Using her Blink ability, The Nurse can teleport great distances in moments, predicting and cutting off Survivor routes. A powerful process best honed by experience, careless Blinks are punished with a wave of fatigue. The epitome of high risk, high reward, The Nurse can end chases with surgical precision. In this post, we’ll go into the best Nurse build in Dead by Daylight, catering to both beginners and experienced players alike.
Best Non-Teachable Nurse Build
For beginners without DLC access, this Nurse build focuses on fundamental perks that enhance her tracking and control abilities without relying on teachable perks.
- A Nurse’s Calling (The Nurse): This perk allows you to see the auras of survivors when they are healing within a certain range. It synergizes well with Nurse’s ability to quickly traverse the map and catch survivors off guard while they are healing.
- Thanatophobia (The Nurse): Thanatophobia applies a penalty to the repair, healing, and sabotage speeds of survivors for each injured or dying survivor. This can slow down survivor progress significantly, especially when combined with Nurse’s ability to quickly down survivors.
- Bitter Murmur (General Perk): Reveals the auras of survivors for a duration when a generator is completed.
- Spies from the Shadows (General Perk): Spies from the Shadows cause crows to loudly notify you when survivors are nearby.
Best Nurse Build 2024
The Best Nurse Build is based on one of the Best (if not the best) Nurse players in the world, SupaAlf. This build got him 563 Wins in a row in Nurse’s Hardest Maps.
- Scourge Hook: Pain Resonance (The Artist): Essential for exerting map pressure by revealing the auras of survivors working on generators affected by your Scourge Hooks. This perk helps control the pace of the game and forces Survivors to adjust their strategy.
- Scourge Hook: Floods of Rage (The Onry?): Enables you to snowball by granting a free hit when Survivors unhook others. Maintains pressure on the Survivors and prevents them from quickly regaining control of the match.
- Lethal Pursuer (The Nemesis): Provides early pressure by revealing Survivor auras at the beginning of the match. Allows you to quickly locate Survivors and initiate chases, setting the tone for the game in your favor.
- Agitation (The Trapper): Essential for securing consistent Scourge Hooks by increasing your carrying speed. Quickly transports Survivors to hooks, preventing easy rescues and maintaining pressure.
The build revolves around quick downs and aggressive play. Snowballing with Bloods of Rage allows for free hits on unhooked Survivors, supported by Pain Resonance and Lethal Pursuer to maintain pressure.
Map control is crucial, facilitated by Agitation for consistent hook placements, prioritizing Scourge Hooks. Adjust playstyle based on map layout. Focus on efficient chases and strategic hook placements to sustain the winning streak, considering Survivor actions.
Evil Nurse Build
The Nurse’s strength comes from her ability to bypass parts of the game that other Killers have to figure out. She ignores loops, verticality, and, as it turns out, the recently introduced anti-camping mechanic with this build.
- Corrupt Intervention (The Plague): Blocks the three furthest generators for a set duration at the start of the match, making early repairs more difficult for survivors and forcing them to focus on generators closer to the Killer.
- Scourge Hook: Pain Resonance (The Artist): When a generator is regressed, the Killer is notified and can see the aura of survivors working on the generator for a short duration.
- Dead Man’s Switch (The Deathslinger): When a survivor stops working on a generator, the generator’s aura is highlighted, and if another survivor interacts with it, they become Exposed for a short duration.
- Ultimate Weapon (The Xenomorph): Forces survivors to scream upon searching lockers, revealing their location and potentially disrupting their actions.
Xeno’s build for the Nurse showcases a clever combination of perks and add-ons that synergize effectively to control the map and pressure survivors.
With perks like Corrupt Intervention and Pain Resonance, Xeno disrupts early generator progress and gains information about survivor locations. Dead Man’s Switch blocks generators, adding to the pressure. Survivors are forced to reveal their positions due to Ultimate Weapon, making rescues difficult.
The use of Jenner’s Last Breath add-on enhances the Nurse’s mobility, allowing for quick repositioning and maintaining map control.
Best Nurse Add-ons
- Heavy Panting: Increases the Lunge duration of Special Attacks by 130%, resulting in a 30% increase in attack range. This effect occurs only after the second or third blink.
- Fragile Wheeze: Survivors hit by a Special Attack are subjected to the Mangled Status Effect for 70 seconds.
- Torn Bookmark: Increases the number of available Power Tokens by one.
- Increases the Power Recharge duration to 130%.
- Kavanagh’s Last Breath: When you succumb to Fatigue, all Survivors within 8 metres of your location experience the Blindness Status Effect for 60 seconds.
- Plaid Flannel: This unlocks the ability to see the Blink’s landing zone.
