So, to put Wax Artist’s lore bluntly, he was a criminologist and was putting out a theory that, eventually, a person’s evil nature begins to slowly reveal itself on the outside (their physical appearance) and he was invited somewhere overseas to explain and present his theory about this. But this meant leaving his sister behind, so he said he would come back as soon as he can and the last thing he saw was his sister waiting in a chair and smiling at him sadly as she said her farewells. When he came back after completing his presentation, he walked in to see his sister brutally murdered in a bathtub with writing on the wall beside her that reads: “THIS IS YOUR FAULT” or “ALL YOUR FAULT”, something along those lines. So, he went insane and tried to preserve his sister with the wax and, yes, that is his sister on his shoulder.
@@onesmartcat a lot of the hunters have brutal or downright depressing backstories. Most of the survivors are either incredibly terrible or just downright guilty people.
i think wax is a hunter that makes more sense the higher your tier is. like at low tiers nobody knows their kiting routes or how to put distance correctly so hot wax seems "unnecessary" but at higher tiers when ppl do know how to kite he becomes a MENACE. there's a trick with hot wax where you freeze someone, activate hot wax, spray them again for instant damage and then hit them again and that's insane for a hunter to be able to do
That second match was really good! (although those survivors were acting kinda weird). With characters like Wax Artist and Ann/Disciple that have close-range cipher control abilities, it's important for survivors to keep their final cipher away from the hunter. Otherwise, the hunter can block it and prevent the cipher from being popped (like you did!). Some tips I have are: - when you're done using the Hot Wax, you can cancel it early by pressing the ability button again. This makes it enter cooldown faster - You can do a thing with the Hot Wax kind of similar to the 'bring survivors close to 100, then hit, then freeze and hit again'. If a survivor has cold wax, it gets converted to Hot Wax once they are hit with Hot Wax. If you're fast enough, you can freeze a survivor, activate your Hot Wax, shoot once and then immediately attack to get 2 hits at once. However, you do need to be careful because the animation of activating the Hot Wax is almost the time it takes for the freeze to wear off. - You can still vault through windows you've blocked with your wax! - You can block things without the Solid Wax ability as well, just by shooting them for long enough. In fact, if you aim looking upwards, the range of shooting is much longer compared to the Solid Wax ability. (If you aim looking upwards at the stem of a cipher, it's possible to block them from a super long distance away, which is useful to control ciphers when camping at a chair.)
Aaaah ok. Some very good tips. I was wondering if there was any verticality to the aiming. That hot wax double tap is really cool too. Going to need to try that.
"You can be gross with this dude" Made me laugh because when Wax was first teased/released, people did just that. The amount of innuendos/weird audios put over his game play was crazy hahaha
I just want to add one little tips, because i see u start to using peeper: For playstyle like yours that doesn't tunneling one survivor. I think it's better to put one peeper down near the chaired survivor. Because if another survivor is rescuing, the peeper mark on the map will turn red so you can see which way they run.
