Every DBD Survivor RANKED by Teachable Perks

Who’s your favorite survivor?

As an Ash Main, the glow up he had especially when he was bottom tier almost for everyone so the sheer happiness im feeling is immeasurable:)
Mettle Of Man is still bad but still happy

You forgot that tenacity also reduces dying noises by 75%. If the killer isn't on the ball, they can lose you pretty quick. Pair it with unbreakable or soul Guard, or both.

Bro a lot of these placements make no sense wtffff
"These perks are pretty good, but there's one that's kinda situational"
*Puts character among the worst characters*
"These perks are dog shit, and super situational"
*Puts character 10 tiers above*

i recently went against a SWF of survivors who brought me to RPD and they all had Boon: shadow step and Light footed so they could disappear the second they rounded a corner since there was no way to track them

That Gabriel bodyblocking ruined everything on the swamp 💀 25:12

Light-Footed enjoyer here. You're not *completely* wrong. If the killer can see you it's not gonna do much. But it really shines when the killer doesn't see you. Let me tell you, I've chased killers through the entire map right behind them. It gives you a free flashband/flashlight save because the killer just doesn't know you're right there.
As for loops, depending on how loud your survivor is, you can double back and completely lose the killer. Sound plays a huger role than people realize. But still, I'd say it works best for flashbang/light saves.

I actually like Lucky Star quite a bit. Its excellent for solo que and combined with a stealth build. Run it with Lucky Break and then you know where other survs are to heal up and get it back

Ripley's quiet footsteps has saved me more times than I can count.

Distorsion is such a good perk because even if u don't get value and especially if u don't just hide with it u can know what aura perks the killer has or doesn't have and u can relay this to teammates if ur not solo
Edit: Thx for the likes, def thought this would be a random rant lol

If you combine bond, resilience, desperate measures and reactive healing you could easily heal in 2 or 3 seconds. I use and its very underrated combo

Low Profile actually isnt about being last survivor left, but instead to be the last survivor standing. Which means that it works even if all other survivors alive, assuming they are hooked or slugged. This makes this perk just a lil bit better

You have a mistake Demi's perks are all good he should be 2nd (🦅)

Ah, starting off strong I see. I love that empathetic connection isn't considered weak because it just doesn't have very strong numbers, but is instead considered weak because it "helps other people out instead of yourself." Like, is that not still a good thing? You're basically giving everyone a bit of aura reading to know where you are while they're injured plus you have a slightly faster healing speed on top of it.

Lightfooted found its way into my main survivor build almost immediately, the silent footsteps is much more useful than it seems on paper. It can enable stealth plays where even if you were running RIGHT past the killer, they won’t hear it. I’ve gotten so many funny plays just running straight past the killers and them not noticing. Awesome perk.

36:30 Its useful when a teammate is repairing the gen with you and the killer is coming to the gen, you know that they are going to explode the gen (because skillchecks are doomed to appear as soon as you let go), so the perk actually helps that

I really appreciate the effort you put into these videos I really do, but you are seriously undervaluing a LOT of these perks. Yes, there may be other perks more worthy of a perk slot, but it doesn't mean that one perk is "useless or pointless". Some perks have synergies with some strategies and can be fun to run, doesn't mean they're never worth it! I don't love the idea of either the perk is meta or trash, no in between.

You're correct about how to say her name but also, Feng Min's first name is Min! Feng is her last name, which is very strange considering there are other characters from cultures where surname is said first, but they are listed first name first, like Yui.

He is using footage from 500 b.c 💀

No one talking about how climactic that background game was

40:57 thats changed, Chucky can now scamper under pallets even if your using any means necessary

🦅thanks for the detailed and helpful advice!! I was just considering which survivor to unlock next, helped me a lot❤

Using fogwise and alert together make it almost impossible for you not to know where the killer is if they're not a stealth killer

Empathic connection is actually so good in solo que. Work on a gen and anyone injured can come help or the person in chase knows to avoid. Pretty solid perk that is only really ruined by SWF.

the idea that you need a thousand hours to use sprint burst is ridiculous to me I only have 230 hours and I have no issues using it. I realized pretty soon after I started using it that you can 99 exhaustion to save your sprint without having to walk everywhere, and regardless of its use in chase it is really helpful for going from objective to objective. If I can finish a gen and then sprint to the farthest gen possible without running into the killer, I've already gotten enough use out of the perk.

