Accept that you are only guaranteed to get one kill based off your abilities to track, find and slay the survivors. Sometimes the maps will not generate in your favor. Sometimes the survivors will spawn on all four corners of the map, and get 10 skillchecks on the generators.

Know that sometimes it is best to leave a survivor downed where they lie as opposed to taking the time to bring them to a hook and mount them.

Understand that it is better to catch a survivor in a bear trap and pick them up, than it is to chase a survivor and slash them twice to down them.

As a trapper, your most advantageous positions are in narrow, long environments. Encourage survivors to travel in these places as much as possible. How, will be elaborated in the advanced section.

Use your judgement to determine if a chase is worth it or not. If a survivor runs into a brick maze, its usually a good idea to break it off.

Some survivors aren't worth the trouble. If they have a medkit, you have to either ignore them or fully commit. If they are highly skilled, it may be a waste of time.

When survivors run loops around a barricade, don't play their game. They will try to mold the environment to their advantage, just break the barricade and don't waste time.

Survivors that sabotage hooks are survivors that waste time. This will be elaborated on later.

The counter to closets is a headset.

When it comes to traps, measure twice, place once.

Most importantly, a trapper needs bait.

The best thing you can do as a killer is understand the maps. There are four maps, each with their own unique attributes. The maps are not so much randomly generated as opposed to having certain parcels swapped out, parcels that are better for killers, and parcels advantageous to survivors.

For example:

• There will always be a factory in Ironworks of Misery.
  
  
• Suffocation pit features a shack on one side of the map, a farm on the other side, and a brick maze in-between the two that survivors can easily lose you in.
  
  
• Shelter Woods will always have a tree in the center and a shack somewhere on it's periphery.
  
  
• Coal Tower will always have a shack on one side and a two-floor house on the other, with large parcels in between like log piles or water towers.

Lay your traps in places that survivors will probably walk in. This includes spots like generators or windowsills. Factory window is a popular place to escape in, put a trap there.

Don't move around the map unless you have a reason to. I won't go to a generator on the other side of the map if it makes noise, but if it has an unset trap next to it I might reconsider.

You are in a good situation if there are an equal amount of generators as there are ACTIVE survivors.

This section is all about understanding the maps and their fundamental properties, as well as guidelines for generator holdouts. This will all be concrete, tangible information that you can visit the maps and confirm. The next section will go into theory, a little bit of psychology and risk/reward.

Assuming that you understand the properties of each map, you need to acknowledge that in a 4 survivor team there will ALWAYS be 7 generators on the map. That means when the count goes down to 1, you will have to manage 3 generators before the exits open.

At the very start of the game, determine which three generators you will be defending. The spots for the generators are mostly randomly generated, but there will always be a generator in the factory on Ironworks, a generator on the top floor of the house in Coal Tower, a generator on the side of the farm in Suffocation Pit, and a generator next to big tree on Sheltered Wood.

These are good generators to keep:

• Factory is a nightmare for survivors because the interior blocks all view. This makes ambushing survivors on the generator very easy.
  
  
• House generator is nice to keep because if you keep it, you can have eyes on your other two generators at all times, without any risk to your third generator since it's right beside you.
  
  
• Farm generator is great because the generator itself has only two ways to exit and a barricade. Put one trap down on the barricade, approach from the other end. Easy pickings.
  
  
• If a survivor gets spotted on the generator at big tree, they are pretty much guaranteed to get hit since there is a lack of cover for them to run to (barricades, windows, etc.).

If a location has/doesn't have a basement, it may influence your decision to hold out at one location versus another. If you are a vigilant patroller, you should be able to find people sabotaging your hooks before they get destroyed. You only need one hook, the rest of the team can get downed.

Check on your three designated generators frequently. Feel free to neglect the other generators if you so much as feel a concern for the three you are trying to keep. You don't want to be in a situation where the three generators are sprawled across the map, as opposed to tightly clustered and all within eyesight.

Roam around the map deliberately picking up traps. Feel free to harass survivors and down them if they are near, but don't take the time to hook them. The time invested in hooking the survivor may be time the survivors are attacking your generator cluster. You also knock out two people from fixing generators temporarily - one person who's downed, another person who takes time getting them up.

By harassing the survivors and downing them, you are buying yourself more time to set up defenses. A downed survivor not only takes significantly more time to get back into action as opposed to the hook, but it also means you can just move on to the next task immediately. Only hook a survivor near your generator cluster, as you will be able to adequately supervise them and make sure that they don't get rescued.

Of course, if the survivor you are chasing is using barricades and going through windows, stop the chase. Only commit to chases that are within your territory, your territory being your generator cluster.

You can put traps on your "trouble" generator of the three and just patrol the other two. You can also put a trap in an obvious spot on each generator, so that when a survivor has the gall to disarm the trap, you will know exactly where they are.

Parcels that are usually worth keeping are the log pile and the water tower. They make good generator spots for the killer as these parcels themselves offer no cover or barricades and you can ambush from the side opposite of the generator.

Parcels that feature numerous barricades certainly have an influence on choice, but you can also work this to your advantage with traps. If you don't have traps and survivors do use barricades inside your territory, just break them. The 20-some barricades on the map don't do anything since you only care about the 2-4 in your zone. They can only run now.

Parcels next to generators certainly can have an influence on your decision to keep it. A survivor can vault in and out of a brick maze parcel right onto your log pile generator, and you can't do anything about it. Not all generator locations are created equal, even if they are on a favorable parcel.

You'll have to make a judgement call on what generators to keep. By all means these parcels are not set in stone to be the best spots to defend. I will still keep a generator next to a brick maze if it's within view of the hilltop that lets me see the other two generators, for example.

(work in progress)