Dead By Daylight: How To Counter Slugging

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Dead by Daylight is a lethal tug-of-war between Survivors and the Killers that hunt them. Complicating this basic contest is the presence of powers, perks, items, and add-ons that allow each character to explore different strategies to accomplish their objectives. The game has been around since 2016, and only continues to get better.

Three Killer strategies in Dead by Daylight are particularly powerful: tunneling, camping, and slugging. Slugging is the practice of downing a Survivor and leaving them on the ground instead of picking them up right away. It can be extremely effective and efficient for the Killer, but it's not much fun for the Survivor, and it can seriously hurt the team's chances of Surviving. Here are some of the best ways to counter slugging.

To combat slugging, it's important to understand why Killers slug. Slugging is done for several reasons. It creates pressure on the team by leaving a teammate unable to complete objectives, draws another teammate away from what they are doing to pick up their slugged teammate, and increases Killer efficiency by allowing them to immediately pursue a new chase instead of spending time carrying a Survivor to hook.

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While it's nice to think that a teammate will be available to pick the player up when they are slugged, that isn't always the case. Survivors can't typically pick up a teammate if they are being chased, and often won't leave a generator they are working on either, as they fear that its progress may be lost. In solo-queue, this reality is especially painful, as it can leave a slugged Survivor on the ground for the entire match.

Teammates can't always be relied on to pick the slugged player up. Even when they'd like to, they're sometimes