Awesome video, very informative for a new player. Thank you! 🦅

Lets just take a minute to appreciate the 1hour long video from the goat ❤

you sleep on so many perks

Ellens perk is really good, im not an experienced killer but the footsteps always help me when im blind, if there is no footstep im done

Fellow Ace main here- I’ll admit his perks are kind of not the best BUT openhanded works for the entire team, so if your swf or solo, you’ll still get use out of it most of the time. Windows of opportunity is really common, and it’s a great support perk to someone who’s running wiretap and flash bang [which I see very often]

Wow! I didn't know one RUclips video could contain so much incorrect information. Today, I learned!
Some constructive feedback: Disliked that you didn't show the perks in question in use in your gameplay vid, rather than just generic gameplay.
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🦅Reasons why i still play this game is because of you youtubers like you, great and usefull vidio. Keep up the good work kyto and dont give up being a great CC for this community and the game

Banger Vid Kyto, can't wait to watch. Love the content

Haddie deserves to be further up that list. Residual Manifest also applies to flashbangs and Blast Mine, making it incredibly diverse in its applications. That perk hides generator auras (most notably), making it harder to patrol, and can also cancel aura reading perks temporarily, like BBQ. If you manage to get a blind before getting downed, it also hides hook auras (I have gotten off a Killer's shoulders several times doing this). While I don't use it, Inner Focus could be helpful for setting up for saves. I main her so I'm gonna be insulted, and I'm not saying her perks are the best, but she at least deserves to be higher on this list than fucking Yoichi.

8:53 blood pact > power of two since power of two deactivates when you or the other survivor is injured and had a 2 minute cooldown
13:03 it activates When everyone is downed not just when your the last alive and can stay active even when everyone's standing and re activate again
27:14 it also adds an extra 1% to great skill checks so essentially 8% if you have all tokens
41:04 they patched and chucky can now scamper

🐦Really needed this help with survivors, I spent all my bloodpoints on killers. The survivors have been starved for far too long.

I think built to last is under rated. Being able to recharge items you bring or find just has so much utility in game. It’s perfect for a gen rush and healing build as well as a flashlight build. If you bring add ons to increase blindness duration then you can really bother killers.

Not a huge fan of how you disregarded Blood Pact's second (or IMO, main effect) of revealing your aura to the obsession and vise versa when either of you is injured, which i feel isnt fair because thats the main reason i ever run that perk, it is definetly not just "worse power of two" when it has that complete other effect

i have over 700 hrs and always run windows and resilience, it's just so useful, especially in solo queue. Not running into a dead-zone or going to a tile that leads to nothing while looping for awhile is invaluable. It really amplifies your looping capabilities, no matter your skill level.

I had been hit with Residual Manifest before as Killer and while Blindess might not sound so good, on Lery's it is pretty brutal. That and as someone who uses aura reads (I tend to main Artist (Birb emoji. I'm on PC :P) and Xeno, and having those perks shut down it's pretty brutal.
I am an avid user of alert as Survivor, and I never go without it and Distortion. Being able to tell if I can heal someone safely came in clutch countless times for me, as well as knowing when to split from a gen or heal. Even gives me info on who it is too if I solo queue based on the aura silhouette. Basically my main 3 perks go alert, Distortion and Lithe. Figuring out what my fourth will be. Might go Leadership possibly. Also gonna use that for my healer build too. Quickly healing someone is good but letting another heal me quicker is also pretty good.

the sleeping on residual manifest is crazy, its not an op perk but its not so bad

Hiding your footsteps is definitely not a bad perk, especially when the killer has no terror radius

Camaraderie to me is only useful in 3 specific situations and even then it's barely passable: 1). You're against a Nurse who goes out of camp range and blinks back when she sees someone | 2). You're against a Hag who set like 3-4 traps on top of you | 3). You're against a Chucky camper who goes out of the anti camper range, goes into Hidey-Ho and sits waiting to use Slice and Dice on the person trying to save you [this happens alot more than you'd think]

