5 stacks of Pentimento | Dumbest Challenges in DBD

This is a new series where we'll attempt to do the rarest, dumbest possible challenges in DBD. In today's episode we attempt to get 5 stacks of Hex: Pentimento, something that I only had managed to do a single time before.
Correction: Eric Rosen is a chess IM (International Master), not a GM (Grand Master). However he's a GM in my heart, so it doesn't matter. Check out his content here: ‪@eric-rosen‬
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[@lunnefisk4344]

Love that just as Otz says billy is 'quite strong right now' at 0:31 he gets Eyrie Branch Hitbox'd in the background

[@syrusalder7795]

whoever made the hitboxes for eyrie bushes is not only going to hell, but is going to replace satan

[@notOtzdarva]

Something has to hold him back, you know?

[@tfcbioshock]

​@@notOtzdarvaeven the entity has nothing on those cement block ferns.

[@Kelltron]

The first time I hit the Eyrie branch with Billy was the last time I played the game. Now I'm just a spectator.

[@DBDNONO]

☠️ 💀 ☠️

[@Thez942]

I got 5 stacks randomly once on The Game, someone was cleansing all the dull totems for reasons unknown and I got them all in a row. So funny.

[@notOtzdarva]

Same, the first time I got 5 stacks was due to sheer luck as well. I thought I'd never do it again.

[@Aquilenne]

Probably an archive

[@MarcosPaulo-su6ex]

Or inner healing ​@@Aquilenne

[@DeputyFish]

yep its a perk that screws solo queue'rs doing archive challenges

[@Aquilenne]

@@MarcosPaulo-su6ex Probably not inner healing if the same person cleansed all 5

[@Memjahmin]

This sets the stage for the "Pentimento Streak" where you get 5 stacks on each killer without missing a beat

[@Namelessstew]

Like a nice idea but it'd probably be the hardest streak he's ever done

[@Memjahmin]

@@Namelessstew I could personally see "Get to 5 stacks on each killer non-consecutively" being fun, since each killer would have a unique approach. But yeah doing all 35 killers in a row, impossible would be an understatement

[@Predated2]

@@Memjahmin I've gotten 5 stacks on 5 killers so far. Doc(multiple times. But to be fair, Plaything on Doc means you do not hear him coming, also, its really easy to interrupt people from cleansing totems from a distance). Freddy (once, was a lucky mix of having oppressive hexes and a tome challenge, could do it again I think). Myers (I dont know how I did it either). Pig (honestly quite easy to do, save 1-2 traps for when you want to rekindle totems). And finally, Trapper (look at the route, slap a trap on the first totem you rekindle and that basically gives you a timer to finish your route). It's not always hard, because all you need is 1 survivor having Inner Strength to basically guarantee your 5 stacks, and while Plaything is nice, its also weak to anyone bringing a Boon perk (you'd be surprised how often you encounter one).

[@crusadernikolai1996]

Impossible in a row, but getting it once on each killer would be a hell of a feat

[@notkeylimeeli]

Sounds boring as you kinda have to wait until they cleanse

[@Switcheroo4542]

Pentimento is a top tier perk because it lets you slow down the progress of gens, healing, clensing and opening exit gates while the survivors are healing by the exit

[@orkafkasher9998]

Not much actually

[@markpozsar5785]

@@orkafkasher9998 it is quite noticeable akchually

[@rambcio4199]

Atleast they gonna heal longer as u said

[@michalsuchanek8061]

In theory yes, but in most of games, its just terrible.

[@ChaseJonas75]

@@michalsuchanek8061did you not notice that they said, “while they are healing at the exit gates.” Aka, it didn’t do anything. Aka, they think it’s a bad perk.

[@akja4271]

The "Oh no, my ruin!" reference was top tier

[@maxmezaa]

We, the likes in your comment, are the overlap of these 2 communities

[@hephsmith3738]

"Oh no! My Ruin! It's broken!"

[@VeilInfinity]

Love Eric.

