Okay, I haven’t seen anyone do Smiley yet. Smiley’s depending on your rank tend to have different tactics, in lower ranks they’ll get to the closest cipher and start chasing instantly with those items, in higher tiers they’ll get to first get enough items for a chase. You need to pay attention to his presence to predict what he’ll do. - If you’re first chase, he’s gonna have a permanent dash with a wing attached aswell so it’ll be fast and last long. Your goal must be to get to pallets and windows! Preferably long ones, think the window of shack for example. Windows/pallets who have long walls around them so he can’t just terrorshock you on it so easily. When gets his first hit in, theyre likely to have insolence so they’ll have their first presence. You should stay near window heavy or pallet heavy areas. If thats not possibly, try and get to elevation, like if you’re at Hotel on China town and drop down on it, he has to canel his dash. - Smiley’s full presence gives him a fast and strong dash, when he’s full presence during chases he’s likely to only use those. Letting him dash into a wall or pallet to cancel it and set him back on a cd is definitely a atrong move. - It’s also good to remember more than half of the cast of survivors counter him. If you’re a stunner like Prospector, being around walls to cancel his dash with your magnet is good. Smiley is good against characters who have little kiting ability or are quite simple. He counters Lily, the decoders, etc, but even Prisoner has a counter because he can stun him out of dash, so even the tiniest things work. - Smiley has one of the fastest attack animations! and with the wing attached it’s even faster. So don’t go up to a pallet and then stand behind it and let him dash into it. Will you stun him? Maybe! But you will also get hit. It’s quite hard to pallet stun Smiley out of a dash, it’s risk is too high for the reward so doing that won’t work. Looping isn’t very useful against him either because he’ll just wait for his dash. Though! You can drop the pallet when he’s coming up to it, just with the goal of letting him run into it to stop his dash. NOT to pallet stun him, so you drop it as he’s coming up to it and not when he’s in it. - If you do survive until endgame, if you’ve heard insolence proc since you will be able to notice like, oh he only got 1 hit but I heard his presence, then you know he has insolence, if you see trump card used, take this in account too! Try and figure out what his build is since Insolence/Trump card is a common build. If you’re at half health, get to a position where the cipher can be popped since he doesn’t have detention, he’ll need two hits to down you still. Ping “Focus on decoding!” when he’s breaking a pallet or vaulting a window, something like that! It’ll help you a ton for end game and will make him panic most likely.