I tried something a little different with the background music today. I hope you like it :) Also for those who keep commenting "just bring excitment", it's not that simple. The whole point is I'm try to learn to deal with harassers without it. Excitement would defeat the purpose.
When playing Naiad you should throw the harpoon in the opposite direction of where you want to go (but not too far) so it can force or block certain areas from being entered by the survivors as it wastes their time and breaks distance on most maps along with forcing them to take water damage, it's like forcing them to take a risk .
If you wanna learn more about how to play Naiad, may I recommend watching videos made by Bleber. Bleber makes a lot of hunter rank content, most of which involves them playing patroller naiad.
Woo! Zeez has embraced the fish, and her ties haha 🎉 Around 16:55, it’s a common plateau naiad players face, using the harpoon to catch up only for the survivor to have already transitioned - I recommend watering areas off by swimming and not drawing back the harpoon, then follow the transition. She doesn’t need pallet mind game, but her mind game is based around if you can cut a survivor off while they transition away. 17:40 naiad has the advantage with most ballon harassers since she can draw an abyss with a large radius with the center being the downed person. Even forward will take up water if he tries to charge in, the mischievous trait also helps!
Here are my tips for naiad, try to make the abyss when the survivor is already inside while camping so they get 30/50 humidity instantly. I prefer teleport or warp instead of blink with insolence but that’s just personal preference. When camping it’s usually better to dash at them before you pull the harpoon back because then you get an instant hit if you’re at full presence. Also try to water off the best kiting routes. Don’t rely too much on water, sometimes it’s faster just to hit them even if they’re high on water. And when they’re about to get water popped try to hit them right before or else after they get water popped they can transition away from you with the speed boost and avoid getting hit. I wish you luck Zeez! 💕
Cool trick I learned for using Naiad on sleeping town is she can water off entire streets/kiting areas. Naiads greatest strength is making tight kiting pointless so try to abuse that!!! Sincerely, former patroller naiad
maybe try thinking of her abysses as squares and triangles . the easiest way to make one is throw harpoon is one long line, dash or 2 is one/two long lines and pull back is one line. so if you’re already following someone up, make the bottom of the triangle by throwing to your side. dash into them and make the side of the triangle, pull back and make the other. easy down. I just don’t worry about making huge abysses unless it’s basement or a two story area I need to kick them out of . water doesn’t always have to be damaging, it may just be cutting them off, but using it too often can kick you because of her long drawback time. dashing and getting that pullback down will always be quicker than getting the super slow rising big abyss. I spent a couple hours just finding the fastest and most comfortable way to water off every area and that definitely helped. about pallet spamming, your only real options are to either water off the place so the pallets are unusable and will actually bite them in the ass if they have to get out of the abyss and you ts them, or you eat it like an ann and continuously break them. I think naiad to be good is prediction dependent. if you just harpoon just where the survivor is, theyre already gone. if you water off shack and then break the pallet to get in, theyre already out the window. if that makes sense
For me when playing naiad, I usually bring insolence + detention, with patroller! I think some of the other naiad mains have also shared their very tips for naiad, which is to throw the harpoon the opposite of where you want to go (ideally, to create a triangle abyss sorta). This helps in making survivors kite and gain humidity as they are in the triangular abyss. I love using patroller as well since it works well in getting survivors to gain humidity + fast down. As they get stop periodically, I will actually circle around them to get them to gain more humidity and once that reaches 95%, I hit at the same time as they get the water pop! Patroller is also strong in stuffing rescues in my opinion for naiad. When rescuer gets bitten by patroller, you do the same trick to stuff rescues, or get them to come after half in a sense. Additionally, you can also use the harpoon/abyss to force survivor out of a strong area in a sense. Like in the event you dont want them to kite at graveyard, harpoon towards that area. Generally, survivors would tend to go out of harpoon range if possible to avoid abyss. Hope this helps, and good luck in maining naiad too! Edit: I highly recommend you to watch Bieber, he's the reason why I used patroller naiad combo! HAHA
I noticed one major thing in your gameplay If we imagine ourselves in shounen - you need a waterfall training arc (meditation) As a naiad you have to concentrate on drowning a surv , not swing at them( like in that moonlight match ench went to a 4th stop you went after her like nightwatch would, as naiad you can water off the area) in later rounds you got the feeling, but yea, naiad should not “tunnel” Good luck with learning her ❤ you are doing a great job
A small tip for Naiad camping: if the survivor already has some water on them and they are too close to the chair to harpoon for water damage, you can try making small circles around them for water damage to try and stuff the rescue (this is a bit more last resort). Dashing onto the survivor then pulling back harpoon is the best imo or making a giant pool works too (preferably if the survivor is within water lines before pulling harpoon back)
something about naiad when camping ! survs usually rescue during the harpoon drawback animation so what i do is run small circles aroudn them with harpoon in my hand so if they get water hit you can immediatley hit again
WOO!!! ZEEZ UPLOAD!! also id love to give you some tips on naiad if you’d want them zeez!! i’m the s1 naiad (current second though) and the one that you spectated a while back! so i’d like to think im a bit qualified haha. i’m really happy you’re learning her though since she’s my favorite hunter in the game & i can’t wait to see your future matches
@@ZeezVovGeeVokay!! so i do actually run patroller on her, which helps a lot with harassers like cowboy and batter. if you can manage to bite them before pickup, wait until they’re stunned and they can’t do much! it also helps get early downs if you’re struggling, since you can circle around the survivor when they’re stunned and then wait til the water hits + normal hit. also, for endgame like the last match, grace actually counters heal stalling. you walk around the survivors and make small circles until they take a water hit, but make sure you’re spamming the pickup button too since they usually pop when they take the water hit. when chair camping you can also make small circles around the survivors, and a lot of times if they’re close to 100, they’ll try to go for the rescue immediately, so you can get a terrorshock on them. if they’re being patient though, you can just keep going until they reach 100, or hit them if they’re at like ~95, the water should kill them mid rescue animation. ik it’s used a lot in tourney and it’s what i personally use, but insolence isn’t the only build you can run on her. she’s actually super versatile and can work with confined/trump card, and even no detention since she’s a double hit hunter. i don’t recommend no deten build for now though since you’re still learning. insolence is definitely great!! but trump card can also come in really handy & it’s what i first used her with, so maybe try out a few games with that one? bringing patroller with trump card also definitely helps with early down since you don’t have the insolence boost. sorry if this is a lot lol, but i really hope it helps you out!! just remember that all hunters take lots of practice to get good at too, so you’ll definitely get better with experience. i can’t wait to see you improve with her and hopefully see her in your future gameplay!!
