The Spirit Fury is the most-stacked anti-pallet perk in the game. Endurance after a pallet stun is the missing puzzle piece. Bamboozle and Tinkerer close the windows. Put them together and you have the Anti-Pallet Chaser - the chase build that defines every high-MMR killer who can't afford to lose gens to pallets.
Why The Spirit Fury?
Stunning a pallet normally costs the killer 2.5 seconds. The Spirit Fury gives you an increasing speed boost after every pallet stun - 5/10/15% per consecutive stun, stacking up to 3 times. The math: 3 pallet stuns = 15% haste. At higher hastses, a 2.5-second stun becomes 1.8 seconds of pallet break time and you recover the speed to catch back up to the Survivor.
Its the perk that let's you commit to chase through a pallet-stun loop instead of breaking off to find another target. Combined with Endurance, you can chase through a stun without losing the Survivor.
Why Endurance?
Without Endurance, The Spirit Fury alone means you take the stun, you break the pallet, you keep chasing - but the Survivors gotten 20 meters during the stun. Endurance removes the stun animation if you've been stunned recently (cooldown 40/35/30s). You walk through the pallet. The Survivor is now in chase range with no window of safety.
The combination is brutal: stun, no animation, break pallet, keep chasing. The Survivors only counter is dropping the pallet early (giving up the loop) or finding a wall the killer can't break through.
Why Bamboozle?
Pallets only work while you're not in a window loop. Bamboozle is the window-counter - +5% vault speed + ability to block a vaulted window for 14 seconds . Pair Bamboozle with The Spirit Fury and you've covered both sides of the equation: pallets don't work (The Spirit Fury + Endurance) and windows don't work (Bamboozle block).
The 14-second window block is enough time for any decent killer to close the loop and get a hit. The Survivor has to break line of sight and find a new loop, which means the chase restarts in your favor.
Why Tinkerer?
Every killer power generates noise. The Trapper's traps, Wraiths uncloak, Huntresss lullaby, Spirits phase, Hillbillys chainsaw - they all create an audio/visual cue that gives Survivors a free 2-3 second warning to drop a pallet or vault a window. Tinkerer removes that warning for 6 seconds after a power use , plus gives you 25% haste at Tier 3.
For powers with longer cooldowns (The Trapper, The Wraith, The Hillbilly), the 6-second un-detectable window is massive. For powers with shorter cooldowns (The Spirit, The Huntress), its about catching Survivors in transition zones - they're holding W to drop a pallet, you uncloak/phase and they don't react in time.
What killers does this build work on?
Tier S - built for this
- The Spirit: Phase through pallets. Tinkerer hides the phase whoosh. Bamboozle closes window loops. The Hillbilly: Chainsaw through pallets after the stun. Tinkerer hides the rev. Bamboozle for window loops. The Wraith: Uncloak into the pallet break. Tinkerer hides the uncloak bell. Bamboozle for safety. The Huntress: Herman Carter through pallets (no pallet break needed). Tinkerer hides the lullaby. Bamboozle for windows.
Tier A - works but not optimal
- The Nurse: Blinks ignore pallets anyway, but Bamboozle helps with window loops and Tinkerer is wasted on her. The Doctor: Tinkerer doesn't help (no power audio). The Spirit Fury is great in his Shock Therapy loops. The Ghost Face: Tinkerer doesn't help. The Spirit Fury helps. Bamboozle helps. Average.
Tier C - skip this build
- The Trapper: Tinkerer is fine, but you don't want to be chasing - you want Survivors in your trap zones. Use The Meta Squeeze instead. The Hag : Same - The Hag doesn't chase, she teleports. The Plague: Decent but Plagues vomit ignores pallets anyway. Use the Anti-Heal The Plague build instead.
When the build falls apart
Three matchups break this build:
- Self-Care / Medkit Survivors. They don't need pallets as long as they can heal. Endurance from Endurance won't stop a Survivors self-heal mid-chase - you need anti-heal for that. Map with long walls (MacMillan Estate, Hawkins). Some maps have wall loops that are unhittable regardless of vault blocking. Bamboozle helps but isn't a fix. Dead Hard users. The Spirit Furys speed boost is irrelevant if the Survivor uses Dead Hard to dodge your attack.
The counter-meta
Survivors who beat this build run:
- Dead Hard - defeats The Spirit Furys catch-up Sprint Burst - defeats Bamboozles window block Smash Hit - defeats both with a stun and a vault
If you see two of those in the Survivor teams perk selection, swap out The Spirit Fury for a regression perk instead.
Final verdict
Anti-Pallet Chaser is the best chase build in patch 10.0.0 for killers with mobility powers. Its not a complete build on its own - pair it with regression ( Corrupt Intervention ) to keep gens down while you're chasing, or run it as part of a 4-perk combo from our catalog .
Open the full Anti-Pallet Chaser page for the difficulty rating, fun rating, related combos, and patch notes.