Air

Units in Starcraft II are tagged with one or more Attributes that determine bonus damage, affect targeting, and/or can influence spells and abilities.

List of Air units

The Air units, categorized by race, are listed below.

Protoss

• Observer
• Warp prism
• Phoenix
• Void Ray
• Carrier
• Interceptor
• Mothership
• Mothership core
• Oracle
• Tempest

Terran

• Medivac
• Viking (in Fighter Mode)
• Banshee
• Raven
• Battlecruiser
• Point defense drone
• Liberator

Zerg

• Overlord
• Overseer
• Mutalisk
• Corruptor
• Brood lord
• Overlord's or corruptor's cocoon
• Viper

Units That Can Attack Air

Note: All of these units can also attack colossus with their air attack.

Protoss

• Stalker
• Sentry
• Archon
• Phoenix
• Void Ray
• Carrier
• High templar using Psionic Storm or Feedback
• Mothership
• Tempest
• Mothership core, indirectly, using Photon Overcharge

Terran

• Marine
• Ghost
• Viking (in Fighter Mode)
• Thor
• Battlecruiser
• Raven using seeker missile or auto-turret
• Liberator
• Cyclone

Zerg

• Queen
• Hydralisk
• Mutalisk
• Corruptor
• Infestor using Infested terran or Fungal Growth
• Ravager using Corrosive Bile

Unaffected Spells and Abilities

This is a list of spells and abilities that cannot affect units with the attribute of Air; although other attributes may allow them to still be cast upon the unit.

Force Field

Creates a wall of energy at target point, pushing nearby units away and making the terrain impassable. Massive units and the mothership's Vortex ability remove Force Fields.

Usage
Hotkey F Cost 50 Duration 15 Cooldown 15

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Blinding Cloud

The viper spits a green cloud. Ground units and structures in the cloud have their range reduced to one.

The cloud covers an area of 2.

Units can move out of the cloud to fire normally.

Usage
Hotkey B Cost 100 Range 11 Duration 14 (HotS) 6 (LotV)

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