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Character: Taurie CainChapter: 34: Doomed Course

Clean Break

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Summary

After you finish healing another Survivor, you can activate a delayed self-heal while being healed by someone else, suffering Broken in exchange for automatically gaining a health state after some time if you are not downed.

Add to New Survivor build
In-game description

At the end of the day, everyone has to look out for themselves.

Effect

After completing a Healing action on another Survivor, Clean Break activates.

Press the Active Ability button while being healed by another Survivor to trigger the following effects:

  • Suffer from the Broken Status Effect.
  • You are automatically healed 1 Health State after 80/70/60 seconds.
    • This effect is cancelled prematurely if you enter the Dying State.

Clean Break does not activate if you already suffer from Broken.

Clean Break deactivates after healing you.

Quote

I'll be fine! Don't stick your neck out for me.

— Taurie Cain

Clean Break Mini Guide

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

What This Perk Is For

  • After completing a Healing action on another Survivor , Clean Break activates.
  • Real-match effect: After completing a Healing action on another Survivor , Clean Break activates.
  • Tier breakpoint values: 1 / 80 / 70 / 60
  • Treat activation timing as the core skill check for this perk, then build around reliable follow-up value.

How To Pilot It In Match

  • Early 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

  • Likely 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: Taurie Cain
  • Chapter: 34: Doomed Course
  • Primary tags: Broken, Dying, Heal, Team
  • Bloodpoint profile: Survival

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