oh another thing, she’s also really good for chasing in leo’s, esp in factory. at least in my experience, if survivors go up the outside stairs, you can throw your harpoon through the entrance and follow them until they get to the window. i’m not super sure how to explain, but abysses will be on all the levels of a building that grace is on when they’re done if that makes sense? so you throw the harpoon when you’re downstairs, then pull it back when you’re upstairs, and the survivors will (hopefully) be in the abyss when they vault the window. this isn’t a 100% guarantee water hit but it does help pressure them. also!! you can use your water as a makeshift peeper kinda? if you see someone get humidity, you know they’re close to where your water was, so if you remember where you were you also know where the survivor is (give or take)
hi zeez a trick with naiad when camping is to make an abyss by walking and don’t close it until someone walks up, you can just walk and close it and most survs don’t expect it because they are looking for the harpoon instead, to close it you can even throw the harpoon to where you started it.ᐟ.ᐟ i’m not sure if that makes sense but it’s a good trick to know
I used to be a Naiad main, and I'm pretty sure you can cancel your dash if you accidentally went too far and missed the survivor by clicking the skill again. Not too sure because my memories with playing Naiad is pretty vague.. However, if you're interested in maining Naiad in the future, I recommend watching iAlien and Bleber. Even though iAlien doesn't post on a daily basis, you can still learn by watching his gameplays. He posted a thorough guide with Naiad 3 months ago regarding the best persona for Naiad, her counters, best/worst maps, and even spawn selection. Despite being out of date with the current version of idv, it's a great video to learning how to play Naiad. I think Zeus had some good pointers as well when I watched him critique people's matches during his livestreams, so maybe you can also learn a bit from him too. Though, even if you don't plan on playing Naiad after this video, It was nice to see some gameplays!!
Tip from the 53rd NA Naiad (if that means anything): Use your harpoon as another naiad, circle the player if you're in an area that you can go around easily, then, when the player runs back to avoid being hit normally, throw the harpoon at the inactive abyss water, this will create an abyss (it might fail sometimes if it's kinda far though), it's an instant 30%, and when you pull back, if it closes with them in, that's another 30%. If you have first pressence and are in slipstream (fish-mode as I like to call it) and the survivor is running towards the outer side of your harpoon to avoid being enclosed in the abyss, you can attempt to dash to their outer side, so they will either dodge it and then get humidity from the closed abyss, or get hit by the dash AND abyss creation, then you pull back the harpoon asap, if you did this right, it's a 90% humidity very quickly, also, at full pressence it's an instant hit from the abyss creation and the dash hit.
Also, for early game, throw the harpoon away and go towards the good kiting area in which the decoder is likely to spawn in, for example, IMO eversleeping town is one of her best maps, and graveyard can be like halved (especially the strong areas) if you harpoon towards the entrance or the window (depending on where you're coming from) and go into the graveyard, if done correctly, you can get 50+% depending on if the survivor was aware of the harpoon or not.
I don’t have many naiad tips as I don’t play her (Alva main over here) but I love that you’re doing this training arc for her and I hope you do enjoy playing her zeez! And great video as always
as a naiad main this made me giggle and kick my feet. one thing, i don't find wanted order does much good for her. i mean, *maybe* you'll get lucky and get wanted order on the rescuer but it's better to put those points into berserker or sadist! especially because one of her bigger things is her camp. if you're going against a team comp you know you'll have trouble chasing you can bring patroller to possibly help you stuff a rescue. she also doesn't really need impact or control freak because she's already very fast with her dash. i personally go for double berserker, double sadist, and constrain! of course if you have a bunch of harassers on your team you can take off of berserker and use the points on stun reduction. i'd also really recommend watching some naiad gameplay so you can get a visual of how to set up your water pools and stuff. i don't know how you feel about watching gameplay of her but even if it's extremely boring i PROMISE you it'll be worth it in the long run. of course, i'm only really in cobra 1 so take my tips with a grain of salt! 🙏🙏 i wish you luck with learning her! once you get a hang of her skill she's SUPER fun to play.
