This Add-On is further empowered by the Well Water.

Remote Control

Perhaps The Onryo’s best add-on, the Remote Control allows you to see the auras of Survivors within 12 meters of a powered TV for 7 seconds. As this includes any TVs you teleport to, this Add-On is invaluable for building Condemned mid-chase without losing their location.