The Best & Worst Metas in Dead by Daylight

[@fatal-raven009]

hey azhymov, this is everyone

[@mrehatt2582]

hi otz, this is friends.

[@ramenbomberdeluxe4958]

Azhymov Everyone, this is Hey.

[@matt2569]

Is hey, this azhymov everyone

[@Sydsicles]

This azhymov is, everyone hey

[@CyborgCharlotte]

“This is Scout. Rainbows make me cry! Over!” :P

[@DrakoWulf]

Surprised there was no mention of the Dead Hard meta, a meta which caused the entire killer playerbase to "wait it out" on every survivor in every match, just in case the perk was equipped. That meta lasted years as well. The Buckle Up + For The People meta was also quite frustrating, due to it being a lose/lose chase extender for the killer if executed correctly by survivors. That one was around for a similar amount of time that the Made For This meta was around. I feel like it was worth mentioning Resilience being a significant aspect of the Made For This meta, as well as how that meta affected Legion and Plague far more than other killers. While not as long lasting, the Background Player meta is definitely worth mentioning, just for making nowhere on the map safe for a killer to pick up. If paired correctly with Flashbang, facing a wall on the opposite side of the map from a Background Player survivor was not enough.

[@Аркадий-ь8щ]

demised before daytime

[@PixelTrainer.]

Deceased prior to the absence of nighttime

[@jere3282]

unalived upon the rise of the Sun

[@AbyssalS0ls]

annihilated before the ascending of the celestial star present in our solar system

[@Ming_7322]

Right now we’re in the psychological torment to the other side meta lol

[@bahlahkayy]

More like the "Go Next" Meta tbh

[@Ming_7322]

@ lol it’s apart of it. Between slugging and giving up both sides are getting worse

[@bahlahkayy]

@@Ming_7322 Yeah it's hard to say whether the game has gotten better or worse since some of these "metas". Like I'm glad that gen-kick perks and Dead Hard got nerfed, but whole new problems have taken their place with Survivors deleting themselves and Killers bleeding everyone out on the ground almost every match. Sometimes I miss when the only thing I had to worry about was if the Survivor had Dead Hard or not

[@Ming_7322]

@ the community is at each others throats like never before. If sucks

[@Drazil232]

​​@@Ming_7322as someone who was here in the early dbd days: its bad, but man, we had way worse... idk how anyone ever played killer back when the most popular dbd content was bully squads bringing insane loadoutd

[@marshallpuckett4760]

Most frustrating meta for me was defo when FTP+Buckle Up was abused. Literally everyone and their mother would run these two and pick up people right in front of my eyes, and both rescuer and rescuee had free endurance.

[@heronik79]

Remember when Mettle of Man was meta? The most stupid perk design ever, free 3rd health state for getting hit 3 times in general, not protection hits, how tf did the devs thought it was good?

[@cat8506]

that never left the ptb

[@Chubbien]

@@cat8506 oh it did, but for only like a few weeks or days before being nerfed to how it is today

[@harley5188]

that was reworked dead hard before its hook required nerf

[@Awesometraxgaming]

I find it funny to hear Azhy saying the Weavelin's meta was liked when meanwhile everyone I know thought Weave was the most problematic perk to come out in years...

[@WikkidGoose]

Same for ruin undying, at least for me. If the ruin was bounced around at least 2 times games basically wouldn't actually start till they were both gone

[@shockblade7975]

The only problem I had with weave attunement was it's 12m range, was a bit too much

[@Mrspiderwalk]

I don’t miss any of the old metas. The overhaul behavior did was such a healthy change. Players still have some metas going on now but, at least there’s more variety in player builds now.

[@zettaeliza2043]

A fun little tidbit about the very brief frankies/weave meta: *laughs in object of obsession*

[@necrolicious]

you forgot "go next" meta on survivor, and "hooking is too detrimental, slugging is the only way to counter DS, DH, OTR, Shoulder the Burden, Deliverance, Resurgence, Reassurance, Camaraderie, Saboteur, Flashbang (especially with the bug that makes them silent and hit through walls and around corners), Flashlights (with or without Background Player)" meta.

[@Gamingproductionv2]

Camaraderie is meta?

