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Unhook Perks

Browse Dead by Daylight perks tagged with Unhook. Filter by role and add perks to your build.

Unhook Tag Mini Guide

Unhook appears on 21 perks (21 Survivor · 0 Killer). This tag mostly tracks execution windows: use it to sharpen one in-match action loop.

What This Tag Usually Means

  • Most frequent companion tags: Hook, Team, Solo, Heal
  • Survivor-heavy pool: route for objective uptime first, then spend perk value to survive pressure spikes.

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.
  • Resilience: Whenever you are in the Injured State , Resilience activates: Increases the Action speeds for the following interactions by 3 / 6 / 9 % : Blessing or Cleansing Totems .

Roster Snapshot

  • Most frequent characters: All Survivors, Steve Harrington, Ace Visconti, Adam Francis
  • Reference perks: Babysitter, Blood Rush, Borrowed Time, Breakdown
  • Off the Record: After being unhooked or unhooking yourself, Off the Record activates for 30 / 35 / 40 seconds : Blocks your Aura from being revealed.
21 PERKS21 Survivor • 0 Killer
Babysitter perk icon

Babysitter

SurvivorSteve Harrington

After you unhook another Survivor, the Killer’s aura is revealed to you briefly, while the unhooked Survivor leaves no scratch marks or pools of blood and gains a short burst of speed.

Blood Rush perk icon

Blood Rush

SurvivorRenato Lyra

After being unhooked, you temporarily gain the ability to instantly remove your Exhausted status once, but this effect ends after use, after performing a conspicuous action, or once the Exit Gates are powered.

Borrowed Time perk icon

Borrowed Time

SurvivorBill Overbeck

When you unhook another Survivor, their Endurance and Haste effects after the unhook last significantly longer.

Breakdown perk icon

Breakdown

SurvivorJeff Johansen

After you are unhooked, the used hook immediately breaks for an extended time and the Killer’s aura is briefly revealed to you.

Come and Get Me! perk icon

Come and Get Me!

SurvivorRick Grimes

After unhooking, you can crouch and activate to hide grunts of pain, blood, and scratch marks for nearby injured or dying Survivors while briefly revealing yourself to the Killer.

Dead Hard perk icon

Dead Hard

SurvivorDavid King

After being unhooked, allows a brief Endurance while running and injured; cannot be used while Exhausted and causes Exhausted after use.

Decisive Strike perk icon

Decisive Strike

SurvivorLaurie Strode

After being unhooked, grants a short window to stun the Killer with a Skill Check when picked up and escape, making you the Obsession until the effect ends after use or when the endgame begins.

Deliverance perk icon

Deliverance

SurvivorAdam Francis

After a safe unhook, allows a one-time self-unhook during first hook stage but inflicts Broken afterward.

Desperate Measures perk icon

Desperate Measures

SurvivorFelix Richter

Healing and unhooking actions become faster for each injured, dying, or hooked Survivor.

Leader perk icon

Leader

SurvivorDwight Fairfield

Survivors near you perform key actions faster and the effect lingers briefly after they leave; only one instance of Leader can apply to a Survivor at a time.

No One Left Behind perk icon

No One Left Behind

SurvivorAll Survivors

When the Exit Gates are powered, reveals all Survivors' auras, speeds up healing and unhooking, and boosts the Haste effect on Survivors you unhook.

Off the Record perk icon

Off the Record

SurvivorZarina Kassir

After being unhooked, temporarily blocks your aura, hides grunts and scratch marks, and grants Endurance until disabled by endgame or a conspicuous action.

Resilience perk icon

Resilience

SurvivorAll Survivors

While injured, interaction speeds like cleansing, healing, repairing, vaulting, opening, sabotaging, searching chests, and unhooking are faster.

Resurgence perk icon

Resurgence

SurvivorJill Valentine

After being unhooked, you immediately gain partial healing progress toward recovering.

Second Wind perk icon

Second Wind

SurvivorSteve Harrington

After healing others enough, your next unhook leaves you Broken but automatically heals a health state after a delay unless you go down first.

Shoulder the Burden perk icon

Shoulder the Burden

SurvivorTaurie Cain

Once per trial, you can unhook and trade a hook stage with the Survivor, screaming and becoming Exposed afterward.

Slippery Meat perk icon

Slippery Meat

SurvivorAll Survivors

Grants extra self-unhook attempts during first hook stage and slightly improves self-unhook odds.

Spine Chill perk icon

Spine Chill

SurvivorAll Survivors

When the Killer looks at you within range, warns via the perk icon and slightly speeds many interactions, lingering briefly after they look away.

Up the Ante perk icon

Up the Ante

SurvivorAce Visconti

Enables first-stage self-unhook attempts for everyone and boosts self-unhook luck based on how many Survivors remain.

We'll Make It perk icon

We'll Make It

SurvivorAll Survivors

After unhooking a Survivor, your healing others is much faster for a limited time.

Wicked perk icon

Wicked

SurvivorSable Ward

After being unhooked, reveals the Killer's aura; if hooked in the basement on first stage, guarantees a self-unhook attempt.