Dead by Daylight

Dead by Daylight

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How to play huntress.
By Honky Kong
This guide will tell you how to play the queen of abusing hit boxes.
   
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What add ons should I use?
Well let's talk about the different classes of add ons. When I say classes I mean add ons that do the same thing but have different tiers that make the effect greater with each level you go up.
Extra Hatchets
The add ons in this class give the huntress extra hatchets to help her abuse more hit boxes before she needs to use a locker to get more.
These add ons are:














The leather loop increases hatchets the huntress can carry by 1 and starts her off with a full set of hatchets.














The infantry belt increases hatchets the huntress can carry by 2 and starts her off with full set of hatchets.

Exhaustion Debuff
These add ons will inflict the Exhausted debuff on any survivor that has been hit by a Thrown Hatchet. While Exhausted a survivor cannot use a perk that would inflict Exhaustion on them such as Sprint Burst, Balanced Landing, Lithe, and Head on. Even though Adrenaline is technically an Exhaustion perk, it will ignore the Exhaustion debuff if it is present. Survivors do NOT recover from Exhaustion while sprinting.
The add on that inflicts exhaustion is:














The Berus toxin inflicts Exhaustion for 30 seconds after being hit by a Thrown Hatchet.















The Venomous Concoction gives survivors the Exhausted debuff for 90 seconds.
Haemorrhage Debuff
These add ons will inflict the Haemorrhage debuff on any survivor that has been hit by a Thrown Hatchet. The Haemorrhage debuff make survivors bleed at an increased rate for the duration of the debuff. Now this may not sound like the most useful add on because it is not that useful since usually a survivor bleeds at such a rate that it is easy to follow.
The add ons that inflict Haemorrhage are:













The Coarse Stone add on inflicts the Haemorrhage debuff on any survivor hit by a Thrown Hatchet for 30 seconds.















The Fine Stone add on inflicts the Haemorrhage debuff on any survivor hit by a Thrown Hatchet for 60 seconds.

Decreased Cool Down Between Hatchet Throws
These add ons make it so the huntress can throw hatchets quicker. These add ons are nice if you are starting out on the huntress and miss attacks because they allow you to throw another hatchet quickly.
These add ons are:














The Bandaged Haft add on Slightly decreases cool down between hatchet throws, you may not notice a significant cool down with this add on at first but the more you play you will notice it.















The Oak Haft add on moderately decreases cool down between hatchet throws.
By using these two add ons together you create a build some players know as Machine Gun Hatchets or Quick Hatchets.

Hindered Hatchets
These add ons make survivors hit by Thrown Hatchets move slower for a time that depends on the rarity of the add on. These add ons are great if looping the infinite loop located on some maps.
These add ons are:














The Yew Seed Brew add on gives any survivor hit by a Thrown Hatchet the hindered debuff for 15 seconds.














The Yew Seed Concoction add on gives any survivor hit by a Thrown Hatchet the hindered debuff for 30 seconds.

Blinding Hatchets
This add on makes survivors hit by Thrown Hatchets suffer the blindness debuff for a time.
This add on is:















The Amantia Toxin makes any survivor hit by a Thrown Hatchet suffer from the blindness debuff for 30 seconds. This add on does not stack, but there are no other blindness add ons for the huntress. This add on is next to useless since it only lasts 30 seconds I have not found a reason for it to exist.

Movement Speed Hatchets
This add on makes the huntress move faster while holding a hatchet.
This add on is:















The Shiny pin makes the huntress move faster while winding up a hatchet.

Fast Reloading at Lockers
This add on makes the huntress reload her hatchets at lockers faster.
This add on is:














The Deer Skin Gloves make the huntress reload hatchets faster. IDK why I typed this but it makes everything look a little bit nicer.
Speed Throw Hatchets
Theses add ons make the huntress wind up her hatchets faster with each rarity. These add ons are great for throwing full charge hatchets which fly faster and farther.
These add ons are :













The Manna Grass Braid moderately decreases hatchet wind up time. In game this seems to be a meh speed up.














The Flower Babushka provides a very noticeable speed increase to wind up time.

Mangled Hatchets
These add ons will apply the Mangled debuff to any survivor hit by a Thrown Hatchet. The Mangled debuff slows the healing time of the affected survivor down by 20%.
These add ons are:














The Rusty Head applies the mangled debuff to survivors hit by a Thrown Hatchet for 120 seconds.















The Begrimed Head applies the mangled debuff to survivors hit by a Thrown Hatchet for 120 seconds and moderately decreases repair speed of the injured survivor.

♥♥♥♥♥♥ Useless Add On That Is Top Tier Trash
This add on is trash it has no uses.















