How to Play a Smoker in Left 4 Dead

Do you want to learn how to play a smoker in the game Left 4 Dead? Smoker is one of the 4 zombies that you can play as in the game Left 4 Dead. So what makes the smoker so unique? The name smoker was given to the smoker due to the fact that it can "smoke" people using its tongue. The smoker has a huge amount of range in which he can reach the players from. The primary attack of the smoker is pulling a survivor using its tongues. His secondary attack, just like the other zombies, is the claw.

One of the best time to smoke is definitely after the survivors are boomed or if there is a survivor being stranded by himself. The smoker does not do much damage overall after he secures the survivor with his tongue in a location. There are a few tricks that the smoker can do that none of the other infections which make them so unique.

Smokers have the ability to do something called the ledge pull. The ledge pull is basically that a smoker pulls a survivor into a ledge so that he ends up dangling on the side of a ledge. This means that the survivors will have to pull him back up thus giving your team time to attack or delay the opposing team. Sometimes, they will not kill you so that you can pull another one off an edge. Using this strategy, you can delay the other team a lot or completely wipe them if you get lucky. As you can see, the smoker has a huge potential.

Another ability of the smoker is to do a death pull. The death pull is pulling a survivor in an area so the other survivors can't get to them. Some of these areas include when the elevator is about to close, or the survivors are jumping down into a certain area they don't have access to coming back up.

Another great tip on how to play a smoker in Left 4 Dead is pulling the survivor off of a platform. This will make them take falling damage and increases the chance that you will in incapacitate them even more. Using these really good strategies as a smoker, you can definitely delay the opposing team from progression as well as easily destroying the other team. Smokers are also great for boomer baits, so they should be well planned out and coordinated with the teammates.