Dude that 7th match those survivors came off as so toxic to me, the prospector spamming emote and the enchantress stunning you instead of just leaving. I honestly hate survivors that do that type of stuff. But besides that I hope you keep getting better at Naiad Zeez, I love seeing you play my hunter main. Keep up with the absolutely the amazing content Zeez!
i really loved this video! its so cool seeing your progress like this and i really enjoy seeing the ups and downs of people learning to play hunter. its just really awesome to observe! i hope you do more stuff like this in the future!! one little tiny itsy bitsy thing i will comment on which is actually not relevant to anything at all is calling alva an easy way out with ann because he Is not an easy way out at all. he takes a LOT of skill and insane multitasking, especially in the higher tiers. hes not an easy hunter at all. being an insolence-dependent map control hunter takes a lot out of you and does not get you easy wins
I'm by no means a pro Naiad and I play her on yellow/eu ping so my priorities might be different but I'll try to give any insight I can! 2:30 I don't think you do this but just as a lessons-learned from me to any Naiads: sometimes prioritizing water dmg first is risky - if you can get a hit in do it, especially with insolence. I've had times where by trying to do water dmg over a hit, the target ended up getting neither. What you can do if here you decided to hit first, is to try and make them walk on a puddle (for example by walking in front of them for a bit) so that the water doesn't go down as fast after the hit. 3:30 she's thinking........ it's working, I guess. For Naiad you make biiiig puddle around chair, and then try to get a dash on the rescuer, and pull back harpoon at chair (the pop interrupts the rescue, so it's generally optimal if you damage them either by pulling back the harpoon OR while already in "normal" walking mode, so you can attack right after). The other trick is to start drawing a shape around the chair (or even small entrances that the survivor has to go through), and closing the shape when they step in, to give them water percentage. You can kinda do it when they're already at the chair too but it's a bit more tricky since you can't walk around them so you kinda just spin and pray that it counts lol- 7:35 I personally don't mind Naiad on red church but the kiting areas are rly close together so it's easy to transition on it - and the amount of walls means that it's hard to keep track of people while you're puddling areas off. 22:00 Zeez it _might_ be time for Ann or Wax or Undead. Join the clowning on stunners club...... Joking aside, as you mention later in the video, Naiad only counters "harassing" in the sense that she can punish people grouping up long-term. But for example Cowboy is really difficult for her too since he doesn't have to be up close to do his thing, and most harassers have Flywheel which counters her water too. 26:02 "LITERALLY nobody sells against me" the composer from the Leo's game: am i a joke to you 41:50 UNDEAD!!!! unga bunga!!!! (he is also kinda weak to pallet spam haha BUT STILL, you could CLOWN ON ALL OF THEMMMMM~) 45:30 Actually, Naiad can deal with heal-stalling by herself! just circle them so the person healing gets water popped or panics and lets go, and then you can pick up! Tbh nobody really counters harassers, even Undead and Wax can be harassed when playing around their mechanics. So, hang in there ^^ it's tough.
I typically bring Sadist when playing Naiad to boost the chances of terroshocking the rescuer. However, it's essential to master camping with her to pull this off effectively. A camping tip I use with naiad: create a circle near the survivor you're camping but don't close it until the rescuer steps inside. This allows you to quickly apply 30% - 50% humidity. Practice makes perfect, gl!
Zeezle we are matching then! I have been trying to pick up Naiad along with Dreamwitch these days, so its nice to see you play the fish. We believe in you Zeez, S1 Naiad soon 🙏
Hi Zeez! Naiad main (albeit Low tier..im trying) Im sure this is not a uh high tier worthy build. But I like to bring Detention Inso with 2 or 3 pallet breaking speed on larger maps or more pallet heavy maps (Like Leos) to help with the speed of the game! Also for camping, I make giant abysses around the chair and nearby ciphers or in basement if possible and sort of stray outwards to scope out survivors with my dashes that way its easier to down them Also try to scope out ciphers if you can but try not to worry too much! Even in sticky situations Naiad is definitely a draw hunter at the least and her speed and mechanics can help you out with downs (detention carries haha)
I'd recommend you check out harpoon spots for factory(arms and leos), hotel in china town, hospital in sacred heart, church in red church, big boat in lakeside and fun house in moonlit as these are the areas where naiad suffers the most because of all the strong windows and pallets and the 2 story areas
I could learn more for my naiad in asia after watching u playing :> i rather put peeper on naiad cause i am blind (im Joseph main in na eu) and i love to dash to survivor so that they took a hit before i attack (but most player i met just go for the rescue and i am sad) and this help me to make her water abyss better since i am suck at throwing her harpoon 😅
As a Violetta/Soul Weaver main of a long time, she can take care of harassers best imo, you can use webshots if there are people around you and also and wait for web to just cocoon survivors if youre surrounded by harassers, and she takes some skill to be good for sure. managing webs, good web placements, aiming and predicting with webshots, would love if you become one of us and mained Violetta on the side :]
i saw a good naiad player, when in chase throw the harpoon through windows/pallets in the direction the surv is going! Instead of throwing it to the side of the obstacle and make a big pool! I guess watering the whole area takes too much time and survs transition pretty quick, ofc Blebler is king but you could watch Feizard too! Gl on your Naiad journey zeez!!!