[@cameliatantri4866]

Chess Reference reall

[@teletummy]

Oh no… the skull merchant mains

[@BungarangYT]

the slight fumble on the third totem was costly 😭

[@notOtzdarva]

"When handling bones, precision is a must." -Sun Tzu

[@BungarangYT]

@@notOtzdarva it’s alright! you did it on purpose for the amazing content 🤫

[@TSD2003]

The feeling to achieve max pentimento stacks is unmatched bliss

[@notoriousdubs]

Hello otz, this is your friends ❤

[@josh10722]

Me too 🙋🏻‍♂️

[@notOtzdarva]

Hi buddy!

[@makuIa]

bruh

[@schizophil1]

@@notOtzdarvame when I’m greeting one of my friendly associates and calling them by their affectionate nickname “buddy”

[@cameronsmith9099]

I love this comment on all his videos. We need to remind him every single video how much we appreciate his kindness and dedication to us, his viewers, and the DBD community as a whole.

[@wellmaruprepareduknowim3272]

Honestly reaching max Pnetimentos stack should actívate a cutscene where the entity instantly devours all survivors 😅

[@R4in46]

Imagine cutscenes in dbd

[@darkcartman2826]

​@@R4in46well the mori animation would count as an cutscene i say

[@Enzym3]

Most fun game of DBD I have ever had was when I ran Small Game and Counterforce and just so happened to get a person running Pentimento. I cleansed 9 totems that match and it was insane how fast cleansing the 9th one was

[@Deadcheese12]

I was looking for someone that might mention how they countered this and it sounds like it's just a huge stroke of luck! :O

[@roxinim6479]

i love denying noed by cleaning all 5 totems

[@Necroniks.]

Honestly killer that get 5 stacks of Pentimento should get a special profile banner and icon.

[@rayhanhussain1739]

Fav oz moment when he does his evil laugh and says “idiots”

[@deputyrook6232]

if i had to describe this perk in a few words, it'd be "It's doesn't work often, but when it does..."

[@leonthegamer2839]

I mean the perk works fine with 1 or 2 stacks. The whole thing with blocking the totems isnt its main effect rather than a punishment for survivors trying to ignore it.

[@rodriguez4809]

Oh yes it does work often. When I play surv, random "teammates" always cleanse frealing plaything despite its being the most useless hex and only exist for pentimento. 98% of plaything users also get the pentimento and its stupidly obvious every time. So stupidly obvious, it drives me crazy it even works. Well, seems like its not obvious for my "teammates". Haven't got a SINGLE game against plaything where survivors would completely ignore that

[@CheeseAndCrackers_]

It works well even with just 1 or 2 stacks, the rest is just a reason for the survivors to not ignore it

[@fir3haz4rd50]

I was obsessed with this challenge for a while. The best build is PlayThing, Penti, Devour, Undying. I've gotten 5 stacks, 2 times. And once before I also had that heartbreaking moment at 4 stacks. So happy to see Otz do this challenge

[@Sgil97]

A pentimento user’s favourite thing is a counterforce user

[@Wiseguy150]

Inner strength imo

[@zackmash851]

ironically, a counterforce user's favorite thing is a pentimento user

[@Sgil97]

@@zackmash851 Ying and Yang fr

[@stephenboccaletti5856]

Congratulations Otz! Most I got was 4 with a Wraith hex build. But even at 4 they dc’ed

[@maxomega3]

yeah i've actually tried this years ago and it's ridiculously hard. did it the same way as you

[@nadiah.floots]

6:48 "I'm gonna go and kick this gen, chat, I need to let this... 6:52 Fester a little bit" Excellent visual gag, well done Poggy on that edit :D

[@GeriatricGaming]

That first attempt made me die a little inside, lol. That was brutal timing. I recently got 5 stacks on a match on Hawkins playing The Pig. I was running an all-Hex build with Penti, Plaything (a must for the build), Thrill of the Hunt, and Face the Darkness. Usually lighting that first totem to get the slowdown speed stops a chance at 5 stacks, but the match went well enough that I had been waiting to do that, and eventually -- thanks to some good luck (and someone doing a dull totem early in the match, IIRC), I got the full 5 for only the 2nd or 3rd time since the perk was released (all by happenstance). It's definitely a great feeling -- you could tell by your reaction! Congrats!

