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The Shape
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Killer
Michael Myers

The Shape

As a child he murdered his sister for no reason at all; evil made flesh, watching and killing in complete silence.

Builds

Builds updated on .

How to use these builds

Builds 1, 4 and 5 are for public matches: more relaxed games to have fun, practise and learn.

Build 2 is for tournaments: a general competitive recommendation. Check each tournament’s bans before using it.

Build 3 is for new players: it uses the killer’s own perks, perks from the five free killers or general perks, without needing every killer at prestige 3.

Perks in each build

These are the four perks shown in each screenshot. Select a variant to compare the loadouts. The screenshots do not specify a patch; balance changes may affect their effects.

Public matches
Corrupt InterventionIntervención corrupta
Your prayers invoke a dark power that meddles with the Survivors' chances of survival.
  • At the start of the Trial, the 3 Generators located farthest from you are blocked by The Entity for 80/100/120 seconds.
Corrupt Intervention deactivates prematurely once the first Survivor is put into the Dying State. "It shall be known across the land that the Gods curse the unfaithful." — (The Tablet of Adiris, 3.7)
BamboozleDesconcierto
You benefit from the following permanent effect:
  • Increases your Vaulting speed by 5/10/15 %.
Whenever you vault a Window, Bamboozle calls upon The Entity for the following effect:
  • Blocks it to all Survivors for 8/12/16 seconds.
    • Vaulting it again within that time resets the timer.
    • Vaulting a different one transfers the effect to it instead.
Bamboozle does not extend its effects to vaulting a dropped Pallet.
Scourge Hook: Pain ResonanceGancho flagelante: Dolor retumbante
Overwhelming pain reverberates outwards. At the start of the Trial, 4 Hooks in the environment are changed into Scourge Hooks:
  • The Auras of these Scourge Hooks are highlighted in white.
Start the Trial with 4 Token. Whenever a Survivor is hooked onto a Scourge Hook for the first time, Scourge Hook: Pain Resonance consumes -1 Token and applies the following effects:
  • Causes the Generator with the most progression to explode, damaging it.
    • Instantly regresses the Damaged Generator by 10/15/20 % of its total Progression.
    • Causes the Damaged Generator to start regressing afterwards.
  • Causes all Survivors repairing the Damaged Generator to scream.
    • This does not trigger a Loud Noise Notification.
Scourge Hook: Pain Resonance is disabled for the remainder of the Trial once all Tokens are consumed. "The pain spills beyond flesh/darkness staining the horizon." — Girl in the Shadow by Carmina Mora
Lay WasteDevastación
Damaging a Generator makes it regress +2 % faster for each Charge it has. This perk has a cool-down of 55/50/45 seconds after damaging a Generator. "They built hypercomputers and skyscrapers and quantum networks, but all of those things trembled and fell under the power of Judgment’s light." — (Witness to Koenrad, ch. 8)
Tournaments
Corrupt InterventionIntervención corrupta
Your prayers invoke a dark power that meddles with the Survivors' chances of survival.
  • At the start of the Trial, the 3 Generators located farthest from you are blocked by The Entity for 80/100/120 seconds.
Corrupt Intervention deactivates prematurely once the first Survivor is put into the Dying State. "It shall be known across the land that the Gods curse the unfaithful." — (The Tablet of Adiris, 3.7)
Scourge Hook: Pain ResonanceGancho flagelante: Dolor retumbante
Overwhelming pain reverberates outwards. At the start of the Trial, 4 Hooks in the environment are changed into Scourge Hooks:
  • The Auras of these Scourge Hooks are highlighted in white.
Start the Trial with 4 Token. Whenever a Survivor is hooked onto a Scourge Hook for the first time, Scourge Hook: Pain Resonance consumes -1 Token and applies the following effects:
  • Causes the Generator with the most progression to explode, damaging it.
    • Instantly regresses the Damaged Generator by 10/15/20 % of its total Progression.
    • Causes the Damaged Generator to start regressing afterwards.
  • Causes all Survivors repairing the Damaged Generator to scream.
    • This does not trigger a Loud Noise Notification.
Scourge Hook: Pain Resonance is disabled for the remainder of the Trial once all Tokens are consumed. "The pain spills beyond flesh/darkness staining the horizon." — Girl in the Shadow by Carmina Mora
Pop Goes the WeaselPim pam pum
"A deep bond with The Entity unlocks great strength." After hooking a Survivor, Pop Goes the Weasel activates for 35/40/45 seconds.
While active, manually damaging a Generator triggers the following effect:
  • Increases the regression amount by +15 % resulting in 20 % regression.
Pop Goes the Weasel deactivates after use or once its timer elapses.
Turn Back the ClockRetrasa el reloj
"Resist as they might, time marches on, and your master plan comes closer to fruition." After hooking a Survivor, for 40/50/60 seconds, press the Active Ability button to make a target generator within 20 meters explode, lose -10 % progress, and start regressing. "Nothing will happen to you... Nothing that you don't deserve!" — Henry Creel
New players
TinkererManitas
Whenever a Generator is repaired to 70 %, you benefit from the following effects:
  • Triggers a Loud Noise Notification for that Generator, revealing its location.
  • Grants the Undetectable Status Effect for the next 12/14/16 seconds.
Tinkerer can only trigger once per Generator per Trial. "The Hillbilly makes impressive tools out of scraps. Tools aimed at maiming us in creative ways." — Notebook
Play With Your FoodJuega con la comida
Identical to See How They Run. "You've fooled them, haven't you Michael? But not me." — Dr Sam Loomis
InsidiousIndisioso
Unlocks the stealth ability.
After standing still for 3/2/1 second(s), Insidious activates for as long as you remain stationary:
  • Grants the Undetectable Status Effect.
Insidious deactivates once you start moving again.
DeadlockCandado
Identical to No Holds Barred. "Nobody escapes us." — Pinhead
Public matches · variant 1
Hex: Hive MindMaleficio: mente colmena
"You found yourself connected to something dark and unknowable... and you embraced it." The first time you hook any Survivor, a random Dull Totem becomes a Hex Totem, provided that a Dull Totem remains in the Trial Grounds. Generators are highlighted; the intensity of the generator's Auras reveals their repair progress. As soon as a total of 4 generators have been completed in the Trial:
  • All remaining generators explode, lose 6/8/10 % progess, and start regressing.
  • The associated Hex Totem becomes dull, and this perk becomes disabled for the remainder of the trial.
The Hex Effects persist until the Hex Totem is either blessed or cleansed by a Survivor, disabling it for the remainder of the Trial. "You... let us in. And now, you are going to have to let us stay" — Henry Creel
Hex: Crowd ControlMaleficio: Control de masas
"A Hex that ensures those lesser than you are properly herded." Whenever a Survivors performs a Rushed Vault action at a Window, Hex: Crowd Control activates on a random Totem and triggers its effect:
  • Blocks that Window for all Survivors.
  • Increases basic-vault speed of blocked Windows by 15 %
  • Reveals auras of blocked Windows within 24 metres
Hex: Crowd Control has a limit of 4/5/6 Windows it can affect at a time.
The Hex Effects persist until the Hex Totem is either blessed or cleansed by a Survivor, disabling it for the remainder of the Trial. "You have no control. People like you never did." — Ji-Woon Hak
Hex: RuinMaleficio: Ruina
"A Hex that affects the Generator Repair progress of all Survivors." All Generators not currently being repaired experience the following effect:
  • Causes them to automatically regress at 100/125/150 % of the default Regression rate.
The Hex Effects persist until the Hex Totem is either blessed or cleansed by a Survivor, disabling it for the remainder of the Trial. "A curse is upon you. It will cause your ruin."
Hex: Thrill of the HuntMaleficio: moción de la caza
"A Hex rooting its power on hope.
The false hope of Survivors fills you with excitement and strengthens your Totems."
Start the Trial with 5 Tokens, one for each Totem located in the environment:
  • Reduces the Action speeds for Blessing and Cleansing by a stack-able 8/9/10 % per Token, up to a maximum of 40/45/50 %.
Hex: Thrill of the Hunt loses -1 Token whenever a Totem is cleansed. The Hex Effects persist until the Hex Totem is either blessed or cleansed by a Survivor, disabling it for the remainder of the Trial.
Public matches · variant 2
Play With Your FoodJuega con la comida
Identical to See How They Run. "You've fooled them, haven't you Michael? But not me." — Dr Sam Loomis
Furtive ChasePerescución furtiva
"You lurk in the shadows, eliminating your victims one by one." After hooking the Obsession, you benefit from the following effects for 14/16/18 seconds:
  • Grants the Undetectable Status Effect.
  • Grants a +10 % Haste Status Effect.
Whenever the Obsession is unhooked by another Survivor, the Obsession Status transfers to their Rescuer.
You can only be obsessed with one Survivor at a time. "You have no idea what I have planned for you. It'll be in the news for weeks. I'll make sure of that." — The Ghost Face
NemesisNémesis
"You seek retribution on those who have wronged you." Whenever a Survivor other than your Obsession blinds you by any means or stuns you with a Pallet or a Locker, Nemesis triggers its primary effect:
  • Causes that Survivor to become your current Obsession.
Whenever your Obsession switches to a different Survivor by any means, Nemesis triggers its secondary effects:
  • Causes that Survivor to suffer from the Oblivious Status Effect for 40/50/60 seconds.
  • Their Aura is revealed to you for 8 seconds.
You can only be obsessed with one Survivor at a time. "Only a fool would spit in a demon's face and declare victory." — Renjiro's Doctrine 4:9
Machine LearningAprendizaje de máquina
"Free from your shackles, you are born anew and prepared to eliminate your creators." After performing the Damage Generator action, Machine Learning activates:
  • Causes that Generator to become a Compromised Generator.
    • Damaging another Generator transfers the state to it instead.
  • The Aura of the Compromised Generator is highlighted to you in yellow until it is completed.
Once the Compromised Generator is completed, you benefit from the following effects for 40/50/60 seconds:
  • Undetectable Status Effect
  • +8 % Haste Status Effect
Machine Learning deactivates after use. "YOU WILL HOLD NO DOMINION OVER ME." — HUX-A7-13