Zeez i think that last match you dont need to blink acrobat, just circle him around few times and use your blink to down one of them when cipher pop. i could be wrong though im not a pro player hahah
If you wanna learn Naiad I recommend watching Orochi. He's the S1 Fish in Asia! I learn alot from him and my first time reaching cyclops 1 with only playing Naiad, my WR was 88%!😁
As a naiad main naiad can definatly be strong if you know how to play her (ig that goes most hunters but naiad can be a monster if put in the right hands) she is imo best in eversleeping town and arms factory bcs she can water off kiting areas easier for me at least
Zeez doesnt seem to understand that by using the "visit" hunter animation on the lobby, it means every team will immediately play every character that can counter the hunter they see they will play against 💀
That moonlight match against naiad destroying her made me so happy, good teamwork and harrasment, my nightmares about transitional kiting never working for me only when I try is relieved a bit
when camping as naiad its better to just make a lot of small abyss right next to the chair, all you have to do is walk around the chair, go from one side then walk to the other an make it kinda small but big enough to where they get watered before they can touch the chair, 3 puddle splash things should be far enough out.
since another comment mentioned bleber, i think for cowboy and naiad u should watch bleber (though they play practically any survivor or hunter), for geisha you could watch Koth and lastly u can watch nubspector for any hunter and survivor
I’m not pro or anything lol but a tip I can give is don’t be an afraid of pallets. As a former Geisha main when I was starting out I was always afraid of pallets but I got myself out of dat fear bcuz dat was stopping me from playing my best cuz whenever I got pallet stunned i would b rlly mad it’s still like a pet peeve for me in idv but I learned not to fear getting pallet stunned and I feel dat has helped me a lot better I think with my gameplay. 😅 it’s not much advice but I hope it helps u out.
a tip for her is when your camping if ur not good on working with the water i would recommend camping and making circles around the chair and try to practice hitting at the right time bc shes really good at terror shocking
Okay so, I'm a low tier Naiad main so I'm not gonna spam advice obv but from the obvious things that work for every tier; going the opposite way of your trident and watering off good areas (like shack for example) so you can't get looped, are both things you could definitely practice more! I feel like Naiad is a very demotivating character for a lot of people when you're just learning her (speaking from my own experience as well💀) but I promise it gets better the more you get used to her and then harassers won't be much trouble
When I deal with harassers and pallets, I try my best to use as large puddles as I can so then I can block off as many pallets as I can. By doing this I can force players out of areas that are hard for me to play in and block harassers from coming close to me when I get a down. For example, I'm trying to chair but there is an enchantress harassing. I'll create a large puddle so it forces the enchantress away because if they get close they'll be punished by the puddle. Also i'm pretty against small puddles, It seems like a waste of time recalling the trident for such little puddles that can be easily run out of.
my number 1 recomendation: if you hate harassers and there is 3 or more, just take excitement. I personally find with niad if you water off certain areas you dont neccesarily need the blink
5:10 because I was being freaky and tired 😭 thats why Well done on your naiad btw! Btw my friend mechanic was playing on pc for first time, thats why she was crawling LMAO
As an naiad main I don’t put my spears at their running way but put the spear the opposite way and I follow them and that way it’s either they get water off or take a free hit
That's why I couldn't play as hunter, last time I got double harassed by a team of acrobat, aeroplanist, gardener and a prisoner In sacred heart hospital. I was the soul weaver... You did awesome as a naiad Zeez!
Usually, early on in the game i usually like to just use my water to cut off areas and mainly try to focus more on getting my main body closer to the surv im chasing, as water accumulation early game is kind slow lol. Usually when dealing with harassment, i just create an abyss around the downed survivor and try to accumulate as much water on the harasser as much as possible to force them to leave, and at best they might even give you a free hit
Hi zeez you did well. Also there's some really good hunter guides out there, I usually watch bleber or happybud or happy guy? I think and there's like other good guides by other players on RUclips that can probably help you. :) definitely give them a try
I can't believe i get a match with zeez, i'm the enchantress named mari~. Ty zeez its such a honor playing with u. AND I'M SO SORRY ABOUT THE CONFUSE EMOTE, love u zeez!!
I tried something a little different with the background music today. I hope you like it :)
Also for those who keep commenting "just bring excitment", it's not that simple. The whole point is I'm try to learn to deal with harassers without it. Excitement would defeat the purpose.
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Even then, you get harassed after using it and you still have to wait like 50 seconds 😭😭 still play her cause she’s fun tho 😅
Give Bleber a watch, he makes naiad look like the strongest hunter in the game in top tiers. He is the best Naiad I've ever seen
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When playing Naiad you should throw the harpoon in the opposite direction of where you want to go (but not too far) so it can force or block certain areas from being entered by the survivors as it wastes their time and breaks distance on most maps along with forcing them to take water damage, it's like forcing them to take a risk .
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If you wanna learn more about how to play Naiad, may I recommend watching videos made by Bleber. Bleber makes a lot of hunter rank content, most of which involves them playing patroller naiad.
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Woo! Zeez has embraced the fish, and her ties haha 🎉
Around 16:55, it’s a common plateau naiad players face, using the harpoon to catch up only for the survivor to have already transitioned - I recommend watering areas off by swimming and not drawing back the harpoon, then follow the transition. She doesn’t need pallet mind game, but her mind game is based around if you can cut a survivor off while they transition away.
17:40 naiad has the advantage with most ballon harassers since she can draw an abyss with a large radius with the center being the downed person. Even forward will take up water if he tries to charge in, the mischievous trait also helps!
