Four perks, two jobs. Spirit Fury and Enduring handle pallets. Bamboozle handles windows. Tinkerer handles the part of the trial where you are not chasing anyone, which is most of it. Stack them and you have the core of the Anti-Pallet Chaser with one slot changed, and that changed slot is the entire argument of this post. Run it wrong and you are carrying three chase perks and no map pressure, which loses to a team that spreads and repairs. Run it right and every obstacle on the map becomes something that happens to the Survivor instead of to you. The Spirit is the cleanest home for it, but nothing here is Spirit exclusive.
Why Spirit Fury?
First, kill the myth. Spirit Fury does not give you movement speed. It does not stack haste per stun. What it actually does is this: after you manually break a dropped Pallet by any means a total of 4/3/2 times, Spirit Fury activates, and The Entity instantly breaks the next Pallet used to stun you. The normal Stun penalty applies afterwards, unless it is mitigated by other effects. The perk then deactivates after use. That is the whole thing. It is a panic button with a build-up cost, and once you press it you have to earn it again.
That cost is why it feels weak when you first pick it up and broken once it is online. Four pallet breaks at tier 1 is a real ask. In a short chase through a three-pallet stretch you may never reach it, and there is no partial credit. The Survivor who runs the same loop five times is feeding it; the one who drops early and rotates is not. Spot the difference and you know when to hold your ground and when to let the pallet go.
Where it pays off is the second lap of a loop. You have broken pallets, you have set up the count, and now the Survivor tries the same drop again. The pallet comes down on them instead of stopping you, and the only thing left is the stun recovery. That is where the rest of the build does its work, because a stun you have to walk out of is the moment a chase actually dies.
Why Enduring?
Enduring reduces the duration of Pallet Stuns by 40/45/50%. That is the entire effect, and it is the piece that makes the other piece work. Spirit Fury's own wording says the normal stun penalty applies afterwards unless it is mitigated by other effects. Enduring is that other effect. Spirit Fury deletes the obstacle, Enduring shortens what is left, and the two of them together turn a chain-built chase into a chase that never actually stops.
Get the order of operations right. A stun you did not earn costs you the loop: the Survivor gets a free vault, you get the recovery, and the gap opens. Spirit Fury removes that cost once per activation. Enduring removes a slice of it every time. They are not redundant because one is a one-shot and the other is not.
Now the clause people skip. Enduring has no effect while carrying a Survivor. Hook someone mid-loop and this perk does nothing. If your plan is to hook early, put them down, and manage the map instead of extending the chase, then this slot is dead weight and you should spend it elsewhere. The pairing is built for extended chases, and only extended chases.
Why Bamboozle?
Pallets are handled. Windows are not, and windows are where a good loop turns into a great one. Bamboozle does two things: after vaulting a Window it blocks that Window for the next 8/12/16 seconds so Survivors cannot vault it, and it increases your general Vaulting speed by 5/10/15%. The block is the real content. Survivors vault windows specifically to buy the time you spend breaking the pallet behind them, so sealing the window you just came through removes the exit they were saving.
Two limits make it a tool rather than a zone. It only blocks one Window at a time, and it does not apply either of its effects to vaulting Pallets. Every time you vault a window you are spending the block on the window you leave, and the rest of the building stays open. Treat it as a targeted denial pick, not a passive aura.
Sixteen seconds at tier 3 is enough to close a window loop and land a hit, provided you know which window they took. You usually do, because you vaulted one yourself a moment earlier. That is why the vault speed bonus matters even though it is the smaller half of the perk: the block only pays off if you are willing to vault.
Why Tinkerer?
Here is the honest version, because this is the slot everyone misreads. Tinkerer has nothing to do with your power, your phase, your chainsaw, or your uncloak. Whenever a Generator is repaired to 70%, it triggers a Loud Noise Notification for that Generator and grants you the Undetectable Status Effect for the next 12/14/16 seconds, once per Generator per Trial. There is no haste attached to it at any tier. The number you will see quoted in older guides is not real.
So why take it? Look at who the loud noise is aimed at. The notification marks the generator to you, but Survivors hear it too. A generator hitting 70% is a spotlight telling the whole team where you are likely to go next, and that would be a problem if you were not Undetectable for the next twelve to sixteen seconds. You get the information and the cover at the same time.
What you do with it is the skill expression. Twelve seconds of Undetectable is enough to cross a building, ignore a survivor standing on a gen, reposition to the other side of a loop, and set up a hit they never see coming. It is a repositioning tool, not an initiation tool. Use it to arrive somewhere better, not to cheese a free down at a generator that is not there.
Compare it to the other Undetectable sources and the reason this slot is defensible becomes obvious. Furtive Chase grants Undetectable plus a haste bonus for 14/16/18 seconds, but only when you hook your Obsession, so it is tied to your best chase landing. Trail of Torment keeps you hidden until a generator stops regressing after you damage it. Beast of Prey hides you for as long as Bloodlust is active. Machine Learning hands you Undetectable and haste once a Compromised Generator is completed. Tinkerer's trigger is the least conditional of the four. It is not tied to a hook, a power, or a specific killer. It fires on survivor progress, and survivor progress happens whether you are winning or losing.
