Hunter Zombie

Hunter Zombie is a zombie encountered in Frostbite Caves that throws chilling snowballs at the player's plants, freezing them in frozen blocks after three hits, with the exception of the Pepper-pult, Fire Peashooter, and Torchwood. After shooting, it will continue moving towards the player's house, and then repeat the process again and again if there is any plant in front of it, as long as it isn't a low plant like Spikeweed. Hunter Zombie cannot throw snowballs at plants behind a frozen plant, but it can throw snowballs if the plants are behind a frozen zombie.

Almanac Entry
TOUGHNESS: Hardened SPEED: Creeper

Zombie that can throw snow balls at range to cool down plants until they freeze into blocks.

Shhhhh ... Hunter Zombie didn't actually kill that sabertooth tiger. He found the skin at a thrift store. Also, he's a vegetarian. Tell no one.

Overview
Hunter Zombie absorbs exactly 33.5 normal damage shots. Its appearance changes upon an absorption of 17 normal damage shots before dying at 33.5 normal damage shots.

Appearances
Player's House: Piñata Party

Frostbite Caves - Days 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 27, 28, 29, 30, Icebound Battleground, and Piñata Party.

Strategies
This is a dangerous zombie, especially since many Hunter Zombies come in groups. An additional fact that it uses disadvantage which is its speed as an advantage against your defenses allows it to "hide" behind other, stronger zombies. Therefore, an instant-kill plant is the only way to stop it from freezing your plants. Kill it quickly, as it can freeze the first plant in front. This could result in your plant being frozen and many Cave Zombies passing through frozen plants causing your brains to be eaten. These zombies are especially deadly if the first plant in the Hunter Zombie's row is not protected by a Pepper-pult or is crucial to your setup (i.e. a Chard Guard planted to prevent zombies from using a slider). When combined with the freezing winds of the Frostbite Caves, this zombie can cause entire swaths of plants to be frozen and disabled.

You can use Guacodiles against this zombie. However, you need at least two Guacodiles to do this. It is crucial that you plant the Guacodiles close to a Hunter Zombie, as if you don't, the Hunter Zombie may freeze it.

Among the introduced plants in Frostbite Caves, use the Pepper-pult or Fire Peashooter and Hot Potato against this zombie, as they are immune to snowballs. You can also use Pepper-pult to deal splash damage against this zombie. Placing the Pepper-pult at the front of your defenses is a smart idea, as it blocks everything behind it from being frozen by Hunter Zombies, this idea you can also apply it with Fire Peashooters. When in a pinch, use Plant Food on the Pepper-pult. Napalm Torchwoods and peashooting plants like the Split Pea and the Repeater can do fast and high damage to this zombie.

If you are going to beat this zombie without its weaknesses, it is recommended you put Plant Food on an Infi-nut. Its barriers can block snowballs from hitting your plants, similar to how it can stop the Fisherman Zombies from pulling plants. If you are playing Icebound Battleground, try to have it boosted in the Zen Garden so that none of your plants will get frozen. Also, you can stall the zombie by placing a Wall-nut or Tall-nut in front of it.

Trivia

 * It throws snowballs only at the first plant in front of it.
 * Even if the plant in front of it is already frozen, it will continue to throw snowballs at it occasionally.
 * It is the fourth zombie in Plants vs. Zombies 2 that possess an ability to disable plants. The other three are Wizard Zombie, Archmage Zombie and Octo Zombie.
 * It is also the only one of the three that can eat plants (not including Infi-nut's barrier, Lily Pads and hypnotized zombies).
 * If one looks closely under its sabertooth tiger skin, it has the same forehead that most of the Frostbite Caves zombies have.
 * It is the only zombie that disables plants that needs multiple hits on the plant.
 * Whenever it is throwing snowballs it makes a sound.
 * Also, after dying it makes a drum-like sound when its snowball rolls off its hand.
 * If hypnotized by a Hypno-shroom, the Hunter Zombie will still throw its snowballs to the left, and will still hit plants. This trait is shared with the Peashooter Zombie.
 * It is the second zombie who does not eat meat, the first one being the Pumpkin Browncoat.
 * When throwing a snowball, its right arm gets separated from its body.
 * It throws snowballs at four squares away from the plant.
 * It used to be three squares away.
 * Even though they are vegetarians, they still eat the player's brains as normal.