[@ebriadhlaceratus6609]

The go next meta still exists for Skull Merchant. She's garbage since her nerf, but I still get one or two people giving up on hook on the rare occasions I play her. I think her real power is her reputation lol

[@MrErizid]

@@ebriadhlaceratus6609 The go-next meta exists for every killer. Most of my wins on Killer now are people DCing or unaliving on hook before the 2nd or third hook.

[@necrolicious]

@@Gamingproductionv2 it's certainly not meta, but SWFs use it to stall the end-game to 99 doors.

[@Gamingproductionv2]

@ 99ing the doors isn’t as popular as it was before but I see what you mean. The applicable sense that this perk would play is if you’re being camped in solo queue since a lot of endgame struggle stage hook camps tend to happen. Thus would give your random teammates some time to try to coordinate a save on you

[@ArmandoQilin]

Azhy, here's a video idea. Why Pyramid Head would want to punish survivors or go after them in the realm. He is a manifestation of punishment so he would want to punish those who are guilty. Please consider this idea 😊

[@masathyfirst2563]

Hired by the entity

[@Steve_V_Raglan]

Lore is rewritten in DBD, he's a punisher of all those who sinned(everyone) and was hired by entity

[@georgialopez7717]

In retrospect, the original strength of CoH set in stone the decline of boons. The devs made both Dark Theory and Illumination very safe in comparison to it and that may be the case with every future boon. One thing I did like about the Weave Attunement meta is that Object got used more. It's not that bad of a perk imo. Also, Haddie 100% deserved a boon. She was robbed. Thank you for the video. ❤

[@wvvj_animates]

I agree; I even ended up creating a boon for her: Boon: Foresight “With her love for uncovering dark secrets and capturing ghosts, Haddie has developed an uncanny ability to sense movement.” Press ‘Ability Button 1’ to bless a totem over 25 seconds, and chimes ring out in a 20/22\24 meter radius. Inside of the radius, the killers aura is visible at all times. This effect ends immediately upon exiting the radius. While inside of the radius, every 30 seconds your aura is revealed to the killer for 5/4/3 seconds.

[@nickdavid1846]

I personally think metas in general are unhealthy, at least if they're in the game for a while. Noone wants to go against the same/best things over and over again, gets stale real quick.

[@rtristan8572]

Honestly, what I find the most insane is that every single one of this metas ended due to nerfs/reworks and none due to players adapting, either becouse they refused to, like using Potential Energy against 3gens or totem perks/maps against Ruin+Undying or simply putting items in a corner against Weave Attunement, or becouse there was literally no counter, like CoH, MFT or the invincible build(UB+DS+DH+IW).

[@TheKing-wf9es]

Bro really said Ruin Undying was one of the best Metas😭😭😭

[@sivufication]

and Franklin x vecna perk.. everyone was giving up or dcing or just matches were lost at 5/4 gens because most people had no idea how to play around it, but ig op is just a killer main

[@danowen79]

The Weaver/Franklins meta was bad because most people didn’t understand what was happening. When a new perk icon appears in your HUD as survivor; there’s no way to know what it is or what it does without having prior knowledge. DBD needs to have a way for players to be better informed in the game.

[@sylvievadimsky7515]

I started playing killer at the height of the DS/Unbreakable meta, and I think it’s the source of my constant anxiety towards playing killer. I just remember the early days of being a baby killer, not really knowing what I was doing or what was happening being surrounded by survivors with DS/Unbreakable, Head On, powerful flashlights…and toxicity to boot. These days, I don’t really get tilted by bully squads that often, unless they’re being genuinely toxic, but…my god. I know survivor mains don’t typically like to listen to killer perspectives, but I wish everyone in a lobby would remember that the players are people, too. It’s one thing to “play hard,” or play like a “bully squad.” It’s another to actually BE the bully.

[@ryuandnina7385]

No dead hard mention? That literally hard programmed killers to wait for years before its rework

[@Steve_V_Raglan]

It was good since it Came out until it's nerf not part of the meta just set in stone

[@Jay-n8e4w]

I’ve been noticing recently content creators have been gaslighting the community kinda into thinking dead hard wasn’t problematic. Besides dead hard though no way background player didn’t get mentioned and even more shocking ftp+buckle up. Maybe he wanted to keep it even where it’s one best along side a worst and that just isn’t possible with all the shitty metas this game has had (mostly from one side might I add).

