Soul Guard - how do you use it?

[Mochan]

I read someone here say that Soul Guard is used high-level play.

How does it work exactly? it looks like an extremely niche perk (read: useless) to me.

[alprazolam]

While the killer has the Hex perk and it is active, you can recover yourself from the dying state by yourself like Unbreakable perk. When someone picks you up or you get up by yourself, you can endure a hit for several seconds. If the Hex totem is broken, you can no longer get up by yourself but you can still endure a hit once you recover from the dying state for the few seconds.

[It's in my Neature]

i could be totally wrong but what i was seeing was that players with unbreakable and soul guard were getting up with a borrowed time effect and while thats still kinda situational its pretty cool.

[Mochan]

Still sounds extremely situational to me, and not very useful.

It also depends a lot on the killer not picking you up. I run Unbreakable/Tenacity builds for fun all the time and if I get downed 10 times the killer won't pick me up and let me crawl away maybe just once. If even that. Usually happens when you're third survivor left and Killer is looking for the last guy to avoid a hatch escape.

For the record I've been using Soul Guard all this time while leveling Claire up. I have not gotten into a situation in the past week where I got up from the Hex curse feature. It makes an extremely rare situation (Killer leaves you alone after slugging you) even rarer because a Hex has to still be active. It is the niche of the niche.

Endurance after getting up is an extremely niche use. In almost all cases you want to save your Unbreakable for when the killer is away and not watching you. Having Endurance when you use Unbreakable/Soul Guard is practically useless.

I can see it working against Third Eye Slug Builds, but you get one of those every 100 matches at best.

[alprazolam]

Killers slugging with Infectious Fright is quite common thesedays and I think it’s pretty neat you get conditional unbreakable with unlimited endrance once you are recovered from the dying state. It is situational, but when it takes place in effect, it can be a life saver against slugging killers.

[DIRTY DEEDS DONE DIRT CHEAP]

I'm using the perk a lot and it's amazing, some killers are able to tell if you are using it or not tho and when the Hex is active it's rare that you can use it to pull yourself up from the ground...

I'm using it with Borrowed Time and Unbreakable, having a lot of fun!

[Meat Machine]

Soul Guard is very good against a NOED stalemate.

[•҉Yurik]

Probably something like this?

Combined with DS it means you'll get up regardless.

[Mochan]

I guess I need to get back in the Red Ranks before I see it eing usefl. I have not found a single IF Slugger in all this time since the Silent Hill patch. Still at Rank 8.

[•҉Yurik]

Originally posted by Mochan:

I guess I need to get back in the Red Ranks before I see it eing usefl. I have not found a single IF Slugger in all this time since the Silent Hill patch. Still at Rank 8.

I've gotten some use out of it in games with Huntress Lullaby active? We were all solo Cheryls and spawned near the totem and just... Left it until it had about 3 stacks on it, so we could all self revive most of the game.

[Shirei]

Originally posted by ❊Yurik:

Probably something like this?

Combined with DS it means you'll get up regardless.

Great game design killer is unable to do anything...

[Podrick, Spocky Ghoost of Bread]

It's....not. If "high-level play" is red ranks. I barely see it used and personally think it's garbage. It's okay solely with Unbreakable and DS, and even then it's hardly worth it. If the killer is slugging you, they are most likely going to leave you to slow down the match, not sit around you until you get back up. And if you choose to 99% your recovery and wait for the killer to come near JUST to take the Endurance hit, waiting for the killer to waste their time to come back to you, then wasting your time getting away, and THEN wasting your time mending is just not worth it.

[Дегтярьов]

Its a pretty great perk that saved my ass plenty of times. Many high rank killers slug, especially when they run into experienced swf group that im part of. I always take it with unbreakable and run into killer as soon as i get up or someone gets me up.

Its great if you wanna take hits for your friends or punish the killer for using dirty tactics to win.

[•҉Yurik]

Originally posted by Shirei:

Originally posted by ❊Yurik:

Probably something like this?

Combined with DS it means you'll get up regardless.

Great game design killer is unable to do anything...

If he had waited five seconds instead of swinging right away he would have gotten the kill.

[Snake]

dunno what red ranks you guys play at cuz I never see anyone use it or killer slugging with infectious fright either.
Any decent player still runs same 4 perks as months ago unless they are leveling up new character or playing "fun" builds.

[淵 RAGE, ANARCHY, DRINK!]

arguabley a better unbreakable since killers usualy have ruin or other hexes