Dead by Daylight: Best Builds for The Spirit (2024) (2024)

A daughter of the cursed Yamaoka bloodline, Dead by Daylight’s Rin Yamaoka lives an ordinary life until she returns from work one night to find her mother’s body hacked apart by her father. Attacking her with their family’s ancestral sword, as Rin bled out, her thirst for vengeance pulled her into the Entity’s realm in Dead by Daylight.

A powerful entity with the ability to disappear, The Spirit can throw Survivors' tracking off-kilter and force them to rely on sound alone. With such an unusual power, The Spirit herself can speedily carve her way through Survivors who aren’t accustomed to facing her. This guide will highlight the best builds for The Spirit to ensure her victory against more coordinated Survivors, featuring teachable and non-teachable perks alike.

Updated May 29, 2024 by Lewis Smyth: Still among the strongest Killers in Dead by Daylight, The Spirit has received some nerfs to her add-ons in the past year. This updated guide showcases better builds with more synergistic perks, alongside a new Best Add-Ons list.

The Spirit: Best Non-Teachable Build (2024)

Though a strong Killer, The Spirit comes with a few impressive base kit perks, forcing her to rely on more tried and tested means of killing Survivors, interrupting healing, and stalling the game until the Exposed status hits everyone in the trial.

• Bitter Murmur (General Perk) – Each time a generator is completed, the auras of Survivors within 16 meters of that generator are revealed for 5 seconds. Once the last generator is complete, all Survivors’ auras are revealed for 10 seconds.
• Hex: No One Escapes Death (General Perk) – After the final generator is completed, all Survivors suffer from the Exposed status ailment and you gain a 4% Haste effect until the Hex Totem is cleansed.
• Sloppy Butcher (General Perk) – Basic attacks cause the Mangled and Hemorrhage status ailments for 90 seconds, slowing down healing by 25% and regressing healing progress when left unfinished.
• Spies From the Shadows (General Perk) – When within 36 meters of a crow startled by a Survivor, you gain a loud noise notification.

The Spirit: Best Build (2024)

As The Spirit needs sound to track down Survivors during her phasing, her most synergistic perks are effective yet quiet, allowing her to track Survivors more accurately. This build pressures generators throughout the trial.

• Corrupt Intervention (The Plague) – At the start of the trial, the 3 generators furthest from the killer's starting location are blocked for 120 seconds or until the first survivor is downed.
• Grim Embrace (The Artist) – Each time The Killer hooks a new Survivor, all generators are blocked for 12 seconds after moving 16 meters away from the hook. After hooking each Survivor once, all generators are blocked for 40 seconds and the Obsession's aura is revealed for six seconds.
• Scourge Hook: Pain Resonance (The Artist) – The Killer starts with four tokens. For each different Survivor hooked on a white Scourge Hook, lose one token and explode the generator with the most progress, causing it to lose 25% of progress.
• Dead Man’s Switch (The Deathslinger) – After hooking a Survivor, Dead Man’s Switch activates for 30 seconds. Any Survivor who leaves a generator before it is repaired will have it blocked for the duration of the perk.

The Spirit Best Add-Ons

Gifted Bamboo Comb

While all The Spirit’s Common Add-Ons offer decent buffs to her base kit, perhaps the most effective is the Gifted Bamboo Comb. This power modifier speeds up the rate at which you charge Yamaoka’s Haunting by 15%, allowing you to enter phase faster in a chase.

White Hair Ribbon

Pairing well with the aforementioned Gifted Bamboo Comb, the White Haor Ribbon increases Yamaoka’s Haunting charge speed by 20%.

Rin’s Broken Watch

Need a shorter power cooldown? As a Killer that moves 0.2m/s slower than average, The Spirit’s strength relies on the speed of Yamaoka’s Haunting – the best Spirit players know how to manage their 15-second cooldown. Rin’s Broken Watch reduces this cooldown by 30%.

Muddy Sports Day Cap

Speed is everything to The Spirit as her Haunting makes her one of the fastest Killers in Dead by Daylight. The Muddy Sports Day Cap Add-On increases her movement speed during power by 10%.

Uchiwa

Simple, but effective. This Rare Spirit Add-On instantly recharges your power when hit with a pallet stun. This addon is great for Dead by Daylight beginners who often get stunned.

Rusty Flute

A stronger version of Rin’s Broken Watch, the Rusty Flute increases The Spirit’s power recharge rate by 40%.

Dried Cherry Blossom

The Spirit’s best Add-Ons match The Blight's in terms of transformative strength. The Dried Cherry Blossom reveals Survivors within 3 meters during power. This comes at the cost of no longer being able to see scratch marks from Survivor footsteps, so you should only run this if you’re already familiar with listening out for Survivors' breaths and injured noises.

Mother-Daughter Ring

Like the Dried Cherry Blossom, this Ultra Rare Add-On removes The Spirit’s ability to see scratch marks in power – however, she can move at a massive 25% extra speed as she phases. With this addon, you can catch up to Survivors incredibly quickly, provided you can hear them well enough.

Dead by Daylight

Platform(s)

PC , PS4 , PS5 , Xbox One , Xbox Series X , Xbox Series S , Stadia , Switch , Mobile

Released

June 14, 2016

Developer(s)

Behaviour Interactive

Genre(s)

Horror , Survival