Correction: The corrrect numbers are 0.06% and 0.18%! (still, absolutely abysmal that there were so many perks like these).

Beast of Prey is still the saddest killer perk currently imo. It'll presumably be 'nerfed' soon too when they eventually remove the BP bonus as they have been doing with other perks of that kind.

It's worth noting that there were some "play with random perks" challenges while he was recording his data. I suspect there would be a lot more 0% perks otherwise.

The Claudette teabagging a doctor with one of the worst perk loadouts in the game was very amusing for some reason.

There's still like over 30 perks that need reworks BADLY. Like this is not happening, territorial imperative, premonition, bloodhound, predator, beast of prey

10:43 The overwhelming presence value is so big, it literally breaks the game 😂

I ran into septic touch 3 weeks ago! It was a wraith with an exhaustion, hit and run built. They had genetic limits, fearmonger, septic touch and blood echo. Also, they had the brown add-on which let's you keep your terror radius while cloaked and they had a mangled add-on. I remember being so surprised by being affect by septic touch. In the endgame, I talked with the wraith about how many times I was exhausted and I remembered being affected by cruel limits 3 times, and septic touch 2 times! That match sticked with me :)

Terror radius perks usually actually work better on Wesker since he has a naturally large terror radius and enough mobility to constantly have people in the radius.

Leverage is such a good perk. You get 5 hooks to get a 30 second effect while Sloppy Butcher does the same slowdown all the time 😇

Suddenly these perks are now the most used

I want to see Otz do the same with the 4 least used survivor perks

I think hangman's trick might be a bit better (tho still very niche) if it made scourge hooks immune to sabotage. That might give it a similar use to lightborn if you go against a group of toolboxes that you suspect might be a sabo squad.

Hello Otz, this is friends

Hangman’s trick is weird in that unlike all the other scourge perks, nothing actually happens when someone is hooked (or unhooked.) It’s just very unreliable aura reading.

I think leverage would gain significantly more value if it activated after unhooking when survivors are likely to be healing.

That third game attempt is a really weird example of the specific niches almost all lining up during a shifting battle of attrition. Fascinating.

The Hangman's Trick "buff" was honestly the saddest thing to me. When I went for the Pig adept, it was surprisingly helpful, like a weaker version of BBQ and Chili. Obviously, it's outclassed by other perks, but I just don't understand how reducing its effective range by limiting it to 4 hooks was in anyway a buff. For reference, the AoE for old HT was ~113 m^2 per hook, and now it's ~314 m^2 per hook. This means that 1 HT Scourge Hook covers as much area as a little under 3 HT normal hooks, meaning HT Scourge Hooks cover ~942 m^2, as much area as ~8.3 normal HT hooks. Now, fun fact, per the DBD wiki, the number of hooks that spawn per map are equal to the number of map tiles divided by 3. The smallest map in the game is Treatment Theatre with 98 square tiles. That means over 30 hooks should spawn on the map. Which means the total area coverage from old HT is over 3.6k m^2, which is ALMOST 4x AS MUCH COVERAGE as Scourge Hook HT at the bare minimum. Nevermind the RNG elements of Scourge Hooks, such as spawning near each other and having overlapping AoEs or spawning near the edge of the map, reducing its effective coverage. In no way can this be considered a buff. Like, literally, a very simple but effective buff would be to make it so Sabotaging took like 50% longer to do. There's no dedicated "anti-sabotage" killer perk that makes sabotaging significantly slower. It would still be trash but it would be a better change than what it is currently.

I like throwing on Leverage and Sloppy with Dredge. I didn't realize the perk was so unpopular 💀

If they really want to buff Hangman’s Trick they should make it spawn extra scourge hooks as well. Overwhelming Presence would benefit from an icon indicating when it’s doing something, that way you could use it kinda like Whispers.

Overwhelming presences small buff: Reveal the aura of survivors who are using an item in your terror radius

Maybe if hangman's trick aura reading was always on it'd be usable kinda. You could combine it with monstrous shrine to always see shack I guess.