Which of the four is load-bearing
Spirit Fury and Enduring are the pair, and they are not separable in practice. Pull Spirit Fury out and this becomes an ordinary chase build with a window deny attached. You are still fine, which is the problem, because fine is not a reason to pick four perks. Pull Enduring out instead and you keep the free delete, then eat the full recovery on top of it. The perk that says the stun penalty applies unless mitigated by other effects stops having a mitigating effect, and the pairing that justified the slot stops existing.
Bamboozle is the situational third. It is genuinely strong on window-heavy maps and genuinely wasted on maps where survivors are routing through loops you have already sealed. Test it by watching one match without it and noticing how often the survivor who escapes a chase does it through a window rather than around a corner. If that number is high, the slot is earning itself.
Tinkerer is the swap. It is the only one of the four that does nothing for the chase you are currently in, and the only reason you have a plan for the two minutes you spend not chasing. If you already know where everybody is by other means, take the cooldown reduction instead. If you do not, take the information.
What the build loses when you swap a slot
Swap Tinkerer for Save the Best for Last and you get up to 24/28/32% cooldown reduction on Basic Attacks as you stack tokens off non-obsession hits. That is the fourth slot in the catalog Anti-Pallet Chaser, and the version most players meet first. You give up every 70% generator ping and every long stretch of Undetectable. Take this swap when your killer already has an answer for finding survivors.
Swap Bamboozle for Corrupt Intervention and you trade loop denial for opening pressure. The three generators located farthest from you get blocked for 80/100/120 seconds at the start of the Trial, which is the free window where you find your first chase. It deactivates prematurely once the first Survivor is put into the Dying State, so it is a setup perk and nothing more. This is exactly how The Meta Squeeze buys its opening, and it is why Bamboozle is the one slot in this build most worth giving up.
Swap Spirit Fury for pure pressure and you are running something closer to Gen Kick / Pain Engine or The Regression Quartet, where every slot is about taking generators back instead of denying obstacles. Those builds play a completely different game, and they are the honest answer for killers whose power already ignores pallets.
Do not swap Enduring. There is no version of this build where you want the full stun recovery with a free pallet delete in your back pocket.
How it stacks up against the other builds
Worth saying plainly, because it tells you what kind of build this is. On the site's own catalog, Spirit Fury and Enduring each appear in exactly one Killer combo: the Anti-Pallet Chaser. Bamboozle appears in two, adding The Meta Squeeze. Tinkerer appears in three, and all three are map-control builds. It turns up in Aggressive Instadown for the reposition before an instadown, in Huntress Map Control so you can throw a Hatchet unseen, and in Houndmaster Hunter so you can redirect the dog while nobody watches.
That pattern is the argument. Tinkerer is a pressure and repositioning perk, and every build it appears in is about controlling where survivors are allowed to be. Putting it in a chase core is a hybrid, and hybrids are fine as long as you know what you are running. You are not running the meta chase build with a flex perk bolted on. You are running it with the cooldown slot converted into information.
Which Killers this build suits
Tier S - built for this
- The Spirit: phases straight through obstacles, so Spirit Fury's delete and Enduring's mitigation are pure profit on a chase that never needed the pallet. Bamboozle shuts the window half of every loop. The only killer where all four perks are pure upside.
- The Hillbilly: a chainsaw that already beats pallets makes Enduring nearly free value, because a stun you shorten is a stun the saw was going to overwrite anyway. Bamboozle handles the window loops the saw cannot reach.
- The Wraith: Undetectable is already part of the character, and Tinkerer stacks another twelve to sixteen seconds on top of it at a moment you choose rather than a moment the bell chooses for you.
- The Huntress: the lullaby already gives you an audio tell you cannot remove, and Tinkerer is the closest thing to covering it, because you reposition while nobody can see the approach. Our Huntress build guide covers the rest of the loadout.
Tier A - works, not optimal
- The Nurse: Blinks ignore obstacles, so the two pallet perks do less work. Bamboozle still pays on window loops and the Nurse aura build is a better home for the slot if you want pure information.
- The Doctor: Tinkerer still works, but the chase perks are fighting a killer whose power wants survivors to stay on generators, not to run loops.
- The Ghost Face: Spirit Fury and Bamboozle are good, Tinkerer is wasted next to a built-in Shroud, and Ghost Face Stealth and Stalk is strictly better use of four slots.
Tier C - skip this build
- The Trapper: your ideal end state is a Survivor on a trap, not a Survivor you chased into a corner. Run The Meta Squeeze instead. The current Killer tier list covers the rest.
- The Hag: she does not chase, she teleports, and a build built entirely around chase pressure has nothing to attach to.