This add on makes the aura's of lockers in a 36 meter range appear to the huntress. DO NOT USE THIS BECAUSE IT IS TRASH

Aura Hatcets
This add on will reveal the aura of any survivor hit by a Thrown Hatchet.
This add on is:














The Glowing Concoction will reveal a hit survivors aura for 5 seconds

Blatantly Over Powered Add On
This add on is broken. If you use this add on people will DC if not then they will definitely die on 1st hook.
This add on is:















The Iridescent Head will down survivors in one hit with a Thrown Hatchet.
Cosmetics
To assert your dominance over all of these great examples of hit boxes you should stylize your huntress. There are many very epic and cool skins for the huntress like these:

These lovely skins are nice and all but they are around the 10 usd range. I understand that many people do not have the money to drop on skins all the time. So this skin right here:





























Is the best skin for a couple of reasons. Firstly the main axe that the huntress will never use looks very cool.








The mask that comes with this set is also the mask of doom. Only the best at abusing hit boxes wear this mask. If you have trouble hitting survivors put this on and suddenly the surrounding 3 feet of the survivor becomes a part of the survivor's hit box.













This set is green which means it costs 810 Auric cells which equates to about 10 usd any way :]
but everyone knows the mask makes the woman so just buy the mask for a nice 300 Auric cells which is 5 usd. All other cosmetics are meh.
Game Play/ Play Style
I'm gonna be honest I HATE playing huntress. I have a lot of issues with her and to be honest her game play is incredibly boring to me. But that doesn't mean you won't think that so I played huntress and tried to find any huntress players and watch their play style. This is what i found:

My Play Style
My play style is the same general play style for all killers is a relaxed play style of not tunneling and diving the hook after a save. I use Pop Goes the Weasel and BBQ & Chili because I love them. The other two perks are usually Remember me and Nurse's Calling, sometimes I drop Nurse's for Devour Hope. With the huntress I use BBQ to try and get my sniping with hatchets achievement and Pop to help gen control since I don't like ruin. I find that play with your food is not the worst idea since the huntress has abysmal movement speed. Due to huntress being great at rapidly hitting and downing people Deer Stalker and Knock Out are great picks. Hex perks work too even if they get a ♥♥♥♥ roll on where they are because of your range.

The DC Play Style
This style revolves around making people DC or disconnect. Use Iridescent Heads and Infantry Belt to one hit survivors quicker than a 4 stack can leave a game. For perks I see a lot of Huntress' use Whispers, Bitter Murmur, Ruin, and Iron Maiden. Whispers for intel on survivor locations, Bitter Murmur to see auras after a gen is done, Ruin to slow the game down just a little bit, and Iron Maiden to search lockers and reload faster. Play normally and then just one hit everyone and watch them DC.

How literally every other huntress plays
Do you have a soul? Were you Loved growing up? Can you form basic relationships with other human beings? If you answered no to any of these then this is the style for you. Once you get looped around the map until 2 gens are complete and you finally get a damn down never EVER allow your humming to leave earshot of the hooked survivor like seriously because if you do they may have a decent experience playing against you. And you being the edgy depressed frick that you are need to feel some sort of power over something since your parents never let you make any choices at all. So you must run back to the hook and tunnel the hooked survivor do not ever play even sort of fair since no one ever treated you fairly so you have to make sure they know what kind of pain you felt. You don't need BBQ since you will never leave the hook. Take ruin since you haven't had an original idea since you were a kid and enthusiastically tried to show your parents a cool trick you learned and they clearly unimpressed say "that's cool." Only for child you to shine with glee at your parents actually praising your worthless arse for once. The other two perks literally don't ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ matter since noed doesn't affect hatchets. So take whatever you want and call it a new build so you can say that you made a build. Knowing you, you would probably take Rancor so you can mori someone to try and feel something. BUT there is one rule above all when playing huntress like every single one I played against while trying to find a play style NO MATTER HOW MANY KILLS YOU GET you must say ez and leave instantly because you are a special snow flake and how dare someone tell you something you don't want to hear. It doesn't matter if it's the truth because you are to caught up in trying to feel in control in your ♥♥♥♥♥♥ life that other people are punching bags for you. Remember you are the only important person and the others that play this game are in fact not human beings who probably struggled with the same shiz you did growing up, they are just objects or whatever edgy thing you decided to call them today. Honestly I stop playing killer for a couple days to take in raw game play of huntress' and not one was in any way fun or interesting. I swear to god survivors have it rough with the way these people play huntress and I lost a lot of will to play survivor after this guide. Frick me I don't think I will make another one of these for the huntress. She is like snipers of COD and only attracts edge lords who think they are the ♥♥♥♥. Please if you play huntress don't be an absolute frick head. Have a good day. EDIT: I had to remove a lot of swears because this guide was hard to look at due to the profanity filter.
~nitrobalt
4 Comments
Mafi 17 May, 2021 @ 8:02pm 
This feels like you got tunneled and proxy camped by a few huntresses and you went out of your way to let go of your rage in this guide hahaha, It's a pretty good method to relax though.
Hug your Bunny 7 Nov, 2020 @ 8:48am 
Good to read as my first killer playthrough was huntress. Its difficult with a map that has lots of buildings and no line of sight but just take your time and practice.
Jubejubes 26 Oct, 2019 @ 2:31am 
if every survivor dcs due to the irridiscent hatchet than you lose rank. o well, at least you can report them and they will get banned.
There's been a second outbreak 10 Aug, 2019 @ 6:51pm 
instructions unclear: got mori's by a jane