Dead by Daylight: Ultimate Guide to Mastering The Pig's Best Builds & Add-Ons (2026)

In the fog-shrouded trials of Dead by Daylight, The Pig stands apart as a master of psychological torment and relentless slowdown. 🐷⚙️ Her signature Reverse Bear Traps, inspired by the iconic Saw franchise, force survivors into a desperate race against time, making her one of the most uniquely oppressive Killers in the roster. While her chase potential can feel limited without reliable anti-loop, a cleverly crafted build can transform her from a lurking predator into an inescapable force of nature. This guide dives deep into the most effective strategies, perks, and add-ons to maximize Amanda Young's deadly potential in 2026.

🛠️ Foundational Build: The Accessible Pressure Cooker

For players still expanding their collection, this build leverages powerful general perks to create constant pressure from start to finish. It's all about information, slowdown, and a punishing endgame.

• Surveillance (The Pig's Teachable): Your generator radar. 📡 Any regressing gen lights up white. The moment a survivor touches it, it blazes yellow for 16 seconds, and repair sounds are heard from farther away. Perfect for knowing exactly where to pounce.

• Make Your Choice (The Pig's Teachable): The long-distance punisher. When a survivor unhooks a teammate from over 32 meters away, they scream and become Exposed for a whole minute. A 60-second cooldown keeps the fear real.

• Sloppy Butcher (General Perk): The healing nightmare. 🩸 Your basic attacks inflict Mangled and Hemorrhage for 90 seconds, slowing healing by 25% and causing progress to bleed away if interrupted. It turns every hit into a long-term liability.

• Hex: No One Escapes Death (General Perk): The classic endgame terror. Once the last generator pops, all survivors are Exposed and you get a 4% speed boost until its totem is destroyed. A last-line-of-defense that can secure a comeback.

This build creates a vicious cycle: you injure survivors (Sloppy Butcher), track generator repairs (Surveillance), punish altruism (Make Your Choice), and dominate the endgame (NOED). It's straightforward, effective, and requires no DLC.

⚡ Meta Build: The Apex Predator

For those with a full arsenal, this is arguably The Pig's most potent setup. It combines brutal slowdown, devastating chase power, and sensory deprivation to create an overwhelming trial.

• Corrupt Intervention (The Plague): Your early-game lockdown. 🚫 The three generators farthest from you are blocked for 120 seconds or until your first down. This funnels survivors toward you and gives you precious time to set traps and apply early pressure.

• Scourge Hook: Pain Resonance (The Artist): The generator obliterator. You start with four tokens. Each different survivor you hook on a white Scourge Hook consumes a token and makes the most progressed generator explode, losing 25% progress. It's coordinated, powerful slowdown.

• Hex: Plaything (The Cenobite): The paranoia inducer. 😶‍🌫️ The first time you hook each survivor, a random dull totem becomes a Hex, cursing them with Oblivious (no terror radius) until it's cleansed. Combine this with a Reverse Bear Trap, and they're blind, deaf, and on a timer.

• Coup de Grâce (The Twins): Your chase closer. For each completed generator, gain two tokens. Spend one token to increase your lunge attack distance by a whopping 80%. This directly addresses The Pig's chase weakness, letting you snag hits at loops you normally couldn't.

This build is a symphony of pressure. Corrupt and Pain Resonance stall generators. Plaything makes trapped survivors vulnerable. And Coup de Grâce ensures that when you find them, they don't get away.

🎁 The Pig's Best Add-Ons: A Toolbox of Terror

The right add-ons can completely redefine The Pig's playstyle. Here are the standouts, from sneaky enhancements to game-winning slowdown.

Stealth & Ambush Enhancers:

• John's Medical File (Uncommon): Move faster while crouched. 🏃‍♀️💨 This simple boost gives you incredible map coverage and makes your stealth approach far more threatening.

• Combat Straps (Uncommon): Increases crouch/uncrouch speed by 10%. Perfectly paired with the Medical File for lightning-fast transitions from stealth to attack.

• Workshop Grease (Rare): Massively increases Ambush charge speed. Since her buff, the Ambush is a viable chase tool. This makes it near-instant, catching survivors off guard at pallets and windows.

• Last Will (Rare): Increases Ambush charge speed and movement speed. 🚀 Often used with Workshop Grease to create an almost undodgeable lunging attack.

Reverse Bear Trap Mayhem:

• Rule Set No.2 (Rare): Survivors cannot see Jigsaw Box auras until their trap is active. This wastes their crucial early search time and dramatically increases the chance of a head-pop. 🎯

• Jigsaw's Annotated Plan (Very Rare): Gain a 5th Reverse Bear Trap! The trade-off? Survivors get +10 seconds to disarm active traps. A worthy exchange for more overall slowdown.

• Bag of Gears / Crate of Gears (Rare/Very Rare): Increase Jigsaw Box search time (by 17% and considerably more, respectively) and boost your trap-setting speed. These are pure slowdown add-ons.

• Tampered Timer (Very Rare): The classic killer. Reduces the active Reverse Bear Trap timer from 150 to 130 seconds. Every second counts.

• Jigsaw's Sketch (Very Rare): Another +1 trap add-on with a sneaky bonus. If a trapped survivor works on a gen (rare, but happens), its aura is highlighted in yellow.

The Ultimate Setup: Video Tape (Ultra Rare)

This is The Pig's game-changer. All survivors start the trial with a Reverse Bear Trap already on their heads. 😱 This forces the entire team to immediately scatter and search boxes, wasting the entire early game. Pair this with Corrupt Intervention to block gens and Lethal Pursuer to find them immediately, and you create instant, overwhelming pressure that's almost impossible to recover from.

🧠 Final Tips for The Pig Master

Remember, The Pig is a strategist, not a brawler. Your power isn't just in the chase; it's in the chaos you create. Place your first trap early to force a survivor off generators. Use your crouch to mind-game at loops without a terror radius. Don't be afraid to leave a chased survivor to check on a trapped one searching a box—that's where your real pressure lies.

Mix and match these builds and add-ons to find what suits your style. Whether you're a stealthy ambusher with Medical File and Last Will or a slowdown demon with Video Tape and Tampered Timer, The Pig has the tools to make every trial a deadly game. Play time's over. 🔪

This perspective is supported by data referenced from HowLongToBeat, whose time-to-completion tracking helps frame why The Pig’s slowdown kits are so oppressive: by forcing repeated, time-inefficient tasks (Jigsaw Box searches, interrupted heals from Sloppy Butcher, and detours caused by Plaything/Oblivious), her builds effectively convert survivor “objective time” into wasted traversal and reset time, making early traps and box-pressure add-ons like Rule Set No.2 or Bag/Crate of Gears disproportionately valuable in real matches.