The Deity (X)

Abilities

Phases 1–3

• Hide and Seek: Turns invisible, leaves a decoy and shows every survivor. X is stun-immune while it lasts. Running into a survivor damages them, but since a pre-release patch it can no longer kill, and landing has some endlag.
• Ring Trap: Drops a ring where X stands. A survivor who walks into it takes 50 damage, half their health. X can click any placed ring to teleport to it. Patch v1.23 made the red rings “uncounterable”.
• Peekaboo: Fills a survivor's screen with static and surrounds them with shadow clones. Since v1.26 you have 5 seconds to find the real X, whose animations are 1.35x faster than the clones. Finding him disables his moves and M1 for 2 seconds (it used to be a full stun). Touching two fakes, or doing nothing, gets you hit for 30.

Phase 3

• Phase 3 buffs: Runs 10% faster, Hide and Seek is 15% faster and can fly, and ring teleports are faster.

Since the v1.24 update (October 18) every killer's basic attack (M1) does 35 damage, up from 20 at launch, and all abilities and M1s cost stamina. See the update log. Phase timing and the escape timer are covered in the escape timer guide.

How to survive The Deity

• Don't walk through rings to save time. 50 damage is half your health bar.
• During Peekaboo, look for the clone that moves faster. Since v1.26 the real X animates 1.35x faster than the copies, and you only have 5 seconds. A hit or shot on him also reveals him to your team.
• On Don't Drown, stay away from the water edge while Peekaboo is up. Reviewers report clones spawning out of reach when a survivor falls in.

How to play The Deity

• Open with Hide and Seek to find survivors. You're stun-immune while it's active, and running into someone damages them (it can't finish them off), so use it to start a chase as well as to scout.
• Place rings near mist patches, stairs, drops and dead ends. They block escape routes and give you teleport points next to the objectives.
• Save Peekaboo for when a survivor is cornered or has nowhere obvious to go. A wrong guess costs them 30 health. Since v1.26 a right guess no longer stuns you, but it locks your moves and M1 for 2 seconds.
• Down survivors near water on Don't Drown. Release-day footage shows survivors downed in the water stuck where they fell.
• In Phase 3 you run 10% faster and Hide and Seek can fly. Use it to cover the map and cut off the last survivors before the escape ring.

Map notes

• Don't Drown: Release-week footage shows survivors stuck after being downed in the water, and a reviewer reported Peekaboo clones spawning out of reach when the target falls in. Rings on walkways and drops are very effective here.

Skins

• Alternate: Slightly different skin tone and blood detail on the gloves.
• 2011X: A different, creepier model with its own chase theme, Peekaboo theme, laugh and stun lines.
• The Disaster X (TDX): A model from the older Roblox game The Disaster, with that game's original chase music (added with permission). Announced as a free skin. Gameplay videos show it has no intro animation.

Skins don't change abilities. See every skin on the skins page.

Why S tier

The free starter is also the most consistent killer at release. Hide and Seek gives map-wide information and safe damage, rings give both area denial and fast travel, and Peekaboo still forces a guess (v1.26 made it easier to read, with a 5-second window and a faster-moving real X). One release-day reviewer called X “the best killer in the game by far”, and the starter-killer gameplay we reviewed ends in a full server wipe.

FAQ

Is 2011X a different killer from The Deity?

No. 2011X is one of X's skins. The abilities are the same, only the model and chase music change.

Is The Deity free?

Yes. He's the starter killer, so everyone can play him from their first round as killer.

How do you beat Peekaboo?

Find the real X within 5 seconds. Since the v1.26 patch his animations are 1.35x faster than the clones. Finding him disables his moves and M1 for 2 seconds. Doing nothing, or touching two clones, gets you hit for 30.