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The iconic asymmetrical horror gameDead by Daylightdips into goth culture for Sable Ward, a Survivor who took her interests in the occult and horror and laid them out for discussion on her own radio show. She then found her way into the Entity’s realm while investigating disappearances in her town of Greenville.
Sable Ward was also best friends with Mikaela Reid, and the two worked together at the Moonstone Cafe. After Mikaela’s sudden disappearance into a strange black fog while telling a story during a Halloween festival, Sable felt driven to find out what happened to her friend.
Updated by Allyson Cochran on Jun 19, 2025:We’ve added a few more perk combos so that you can make the most out of your Sable build.
Sable Ward’s Unique Perks
Sable Ward has three Unique Perksthat she brings to Dead by Daylight, including the introduction of a new perk type.Each of her perks revolve around the Basement, and add some gameplay elements with both risk and rewards.
Guide
Invocation: Weaving Spiders
The place where fear festers and terror treads is also where those with the gift can reach across the veil.
AnInvocation circle will appear in the Basementthat you can interact with. Invocations take 120 seconds to complete.
Wicked
They can try to hurt you. But you’re not going down so easily.
SinceSable’s Unique Perks all revolve around entering the Basement, be careful of a possible increase in Killers using the perkTerritorial Imperative, whichreveals Survivors auras when they enter the Basement.
Best Builds And Perk Combos For Sable Ward
As youprogress through Sable’s Bloodweb, you’ll start to gain access to new and stronger perks. You can always run any combination of perks that you’d like, whether they are meta or more of a meme build.
There are plenty of viable perks in Dead by Daylight, but here area few that tend to always be useful in your load-out:
To unlock theAdept Sable achievement, you will need to escape a trial usingonly Sable’s three Unique Perks.
The three Unique Perks for Sable Ward are actuallya strong combo in and of themselves. You could throw whichever fourth perk you like and call it a day. However, there are someother perks that will have decent synergy with Sable’s Unique Perks.
Invocation: Weaving Spiders Perk Combos
Invocation: Weaving Spidersis a unique perk that involvesa risk versus reward trade-off. It’ll help you repair Generators quicker (and canhelp out with unfortunate three-Generator scenarios), but the Survivor who started the Invocation willremain Broken for the rest of the Trial.
A potentialbuild using Sable’s Invocation perkrevolves around the fact that it willleave you Brokenafter it’s completed. Typically, you would want touse your Invocation perk later in a Trial, or after a few Generators are already completed. EnterNo Mither.
When using No Mither,you start the Trial with the Broken status effect. The trade-off here is thatyour pools of blood are suppressed, your grunts of pain are reduced, your recovery speed increases,and then you can alsorecover from the Dying State.
You canstill use the Invocation perk even when using No Mither,which means that with this combo, you can immediatelygo to start the Invocation at the beginning of the Trial.Then,the benefits of Invocation: Weaving Spiders willapply to all Generators.
For your other two perks, you will likely want to runResilience, which increases your interaction speeds on numerous tasks when you are injured; and then, eitherDéjà Vu, which increases your repair speed on three highlighted Generators; orProve Thyself, which increases your repair speed on Generators while repairing with other Survivors.
Obviously, being Broken for an entire Trial is a risky move. ThisNo Mither and Invocation: Weaving Spiders combocould be a good build only forSurvivors that are skilled at avoiding Killers, and looping and escaping chases.
Strength In Shadows Perk Combos
Strength in Shadowsis a useful way toheal yourself without a Med-kit, and has the added benefit ofrevealing the Killer’s aura to you. This perk could work well withother perks that reveal the Killer’s aura, so you’re able to stay in the loop with the Killer’s location often. Additionally, perks that help you finish healing to get the aura ability work well here.
Here are some of the bestperks you can combo with Strength in Shadows:
Wicked Perk Combos
The first part ofWickedallows you toalways unhook yourself on your first hook in the Basement. While this is definitely useful, it’sincredibly situational.The other (and better) use of Wicked is toreveal the Killer’s aura when you get unhooked. This is a great perk by itself to helpcounter potential tunneling or camping Killers.
You couldcombo Wicked with other perks that will help youescape a tunneling Killeronce you get unhooked:
Lightweight
Additionally, this is useful for other perks thatsynergize well with being able to see the killer’s aura.
