Runner

Runner

Still

Animated

A fast, dangerous zombie. It deals damage nonstop.

Main Stats

Health

450

Melee Damage

50

Crit. Chance

0%

Speed

16

Rage Drop

2

Behavior Stats

Agility

100

Aggression

25

Morale Stats

Charisma

-64

Charisma Radius

100

Runner is an infected dressed in a black hoodie and black shorts, it has a gash on its head.

Overview

Runner is a runner type enemy, without any special attributes.

Runner is one of the few enemies with universal targeting priority: every unit in the game will prioritize attacking the nearest Runner to them, should there be any present on the field.

Strategy

Compared to Girl, Runner is much more manageable due to his lower damage and lacks an ability to deal critical hit even though his health is higher, although a swarm of Runners could still be slightly dangerous, as they are capable of making a major push towards the bus. Due to this, the same strategies used against Girls can be used against Runners.

When the barricade hasn't been destroyed and the 37-second timer reaches 0, a large wave of Runners appears alongside a large wave of Witches. This will always occur on every regular and challenge mission (excluding Mission 1) in stages 1, 2, and 3 with the number of zombies progressively scaling up.

Trivia

• Runner can be met as early as Mission 2, as he is a part of stage 1's final wave.
• In the game files, Runner is referred to as "Hunter" which is a reference to the special infected of the same name from the Left 4 Dead franchise.
• Both Runner and Girl share the same journal entry descriptions.
• Runner is one of the few enemies that can be gibbed.
• Runner, along with Witch, are the only enemies in the game not to have an idle animation.

Gallery

Zombie Warfare

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  Journal entry.
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  Runner and many other zombies running from Sheriff Bill's Bus.
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  Runner appearing in the Promotional Artwork for DAZW's Reddit.
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  Artwork of Runner and many other zombies surrounding someone.
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  Same image without text.
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  Same image with a cloudy background.
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  Artwork of Runner running along with Boss.
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  Same image with a different background.
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  Runner in the background in a Promotional Halloween Spritework.
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  Artwork of several Runners trying to attack Welder during the Harvest Day event.
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  Artwork of several Runners trying to attack Swat and Soldier.
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  Promotional Artwork of Runner, Girl and Welder.

Dead Ahead

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  Runner's original concept art.