Tunneling can be a frustrating tactic to face in Dead by Daylight. However, with the right build, you can turn the tables on the killer and extend your survival time significantly. Here are 3 anti tunneling builds, each designed to keep you in the game longer and drive the killer mad.

Best Anti Tunneling Build 2024

This build is designed to maximize your survivability and health states with a combination of healing and enduring hits, ensuring that you can withstand the killer’s attempts to tunnel you.

• Dead Hard (David King):  When injured, press the Active Ability Button 1 while running to gain the Endurance status effect for 0.5 seconds, avoiding incoming damage. Causes Exhausted for 40 seconds. Endurance inflicts Deep Wound instead of downing the Survivor.
• Off the Record (Zarina Kassir): Activates for 80 seconds after being unhooked or escaping the hook. Disabled when exit gates are powered. While active, your aura is hidden from the Killer, grunts of pain are silenced, and you gain the Endurance status effect.
• Decisive Strike (Laurie Strode): Decisive Strike activates 60 seconds after unhooking, allowing you to escape a Killer by performing a Skill Check. Disabled by exit gates.
• Second Wind (Steve Harrington): Activates when you are unhooked or unhook yourself, causing the Broken status effect. After 20 seconds, Second Wind automatically heals you from injured to healthy.

Why It’s Great: This build offers multiple layers of protection against tunneling. Dead Hard and Off the Record give you extra chances to escape during a chase, while Decisive Strike provides a decisive moment to escape if you’re picked up again. Second Wind ensures you can heal quickly and re-enter the fight, making it a robust build for enduring persistent killers.

The Underrated Anti-Tunnel Build

This build emphasizes the use of Decisive Strike and pallet stuns to escape the killer after being unhooked. It requires precise timing and coordination, but when executed correctly, it can be incredibly effective.

• Decisive Strike (Laurie Strode): Decisive Strike activates 60 seconds after unhooking, allowing you to escape a Killer by performing a Skill Check. Disabled by exit gates.
• Smash Hit (Yun-Jin Lee): After stunning the Killer with a pallet, sprint at 150% of your normal speed for 4 seconds, causing the Exhausted status effect for 20 seconds.
• Parental Guidance (Yoichi Asakawa): After stunning the Killer, your scratch marks, blood pools, and pain grunts are hidden for 7 seconds.
• Unbreakable (Bill Overbeck): Allows for full recovery from the dying state once per trial, enhancing the dying recovery speed by 35%.

Why It’s Great: This build shines in scenarios where the killer is heavily focused on you. By stunning the killer and using Smash Hit to create distance, followed by Parental Guidance to disappear, you can repeatedly evade chases. Unbreakable adds an extra layer of safety, ensuring you can get back up if things go wrong.

The Creative Anti-Tunnel Strategy

Inspired by a fellow content creator, this build incorporates a unique strategy to counter tunneling effectively, using both traditional and new perks from the latest chapter.

• Decisive Strike (Laurie Strode): Decisive Strike activates 60 seconds after unhooking, allowing you to escape a Killer by performing a Skill Check. Disabled by exit gates.
• Smash Hit (Yun-Jin Lee): After stunning the Killer with a pallet, sprint at 150% of your normal speed for 4 seconds, causing the Exhausted status effect for 20 seconds.
• Parental Guidance (Yoichi Asakawa): After stunning the Killer, your scratch marks, blood pools, and pain grunts are hidden for 7 seconds.
• Lucky Star (Ellen Ripley): Activates when you hide in a locker, causing you to leave no pools of blood and make no grunts of pain for 10 seconds. Upon exiting, you see other Survivors and the closest generator’s aura in yellow for 10 seconds. This perk then goes on a 30-second cooldown.

Why It’s Great: This build combines the strong elements of the Decisive Strike and pallet stun strategy with the added benefit of Lucky Star, which enhances your ability to vanish without a trace. This combination can be tricky to master but is incredibly satisfying when executed well, allowing you to escape and recover effectively from tunneling attempts.

By using these ‘anti tunneling build dbd’, you can effectively counteract tunneling and improve your chances of survival in Dead by Daylight. Try them out and see which one suits your playstyle best!