[@CinnaHuntress]

The reaosn people hated the Weave Attunement and Franklin's demise combo was because it took literally no skill to use. Free, strong aura reading for just existing. It should never have existed.

[@Marverick1998]

I don't know man. I didn't hate it too much only because imo it was so unbelievably easy to counter. You just drop your item as soon as the trial starts, you see Weave icon, and you throw it in a corner. It gives almost no value to the killer. Does it suck to lose items? Yeah. But you don't really need them all that much to begin with. They're not imperative to gameplay. That's just me though.

[@cheesecakeee7963]

@@Marverick1998 I agree with you, but it was a pain to deal with in Solo Queue. Trying to find an item another survivor dropped took too long and was annoying. The new changes definitely helps to alleviate that issue.

[@randomguy6695]

Funnily enough, it’s still a strong combo, just more balanced now since survivors can see where the item is.

[@veladanjbakht140]

Yeah pal. Ds unbreakable is soooooo much skillful. Get back to your circus entitled survivor main 🤡

[@CinnaHuntress]

@@veladanjbakht140 Before you mock people and make a fool of yourself by throwing out false accusations, at least make sure you have your facts right. Franklin's Demise reveals the aura to the killer, not the survivors. It's in the perk description.

[@Dale1615]

i'm missing the meta where all 5 dull totems were cleansed before the 5th gen was completed to avoid the noed on the endgame collapse. Especially during the times where nurse's blink strike wasn't a special attack. It was also in the time that totems had a more consistent spacing between them making it eazier to find the next totem after finding the first one.

[@therpderp]

the gaslighting of ruin/undying being a positive meta is crazy. in comparison to now? yeah, sure, but everything looks nicer in the rearview. if you weren’t running a totem perk on some of the maps, you’d *never* find those totems. you can still barely find some of them now.

[@yautjaprime9148]

Skill issue on your part lmao 90% of the mals have horrible totem spots for killers lmao

[@therpderp]

@ eh? yeah, some of them are horrid totem spots, but a good portion of them are super hidden. if you got lucky and cleansed Undying first, yippee, only one more totem! but if you repeatedly cleansed the other it just jumped around and around and around, and could nestle its way inside another corner. i just find it funny that at the time it was deemed so unhealthy and more importantly unfair, but now it’s looked positively upon.

[@geelwashandje131]

The weird thing about meta's is that it's an artificially created set of perks you should use and supposedly nobody wants to use. The only people who use meta perks are the die hard players who know exactly how to min max perks. People who use meta perks feel obliged because they think the other side will also use meta perks and both sides will blame BHVR for forcing this meta, even though BHVR gives you 200 perks to choose from. BHVR releasing perks for chests, totems and incantations and players will be "nah, those are a waste of time, just do gens" while complaining that BHVR forces players to genrush. Meanwhile baby Jane is having fun with Head On and baby Adam loves throwing pebbles around the map, while P100 Bill is raging behind his keyboard because his team is having a good time instead of being sweaty.

[@SerYesSir90]

We hated on ruin undying before not knowing how much more annoying the metas would become

[@TheKing-wf9es]

Ruin Undying was Top 3 of the Most annoying metas

[@MrErizid]

@@TheKing-wf9es Because people refused to bring maps. One survivor with a map can destroy all totems within the first two minutes of a match.

[@TheKing-wf9es]

@@MrErizid Godloops were fine.U just Had to bring Bamboole

[@3eeeeeee616]

​@@TheKing-wf9esdont compare two completely different things.

[@yautjaprime9148]

The biggest problem rn is that the killer has to have atleast 2 anti gen perks because without them, all gens are through before you down your first survivor

[@kamikazemv7384]

I'm a fan of STBFL and Rapid Brutality, as they can lead to some really good chases

[@CaptToilet]

Thats my bread and butter too. It gets stale though when you have multiple games in a row where the obsession is just everywhere all at once somehow.

