Devourer (StarCraft)

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Devourer
Unit
Race	Zerg
Affiliation	Zerg Swarm
Role	Anti-Air Flyer
Armament	Corrosive acid
Properties
Size	Large
Sight	10
Production
Minerals	150
Gas	50
Control	2
Build time	40
Evolves from	Mutalisk
Requires	Greater spire
Hotkey	D
Movement
Speed	5
Protection
Hit points	250
Armor	2
Combat
Air attack	25
Cooldown	100
Attack range	6

Devourers are the anti-air aspect of the mutalisk. They are slower than mutalisks but faster and more resilient than guardians.

Overview

The devourer's attack has the additional effect of attaching "acid spores" to anything it hits. A unit affected by spores will be revealed (if cloaked), have its attack speed slowed by 1/8 per spore, and take 1 point of additional damage from every attack for every spore attached. A maximum of 9 spores may affect a target at any one time. Spores will disappear after a period of time.

The fast firing and bouncing attack of mutalisks benefit greatly from the acid spores. Against a group of targets splashed with 9 spores a single mutalisk can deal 18 damage on its first attack instead of the normal 9 damage, this also applies to the mutalisk's second and third attack which makes it effective take out high armor targets faster, like battlecruisers and carriers, and able to go toe to toe with area-of-effect anti-air units like corsairs and Valkyries.

Devourers have a very slow rate of fire, and the attack travels slowly. If a devourer moves before the glob of acid strikes, the glob disappears. The devourer's slow speed and rate of fire also makes it vulnerable to hit-and-run attacks from groups of scouts and wraiths. Scourges, marines, goliaths, dragoons and massed hydralisks are also effective against devourers.

Devourers become available to the player in the campaign with the mission "Fury of the Swarm" in Episode VI.

Production

Devourer Morph

Causes mutalisk to morph into a devourer.

Usage
Hotkey D Cost 150 50 1 mutalisk

Acquisition
Required Greater Spire

Upgrades

Flyer Attacks

• +1 bonus to attack per level for mutalisks
• +2 bonus to attack per level for guardians and devourers.

Acquisition
Purchased from Spire Greater spire Hotkey A Level 1 Cost 100 100 267 Level 2 Cost 175 175 300 Required Lair Level 3 Cost 250 250 333 Required Hive

Flyer Carapace

+1 bonus to armor per level for overlords, mutalisks, guardians, devourers, scourge and queen.

Acquisition
Purchased from Spire Greater spire Hotkey C Level 1 Cost 150 150 267 Level 2 Cost 225 225 300 Required Lair Level 3 Cost 300 300 333 Required Hive

Quotations

Quotes
Trained
Trained.
Selected	Confirming order
Selected 1. Selected 2. Selected 3.	Confirm 1. Confirm 2. Confirm 3. Confirm 4.
Repeatedly selected
Repeatedly selected 1. Repeatedly selected 2. Repeatedly selected 3.
Other lines
Attack. Death. Hit.

Development

Early in development, the devourer was referred to as the "ladybug." The concept was designed by Maxx Marshal.

The devourer has a cut cocoon sprite and morphing animation in StarCraft: Brood War.

It is voiced by Allen Adham.

Images

Initial sketch of the devourer

Cut devourer coccoon

Unit wireframe

Remastered unit wireframe

References

Zerg Units and Structures of StarCraft/Brood War v • e

Ground units Larva Drone Zergling Hydralisk Lurker (BW) Defiler Ultralisk Air units Overlord Mutalisk Guardian Scourge Queen Devourer (BW) Infestation units Broodling Infested terran Transition units Egg Lurker egg Cocoon Basic buildings Hatchery Extractor Evolution chamber Spawning pool Hydralisk den Advanced buildings Lair Hive Spire Greater spire Queen's nest Nydus canal Defiler mound Ultralisk cavern Infested command center Defenses Creep Creep colony Spore colony Sunken colony Scrapped Fungal colony Mutation chamber Mutation pit Nydus pit Scoria