Infestor

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Template:SC2UnitBox The Infestor is a Zerg unit set to appear in StarCraft II.

Overview

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The Infestor

The Infestor is ground support unit which is capable of moving while burrowed and even using abilities from underground.

Game Unit

Abilities

• Burrow

Main article: Burrow

• • Like many ground units, the Infestor can burrow. However, the Infestor can move while burrowed. It cannot attack enabling it to travel underneath defensive structures and attack from within a base.

Researched Abilities

These abilities and upgrades are researched at the Infestor Pit.

Fungal Scourge

This ability infests a single non-massive unit, causing it to take damage until it dies explosively (causing splash damage to nearby units).

This ability has been removed as of April 2009.

Usage
Range Above 0

v • e

Neural Parasite

The infestor takes control of target enemy unit. Heroic units are immune.

Units maintain their upgrades and special abilities while controlled. Control reverts to the original player if the infestor is killed, when duration ends, or when the range between the infestor and the controlled unit grows too large.

Controlled probes and SCVs can build structures; the SCV will leave a structure unfinished if it reverts during the construction. Affected drones cannot mutate structures. Larva can be morphed, but hatched units return to enemy's control once the effect has worn off.

Affected units cannot be loaded into transports, and ability cannot be used on transports carrying units. Affected units can be recalled by a Nexus or Mothership.

Ability can be used on enemy infestors. Units mind controlled by affected infestors remain under player's control for normal duration, even after affected infestors revert to opponent's control. Heroic units (such as motherships) cannot be controlled.

This ability can be used while burrowed.

Usage
Hotkey E Cost 100 Range 7 (unit can move up to 5 extra spaces away while still being controlled.) Duration 15 11 (LotV)

Acquisition
Purchased from Infestation pit Hotkey E Cost 150 150 79

v • e

Infested Terran

Summons an infested swarm egg, from which hatches an infested terran.

The infestor can use this ability while burrowed.

Usage
Hotkey T Cost 25 Range 8 Duration 21

v • e

Upgrades

Pathogen Glands

Increases infestor starting energy by 25.

Acquisition
Purchased from Infestation pit Hotkey G Cost 150 150 57

v • e

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

v • e

Development

The infestor is set to undergo a major art change.

The Infestor used to be able to infest protoss structures, which would spawn infested protoss, but that ability has been removed from the latest build of StarCraft II.

The infestor later lost its ability to infest terran structures as well.

• Dark Swarm

This ability was removed by October 2008.

• • This ability was automatically researched.
  • Dark Swarm worked similarly to the defiler's version, creating a smokescreen for units to hide under, protecting them from ranged attacks.
  • Dark Swarm protected units from a ghost's Snipe attack as well.
  • A Roach's attacks were unaffected by Dark Swarm.

The infestor used to have these abilities as well.

Disease

Enables infestors to use Disease. This area-of-effect attack reduces an opponent's hit points by 95% in ten seconds.

Usage
Cost 75

Acquisition
Hotkey D

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Infestation

Enables infestors to taint terran structures, disabling them for 20 seconds and spawning infested marines from them.

Usage
Cost 150 Duration 20

Acquisition
Hotkey F

v • e

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 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