Yes! Three matches! Good gameplay! This Wax Hunter use his white wax to slow down people to smack them, but survivors usually hide behind dropped pallet or vault to avoid Hunter hitting them when Wax reached 100. Yes, for the red Wax at 09:47, the time for the Red Wax is shown on the right down button on your skill bind with F key, the line circling that logo skill. When the line circling that Red Wax skill logo is gone, then that's the limit of the skill time and you can end the skill early to by tapping the skill again (in your case, the F key) so the cooldown can start faster and you can use the skill again later more early). You want to use Red Wax once you have White Wax them close to 100, like, for example. You spit White Wax on the 'till 86 and then you change to Red Wax, and you spit Red Wax Ball on them to give damage without attack animation. So, even if you can smack them because they are close, Hunter usually use the skill to damage the survivor without attack animation on the sama survivor and then attack them with the basic attack to instantly down them. This is usually done to prevent rescue, but you can use it when doing chase too. On 08:26 you can notice the red circle notification that keep appearing, that usually means the Mechanic's bot is decoding and keep exploding (cause the bot misses the calibration, Mechanic usually control the bot after bot failed the calibration to reduce the cost energy depleted for controlling the bot). You have to find Mechanic's bots rather than chasing the Mechanic because she can still control the bot and decode even if you chair Mechanic. If you smack the bot, then the Mechanic can't decode or heal using bot and Mechanic have to creare new bot after she gets rescued from chair. The bot is gone usually after you destroy them twice. Hunter usually don't chase Mechanic who haven't got their bot out or won't chase Mechanic whose bot have been destroyed and she got no more bot because Mechanic's value is in her bot 😂 and Mechanic decode -25% up till -50% if her teammates got injured 😂. Better smack the bot if you find it cause her teammates who can pick up item can pick up the Mechanic's bot item from Mechanic's chair and use the Mechanic if the item's durability is still there. 12:41 Sometimes survivors are just dum so you don't have to think hard about why they do it 😂.. Maybe Priestess think making portal is faster than vault, or maybe she thinks she can avoid getting terror shocked.. That Priestess just wasted her portal, but then there's not much good portal on that map except for Priestess long portal and to rescue on basement. And you better destroy Priestess' portal when you can cause it's not going to trigger attack animation recovery when you hit survivor's item so they can't take advantage of it like in 12:49 when she goes to her portal so even you wasted white wax on covering the window. 18:00 You can spit Ball Wax on the cipher to block the cipher for a while especially cause it's the last cipher to be primed and they are fixated on that one cipher.. so they can't decode (if aim correctly) while you chase the other one.. But later you did it and you get 4K so you did a really good game 🎉😂 The Wax Artist can keep blocking the ciphee which is one of his great skills. 20:40 Nice mind gaming! I agree with that mindset cause sometimes survivors are so focused on avoid Hunter's skill that they forgot we can also just smack them with basic attack 😂.. Also good chase on Cowboy cause we really have to get rid of Cowboy to not get harrassed cause a player who mastered Cowboy is a nightmare for Hunter.. They are going to waste so much of Hunter's time 😢. 24:53 Even if you block the window with your Wax, the Hunter himself can still vault over the window. Survivors are the only ones who can't vault that. 25:13 If you Wax a dropped pallet, then survivor can't vault over the pallet, but you have ro completely cover the object or else they can still use it (the safe way is just aim precisely with Wax Ball cause if you spit the Wax Ball on something with precise aim, it's a guaranteed block, like what you already did in 26:08. Yes, you completely blocked the pallet and she can't vault it for some time. 27:45 Yes, some people said you won't get bots on Mammoth (Tier IV for survivors) anymore on rank And also Tier IV called Saber-toothed Tiger for Hunter. I only play one games which is IDV cause I don't have time for other game and only certain time to watch and I dont get dizzy watching this gameplay cause IDV is a third-person point of view game. So sorry if I rarely comment i the future. I wish you luck on your documents for the monetization and hope the best for you future. Take care of your health!
Thanks for the breakdown of the questions I had. It was super helpful. Also, don't worry, I don't expect people to watch everything I put out. I know I can jump around a lot, but IDV isn't going away anytime soon. As long as I'm having fun with the game, I'll continue to make content for Identity V.
Thanks cat for another hunter! I haven't read all the comments, so my tips may repeat with someone else's. I personally hate going against wax in ranks when they know how to prevent the rescue. So my first tip for quick down: if a surv is in an open area, or just weak for kiting (and relatively close to you) apply around 80-90 wax, get a quick hit, and wax them with the rest. Survivors r gonna kite you in places with high walls, so try to avoid a chase like that. Next one is really hurtful to go against, but that requires full presence hot wax. (Some ppl can bring left down build) When you see a rescuer, try to apply 100 wax as soon as you can, then swap to a hot wax and hit them with this again. This will register as a hit despite being covered in standard wax first. Just hit rescuer and ta daa, you did a double hit! I hope I explained it simply enough to understand tho, good luck trying it out!