Bruh that huntress was slugging so hard

One thing I would say is that Scavenger greatly increases in value if you use it with Stake Out, because it basically allows you to just get a free refresh on your toolbox as long as you keep out of the killers sight while gen rushing

I've been so focused on the first background game,, that Gabriel killed your whole team at the end 😭

Potential Energy is actually very powerful with a toolbox since the speed boost applies to the perk but also pauses consumption of charges, so it basically becomes a second wire spool. Running it with Streetwise and Built to Last or Scavenger + Stake Out to make it last as long as possible.

Potential Energy + Prove Thyself = 3 gen destroyed
Had a match where me and another used potential and they had Prove Thyself. 3 gen was over before the killer could do much.

Poised also works everytime anyone else completes a gen so sometimes it can be very clutch if the killer is in your area or you’re trying to lose a chase since you leave no scratch marks

Blast mine is only mediocre in the average soloq match. If you have a competent team it actually is very good imo, especially with the amount of pops we see killers running. Those 3 second time wastes stack up 4 to five time throughout the match and really hurt the killer, especially in the post hook situation, when times crucial

I’m brand new to the game as of last week, Thanks so much for this!

9:23 he checked his ping 💀

so nobody’s gonna talk about just how badly that gabriel sold at 25:15?

🦅 kate denson has a solid perk set. Boil has lost some of its effectiveness cuz of map reworks but its so funny to watch killers drop u on ormond because they cant make any hook

I use lightfooted as my main. I pair it with either Bite the bullet, overcome resilience, or quick and quiet lucky break. I am a ghost. I also pair it with background, bond, flashbang for flash saves. I also ap often use it to flank a killer after a hook to go in for a save. It works 70% of the time.

That huntress was fighting for her LIFE lol

Time stamp of all the survivors in each order, numbered for those who wanna watch the video spoiler free
39 - 00:04
38 - 00:50
37 - 1:32
36 - 2:34
35 - 3:53
34 - 5:08
33 - 6:38
32 - 8:19
31 - 9:42
30 - 10:54
29 - 11:57
28 - 13:10
27 - 14:18
26 - 15:25
25 - 16:30
24 - 17:54
23 - 19:05
22 - 20:52
21 - 22:32
20 - 23:31
19 - 24:29
18 - 25:54
17 - 27:22
16 - 29:14
15 - 31:17
14 - 32:34
13 - 34:00
12 - 35:37
11 - 37:22
10 - 38:23
9 - 40:16
8 - 41:31
7 - 43:07
6 - 43:59
5 - 45:24
4 - 46:30
3 - 47:43
2 - 48:54
1 - 50:59

The "death of DS" is such a meme for a perk that is still so strong. It's actually ridiculous how much this perk is underated. Laurie belongs in the upper half of this list for that reason alone. The fact Jonah is as high as he is when DS still exsists is wild

You disappoint me Kyto. Blood Pact is so much better than Power of 2. Think about it. You're not gonna run either unless you're with at least 1 friend. You're faster with BP. You see each others auras when at least one of you is injured, and most importantly YOU DONT LOSE BP IF YOU LOSE A HEALTH STATE. Unlike Po2. If you're trying to loop with friends you are eventually bound to get hit. Making Po2 useless imo

You forgot to mention this but babysitter also gives the aura of the killer for I think...7 seconds?

I've been using flashbangs as my main kit for a while now - not only do Killers not change to lightborn as their perks, they also dont expect to be blinded if no one bring a flashlight. You can use it to save people from being picked up but how I like to use it is mid chase, if you go around a corner and throw the flashbang the killer might not hear and just walk straight into being blinded. Pair that with Hindered and you escape the chase. I do this with other survivors who are being chased to help them escape too. The only real counter is lightborn (which lets be real that has to be nerfed, completly countering one of the survivors abilities makes flashlights redundant)

Keep this longform content coming 🥹🥹🐦🐦‍⬛🦅🦉🕊️

visionary is probably the most redundant perk in the game, deja vu is better in every way, such an underrated perk, this perk can save entire matches

Something about playing as ash just gives you that boost of confidence and makes you feel unstoppable

yeah, people doesnt make any sense, boon: dark theory is bad because the small haste bonus (2%), but everyone loves made for this that gives 3% haste, like, what the hell? 2% is bad and 3% is good?