Here are my tips for naiad, try to make the abyss when the survivor is already inside while camping so they get 30/50 humidity instantly. I prefer teleport or warp instead of blink with insolence but that’s just personal preference. When camping it’s usually better to dash at them before you pull the harpoon back because then you get an instant hit if you’re at full presence. Also try to water off the best kiting routes. Don’t rely too much on water, sometimes it’s faster just to hit them even if they’re high on water. And when they’re about to get water popped try to hit them right before or else after they get water popped they can transition away from you with the speed boost and avoid getting hit. I wish you luck Zeez! 💕
Also Naiad can dash through bodyblockers and when she pulls back her harpoon she can damage them all
I also really like to use butterfly abyss in smaller rescue areas! Idk why but it works for me
Cool trick I learned for using Naiad on sleeping town is she can water off entire streets/kiting areas. Naiads greatest strength is making tight kiting pointless so try to abuse that!!! Sincerely, former patroller naiad
maybe try thinking of her abysses as squares and triangles . the easiest way to make one is throw harpoon is one long line, dash or 2 is one/two long lines and pull back is one line. so if you’re already following someone up, make the bottom of the triangle by throwing to your side. dash into them and make the side of the triangle, pull back and make the other. easy down. I just don’t worry about making huge abysses unless it’s basement or a two story area I need to kick them out of . water doesn’t always have to be damaging, it may just be cutting them off, but using it too often can kick you because of her long drawback time. dashing and getting that pullback down will always be quicker than getting the super slow rising big abyss. I spent a couple hours just finding the fastest and most comfortable way to water off every area and that definitely helped. about pallet spamming, your only real options are to either water off the place so the pallets are unusable and will actually bite them in the ass if they have to get out of the abyss and you ts them, or you eat it like an ann and continuously break them. I think naiad to be good is prediction dependent. if you just harpoon just where the survivor is, theyre already gone. if you water off shack and then break the pallet to get in, theyre already out the window. if that makes sense
For me when playing naiad, I usually bring insolence + detention, with patroller! I think some of the other naiad mains have also shared their very tips for naiad, which is to throw the harpoon the opposite of where you want to go (ideally, to create a triangle abyss sorta). This helps in making survivors kite and gain humidity as they are in the triangular abyss. I love using patroller as well since it works well in getting survivors to gain humidity + fast down. As they get stop periodically, I will actually circle around them to get them to gain more humidity and once that reaches 95%, I hit at the same time as they get the water pop! Patroller is also strong in stuffing rescues in my opinion for naiad. When rescuer gets bitten by patroller, you do the same trick to stuff rescues, or get them to come after half in a sense. Additionally, you can also use the harpoon/abyss to force survivor out of a strong area in a sense. Like in the event you dont want them to kite at graveyard, harpoon towards that area. Generally, survivors would tend to go out of harpoon range if possible to avoid abyss.
Hope this helps, and good luck in maining naiad too!
Edit: I highly recommend you to watch Bieber, he's the reason why I used patroller naiad combo! HAHA
I noticed one major thing in your gameplay
If we imagine ourselves in shounen - you need a waterfall training arc (meditation)
As a naiad you have to concentrate on drowning a surv , not swing at them( like in that moonlight match ench went to a 4th stop you went after her like nightwatch would, as naiad you can water off the area) in later rounds you got the feeling, but yea, naiad should not “tunnel”
Good luck with learning her ❤ you are doing a great job
Omg I remember when I was new to idv and I watched your video of you trying to play Naiad and because of that video I started maining her!♡
A small tip for Naiad camping: if the survivor already has some water on them and they are too close to the chair to harpoon for water damage, you can try making small circles around them for water damage to try and stuff the rescue (this is a bit more last resort). Dashing onto the survivor then pulling back harpoon is the best imo or making a giant pool works too (preferably if the survivor is within water lines before pulling harpoon back)
something about naiad when camping ! survs usually rescue during the harpoon drawback animation so what i do is run small circles aroudn them with harpoon in my hand so if they get water hit you can immediatley hit again
take a shot every time zeez misses his blink
WOO!!! ZEEZ UPLOAD!! also id love to give you some tips on naiad if you’d want them zeez!! i’m the s1 naiad (current second though) and the one that you spectated a while back! so i’d like to think im a bit qualified haha. i’m really happy you’re learning her though since she’s my favorite hunter in the game & i can’t wait to see your future matches
i didn’t want to just leave my thoughts in the comments unsolicited but ill gladly share if you’d like to hear!!
I'll take any advice I can get thanks!
@@ZeezVovGeeVokay!! so i do actually run patroller on her, which helps a lot with harassers like cowboy and batter. if you can manage to bite them before pickup, wait until they’re stunned and they can’t do much!
it also helps get early downs if you’re struggling, since you can circle around the survivor when they’re stunned and then wait til the water hits + normal hit.
also, for endgame like the last match, grace actually counters heal stalling. you walk around the survivors and make small circles until they take a water hit, but make sure you’re spamming the pickup button too since they usually pop when they take the water hit.
when chair camping you can also make small circles around the survivors, and a lot of times if they’re close to 100, they’ll try to go for the rescue immediately, so you can get a terrorshock on them. if they’re being patient though, you can just keep going until they reach 100, or hit them if they’re at like ~95, the water should kill them mid rescue animation.
ik it’s used a lot in tourney and it’s what i personally use, but insolence isn’t the only build you can run on her. she’s actually super versatile and can work with confined/trump card, and even no detention since she’s a double hit hunter. i don’t recommend no deten build for now though since you’re still learning. insolence is definitely great!! but trump card can also come in really handy & it’s what i first used her with, so maybe try out a few games with that one? bringing patroller with trump card also definitely helps with early down since you don’t have the insolence boost.
sorry if this is a lot lol, but i really hope it helps you out!! just remember that all hunters take lots of practice to get good at too, so you’ll definitely get better with experience. i can’t wait to see you improve with her and hopefully see her in your future gameplay!!