@10:31, not for long, they are buffing professor so he can use his shield against skill abilites too . . . @23:17, gud choice, he has the slowest healing in the game On maps with a lot of walls and stubborn rescuers, i recommend one stack of nostalgic with ur Pallet kill persona so you can see the target after the rescue and get a slight speed buff (Unless you're not about that tunneling life which is completely fine)
It depends. I'll tunnel if it's easily available, or if it's a survivor I want out of the game. One of the reasons I smack people early on rescue or change targets it because they don't expect it. Feels like most survivors of been trained that hunters are going to camp and tunnel.
@@onesmartcat its going to be hard, but if you can work on taking advantage on the survs mistakes, then you will be a great hunter without camping as much. When all those mistakes pile up and the survs get a disadvantage, we call those kinds of hunters snowball hunters. They thrive on mistakes. More aggresive traits like exhibitionist or control traits like street sweeper can be very useful too. Like for example joseph, he is very weak, but using street sweeper makes him more formidable cuz it lets him know where everyone is most of the time since survs need to heal a lot when they get him and his chip damage that lingers can decimate rescuers. There is a trick with him in full presence where he can just keep walking for a short while and teleport to that step, then teleport again and it makes rescuing/looping against him really difficult.
One thing about a priestess, they will just spam portals, even when it's disadvantageous lol almost as if they don't know how to kite. A good priestess knows when to tight kite and when to portal. I almost always bring warp when I see one in case I don't get first chase with her and she uses the world portal to heal the team. She has fast heals for teammates so watch out for that with your playstyle. Everyone else gave the best tips for him specifically so all I can add is that you got it right in the second match when you said he can mind game survivors. Survivors who know how to counter him will keep distance and break line of sight to counter wax, but when they're up close you can mind game with him like other hunters like Clown and Fools Gold that can scare survivors. "Will they use their skill or hit me? Do I try vault this or keep close to them so they miss the swing?" If you practice your controls you'll be able to fake things like that or do the red light trick to hide your position (idk how to do that on pc). Once you get survivors with more experience, his lack of mobility will be a problem so be open to build changes! Also I recommend watching Happy Bud videos. I watch them for fun but when you see top ranking hunters you can learn how they play for faster downs. I actually just learned how they get the most out of the Hunter's Instinct trait from watching.
Thanks for the priestess advice, that helps a lot. I'll definitely watch some higher skilled players now. I always like to get a feel for hunters on my own first. He seems fun, and the higher skill double taps are pretty cool.
I want to see you try Joseph, the Photographer, he's my main and has interesting skill, but he's mainly focused on stalling the cipher progress and you must camp using him tho, he's not that strong in chasing, and sometimes you don't play Joseph, Joseph play you
Joseph play you is kind of ominous, lol. I've used him on rotation a few times and didn't have great outcomes. Most likely because I wasn't camping, like you said. Isn't there a way to use him as an ambush character? Like being able to appear at ciphers?
@onesmartcat yea, some of his camera spawn near ciphers, if you see in the real world a cipher is shaking, go to the photo world and go for that cipher, use the camera or the card to exit photo world and jump them by spamming hit. Some Joseph remember spawn points, they can immediately go to the nearest camera and use the photo world, then go to a potential spot where a survivor could spawn, down their mirror, balloon them then go to next spot where another survivor could spawn and down their mirror too, before the camera end chair the mirror. It's a good start for Joseph so there's one less available survivor on the field. Joseph also can use the jump card to find nearest survivor, your pov after using the jump card tell where the nearest survivor location is. Beserker works great on him cuz his attack recovery is kinda fast. He's kinda heavy on camping and cipher pressure.
Okay, so I don't know if you want to take this advice but on custom training mode, there's a information spawn you can memorize if you want to take a guess where the decoder is at. And second, don't go after decoders at the start of the match, they WILL hide until someone pings that the hunter is near them, then they'll start to decode by transition to another spot far away. So if you find someone, just get the presence unless if the person is good at kiting or in a good kiting spot, then leave them alone.
Gotcha, makes sense. I didn't plan on actively looking for the decoder, I just made a judgement call on leaving the doctor. (Which I didn't know was a doctor BTW.) It's hard to tell sometimes with all the different skins.
By the time you realize they r good at kiting it's already too late. If you go find and chase another at least 2cipher already done and you need to chase other surv with them having full item. So just stick with same surv and just choose wisely early.
