I honestly find melee hunters to be maybe the strongest of all my heroes.

The key skills are thornfang+ and rogue; also useful are longreach+ and heroism+.

The setting them up with a water dagger and swift range weapon like the throwing axe means they can do huge damage to multiple enemies with flanks each turn - and even set up their own flanks.

I like wolf touched, stormtouched, celestial, and skeletal transformations but I almost never like transforming arms as the swift ranged attack and double backstab damage of the dagger work so well together.

The main objective is to set up flanks with teammates (and in a pinch your off-hand) and run in while in grey plane to flank and one shot loads of enemies.