The Huntress is a Dead by Daylight Killer known for her lethal throwable hatchets, which make her dangerous to Survivors even from a distance. With her remarkable patience and precision, she can swiftly end chases with a well-aimed throw. To make the most out of her, let’s go over the best Huntress builds for 2024.
Best Huntress Build 2024
The Huntress is a powerful killer who can greatly benefit from perks that provide information and aura-reading abilities. These perks allow you to line up crazy hatchet throws. Additionally, passive slow-down perks are incredibly effective when used with her. In fact, this may be her most effective build.
Recommended Add-ons: Oak Haft & Infantry Belt.
- Corrupt Intervention (The Plague) – The Entity blocks the three generators furthest from you for 120 seconds at the start of the trial. Survivors are unable to repair these generators for the duration. A white aura appears around affected generators. Corrupt Intervention is deactivated when any Survivor enters the dying state.
- Scourge Hook: Pain Resonance (The Artist) – At the beginning of the trial, up to four random hooks are converted into scourge hooks. You can see their auras in white. You start the trial with four tokens. The first time each Survivor is hooked on a scourge hook, you lose a token, and the generator with the most progress explodes, losing 25% of their progress and beginning to regress. When you run out of tokens, Pain Resonance deactivates for the remainder of the Trial.
- Dead Man’s Switch (The Deathslinger) – When you hook a Survivor, Dead Man’s Switch activates for 30 seconds. While activated, any Survivor who stops repairing a generator before it is completely repaired causes The Entity to block the generator until Dead Man’s Switch’s effect wears off. A white aura appears around affected generators.
- Barbecue & Chilli (The Cannibal) – After hooking a Survivor, all other Survivors’ auras are revealed to you for 5 seconds when they are more than 40 meters away from the hook.
Blood Favour Huntress Build
With a more hands-on approach to chases, you can bring out the Hex: Blood Favour perk. Also provides aura reading for non-common spots and a passive slow-down generator perk.
Recommended Add-ons: Oak Haft & Venomous Concoction.
- Deadlock (The Cenobite) – After repairing a generator, The Entity disables the generator with the most progress for 30 seconds. You can see its white aura at this time.
- Darkness Revealed (The Dredge) – When you search a locker, you will see the auras of all Survivors within 8 meters of the lockers for 5 seconds. This perk has a cooldown of 30 seconds.
- Hex: Blood Favour (The Blight) – Injuring a Survivor causes The Entity to block pallets from being pulled down within a 32-meter radius of the Survivor’s location for 15 seconds. The Hex effects last as long as the related Hex Totem is standing.
- Hex: Undying (The Blight) – While Hex: Undying is active, Survivors within 4 meters of any Dull Totem have their aura visible. When a Hex Totem is cleansed, its Hex is transferred to the Hex: Undying Totem deactivates Hex: Undying. Tokens held by the transferred Hex are also transferred.
Aura Reading Huntress Build
If you want to lean heavily on the aura reading, this is a popular Huntress build for you. But be careful as it does get countered by Distortion and Off the Record.
Recommended Add-ons: Glowing Concoction & Infantry Belt.
- Lethal Pursuer (The Nemesis) – At the start of the trial, you are shown the auras of all Survivors for 9 seconds. Every time a Survivor’s aura is displayed for some time, its duration is increased by 2 seconds.
- Deadlock (The Cenobite) – After repairing a generator, The Entity disables the generator with the most progress for 30 seconds. You can see its white aura at this time.
- Bitter Murmur (General Perk) – When a generator is fully repaired, survivors within 16 meters of the finished generator are revealed for 5 seconds. When the final generator is fully repaired, all of the Survivors’ auras are revealed for ten seconds.
- No Way Out (The Trickster) – No Way Out gets a token every time it successfully connects with a Survivor. No Way Out triggers when the exit gates are powered. Whenever any Survivor interacts with an exit gate switch, you will get a loud noise notification. The Entity then deactivates both exit gate switches for 12 seconds, plus another 12 seconds for every token you have.
Best Huntress Add-ons
- Flower Babushka – Reduces Hatchet wind-up time by -12%.
- Infantry Belt – Hitting a Survivor with a Hatchet results in a +3% Haste Status Effect lasting 5 seconds.
- Oak Haft – Reduces the cool-down time between successive Hatchet throws by -20%.
- Iridescent Head – Survivors hit by Hatchets are automatically placed in the Dying State. Reduces the number of hatchets carried to one. This number cannot be changed by any other Add-ons.
- Leather Loop – Hitting a Survivor with a Hatchet leads to a +2% Haste Status Effect lasting 5 seconds.
- Manna Grass Braid – Reduces Hatchet wind-up time by -8%.