[@kamikazemv7384]

Indeed. 8 out of 10 games that i have, the obssession is the first one that find. That's just killer's luck, i guess 🤷🏻‍♂️😅

[@scorchik11]

I think the only meta I actually used was weave attunement-Franklin’s simply because I noticed the combo on my own and was playing vecna at the time

[@kwswither10]

Weave franklins is easily the least fun meta that’s ever been in the game imo

[@mawunyoa8824]

Undying when it was first released definitely wasn’t healthy, especially wit the RNG of having to possibly cleanse 3-4 totems before the actual totem was gone, it was healthy after the rework because it became useful with other hex totems like Devour Hope as well as being less RNG based, allowing it to be more consistent

[@luck3yp0rk93]

I’ll take the bait. 10:40 “uhmmm acshually it’s not unsufferable it’s insufferable there buddy” 🤓

[@deputyrook6232]

the moment i quit dbd was when circle of healing was introduced and then nerfed to 75% healing speed instead of 100%, both still with self-care. that shit was the nail in the coffin of the devs clearly not playing their game nor listening to the community, and having no idea how to balance their game.

[@cupidbirds]

ace visconti

[@tysiek2823]

orginal Mettle Of Man meta. I unlocked Clown at that time and played him a lot. It was pain to hit survivors 3 times as M1 killer. Not to mention back in the day throwing bottles was slowing you down.

[@GMLWatcher]

Same man. I am forced to play Huntress or Nurse to bypass Mettle of Man 😭😭

[@eliasar5051]

Second chance meta (DS + Unbreakable was only part of it) not getting its own category or standalone recognition feels crazy to me. Its reign of terror lasted for years. Im still scarred.

[@DogMakingSausage]

Ask yourself why people are using those perks.

[@colebentley5601]

NGL as bad as it sounds I have fond memories of the Gen Kick meta because thats when I started playing heavier (i didnt even know what this game was until somewhere around mid trickster release thanks to my college roommates)

[@heyguysitsbeth]

That boil over meta was so horrific that to this day as soon as i see boil over on a survivor i drop them right back on the ground to slug them. Dont wanna be hooked? Okay I can do that! RPD and Eerie of Crows my absolutely loathed- but that wasnt even the worst one IMO- the worst meta BY FAR was FTP+Buckle Up. Especially since around that time Background Player was buffed too, so if you downed a survivor, if you picked up instantly, you got blinded or stunned, but if you waited at all- too late, for the people buckle up has already activated. it was basically just a lose-lose scenario as killer. Cant slug, cant pick up. it basically killed any desire i had to play killer at all, since every down there was just a get out of jail free card- but then youd swap to survivor and deal with pain res, dms, and grim embrace so everything was not fun lol

[@ofikoondraschnel]

Damn... the new editor knows what is he doing with your videos. But nothing beats your own.

[@PeashyRedTail]

Great video as usual but I’m going to have to heavily disagree with hex undying being a good meta. It’s just another situation of making the bad killers viable and making the good killer unplayable and there really wasn’t any counterplay back in the day. Yes you can go around and find totems but unless you got a good map for finding them or know the totem spawns you were shit outta luck. The combo was a noob stomper and the only real counterplay that isn’t game knowledge for new players was maps which usually didn’t help that much or detectives hunch which is on a paid survivor and small game hadn’t had its full rework. However, nowadays I think it’d be a healthy combo with ruin nerfed and there being perks like counterforce and small game on the survivor side but then again pentamento is still a thing sadly.

[@cthulhubecausewhynot1182]

DS + Unbreakable was only surpassed in length by Nurse’s reign. That shit was the meta already back when I started playing in 2018- The only way a new Survivor perk ever saw use was if it was stronger than DS+DH+BT+UB, and that rarely happened.

[@Xerneas385]

I don't know if wounds from the past have just healed by now so my take here might be completely invalid and wrong, but ever since Eruption + call of brine meta, every single meta after that has been tedious and annoying to deal with for both killers and survivors

[@MegaMarxis]

Not really a worst/favorite meta comment. But I do long for the old cold wind maps. They just need loop changes, other than that, those maps were perfect the way they looked before. Those cold wind clips brought back big nostalgia

[@Omori_Bocchi]

My fav meta and my fav killer have never changed. I loved skull merchant on launch (im aware it's a hot take) she is what got me into dbd and its sad that because she wasn't apparently fun to go against I got punished to the point where she isnt even playable

[@edudmodnar4661]

I also have that hot take, she was Fun.

