Summary
Dead By Daylightjust released the long-awaited 2v8 mode, which doubles the trouble by putting two Survivors against eight Killers. This is as chaotic as it sounds, since Killers have a target-rich environment and Survivors have plenty of people working on generators. Often games are short and bloody, with the generators popping left and right.
There are five Killers available: Trapper, Wraith, Huntress, Nurse, and Hillbilly. While you may’t use perks, their abilities are all empowered (except Hillbilly). While the threat of two Killers is nothing to sneeze at, some teams are better than others. So if you want to terrorize those eight Survivors these are the best combinations of Killers in 2v8.
7Trapper And Everyone
Let’s just get this out of the way: The Trapper is the unexpected GOAT in this mode. Every Killer benefits greatly from being paired up with the Trapper and every Killer negates the Trapper’s biggest weakness. Normally a constant presence near the bottom of everycontent creators’ tier list, the Trapper is a menace in 2v8 for two very important reasons.
The Trapper’s Bear Traps can still be set off by Survivors, but even this is not without cost, since doing so takes time and reveals their position in a game where two Killers might be looking for them afterward.
First, the Trapper’s major weakness in normal games is that he has no pressure early on while he’s setting up traps, but with a second Killer, he can set up while the other one harries the Survivors. Second, a few well-placed traps can lock down half the map, which makes it much easier for the other Killer to herd Survivors into losing chases.
6Wraith And Hillbilly
Removing the ability to insta-down and transferring it to your partner Killer was a huge nerf, but a necessary one. The target-rich environment of 2v8 means that even a halfway-decent Hillbilly could get down after down quickly and with relative ease.
Nurse’s teleport attack counts as a special attack and is therefore not affected by the insta-down buff Hillbilly gives.
This combo is the best one to leverage the insta-down buff since Wraith is one of the few Killers fast enough to catch up with a rampaging Hillbilly and he keeps up well with fleeing Survivors. With some communication and good positioning, you can rack up some quick downs.
5Wraith And Nurse
The Nurse isan oppressive Killer; with two Blinks, decent Nurses have a good chance of landing a hit, but with three, it’s almost guaranteed. The Nurse has a passive in 2v8 where if she’s near the other Killer, she gets that third Blink.
Of all the Killers, the Wraith is the best at granting her this third blink, even better than the Hillbilly since he has more control over his speed. With his fast cloaked movement, he can be at the Nurse’s side in short order; combine this with the fact that Nurse regularly forces Survivors out of loops and that Wraith excels at getting ahead of them on the open ground making this duo deadly with some coordination.
4Nurse And Huntress
A decent Nurse-Huntress combo can terrorize large swaths of the map with very little effort, especially on more open maps, since they both have long-range attacks. In chase, they’re nearly impossible to escape since it’s very difficult to get out of their striking distance, especially if they’re coming from two directions.
Nurse is already a menace on her own in Normal games, but Huntress enhances her deadliness by showing the auras of any Survivor struck with a hatchet. This allows the Nurse to zero in on an already-injured Survivor, giving the terrifying appearance of coming out of nowhere to strike you down.
3Huntress And Hillbilly
Like the Huntress-Nurse combo, these two can terrorize a large zone with their abilities. The Huntress can mark targets with her hatchet, and with some game sense, the Hillbilly can find the injured Survivor quickly.
While Hillbilly isn’t as lethal as Nurse, his power is more flexible since it doesn’t fatigue him like Nurse’s does. He can travel across the map quickly with back-to-back chainsaw sprints, whether it’s to help Huntress close the deal at a loop or to harass some Survivors off a nearly completed generator.
He’s also better than Nurse at flushing Survivors out of cover or blocking their way since he doesn’t become intangible like the Nurse.
2Nurse And Hillbilly
Nurse has very few weaknesses, but chief among them is that she actually movesslowerthan the Survivors. With her teleport ability, this is no problem in chases, since the distances are short in loops. But when it comes to actually finding Survivors, her slow movement speed impairs her.
To find Survivors, she has to eitherwalk to the generatorsand hope she finds someone to chase, or use her Blink to hopefully teleport to the correct place and wait for the fatigue to wear off. Hillbilly, with his ability to zip around the map and get into chases quickly, reveals those Survivors and gives Nurse a target. On top of that, if the Hillbilly lands a hit, that Survivor is primed for a rapid takedown.
1Trapper And Hillbilly
As stated above, you may’t go wrong with Trapper as your partner, but this combination is particularly nasty; with other Killers they already apply great pressure on the Survivors, but with each other, they have the most lethal zone control in the game, as Trapper locks down a good chunk of the map with his traps and while he’s still setting up, Hillbilly is already zipping across the map and engaging in his first chase.
Since he can be anywhere on the map rather quickly, he can terrorize Survivors out of any part of the map and herd them to the rusty jaws of Trapper’s Bear Traps. Even if you’re not coordinating, the Bear Traps means that a lot of the loops on the map suddenly become invalid, forcing unwary Survivors onto the traps and the wary ones to transition to another loop. Hillbilly excels at catching up with Survivors on open ground, which means that running to another loop is very hazardous.