The Shape perks

The 3 perks The Shape teaches, and that you can unlock for every other killer in the Bloodweb's Shrine of Secrets.

Dying LightLuz extinta
Each time you hook a Survivor other than your Obsession, you gain +1 Token:
  • For as long as the Obsession is alive, all other Survivors suffer from a stack-able 2/2.5/3 % per Token Action Speed penalty to Repairing, Healing, and Sabotaging, up to a maximum of 22/27.5/33 % or 11 Tokens.
  • The Obsession is unaffected by this penalty and instead granted a permanent +33 % Action Speed bonus to Unhooking and Healing other Survivors.
You can only be obsessed with one Survivor at a time.
Play With Your FoodJuega con la comida
Identical to See How They Run. "You've fooled them, haven't you Michael? But not me." — Dr Sam Loomis
Save the best for lastLo mejor para el final
Identical to Keep Them Waiting. "Death has come to your little town, Sheriff." — Dr Sam Loomis

The Shape add-ons

All 20 add-ons for The Shape, sorted from rarest to most common. Add-ons change how the power works, so they are half of any build.

Ultra rare2

Judith's TombstoneLápida de Judith
"A large and heavy granite tombstone stolen from Mt. Sinclair cemetery, belonging to Judith Myers." Modifies Evil Incarnate with the following effects:
  • Hooking a Survivor while in Evil Incarnate will refresh its duration.
  • Caps the maximum duration of Evil Incarnate at 40 seconds.
"Here lies our beloved daughter."
Scratched MirrorEspejo Rayado
"A standing portable vanity mirror which has been violently scratched with a sharp metallic object." Unlocks potential in your Aura-reading ability while Stalking:
  • The Auras of all Survivors within 32 metres of your location are revealed to you.
Hitting Survivors with your Basic Attack grants the following bonus Bloodpoints:
  • Brutality Scoring Category: +100 %
  • Deviousness Scoring Category: +200 %
Evil Within loses the ability to exit Stalker Mode.

Very rare4

Lock of HairMechón de Pelo
"A cut lock of blond hair bunched with a black elastic." Unlocks the following ability while in Evil Incarnate:
  • Hold the Active Ability button to end Evil Incarnate prematurely.
    • This converts 50 % of the remaining duration into Stalk progress.
Reflective FragmentFragmento Espejado
"A tiny piece of a highly reflective material most probably from a broken mirror." Modifies Slaughtering Strike with the following effects:
  • Survivors hit by Slaughtering Strike are only damaged for a single Health State.
  • Successful hits with Slaughtering Strike instantly add +20 seconds to the duration of Evil Incarnate.
Tombstone PieceTrozo de Lápida
"A fist-sized granite piece taken from a broken tombstone." Activating Evil Incarnate triggers the following effect:
  • Grants the Undetectable Status Effect for 20 seconds.
Vanity MirrorEspejo de Maquillaje
"A standing portable vanity mirror in perfect condition except for a fine layer of dust and face powder covering it." Modifies Evil Incarnate with the following effect:
  • When Evil Incarnate ends, the Auras of all Survivors are revealed to you for 4 seconds.