[@Shoji857]

I feel like the satisfaction of getting a full pentimento is like getting progression on really tough raid bosses in WoW back in the day. Just the overall feeling of "LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOO" lol

[@noonookinz4560]

LEEEEEEEROOOOOOY JEEEEEEEEEEENKIIIIIINS oh my god he just ran in I think about that to this day 😂 truly one of the of all time

[@noonookinz4560]

On a side note, anyone that has both loved and played DBD and WoW could come chill w/ me anytime. Bros for life

[@Kareempwner]

Counterforce is one of my favorite perks, and I wish pentimento was more popular. I went against a chucky with a hex build on rpd and at some point in mid game both of us were just running around cleaning totems and relighting them, it was very funny

[@austintomlinson7863]

I got five stacks once as Pig of Dead Dawg. It was actually quite funny as I hooked everyone back to back and was finally going to do my first and second Pentamento stack off one Plaything and my Retribution. I got inturrepted by having to chase off a survivor who was using a medkit, then right as I relit the first Pentamento, all three of the remaining Playthings popped simultaneously. Im pretty sure if it wasn't for that survivor healing delaying the first totem, I would have never gotten it. I was never so giddy before or sonce in a game of DbD as I was lighting up all those totems. It is now my screenshot for the game when I go to boot it up on Steam.

[@tombruce7261]

Dumbest challenges ❌️ otz warm ups ✅️

[@iam-_-meme3398]

I was trying to decided whether the dumb challenges were from viewers or the tome, both seemed plausible 😂

[@munkshuns7681]

I don't believe artist has a time yet, but when she does, this challenge is extremely likely to appear

[@Thaplayer1209]

3:27 Despite our hopes, Eric Rosen isn’t a grandmaster yet.

[@TurdFerguson2525]

Oh no, my GM title!

[@MaryBluePL]

-You are on this council, but we do not grant you the rank of Grand Master. -What? How can you do this? This is outrageous!

[@glitchwraith]

@@TurdFerguson2525 GG(M)

[@oodanna500]

gotta say i love the billy buff for 2 reasons, he's pretty fun to go against, and now those killer spots eaten up by stealth killers are now partly billys, allowing me to finally use wiretap without 7/10 killers being undetectable 90% of the time

[@therandomartist3201]

Ah yes getting five stacks of penti, aka what I do with my myers with the pallet blocker and plaything and haunted ground

[@YaMaTo999Vir]

2 months ago or so, ive seen a streamer in my lobby. I played as pinhead, so, i decided what its called "to do a little trolling". So, after all, i was lucky enough to do full pentimento, while streamer and his friend brainlagged and realised it full stucked after 3 or so minutes. It was a massacare xd

[@CreatorProductionsOriginal]

Just now I noticed the main way to play billy is by edging your chainsaw

[@KinguKirimuzon]

I remember being able to get it when pentimento was still pretty new! It was a wonderful Meg of course who helped me because she was focused on vaporizing every totem she saw😂 not sure if she was new or doing challenges

[@billsmith30]

The trick with pentimento is to wait to cash it out. I run a Hex build on Nemesis and I usually wait till like 3 totems have been cleansed before start relighting them. It buys you a lot of time when they have a lot to cleanse after having already spent time cleansing those same totems.

[@justabaron2686]

I remember when about a year ago i somehow had all the Pentimento's on Lary's as Pinhead right after doing 2 Mori thanks to Devour Hope. That was epic.

[@mikehunthunt8269]

Dude the best way to make that perk work is to show the community a crazy silly build that makes you look like a hacker. Lucky break, lucky star, overcome, inner strength. Break totem, get smacked, run to break line of sight, entire closest locker or run to further locker, slow enter.