oh another thing, she’s also really good for chasing in leo’s, esp in factory. at least in my experience, if survivors go up the outside stairs, you can throw your harpoon through the entrance and follow them until they get to the window. i’m not super sure how to explain, but abysses will be on all the levels of a building that grace is on when they’re done if that makes sense? so you throw the harpoon when you’re downstairs, then pull it back when you’re upstairs, and the survivors will (hopefully) be in the abyss when they vault the window. this isn’t a 100% guarantee water hit but it does help pressure them.
also!! you can use your water as a makeshift peeper kinda? if you see someone get humidity, you know they’re close to where your water was, so if you remember where you were you also know where the survivor is (give or take)
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hi zeez a trick with naiad when camping is to make an abyss by walking and don’t close it until someone walks up, you can just walk and close it and most survs don’t expect it because they are looking for the harpoon instead, to close it you can even throw the harpoon to where you started it.ᐟ.ᐟ i’m not sure if that makes sense but it’s a good trick to know
I used to be a Naiad main, and I'm pretty sure you can cancel your dash if you accidentally went too far and missed the survivor by clicking the skill again. Not too sure because my memories with playing Naiad is pretty vague.. However, if you're interested in maining Naiad in the future, I recommend watching iAlien and Bleber. Even though iAlien doesn't post on a daily basis, you can still learn by watching his gameplays. He posted a thorough guide with Naiad 3 months ago regarding the best persona for Naiad, her counters, best/worst maps, and even spawn selection. Despite being out of date with the current version of idv, it's a great video to learning how to play Naiad. I think Zeus had some good pointers as well when I watched him critique people's matches during his livestreams, so maybe you can also learn a bit from him too. Though, even if you don't plan on playing Naiad after this video, It was nice to see some gameplays!!
zeez is turning his vid into a Netflix series
Tip from the 53rd NA Naiad (if that means anything): Use your harpoon as another naiad, circle the player if you're in an area that you can go around easily, then, when the player runs back to avoid being hit normally, throw the harpoon at the inactive abyss water, this will create an abyss (it might fail sometimes if it's kinda far though), it's an instant 30%, and when you pull back, if it closes with them in, that's another 30%. If you have first pressence and are in slipstream (fish-mode as I like to call it) and the survivor is running towards the outer side of your harpoon to avoid being enclosed in the abyss, you can attempt to dash to their outer side, so they will either dodge it and then get humidity from the closed abyss, or get hit by the dash AND abyss creation, then you pull back the harpoon asap, if you did this right, it's a 90% humidity very quickly, also, at full pressence it's an instant hit from the abyss creation and the dash hit.
Also, for early game, throw the harpoon away and go towards the good kiting area in which the decoder is likely to spawn in, for example, IMO eversleeping town is one of her best maps, and graveyard can be like halved (especially the strong areas) if you harpoon towards the entrance or the window (depending on where you're coming from) and go into the graveyard, if done correctly, you can get 50+% depending on if the survivor was aware of the harpoon or not.
The day zeez uses excitement is the day I die happily
Bleber and watching pro players for Naiad! That helped me to figure out how to use her better than before
WOOOO I love Naiad
JUST WHAT I NEEDED WHILE ALREADY BINGING YOUR VIDEOS 🙏🏾🙏🏾
I don’t have many naiad tips as I don’t play her (Alva main over here) but I love that you’re doing this training arc for her and I hope you do enjoy playing her zeez! And great video as always
YAY!!!! I hope that you can make good progress with Naiad! Best of luck :D!!
Bleber is a content creator who plays Naiad, 4K every time LOL 🙃
as a naiad main this made me giggle and kick my feet.
one thing, i don't find wanted order does much good for her. i mean, *maybe* you'll get lucky and get wanted order on the rescuer but it's better to put those points into berserker or sadist! especially because one of her bigger things is her camp. if you're going against a team comp you know you'll have trouble chasing you can bring patroller to possibly help you stuff a rescue. she also doesn't really need impact or control freak because she's already very fast with her dash. i personally go for double berserker, double sadist, and constrain! of course if you have a bunch of harassers on your team you can take off of berserker and use the points on stun reduction.
i'd also really recommend watching some naiad gameplay so you can get a visual of how to set up your water pools and stuff. i don't know how you feel about watching gameplay of her but even if it's extremely boring i PROMISE you it'll be worth it in the long run.
of course, i'm only really in cobra 1 so take my tips with a grain of salt! 🙏🙏 i wish you luck with learning her! once you get a hang of her skill she's SUPER fun to play.
Dude that 7th match those survivors came off as so toxic to me, the prospector spamming emote and the enchantress stunning you instead of just leaving. I honestly hate survivors that do that type of stuff. But besides that I hope you keep getting better at Naiad Zeez, I love seeing you play my hunter main. Keep up with the absolutely the amazing content Zeez!
This video was so real.. I used to play naiad but I got too frustrated since it’s hard to win with her rather than tie. Gl on your hunter journey! ❤️
Love the background music this video❤
zeez has posted its gonna be a great day!!!
i really loved this video! its so cool seeing your progress like this and i really enjoy seeing the ups and downs of people learning to play hunter. its just really awesome to observe! i hope you do more stuff like this in the future!!
one little tiny itsy bitsy thing i will comment on which is actually not relevant to anything at all is calling alva an easy way out with ann because he Is not an easy way out at all. he takes a LOT of skill and insane multitasking, especially in the higher tiers. hes not an easy hunter at all. being an insolence-dependent map control hunter takes a lot out of you and does not get you easy wins
Omg! I love lunecresent! I subbed to her channel 2 days ago!
i love your thumnails so much. How can it be so beautiful
OMG YASSS, zeez learning my hunter main
Hooray!!