I kind of feel like that's what I did on that match. I didn't chase that doctor for long before I dropped the chase, and found bee lady immediately after. So there wasn't much time lost there.
a bit late here but better sometime than never yeah? anyways, you do know the fundamentals of wax artist and obviously other people in the comments have told his tricks that make him good, therefor i'll tell you some things that survivors will do to counter Wax (especially on the higher tiers). You see, like many hunters but very specifically for Wax, he THRIVES off of presence so survivors will do their hardest to deprive you of a chase early game so that by the time you have presence it'll be too late to win. Getting free early hits and changing targets whenever needed for wax is important! he's not a hunter that tunnels or necessarily camps as much as other hunters but in higher tier's you'll wanna try to save your double tap down trick for stuffing rescues if possible. Wax is a hunter without many weaknesses so he's very strong! and annoying. His lore makes him kinda evil which is interesting to me because for the most part lorewise most hunters are actually very sympathetic and good people, so it's refreshing wax artist is kind of an asshole imho.
Fun fact:at a point little phillippe (this man) and the undead were the most hated chracters due to them being kinda controvercial [they still are???but compared to a certain point its barely noticed but still there 😅]
@onesmartcat the undead was because of some drama about his creator+ people hated to play against him. And artist because of his lore and because people thought playing against him when he got released was absolutely annoying
@@Rivər yeah but wax hate started all because of his chracter backstory video trailer the people saw that and started thinking hes Very controvercial i remenber seeing people in game chat calling phillip mains racist "If you play wax fuck you cuz hes racist!!" 💀 Honestly i really dont know How to explain the entire thing cuz out of contenxt It feels weird and makes no sense
It's a wax sculpture of his sister (though it's also kinda implied to be her corpse???? i need a refresher on his lore too but some fanartists like treating her as if she's sentient for the fanon which is fun) your build for him is good, though if you wanna experiment with different builds, insolence is pretty good for when you wanna get your other skills faster (he's one of those hunters that needs his presence more than anything imo, especially if you want to use hot wax to down someone near-instantly*) that said of course, yeah his playstyle tends to be mind-gamey for the most part (not to mention the controls imo are a tad finicky with pc but that's just me); honestly if you feel like going for the hit, you should just go for it; from the matches you've shown so far you seem to got the general hang on wax artist *freeze someone with cold wax, change to hot wax and shoot them with it, then hit them once the damage registers; the window of time to do so is pretty short though
Also would say he has an enough differential playstyle with the stunning/blocking interactable stuff that could be different enough from trickster and plague.
Oh yeah... Him... My top 3 hated hunter. You know, usually it's way easier to 99% the last cipher machine and pop it. But against him??? Yeah no, he will guard it like crazy and you cannot even touch it. And don't make me start with how annoying the hot wax. People just abuse the wax trick for instant down that you just cannot avoid. When you got stunned with the wax, if you got hit with hot wax while stunned you will immediately take damage. People just do this trick and hit you right after to insta-down you which is dummy broken. Lesson of the day: I hate Wax Artist. 🙂
Hope you enjoyed the video! Feel free to let me know what you thought. Or we can talk about Wax and Yes, it's WAX, whatever.
Yes 😂 Mister Sticky Legs is not the best in term of appearances. 😂
The creepyness of this guy skyrockets when you notice that the hair on his sister's "statue" looks real and very different from the rest of the wax
So, to put Wax Artist’s lore bluntly, he was a criminologist and was putting out a theory that, eventually, a person’s evil nature begins to slowly reveal itself on the outside (their physical appearance) and he was invited somewhere overseas to explain and present his theory about this.
But this meant leaving his sister behind, so he said he would come back as soon as he can and the last thing he saw was his sister waiting in a chair and smiling at him sadly as she said her farewells.
When he came back after completing his presentation, he walked in to see his sister brutally murdered in a bathtub with writing on the wall beside her that reads: “THIS IS YOUR FAULT” or “ALL YOUR FAULT”, something along those lines.
So, he went insane and tried to preserve his sister with the wax and, yes, that is his sister on his shoulder.
WTF. Brutal. I dig it.
