Dead by Daylight: overview of killers and survivors

With the many killers and survivors in Dead by Daylight, you quickly lose track. In this article we show you who can do what.

Dead by Daylight: The trapper killer

The trapper collects bear traps on the map and places them under windows or at important vanishing points on the map.

• As a trapper, you are faster than the survivors. So always focus on one survivor. Your traps will take care of the rest anyway.
• The Macmillan Estate is the trapper's card. His real name is Evan Macmillan.
• The trapper has three unique perks that only appear in his blood network.
• On the one hand, this is the perk "arousal". This increases the speed of movement when carrying a body. However, the terror radius is also increased.
• "Brutal Strength" is also a perk of the trapper. This allows you to remove fallen obstacles faster.
• With "Grueling Presence" you can make life hell for the survivors: This perk ensures that skill checks appear more often, which also have a reduced success zone.

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Dead by Daylight: the ghost

The ghost in Dead by Daylight can be a very dangerous killer because it can make itself invisible.

• The mind uses a bell to signal that it is invisible.
• After that he is almost invisible. As a survivor, you only see a diagram that you have to pay close attention to to track it.
• His card is the Autohaven junkyard. He worked there for a long time, but knew nothing of his boss's dark machinations. When he found out what was going on in the car press, he brutally killed his boss and disappeared.
• Even as a ghost, you have access to three unique perks.
• "Shadow-resistant" ensures that you see more at night and, depending on the perk level, also have a larger field of vision. However, you also go blind faster.
• With "Bloodhound" you can smell traces of blood and follow them for longer.
• "Robber" gives you better observation skills. Survivors' footprints remain visible longer.
• His weapon, Azarov's ax, is the skull and spine of his old boss.

Dead by Daylight: The Hillbilly

The hillbilly creates fear with his chainsaw.

• If you use the chainsaw, you can directly kill a survivor with a successful rush.
• You also get a sprint in this rampage mode and you can destroy pallets faster.
• The Hillbilly's card is Coldwind Farm. There he was walled in as an unwanted child and fed through a hole in the wall. When he broke out, he slaughtered his parents and gutted all the animals because they were allowed to roam freely.
• The hillbilly also has three unique perks.
• "Resistant" makes you more resistant to pain. You recover faster from anesthetic conditions.
• With "Light Resistant" your vision is reduced, but it takes longer to go blind.
• "Tinkerer" helps you to recharge your batteries faster. It supports the add-ons that relate to the charging time.

Dead by Daylight: The Nurse

The nurse came into play through The Last Breath Chapter DLC and can teleport through the map with her bone saw.

• The nurse can teleport in a straight line across the card.
• With appropriate perks, you can also teleport several times in succession.
• The nurse's card is the Crotus Prenn mental asylum. There she worked as Sally Smithson and saw bad things that made her go crazy afterwards.
• With "Call of the Nurse" you can see survivors who are healed or healed as long as you are nearby.
• "Stridor" lets you hear the survivors breathing louder and clearer.
• "Thanatophobia" allows all survivors to spend longer on repairs and healing. You will receive a bonus for each survivor injured, dying, or hung up.

Dead by Daylight: the converter

The converter came into play through the "The Halloween Chapter" DLC and is based on Michael Meyers.

• You fight with a normal kitchen knife.
• You have a special ability called "diabolics".
• If you sneak up and chase a survivor, you increase your diabolic level.
• In the third and final stage of Diabolik you have the chance to kill survivors with just one hit for a short time.
• "Going out light" creates an obsession. As soon as this is destroyed or sacrificed, the survivors receive a penalty for the speed at which they can repair, heal and sabotage.
• "Playing with your food" is also an obsession. If you follow this, you will receive a bonus on your movement speed.
• "The best comes at the end" ensures that you attack faster as long as the obsession is active.
• You can have one of the three obsessions activated per game.

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The witch from Dead by Daylight

With the witch, you can paint characters on the floor that the survivor can hardly see. If someone steps on one of these signs, an image of you will appear there and you can teleport to the spot.

• "Curse: Ruin": With every curse a totem is cursed. As long as this exists, there is a curse. Ruin ensures that good skill checks result in a decrease in the generator. Great skill checks also don't give any additional progress.
• "Curse: Depleted Hope": With this curse you collect signs when a survivor is saved more than 24 meters from the hook. With two characters you get a short speed boost, three characters give each attack a lethal effect and with five characters you can kill survivors with your own hand.
• "Curse: The Third Seal": This curse hinders the aura reading ability of the survivors who were last beaten.