DBD is one of those games that I oddly enjoy watching, even tho I've never played and legit have zero idea what is going on. Your videos, especially your game play breakdown where you kind of go through what you were thinking are a ton of fun to watch

I think they could update Overwhelming Presence to indicate when it’s working. Just have it light up when someone in your terror radius is using an item and being affected by it, like when Whispers lights up when near survivors. It wouldn’t make a huge difference overall, but it’d be a nice, tiny QOL change to feed you info if people ever do run the perk more in the future, or when adepting Doc. Hell, maybe they could do the same for Septic Touch. These perks would be slightly more usable if you knew when they were being activated

I remember using leverage on death slinger and being kinda happy with it. Survivors that constantly want to heal at the hook are usually caught by this perk but i understand it being outclass.

Is there info on the rarest survivor perks as well? Would be very interested in seeing that 👀

I've been running Fearmonger, Septic Touch, Genetic Limits and Blood Echo together and it actually feels really good. Getting to play the game instead of having to wait out sprint burst and made for this making chases longer is extremely nice. Granted Septic Touch isn't what really matters in it but also who cares about winning in a party game. Running 4 perks to counter one thing is funny so Septic Touch is a go to perk for me.

One thing they could do for overwhelming presence, is make it track how many charges are wasted, and then buff the killer when a certain number of wasted charges is reached. For example, giving the killer a larger terror radius or making survivors scream. Something that would fit with the perks name. They could make it have tiers as well so it could counter perks like built to last and Gabriel’s perk.

I love the addition of the subtle jazz in the background while explaining things. Makes things much more relaxing and fun!

Your amazing Otz! Thank you for always being such a helpful and lovely person!

I'm still kind of new to the game, so I was actually using Leverage, I rushed SM to Prestige 1 because I thought that every hook you got decreased healing speed just like that, not for only 30 measly seconds.

I never expected smooth jazz music to go so well with Otz's speaking

8:45 now, we understand why no one runs them

14:03 is my life description

Otz, thank you very much for such a good and emotional assessment of my actions, I am flattered! ❤❤❤ P.S. I played for Ash in the last game

I used septic touch in my heal-slow build on Dredge. I also like the idea of using septic touch and fearmonger (along with certain add-ons) to make an exhuastion/blindness focused killer build. It may not be meta, but it sounds pretty cool!

love your content otz keep it up my guy ❤

I run these fairly often because I always play with a randomizer build and it loves to give me trash ❤️

i'm really shocked shattered hope is not among these. even when circle of healing was still good, i saw no one run this perk

It’s actually so insane how you keep coming up with fresh ideas… I stopped playing dbd like two years ago and I still watch your videos.

That disconnect in the middle was heartbreaking, I was so invested in your plan. Lmao.

Now imageine a game where everything is equally ballanced and fun to play... yeah no cant imagine that

Hangman’s trick should make it so that if a survivour is with a meter of a hook whilst the killer is carrying a survivour, the survivour has their aura revealed and they are exposed. Essentially an anti sabotage/ bodyblock build

It's really nice to know that even against a doctor running the absolute worst dog water perks in the game, survivors will still find a reason to throw back some bags at the exit gate for those sweet 'watch me leave' seconds

10:40 love how otz is in the middle of presenting his dbd dissertation and the game just decided to dc :D

What about least used survivor perks?

The amount of rizz in the beginning tho, Otz is a rizzlord

great video!! very unexpected plot twist in the second match

You got me. “This is Otz, fresh like a rose” was entirely unexpected 😂

I thought shattered hope woulda been there😭😭

I mean, septic touch with the oni is a very good combo imo, coupling it with coulrophobia, sloppy and lethal pursuer and the addon to see survivors aura with blood and i have never lost a match with that

I actually run Overwhelming Presence on Wesker, his larger Terror Radius is nice dealing with toolboxes and medkits, with the benefit of also affecting keys!

Spitballing random ideas for those 4 perks, just for fun, prob shitty ideas but I'm bored Leverage: + Timer increased to 60 seconds (Prev. 30) + The timer now pauses when any Survivor is healing Hangman's Trick: - Removed auras - Removed notification + After hooking a Survivor on a Scourge Hook, gain 25% haste for 5 seconds + A Survivor that attempts to Sabotage a Scourge Hook will Scream and suffer from Exposed for 20 seconds. Overwhelming Presence: (Currently under revision) - Consumption rate penalty removed + Items now drain at a rate of 3% charges per second while within the Terror Radius + Effect lingers for -15- seconds + Survivors that have their item depleted Scream and are faced with a series of 5 tremendously difficult skillchecks Failing any of these skillchecks results in them and all Survivors within 56 meters of them to Scream, revealing their auras for 15 seconds Septic Touch: + Survivors will also suffer from a 10% Hindered Status + Moving towards a healing Survivor in your TR grants you 10% haste, which lingers for 10 seconds

You switched up the raw probability with the perctentage. (Its impossible to get 0.0006% from 1500 people, that would mean mean 0.009 people used it, which obviously is impossible) 0.0006 is the chance people used it, which is equal to 0.06%, with 1.0 being 100%. You should multiply the numbers you used by 100. It's a very easy thing to miss, so no worries, but a disclaimer/fix would be nice :)) EDIT: for the people who dont get what i mean: 1/1593 = ~0.0006 = 0.06%. Percentage is 100*raw statistical probability.

