Unless you are a juker on crack or you are that selfish to begin with, never use these perks, why?
It`s quite simple, you are playing a team based role in this game, you are not by yourself, you are together with three other survivors who all try to complete their objective and help each other escape the Killer. If the Killer notices you that you might (wanna) play selfish, most of them will not appreciate that so they are gonna tunnel and/or camp you.

The following perks you should avoid using at all cost,with exceptions like Tome Challenges,Adept achievements:

- Deliverance, Diversion (Adam)
- Left Behind (Bill)
- Self Preservation (Yun-Jin)
- Low Profile (Ada)
- Sole Survivor (Laurie)
- Slippery Meat (Generic perk)
- Self Care (Claudette)

If you ask why I put Diversion there,simply put,you can troll your teammates with it by throwing it at their location,like at a gen, (hex) totem, exit gate etc. I am aware that other perks can be used to sandbag your team but this is the most obvious example,I do not wanna include too many perks here.

These perks will help the team in next to every situation thrown at them,so if you are cooperative person,you might wanna use at least one of these:

- Boon: Circle of Healing/Shadow Step (Mikaela)
- Boon: Dark Theory (Yoichi)
- Boon: Exponential (Jonah)
- Prove Thyself (Dwight)
- Wiretap (Ada)
- Better Together/Situational Awareness (Nancy)
- Detective`s Hunch (Tapp)

It`s kinda self explanatory,but I`ll still say it,these basically makes completing your objective easier and more reliably or in the case of Boon totems,sharing power with your team.

These perks are for either unhooking,slugging or healing situations:

- We're Gonna Live Forever (David)
- We'll Make It (Generic perk)
- For the People (Zarina)
- Emphatic Connection (Yoichi)
- Botany Knowledge (Claudette)
- Bite the Bullet (Leon)
- Desperate Measures (Felix)
- Babysitter/Guardian (Steve)


You can argue why bother with healing perks in general,and the answer is simple,saving time, the faster you heal someone,doesn't matter if unhooked or from the ground,the faster you heal them, more time you will have to do generators. Just do no go with a full healing build since there is a small chance that you might encounter Plague which makes healing irrelevant.

If you wanna use one of these,the most safe options are either Sprint Burst (Meg) or Lithe (Feng).
Balanced Landing (Nea) on some maps will do next to nothing.
If you wanna hold W to infinity and beyond,use Overcome (Jonah)
Smash Hit (Yun-Jin) is SB but worse.
And Killers will absolutely love to tunnel you if you use Dead Hard (David) ... or Head On (Jane) for that matter lol.

Do not forget about Vigil (Quentin) if you wanna use your Exhaustion perk more.

In a nutshell you will see where your teammates,gens or the Killer are:

- Kindred (Generic perk)
- Aftercare (Jeff)
- Alert (Feng)
- Any Means Necessary (Yui)
- Blood Pact (Cheryl)
- Bond (Dwight)
- Dark Sense (Generic perk)
- Deja Vu (Generic perk)
- Empathy (Claudette)
- Inner Focus (Haddie)
- Object of Obsession (Laurie)
- Rookie Spirit (Leon)
- Visionary (Felix)
- Windows of Opportunity (Kate)

These perks,some of them anyway,are popular in Solo Q for a reason,they give you info without having to use Discord.

Unfortunately you really need to use at least one or two of these perks cause most Killers will absolutely sweat their balls to kill you in the fastest way possible unless they simply do not care about kills which is a minority of Killers that actually play the game for the chase and to learn how to get better without resorting to these (sometimes) cheap tactics:

- Borrowed Time (Bill)
- Unbreakable (Bill)
- Soul Guard (Cheryl)
- Adrenaline (Meg)
- Decisive Strike (Laurie)
- Off the Record (Zarina)

I did not included Rebecca`s Reassurance, even tho it`s a good perk, in Solo Q it will barely do anything, as even with that white outline on the hooked person, there will still be that guy who will charge to the hook to save.

I did not know where to exactly put the following perks so I just grouped them together here:

- Distortion (Jeff)
- Streetwise (Nea)
- Small Game (Generic perk)
- Fixated/Self Aware (Nancy)
- Resilience (Generic perk)
- Lightweight (Generic perk)
- Lucky Break (Yui)
- Clairvoyance (Mikaela)
- Built to Last (Felix)

Really slept on perks.

On it`s own it does nothing,but that`s the thing, it was made to synergize with other Aura based perks.

You can basically give wallhacks to your team with it and Kindred or see all the pallets on the map with WoO. And that`s the thing,it`s not only for yourself,it will increase the aura meter range for your team too! So start using this perk already people.

I hope this guide has helped making Solo Q more bearable for the average person there,and before someone accuses me of being a stinky Survivor main,I play both roles,I only want this game to be played in a more healthy way without both sides having to sweat their balls off.

And FYI, those cheap tactics that I mentioned of Killers,they are fine doing those at 1-2 gens or when all of them are finished,my problem is when they start doing it at 4-5 gens,like the game hasn't even started and you are already taking the game too seriously. For comparison,you wouldn't like to be spawncamped in a FPS game now would you? That`s how Solo Q feels right now,you are trapped with randoms which most of the time are not reliable and Killers prefer to play dirty themselves.

Rant over.