[@Skarfar90]

Dead Hard abuse meta was definitely the most annoying one of all time. Same goes for the 3-gen killer meta. Though I would say that the worst meta of all time is the current killer meta, where everything is focused around tunneling/slugging

[@Justjunniee]

So basically all killer metas were good and all siv meta were bad

[@kittymyths1208]

All metas are boring. Meme builds are goated

[@Kotentopf]

Vecna got release in Version 5.5.0? Did i miss a page? :D 3:34

[@kojinooni]

Most Effective Tactics Available. The meta hasn't changed. Gen regression and Gen progression is the meta. That's why everyone is burned out. What you're talking about is perk strength and combination powers over time.

[@corvianknight_caw]

Ruin being nerfed to 100% from 200% is what killed that meta imo

[@donaldfrederick501]

Worst wasn't any one survivor using a meta but when 3-4 using the same meta... Just made those games boring, even when getting hooks.

[@Quiztime23644]

6:49 what is the middle perk jake uses?

[@MetalFaceFall]

Saboteur

[@terriblyterrified8742]

saboteur with it's original icon, back when it also worked on bear traps

[@soldierswag4884]

Never understood the term Toxic in games , What defines it ? its just Strong perks the Devs made. Its not cheating or anything like that

[@Majster4K]

Behavior unnecessairly butchered Circle of Healing and i'm going to die on that hill They could just turn down the healing speed boost or just do some range tweaks, but ofc they can't just do a good job

[@Deshroader]

Original pain resonance was awful to deal with as a survivor and original metal of man was awful to deal with as a killer

[@Upiór66]

I still cant understand wy they make shattered hope a park and not the base kit mechanic in the first place

[@ebriadhlaceratus6609]

If the killer is running perks that activate on dull totems, it screws them over if they remove them. Also it takes time to re-boon a totem, not to mention finding one in the first place, and boons aren't as strong as they used to be, so no need for it as basekit

[@Horror___bear24]

I don’t agree with the Weave Attunement/Franklin’s meta being liked and balanced. That was one of the ones I saw the most hatred for! Too strong on certain killers and way too easy to get value from. Especially when you weren’t aware of it and you try looping in an area that had it and the killer didn’t even have to try to mind game or anything. Turn your brain off perk combo and too strong for how easy it was. Glad that one’s gone lol

[@venomouswyverns8819]

You can look a d boons and hexes almost like a microcosm for how the role of killer a d survivor are handled on a balancing meta If it was fair boons would be just as easy to disable and keep diisabled like hexes are and the fact they arnt kinda shows the inherent bias no?

[@CaptToilet]

And now we have the glorious sluggy wuggy meta. Leads to lots of chases, gets rid of 2nd chances and doesn't punish the killer for hooking. Yeah it may be boring on the survivor side, but blame BHVR for being morons. Better get better at looping.

[@francoaugustogomezparody4177]

Everyone this azhymov is hey 🗣🔥

[@liabilitylinda3501]

So svery broken killer meta = healty and every broken killer meta = unhealthy. No way are you claiming Franklin's+Weave was a healthy meta LMAOOOO

[@yautjaprime9148]

Surv bot detected

[@liabilitylinda3501]

@yautjaprime9148 chubby

[@myaperson]

FTP+buckle up and flip flop+ boil over

[@StickyBallsMcGee]

What about the buckle up and for the people meta?

[@dylanstaffeld8572]

Idk if it was considered meta but old ultimate weapon i hated so much

[@HOMOGRIMOIRE]

"boon meta" and it's just circle of healing being the issue 😭

[@h3van2k82]

is so sick to see reknak dude

[@josetomascamposrobledano4618]

6:27 ah yes! Agitation! My favorite original perk… Btw, NO, that’s not a killer base perk. IRON GRASP is what he should have said.

[@josetomascamposrobledano4618]

9:12 also Ruin got 1000% nerfed. But judging by the bad commentary I guess I will just leave it at that.

[@josetomascamposrobledano4618]

Ok, I’ll give only 1 quick example. Old ruin killed the Progression bonus of great skill checks. And there were more strats.

