Lurker (StarCraft)

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Lurker
Unit
Race	Zerg
Role	Burrowed Defense Siege Unit
Armament	Subterranean spines
Properties
Size	Medium
Sight	8
Production
Minerals	50
Gas	100
Control	2
Build time	40
Evolves from	Hydralisk
Requires	Lurker Aspect
Hotkey	L
Movement
Speed	6
Protection
Hit points	125
Armor	1
Combat
Ground attack	20
Cooldown	37
Attack range	6

Lurkers are zerg units introduced in StarCraft: Brood War.

Overview

Lurkers must burrow in order to attack, rendering them invisible from enemy attackers.

Lurkers are particularly effective as a defense against enemy raids on workers. As long as the defenders can keep enemy detectors from penetrating, raiders deployed by air transport are at risk of being annihilated by pre-deployed lurkers that they cannot see. Terrans are not as handicapped against lurkers because of the ComSat station.

Out of all the zerg units in the game, lurkers benefit the most from attacking from high ground. They are particularly effective on ramps when set up at the choke point.

The lurker's attack does linear splash damage to allied and enemy ground units, but not the player's other ground units, in its path. The lurker has no means of defending itself when not burrowed, and is vulnerable during the process of burrowing; this takes more time than for other units and enemy units can still attack them at that stage, possibly killing the lurker before it even has a chance to effectively become invisible to the enemy and attack. Lurkers are also unable to attack air units.

Lurkers become available to the player in the campaign with "True Colors" in Episode VI.

Abilities

Burrowed Attack

Lurkers may burrow even if the ability has not been researched. Lurkers may attack only when burrowed.

Upgrades

Missile Attacks

• +1 bonus to attack damage per level for hydralisks
• +2 bonus to attack damage per level for lurkers

Acquisition
Purchased from Evolution chamber Hotkey A Level 1 Cost 100 100 267 Required Hatchery Level 2 Cost 150 150 300 Required Lair Level 3 Cost 200 200 333 Required Hive

Carapace

• +1 bonus to armor per level for broodlings, defilers, drones, hydralisks, infested terrans, larvae, ultralisks, and zerglings.

Acquisition
Purchased from Evolution chamber 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. Selected 4.	Confirm 1. Confirm 2. Confirm 3. Confirm 4.
Repeatedly selected
Repeatedly selected 1. Repeatedly selected 2. Repeatedly selected 3. Repeatedly selected 4.
Other lines
Attack 1. Attack 2. Death. Hit 1. Hit 2. Abilities Burrow.

Development

The following section contains information from a previous version of StarCraft which is no longer valid.

Earlier in development, the sunken colony's sprite was named "lurker."

The lurker was given a visual upgrade in StarCraft: Remastered, along with every other unit. The features of the original sprite were hard to ascertain.

Images

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