Perhaps since Hangman's Trick is about your "ingenious modifications to Hooks", they could make it turn an extra hook into a Scourge Hook, and/or the Scourge Hooks aren't just randomly picked and instead they're in more convenient positions (either there's some algorithm that determines their placement that factors in how many tiles are nearby the hook, ideal distance from the other Scourge Hooks, etc. Or they're placed manually on each map). They could maybe even add another effect that synergizes with every other Scourge Hook perk, kinda like Lethal Pursuer does with other Aura-Reading perks.

the kiss bye bye makes me very happy everytime, great video Otz!

So, I've done some thinking on these perks and I think I've come up with some ways to buff/change them that'll actually make them good and still keep with their theme/identity. Hangman's Trick: At the start of the trial, you gain 2/3/4 tokens. A token can be expended by pressing active ability 1 on a normal hook. This will permanently convert that hook into a scourge hook. (Alternatively, you just start the trial with that many scourge hooks already) While carrying a survivor, you see the auras of survivors within 6/8/10m of a scourge hook. Scourge hooks take 30 seconds less to respawn after being fully sabotaged. - The idea is to make it a good secondary perk to be run with any other scourge perk, much like monstrous shrine. I personally think just the first effect alone would make it good to run with scourge hook perks as a complementary perk, but the 2nd effect would make it amazing if you run a heavy scourge hook build so you can get more use out of all your scourge hooks. Hex - Leverage: Every time you hook a survivor, all injured survivors gain the hemorrhage effect for 80/100/120 seconds. Healing speed is reduced by 40% for 80/100/120 seconds. This effect gains an additional 20% healing speed debuff for each token after the first. Every time you hook a survivor, gain 1 token, up to a max of 5. If a survivor completes a heal action during the time that Leverage is active, their aura is revealed for 2/3/4 seconds. - The idea here is to make it actually be difficult and punishing to heal while its active. That effect would need it to be a hex perk and would allow it to be much stronger. The perk's identity is to punish healing but it doesn't really even do that in it's current state since it's so weak and when its strong is when you're already winning or they're already mostly through healing. Overwhelming Presence: Any time your aura is revealed to the survivor, you see that survivor's aura as well. This aura reading lingers for 2 seconds after they can no longer see your aura. Reveal your aura to all survivors for 5 seconds every 60 seconds. Whenever a survivor can see your aura, you gain a 10% haste buff. The survivor gains a 25% efficiency penalty to all actions. Skill checks are 100% faster during this time. Skill checks are automatically triggered on any survivors (where applicable). - This perk should honestly get a complete rework. My idea is to carry over some of the ideas but change it's identity almost completely. I don't think it'd be meta or S tier with this rework, but it'd be a more unique perk for killer to have and would still be more useful and satisfying to use than it currently is. Septic Touch: Whenever a survivor is healing inside your terror radius, apply oblivious and hemorrhage for 5 seconds. This effect lingers. Whenever a survivor is healed outside your terror radius, gain 1 token. On your next successful basic attack consume a token to apply exhaustion and blindness for 40 seconds. - This perk is kinda hard since it's identity is both "anti-heal" and "anti-exhaustion" but it doesn't do either very well. I decided to just both their aspects but make them situationally applied. Idk how else to change this perk but going with the idea of a "touch" applying some kind of debuff seems like it'd keep its identity intact while also buffing the perk to a degree.

Otz fits perfectly with smooth jazz in the background

So nice of Otz to get the usage work for Septic Touch up from 0%!

I think a good but fair buff to Hangman's Trick would be your scourge hooks can't be sabotaged. Just like Lightborn it'd only be useful if the survivors bring a specific build, except it only protects 4 hooks compared to preventing all blinds, and both offer a very niche form of aura reading.

