In 2024, the healing build in Dead by Daylight has evolved into powerful tools that can drastically alter the course of a match. Whether you want to heal quickly, stay hidden while recovering, or support your teammates with lightning-fast heals. There are several optimal healing builds you can use. This post covers the 3 variations of the best healing build that make healing not only efficient but game-changing.
Best Healing Build 2024
This healing-focused build in Dead by Daylight revolves around maximizing your ability to heal faster and recover health quickly. Especially when your teammates are nearby.
- Reactive Healing (Ada Wong): This perk grants you 50% of a health state whenever a teammate within a 32-meter radius takes a hit. It’s perfect for clutch moments where you’re just a few seconds away from healing yourself but need a quick boost after your team takes a hit. You’ll be ready to continue looping or go for the save thanks to the instant healing.
- Solidarity (Jane Romero): Recently buffed to convert 70% (up from 50%) of your healing efforts on teammates into self-healing. While healing another survivor, you’ll be healing yourself simultaneously. This is extremely useful when you’re low on medkit charges. Or need to sustain longer in a match without relying on others for healing.
- Resurgence (Jill Valentine): Another perk that received a buff, Resurgence gives you 70% healing progress immediately after being unhooked. Combined with Reactive Healing and Solidarity, you’ll have significant healing potential even after taking a hook state. If you can stay close to the action while avoiding the killer, you’ll be back in the fight in no time.
- Bond (Dwight Fairfield): Bond is one of the most consistent perks to track your teammates’ positions within a 36-meter range. It allows you to plan when to go for heals or rescues without guessing their location. It’s an essential perk to ensure you’re always in the right place to either heal or take advantage of Reactive Healing.
Equip a medkit to help you heal yourself and your teammates more quickly. With these perks in combination, you can pull off some incredible plays. Whether it’s healing up immediately after a rescue or turning around critical situations thanks to the instant healing from Reactive Healing and Resurgence. Use Bond to locate your teammates and ensure you’re always in range for those reactive heals or to assist with solidarity healing.
Stealth Healing Build
This build focuses on making it incredibly hard for killers to track you after they hit you. With no scratch marks, blood trails, or healing sounds, you’ll be able to vanish and heal without the killer knowing where you are.
- Iron Will (Jake Park): Reduces the volume of Grunts of Pain while in the Injured State by 100%. Making you completely silent when injured. This allows you to hide and heal without the killer being able to locate you by sound, even if you’re nearby.
- Bite the Bullet (Leon Scott Kennedy): When healing yourself or another Survivor, this perk suppresses all healing noises and Grunts of Pain. Even if you fail a healing skill check, it won’t trigger a loud noise notification. And the progression penalty is reduced to 1%, letting you heal in silence and stay hidden.
- Lucky Break (Yui Kimura): This perk suppresses your blood pools and scratch marks for up to 60 seconds after being injured. Making it impossible for the killer to track you through standard means. Additionally, each second spent healing another Survivor recharges Lucky Break by 1 second, giving you more opportunities to stay hidden.
- Light-Footed (Ellen Ripley): Suppresses the sound of your footsteps while you are healthy. Making it harder for the killer to hear you moving around the map. This perk has a 20-second cooldown after performing a rush vault. But in most situations, it allows you to move stealthily when you aren’t injured.
With Lucky Break and Iron Will, you disappear from the killer’s radar after taking a hit, leaving no scratch marks or blood trails. Combine that with Bite the Bullet to heal silently, and Light-Footed to move without making a sound. And you have a build that lets you vanish completely, frustrating killers as they struggle to find you.
4 Second Healing Build
This build focuses on ultra-fast healing without the use of a medkit. By combining these perks, you can heal teammates in around 4 seconds. Making it a powerful support build to keep your team in the game under constant pressure.
- Boon: Circle of Healing (Mikaela Reid): Press and hold the Active Ability button on a Dull or Hex Totem to bless it and create a Boon Totem. Soft chimes ring out in a 24-meter radius. Inside the radius, altruistic healing speeds increase by 100% (when not using a medkit). And the aura of any injured survivor is revealed to all other survivors.
- Empathic Connection (Yoichi Asakawa): When another survivor is injured, they can see your aura within 96 meters. This perk also increases your altruistic healing speed by 30%, helping you locate and heal injured teammates more effectively.
- Botany Knowledge (Claudette Morel): Increases your healing speed by 50%, but reduces medkit healing efficiency by 20%. This perk enhances healing speeds, particularly when paired with Circle of Healing.
- We’ll Make It (General Perk): After unhooking another survivor, this perk increases your altruistic healing speed by 100% for 90 seconds. Allowing you to quickly heal survivors in just 4 seconds when combined with the other perks.
The 4 Second Healing Build in Dead by Daylight is built around speed and efficiency. With Boon: Circle of Healing, Botany Knowledge, and We’ll Make It, you can heal teammates in around 4 seconds without a medkit. Empathic Connection ensures that injured survivors can easily find you for quick heals. Making this build ideal for matches where your team is under constant pressure. It shines in keeping everyone healthy and back in the game as quickly as possible.
