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Houndmaster M1
A community-recommended Dead by Daylight build for The Houndmaster · playstyle: Chase, Slowdown · synergy score 58/100 · patch 10.2.2b
Perks
Rapid Brutality – You move with a speed and fury that makes blood run cold. • You can no longer gain the Bloodlust Status Effect. • Successfully hitting a Survivor with a Basic Attack grants you a +5% Haste Status…
Save the Best for Last – Damaging any Survivor other than the Obsession with a Basic Attack causes Keep Them Waiting to gain +1 Token, up to a maximum of 6/7/8 Tokens. Damaging the Obsession with either a Basic or Special…
Scourge Hook: Pain Resonance – Overwhelming pain reverberates outwards. At the start of the Trial, 4 Hooks in the environment are changed into Scourge Hooks: • The Auras of these Scourge Hooks are highlighted in white. Start the…
Eruption – Performing the Damage Generator action on Generators highlights their Auras in yellow. Whenever a Survivor enters the Dying State by any means, Eruption triggers the following effects on all…
Killer & add-ons
The Houndmaster
Why it works
Rapid Brutality and Save the Best for Last speed up chains of basic hits.
Recommended by xTakker (Houndmaster) (Oct 2026).
How to play
Send the dog so the survivor vaults a pallet while you circle around. After a hook, use the dog to find the next survivor.
How this score is made
Score 58/100 = rules 48 + 10 from NightLight community stats. The rules part is calculated by this site from the perk descriptions; only the community part comes from real match results.
| Part | Points | What it measures |
|---|---|---|
| Synergy | 8 / 50 | Known strong perk pairs (13 each) and purposes shared by 2+ perks (4 each), max 50. |
| Balance | 40 / 50 | Basic needs: killers want gen slowdown (−20 without) and info (−10 without); survivors want a chase or second-chance perk (−20 without) and something for the team (−10 without). −10 per empty slot. |
| Conflicts | 0 | Penalties: the same perk twice (licensed copy, −15), two Exhaustion perks (−15), 2+ hexes without Undying or Thrill of the Hunt (−6). |
| Community stats | +10 | NightLight: how often these perks win compared with the average perk of their role, corrected for small samples (−10 to +10). Only when stats are imported. |
NightLight numbers per perk
Kill rate of each perk vs the average killer perk (49.98%). Strength = difference × games ÷ (games + 300); perks under 100 games count 0. Build points = 0.6 × sum of strength, at most ±10. Source: NightLight.gg, 17 Oct – 14 Nov.
| Perk | Kill rate | vs avg | Games | Strength |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rapid Brutality | 51.5% | +4.4 | 0 | +4.4 |
| Save the Best for Last | 50.0% | +3.0 | 0 | +3.0 |
| Scourge Hook: Pain Resonance | 47.0% | -0.1 | 0 | -0.1 |
| Eruption | 79.0% | +31.9 | 0 | +22.8 |
Rating details
- ✓ Multiple slowdown perks keep the gens under control.
- ✓ Community stats: these perks win more often than average on NightLight (+10).
- ✓ Eruption has a high kill rate on NightLight (79.0% vs 47.0% average).
- ✓ Rapid Brutality has a high kill rate on NightLight (51.5% vs 47.0% average).
- ✗ No information perks: you will spend more time searching.