Hunter

Description
The Hunter, also known as "The last survivor's impending doom" is the most dangerous infected in Left 4 Survival, useful against lonely survivors and survivors without Defenders and can be very helpful for Spitters and Riots. It costs $75 Coins to use making it the 7th most expensive zombie to use with coins.

Ability
The Hunter’s main ability is “Lunge”, which Hunter can lunge at high speeds allowing it to catch a sprinting survivor with Speed Armor. When it lunges to a survivor, it will pin them, similar that Tangler does. It makes loud sound when lunging. The ability takes away your 25% of stamina, so try to use this wisely.

Old
The Hunter has a gray skin with black hood and accesses your avatar’s clothes only. It uses your avatar’s face.

New
Same as it’s old one but it no longer uses your avatar’s face as it was replaced by “Zombie Face”. It’s black hood remains unchanged.

Weakness
Hunter’s low health can make it easy to kill and Crossbow, Sledge Hammer and Katana can instantly kill it so Hunters must be careful of these users. Due to being the most dangerous zombie (even dangerous than Juggernaut), survivors will always kill it first before fighting any zombies even Banshee and Juggernaut, as just one zombie attacked first before Hunters can result survivors’ death.

There is only one way to kill Hunter without survivor’s teammates, which is Defenders. If the Hunter lunges a survivor with Defenders, the Defender will attack it and kill it to save their survivor from it, so Hunters are suggested to not lunge survivors with Defenders until the Defender dies or they are chased by hordes of zombies.

Survivors

 * Work together, Hunters will go after lonely survivors.
 * Bring an automatic or powerful primary to to take them out quickly, slow weapons give them time to escape.
 * Always target Hunters first. You mustn't kill zombies first before Hunters, as doing that can get you killed.
 * If you have an Defender, then yes, they can save you from the Hunter.
 * When a hunter lunges at you, attempt to side step out of the way or go for higher ground.
 * Try to dodge a hunter trying to pounce on you, if they keep spamming they'll eventually run out of stamina giving you time to kill them.
 * NEVER EVER shoot any zombies first even Banshee and Juggernaut before shooting Hunters, because Hunters can easily take you down.
 * Pay Attention to Spitters as they can spit the acid to a pinned teammate, killing them rather quickly.
 * The Defender is your best friend escaping Hunters, allowing you to escape from impending doom. You should use them if the Hunter is too dangerous to you.
 * Keep in mind that zombies helping Hunter can block your Defender's shots, preventing them from damaging the Hunter for you to escape. They also cost robux to buy.
 * Defenders also has an health bar, just like you and your teammates, when they die, it allows Hunter a free time to kill you even if none of the zombies are helping the Hunter.
 * Crossbow is a perfect tool to kill Hunters quickly due to its high damage.
 * Try to get on the high ground where Hunters cannot get you quickly.
 * Watch out for Chillers as they can freeze you with their "Chilling Breath" for long seconds, allowing Hunters to get you very easily.
 * This can easily make your quests harder than it should be as you must not shoot any zombies first before hunters.

Zombies

 * If a survivor has been froze by Chiller, you can have a free time to lunge into them easily.
 * Go for survivors that are alone or barely have low health or did not have Defenders.
 * It's best to not lunge to a group of survivors as they can take you down quickly.
 * As a Spitter, work with Hunters in order to deal extra damage.
 * Try to conserve your stamina.
 * You can also use the pounce attack in order to escape, or travel faster.
 * Remember that survivors will be target you first before your own zombies, remember to dodge the bullets.
 * Instead, try to retreat to the safe place immediately before it's too late.
 * As you walk in 4s, you cannot climb non-truss ladders. Be patient.
 * Survivors' loadout, mainly Defenders can kill you rather quickly when pin a survivor, giving them escaping from you from their impending doom. Do NOT target the survivors with Defenders unless the Defender dies or they are chased by a hordes of infected.
 * As a Chiller, work with Hunters by freezing the survivor using the "Chilling Breath" to allow Hunters to pin the froze survivor.
 * If you see a survivor with a Defender that was pinned by Hunter, attempt to block the pinned survivor's Defender shots to allow Defenders to hit you instead of Hunter.
 * Make sure to have high health, low health will get you killed and sacrificed yourself for Hunters to be alive and damage the survivor.
 * Zombies with high health like Juggernaut are recommended while doing this.
 * If you see a survivor uses a machete to free themselves from Tangler, immediately lunge them to take them down.

Disadvantages (Playing as)

 * Your special attack wastes 25% of your stamina, save it.
 * Vulnerable when the user has no stamina, or is attacking a player.
 * Very loud scream whenever you lunge, making survivors easy to spot you.
 * Useless if a player is on top of a building's roof.
 * Extremely slow while crawling.
 * Climbs very slow.
 * Cannot climb non-truss ladders.
 * Can be easily killed and can be one-tapped by an Crossbow and Sledgehammer.
 * You can easily be countered whenever a survivor has an Defender.

Advantages (Playing as)

 * You can jump from buildings.
 * Players cannot escape whenever you attack them with the lunge attack. (Except Defenders.)
 * You have no other sounds except for the Lunge attack sounds, making it easier to hide and surprise survivors.

Trivia

 * The Hunter is from L4D, the main difference is that the hunter in L4D has a dark blue hoodie, while the one in L4S has a black hood (and your clothes)
 * Unlike the hunter from l4d1/2, This type of S.I cannot lunge to jump higher.
 * Instead of the loud shriek that the L4D hunter uses, it uses the Hunter's warn sounds.
 * Some time in 2020 the Hunter was nerfed, having a Struggle feature where survivors could get out of their grasp
 * This was removed in an unknown update.
 * In 5.8.7, Hunter no longer uses your Avatar's face, instead it has its own face, just like the others that used to spawn with your Avatar's face.
 * Hunter's health was nerfed to 125, allowing Sledgehammer users to kill it instantly now.
 * Hunter is one of the few zombies to not have its price changed to buy during 5.8.2 update, with Riot.
 * It and Tangler are the only zombies that can pin you down.
 * Hunter was said to be one of the most hated ones in community.
 * This means it was the most wanted to be removed zombie in the game due to making the game unfair for survivor players.
 * In zombie store, Hunter has a different face than that it has on the player.