She uses crows to put pressure on survivors, making it hard for them to escape. Her special skills, like Hex: Pentimento and Scourge Hook: Pain Resonance, make her even more threatening. While her abilities are straightforward to grasp, maximizing her lethal prowess necessitates employing the right strategies and builds. In short, The Artist is a tough opponent in Dead by Daylight, and with the right approach, she becomes even more challenging for survivors.
Best Artist Builds in Dead by Daylight
The Artist excels at finding and injuring survivors but struggles with generator slowdown. The best builds for the Artist complement their strengths while improving their weaknesses. With so many perks available in Dead by Daylight, many choices work well for the Artist. Let’s find out which is the best as of September 2024.
Beginner Artist Build
This build focuses on tracking survivors and slowing down generators. As this is a beginner build, you can use the perks that come with the Artist. Or, you can find them in the Bloodweb of any killer. Here are the perks and add-ons that you should pick:
| Perk Icon |
Name & Killer |
Description |
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Scourge Hook: Pain Resonance (The Artist) |
When a Survivor is hooked on a Scourge Hook for the first time, it uses up 1 Token and the most advanced Generator explodes, losing 15/20/25% of its progress. |
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Whispers (General Perk) |
When a Survivor is within 48/40/32 meters of you, you’ll hear occasional whispers from the Entity. |
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Bitter Murmur (General Perk) |
When a Generator is finished, you can see the locations of all Survivors within 16 meters of that Generator for 5 seconds. When the final Generator is done, you can see all Survivors’ locations for 5/7/10 seconds. |
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Hex: No One Escapes Death |
Boosts your movement speed by 2/3/4%. Survivors are continuously afflicted with the Exposed Status Effect. |
Destroyer Artist Build
If you are looking for a more advanced build that helps you damage generators and prevent survivors from working on them, you should opt for this one. The ideal way to go about this build is to activate the perks as often as possible. Here are the perks and add-ons that you should pick:
| Perk Icon |
Name & Killer |
Description |
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Scourge Hook: Pain Resonance (The Artist) |
When a Survivor is hooked on a Scourge Hook for the first time, it uses up 1 Token and the most advanced Generator explodes, losing 15/20/25% of its progress. |
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Overcharge (The Doctor) |
The subsequent Survivor attempting to interact with that Generator encounters a challenging Skill Check. Missing this Skill Check immediately sets back the Generator by 2/3/4% of its total potential progress, on top of the usual progress setback. |
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Pop Goes The Weasel (The Clown) |
Initiating the Damage Generator Action on a Generator immediately sets it back by 30% of its present progress. |
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Dead Man’s Switch (The Deathslinger) |
While activated, any Survivor that stops repairing a Generator before it is fully repaired causes The Entity to block the Generator until Dead Man’s Switch’s effect ends. |
Power up Artists Build
This combination of perks boosts your strength every time you hook a survivor. The first three perks shine when you hook each survivor once. The first three help a lot when you hook everyone once. “No Way Out” blocks doors longer, “Grim Embrace” stops all generators, and “Barbecue and Chili” gives you more points for hooking. By the fifth hook, you gain the power to instantly eliminate them.
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Name & Killer |
Description |
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No Way Out (Trickster) |
For each Survivor you hook for the first time, No Way Out gains 1 Token. |
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Grim Embrace |
Blocks all Generators for 30/35/40 seconds.
The Aura of the Obsession is revealed to you for 6 seconds. |
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Barbecue and Chili |
After hooking a Survivor, all Survivors who are at least 60/50/40 metres away from that Hook have their Aura revealed to you for 5 seconds. |
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Hex: Devour Hope |
Each time a Survivor is rescued from a Hook while you are at least 24 metres away, Hex: Devour Hope receives 1 Token, up to a maximum of 5 Tokens |
Ultimate Killer Artist Build
When adopting the Artist playstyle, it’s crucial to impede the Generator repair speed as effectively as possible. Use key Killer perks to make things harder for Survivors. Focus on using crows to find and hinder them. Delaying their progress on Generators increases your chances of winning.
| Perk Icon |
Name & Killer |
Description |
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Scourge Hook: Pain Resonance (The Artist) |
The Generator with the most Progression explodes and instantly regresses by 15/20/25 % of its maximum possible Progression. |
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Grim Embrace (The Artist) |
Blocks all Generators for 30/35/40 seconds.
The Aura of the Obsession is revealed to you for 6 seconds. |
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Pop Goes the Weasel (The Clown) |
While activated, any Survivor that stops repairing a Generator before it is fully repaired causes The Entity to block the Generator until Dead Man’s Switch’s effect ends. |
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Barbeque & Chilli (The Cannibal) |
After hooking a Survivor, all Survivors who are at least 60/50/40 metres away from that Hook have their Aura revealed to you for 5 seconds. |
Non-Teachable Build
In this build, you can use Birds of Torment to harm survivors remotely. This will excel by pinpointing Survivor locations, slowing down generators, and targeting them with your crows. By consistently pressuring Survivors and hindering generator progress, this strategy prolongs the game, setting the stage for a challenging endgame.
| Perk Icon |
Name & Killer |
Description |
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Scourge Hook: Pain Resonance (The Artist) |
The Generator with the most Progression explodes and instantly regresses by 15/20/25 % of its maximum possible Progression. |
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Hex: No One Escapes Death (General Perk) |
Boosts your movement speed by 2/3/4%. Survivors are continuously afflicted with the Exposed Status Effect. |
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Bitter Murmur (General Perk) |
When a Generator is finished, you can see the locations of all Survivors within 16 meters of that Generator for 5 seconds. When the final Generator is done, you can see all Survivors’ locations for 5/7/10 seconds. |
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Discordance (Legion) |
When the Generator is first highlighted, Discordance triggers a Loud Noise Notification on the Generator. |
Lethal Pain Build
This build focusses on putting pressure on the generators and finding where the Survivors are hiding. When the main character, The Artist, catches a Survivor, it’s bad news for them. The generators they’ve worked on will break, and their hiding spots become visible because of another character’s special ability called Barbecue & Chili.
| Perk Icon |
Name & Killer |
Description |
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Scourge Hook: Pain Resonance (The Artist) |
The Generator with the most Progression explodes and instantly regresses by 15/20/25 % of its maximum possible Progression. |
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Pop Goes the Weasel (The Clown) |
Initiating the Damage Generator Action on a Generator immediately sets it back by 30% of its present progress. |
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Barbecue & Chili (The Cannibal) |
After hooking a Survivor, all Survivors who are at least 60/50/40 metres away from that Hook have their Aura revealed to you for 5 seconds. |
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Lethal Pursuer (The Nemesis) |
At the beginning of the Trial, you can see the Auras of all Survivors for 7/8/9 seconds. Prolongs the time a Survivor’s Aura remains visible to you by an additional 2 seconds. |
Conclusion
This brings us to the end of this Best Artist Builds in Dead by Daylight guide. Please Note that this guide has been updated for September 2024 to suit the present character specs in the game. When equipped with the right skills and knowledge, The Artist becomes a dominant threat in Dead by Daylight, making it extremely tough for survivors to overcome her. You should be able to use one of the above builds to create the Artist you want and sacrifice the Survivors to win.
