Today, we will explore three strong variations of the well-known meme “Backpack Build” in Dead by Daylight. Each is designed to make it easier for you to hit other survivors while carrying one. This includes the most popular overall backpack build, the fastest one with the Hag, and the Clown’s backpack build.

The Best Backpack Build 2024

This build focuses on downing survivors while carrying another survivor, utilizing perks that enhance mobility and control during this scenario.

• Mad Grit (The Legion): Missed attacks while carrying a survivor have no cooldown, allowing you to swing continuously. Hitting a survivor pauses the wiggle timer of the carried survivor for 4 seconds.
• Agitation (The Trapper): Increases movement speed while carrying a survivor by 18%, helping you catch up to others or reach a hook quickly.
• Iron Grasp (General Perk): Reduces the effects of survivors’ wiggling by 75%, making it significantly harder for them to escape your grasp.
• Starstruck (The Trickster): When you pick up a survivor, any other survivors within your terror radius suffer from the exposed status effect, meaning they can be downed with one hit.

This build may seem unconventional, but it’s quite enjoyable to use. The combination of Mad Grit and Agitation allows you to pursue survivors while carrying another continuously. Iron Grasp ensures survivors will struggle to break free, and Starstruck adds an element of danger for anyone nearby.

Fastest Backpack build

For this backpack build variation, we’re carrying survivors faster than they can run away. To achieve this, we will increase our carrying speed from the standard 92% to an incredible 130%, utilizing perks that provide significant speed boosts.

• Agitation (The Trapper): Increases movement speed while carrying a survivor by 18%, giving us a base speed of 110% while carrying a survivor.
• Play with Your Food (The Shape): Each token increases movement speed by 5%. With two tokens, we achieve a 120% movement speed.
• Machine Learning (The Singularity): Grants a 10% movement speed boost and undetectable status for 30 seconds when a marked generator is completed, pushing us to 130% movement speed.
• Mad Grit (The Legion): Allows continuous swings without cooldown while carrying a survivor, pausing their wiggle timer for 4 seconds if you hit another survivor.

To achieve maximum speed, this build boosts our movement from the standard 92% to 130%. We start with Agitation, providing an 18% increase while carrying survivors, reaching 110% speed.

Next, Play with Your Food adds up to 15%, though we aim for a consistent 120% with two stacks. Machine Learning activates on marked generators, granting a 10% boost and undetectable status for 30 seconds, hitting 130% speed.

Mad Grit helps maintain grip on survivors by pausing their wiggle timer for 4 seconds, while Waterlog Shoe boosts our base speed to 117.5% at the cost of teleportation.

As a side bonus, you can also be faster if you bring the hag and her add-on Waterlogged Shoe to be faster in general.

The Backpack Clown

This build utilizes the Awakened Awareness perk from Wesker, revealing survivor auras within 20 meters when picking them up. Paired with the Backpack strategy, survivors find it nearly impossible to escape.

• Agitation (The Trapper): Increases movement speed while carrying survivors.
• Iron Grasp (General Perk): Increases the duration of carrying survivors.
• Mad Grit (The Legion): Pauses the survivor’s wiggle timer, maintaining control during chases.
• Awakened Awareness (The Mastermind): Reveals survivor auras within 20 meters when picking them up.

This build works perfectly with Clown’s abilities, enabling precise tracking and control over survivors. The increased movement speed while carrying a survivor, combined with aura reading, ensures that survivors can’t easily escape.