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Since I’m a Mammoth with a pretty decent win rate [78%] I kinda want to share some things I’ve learned.

1) Don’t decode together

Don’t decode together especially if it’s early game (4-5 ciphers left) this is so you make use of your time when a survivor is being chased. As long as 60 seconds have passed before a person is chaired, 2-3 ciphers will be done when the rescuer goes to save. This will usually guarantee a win/tie.

2) Priming a cipher machine.

This strategy only works if all teammates carry Borrowed Time [Right side of the Persona] Priming a cipher machine is when you decode 99.99% and saving the .01% for activation when a teammate is down. In higher ranks, almost all hunters will have detention [one shot hits] so it’s important to not finish the last cipher when someone’s rescuing or when someone is being chased. People usually wait until the kiter is down or if the person failed a save.

3) Resucing

I know it seems like a simple concept, but it’s actually really hard to rescue. Characters built to rescue should rescue first!!! The second rescuers should be kiters!! If there are two kiters available, the nearest one should go, don’t argue about this. Hunters will stay near the chair, this is so they secure a kill. When rescuing, fake save the person first. This means tap the button to rescue, but quickly cancel it. The hunter may be tricked, causing them to hit the chair and giving you a short amount of time to rescue unharmed. Be careful of terror shocks though, some hunters may trick you.

Next, unless you have tide turner [bottom of the persona], you are injured, or they said specifically not to do it, body block! If you body block successfully, the chaired survivor can gain some distance away from the hunter.

4) Memorize spawning points and potentially dangerous ciphers/ frequent hunting grounds

If you don’t want to be chased right when you play, then memorizing when the hunter may spawn based on your position will help. If you spawn by shack [little house] then the hunter may be near you.

What I mean by hunting grounds is where the hunter will go to most often. The shack in the hospital, the middle areas in Arms Factory, and the back of the two story buildings on Moonlight are the most popular, because it’s guaranteed that a survivor will spawn there. So either try to get out or prepare to kite.

Dangerous ciphers are basically any cipher that’s in open areas. Open areas are dangerous because hunters can get easy hits off you, no matter how skilled you are. So unless it’s the only option or you are far from the hunter, don’t go there early to mid game.

1) Rescuing:

This is basic stuff, but you see the timer on the top of the screen while your teammate is chaired? Well, there’s three sections to this timer. The beginning phase, the halfway point, and the end phase. If you rescue your teammate in the time between the beginning and the halfway point, when they get back on the chair the timer will be set to the halfway point and you’ll get some time to plan a second rescue. On the other hand, once the timer passes the halfway point, the next time your teammate gets on the chair will be their death.

Unless they’re low tier and don’t know this stuff, hunters don’t want to sit and watch as the timer goes up all the way with no one saving. That’s a waste of time doing nothing while your decoding roles are tapping away at their ciphers. So they would want one of the two situations: (1) the saving role immediately saving so that they can skip the beginning phase time or (2) the chaired survivor being saved after they go over the halfway point so that they can quickly send away a member of your team. This is why, as a saving role, you have to time your rescue just right so that the hunter gets neither of these things. Don’t arrive too early or too late, and if you arrive too late you’re better off waiting to save them near the end so you can buy more time for your teammates to decode.

Now, in terms of movement patterns, there are a few things that hunters may try to do after they chair a survivor (this only applies for the classic chase and kill hunters though. Mad eyes and Dream Witch players may have a different tactic) They will either (1) walk off to find someone else (usually if the chaired person is a saving role or has a decoding debuff) (2) patrol around the area to try and down the saving role before they get to the chair (this can be done by either patrolling near the chair in widening circles until tinnitus exposes your location or through watching the cipher antennas. The one that stops moving is the direction the saving role is coming from) or (3) wait in front of the chair for you to come to them (sometimes when tinnitus has already activated while chairing and they don’t know your location). Depending on their play style, you may have to adapt, and try your best to not get downed before the player on the chair is rescued. If you think you can’t do it, you might want to just run away. One dead survivor is better than one dead and one downed.

As for how hunters can trick you, they can (a) attack but at a distance far enough so that they don’t hit the chair. A bunch of survivors only look for the attack and not the attack recovery animation and hence get terror shocked. (b) Emoting. “Threaten” is a good one since it contains actions similar to the attack animation and has a follow up as well. Hunters can use this to fake pallet trampling too to trick survivors into trying to switch kiting locations and hence getting a free hit. The emoting works amusingly well with forwards.

2) Cipher Priming:

Just like how you know to cipher prime, the hunter knows you’re going to cipher prime too, and may make some seemingly inexplicable movements. Such as: leaving a newly chaired survivor to camp the cipher you were priming. Why would they do this? That’s because if they camp the chaired survivor, sure, they can ensure that this survivor will die eventually, cipher prime or not. But then that means everyone else escapes. If the hunter camps this cipher, you can’t prime this cipher without getting downed. You can’t finish the last cipher. If you can’t finish the last cipher, all of you are still stuck in this map with the hunter and you can’t escape. You may have to decode a new cipher. This buys the hunter time to send away more of your teammates. The thought is that you can have your teammates but you can’t have the cipher. How to counteract a situation like this? If the cipher is honestly nearly done, you can (a) have all the survivors present come to forcefully decode the cipher (the hunter can’t down all of you that fast) or (b) decode a new cipher. Since so far I am the only one I’ve run into in rank who’s done this cipher camping before, and the survivors sometimes seem a bit lost when I do it, I don’t know which one’s better. I just know that cipher camping can turn a 3 escape into a 4 elimination.

3) Spawn Locations:

You know in the Red Church? The odd cipher in the crumbling wall zone where there’s one pallet? Near the graveyard exit gate? Yeah. That’s a guaranteed survivor spawn location too. I go there first every time on this map and every time I find an innocent trail of footprints running away. If you’re a decoding role who spawned there you might wanna hide. The kiting zone at the edge of the sea near the big ship as well as the wooden hut with ciphers near the exit gate in Lakeside are guarantees too.

Also, if your hunter is a Joseph, there’s a chance they’ve memorized all survivor spawn locations, so don’t just crouch where you are and hope they don’t find your image.

4) Remember where your teammates were decoding

Sometimes your teammates will send a “focus on decoding” message once they reach a cipher. Use this to determine which cipher they’re decoding. If they get chased, after you finish your own cipher you can then go finish theirs. I once saw my friend have a match where the total decoding ended up as 700%. You don’t need 7 ciphers. You need 5. Reduce the time spent on decoding and you’re giving the hunter less chances.

5) Kiting under detention

Don’t take any chances. Don’t give the hunter any chances. Throw down every pallet you run into while chased and don’t even try to stun them. Switch kiting locations when the pallets are sparse and while the hunter’s trampling pallets. Try your darnedest to dodge all long range attacks. Detention doesn’t last forever, only for 1-2 minutes. It ends when your borrowed time ends. Watch your borrowed time timer. As long as you’re at full health once detention ends, you may have a chance to rush the gate or the dungeon.

6) Pallets

I don’t know how you call it in english but in chinese we call it 抽刀. Basically, if you’re behind a pallet, and the hunter’s right in front of a pallet, if the hunter attacks at the same time as when you throw down the pallet, you will get hit. That sounds hard to do, but survivors who hide behind pallets trying to stun hunters sometimes have a bad habit of throwing the pallet once they see movement from the hunter. My own way to avoid this is to just. Not try to stun hunters at all but sometimes stunning is necessary for weaker survivors to safely switch kiting locations. So just watch their patterns. It takes a bit of experience.

Remember, some hunters have a very different tactics.