Dead by Daylight: Best Builds for The Shape (2025)

This Dead by Daylight guide details optimal builds for The Shape (Michael Myers), including teachable and non-teachable perks, updated for 2025. Recent buffs have improved his viability.

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• The Shape: Best Non-Teachable Build (2025)
• The Shape: Best Build (2025)
• The Shape: Best Add-Ons (2025)

The Shape, Dead by Daylight's first licensed Killer, is a formidable stalker. His power lies in tracking Survivors before striking, eliminating them methodically. This guide offers builds for players of all skill levels.

The Shape: Best Non-Teachable Build (2025)

This build compensates for The Shape's lack of access to other Killers' perks. It utilizes readily available perks to create a powerful late-game strategy.

• Save the Best for Last (The Shape): Hitting non-Obsession Survivors grants tokens, reducing basic attack cooldowns. Hitting the Obsession costs tokens.
• Hex: No One Escapes Death (General Perk): Exposes all Survivors after the final generator is completed, providing a haste effect until the Hex Totem is cleansed.
• Bitter Murmur (General Perk): Reveals Survivor auras near completed generators, revealing all auras after the final generator is completed.
• Sloppy Butcher (General Perk): Slows healing and regresses healing progress with each basic attack.

The Shape: Best Build (2025)

This build focuses on generator control and early-game aggression, addressing The Shape's weaknesses.

• Lethal Pursuer (The Nemesis): Reveals all Survivor auras at the match start and extends aura-reading duration.
• Scourge Hook: Pain Resonance (The Artist): Destroys the generator with the most progress when hooking different Survivors on white Scourge Hooks.
• Deadlock (The Cenobite): Blocks the most progressed generator for 25 seconds after a generator is completed.
• Coup de Grâce (The Twins): Increases lunge attack distance based on completed generators.

The Shape: Best Add-Ons (2025)

Memorial Flower

This common add-on provides a modest but helpful increase to stalking speed.

Dead Rabbit

Reduces Terror Radius in Evil Within II but increases it in Evil Within III; use with caution, ideally alongside perks that modify Terror Radius.

J. Myers Memorial

A strong add-on granting a significant boost to stalking gain rate.

Hair Bow

Increases the threat level during Evil Within III; pairs well with J. Myers Memorial.

Tombstone Piece

Allows an instant kill on any Survivor upon reaching Evil Within III, regardless of hook state.

Lock Of Hair

Extends Evil Within III duration and increases stalk rate; a viable alternative to Hair Bow.

Fragrant Tuft of Hair

Grants infinite Evil Within III, eliminating the need for stalking before insta-downs, despite reducing stalking rate significantly.