Soul Guard

Summary

After healing or recovering from Dying, grants brief Endurance on a cooldown; when Cursed, allows full self-recovery from the Dying State.

In-game description

You have been through immense hardship and you are stronger for it.

Effect

Whenever you heal or recover from the Dying State, Soul Guard triggers its primary effect:

Grants the Endurance Status Effect for 4/6/8 seconds.
- Endurance is cancelled prematurely when performing a Conspicuous Action of any kind.
- This ability has a cool-down of 30 seconds.

While suffering from the Cursed Status Effect, Soul Guard applies its secondary effect:

Unlocks the Self-Recovery ability, allowing you to fully recover from the Dying State..

Soul Guard Mini Guide

Soul Guard mini guide: stabilization-driven usage with explicit activation, pairing, and correction rules.

Whenever you heal or recover from the Dying State , Soul Guard triggers its primary effect: Grants the Endurance Status Effect for 4 / 6 / 8 seconds .
Real-match effect: Whenever you heal or recover from the Dying State , Soul Guard triggers its primary effect: Grants the Endurance Status Effect for 4 / 6 / 8 seconds .
Tier breakpoint values: 4 / 6 / 8 / 30
Treat activation timing as the core skill check for this perk, then build around reliable follow-up value.

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

Likely throw: Playing this perk as passive value and never routing around its trigger.
Fix: Choose one match phase where this perk is your primary decision anchor, then pivot after conversion.
Character: Cheryl Mason
Chapter context: 16: Silent Hill
Tag set: Endurance, Self Recover, Dying, Cool-down, Heal, Solo, Anti Slug
Bloodpoint categories: Survival