[@littlerobloxboy25]

Maybe not as bad as the gen kick meta but running around trying to find 5 200% regression ruins was NOT fun at all 💀

[@kittymyths1208]

I don't play meta perks anymore. I just have fun with meme/niche builds

[@Bad_Place_Alone_Misc]

A nice trip down memory lane. Well... not "nice" exactly but... how are we still playing this game?

[@manicstatic370]

Hex metas are the best because they give another objective instead of the same old game

[@kennethgrey7829]

My favorite meta is "Playing with Friends"

[@David-bl6tv]

Hello friends, this is azhymov

[@d_product1988]

So basically all killer metas are good and survivor metas are toxic or a crutch. Got it.

[@daltonmorgan9929]

Bring back For the People meta build!

[@Fuviy1]

My show is on

[@Xillop]

Can the goat say hi?

[@AZHYMOVS]

Hi

[@Atmisevil]

Ashley J. Williams

[@kefsyl]

Wdym gen kicking meta was boring we all know it was extremely fun to play same gen until server closes

[@atmodlee]

This whole video is killer meta good survivor meta bad.

[@kefsyl]

@@atmodlee what does this even have to do with what I said bruh💀

[@Starrazing]

dead by daylight

[@AZHYMOVS]

Dead by Daylight

[@DanoCDA]

Ruin Undying was NOT a healthy meta

[@braytonewell]

My least favorite meta of all is Dead Hard. It just practically gave the survivor a free boost to pallet or window if they were going to get hit, and you could use it way more often. Almost every survivor had it at the time.

[@michellerahe4853]

Smash. Easy test

[@SickDayPlayer]

This is the earliest i am, isnt that cool?

[@Hollowknight123-r4m]

Hello everyone

[@pelagiasotc7866]

I find it hard to say any meta is good. Some are definitely better than others but metas are inherently bad for the game as they limit build variety and show the game is unbalanced.

[@brucelee8587]

The hex meta, when thrill of the hunt was still at 70% slower cleansing speed. It encouraged killers to not tunnel and not camp hooks(Devour hope), added an additional task for survivors to do(Cleansing totems), prevented the killers from being too aggressive since they had to keep an eye on their totems. Could've actually allowed bhvr to buff boons again since hexes can become stronger thanks to this perk. it was short lived since so many content creators constantly made videos on how it should be "Nerfed" or its too "OP" which lead to survivors to send complaints until it got reduced to 60. I am fine with the way it is now, but we could've had a different playstyle for once, other than just pop, corrupt, lethal, painres, eruption. at that time I had a game where I was dueling a hillibilly with his totems(Cleanse his hex, he relights it, I find it again. repeat)

[@FlexTut]

Hex meta is even more boring than any other meta sadly

[@Steve_V_Raglan]

​@@FlexTutgen kick meta stalling games completely?

[@FlexTut]

@ at least survs had their own op meta at the time (made for this)🤷🏾‍♂️

[@NoxyNugYT]

Smash, next question

[@Its_SaberHG]

No

[@c.j.lapeyrouse1861]

Buckle up + For the People was the WORST metal ever

[@chaoszyndrom3393]

Honestly, the boon meta was the worst for me. I play twins/artist and having Circle of healing in every single match was brutal, so I actually had to start bringing Shattered hope

[@astralraven]

I'll give the mft meta this. It made me quit killer for months after being tired of the gaslighting the perk made me endure. I exclusively played survivor and actually enjoy the role a lot now. So I guess mft's existence caused me to play a role I never tried much and made me better at the game in general. I boycotted mft even on survivor though lmao. 😅

[@sillygoober9]

👍

[@MikeOXlong6969.]

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[@pigeonbug]

dee bee dee

[@pigeonbug]

I hope you're doing well! 🩷🩷

[@Lasthero7889]

This guy is so biased towards killer it’s not even funny, will mute and not recommend

[@alexreese3216]

controversial take but old ruin with skill checks need to come back

[@DogMakingSausage]

Old dead hard too then.

[@EOKKILLA_StreetLife]

Hi Azhymovs! I have all of your personal information! Just wanted to let you know that I'm currently blight rushing toward your house ❤