Pig users, Advantage of Ambush over normal attack?

[CoMtnRider]

I'm trying to figure out the benefit of the Ambush over the normal attack. I seemed to do better just doing a normal M1 as by the time the charge and lunge starts, they are already out of range.

I know you get a short dash, but again it seemed better to sneak up, then just stand and M1 over using ambush.

[The Enigma]

just stand up, the growl is too much of a warning for survivors

[Ramzesfal]

The m2 can be used for STBFL stacks or to mindgame unsafe/semi-safe pallets

[tinytmss]

i use it in loops. like, im sure theres other pig mains that will tell you better tips, but my favorite is when a surv tries to loop a pig and i just crouch at the pallet and ambush them to get a free hit. smart survs will probably run away from the loop, which is good bc youre forcing them to go to a different tile.

combat straps are your best friend, and i would use it for early gen grabs.

[CoMtnRider]

Good tips all.

What's the general strat with the traps? Use em or lose em?

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Dailies

[Zeke & Sil]

Use them sparingly, in my experience. The advice I've heard from other Pig users is to use them only when you think you're at risk of losing control of the match's tempo.

Also downing someone, trapping them, and leaving them is a valid tactic if you really need to be somewhere else (like pressuring a gen) at that moment.

[Ramzesfal]

Traps are stinky poo.


Just throw them on the survivors to make them waste time. That's just my opinion though.

[tinytmss]

Originally posted by CoMtnRider:

Good tips all.

What's the general strat with the traps? Use em or lose em?

i use the traps as a "slow down" mechanic, so i dont actually use ruin on pig (esp with the new ruin rework coming up). because with the trap, even if it is RNG based, if one person is on a jigsaw box, then that's one less person on a gen.

what you want typically imo is you want to get 1 trap before any gen is done, and then hopefully you can see when its fit to use the others. you dont wanna use all your traps on one survivor, because that just wastes one person's time... use it on 2 survivors, maybe 3, that will slow down a lot.

[76561198053951010]

Originally posted by CoMtnRider:

Good tips all.

What's the general strat with the traps? Use em or lose em?

Get them on Survivor's heads as fast as possible, and then hook them as normal. If you see them run over to a jigsaw box, get 'em, prioritise 'em, you're getting free kills while they try to remove the bear trap. You are rarely going to get a kill with the trap itself though.
Also, use Rule Set No. 2. It makes it near impossible to get a trap off before it actually becomes lethal.

[Myu]

Originally posted by CoMtnRider:

Good tips all.

What's the general strat with the traps? Use em or lose em?

It depends. SWF? One at a time is all you effectively need.
Otherwise? It depends. If you toss them on late game they're going to want to get that trap off before the last gen gets done, but it's a gamble.
It takes longer for them to take it off than it is for you to put them on though, so may as well use them. Plus it can be kind of hilarious if they have bad RNG, and it's one less survivor you need to worry about.

I've had games where survivors have bad RNG and want to find me so their head doesn't explode. I have 0 reason to chase them though, so they end up dying because of it. It's INCREDIBLY rare, but I get a laugh out of it, even if I'm sure they don't.

[LuNi]

Originally posted by ☾ Perfectly Pink ☾:

Traps are stinky poo.


Just throw them on the survivors to make them waste time. That's just my opinion though.

Pig is actually punished for head pops.

[☩FREDDY96☩]

1st and more obvious bloodpoints.
2nd you can shut down certain loops with the right practice. You need a lot of mindgame skills, watching piggyz may help but he'll always be 1 step ahead of everyone.
3rd i find harvester tech is way easier with dash than m1 attack

[Ramzesfal]

Originally posted by LuNi:

Originally posted by ☾ Perfectly Pink ☾:

Traps are stinky poo.


Just throw them on the survivors to make them waste time. That's just my opinion though.

Pig is actually punished for head pops.

Oh yeah, I forgot about that.


Nice

[Incariuz]

Ambush is honestly only useful at loops to mind game survivors. Even then a top tier survivor will almost never get mind gamed, but, it still helps against the majority of survivors. Other than that, avoid using it, simply use crouch to sneak up to people, then stand up and attack like normal, or gen grab.

[CoMtnRider]

Thanks all!

I so learned the hard way smacking them out of the gate nullifies the need to have it removed before they can exit. That was kind of a weird mechanic, but it is DBD so I suppose it makes sense lol.