Dead By Daylight: Best Healer Builds

Highlights

Healing perks in Dead by Daylight can boost a survivor's chance of survival by speeding up healing or making it easier to find injured teammates.
Different survivor playstyles call for tailored healer builds - whether it's focusing on high-risk or sneaky approaches to healing.
Updated healer builds take advantage of new perks and modifications, offering survivors more options to fight back against powerful killers.

Staying healed in Dead by Daylight is essential to increase the survival chance of every chase. Healing perks boost the odds of all survivors being healthy, as many speed up healing or make it easier to spot injured survivors.

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Healer perks differ, and each build is tailored to a particular playstyle for survivors. While some survivors would play it safe, others might risk all to save their teammates. Hybrid healer builds are a common choice in Dead by Daylight as they provide the player with perks for use while all survivors are healed.

Updated on April 21, 2024, by Aly Azmy: Healing is one of the strongest tools in a survivors arsenal. As killers get more perks to kill survivors with ease, survivors gain more perks to fight back. This list has been updated to add two new Healer builds that take advantage of newly added perks and recently modified perks in Dead by Daylight. The newly added perks give survivors an advantage against the Basement, and the other perk modification empowers survivors to take risky gambles to help others who are in the dying state.

7 The Classic Healer

Play Style: Team Player

The following perks are a staple for healer builds as it is heavily focused on healing other players but still provide the players with an exhaustion perk. Most of the perks here are among the best survivor perks, and they give players a definitive healer build.

Botany Knowledge (Claudette Morel): Increases base healing speed by 50% at the cost of 20% efficiency when using a med kit.
Boon Circle of Healing (Mikaela Reid): When inside the boon's 24-meter radius and not using a med kit, healing speed increases by 100%.
Empathy (Claudette Morel): Passive ability to see an injured survivor's aura within a 128-meter radius.
Sprint Burst (Meg Thomas): Allows players to sprint at 150% running speed for 3 seconds and has a 40-second exhausted cooldown effect.

6 High Stakes Healer

Play Style: Investment Healer

Although this healer build differs slightly from the standard ones, it offers high-risk and high-reward gameplay. Autodidact and For The People are unconventional healing perks, but once players get used to them they are both fun perks to use.

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Autodidact (Adam Francis): Succeeding in skill checks while healing rewards one token for a maximum of 5, and each token increases the heal bonus given by skill checks. Players start at a 25% progression penalty and gain +15 per token for a total of +50%.
Bond (Dwight Fairfield): Players with this perk can see the aura of other survivors within a 36-meter radius around them.
Lucky Break (Yui Kimura): 60 seconds of suppressed scratch marks and pools of blood when injured. Lucky Break gains one second of use for every second spent treating other survivors.
For The People (Zarina Kassir): Instantly heal a survivor from the injured or dying state at the cost of 1 health state from the healer. Players must be healthy before using the perk and become broken for 60 seconds after use.

5 Stealthy Healer

Play Style: Ninja Healer

The idea of a stealthy healer role may seem bizarre, but the four perks unite to create a seamless stealth build dedicated to healing. This build works best with any of the quietest survivors in Dead by Daylight. The Diversion perk will temporarily distract the killer if needed to provide enough time to heal a survivor.

Diversion (Adam Francis): Hide within the killer's terror radius for 30 seconds and gain the ability to throw a distraction pebble. The pebble will land 20 meters away from the survivor, cause a loud noise notification for the killer, and create fake scratch marks.
Bite The Bullet (Leon Kennedy): Self-healing and healing others become muted, and failed skill checks no longer generate noise notifications.
Boon Shadow Step (Mikaela Ried): Bless a boon totem that suppresses all scratch marks and auras in a 24-meter radius.
We'll Make It (General): Healing speed increases by 100% for 90 seconds after unhooking a survivor.

4 The Solo Healer

Play Style: End Game Healer

Survivors playing solo should consider this build as it does not rely on others. Hope and Adrenaline give solo survivors an advantage to escape to the exit gates if the other survivors open the gates early. The other two perks allow survivors the option to heal themselves.

