Our Violence District Tier List ranks all killers from best to worst, depending on their perks and abilities. If you like Violence District, you might like Forsaken! Dip your toes into it with our Forsaken Characters Tier List.

Violence District Tier List

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S Tier

  • The Hidden
    • When you are not moving, you turn invisible
    • Mark
      • You can mark survivors by lunging towards them
    • Leap
      • You can jump over obstacles by leaping in the direction your camera is facing
    • Perks:
      • After breaking a generator, the auras of nearby survivors are revealed (Echo Location)
      • If a survivor performs a rushed action, their aura is revealed (Enhanced Senses)
      • After downing a survivor, the aura of the survivor that is furthest away is revealed (Next in Line)
  • The Abysswalker
    • You can parry, block oncoming attacks, and dodge
    • Dark Severance
      • A horizontal slash that increases your Movement Speed as it charges, allowing you to attack more than one survivor
    • Abyssal Burst
      • Unleashes a blast of corruption after charging, which moves across the entire map, revealing the aura of survivors and slowing them down by 50%
    • Perks:
      • When you hit a survivor, you inflict them with corruption, revealing their trail (Corrupted Path)
      • Once a generator reaches 50%, there is a chance that it will become corrupted, and once broken, it will alert you (Abyssal Covenant)
      • You do not have a killer radius at the start of the match for a short duration (Shadow Trace)

A Tier

  • The Stalker 
    • Stalk
      • Tier 1: Reduces Killer Intent and Blood Stains at the start of a match
      • Tier 2: Increases Lunge Duration, Movement Speed, Killer Intent, Blood Stains, and Stalk requirement for the next tier
      • Tier 3: Increases Lunge Duration further, as well as Killer Intent, Movement Speed and Action Speed
    • Perks:
      • The aura of a survivor is revealed for 4 seconds when they escape a chase (Predator)
      • If a survivor stuns you, they are inflicted with the Vulnerable debuff (Eternal Torment)
      • Collect Tokens each time you let a survivor escape a chase, which then stacks to increase your Speed (Play With Your Food)
  • The Slasher
    • Lake Mist
      • You can vanish into the mist when there are no nearby survivors, allowing you to become invisible and increasing your Movement Speed
    • Pursuit
      • Upon activation, your Movement Speed increases for 20 seconds, and you can walk through any obstacle
    • Perks:
      • You are granted a Speed boost at the cost of a larger Aura Radius (Excitement)
      • Increases your Speed when breaking generators and pallets (Brutal Strength)
      • When you are not chasing a survivor, you gain a Speed boost (Offscreen Scare)

B Tier

  • The Killer
    • Frenzy
      • Gain the Frenzy buff, which unlocks additional abilities such as chaining hits to increase your Movement Speed, vaulting pallets, and tracking survivors
    • Perks:
      • When a survivor fixes a generator, they are inflicted with the Winded debuff (Terror Spread)
      • Survivors bleed more when you attack them, and they replenish HP more slowly (Sloppy Mess)
      • When you are stunned, you obtain a Token, which stacks to 3, and boosts your Lunge when attacking survivors (Resentment Clinger)

C Tier

  • The Masked
    • Mask Up
      • You can swap your mask every 30 seconds, with each mask granting you a different ability
    • Perks:
      • When you hit survivors, they are inflicted with the Winded debuff (Hard Swing)
      • When you hit survivors with a Basic Attack, you get a 5% boost to your Speed (Combo Streak)
      • Increases the DMG you deal when hitting generators (Crackdown)

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