Tenacity + unbreakable has saved my ass from two major slugging situations where if I didn’t have them I wouldn’t be alive to tell the tale, so sure you get no value out of tenacity if the killer isn’t slugging buuuuttttt~ if they are, you can clutch a game

So glad iron will was almost restored to its former glory. Not working while exhausted is still a bit unfortunate but at least grunts of pain are reduced by 100% compared to 75%

Made a mistake on Ellen she should be higher

I really just watched an hour long dbd video. Very good thank you kyto.

Love ur vids man

Thanks for the awesome vid! 🦅 also fave is leon s kenedy

Light footed, self aware, lightweight and fielders choice for last, tho I use background player for crazy flashlight saves to immediately losing the killer.. I think light footed also with iron will for a silent/stealth build is great.. killer not hearing u run is underrated

@13:03, Low Profile is not just as last survivor left it’s last survivor standing! So if your team has been slugged you can quietly recover them.

This aged like milk

I am an avid Lightfooted user and I can say I think its acc quite a good perk (so much so its my go to perk). The amount of times ive completed slipped past killers and u may think "well they have scratch marks to see". When you use this perk, I think you'll realise how much killers rely on sound to track survivors and scratch marks aren't always clear. Also when you use it for a while and then take it off, you'll notice just how noticeable your footsteps are

Lightfooted is also really reallly good in breakout/sabo build

I really dislike how ds works. As a killer I have had many times where the survivor with ds gets fully healed up and runs away, and then I find them by pure happenstance, I chase and I down them, then I get hit by a ds because I picked them up at like 50s or smth, I think that ds should be that, after being unhooked it activated for 20s, if within that time you enter a chase, ds gets "primed" and it lasts indefinitely until that chase ends or the survivor is picked up.

Overzealous works also upon blessing boons, not just destroying totems, which makes is a nice addition for boon builds :P Also, Residual used together with Blast Mine is a brutal counter to Nowhere to Hide ^^

You forgot the secondary effect of Deliverance: 100% chance of being found and hooked first. Best perk to run in a chase build!

🦅Love the vids man! You're great at what you do. Keep it up!!!

I think people underestimate self care. It stacks with botany knowledge and if used properly essentially makes you invincible.
1. Find killer
2. Get chased and take an m1.
3. Lose chase
4. Heal yourself and purposely get chased again.
I am a high elo player and I frequently frustrate killers who 99 percent of the time do not expect this combination. Obviously the perk by itself is bad and there are perks that are outright better, but in solo queue it’s a great strategy.

Lightfooted is amazing with for the people, the killer doesn't notice you when you're following behind him for a save

52:50 is so true... I wish I've seen this earlier, life changing imagery

I like birds 🐦

You can do a vid about funny perk combinations for example ultimate food (play with your food and ultimate weapon): every time you search a locker you gain one token. Each token increases your movement speed by 5 precent and survivors entering your terror radius scream revealing their aura for 2 seconds. Tokens are consumed once one or more survivors scream. You can gain up to 3 tokens

If you want to buff decisive strike and make it 5 seconds and not deactivate when you are progressing the game then killers should get rewarded for not tunneling. with grim embrace base kit. Deadlock base kit (When you hook someone else than the person before, the gen with the most progress gets blocked for 30 seconds and the survivor working on that gen reveals their aura for 4 seconds. I know this sounds unfair from the other side but if you're planning to buff a anti Tunneling perk and make it so it doesnt deactivate when you're doing gens. Then killers need this buff too.

Somewhere Otz & Aryun is watching this and screaming he's wrong about some of these.

