Bloater

 "YOU ARE FAT"- John Peterson 

Description
The Bloater is an infected that costs 25 coins to use and has lumps all over the skin, which uses the intestines that the infected used to use for eating and drinking in order to create bile that blinds Survivors, this makes them look fat, this also makes them slow so you can stay away from them. Remember the Bloater has a good amount of health!

Ability
The Bloater’s main ability is “Puke”, which pukes green gust. If the Bloater’s ability hits a survivor, they will take 20 damage and their vision gets obscured to green screen with bile water. It has a 15 seconds cooldown.

If the Bloater dies, it will explode, dealing 1-50 damage to survivors depending how close the survivor was to Bloater and their vision is also obscured. Both of Bloater’s abilities ignore Armors damage resistance, so you should use this if a survivor has a strong armor like Juggernaut Armor.

Appearance
The Bloater is a fat, slow zombie that has a bloated tummy which makes it slower, mainly due to eating more food or water before becoming infected. It also access your avatar’s clothes and accessories. The Bloater’s face is “Angry Zombie”. It’s face used to be your avatar’s face before being replaced by that face prior to 5.8.7.

Weakness
Although Bloater has high amount of health, it can easily be overwhelmed by guns with heavy firepower like M134 Minigun. It is also quite slow as compared to others, so survivors can easily outrun it and kill it from a distance.

Survivors

 * Never, ever attack a bloater near you, as they can severely weaken you when they explodes.
 * Try attacking a bloater far away, this gives you an advantage to not take heavy damage from the explosion.
 * Don't attack a bloater near a teammate, because a bloater can wipe out your team.
 * This is not possible as of 5.8.7.
 * Melee weapons and short ranged weapons such as Flamethrower are not recommended to use against the Bloater, they can make the Bloater a high chance of damaging you in the explosion.

Zombies

 * You have a good health, take advantage.
 * Try to go close to a survivor as it will damage them over 50 which is 30 damage stronger than the puke.
 * Both of your death explosion and puke can ignore survivors' armor damage Resistance, use this to your advantage.
 * You are quite slow, so be patient.
 * You will be immediately killed when you not close to any survivors.
 * Survivors can immediately dodge your puke, implying puke useless, be aware.
 * You can counter this by using first person, it will obscure the vision of a survivor easily.
 * If a survivor was froze by Chiller, you can use puke to the froze survivor very easy.
 * This is also used if a survivor was stunned by Boulder Juggernaut throws.
 * You can survive an explosion cause by Rocket Launcher's rockets, but only one per spawn.
 * If a survivor was pinned by Hunter or Tangler, you should puke into a pinned survivor, it will remove 20 health and obscure their vision.
 * Use your puke towards a survivor that try to kill you with a melee weapon, it will make melees worse for these survivors.
 * You will also explode, dealing most damage to a survivor.

Advantages (Playing as)

 * This variant is good against players who are stunned by the Chiller.
 * This is very useful for wiping out groups who have less knowledge than rest of the players.
 * Try to get close to a survivor, and then let them attack you so you can kill them with the explosion.
 * Good health.

Disadvantages (Playing as)

 * You can get killed immediately if you aren't in the range of players.
 * Your puke attack doesn't stun players, it only obscures their vision.
 * Useless if you're far away from players, as the puke has small range.
 * Slow.
 * You stop while puking.

Trivia

 * The bloater is based off the Boomer from left for dead. (2&1)
 * Due to its massive stomach, it makes the bloater walk slow.
 * In 5.8.7, Bloater has received new sounds, it's health and damage explosion was significantly nerfed, and its stomach got remodelled. (200-50 Damage and 350-325 Health.
 * This means one shot an unarmored player or all of players in Deathmatch is no longer possible.
 * Bloater is the second cheapest zombie in the game, costing 25 coins only behind the Crawler.
 * There is a Bloater found on another zombie shooter game Those Who Remain with the same name. However their abilities are different is the Those Who Remain Bloater throws a cluster which explodoes on impact, deals massive damage and cannot explode upon death, unlike the L4S Bloater which can't do the case.
 * Bloater's name was originally Boomer, but got changed due to copyright reasons.
 * This makes Bloater, Banshee and Juggernaut are only zombies that got a new name.