- The Plague: her kit already ignores obstacles, and the real problem you are solving here is a chase, not a heal. The Anti-Heal Plague build is the correct answer.
When the build falls apart
Three matchups break it, and none of them are about perks.
- Med-kit and Self-Care survivors. Self-Care lets them heal without a med-kit at 25/30/35% of normal Healing speed, so they can top up mid-loop and simply refuse to drop. No amount of stun mitigation fixes a survivor who is not afraid of being hit, and you have no anti-heal slot here.
- Maps with long unbroken wall loops. Some structures are not hittable regardless of what you sealed, and Bamboozle helps without solving it. Our map coverage is worth a read before you commit to a lobby.
- Dead Hard users. Pressing the Active Ability button triggers the Endurance Status Effect for half a second and causes Exhausted for 60/50/40 seconds. Your whole build assumes the first hit is the hit, and Dead Hard is built specifically to prove that assumption wrong. Our Dead Hard breakdown goes deeper.
The counter-meta
Survivors who reliably beat this build run one of three things. If you see two in the same lobby, think hard about whether this is the right four slots.
- Dead Hard, owned by David King, defeats the assumption that the first hit ends the chase. It causes Exhausted for 60/50/40 seconds, so it costs them their escape options too. They will take it.
- Sprint Burst, owned by Meg Thomas, grants a +50% haste effect for 3 seconds when they start running, which walks them straight out of the range your shortened stun was supposed to hold.
- Smash Hit, owned by Yun-jin Lee, turns your anti-pallet plan against you: a pallet stun gives them a +50% haste effect for 4 seconds, and it causes Exhausted for 30/25/20 seconds so they are fresh when you get there. It punishes the exact loop this build is built around.
If two of those show up, swap Spirit Fury for a regression perk and win on the clock instead of the chase. Gen Kick / Pain Engine and The Regression Quartet both do that. The Survivor perk tier list will tell you how bad the lobby is.
Frequently asked questions
Is Tinkerer actually a chase perk?
No, and stop reading guides that say it is. Tinkerer triggers when a Generator is repaired to 70%, pings that generator with a Loud Noise Notification, and gives you Undetectable for 12/14/16 seconds, once per Generator per Trial. It is a pressure and repositioning perk. It belongs in a chase build because the Undetectable window lets you set the chase up, not because it does anything once the chase starts. Every catalog build it appears in is built around map control.
Does Spirit Fury give me movement speed?
No. It builds a counter as you manually break dropped Pallets, four times at tier 1, three at tier 2, two at tier 3, and then The Entity instantly breaks the next Pallet used to stun you. The normal Stun penalty still applies afterwards unless something else mitigates it. The perk is a one-use panic button, and it deactivates after use, so you rebuild the counter from scratch every time. There is no haste attached to it at any tier.
Can I use Enduring while carrying a Survivor?
No. Enduring reduces the duration of Pallet Stuns by 40/45/50% and has no effect while carrying a Survivor. If your plan is extended chases, it is one of the best slots in the game. If your plan is hook early and manage the map, it is doing nothing for you and you should spend the slot on pressure instead.
Does Bamboozle block pallets?
No. Bamboozle only blocks one Window at a time and does not apply either of its effects to vaulting Pallets. That is deliberate, because Spirit Fury and Enduring already own the pallet half of the problem. The window block runs 8/12/16 seconds and blocked Windows cannot be vaulted by Survivors, which stops the escape route rather than the obstacle.
Should I run Tinkerer or Save the Best for Last?
Save the Best for Last if you already know where survivors are. It grants up to 24/28/32% stackable cooldown reduction on Basic Attacks as you hit non-obsession survivors, and it is the fourth slot in the catalog Anti-Pallet Chaser. Run Tinkerer if you do not, because the information and the twelve to sixteen seconds of Undetectable are worth more to a killer with no built-in tracking than raw attack speed is. Against a spread team that hides its gen pattern, Tinkerer wins.
Final verdict
This works for a specific reason that is easy to miss: Spirit Fury deletes the obstacle, Enduring shortens the recovery, Bamboozle removes the exit, and Tinkerer gives you somewhere to be before the chase starts. Three of those four are chase architecture. The fourth is map pressure, and it is why the build does not stall the moment a chase ends.
The honest framing is that this is the Anti-Pallet Chaser with its cooldown slot converted into information. That makes it stronger against survivors who spread and weaker against survivors who simply keep running, and it makes it a better answer to coordinated gen play than the stock version. It is not a complete build on its own, and neither is the version it is built on. Open the full Anti-Pallet Chaser page for the difficulty rating, the fun rating, related combos, and patch notes, and read it next to our patch 10 build breakdown before you queue.
If you want the pressure side of the roster instead, The Meta Squeeze is the one that runs on almost every Killer in the game, and Bamboozle sits in both builds. The perk is the common thread. Everything else is a decision about whether you want to win the chase or win the clock.