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Character: Adam FrancisChapter: 9: Shattered Bloodline

Autodidact

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Summary

While healing other Survivors without a Med-Kit, succeeding healing Skill Checks builds tokens that make subsequent good healing Skill Checks increasingly effective, but removes great healing Skill Checks.

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In-game description
Effect

Succeeding a Skill Check while healing another Survivor grants +1 Token, up to a maximum of 3/4/5 Tokens:

  • Suppresses Great Healing Skill Checks.
  • Causes Good Healing Skill Checks to grant Healing progress based on the number of accumulated Tokens:
    • 0 Tokens: -15 %.
    • 1 Token: +0 %.
    • 2 Tokens: +15 %.
    • 3 Tokens: +30 % (limit of Tier I).
    • 4 Tokens: +45 % (limit of Tier II).
    • 5 Tokens: +60 % (limit of Tier III).

Autodidact is inactive when healing using a Med-Kit.

Quote

There's no limit to what you can achieve, as long as you back with hard work.

— Adam Francis

Autodidact Mini Guide

Autodidact mini guide: utility-driven usage with explicit activation, pairing, and correction rules.

What This Perk Is For

  • Succeeding a Skill Check while healing another Survivor grants +1 Token , up to a maximum of 3 / 4 / 5 Tokens: Suppresses Great Healing Skill Checks .
  • In-match effect: Succeeding a Skill Check while healing another Survivor grants +1 Token , up to a maximum of 3 / 4 / 5 Tokens: Suppresses Great Healing Skill Checks .
  • Tier values: 1 / 3 / 4 / 5
  • Treat activation timing as the core skill check for this perk, then build around reliable follow-up value.

How To Pilot It In Match

  • Opening phase: force one clean trigger before committing to risky tempo lines.
  • Mid-match phase: convert triggers into objective or survival stability.
  • After two missed trigger windows: fallback to your safest baseline pattern and re-enter later.
  • Role: Survivor (167 perks in role pool)

Common Throw + Fix

  • Throw: Playing this perk as passive value and never routing around its trigger.
  • Fix line: Choose one match phase where this perk is your primary decision anchor, then pivot after conversion.
  • Character: Adam Francis
  • Chapter context: 9: Shattered Bloodline
  • Primary tags: Tokens, Terror Radius, Heal, Skill Check, Team
  • Bloodpoint profile: Altruism

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