Save the Best for Last is a Unique Perk
belonging to The Shape
.
Prestige The Shape to Prestige 1, 2, 3 respectively to unlock Tier I, Tier II, Tier III of Save the Best for Last for all other Characters.
History
Damaging any Survivor other than the
Obsession with a
Basic Attack causes
Save the Best for Last to gain
+1 Token, up to a maximum of
6/
7/
8 Tokens.
Damaging the
Obsession with either a
Basic or Special Attack causes
Save the Best for Last to lose
-2 Tokens:
- Grants a stack-able -4 % per Token Cool-down time reduction on successful Basic Attacks, up to a maximum of 24/28/32 %.
Save the Best for Last freezes its current Token Count once the
Obsession is sacrificed or killed.
You can only be obsessed with one Survivor at a time.
Damaging any Survivor other than the
Obsession with a
Basic Attack causes
Save the Best for Last to gain
+1 Token, up to a maximum of
8 Tokens.
Damaging the
Obsession with one causes it to lose
4/
3/
2 Tokens instead:
- Grants a stack-able -5 % per Token Cool-down time reduction on successful Basic Attacks, up to a maximum of -40 %.
Save the Best for Last freezes its current Token Count once the
Obsession is sacrificed or killed.
You can only be obsessed with one Survivor at a time.
After chasing a Survivor for at least
20 seconds,
Save the Best for Last activates for as long as the chase continues:
- Reduces the Cool-down time of the next successful Basic Attack by 30/40/50 %.
- This effect lingers for 5 seconds if the chase is lost, acting as a buffer.
Save the Best for Last deactivates after a successful
Basic Attack.
Save the Best for Last is disabled for the remainder of the Trial once the
Obsession is sacrificed or killed.
You can only be obsessed with one Survivor at a time.
Basic Attacks benefit from the following effects:
- Reduces the Cool-down time of missed attacks by 14/18/20 %.
- Reduces the Cool-down time of successful attacks by 25/29/33 %.
Save the Best for Last is disabled for the remainder of the Trial once the
Obsession is sacrificed or killed.
You can only be obsessed with one Survivor at a time.
Change Log
- Buff: increased the Cool-down Time reduction for successful attacks from 25/29/33 % to 30/35/40 %.
- Nerf: added an Activation condition that requires chasing a Survivor for a minimum of 20 seconds to activate the Perk, which lingers for 5 seconds if the chase is lost.
- Nerf: no longer affects missed attacks.
- This nerf was motivated by the excessive use of the so-called "Machine Gun Combo" amongst Killer Players with Unrelenting
.
Since both Perks had complementary effects, stacking them together reduced the Cool-down Time of Basic Attacks to problematic levels.
- Rework: the Cool-down Time reduction is now based on the amount of accumulated Tokens and there is no longer an Activation condition.
- This change was motivated by the previous iteration feeling unreliable to use, often requiring artificially prolonging chases to get any benefit from it.
- Buff: changed the Token loss from a variable 4/3/2 Tokens to a fixed -2 Tokens across all Tiers.
- Nerf: Special Attacks on the Obsession now also lose Tokens.
- This change was motivated by M2 Killers having previously had the unfair advantage (compared to M1 Killers) of circumventing the loss of Tokens by exclusively using their Power to attack the Obsession (e.g. Shred on The Demogorgon
).
- Nerf: reduced the Cool-down Time reduction from a stack-able -5 % to -4 %.
- Nerf: changed the maximum Token count from a fixed 8 Tokens to a variable 6/7/8 Tokens.
Calculations
|
|
Patch 7.5.0
|
|
Patch 7.4.2
|
| Token Count
|
Attack Cool-downs
|
Attack Cool-downs
|
| 0
|
 |
2.7 s
|
|
2.7 s
|
| 1
|
-4 % |
2.592 s
|
-5 % |
2.565 s
|
| 2
|
-8 % |
2.484 s
|
-10 % |
2.43 s
|
| 3
|
-12 % |
2.376 s
|
-15 % |
2.295 s
|
| 4
|
-16 % |
2.268 s
|
-20 % |
2.16 s
|
| 5
|
-20 % |
2.16 s
|
-25 % |
2.025 s
|
| 6
|
-24 % |
2.052 s
|
-30 % |
1.89 s
|
| 7
|
-28 % |
1.944 s
|
-35 % |
1.755 s
|
| 8
|
-32 % |
1.836 s
|
-40 % |
1.62 s
|
Trivia
- Tokens are updated instantly upon hitting a Survivor, meaning that attack's very cool-down already benefits (or suffers) from the adjusted Token Count.
- The Obsession
escaping the Trial does not cause Save the Best for Last to freeze its Token Count, allowing it to gain additional Tokens on the remaining Survivors.
Unlicensed Version
- Before CHAPTER 2: The HALLOWEEN® Chapter was made available on them, certain platforms would feature its Perks as unlicensed General Perks instead, with altered icons if necessary.
- In case of Save the Best for Last, its icon featured a generic Survivor head instead of Laurie Strode.
- This also applied to Sole Survivor
.
