What This Tag Usually Means
- Companion tags: Generator, 3 Gen, Repair, Aura
- Killer-heavy pool: use perk value to force repeatable pressure loops, not one-off highlight plays.
Regression Perks
Browse Dead by Daylight perks tagged with Regression. Filter by role and add perks to your build.
Regression Tag Mini Guide
Regression appears on 15 perks (0 Survivor · 15 Killer). Use this tag as a routing hint, then verify with matchup context.
Build Pattern To Run
- Lock one dependable trigger first, then add this tag for conversion instead of opening with four conditional perks.
- If your activations collide, keep one trigger perk and free one slot for stability.
- Scourge Hook: Pain Resonance: Overwhelming pain reverberates outwards.
Roster Snapshot
- Common character sources: First, All Killers, Animatronic, Artist
- Reference perks: Call of Brine, Eruption, Haywire, Hex: Hive Mind
- Eruption: Performing the Damage Generator action on Generators highlights their Auras in yellow .
15 PERKS0 Survivor • 15 Killer
Call of Brine
Killer • Onryō
After damaging a generator, increases its regression rate and highlights its aura. Also triggers loud noise notifications when Survivors hit good skill checks while repairing that generator.
Eruption
Killer • Nemesis
After damaging a generator, highlights it, and when a Survivor is put into the dying state, highlighted generators explode and begin regressing. Survivors repairing those generators scream and have their auras revealed.
Haywire
Killer • Animatronic
If a Survivor stops opening an Exit Gate after making substantial progress, the gate begins regressing automatically. While regressing, Survivors see the switch lights flicker.
Hex: Hive Mind
Killer • First
After your first hook, a dull totem becomes a Hex Totem and generator auras show repair progress; once four generators are completed, remaining generators explode, lose progress, and begin regressing, then the hex totem dulls and the perk disables.
Hex: Ruin
Killer • Hag
Causes unattended Generators to automatically regress faster than normal. The effect persists until the Hex Totem is cleansed or blessed.
Oppression
Killer • Twins
After damaging a generator, makes other generators begin regressing and forces difficult Skill Checks on Survivors repairing them. Has a cooldown.
Overcharge
Killer • Doctor
After damaging a generator, the next Survivor to interact with it faces a difficult Skill Check and the generator suffers an immediate regression. It then regresses faster for a short time.
Pop Goes the Weasel
Killer • Clown
After hooking a Survivor, the next manually damaged generator immediately loses a portion of its current progress. Deactivates after use or when its timer expires.
Scourge Hook: Pain Resonance
Killer • Artist
Starts with Tokens and consumes one when a Survivor is first hooked on a Scourge Hook to damage the most progressed generator and make repairing Survivors scream. Disables once all Tokens are spent.
Sloppy Butcher
Killer • All Killers
Basic attacks apply Haemorrhage and Mangled for a duration. Haemorrhage is strengthened by increasing pools of blood and worsening partial healing regression.
Surge
Killer • Demogorgon
After downing a Survivor with a basic attack, causes nearby Generators to instantly begin regressing and lose additional progress.
Surveillance
Killer • Pig
Highlights the auras of damaged Generators based on their regression state and increases the audible range of repair-related noises.
Trail of Torment
Killer • Executioner
After damaging a Generator, grants Undetectable and reveals the damaged Generator's aura to Survivors while it regresses. Deactivates when regression stops and has a cooldown between activations.
Turn Back the Clock
Killer • First
After hooking a Survivor, you have a short window to trigger an explosion on a nearby generator that removes progress and starts regression.
Undone
Killer • Unknown
Survivors failing repair or healing skill checks grants tokens. Damaging a Generator consumes tokens to apply extra regression and temporarily block that Generator.