I'm by no means a pro Naiad and I play her on yellow/eu ping so my priorities might be different but I'll try to give any insight I can!
2:30 I don't think you do this but just as a lessons-learned from me to any Naiads: sometimes prioritizing water dmg first is risky - if you can get a hit in do it, especially with insolence. I've had times where by trying to do water dmg over a hit, the target ended up getting neither.
What you can do if here you decided to hit first, is to try and make them walk on a puddle (for example by walking in front of them for a bit) so that the water doesn't go down as fast after the hit.
3:30 she's thinking........ it's working, I guess.
For Naiad you make biiiig puddle around chair, and then try to get a dash on the rescuer, and pull back harpoon at chair (the pop interrupts the rescue, so it's generally optimal if you damage them either by pulling back the harpoon OR while already in "normal" walking mode, so you can attack right after). The other trick is to start drawing a shape around the chair (or even small entrances that the survivor has to go through), and closing the shape when they step in, to give them water percentage. You can kinda do it when they're already at the chair too but it's a bit more tricky since you can't walk around them so you kinda just spin and pray that it counts lol-
7:35 I personally don't mind Naiad on red church but the kiting areas are rly close together so it's easy to transition on it - and the amount of walls means that it's hard to keep track of people while you're puddling areas off.
22:00 Zeez it _might_ be time for Ann or Wax or Undead. Join the clowning on stunners club......
Joking aside, as you mention later in the video, Naiad only counters "harassing" in the sense that she can punish people grouping up long-term. But for example Cowboy is really difficult for her too since he doesn't have to be up close to do his thing, and most harassers have Flywheel which counters her water too.
26:02 "LITERALLY nobody sells against me"
the composer from the Leo's game: am i a joke to you
41:50 UNDEAD!!!! unga bunga!!!! (he is also kinda weak to pallet spam haha BUT STILL, you could CLOWN ON ALL OF THEMMMMM~)
45:30 Actually, Naiad can deal with heal-stalling by herself! just circle them so the person healing gets water popped or panics and lets go, and then you can pick up!
Tbh nobody really counters harassers, even Undead and Wax can be harassed when playing around their mechanics. So, hang in there ^^ it's tough.
I’ve started playing hunter for the first time and using Naiad, I think she’s really fun and can be very powerful in the right spots
I typically bring Sadist when playing Naiad to boost the chances of terroshocking the rescuer. However, it's essential to master camping with her to pull this off effectively.
A camping tip I use with naiad: create a circle near the survivor you're camping but don't close it until the rescuer steps inside. This allows you to quickly apply 30% - 50% humidity.
Practice makes perfect, gl!
zeez heard my prayers for this video 🎉
whenever i think naaid i think bleber!! bleber has the craziest most unthinkable tricks out there w her xD all the best to your training arc zeez
Rest well in the mean time Zeez!
Zeez playing my hunter main i cheered!!!!!
THE MUSIC IS FIRE!! IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS VIDEO (naiad main, ur eating zeez)
Zeezle we are matching then! I have been trying to pick up Naiad along with Dreamwitch these days, so its nice to see you play the fish.
We believe in you Zeez, S1 Naiad soon 🙏
Hi zeez I've been watching your content a lot lately and I love it
i’ll take this as a guide on naiad bc i love her but i’m really bad at using her 😭😭😭 i trust you zeez!!!
NAIAD GAMINGGGGG
Hi Zeez! Naiad main (albeit Low tier..im trying) Im sure this is not a uh high tier worthy build. But I like to bring Detention Inso with 2 or 3 pallet breaking speed on larger maps or more pallet heavy maps (Like Leos) to help with the speed of the game!
Also for camping, I make giant abysses around the chair and nearby ciphers or in basement if possible and sort of stray outwards to scope out survivors with my dashes that way its easier to down them
Also try to scope out ciphers if you can but try not to worry too much! Even in sticky situations Naiad is definitely a draw hunter at the least and her speed and mechanics can help you out with downs (detention carries haha)
increasing hunter pool? can't wait to see the leo!
zeez you MIGHT wanna not use visit ever for naiad, it gives the survivors a chance to counter you 😭
YAAAAAY NAIAD!!!
I'd recommend you check out harpoon spots for factory(arms and leos), hotel in china town, hospital in sacred heart, church in red church, big boat in lakeside and fun house in moonlit as these are the areas where naiad suffers the most because of all the strong windows and pallets and the 2 story areas
I could learn more for my naiad in asia after watching u playing :> i rather put peeper on naiad cause i am blind (im Joseph main in na eu) and i love to dash to survivor so that they took a hit before i attack (but most player i met just go for the rescue and i am sad) and this help me to make her water abyss better since i am suck at throwing her harpoon 😅
i'm late but zeez naiad main era !!
39:23 I definitely wouldn’t have attempted that 😂 I saw that coming. Getting greedy definitely has its consequences!
