7 EASY Ghost Traits to Learn FIRST in Phasmophobia

learning ghost abilities and traits is the next giant step to improving in phasmophobia however this can feel like a very daunting task cuz there are so many to learn don't worry I believe in you I know you will learn them and I'm going to be here to help show you seven really quick and easy ghost traits that you should start learning first Sometimes evidence can be very stubborn to get that's right I'm looking at you dots pen learning to eliminate ghosts based on traits and abilities is a great start first ghost trading ability you should

probably learn is probably one that you already know or started with I know I started this too and that is going to be knowing that wraiths cannot step in salt typically whenever I do no evidence runs it's one of the first tests I do because it is so simple and easy to do once you have found the ghost room you're going to want to place Salt in it or you can also subsequently place it in a doorway also place it down a long hallway because now that ghosts can step and salt during hunts it makes

it a lot easy to be able to know if you're actually dealing with a wraith to step and salt there's also other task you can do if you do have motion sensors you can set them up and see if the ghost crosses through the motion sensor but does does not step in salt but you do know as soon as you see the ghost step into the salt that you can rule out array don't forget you can also take pictures of the salt piles themselves which makes for some quick and easy three star photos to help

fill out your book for perfect games another ghost trait that you're going to want to learn first is going to be that obak have a chance of leaving unique fingerprints this means that obak have a 16% chance of leaving a six-fingered fingerprint on a door two fingered fingerprint on light switches and then five fingerprints on keyboards or prison cell door if you see that you automatically know that you're going to be dealing with an obake and this is one of the coolest things I think in the game and one of the reasons why obak are

one of my favorite ghosts what are some of y''s favorite ghosts let me know down in the comments I'm probably president of the obake fan club that with a shape shifting ability super cool but anyways let's get back to some other traits you can now learn to rule out ghosts and that's going to be that Mars cannot turn on light switches that's right if a ghost ever turns on a light in a house you can rule out a mayor so this can be very common common in many Maps so very quick and easy way to

rule out further ghosts now the reason that Maris cannot turn on lights is because Maris will hunt at 60% sanity in the dark 40% sanity in the light and they are more likely to roam away from lights Mars also have a pretty cool ability to immediately turn off a light that you turn on It's A Mir you want to make sure that there was no ghost event that happened immediately after you turn on a light that can happen it does happen a bit if you go to turn on a light and immediately turns off and

there was no ghost ability then that will be a man hey so while editing this I realized maybe I didn't quite make it super super clear so let's go through this clip again what I want you to know is that every ghost has a chance to immediately turn off a light switch if you turn it on if it's a ghost event that goes with it so again look at this clip and you'll see we turn on the light and immediately get the ghost event every ghost can do that this is not a M's ability but

it mimics it very very closely a mayor will immediately turn off the light switch with without any ghost event and then let's take a look at this there we go that's de's ability so as you saw as soon as we turned on the light it immediately turned it off that one was a m the other ghost that was a spirit another fun fact with that is that that actually works with a breaker off as well if you turn on a light switch the breaker is off the Mir has a chance to immediately turn it off

still too very cool I've had that happen to me a couple times and it threw me off the first time I was like huh is that a m it actually works yep even the idea of a light switch on apparently makes m is very angry either way more of the story if you see a ghost turn on light just go into your book rule out of M very simple and we can continue sticking with the electricity theme for this and that is going to be that gens cannot turn off Breakers so if a ghost ever

turns off a breaker in a map you can automatically rule out a Jin and this again will all tie back into the Jin's ability so the Jin has a sanity draining ability where it will have an interaction with a breaker and if you are within 3 m of the Jin it's going to drain 25% of your it the breaker being on is also reliant on the Jin's hunting ability where it will immediately speed up to 2.5 m per second if it has lighting up sight of you during the hunt then it's going to go back

to normal speed when the Jin gets within 3 m of you this sounds very confusing but let's go over some clips on exactly how to spot this if you do so happen to want to during this clip I want you to see how the ghost will speed up faster and then slow down there towards the end that's a genen that's a gen that's a gen's ability you don't feel comfortable trying to spot that during a hunt you absolutely don't have to just know that if the breaker is turned off during a map go ahead and

