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Upside Down
A strong (meta) Dead by Daylight build for The Demogorgon · playstyle: Slowdown · synergy score 70/100 · patch 10.2.2b
Perks
Lethal Pursuer – At the start of the Trial, the Auras of all Survivors are revealed to you for 7/8/9 seconds. • Extends the duration of all instances of a Survivor Aura being revealed to you by +2 seconds. Lethal…
Grim Embrace – Your act of servitude to The Entity has not gone unnoticed. Each time a Survivor is hooked for the first time, Grim Embrace gains +1 Token and activates once you are at least 16 metres away from the…
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…
Surge – Whenever you put a Survivor into the Dying State with your Basic Attack, Surge triggers its effect: • Causes all Generators within 32 metres of your location to instantly explode and start…
Killer & add-ons
The Demogorgon
Leprose Lichen – A potent lichen that grows like dust on the rocks in the Upside Down. • The Auras of all Survivors are revealed to you while traversing the Upside Down. •…
Rat Liver – A soggy pile of salty, soft liver. • Increases your Movement speed while holding Of the Abyss by +3.5%.
Why it works
Portals give map pressure; Surge and Pain Resonance hit gens on downs and hooks.
How to play
Place portals near gens.
How this score is made
Score 70/100 = rules 71 − 1 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 | 21 / 50 | Known strong perk pairs (13 each) and purposes shared by 2+ perks (4 each), max 50. |
| Balance | 50 / 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 | -1 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lethal Pursuer | 38.5% | -6.5 | 0 | -6.5 |
| Grim Embrace | 45.2% | +0.3 | 0 | +0.3 |
| Scourge Hook: Pain Resonance | 49.2% | +4.3 | 0 | +4.3 |
| Surge | 44.4% | -0.5 | 0 | -0.5 |
Rating details
- ✓ Both trigger on hooks: gen slowdown without walking.
- ✓ Multiple slowdown perks keep the gens under control.
- ✓ Scourge Hook: Pain Resonance has a high kill rate on NightLight (49.2% vs 44.9% average).
- ✗ Lethal Pursuer has a low kill rate on NightLight (38.5% vs 44.9% average).