The distortion complaints baffle me. I understand some people take it to an extreme and just hide in the corner of the map all game. But the whole "stealth is boring" argument is strange. It's a game of life or death, literally. I hide, or I die. I shouldnt /want/ to be chased by the big scary killer with a power designed to /not let me run from them./ DBD is supposed to be a hide and seek(hide or die) style of game. Not a glorified version of subway surfers. I find it infinitely more fun hiding being sneaky from killers and watching them panic. Whats so fun about holding shift+w around a piece of wood knowing that you literally will not lose. Running to a god pallet and pre-dropping it. Wow, exhilarating.

This is actually a video that I needed, so thank you. 🤘🏾🎸

Bro is putting everything that gives you endurance low because of buckle up he doesn't stop yapping about buckle up when endurance is mentioned 💀

I disagree on Haddie Kaur and Ellen Ripley(so far this is where I’ve made it into the video).
Firstly to see if a perk could be useful is by looking at every way these perks can and have been used. Residual Manifest for example completely counters any killer that is relying on aura reading. Overzealous is a tournament perk that when paired with a toolbox, Deja Vu, Prove Thyself, Resilience, etc. is really dirty. Chemical Trap is by far one of the best perks in my opinion because it doesn’t buy you “just a little extra distance”, it completely counters the zoning playstyle and killers that rely on it like Clown or Slinger or Huntress. Now you could say they can just not break it and bloodlust you which is true, however, all this does is ensure that you’ll have at least a 45 second chase if they wait till tier 3 which wastes a lot of time. 45 seconds is HALF a generator if it’s just one person, sure it doesn’t sound like a lot but competent survivors can abuse this to their heart’s content as it essentially acts as a double edge sword for the killer. “Do I break this pallet and potentially give them a chance to get somewhere else or do I waste my time bloodlusting this pallet?” Now alternatively they could just leave but then all the pressure they had on you is gone and when paired with Any Means Necessary you can just pick it right back up and do it all again. This isn’t even taking into account pallets that are forced to be broken which could save your life when on death hook, making god pallets look like a free chase escape against a tunneling killer.
Edit: While I agree Head On can be situational, me and my duo had ran that perk exclusively for 2 years, never taking it off until we decided to take the game more seriously. So I’d say we’ve utilized this perk to its full abilities(albeit inadvertently), using Head On with a duo genuinely is a life saver. If there are no pallets around, your teammate can hop into a locker and literally save your life. Hell, I’ve had games where the killer sees that we have Head On, recognize our names, and just disconnect because we’ve abused this perk so much.

Only 7 minutes into the video and my head already hurts, some of these takes are actually just so bad...

No idea which ones to buy next so i appreciate this

While you talked about hexes, I came up with an evil build: Pentimento, Retribution, undying, devour hope- people have to cleanse cause dh, but they also have to not cleanse cause retri/penti

I’ve been running Self care for over two years now. Partially because I’m tired of running out of med kits but mostly because my friends don’t care for the game so I have to solo queue. About 60% of randoms I’ve encountered will teabag to get healed and not return the favor.

Really underrated Low Profile. It’s measured as “last survivor standing” which can trigger when everyone is hooked or slugged. You can get low profile multiple times a game!

I’d argue that sprint burst can’t be the best exhaustion perk if it requires so much for thought to be good. Lithe is a better exhaustion perk because it has the same heights with perk combinations, however you choose when to activate.

Ace should be #1 for always being the best players. P.S. Ranking them by their stereotypes would be funny

It doesn't really apply to SWF much, but I don't really get why Lucky Star gets such a bad rep for an info perk when you're solo queueing.
Popping in and out of a locker quickly will tell you where EVERY survivor is, but it has no meter radius (where bond has a smaller radius) and will tell you where they are regardless of health state.
Getting in and out of a locker may take a few seconds but it seems to have the best of both bond and empathy, and the cooldown of it is usually done by the time you get to the survivor/next objective.
Not to mention the silence/bloodstain suppression and Gen info you get as well.
Is there a particular reason why it's seen as such a bad perk?

Yeah, anytime I see anyone jump into a locker when I’m playing the killer, I always assume they’re running “head-on” so I always just sit there for a few seconds, move an inch suddenly, and they always fall for it