[@Bodyknock]

An alternate way you might have a shot a 5 Pentimento is if you run Shattered Hope against a group of survivors that stubbornly keeps creating Boons that you destroy. It’s still a long shot obviously but could be fun to try if or when Boons become a popular in the meta somehow.

[@7am701]

The best time to do this challenge is right about when a tome releases that has a "cleanse 20 totems" challenge. Survivors are gonna be cleansing even dull totems and they can be rekindled and you can just wait until all 5 are available to rekindle to do this.

[@AdrianLovesEverything]

Funnest Otz video I've seen in awhile! Great video, more challenges like this please!

[@1wakuralain]

He's an International Master but shout out to Eric Rosen ayyyyyy 3:30 Otz has been watching the good stuff

[@quirda77]

I swear the one time I had a match on the game where I knew the killer was trying to set up the 5 stack penti and I had a boon perk to counter the using hex plaything, I could not find my own totem or anyone else's in time after spending the whole match searching everywhere for it. Then someone else found it and broke it. I was never more upset at myself and my team in my life.

[@ExtraSpace62]

No idea why, but this reminds me of a Blight game i played awhile back. I cant remember why, but i was running Shattered Hope on Blight. Im pretty sure thats what it was called, the perk that makes you destroy totems if they are booned. I found one of the survivors and chased them away before destroying their boon. As soon as they realized i was running shattered hope, the guy DC'd LMAO.

[@Blake_Stone]

At 6:07 Otz's chainsaw gave Dwight a back, sack and crack.

[@Jugglets]

Such a good feeling, looking around and seeing 5 white totem auras...A race against time to get them all :D

[@Skyfabio]

The same thing happend to me once, but instead of 4-3-4, it was 4-5-4, and the remaining 4 totems were blocked. I think I have a screenshot of it but I need to search it

[@Skyfabio]

Found it

[@Oreoleoo]

Pentimento + Plaything has been my go-to combo for the last couple weeks. Guess the cats out of the bag, now! Couple it with Friends Til The End and it's basically GG for survs once you get rolling.

[@casedistorted]

ngl that little evil Otz laugh at the beginning was so cute Otz is a broadway play level actor, I was super convinced

[@iphoneT]

I never thought Billy would be described as “a really strong killer right now.”

[@HexCuntress]

Don’t say that they will nerf Freddy and Pig more

[@rodriguez4809]

he's hyped due to recent buffs but personally I still wouldnt call him strong by any means. Maybe B tier or so.

[@bonechiller3429]

9:50 Hello police, I’d like to report a ROBBERY!

[@grimreaper7059]

New challenge : Mori every survivor in the boiler room Springwood as Freddy.

[@Humphrey115]

My only time getting 5 stacks was on Dredge, and I will always remember it. Right after I teleported and lit the last one I saw a Jeff standing in front of a blocked totem he was in the middle of doing before getting kicked off. When I got close to him he looked over at me and just DCd instantly

[@rileykumfer8046]

Love the video! Keep it up, I’d love to see a series I can follow along with and try to play the challenges myself

[@dylanclarke9497]

You look SO much happier now you've got your new pc! It's awesome to see you having fun again!

[@AlexKhlystov]

It always puts a huge smile on my face to see Otz trying all those impossible challenges even if it doesn't always work. But not this time!!!

[@moneybuyer6046]

I like this style of video a lot more than your usual gameplay videos

[@Anemyya]

I have to say, seeing that first *unfortunate* match live, was one of the greatest laughs I've ever had. It was such an unbelievable turn of events

[@zacattak4837]

Awesome to see 5 stack pentimento every now and then. I still think it's easier than the Myers 4k tombstone achievement lol. Great job otz, props for not giving up

[@vladspellbinder]

If only you've have had just a fraction of a second more. Just a slight change of positioning on one of the early totems so that you didn't waste any time at all lighting them before moving on. Such a shame. At least people are now cleansing Plaything again. Back when Pentimento first came out a lot of Killer players were running Plaything and Pentimento together to try and get the latter to work so a lot of the Survivors I was playing against just stopped cleansing Plaything and dealt with it. Meanwhile I was running Plaything so each Survivor would have a Hex Totem to cleanse for the Bloodpoints so I was upset that people were not cleansing for the BP. 15:16 Otz already forgot he was BEGGING the other Survivors tp unhook Ace. Happy you finally got it. Thanks for the video Otz.

