Dead by Daylight: Odd Perk Combinations That Work

Highlights

Pairing specific perks in Dead by Daylight can give weaker perks a stronger purpose, creating new play styles and techniques.
Certain perk combinations require teamwork, making them impractical but incredibly fun to use and pull off.
There are perks that can help survivors with hook rescues, providing knowledge about the killer's location and making safe unhooks and heals easier.

Dead by Daylight has a plethora of perks for both survivors and killers. Most perks are helpful and work just fine, but the same cannot be said for all perks. There is an abundance of perks in Dead by Daylight that are weak on their own and do not warrant hogging up one of the four perk slots for survivors.

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Dead By Daylight allows players to play as their favorite killers from horror movies, along with some fresh faces. However, not all killers are equal.

Pairing specific perks together gives weaker ones a stronger purpose and excellent use cases. These new pairings create new creative builds that add fresh play styles and techniques to the game. Players may already have these perks but have set them aside due to their weak potential on their own.

5 Rapid Heal

This combination guarantees a strong chance of escaping from the killer and getting healed. Finding a boon is essential to keep Inner Healing ready and not wasting too much time from Lucky Break. Using one of the quieter survivors in Dead by Daylight is helpful for this combination.

Lucky Break (Yui Kimura): This perk eliminates scratch marks and pools of blood for 60 seconds after getting injured. Each second a survivor spends healing others, one second is regained for Lucky Break.
Quick & Quiet (Meg Thomas): Removes the sound effect caused when rushing pallets, windows, and lockers. This perk is essential to quickly hide inside a locker without leaving an audio indicator for the killer.
Inner Healing (General): Survivors can heal inside a locker within 8 seconds after cleansing a totem.
Iron Will (Jake Park): Reduces injured noises by 75% but does not work when exhausted.

4 The Duo Sidekick

This loadout is perfect for duos, as the perk combinations require at least two players to work. While this setup is impractical, it is incredibly fun to use and pull off. Players can rescue downed teammates and prevent them from being picked up by the killer.

Soul Guard (Cheryl Mason): After recovering from the dying state, receive 8 seconds of endurance. Soul Guard allows survivors to completely recover if they are affected by a curse status effect.
For The People (Zarina Kassir): Transfer a health state to an injured or downed survivor at the cost of a health state. Players must be healthy and will be afflicted with the broken status effect for 60 seconds.
Tenacity (David Tapp): Survivors can crawl 50% faster when downed and have the volume of grunts of pain by 75%.

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For the best results, survivors must have a medkit to ensure they are fully healed at all times to use For The People at a moment's notice.

3 Hook Rescue Team

Rescuing survivors off the hook is a fundamental part of Dead by Daylight. This loadout provides survivors with ample knowledge regarding where others are, including the killer. Safe unhooks and heals are easier to pull off with these perks, giving the powers the action stunts of Nic Cage himself.

Open Handed (Ace Visconti): Boosts aura reading radius by 16 meters, the perk applies to others if the effect is from the survivor using it. Open Handed does not stack if more than one survivor is using open-handed.
Kindred (General): Once hooked, survivors can see the auras of one another. When the killer is within 16 meters of the hook, their aura is revealed to all other survivors. This effect stacks with Open Handed and will reveal the killer's aura for a total of 32 meters.
We'll Make It (General): After unhooking a survivor, player's healing speed is increased by 100% for 90 seconds.

Players will have an easier time finding other survivors and know who the closest one is to the hooked teammate and when the killer has left the area.

2 Killer Diverter

Guiding the killer away from the team will keep survivors working on generators and have the killer wasting time searching in empty spots. Three of the perks in this build aim to confuse the killer and generate false information.

Deception (Élodie Rakoto): When sprinting next to a locker, survivors have the option to interact with the locker and cause it to swing open and generate a false noise notification. After interacting with the locker, scratch marks and pools of blood are suppressed for three seconds.
Diversion (Adam Francis): Diversion charges by being in the killer's terror radius for 30 seconds without being chased. Players can launch a pebble 20 meters away and produce a loud notification and false scratch marks once Diversion is charged.
Dance With Me (Kate Denson): After performing a rushed action, survivors will leave no scratch marks for 3 seconds. The perk has a cooldown of 40 seconds.
Bond (Dwight Fairfield): The Aura of survivors is revealed within a 36-meter radius.

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The bond perk helps survivors know where to direct the killer, so they do not accidentally find a teammate working on a generator.

1 Generator Obsession

The major goal for survivors is to get generators done fast, and this loadout is all for that. Survivors need to land skill great skill checks and make sure the killer is far.

Hyperfocus (Rebecca Chambers): Hitting a great skill check on a generator grants one token, and tokens max out at 6. Each token increases skill check odds by 4% and increases skill check rotation speed by 4%, and skill check bonus is increased by 30% per token.
Fogwise (Vittorio Toscano): Landing a great skill check while working on a generator will reveal the killer's aura for 6 seconds.