Defiler (StarCraft II)

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"You're not gonna believe this! Defilers are here, and they'll be able to shield other zerg around them."

- Jessica Hall^(src)

Defiler
Unit
Race	Zerg
Affiliation	Feral zerg
Campaign	Nova Covert Ops
Properties
Maximum energy	200
Size	Medium
Production
Minerals	50
Gas	150
Movement
Speed	2.25
Protection
Hit points	120
Armor	1
Type	Biological Psionic

Defilers appear in StarCraft II.

Game Unit

Defiler bones

The bones of defilers appear in Wings of Liberty as zerg research objectives in the level "The Great Train Robbery", and in the Heart of the Swarm mission "Fire in the Sky" as evolutionary objectives for Kerrigan.

Nova Covert Ops

Feral defilers appear in Nova Covert Ops mission "Sudden Strike."

Abilities

Plague

Infects all enemy units and buildings in area of effect, dealing 300 damage over 40 seconds. Cannot reduce units below 1 HP. Reveals cloaked and burrowed units caught in the area of effect for its duration.

Usage
Hotkey G Cost 150 Duration 40

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Dark Swarm

Allied units in the area of effect take 0 damage from ranged attacks.

Usage
Hotkey D Cost 100 Duration 10

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Burrow

Many zerg ground units may burrow, becoming invisible and revealed primarily by detectors, and may not move or attack while burrowed.

Exceptions include:

• Roach, which may move while burrowed
  
• Lurker, which may attack while burrowed
  
• Infestor, which may move while burrowed
  
• Baneling, which can detonate while burrowed.

Some units can unburrow via autocast, causing them to emerge and attack when an enemy moves into range.

The ability is not smartcast.

Usage
Hotkey R Cost 2 seconds to burrow, 1 second to unburrow

Acquisition
Purchased from Hatchery/Lair/Hive Hotkey B Cost 100 100 71 Required Lair (WoL) Hatchery (HotS/LotV)

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Upgrades

Carapace

• +1 bonus to armor per level for zerg ground units.

Acquisition
Purchased from Evolution chamber Hotkey C Level 1 Cost 150 150 114 Level 2 Cost 200 200 136 Required Lair Level 3 Cost 250 250 157 Required Hive

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Development

The untextured defiler model

The defiler can be seen in a 2006 build of StarCraft II. An untextured model of the defiler was included in the Galaxy Map Editor for StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm. The model is identical to the model later used in Covert Ops.

References

Zerg Units and Structures of StarCraft II v • e

Versus units and structures Terrestrial units Larva Drone Zergling Baneling Roach Ravager (LotV) Hydralisk Lurker (LotV) Infestor Ultralisk Queen Swarm host (HotS) Aerospace units Overlord Overseer Mutalisk Brood lord Corruptor Viper (HotS) Spawned units Broodling Changeling Infested terran Locust (HotS) Basic buildings Hatchery Creep tumor Extractor Evolution chamber Spawning pool Baneling nest Roach warren Automated defenses Spine crawler Spore crawler Advanced buildings Lair Hive Infestation pit Spire Greater spire Hydralisk den Lurker den Nydus network Nydus worm Ultralisk cavern Transition units Baneling cocoon Broodmother cocoon Brood lord cocoon Egg Impaler cocoon Infested swarm egg Lurker cocoon Overseer cocoon Ravager cocoon Ultralisk chrysalis Others Creep Campaign and Co-op Missions units and structures Terrestrial units Aberration Blightbringer Brutalisk Defiler Impaler cocoon Infested colonist Infested diamondback Infested marine Infested trooper Infested medic Infested SCV Infested siege tank Omegalisk Pygalisk Pygalisk cocoon Swarmling Volatile infested Aeropsace units Guardian Leviathan Sac Scourge Swarm guardian Infested banshee Infested liberator Buildings Impaler den Infested terran buildings Infested command center Toxic nest Virophage Automated defenses Bile launcher Impaler colony Scourge cannon Spore cannon Sunken colony Infested bunker Infested missile turret Variant units Zergling Strains Raptor Swarmling Baneling Strains Hunter Splitter Baneling spawn Roach Strains Corpser Roachling Vile Queen Strains Aiur queen Broodmother Swarm queen Hydralisk Strains Hunter Killer Impaler Lurker Ultralisk Strains Noxious Stank Torrasque Swarm host Strains Carrion Creeper Locust Strains Flying locust Mutalisk Strains Brood lord Viper Guardian Strains Swarm guardian Canceled Zerg Units and Structures of StarCraft II v • e Scrapped Removed Units Bassalisk Behemoth chrysalis Bone wasp Cobra Dracolisk Fiend Fury Gigalisk Gorgeling Huge queen Incubus Infested protoss Klurken Large queen Larval queen Leech Lilev coccoon Magnasaur Magnathar Mantalisk Mantis Miasmalisk Morphalisk Nihilisk Primalisk Prowler Scavenger Siegeling Spore host Swarm Swarm guardian Swarm larva Terrorling Trichinella Removed Buildings Broodling nest Creep colony Creep tower Infested protoss buildings Nydus destroyer Nydus warren Shrieker Spore colony Swarm clutch Swarm infestation Underfiend