Skull Merchant build

[Mr.America]

Sloppy Butcher, Leverage, Hysteria, Blood Echo
Brown Noise Generator, Adaptive Lighting

I see a lot of complaining about SM being limited to 3genning and here I present to you an alternative build/playstyle. Essentially you transform her into a very dangerous Wraith via the addons, giving extra oblivious and undetecable, while the perks facilitate a hit-n-run playstyle, essentially playing around her lackluster chasing ability. Instead of placing the drones near generators, the point is to place them centrally in the map in a network that allows you to pass from one zone to the next while keeping up undetectable most of the time, sneaking up on generators at full speed without the alerting terror radius to notify survivors.

If you want an even easier time, use map offerings for the game or similar levels with 2 floors, that allows you to cover more of the map with a single drone. Especially on pyramid head's map it is advised to place the drones in the four corners and prematurely activating the drones so survivors being chased by you have to walk into an active zone, possibly giving you oneshots.

This build works fairly well in low to mid tier mmr, where M1ing is still possible, but won't work against the top survivors who never get caught by anything but blight and nurse brute forcing it, due to the limitations of what SM can do.

[XYA]

It's an awful uninspired killer your suggestion does not make the killler any more interesting to play or play against. Chase music is abyssmal, character design horrendous and abillity kit an absolute disaster where everything was just thrown into.

[Mr.America]

Originally posted by XYA:

It's an awful uninspired killer your suggestion does not make the killler any more interesting to play or play against. Chase music is abyssmal, character design horrendous and abillity kit an absolute disaster where everything was just thrown into.

Yes, let's just wallow in self pity, not even attempting to make the best of a given situation, well spoken good sir.

[ANDERSU]

nah i dont want to play with a boring overloaded character

[AsianGirlLover]

Originally posted by XYA:

Chase music is abyssmal,

I still think they should have reached out to this dude to use his music for her.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-IVvhocokcU&pp=ygUYU2t1bGwgbWVyY2hhbnQgZmFuIHRoZW1l

Anyway, that’s a fun build but you can have even more fun with defending hexes rather than gens. Devour almost always results in a juicy mori or two.

[Mr.America]

Defending hexes is so stressful though... Also, if they scan for hexes right at the start you'll have a lot of trouble defending them with your normal speed, likely one or two will be gone by the time you've set up your drones, and if they're playing as a team they'll synchronize disabling the drone and cleansing.

[AsianGirlLover]

If you don’t want to stress over generators nor hexes, there’s always the good ol’ Rancor and Game Afoot combo

[orch82]

Killers can not do gens survivors can. The one responsible for three gens is survivors and there are perks that help prevent a three gen. If you run them SM isnt bad at all. I mean knowing which gens to do and them being highlighted for you is kinda op along with a repair boost. Problem is no one uses those perks. Before you say they arent strong and general map awareness makes it so you dont need it, not everyone has played the game as long. Survivors can gen rush right into a three gen fairly quick.

[AsianGirlLover]

Originally posted by jcorch82:

Killers can not do gens survivors can. The one responsible for three gens is survivors and there are perks that help prevent a three gen. If you run them SM isnt bad at all. I mean knowing which gens to do and them being highlighted for you is kinda op along with a repair boost. Problem is no one uses those perks. Before you say they arent strong and general map awareness makes it so you dont need it, not everyone has played the game as long. Survivors can gen rush right into a three gen fairly quick.

Deja Vu and Potential Energy absolutely destroys 3gens.

Killer isn’t trying to hold the 3gen? Break it quick with Deja Vu. Killer is trying to hold it? Build up PV stacks somewhere else and dump them onto a generator in the 3gen. Repressed Alliance it for extra safety.

But that’s 3 perks to protect against a playstyle that’s mostly dead thanks to the recent perk rework