The music in intro is much better than in the restaurant I’m watching the video in! Also nice video

Septic touch could possibly pair well with nurse's calling. So that when you're approaching healing survivors, they might have a harder time fully committing to the heal like is sometimes done.

Perfect reaction to what it feels like when a survivor disconnects after things are going well for you as a killer - 10:44

the silence after the dc and then the "ok" made me laugh idk why

5:00 they fixed hitboxes and made the fast vault speed line up with the surviour animation so that you ain't on other side of windows getting hit. its fixing a bug everyone is just used too.

I actually like running leverage on Legion when paired with Thanatophobia. It’s like a „pick-your-poison“ thing, either suffer Thana slowdown or suffer the heal slowdown against a legion that can just injure you again instantly sometimes. Although it still feels lackluster. But hey, I like the build, not too sweaty at least. Just like I play Septic Touch on Spirit since it’s release, just fun to use. Maybe I’m weird, who knows

Overwhelming is one of my favorite perks actually due to being one of the better counters to med kits back in the day and tool kits now. Although it is so difficult to gage if it's going. Beast is never used except for a meme nemesis/Myers build I run centered around stealth. Hysteria, trail, plaything beast

I actually have been running a scourge hook build with wesker, hangmans trick, awakened awareness, Pain resonance, and monsterous shrine, sometimes its useless but other times it and awakened awareness partner together to make it super easy to see survivors all over the map, with floods of rage in place of monsterous shrine sometimes it's basically constant knowledge

Its always interesting to hear other people's experience with the game, specifically because it feels like I go against The Twins every 3 games or so

Idk how to make the most out of each of those perks combined with others, but I'm assuming some possibilities to try out Hangman's Trick + Floods of Rage = some "extra time" on aura reading for scourge hooks. Septic Touch + Sloppy Butcher = Fearmonger effects on punishing healing actions, making them even harder to avoid some killers (stalking or ranged ones in special) Leverage + Gift of Pain (or Sloppy Butcher) = Anti-heal strats Overwhelming Presence + Franklin's Demise = Small pressure on item consumption Among all the options, Overwhelming Presence seems to be the worst perk to make the best use, but the other options (in special the Hangman and the Touch) looks like fun options to try.

i love how otz literally makes videos telling the devs which perks need help/rework and yet they get 0 change. keeping doing what you're doing otz i love that someone has hope in the devs possibly making a change

I have gotten some usage out of leverage on killers like oni, as you get downs fast once you get going and if your hooking them theyll heal really slow if they want to heal during that time at all, which you always want them injured so it works out nicely even if they never heal during its active phase since then you just get free blood for your power.

overwhelming presence has one of the best descriptions of a perk in the game

Maybe im just too committed to the bit of actively shunning good perks, but these 4 perks are unironically bussin and ive had a blast (not success, a *blast*) using them on stream

2:49 Doctor heard his name and got excited

19:59 Love the editing right here 😍

Hangmans trick should do the current effect, except during the entire trial instead of while carrying. Could be useful for Huntress aura builds that already consist of Floods of Rage or something, or for sniping people going for hook saves.

'hi im otz, and this is jackass' -- that immediately came to mind when i saw the pain you were about to inflict on yourself

Hangman’s trick can easily be buffed by adding stacks to it: Each hook increases detection distance by 2 meters, up to 8 stacks. After 8 stacks, the effect applies to every hook

Moving leverage from activating when a survivor is hooked to when they are unhooked would turn it from literally useless to actually usable. Buff it to like 60s ontop of this and it becomes pretty decent.

Most killer players/streamers: map offering, what strategy are they going to use? Flashlight squad? Sabotage? etc. Me: oooh pretty birds, floating books YES I WANNA GO THERE

I’ve seen septic touch used a few times , was a bit surprised each time but I’ve seen it !