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Hope (General): Once the exit gates are opened, survivors gain a 7% speed boost. The haste effect vastly helps survivors loop killers during the end game.
Adrenaline (Meg Thomas): When the exit gates are powered, the player is instantly healed and receives a 150% speed boost for 5 seconds. This perk causes an exhaustion status effect that lasts for 40 seconds.
Inner Healing (General): After cleansing a totem, players can heal inside a locker after an 8-second countdown.
Self Care (Claudette Morel): Survivors can heal themselves without a med kit but heal at 35% of regular healing speed.

3 Up & At Em

Play Style: Risky & Rewarding

This build requires lots of game knowledge to know when rescuing a player is viable. Staying at full health at all times is essential to ensuring players are always ready to use For The People. Players can easily guarantee a medkit from a chest and heal themselves. Using For The People with Buckle Up gives both players 10 seconds of endurance and can rescue a survivor that is being tunneled.

Buckle Up (Ash Williams): Activates when another survivor is down and reveals the aura of the killer to the downed player and the survivor with Buckle Up. After healing a dying survivor, both players receive endurance for 10 seconds.
For The People (Zarina Kassir): Instantly heal a survivor from the injured or dying state at the cost of 1 health state from the healer. Players must be healthy before using the perk and become broken for 60 seconds after use.
Pharmacy (Quientin Smith): When injured, increases chest unlocking speed by 80% while reducing the audio cue for chest unlock by 8 meters. Gives survivors a guaranteed emergency med-kit. Emergency med-kits have enough charges for a self heal.
Plunderer's Instinct (General Perk): Reveals aura of nearby chests within a 32-meter radius. Increases changes of finding higher rarity items but this effect does not stack with Pharmacy.
Medkit:Add-ons to increase healing speed. Butterfly tape & Medical scissors.

2 Basement Lurker

Play Style: Solo Focused

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This build gives players an advantage in playing around tricky areas such as Basement and Killer Shack. Wiretapping a generator gives a massive aid in looping the killer near Killer Shack. Players can self-heal in the Basement and can unhook themselves if they are caught by the killer.

Strength In Shadows (Sable Ward): Allows players to self-heal in the Basement without needing a med-kit. Heal speed is reduced by 70% and is faster than using a regular med-kit. After completing a self heal in the basement, the aura of the killer is revealed to the survivor for 10 seconds.
Wicked (Sable Ward): Gives a guaranteed unhook to players hooked on a Basement hook. Aura of the killer is revealed for 20 seconds after a successful unhook in the Basement, whether from another player or a self-unhook.
Head On (Jane Romero): Activates after standing inside a locker for 3 seconds. Once active, dashing out of the locker stuns killers in range for 3 seconds. It causes 40 seconds of exhaustion when performed successfully.
Wiretap (Ada Wong): After repairing a generator to 50%, players can press the ability button to install a trap onto a generator. The trap stays active for 120 seconds. While the trap is active, the killers aura is revealed to all survivors when they are 14 meters near the trapped generator. The generator is highlighted as yellow to all other survivors. Wiretap deactivates if the killer damages the generator.

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1 Med-Kit Healer

Play Style: Team Healer

These perks will help survivors get the most out of their med-kits, and their teammates will love them for it.

Built To Last (Felix Richter): After 12 seconds of hiding inside a locker, carried items will replenish 99% of their durability. Each use reduces the total recharge by 33%.
Streetwise (Nea Karlsson): Increases item efficiency by 25% and applies the effect to survivors within 8 meters. The effect also lingers for 15 seconds once other survivors exit the 8-meter radius.
Empathic Connection (Yoichi Asakawa): Injured survivors see the aura of survivors running this perk if they are within 96 meters of one another. The perk also provides a 10% heal speed buff to other survivors.
We're Gonna Live Forever (David King): Heal survivors in the dying state 100% faster. Safe unhooks, taking protection hits, and stunning killers carrying other survivors grant one token. When saving survivors from the dying state, a token is used, giving them endurance for 10 seconds.