Went from a naiad hater to a naiad player
I can relate to zee so much, i complain the same way he does😂
As a Violetta/Soul Weaver main of a long time, she can take care of harassers best imo, you can use webshots if there are people around you and also and wait for web to just cocoon survivors if youre surrounded by harassers, and she takes some skill to be good for sure. managing webs, good web placements, aiming and predicting with webshots, would love if you become one of us and mained Violetta on the side :]
i saw a good naiad player, when in chase throw the harpoon through windows/pallets in the direction the surv is going! Instead of throwing it to the side of the obstacle and make a big pool! I guess watering the whole area takes too much time and survs transition pretty quick, ofc Blebler is king but you could watch Feizard too! Gl on your Naiad journey zeez!!!
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Lock in S1 Naiad
Zeez i think that last match you dont need to blink acrobat, just circle him around few times and use your blink to down one of them when cipher pop. i could be wrong though im not a pro player hahah
If you wanna learn Naiad I recommend watching Orochi. He's the S1 Fish in Asia! I learn alot from him and my first time reaching cyclops 1 with only playing Naiad, my WR was 88%!😁
As a naiad main naiad can definatly be strong if you know how to play her (ig that goes most hunters but naiad can be a monster if put in the right hands) she is imo best in eversleeping town and arms factory bcs she can water off kiting areas easier for me at least
Zeez doesnt seem to understand that by using the "visit" hunter animation on the lobby, it means every team will immediately play every character that can counter the hunter they see they will play against 💀
I'm aware. I just don't care if they do since it's practice. I turn that off in ranks though
That moonlight match against naiad destroying her made me so happy, good teamwork and harrasment, my nightmares about transitional kiting never working for me only when I try is relieved a bit
Zeez in his Naid main era, oh how times have changed haha
Gl, she's actually really fun!
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when camping as naiad its better to just make a lot of small abyss right next to the chair, all you have to do is walk around the chair, go from one side then walk to the other an make it kinda small but big enough to where they get watered before they can touch the chair, 3 puddle splash things should be far enough out.
zeez went through a whole character arc
since another comment mentioned bleber, i think for cowboy and naiad u should watch bleber (though they play practically any survivor or hunter), for geisha you could watch Koth and lastly u can watch nubspector for any hunter and survivor
I’m not pro or anything lol but a tip I can give is don’t be an afraid of pallets. As a former Geisha main when I was starting out I was always afraid of pallets but I got myself out of dat fear bcuz dat was stopping me from playing my best cuz whenever I got pallet stunned i would b rlly mad it’s still like a pet peeve for me in idv but I learned not to fear getting pallet stunned and I feel dat has helped me a lot better I think with my gameplay. 😅 it’s not much advice but I hope it helps u out.
I felt so bad for zeez😭
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a tip for her is when your camping if ur not good on working with the water i would recommend camping and making circles around the chair and try to practice hitting at the right time bc shes really good at terror shocking
Okay so, I'm a low tier Naiad main so I'm not gonna spam advice obv but from the obvious things that work for every tier; going the opposite way of your trident and watering off good areas (like shack for example) so you can't get looped, are both things you could definitely practice more! I feel like Naiad is a very demotivating character for a lot of people when you're just learning her (speaking from my own experience as well💀) but I promise it gets better the more you get used to her and then harassers won't be much trouble
5:03 Mikan mains moment
When I deal with harassers and pallets, I try my best to use as large puddles as I can so then I can block off as many pallets as I can. By doing this I can force players out of areas that are hard for me to play in and block harassers from coming close to me when I get a down. For example, I'm trying to chair but there is an enchantress harassing. I'll create a large puddle so it forces the enchantress away because if they get close they'll be punished by the puddle. Also i'm pretty against small puddles, It seems like a waste of time recalling the trident for such little puddles that can be easily run out of.
Very crazy to me that naiad was your biggest rival and enemy to now you giving her a chance to be a secondary main
my number 1 recomendation: if you hate harassers and there is 3 or more, just take excitement. I personally find with niad if you water off certain areas you dont neccesarily need the blink
39:19 NAHH that’s on you zeez 💀
Watch bleber naiads gameplay, he is really good with her!
NAIAD YES
Fun fact naiad can surround most of the map of eversleeping town making almost everyone have water and get hit!
Zeez I love you.. say it back.
5:10 because I was being freaky and tired 😭 thats why
Well done on your naiad btw!
Btw my friend mechanic was playing on pc for first time, thats why she was crawling LMAO
As an naiad main I don’t put my spears at their running way but put the spear the opposite way and I follow them and that way it’s either they get water off or take a free hit
i felt the frustration in match 4 😩
That's why I couldn't play as hunter, last time I got double harassed by a team of acrobat, aeroplanist, gardener and a prisoner In sacred heart hospital. I was the soul weaver...
You did awesome as a naiad Zeez!
Usually, early on in the game i usually like to just use my water to cut off areas and mainly try to focus more on getting my main body closer to the surv im chasing, as water accumulation early game is kind slow lol. Usually when dealing with harassment, i just create an abyss around the downed survivor and try to accumulate as much water on the harasser as much as possible to force them to leave, and at best they might even give you a free hit
This means you can accumulate more ways to develop your skills wih Naiad! >:DD
all that water but still remember to drink up zeeeez…
Hi zeez you did well. Also there's some really good hunter guides out there, I usually watch bleber or happybud or happy guy? I think and there's like other good guides by other players on RUclips that can probably help you. :) definitely give them a try
Naiad training arc :DDDD
I can't believe i get a match with zeez, i'm the enchantress named mari~. Ty zeez its such a honor playing with u. AND I'M SO SORRY ABOUT THE CONFUSE EMOTE, love u zeez!!
"Zeez will be a s badge naiad" we all say in unison