@@onesmartcat a lot of the hunters have brutal or downright depressing backstories. Most of the survivors are either incredibly terrible or just downright guilty people.
i think wax is a hunter that makes more sense the higher your tier is. like at low tiers nobody knows their kiting routes or how to put distance correctly so hot wax seems "unnecessary" but at higher tiers when ppl do know how to kite he becomes a MENACE. there's a trick with hot wax where you freeze someone, activate hot wax, spray them again for instant damage and then hit them again and that's insane for a hunter to be able to do
Someone else was also saying the same about a hot wax double tap. I definitely want to try it.
That second match was really good! (although those survivors were acting kinda weird). With characters like Wax Artist and Ann/Disciple that have close-range cipher control abilities, it's important for survivors to keep their final cipher away from the hunter. Otherwise, the hunter can block it and prevent the cipher from being popped (like you did!).
Some tips I have are:
- when you're done using the Hot Wax, you can cancel it early by pressing the ability button again. This makes it enter cooldown faster
- You can do a thing with the Hot Wax kind of similar to the 'bring survivors close to 100, then hit, then freeze and hit again'. If a survivor has cold wax, it gets converted to Hot Wax once they are hit with Hot Wax. If you're fast enough, you can freeze a survivor, activate your Hot Wax, shoot once and then immediately attack to get 2 hits at once. However, you do need to be careful because the animation of activating the Hot Wax is almost the time it takes for the freeze to wear off.
- You can still vault through windows you've blocked with your wax!
- You can block things without the Solid Wax ability as well, just by shooting them for long enough. In fact, if you aim looking upwards, the range of shooting is much longer compared to the Solid Wax ability. (If you aim looking upwards at the stem of a cipher, it's possible to block them from a super long distance away, which is useful to control ciphers when camping at a chair.)
Aaaah ok. Some very good tips. I was wondering if there was any verticality to the aiming. That hot wax double tap is really cool too. Going to need to try that.
"You can be gross with this dude" Made me laugh because when Wax was first teased/released, people did just that. The amount of innuendos/weird audios put over his game play was crazy hahaha
Haha, yeah I bet.
I just want to add one little tips, because i see u start to using peeper:
For playstyle like yours that doesn't tunneling one survivor. I think it's better to put one peeper down near the chaired survivor. Because if another survivor is rescuing, the peeper mark on the map will turn red so you can see which way they run.
very good to know!
And near the cipher too for slowing the progress
Yes! Three matches! Good gameplay! This Wax Hunter use his white wax to slow down people to smack them, but survivors usually hide behind dropped pallet or vault to avoid Hunter hitting them when Wax reached 100. Yes, for the red Wax at 09:47, the time for the Red Wax is shown on the right down button on your skill bind with F key, the line circling that logo skill. When the line circling that Red Wax skill logo is gone, then that's the limit of the skill time and you can end the skill early to by tapping the skill again (in your case, the F key) so the cooldown can start faster and you can use the skill again later more early).
You want to use Red Wax once you have White Wax them close to 100, like, for example. You spit White Wax on the 'till 86 and then you change to Red Wax, and you spit Red Wax Ball on them to give damage without attack animation. So, even if you can smack them because they are close, Hunter usually use the skill to damage the survivor without attack animation on the sama survivor and then attack them with the basic attack to instantly down them. This is usually done to prevent rescue, but you can use it when doing chase too.
On 08:26 you can notice the red circle notification that keep appearing, that usually means the Mechanic's bot is decoding and keep exploding (cause the bot misses the calibration, Mechanic usually control the bot after bot failed the calibration to reduce the cost energy depleted for controlling the bot). You have to find Mechanic's bots rather than chasing the Mechanic because she can still control the bot and decode even if you chair Mechanic. If you smack the bot, then the Mechanic can't decode or heal using bot and Mechanic have to creare new bot after she gets rescued from chair. The bot is gone usually after you destroy them twice. Hunter usually don't chase Mechanic who haven't got their bot out or won't chase Mechanic whose bot have been destroyed and she got no more bot because Mechanic's value is in her bot 😂 and Mechanic decode -25% up till -50% if her teammates got injured 😂. Better smack the bot if you find it cause her teammates who can pick up item can pick up the Mechanic's bot item from Mechanic's chair and use the Mechanic if the item's durability is still there.
