One of the most underrepresented Killers in Dead by Daylight, The Hag is notorious for her difficulty and high skill ceiling. With the power to lay Phantasm Traps across the map, The Hag can swiftly teleport to any that are triggered by Survivors within a 40-meter radius. This ability allows her to put immense pressure on Survivors from a significant distance and forces them to always stay alert.
This Dead by Daylight guide will showcase some of the most effective perks to use on The Hag, covering both teachable and non-teachable perks that synergize well with her power.
The Hag: Best Build
This build makes use of perks from The Artist, The Trickster, and The Plague to create a build that slows down generator progress, building pressure until a lethal endgame collapse.
- Corrupt Intervention (The Plague) – At the start of the trial, the three generators furthest from the killer's starting location are blocked for 120 seconds or until the first survivor is downed.
- Hex: No One Escapes Death (General Perk) – After the final generator is completed, all survivors suffer from the Exposed status ailment and users gain a four percent Haste effect until the Hex Totem is cleansed.
- No Way Out (The Trickster) – At the end of the trial when a survivor interacts with an exit gate, users will receive a noise notification, and the exit gates will be blocked for 12 seconds, plus another 12 seconds for each survivor hooked.
- 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 Hag: Best Non-Teachable Build
For players just starting out, or those without access to Dead by Daylight’s DLC, this build makes use of the Hag’s own impressive hex perks like Hex: Ruin to slow down generators and Hex: The Third Seal to blind Survivors.
- Hex: The Third Seal (The Hag) – After hitting a Survivor, that Survivor is inflicted with the Blindness status effect until the Hex Totem is cleansed. This effect can be active on all four Survivors at once.
- Hex: Ruin (The Hag) – As long as the Hex Totem remains standing, all Survivors not working on progressed generators will immediately begin to regress. This effect is removed once the first Survivor is killed.
- Sloppy Butcher (General Perk) – Basic attacks cause the Mangled and Hemorrhage status ailments, 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 users gain a four percent Haste effect until the Hex Totem is cleansed.
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