cross off Jin now I'm going to throw in another wrench in there because the Jin can actually trip the breaker so here's what I mean by this if you're like me you just keep turning on lights all willy-nilly trying to find the bone and then you don't turn it off eventually turning on too many lights will trip the breaker so if you're right at that point where turning on another light switch will trip the breaker and the g decid to turn on the light then that can trip the breaker anyos can do that in general

anyways but there's going to be one way to tell the difference with this so when you go back to turn on the breaker if the lights around immediately turn back on after you turn on the breaker then the ghost turned off the breaker if you have to manipulate the light switch again to get the light back on you could still be dealing with the Jin because that means that the breaker was tripped now let's look at how ghost events can play in with interactions with different ghosts and the first one is going to be if

you see a miss ball or a airball ghost event that's going to be that little ball of mist or fog or air that will come towards you so essentially the ghost will turn off a light switch you'll see the little ball of air come towards you you get like that breathing or hissing sound on cannot do that a ghost event if you see that you can immediately mark off Oni as a ghost possibility I guess that the reason for this is that in the journal it says that Oni are more likely to be in their

physical form to protect their grave site either way just know that if you get that airball event you can rule out an Oni this next one is going to take some practice but if you manage to take a photo of The Ghost and the ghost does not disappear then you can rule out a phantom so obviously the other side of that if you take a picture of The Ghost and the ghost model will disappear then the ghost is a phantom typically this will be done during events but you can also use cursed objects like the

summoning Circle or the monkey paw to summon the ghost and then take a picture of it and see if it disappears or not but if you are relying on ghost events it may take some fast reflexes or if it's a singing ghost event you may have a little bit more time this is typically why I will usually always carry a camera on me whenever I am waiting for things to try to check for the ghost is a phantom also to get that three star ghost photo but really the stars for this doesn't matter if it's

a one star ghost photo two star ghost photo three star it's all going to make the Phantom disappear that's the primary thing that you are looking for on the other side of that since the ascension update dots photos now count as ghost photos so therefore the Phantom dots will disappear when you take a picture of it which I have a clip here showing you that so again The Flash from the camera will cause the ghost model to disappear and if that does not happen you can rule out a phantom another way to really elevate your

gamep play is going to be listening to footstep speed during hunts obviously when you realize a hunt is started or you decide to smudge the ghost you run away to a hiding spot once you get in that hiding spot you're going to be relatively safe as long as you don't have any Electronics on or anything like that what I want you to get in the habit of is listen for the footsteps now there are going to be quite a few ghosts that do have different footstep speeds but I'm not going to sit here and explain

all of them this is about easy ones to learn and I want you to learn one and that is the Revenant because the Revenant is going to be one of the ones that you're really going to pick up on really quickly Revenant are going to be really slow when they do not have line of sight of a player so there's going to be long pauses between the footstep sounds listening for a Revenant was one of the first footstep speeds that I listened for and learned I think it's a great start start because of the stark

contrast between what a regular ghost speed is and the Revenant ghost speed when it does not have line of sight so now I'm going to play a sample of what ghost should usually sound like during hunts with normal speed and now this is what you're listening for with a Revenant you could hear it was very slow there were long delays between the footsteps and that's what I want you to listen out for I'm going to play them back to back again without cutting in between the middle so that way you can hear the difference side

by side so once run to your hiding spot and then after you're there safely listen for the footstep speed if you don't hear that super slow you know you can rule out a Revenant then if you do hear it really slow you know that you're dealing with a Revenant and you probably want to be extra careful during hunts you might be saying to yourself yeah that's really easy but I struggle with surviving hunt so how am I supposed to get to my hiding spot safely and then listen out for footsteps but don't worry like I

said I am here to help I got you you can click or tap the screen now and I will go over many different ways to survive hunts to make you a better player thanks for watching everybody happy hunting and I will see you in the next one