Shadow Stalker

**Shadow Stalker** is a killer that could be featured in **Dead by Daylight**.

**Shadow Stalker** would be featured in the Endless Darkness Chapter. That Which Follows is based on **The Shade**, a DC Comics character.

## Overview

**Shadow Stalker** is a camouflaged Killer, able to easily slow down survivors and have them doubt theirs senses thanks to **Nyctophobia**. While the survivors are afraid of the dark, the Shadow Stalker can summon his **Shadow Clone** to chase and down another survivor.

His personal Perks, Critical Striker, Ambush, and Hex: Blood Fetish, makes the Shadow Stalker stronger along with his clone.

Difficulty rating: Medium

## Lore

*Richard Swift was a brutish man who hailed from Victorian England. One day he had a bad run-in with Jack the Ripper. Instead of Jack killing Richard like the others, he instead performed some sick voodoo ritual that turned Swift into a shadowborn demon. The Swift escaped from Jack and over time gave into the evil inside of him, killing and devouring countless victims during the night and hiding in shadows during the day.*

## Load-out

### Unique Perks

Shadow Stalker Perks
After hooking a survivor, the killer gains the benefit of Critical Striker for **40/50/60** seconds. While Critical Striker is active, successful basic attacks inflict the **Deep Wound** status effect on survivors.

Whenever the killer breaks a pallet, searches a locker, or vaults a window, all survivors in the Terror Radius suffer the **Oblivious** status effect for **15/20/25** seconds.

The aura of all injured survivors within **5/10/15** meters is revealed to you.
*The Hex effect persists as long as the related Hex Totem is standing.*
*"You can hide your groans and stay still all you want. Your scent alone will betray you."*

### Teachable Perks

Progressing through **Shadow Stalker's** *Bloodweb* would spawn their **Teachable Variant** at specific Levels:

* **Level 30**: Critical Striker
* **Level 35**: Ambush
* **Level 40**: Hex: Blood Fetish

Obtaining the **Teachable Perks** would unlock them to spawn in the Bloodwebs of all other Killers.

### Weapon: Black Claws

The **Black Claws** is the Primary Weapon of **Shadow Stalker**.

As a nocturnal mightmare, the Shadow Stalker morphs into a grotesque form that can easily impale all those who have the misfortune to encounter it.

### Power: Nyctophobia

*"I used to mock my sister for being afraid of the dark and sleeping with a night light. Now I want nothing more than to sleep during the day so the nocturnal predator doesn't take my life."*

**NYCTOPHOBIA**:

All survivors have a darkness gauge that gradually increases over the course of the trial. If a survivor hides inside a locker, the Darkness Gauge increases twice as fast as long as that survivor is inside the locker. Once a survivor has their darkness gauge reach 100%, they start to periodically hear an illusionary Terror Radius and they vault windows/pallets 25% slower. Survivors can lower their Darkness Gauge by standing next to a fully repaired generator. Survivors shining a flashlight on another survivor also causes the shined on survivor to have their darkness gauge reduced. As long as at least 1 survivor has their darkness gauge at 100%, a **Shadow Clone** can be spawned if it is off cooldown. The Darkness Gauge does not build up while a survivor is hooked or in the dying state.

**Shadow Clone**: While a survivor is suffering from Nyctophobia, you can spawn a shadow clone. A shadow clone is an AI-controlled copy of the Shadow Stalker that starts to chase the nearest visible survivor if able. The Shadow Clone has a different appearance than the Shadow Stalker; the Shadow Clone has all the perks and add-ons that the Shadow Stalker has. If the Shadow Clone downs a survivor, the Shadow Clone is stunned, the Shadow Clone is shined on with a flashlight for 3 seconds, or the Shadow Clone is next to a fully repaired generator for 5 seconds, the Shadow Clone disappears. The Shadow Clone also disappears if it loses track of the survivor it is chasing for 10 seconds and no more survivors appear during that time. Survivors downed by the Shadow Clone are revealed by Killer Instinct for 10 seconds. Only one Shadow Clone can be active at once.

#### Power Trivia

**Darkness gauge build speed:**

* Regular: **0.75%**
* Lockers: **1.5%**
* Hooked/Dying: **0%**
* Repaired Generator: **-5%**
* Flashlight usage: **-20%**

Repaired Generator light radius:

* Darkness Gauge: 10 meters
* Shadow Clone: 10 meters

Darkness gauge terror radius:

* Trigger chance: 10%
* Trigger interval: 1 second
* Trigger duration: 4 seconds
* Trigger cooldown: 30 seconds

**Shadow Clone**:

* Cooldown: **90 seconds**

### Add-ons for Of That Which Follows

That Which Follows Add-Ons

## DLC

**That Which Follows** is part of the following DLCs:

* **CHAPTER: Endless Darkness**

## Memento Mori

**Shadow Stalker** cuts into the survivor's chest with their claws, rips out their heart, and crushes their heart with his fists as the survivor dies.

## Change Log

### Patch X

* ***Quality of Life:*** **Shadow Stalker** Killer is added to game.

## Trivia

* **Richard Swift the Shadow Stalker** is a villain that could be featured in *Dead By Daylight*.