One thing I would love to see is something along the lines of using each of these perks in a build designed to make them shine? For example, Overwhelming Presence paired with something like Sloppy, to make trying to heal in terror radius pointless (but make moving out of it pointless as well), to really tax on items! Maybe pair in some kind of powerful regression (Ruin, Pop, Eruption, Pain Res, etc) to make draining the toolboxes more effective, because the gens will then become brutally slow! Regarding Leverage, you could do something that pushes survivors to heal that also triggers on hook? Blood Echo very much springs to mind, making attempting to heal through it kinda painful! If you pair that with a killer who encourages healing, such as a stealth killer - Wraith springs to mind, since he can also have Sloppy via Add-Ons - you potentially have the basis for a very, very nasty anti-healing build! Nurse's Calling can also enable you to punish people trying to heal through it, and then Jolt provides some much needed slowdown (and further incentive to heal!) The other two perks I have no ideas for though--

It's funny, I was just thinking the other day that a fun combo to try would be Scourge Hook: Hangman's Trick and Scourge Hook: Monstrous Shrine. They synergize because Monstrous Shrine gives Hangman's Trick a fifth area where you can detect auras from. So a build might look something like - Hangman's Trick (detect auras near scourge hooks while carrying) - Monstrous Shrine (adds a fifth set of scourge hooks for Hangman's Trick auras, plus makes survivors die more quickly on scourge hooks if you are far enough away from them) - Make Your Choice or Hex: Devour Hope (using one of these perks can give you value for leaving the area of a hooked survivor, which also helps you trigger Monstrous Shrine's benefit. Make Your Choice is less risky but Devour Hope is more powerful if it gets a chance to ramp up enough.) - Scourge Hook: Pain Resonance or Gift of Pain (since you've already got an extra Scourge Hook location, you may as well use one of the Scourge Hook slowdown perks to take advantage of it. Pain Resonance gives better gen slowdown, while Gift of Pain is more spread out slowdown between gens and healing.) Obviously I'd never claim Hangman's Trick plus Monstrous Shrine is a top tier perk combo or anything. But it is interesting to wonder if they have enough synergy to be fun to play. 🙂

Hangman’s trick is such a evil perk on Nurse. It gives you a lot of info that players will not see it coming. I got many survivors just hiding but near hooks

I'm a fan of Leverage on my killers that usually deal with multiple injuries like Oni, Wraith, Freddy, etc., paired with sloppy butcher and nurse's calling, healing really slows them down

Blessing us with another upload 🥹

Omg that in depth thought process being so abruptly interrupted by the pooping server 😂

I used to use Septic Touch a lot. That with Nurses calling on pyramid head was pretty decent

I would like for those perks something like. LEVERAGE: Becomes scourge hook, penalizes somehow survivors for the rest of the game for each different one hooked (somewhat like pan res). HANGSMAN: Works like hex undying. Always works not only when you carry someone and increase radious on different survivor hooked. Starts with a smaller radious (6m?). O.P.: Lights on when someone is using an item inside your terror radious (sure). Item Addons dont work in your terror radious(may be). S.T.: Lights on when someone is healing in your terror radious(sure). Now also hinder X%.(may be).

Septic touch counters made for this endurance if they heal downed survivors so it can be used as a slugging perk.

That disconnect caught me off guard perfectly

WHAT! I use leverage on so many killers, in fact I love it on Oni! Helps a ton! But now that I think about it, I’ve only ever seen it 4 times in survivor games

I like Nightlight for perk stats like this, they collect data over thousands of matches per day so it's a much wider swath. Currently the least encountered killer perks in Nightlight matches are 1) Shattered Hope (0.07%) 2) Scourge Hook: Hangman's Trick (0.10%) 3) Hoarder (0.13%) 4) Septic Touch (0.16%) 5) Territorial Imperative (0.16%) 6) Overwhelming Presence (0.21%) 7) Leverage (0.21%)

Nice Sound! 5:32 that kinda made my day hahhah

16:19 Otz doing his best airplane impression

Otz saying alright alright alright reminds me of that song

When the Feng Min stood still at 18:54 she wanted to use her styptic (you can see that she had one at 20:40 ) but she couldn't cause she was in Tier 3 xD

Otz: I hate this drop into fastvault so much. Also Otz: previously made a video showcasing the drop into fastvault

I think these perks might be a bit better on Blight: ~Spreading pressure by hitting multiple Survivors for Leverage is easier on Blight. ~You can reach Survivors quickly so a large Terror Radius is not necessarily needed for Overwhelming Presence and Septic Touch. ~You can use the information from SH: Hangman's Trick a lot better since you can use it to pressure Survivors after hooking someone, if they are still healing, you can maybe use SH: HT to get value from Septic Touch. I think the only issue with this specifically is that it would be less of a showcase of the perks but moreso a showcase of Blight doing what Blight does best... just being a dang good Killer that can get value from most perks in the game... even the "garbage" ones.

That clean 4 hook montage at the end of the video though