Best Huntress builds in Dead by Daylight

Each killer in Dead by Daylight has their own skillset and style of killing. Some killers can injure a survivor from a distance, while others prefer to kill up close and personal. The Huntress is a ranged killer who uses hatchets to hit survivors from afar. Below we have some of the best builds to use as The Huntress.

Best Huntress Builds in Dead by Daylight

The Huntress, also known as Anna, is a Russian killer raised to be a great hunter by her mother. She uses hunting hatches to strike down survivors from a great distance. That means she can injure survivors from a distance instead of needing to catch up to them, giving the Huntress a huge boost, particularly on open maps.

She applies pressure through better Map awareness and enhanced chasing abilities with her Perks Beast of Prey, Territorial Imperative, and Hex: Huntress Lullaby. The Huntress is almost unstoppable when you mix and match perks and add-ons to utilize her ranged skill. Avoid using any perks based on using her hatchet as a melee weapon as she is one of the slowest killers in Dead By Daylight.

Huntress hide and seek build

This Huntress build gives you multiple ways to see the auras of survivors while also granting the undetectable status to The Huntress during a chase. When in a chase with a survivor and they perform a rushed action such as hopping over a pallet or window, or jumping out of a locker, The Huntress will see their aura. This helps you predict their next move and close in on them easily. During this chase, when you reach tier one Bloodlust, you become undetectable, making it hard for the survivor to see where you are or predict your movements. After hooking the survivor, Barbecue & Chili lets you see where other survivors are so you can hunt them down or throw a hatchet in their direction. Nurse’s Calling offers yet another way to spot survivors as their auras a revealed as they heal themselves or each other.

• Barbeque & Chili: a unique The Cannibal perk.
  • After hooking a survivor, all other survivor auras are revealed to you.
• A Nurses Calling: a unique The Nurse perk.
  • When within a certain distance, the auras of healing survivors are revealed to you.
• I’m All Ears: a unique The Ghostface perk.
  • Any survivor performing a rushed action within 48 meters has their aura revealed to you.
• Beast of Prey: a unique The Huntress perk.
  • Grants the undetectable status when you reach tier one Bloodlust during a chase, and gives 50% more Hunter category Bloodpoints.

Suitable Add-Ons:

• Glowing Concoction: a very rare add-on.
  • This add-on reveals the auras of survivors hit by hatchets for 5 seconds.
• Wooden Fox: a very rare add-on.
  • This add-on grants undetectable status for 30 seconds after reloading.
• Rusty Head: a rare add-on.
  • This add-on inflicts mangled status on survivors, making healing slower and giving you more time to see their aura with Nurse’s Calling if they begin to heal.

Generator hater Huntress build

This build centers on making generator progress as hard as possible for survivors by creating trickier skill checks and slowing progress. By combining Trail Of Torment with Dragon’s Grip, you create a situation where you can easily keep an eye on generator progress by becoming undetectable after kicking a generator and then seeing when the survivors begin work of that gen once more. If you are lucky, you could also get a free hook by sneaking up on an exposed survivor while undetectable. Discordance will alert you when more than one survivor starts work on a generator, letting you get there to stop any teamwork from occurring. This perk could be swapped out with the generator-busting Pop Goes The Weasel, which also works well with Trail Of Torment and Dragon’s Grip, as it requires you to kick the gen. With Huntress Lullaby, you also give survivors increasingly tricky skill checks to perform, so long as you keep getting them on hooks during the game.

• Hex Huntress Lullaby: a unique The Huntress perk.
  • Each time you hook a survivor, this perk becomes more powerful. At first, it regresses by a further 4% when a skill check is missed. The skill checks then get trickier until they eventually become silent.
• Dragon’s Grip: a unique The Blight perk.
  • After you kick a generator, the first survivor to start repairing it again will scream and suffer from the exposed status.
• Discordance: a unique The Legion perk.
  • When a generator is being repaired by two or more survivors it is highlighted in yellow and gives off a noise notification only you can hear.
• Trail Of Torment: a unique The Executioner perk.
  • After you kick a gen, you become undetectable until the generator stops regressing.
• Alternatively – Pop Goes The Weasel: a unique The Clown perk.
  • Swap out Discordance with Pop to make more out of damaging generators. This perk regresses the generator by a lot and speeds up the continued regression until a survivor begins repairs again.

Suitable Add-Ons:

• Wooden Fox: a very rare add-on.
  • This add-on grants you the undetectable status when reloading hatchets.
• Deerskin Gloves: a rare add-on.
  • This add-on decreases the time it takes to reload hatchets.

Hex addict Huntress build

Hex totems are a great time waster for survivors to be distracted with. This build makes use of some of the available hex perks, although you are quite welcome to try out the build with other hex perks you may have. Hex perks only work while the totem is lit, so survivors will usually do their best to cleanse them when they see them, spending time cleansing when they could be repairing a generator. By combining hex perks like Hex Haunted Ground and Hex Undying, even more time is spent panic-cleansing and trying to avoid the killer while exposed. While the survivors are panicking, you can be hunting them down and injuring each one, cursing them with Hex The Third Seal, and leaving them blind. This means they can’t see where their teammates are hooked, and make any aura reading perks useless while the hex totem stands.

Perks:

• Hex The Third Seal: a unique The Hag perk.
  • After hitting a survivor, they become blind until the hex totem is cleansed.
• Hex Haunted Ground: a unique The Spirit perk.
  • When the lit totem is cleansed, all survivors are exposed for 60 seconds.
• Hex Undying: a unique The Blight perk.
  • Reveals the auras of survivors near dull totems. When a hex totem is cleansed, that hex’s curse is transferred to the Undying totem.
• Hex: Thrill Of The Hunt: a general perk for all killers.
  • Slows totem-cleansing progress and alerts you when a survivor starts cleansing a totem.

Add-Ons:

• Venomous Concoction: a rare add-on.
  • This add-on inflicts survivors with the exhausted status for 5 seconds.
• Rose Root: a rare add-on.
  • This add-on increases hatchet throwing speed by 20%.

Speedy gen-pressure Huntress build

This build will help you find survivors earlier and keep the pressure on survivors trying to get generators repaired. Corrupt Intervention is a great way of slowing down the repair progress at the start of the match, while Hex Ruin can hinder any progress already achieved if you chase survivors from a generator they are working on. Overcharge can also create a real setback for survivors trying to repair a generator, especially when combine with Tinkerer. This build requires you to have good map pressure, never being in chase for too long, and getting to a generator quickly if the Tinkerer notification sounds.

• Corrupt Intervention: a unique The Plague perk.
  • Blocks three generators for 120 seconds at the start of the game.
• Hex Ruin: a unique The Hag perk.
  • While the totem is lit, any generator not being worked on will regress at a rate of 100% of normal regression speed.
• Overcharge: a unique The Doctor perk.
  • After damaging a generator, the next survivor to repair it must complete a difficult skill check. If they fail, the generator regresses by an additional 4%. Overcharge also regresses the gen by 130% for 30 seconds until a survivor starts repairing.
• Tinkerer: a unique The Hillbilly perk.
  • Grants the undetectable status and gives a noise notification when a generator is nearing completion.

Suitable Add-Ons:

• Soldier’s Puttee: an ultra-rare add-on.
  • This add-on boosts your speed up to 4.6m/s when carrying no hatchets.
• Infantry Belt: a very rare add-on.
  • This add-on gives 3% haste when a hatchet hits a survivor.