[@lucasofc-3589]

glad you coming back to this game friend even tho I despise it and barely play it anymore

[@ArchDethKreation]

wow dude unbelievable. what a hilariously timed cleanse

[@vladmescheriakov7397]

No matter what i keep returning to your content, for about 2 years now, i dont even know how it works

[@Bman6464]

"Can i recycle this into a good play?" 😂 Thats the forward thinking the world needs more of! Lol. Gg otz!

[@netflex7365]

The quality of the video got really better, cool to see that!

[@BaronvonGoldrock]

I am also a casual enjoyer of IM Eric Rosen's content! I put him on while I'm cleaning or something around the house, he's very zen and easy to listen to while doing other tasks, but also interesting to get distracted from my other work for.

[@welshcrusade1562]

The problem with Pentimento is that if you play for 5 stacks, the game's practically over already when you get it. either all but one gen is done (by which point Penti won't help much), or you already have 8 hook states (when you don't need Penti to win).

[@azuri6842]

its kinna like a "win more" situation where when its actually useful (3-4 gens left), you should be already hard winning if you can pull it off and it doesnt matter having or not, so in the end its a bad perk with really good effect that nobody want to use.

[@sophrosynes6392]

Well pentimento is a great slowdown with the generator speed at one stack, so that's all you really need tbh

[@welshcrusade1562]

@@sophrosynes6392 oh, no. I'm not denying that. It's great for gen slowdown if you just light them whenever one's available. I'm just saying that holding out for 5 at once is rarely useful

[@nafereuskortex9055]

Yeah I think it's actually pretty good as it is, it's meant as a passive gen slowdown but has the potential to do more, most of the time it will just be gen slowdown but in certain situations it is more valuable.

[@gloomygloomstalker3878]

It’s absolutely a ‘win more’ perk but it’s probably useful in those games where the 5 totems are somehow cleansed already without setup from plaything

[@yrulaughing]

Really didn't expect to see an Eric Rosen reference in this video. Good taste.

[@Phantom_Kraken]

That first game…personally I wouldn’t come back from that 😭

[@VoidstriderLucatiel]

You have to work so hard to get the perk to work at full capacity. But it's worth it, in the end. All the work pays off.

[@Nyatinsson]

Hello! Was inspired by your video and did 5 stacks of Pentimento on the Slinger with Plaything, Devour hope and Undying. Thank you for the idea, that was very funny!

[@breeeiam]

I remember this match on twitch, all of our hearts dropped 😭

[@jamesnolan595]

I still remember back when pentimento first released and halfway through Otz talking about how it’s impossible to get naturally. He realised all 5 totems were down

[@xSCARxMONTAGES]

Hope to see more challenges like this ❤ and hope you’re well

[@Poltergeiist-I-]

Idky but i love seeing Otz happy. It makes me happy. Love u Otz❤️

[@Karadoc01]

Funny thing is i actually started playing this kind of build before the release of this video, but people prob won't believe me. Plague with pentimento, plaything, any other kind of hex (preferably something that the survivors HAVE to destroy, i usually go with crowd control) and thana for the slowdown. getting all 5 totems is a nice bonus, but i usually just start using pentimento when there's 3-2 gens remaining.that sweet sweet 30% gen slowdown combined with 20% slowdown from survivors not using fountains makes it very hard for them to escape. If they don't do the totems, they don't hear me coming, if they use fountain, i get that sweet sweet red puke, if they do the totems, they get a big slowdown, if they don't fountain, they get slowed down on gens... I called this build the "doomed if you do, doomed if you don't", or as one survivor once said to me at the end of a game "plague mains going out of their way to make the most obnoxious, unfun build possible".

