Welcome to my guide, this will teach you special techniques that i have made for handling special infected with ease, if you have as much mastery as i do, you wont even be able to take them as a serious threat anymore(Besides maybe witch and tank)So lets begin!

Now i didn't spend six hours on wiki so you'll have to excuse me if im wrong..

Each special infected will make very specific noises before and after you see eachother

Besides tank, charger and witch, any special infected can be shoved and stumbled to make them stop whatever they are doing.

Each special infected makes special music right before and after someone is going to be attacked.

So in short your ears are your friend, use the sounds and music special infected make and use that to know when who and what is going on. mastering that will make you a special infected guru in a nutshell.

Another thing you can do(As suggested by an awesome bro) is turning on subtitles, everything that happens such as a teammate screaming, a hunter growling or an explosion will have a name, giving most special infected away easily

The hunter... your in plain wide open fields, you hear a low growl.... walk a little bit forward and then a loud screech! the next thing you know BAM! Hunter has you and you are absolutely screwed!

The hunter is a somewhat small special infected compared to the rest, he also wears a hoodie always covering his eyes, he will make low growls when he is around, and loud screeches when he sees you. he has a long leap attack that can pin you to the ground and do alot of damage very quickly, not only that but unlike some other special infected, after he has incaped you he will continue to damage you until you're dead! The best way to kill a hunter is to backpedal just out of his leaps range, he will land and thats your moment to strike! Always shove him and shoot him! there you go, you killed a hunter. Another important thing to remember is they have to crouch before leaping, AI and players alike, so a standing hunter, is a dead one.

Now this time, you're in a small room... you hear the strangest noise, like a baby, drowning in spit!? you also hear the small drips of acid.. you turn around and there she is! spits right into the room, and you die, a slow, acidic death....

The spitter is a female special infected with a very long neck and long legs, she makes gurgling sounds and sounds of acid dripping from her mouth, due to that she always leaves a trail.
the best way to kill her is to run straight up to her if you're at a distance, they tend to spit and run away, but they are very slow right after spitting, but just for a bit, they also leave a puddle of acid spit under their dead bodies after dying, so just run up and shove, then kill her and back up. She is not capable of pinning so she is nothing to be scared of when you're alone..... mostly....

she is very good for crowd control and breaking up a team and destroying corner campers, the best thing to do when trapped by spit is to jump onto something, now sometimes the AI may glitch and you will burn anyway but 70% of the time it wont, so just jump up there, better than sitting there and pondering about it in acid.

A long... foggy hall way.... you cant see a thing but you see an exit sign glow in the distance... you run to it, but then you hear a sound... so strange it's indescribible but no matter, you see something, just for a second cover up the light from the sign, then You hear the strangest roar, BAM! A giant freakshow farmer brown has you pinned and is slamming you against the ground killing you all the way past incapasitation all the way to death!

The charger is a large and noisy special infected, he can charge an entire team but only pin one person down, he will have that person until the others can stand up and save them. "Ok so how do i kill this punk alone without dying?" Extremely simply, just side step, he will totally miss you and run at you again, not charge, just running at you so he can punch you, not pin. so sidestep and kill, he is a very easy special infected to handle.

A nice street, with lovely roads and cars and everything is fine, but then you hear a raspy wheeze, and coughing... the next thing you know *SLIP* your screen is covered in smoke and liquids and a tongue and you are being dragged to your death! and of course, killed...

The smoker is a tall special infected man with a cancer like deformity on his face, he carries around a cloud of smoke, coughs and wheezes when hes around, and lets out a semi-loud screech when he sees you! he will shoot out his tongue and strangle you until you die.

The best way to handle this guy, is, two techniques, for one, he has a timer, that is triggered by seeing you, before he can attack you this split-second timer must run out. Running out of his view will reset it, so if you turn and see him looking at you, run for cover to get some extra time to kill him.
Another way is it takes a second or two for him to fully disable you after he has you with his tongue, so even though you're screen is covered in smoke and water, and he has his tongue around you, you can shoot him and free you're self

Another hard to do technique is to bat away his tongue with a melee weapon, very hard, but possible. You have to hit it right before it hits you.

A large room, so many common infected, but they dont care about you, and you hear disgusting gurgling sounds, the next thing you know BOOM! You're screen is blinded by boomer vomit and all the common infected in the room come straight for you.

The boomer is small and fat and makes loud gurgling noises. :\ *Wow so descriptive very descriptive extremely know*

He can vomit on you making all the surrounding common infected attack you, seeing you or not, he also explodes on death covering anyone in range in vomit.

The best way to kill him upon seeing him, is to run straight at him, shove him, back up a good bit, and shoot him, thats presuming you round the corner and there he is, if you're at a distance back up and shoot him.

A common mistake is panicking and shooting him when teammates are near, do not be that guy, wait for your teammates to get away if they can, and then shoot him

Ooh! a carnival, how fun, you're enjoying shooting the mustachio signs in the face, when you hear this insane, would-creep-joker-out laughter.. Then bam! He is humping you're head and steering you towards the nearest fresh batch of spitter acid until you are incaped, then he runs away to go find your friends.

The jockey is a very small humpbacked special infected that gives out a maniac laugh no matter what, he will jump very high, above your screen and land on you're head.

He is very hard, the hardest to handle alone in my personal opinion, it took me very long, but i finally figured out how to handle him without getting incaped, heres what you do:

You have to jump right as he jumps, keeping him away from your head, and then shove him in midair, land and kill him! It's pretty hard but almost as satisfying as critting someone with a market gardener(Tf2 refference)

A big rooftop, you hear a low growl, followed by the ground shaking and large rumbles, and then a huge monstrosity, climbs up to the rooftop with you, roars, and the next thing you know your dead!

The tank is a huge beast, absolutely unmistakable and always lives up to his name.
Tons of health, tons of damage, tons of speed, he has the ability to hit you doing knockback and can rip concrete out of the ground and throw it at you.

A few tactics involve throwing boomer bile on him to make the horde attack him

Or throwing fire at him to slow him and do damage over time

But the best
I call it, ring around the rosie. You run around something indescructable like a big podium or a huge tree, something the tank cant break, you just keep going in circles shooting him. It takes patience and good cordination but if your doing it just right, you can kill him with little to no damage.

A long allyway.. you hear a young girl crying.., you come up to her, she sees you, starts...Growling!? She stands up.. Then she lets out a huge scream and instantly incaps you or kills you!

The witch is a young girl, with a clawed off tank top and underwear, she will cry and sob, but beware, if you annoy her the slightest bit... there is a good chance you wont see tomorrow

You can anger the witch in many ways, standing too close for too long, shining your flashlight at her, shooting her.

A few ways to kill her is to shoot her in the head at point blank with a shotgun, its called cr0wning, another way to cr0wn her is to attack her in the back with a chainsaw nonstop, another way is to make her despawn by angering her and running into a saferoom or outrunning her.

Well, my fingers are tired and there are no more special infected left to go over, leave a comment on what you thought about it and do me a huge favor and check out my youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/Wafflebrogaming

I guess thats all i have left to say, Thank you so much for checking out my guide, Cya next time! :D