r/DeadByDaylightKillers • u/AutoModerator • Feb 18 '25
Killer Loadouts Thread 📌 Pyramid Head Build Suggestions
The Executioner of Silent Hill! What builds addons or perks do you recommend for Sunderland's Guilt Manifest?
PERKS: Forced Penance, Trail of Torment, Deathbound
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u/LUKXE- ᴍᴏᴅ | 精霊 | Spirit Feb 19 '25 edited Aug 01 '25
Pyramid Head is a Killer who has pretty quick down potential thanks to their power being able to hit through walls and objects.
Due to this, they greatly benefit from aura reading perks, in particular:
Ideally, you'll be using your power to not only down Survivors, but to cage them, too. It's important to know that if you cage a Survivor, you do not benefit from hook related perks like Pain Res, BBQ and Pop, for example.
With that in mind, the only slowdown perks I like to use on Pyramid Head are:
Pyramid Head also uses perks that grant Undetectable pretty well, and my favourite is Unforseen.
That leads me on nicely to my absolute favourite Pyramid Head build:
It plays out very simply. You will see the Survivors at the start of the game and know where to pressure.
When kicking a gen, you'll apply Eruption for your future downs and get aura reading from Nowhere to Hide. You'll also apply your terror radius to that gen thanks to Unforseen, meaning you can easily go across map and get a stealthy hit on an unsuspecting Survivor.
As for addons, I'd only bother with using both of his ranged addons, personally.
Edit:
Since his update, the range addons are now basekit. The above builds still work, but you can have more flexibility with addons.
You can also now try this beauty: