In 1v1, this does 30 damage then 136 damage (total: 166).
This combo is meta because of its high DPS. Use it.

1. Do the human's Tackle (you must successfully hit a zombie—the night hunter, a volatile spawn, a viral etc).
2. Wait a bit (so that you do not do a normal slice).
3. Throw your one-handed weapon at the night hunter.

Nice times to do this:

1. The night hunter misses it Ground Pound and is within running distance.
2. The night hunter boldly decides to UV Heal while right in front of you.
3. The night hunter tries to pounce you from certain angles (e.g., above), and you interrupt it. This can yield high recovery time for the night hunter—might depend on the terrain.
4. Against volatile spawns. Throws do nice damage to these, too.

You can practice this on ordinary zombies and virals.

Or "macro slice", as I've seen someone else call it.

1. Swing your weapon.
2. Look at something that you cannot hook (e.g., water, the night hunter itself, some fences, big pipes in the Slums, the electric trap in front of Brecken's Tower).
3. Press the hook button after the damage-dealing part of the swing animation.

You can repeat 1-3 very quickly to do multiple consecutive slices very fast with a one-handed weapon. This can be done with heavy two-handed weapons, too.

Nice times to do this:

1. The night hunter has missed a Ground Pound and is within running distance (especially in team battles, where the night hunter's damage resistance can be a lot higher than in 1v1).
2. While attacking volatile spawns, if they are close to something you cannot hook.

Assuming you have two of your weapon slots have crossbows.

1. Equip a crossbow from either of the weapon slots.
2. Equip the crossbow in the other weapon slot.
3. During the swap animation—while the crossbow is barely visible—press the attack button twice.

You will fire two crossbow bolts in succession.

Nice times to do this:

• After any night-hunter Tackle. It's especially easy if the night hunter's Tackle was successful—the hunter stays still for a quite a while.
• After a distant night hunter misses a Ground Pound.

After you evade a night-hunter Tackle, you can possibly follow up with an aerial crossbow shot (or double crossbow shot), switch to your heavy two-handed weapon, then hold Crouch to do the slam move.

This can kill a full-health night hunter in 1v1.

Throwing flares normally—that is, in front of you—is slow. If you use the look-behind skill then throw your flare, you will throw the flare faster.

There are at least two scenarios that allow you to backthrow flares in the air:

1. After you evade a night hunter's Tackle.
2. After you grapple-cancel mid-air.

Nice times to do this:

• You evade Tackle after getting UV-suppressed (or running out of UV-flashlight energy).
• You are UV-suppressed (or you ran out of UV-flashlight energy) and you are in water. You can hook up, grapple-cancel, backthrow a flare onto the water.