Dead by Daylight: Jason's power revealed, codename is The Slasher

Two days after the killer reveal itself, Behaviour Interactive shipped Jason Voorhees’s power reveal — the new Dead by Daylight killer who hits live servers on June 16, 2026. The headlines in the first 24 hours: the killer’s in-game codename is The Slasher, Jason carries two unique mini-moris and one full mori, and his core kit includes a teleport that obviously riffs on FT13TG’s Shift and Mortal Kombat X’s Fog Walk.

What we know about the power

From data-mining and Behaviour’s official teaser cuts:

• Stalk mode — Jason can lock onto a survivor across a stretch of the map, then gain a movement buff and brief immunity to fast skill-check reversals.
• Teleport (Shift) — short geometry-piercing dash between two placed markers. Short distance, medium cooldown, but enough to bypass loop timestamps right through walls.
• Mini-moris (×2) — ground-execute animations: one with the machete, one bare-handed. They make the first hit on a single survivor lethal if that survivor is already on the floor health segment.
• Full mori — a cinematic with the mask and machete, classic Camp Crystal aesthetic.

Structurally The Slasher sits closest to Wraith and Ghost Face: gen pressure through mobility, no dedicated anti-loop ability. The build-meta fear is that the mini-moris will push slug-meta into even more toxic territory than it already is.

Community reaction

The r/deadbydaylight subreddit lived in storm mode for a full day:

• Mori hype — clips of the Jason power reveal pulled almost 900 upvotes in the first hour, with many posts saying “this is even better than we expected.”
• Anniversary disappointment — the DBD community expected an anniversary chapter with a new map and a new survivor. Behaviour shipped only the killer — no map, no survivor. Several top threads call this “the most bare-bones anniversary in DBD history.”
• Trapper memes — meme of the day: “Trapper can still step on his own trap, even with Jason in the room.” Self-criticism aimed at Behaviour’s long-running bug list.
• Pamela Voorhees — a vocal faction of fans wanted Jason’s mother to appear as background whispers inside the power. She doesn’t — and that’s already a fault line in the community.

What this means for users running software

Chapter day is the single worst day to queue with any client-side. Behaviour reliably ship an anti-cheat update (EAC plus proprietary modules) bundled with the chapter release. Past cases — Resident Evil chapter, Stranger Things relicense — saw the detection wave run 48–72 hours after the live patch.

Practical recommendation for our Dead by Daylight audience:

1. Update your HWID spoofer in advance — the day before release, not on patch day.
2. Don’t queue for 48 hours after live — including those first matches against Jason. The temptation is real, but one ban in this wave is a long cooldown.
3. Wait for vendor confirmation — our dead-by-daylight-hacks catalog updates statuses as software vendors confirm compatibility.
4. PTB window (expected early June) is the best window to actually look at Jason — but anti-cheat is live on PTB too.

Bottom line

The Slasher is a compromise chapter: a dream killer wedged into a slimmed-down anniversary content bundle. The power, judging from the teaser, looks heavy and atmospheric, but the missing map and survivor make the patch feel shorter than expected. Three weeks until the June 16 release — three weeks of PTB, data mining and final balance tuning. And, for users running software, three weeks to not hit “find match” on the worst day of the calendar.

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