The Plague
Power — Vile Purge

Her toes blackened, her neck mushroomed into cysts, and her throat gagged with bloody vomit."
SPECIAL ABILITY: VILE PURGE
Press and hold the Power button to charge Vile Purge.
Release the Power button to unleash a stream of infectious bile or press the Attack button to swallow it back down:
- Hitting Survivors with a Vomit Projectile inflicts them with Sickness.
- Successive hits slowly fill the Sickness Meter.
- Hitting environmental objects causes them to become infectious to Survivors for 40 seconds.
SPECIAL STATE: SICKNESS
Sickness is indicated on the Status HUD icon of affected Survivors, which also doubles as a Sickness Meter:
- Infected Survivors with a partially filled Sickness Meter vomit at random intervals, infecting both nearby environmental objects and other Survivors.
- Infected Survivors with a full Sickness Meter are put into the Injured State


and suffer permanently from the Broken

Status Effect.
SPECIAL OBJECT: POOLS OF DEVOTION
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spawn randomly throughout the environment:
- 5 Pools of Devotion spawn in the Uncorrupted State.
- 1 Pool of Devotion spawns in the Corrupted State.
SPECIAL INTERACTION: CLEANSING INFECTION
Survivors can approach an Uncorrupted Pool of Devotion and interact with it to cleanse themselves.
Cleansing removes all Sickness and automatically heals them back to full health, but corrupts the Pool of Devotion.
SPECIAL INTERACTION: INGESTING CORRUPTION
The Plague can approach a Corrupted Pool of Devotion and press and hold the Interaction button to ingest its corruption and empower her purge:
- Replaces Vile Purge with Corrupt Purge for 60 seconds.
- Resets the Pool of Devotion.
The Plague automatically receives Corrupt Purge when Survivors corrupt all available Pools of Devotion, resetting them all.
SPECIAL ATTACK: CORRUPT PURGE
Press and hold the Power button to charge Corrupt Purge
Release the Power button to unleash a stream of lethal bile or press the Attack button to swallow it back down:
- Hitting Survivors with a Vomit Projectile inflicts them with damage, causing them to lose a Health State


.
If The Plague is stunned by any means during Corrupt Purge, her Power is instantly reset to Vile Purge.
Unique perks — 3
Teachable on any killer once unlocked

- At the start of the Trial, the 3 Generators located farthest from you are blocked by The Entity for 80/100/120 seconds.
Corrupt Intervention deactivates prematurely once the first Survivor is put into the Dying State.
"It shall be known across the land that the Gods curse the unfaithful." — (The Tablet of Adiris, 3.7)

Whenever the Obsession becomes injured by any means, Dark Devotion activates for 35/40/45 seconds:
- Transfers your Terror Radius to the Obsession.
- This Terror Radius is set to 40 metres.
- Grants the Undetectable Status Effect.
You can only be obsessed with one Survivor at a time.
"And terror shall take hold of a defiant non-believer, who shall falsely announce my arrival." — (The Tablet of Adiris, 48.9)

Whenever a Survivor is put into the Dying State by any means, all other Survivors within your Terror Radius will scream and reveal their current location to you for 4/5/6 seconds.
"Horror overcomes the heart of infidels who cry at the feet of the fallen." — (Hymn of Praise, 11.4)
Release & tier
- Introduced
- Demise of the Faithful2019 · $7.99
- Tier
- C
Other Tier C killers
The Plague — common questions
Perks, power and where to build with this killer.