12:41 Sometimes survivors are just dum so you don't have to think hard about why they do it 😂.. Maybe Priestess think making portal is faster than vault, or maybe she thinks she can avoid getting terror shocked.. That Priestess just wasted her portal, but then there's not much good portal on that map except for Priestess long portal and to rescue on basement. And you better destroy Priestess' portal when you can cause it's not going to trigger attack animation recovery when you hit survivor's item so they can't take advantage of it like in 12:49 when she goes to her portal so even you wasted white wax on covering the window.
18:00 You can spit Ball Wax on the cipher to block the cipher for a while especially cause it's the last cipher to be primed and they are fixated on that one cipher.. so they can't decode (if aim correctly) while you chase the other one.. But later you did it and you get 4K so you did a really good game 🎉😂 The Wax Artist can keep blocking the ciphee which is one of his great skills.
20:40 Nice mind gaming! I agree with that mindset cause sometimes survivors are so focused on avoid Hunter's skill that they forgot we can also just smack them with basic attack 😂.. Also good chase on Cowboy cause we really have to get rid of Cowboy to not get harrassed cause a player who mastered Cowboy is a nightmare for Hunter.. They are going to waste so much of Hunter's time 😢.
24:53 Even if you block the window with your Wax, the Hunter himself can still vault over the window. Survivors are the only ones who can't vault that. 25:13 If you Wax a dropped pallet, then survivor can't vault over the pallet, but you have ro completely cover the object or else they can still use it (the safe way is just aim precisely with Wax Ball cause if you spit the Wax Ball on something with precise aim, it's a guaranteed block, like what you already did in 26:08. Yes, you completely blocked the pallet and she can't vault it for some time.
27:45 Yes, some people said you won't get bots on Mammoth (Tier IV for survivors) anymore on rank And also Tier IV called Saber-toothed Tiger for Hunter.
I only play one games which is IDV cause I don't have time for other game and only certain time to watch and I dont get dizzy watching this gameplay cause IDV is a third-person point of view game. So sorry if I rarely comment i the future. I wish you luck on your documents for the monetization and hope the best for you future. Take care of your health!
Thanks for the breakdown of the questions I had. It was super helpful. Also, don't worry, I don't expect people to watch everything I put out. I know I can jump around a lot, but IDV isn't going away anytime soon. As long as I'm having fun with the game, I'll continue to make content for Identity V.
Thanks cat for another hunter! I haven't read all the comments, so my tips may repeat with someone else's. I personally hate going against wax in ranks when they know how to prevent the rescue.
So my first tip for quick down: if a surv is in an open area, or just weak for kiting (and relatively close to you) apply around 80-90 wax, get a quick hit, and wax them with the rest. Survivors r gonna kite you in places with high walls, so try to avoid a chase like that.
Next one is really hurtful to go against, but that requires full presence hot wax. (Some ppl can bring left down build)
When you see a rescuer, try to apply 100 wax as soon as you can, then swap to a hot wax and hit them with this again. This will register as a hit despite being covered in standard wax first. Just hit rescuer and ta daa, you did a double hit! I hope I explained it simply enough to understand tho, good luck trying it out!
Great explanation. Thanks!
I love your idv vids so much you are getting so good at the game
Much appreciation!
@10:31, not for long, they are buffing professor so he can use his shield against skill abilites too . . . @23:17, gud choice, he has the slowest healing in the game
On maps with a lot of walls and stubborn rescuers, i recommend one stack of nostalgic with ur Pallet kill persona so you can see the target after the rescue and get a slight speed buff (Unless you're not about that tunneling life which is completely fine)
It depends. I'll tunnel if it's easily available, or if it's a survivor I want out of the game. One of the reasons I smack people early on rescue or change targets it because they don't expect it. Feels like most survivors of been trained that hunters are going to camp and tunnel.
