Editing Crawler (section)

== Biology ==
[[File:Circus Crawler.png|thumb|left|The ''two-headed girl'' skin used for the summer sideshow event]]
=== Appearance ===

The Crawler appears as a black-colored creature with white dots. It seems to have tarantula-like fur growing in patches all over its body. It has eight shiny black eyes, no nose, and a vertical mouth with numerous rows of razor-sharp teeth, flanked by a spider's palpus. The human part of it is still plainly visible: human-like arms with long-clawed hands on the end, and muscular legs used for jumping from surface-to-surface.

==== Events ====
During the [[Twisted Christmas]] update, the Crawler was re-skinned as a mutated reindeer. For the [[Summer Sideshow]] event the Crawler was re-skinned as the girl with two heads. This skin depicts a young female conjoined twin, with four arms, two heads and four legs, with the twins being conjoined at the back. The creature wears a pink dress and each head has a pink flower in its hair.

The [[Halloween Sideshow]] event featured the Crawler in a skin based on its skin from summer event, but with one of the conjoined twins dressed as a devil, the other as an angel. For the [[Hillbilly Horror]] event the crawler was re-skinned as Uncle Pervis, who appears to be lacking a nose, lips, his left eye, and most of his bottom half (see picture below).

=== Behavior ===
Whenever the Crawler gets close enough to its target, it pounces towards the target, inflicting 6-8-9-11 damage scaling with difficulty, if it lands on its victim. The Crawler will then attack the target by biting continuously at [[close range]] until either the Crawler or the victim is killed.
Crawler having a small stature, easily can hide between specimen and appear right under your nose as you drop the first attacking line, pouncing at you under your sight of firing. Just like [[Stalker]], Crawler too punishes going down on iron sights for a prolonged time but tries to seek out the player rather than block the space for manoeuver.

Crawlers at higher difficulty levels with their higher speed, are capable of hitting twice while in mid-air and do it consistently. Effectively doubling their damage regardless of victim movement direction or their momentum, as they can slash repeatedly while floating down from their jump before landing to hit for a second time by collision.

Sometimes, a player is not aware that Crawlers are attacking them due to their dark skin, small size and the fact that the motion blur that occurs upon sustaining damage also makes it harder to see them. At these times a swarm can be highly lethal in a bad position as their leap speed easily tops the highly mobile perks and they can instantly attack by a simple brush away.
Some classes do not experience the motion blur when attacked by it, as level 4 [[Medic]]' armor or higher will fully absorb all minor damage caused by them. This may also be true for the [[Berserker]] perk with armor as well.

Even though the Crawler has low health and is one of the weakest damage specimens, it has speed and agility to compensate for those downsides. The Crawler is extremely dangerous to low-health players, as they can pounce and damage you even as you are running away. To avoid being pounced or attacked, a player should be cautious and listen to their hissing and gurgling noises. A large flock of crawlers can be troublesome to deal with, especially when they're coupled with medium or large targets. Players can hear them saying "I hate you" with a gurgling voice when they're giving their last breath, preferably under hardskin boots.