Witch

A witch is a boss class of special infected that is exclusively controlled by the director.

Crown
The best way to handle a witch that is blocking the survivors' path is to crown. A crown kills a technique that kills a witch before she can react.


 * Instructional video on crowning witches using shotguns. Designed for vanilla on expert difficulty, and includes Tier 2. However, many of the techniques in this video also apply to confogl.

Fire
Catching a witch on fire will send her into a rage, but a burning witch will move much more slowly than normal. In some situations this may be preferable to crowning. For example, if the survivors lack a hunting rifle and believe that the witch is in a dangerous area where special infected could interfere with a shotgun crown, but are more confident they could defend specials and kill the witch in an area behind them, setting her on fire from a distance effectively baits the witch to move into the kill zone.