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Creepy teaser: Dead by Daylight - Of Flesh and Mud

A visit: the doctor in Dead by Daylight

As a doctor, you have two modes: first, regular hitting with a weapon, and second, the "treatment mode". It can send out shock waves and make survivors scream or drive insane. At the highest level of madness, survivors cannot heal, repair, sabotage, search, or destroy.

• "Overwhelming Presence": Survivors in a terror radius are inefficient and their items are consumed faster.
• "Overload": If you overcharge a generator, the next survivor has a difficult skill check to master. If this fails, this means an additional drop in the generator.
• "Watch and strike": During a hunt you have an increased terror radius. Otherwise it is reduced and your field of vision is increased.

The hunter as a killer at Dead by Daylight

With the hunter, you can throw survivors at axes and hit them from a distance. If you run out of axes, you can easily get new ones from the cupboards.

• "Predator": If you fall into a blood rage, the red spot disappears. This usually tells survivors that you are behind them.
• "Mandatory Obligation": With this ability, you can see survivors who go into the basement when you are nearby.
• "Curse: Hunter's Lullaby": As long as the totem persists, survivors receive a drop in the generator for a failed skill check. Each survivor hung gives you signs that reinforce the curse. 1-4 characters shortens the time between the check and the warning sound. With 5 characters there is no sound at all before a skill check.

Dead by Daylight: The survivor Jake Park

Every survivor has unique perks. We will present these to you below so that you can possibly choose one.

• "Peace of mind" ensures that the animals behave calmer in their presence.
• With "Iron Will" you can concentrate better and reduce the volume of your painful sounds.
• With "Saboteur" you can sabotage without tools.

Dead by Daylight: Meg Thomas

• "Adrenaline" ensures that unexpected energy flows through you. Once the exits are powered, heal yourself and get a sprint boost.
• "Fast & Quiet" means you make less noise overall and are quieter.
• "Sprint Boost" is a very important perk. With this you can sprint for three seconds.

Dead by Daylight: Dwight Fairfield

• "Binding" allows you to see allies' auras when they are near you.
• "Prove yourself" grants you and your allies a faster rate of repair, healing, and sabotage.
• Leader also gives you and other allies near you a speed boost like Prove Yourself.

Dead by Daylight: Claudette Morel

• With "Botanical Knowledge" you can collect plants and produce healing tinctures.
• You can see allies' auras with "empathy". This is how you see injured allies when you are near them.
• "Self care" gives you the opportunity to heal yourself. This works even without an object of healing.

Dead by Daylight: Nea Karlsson

• "Balanced Landing" makes you land softer and sprint after a fall.
• Urban Invasion gives you increased movement speed as long as you are unharmed.
• With "Gewieft" you can get the most out of your items. This perk reduces the consumption of item units for you and allies in your area.

Dead by Daylight: Laurie Strode

• "Decision Strike" lets you escape the killer grip once per game. For this you have to pass a skill check.
• "Obsession Object" connects you and the killer. If you are outside the terror radius and look in the direction of the killer, you and him will be shown the respective aura.
• "The only survivor" is also an obsession. For each ally killed, ensure that the killer's aura reading ability is interrupted.
• The same applies to Laurie: only one obsession per game.

Ace Visconti: A survivor from Dead by Daylight

• "Ace up your sleeve": The chance of getting a better item from a box is increased.
• "Raise the bet": An aura that increases the luck bonus per live player.
• "With an open hand": Increases the aura reading ability of the entire team.

William "Bill" Overbeck from Dead by Daylight

• Borrowed Time: 20 seconds after saving a survivor, lethal damage instead triggers a timer. If it has leaked or you are hit again, lie on the ground.
• "Indomitable": Once per round you can completely recover from death status.
• "Left Behind": As the last survivor, you will receive a bonus on repair speed.

Dead by Daylight survivor: Feng Min

• "Technician": Noises that you cause during the repair can no longer be heard as widely. There is also a chance that an unsuccessful repair ability check will not make any noise.
• "Nimble": After a jump you fall into a sprint with 150% increased running speed. The ability has a cooldown called "exhaustion".
• "Watchful": If the killer near you destroys something, you can see it for 3 seconds.

The survivor David King from Dead by Daylight

• "We will live forever": If you take a hit to protect someone or save a teammate from the hook, you will receive a stackable bonus. This affects your earned blood points.
• "Tough": You can jump forward while running to avoid damage.
• "No whining": You start the round injured and cannot be cured by this status. To do this, do not leave puddles of blood, the sounds of pain are quieter and you can permanently fully recover from the death status.

You can find out more about the best perks in Dead by Daylight in our next article.