Hunter is pretty obnoxious as a wandering boss. You have plenty of gameplay features you are encouraged to use and he just... nopes out of all of them. He is completely non interactable and that doesn't make him at all 'fun' to deal with
there's 2 way you can beat the hunter burning them (make sure there's a Annoying slime to barrier them.) or get lucky I actually don't know what happen but the hunter failed to run away and gain a few more levels and stay fighting and this was that save first encounter with the Hunter.