Rare5

Hair BowLazo
"A blue tartan ribbon used to tie hair." Modifies Evil Incarnate with the following effects:
  • Increases the duration of Evil Incarnate by +20 seconds.
  • Reduces the Power speed of Stalking by -20 %.
J.Myers MemorialHomenaje a J. Myers
"A glossy page ripped from the 1965 Haddonfield High School yearbook, one dedicated to the memory of Judith Myers." While in Evil Incarnate, the following effect applies:
  • Increases the speed of Picking up and Hooking Survivors by +40 %.
Jewelry BoxJoyero
"A barren wooden box in which vanity items were once stored." Modifies the Stalk ability with the following effect:
  • Increases the Power speed of Stalking by +30 %.
  • Decreases the range of Stalking by -16 metres.
Judith's JournalDiario de Judith
"A journal identified as owned by Judith M. Myers.
Most of the pages are defaced with frightening and disturbing drawings."
While Stalking the Obsession, you benefit from the following effect:
  • Increases the Power speed of Stalking by +40 %.
Mirror ShardTrozo de Espejo
"A large and sharp piece of a broken mirror." Modifies Slaughtering Strike with the following effects:
  • Increases the base duration of Slaughtering Strike by +0.25 seconds.
  • Decreases the charge speed of Slaughtering Strike by -25 %.

Uncommon4

Dead RabbitConejo Muerto
"A grey rabbit which has been opened from neck to tail." Adjusts the Terror Radius, depending on the current Mode of Evil Within:
  • Pursuer Mode: Reduces it by -25 %.
  • Evil Incarnate: Increases it by +25 %.
Fragrant Tuft of HairMata de Pelo Perfumada
"A tuft of blond hair which was forcefully torn off someone's scalp.
Releases hints of feminine floral fragrance."
During Evil Incarnate, the following effects apply:
  • Survivors suffer from the Exposed Status Effect.
  • Increases the Lunge Range by +50 %.
  • Disables the Slaughtering Strike ability.
Glass FragmentFragmento de Cristal
"A tiny piece of tinted glass, probably from a broken object.
It is impossible to determine its origin."
Modifies Slaughtering Strike with the following effects:
  • Increases the Movement speed of Slaughtering Strike by +5 %.
  • Decreases the Charge speed of Slaughtering Strike by -10 %.
Hair BrushCepillo
"A nylon bristle brush used to add body and softness to hair." When Evil Incarnate activates, Hair Brush triggers its effect:
  • Increases the Action speed of the next Pallet break action by +50 %.

Common4

Blonde HairPelo Rubio
"A single slightly wavy blond hair." While in Stalker Mode, you benefit from the following effect:
  • Increases the duration of Scratch Marks and Pools of Blood by +100 %.
Boyfriend's MemoNotas del Novio
"A "romantic", if slightly sleazy, note left around to draw the attention of a female lover." Modifies the Stalk ability with the following effect:
  • Increases the range of Stalking by +8 metres.
"The note is signed: D."
Memorial FlowerFlor de la Tumba
"A partially faded and dried pink larkspur picked up from a gravestone." Modifies Stalker Mode with the following effect:
  • Increases your Movement speed by +0.2 m/s to 4.4 m/s.
Tacky EarringsPendientes Horteras
"A very cheap piece of jewellery made from plastic. Painted to resemble precious material." Modifies Evil Within with the following effect:
  • Increases your Movement speed while Stalking by +20 %.

No rarity1

JewelryJoyería
A large necklace made of beads and inexpensive metals. One of Judith's favorites.
Increases the Stalk Meter fill rate on stationary Survivors by 10%.

Descriptions from the game itself and from deadbydaylight.wiki.gg, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.

Gameplay tips
Stalk from a distance whenever you can: you tier up much faster and make use of the time while they're vaulting windows or pallets.
Sit at 99% of Tier 3 while you're far away; only pop Tier 3 once you're right on the survivor, so you don't waste your Evil Within timer.
Take advantage of losing collision while stalking: you can pass through a survivor body-blocking you at a chokepoint and go straight for another.
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