@@onesmartcat its going to be hard, but if you can work on taking advantage on the survs mistakes, then you will be a great hunter without camping as much. When all those mistakes pile up and the survs get a disadvantage, we call those kinds of hunters snowball hunters. They thrive on mistakes. More aggresive traits like exhibitionist or control traits like street sweeper can be very useful too.
Like for example joseph, he is very weak, but using street sweeper makes him more formidable cuz it lets him know where everyone is most of the time since survs need to heal a lot when they get him and his chip damage that lingers can decimate rescuers. There is a trick with him in full presence where he can just keep walking for a short while and teleport to that step, then teleport again and it makes rescuing/looping against him really difficult.
One thing about a priestess, they will just spam portals, even when it's disadvantageous lol almost as if they don't know how to kite. A good priestess knows when to tight kite and when to portal. I almost always bring warp when I see one in case I don't get first chase with her and she uses the world portal to heal the team. She has fast heals for teammates so watch out for that with your playstyle.
Everyone else gave the best tips for him specifically so all I can add is that you got it right in the second match when you said he can mind game survivors. Survivors who know how to counter him will keep distance and break line of sight to counter wax, but when they're up close you can mind game with him like other hunters like Clown and Fools Gold that can scare survivors. "Will they use their skill or hit me? Do I try vault this or keep close to them so they miss the swing?" If you practice your controls you'll be able to fake things like that or do the red light trick to hide your position (idk how to do that on pc).
Once you get survivors with more experience, his lack of mobility will be a problem so be open to build changes!
Also I recommend watching Happy Bud videos. I watch them for fun but when you see top ranking hunters you can learn how they play for faster downs. I actually just learned how they get the most out of the Hunter's Instinct trait from watching.
Thanks for the priestess advice, that helps a lot. I'll definitely watch some higher skilled players now. I always like to get a feel for hunters on my own first. He seems fun, and the higher skill double taps are pretty cool.
I want to see you try Joseph, the Photographer, he's my main and has interesting skill, but he's mainly focused on stalling the cipher progress and you must camp using him tho, he's not that strong in chasing, and sometimes you don't play Joseph, Joseph play you
Joseph play you is kind of ominous, lol. I've used him on rotation a few times and didn't have great outcomes. Most likely because I wasn't camping, like you said. Isn't there a way to use him as an ambush character? Like being able to appear at ciphers?
@onesmartcat yea, some of his camera spawn near ciphers, if you see in the real world a cipher is shaking, go to the photo world and go for that cipher, use the camera or the card to exit photo world and jump them by spamming hit.
Some Joseph remember spawn points, they can immediately go to the nearest camera and use the photo world, then go to a potential spot where a survivor could spawn, down their mirror, balloon them then go to next spot where another survivor could spawn and down their mirror too, before the camera end chair the mirror. It's a good start for Joseph so there's one less available survivor on the field.
Joseph also can use the jump card to find nearest survivor, your pov after using the jump card tell where the nearest survivor location is.
Beserker works great on him cuz his attack recovery is kinda fast. He's kinda heavy on camping and cipher pressure.
@@zio_f Good tips, Maybe I will give him another try.
@@onesmartcat Awesome! I just love Joseph so much, his skins are pretty too.
24:50 You can still vault ur waxed windows XD, its only blocked for survs
Good to know!
Okay, so I don't know if you want to take this advice but on custom training mode, there's a information spawn you can memorize if you want to take a guess where the decoder is at.
And second, don't go after decoders at the start of the match, they WILL hide until someone pings that the hunter is near them, then they'll start to decode by transition to another spot far away. So if you find someone, just get the presence unless if the person is good at kiting or in a good kiting spot, then leave them alone.
Gotcha, makes sense. I didn't plan on actively looking for the decoder, I just made a judgement call on leaving the doctor. (Which I didn't know was a doctor BTW.) It's hard to tell sometimes with all the different skins.
By the time you realize they r good at kiting it's already too late. If you go find and chase another at least 2cipher already done and you need to chase other surv with them having full item. So just stick with same surv and just choose wisely early.
