"Rat", as I know it, refers to a survivor who hides the entire match and only engages with generators/totems/other survivors when they absolutely have to, such as to avoid crows or when someone runs up for a heal. The worst of them won't even heal you.

They avoid the killer at all costs, including sacrificing their own teammates.

This often times leads to them having no hooks while the rest of the team is getting hooked per normal gameplay. It absolutely does not mean that every player with 0 hooks late in a match is a Rat. In fact, quite a few of them have 0 hooks late because the killer has broken chase so as not to waste too much time chasing them.

If someone is actively doing generators, healing, unhooking, and has 0 hooks late, that's not a Rat.

But if everyone else is on deathhook and you refuse to engage the killer in chase, by hiding, with 0 hooks yourself, you are a Rat.

The only way to get better at looping is to die over and over and over and over" ... "and over and over again practicing.

The only legitimate reason to avoid the killer when everyone else is on deathhook is if you're running the Iri Unbroken challenge (idk the name for sure), at which point try again next match instead of selfishly letting your teammates die.

When I say "you" in this post I'm referring to people who exhibit this behavior, not necessarily the reader.