[@blubber_supreme]

Plaything and pentimento go together swimmingly.

[@dig_deep_]

Hell yeah, Eric Rosen shoutout! I'm not surprised Otz watches him, they're both so wholesome :-)

[@dennisweiss6621]

Wow, how utterly devestating. Like literally on the last couple of frames... NGL, I would have been so frustrated that I slugged and bleed them all out. Lol. But you are the better man.

[@xenohanna]

My biggest fear playing this game is me giving my best as a survivor and the killer playing me like a pawn in chess. Thinking you're smart while they're enjoying watching you digging your own grave... it hits different 😂

[@Old-Sport-1987]

“Hello friends, this is otz, as long as undying stays up”

[@crusadernikolai1996]

Otz assembled the 5 totems like the 5 pieces of exodia

[@nottherealcrazen9793]

"Oh no my ruin" That was so great, only thing is Eric Rosen is an International master not a Grand master

[@vigorouslethargy]

A fully loaded pimento taco. Good job, Otz.

[@babalonkie]

The ONLY time i have ever seen a X5 Pent...

[@YuniKonoza]

A fun challenge I came up with for my friend was using Rancor and Nemesis, she had to cycle the obsession to every survivor once, then come back to the original obsession and kill them with rancor. She got close to succeeding a few times, but it was hard!

[@zath6425]

I've actually done this challenge before! I find the easiest way to go about it is to use Dredge's nightfall to go around the map and spark up your items once they've cleansed all five, with the perks being ruin, plaything, penti, and deadlock.

[@user-rp2qf7go4q]

congrats on getting this challenge done bravo!!

[@HonorableHunter]

I loved watching this Live and now Again I'm still laughing at how horrible the timing was! 😂

[@kingbob514]

I did it with Trapper with self resetting traps, Thrill of the Hunt and the Boon destroying perk. This was back when Circle of Healing wasn't nerfed. Something similar to your first video almost happened, except right when she was about to get my totem, the bear trap opened on her.

[@reploidhunterxavier]

This video put the biggest stupidest grin on my face, ty Otz.

[@user-ut6jy8hc1g]

Okay i definitely did not expect to see a chess reference in a dbd video, what a surprise😊

[@corygillis3658]

This has been my go-build for the last month or two. When it works, it really works. But sometimes if survivors ignore the plaything hex’s or cleanse the hex’s early on in the game it can be useless.

[@rakeshsspiceclub5554]

I’ve done this on Onryo a year ago or so. It was tough to get them to cleanse but its funny when it works.

[@vector_vector__]

Demo with that _killer instinct_ Add-on will makes doing this much easier tho 🤔 . The Night as well

[@GameGuy667]

This perk is my biggest op since I love just running around to each totem and breaking them for points

[@GenetMJF]

I love that one comment in one livestream saying that Otz is herding sheep 😂

[@falonmann]

I've actually done this before! I had a guy named TotemTickler as a survivor, the interaction was hilarious.

[@DanielDiaz-ju1yk]

Having 5 stacks of Pentimento feels like having all 5 parts of Exodia in your hand, even if its effect is far from giving you victory

[@mavisesdalgasi]

Fun idea, also it'd be pretty cool if you did something like a solo hardcore survivor challenge!

[@saftsack_1755]

The new good quality is soo nice holy

[@spaghettproductions4989]

Otz should win an Oscar for that acting lmao

[@LocalStickman]

Only ever achieved this once on a Pig game of all things. Was running a full hex build on Pig with pentimento and usually I'd gradually reconstruct them after 2-3 went down. But for some reason they did all 5 before I even got one up and didn't realise it until it was too late.

[@FallenHalcyon]

The very first time I ran it was on Plague on original RPD and got all 5 stacks . I ran the addons that made infection on objects last much longer and Survivors did not want to touch them lol.

[@Taudstein]

I’ve been doing this build for months. Pair it haunted grounds and it gets even better. Op build

[@torixon9902]

I wish I could see the endgame chat of that one.