I kind of feel like that's what I did on that match. I didn't chase that doctor for long before I dropped the chase, and found bee lady immediately after. So there wasn't much time lost there.
a bit late here but better sometime than never yeah? anyways, you do know the fundamentals of wax artist and obviously other people in the comments have told his tricks that make him good, therefor i'll tell you some things that survivors will do to counter Wax (especially on the higher tiers). You see, like many hunters but very specifically for Wax, he THRIVES off of presence so survivors will do their hardest to deprive you of a chase early game so that by the time you have presence it'll be too late to win. Getting free early hits and changing targets whenever needed for wax is important! he's not a hunter that tunnels or necessarily camps as much as other hunters but in higher tier's you'll wanna try to save your double tap down trick for stuffing rescues if possible. Wax is a hunter without many weaknesses so he's very strong! and annoying. His lore makes him kinda evil which is interesting to me because for the most part lorewise most hunters are actually very sympathetic and good people, so it's refreshing wax artist is kind of an asshole imho.
These type of tips were actually really helpful. Hearing how survivors counter a hunter is pretty cool.
Fun fact:at a point little phillippe (this man) and the undead were the most hated chracters due to them being kinda controvercial [they still are???but compared to a certain point its barely noticed but still there 😅]
Controversial how?
@onesmartcat the undead was because of some drama about his creator+ people hated to play against him. And artist because of his lore and because people thought playing against him when he got released was absolutely annoying
@Ganbre14 HUH, isn't knight's lore more way worse than Phillip's with the sister thing?
What's Knight's?
@@Rivər yeah but wax hate started all because of his chracter backstory video trailer the people saw that and started thinking hes Very controvercial i remenber seeing people in game chat calling phillip mains racist "If you play wax fuck you cuz hes racist!!" 💀 Honestly i really dont know How to explain the entire thing cuz out of contenxt It feels weird and makes no sense
It's a wax sculpture of his sister (though it's also kinda implied to be her corpse???? i need a refresher on his lore too but some fanartists like treating her as if she's sentient for the fanon which is fun)
your build for him is good, though if you wanna experiment with different builds, insolence is pretty good for when you wanna get your other skills faster (he's one of those hunters that needs his presence more than anything imo, especially if you want to use hot wax to down someone near-instantly*)
that said of course, yeah his playstyle tends to be mind-gamey for the most part (not to mention the controls imo are a tad finicky with pc but that's just me); honestly if you feel like going for the hit, you should just go for it; from the matches you've shown so far you seem to got the general hang on wax artist
*freeze someone with cold wax, change to hot wax and shoot them with it, then hit them once the damage registers; the window of time to do so is pretty short though
I will definitely try the hot wax double tap. (Also, wax corpse sister, WTF.)
I really like this hunter! He counters my main so I like the challenge of playing against him.
Who's your main?
@@onesmartcat Professor (and Thief, but I meant professor here as Thief can do well against Waxist).
Someone said Professor was getting a buff that would make him better against Wax Man.
Is it just me or this hunter skillset and general vibe would work in dbd
Maybe. They already have a basis for it with Vommy Mommy. Just turn the broken status into a second stun.
@onesmartcat yeah that's what I'm saying I can imagine his sister holding the survs when he carries them
To be honest yeah, he is legitimally creepy, and would look even more with DBD's graphics.
Also would say he has an enough differential playstyle with the stunning/blocking interactable stuff that could be different enough from trickster and plague.
Ikr, kinda debating if he should keep the hot wax thing tho it's maybe too op for dbd and too similar to plague's kit
Wax seems basic but he’s still good from a former wax a badge he’s strong against low tier lobbies possibly high tier if you’re good enough
Oh yeah... Him... My top 3 hated hunter. You know, usually it's way easier to 99% the last cipher machine and pop it. But against him??? Yeah no, he will guard it like crazy and you cannot even touch it.
And don't make me start with how annoying the hot wax. People just abuse the wax trick for instant down that you just cannot avoid. When you got stunned with the wax, if you got hit with hot wax while stunned you will immediately take damage. People just do this trick and hit you right after to insta-down you which is dummy broken.
Lesson of the day: I hate Wax Artist. 🙂
okay hear me out... /j
I'm just saying... /j
Nahh yall are wax freaks XD