Psionic

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Psionic is a StarCraft II attribute and flavor element.

List of Psionic units

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

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

Protoss

• Archon
• Dark archon
• Dark templar
  • Avenger
  • Blood hunter
• High templar
  • Ascendant
• Mothership
  • Mothership core
• Oracle
• Sentry
  • Energizer
• Warp prism

Heroes

• Alarak
• Artanis (Legacy of the Void)
• Vorazun
• Zeratul

Terran

• Ghost
• Spectre
• Raven (Co-op)
  • Raven Type-II
  • Theia raven
• Science vessel (Co-op)

Heroes

• Nova
• Gabriel Tosh

Zerg

• Defiler
• Infestor
• Queen
  • Swarm queen
  • Brood queen (Co-op)
• Viper

Heroes

• Blightbringer
• Naktul
• Niadra
• Queen (Belly of the Beast)
• The Queen of Blades
• Zagara

Other

• Chrysalis ("The Crucible")
• Hybrid dominator
• Narud
• Keystone
• Oblivion construct
• Rampage construct
• Torment construct
• Void chasm
• Void crystal (Amon's Fall)
• Zenith stone

Negative Spells and Abilities

Psionic Radar

Nova can detect psionic units at a great distance.

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty campaign-only.

Usage
Range 25

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Psi-Round

This attack, which can only target biological units, deals 20 damage + 80 damage vs psionic opponents. This ability used to be known as Snipe.

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Interference Matrix

Disables a Mechanical or Psionic unit, rendering it unable to attack or use abilities for 11 seconds. Reveals cloaked units.

Usage
Hotkey C Cost 75 Range 9 Duration 11

Acquisition
Purchased from Tech lab attached to a starport Hotkey T Cost 50 50 57

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Devour

Dehaka instantly kill the target enemy unit to heal 5% Life and gain passive abilities based on the enemy type for 15 seconds. The cooldown is based on the amount of life the enemy had when killed.

Devour Level 2: Increases Devour's range from 6 to 9 and increases the passive abilities duration from 15 seconds to 25 seconds.

Devour Level 3: Increases Devour's range from 9 to 12 and decreases the cooldown by 20%.

Receive passive abilities depend on the type-tag of the devoured unit:

• Air: Gain a ranged attack (Mammoth Breath)
• Armored: Gain 30% bonus damage against armored units
• Biological: Heal 20% life (summary 25%)
• Light: Gain 30% movement speed
• Massive: Gain +3 armor and reflect damage (10 per hit) at attackers
• Mechanical: Gain 30% attack speed
• Psionic: Explode with Psionic Energy (200% Weapon Damage within a radius of 3) and abilities cooldown become 50% faster.

Devouring One: Benefits are shared with all nearby allied units within a range of 10.

• Combat units restore only 20% (+Mastery) life when Dehaka devour a Biological unit.
• When Dehaka devour an Air unit, combat units with ranged attack gain +2 attack range.
• When Dehaka devour a Psionic unit, combat units gain only the ability cooldown reduction.

Usage
Hotkey E Range 6 9 (at Level 2) 12 (at Level 3) Duration 15 (25 at Level 2) Mastery: +0.45 (+0.75 at Level 2) per Devour Buff Duration mastery point. Up to a maximum 28.5 (47.5 at Level 2) Cooldown Based of the target unit's current life (1 / 10 hp) Max cooldown: Basic: 60 (48 at Level 3) With Tenderize: 15 (12 at Level 3)

Acquisition

Required Level 2 – Reach Hero Level 3 Level 3 – Reach Hero Level 5 Effect Devour Heal: 5% Mastery: +0.1% restored life per Devour Healing Increase mastery point. Up to a maximum 8% Biological Effect Heal: 20% *Mastery: +0.2% restored life per Devour Healing Increase mastery point. Up to a maximum 26% Light Effect Movement Speed: 3.9 Massive Effect Armor: Basic: 4 (3 with Devouring One) With Chitinous Plating: 7 (6 with Devouring One) Mechanical Effect Attack Speed: 1.54 Mastery: +1% attack speed per Dehaka Attack Speed mastery point. Up to a maximum 1.18 Psionic Effect Cooldown: Leap: 5 Intimidating Roar: 15 Devour Level 1-2: 30 (7.5 with Tenderize) Devour Level 3: 24 (6 with Tenderize) Deep Tunnel: 30 Hero Level 1 Effect Armored Effect Damage: Attack: 20 (+6 vs Armored) Leap Level 1: 35 (+3 vs Armored) Psionic Effect Damage: 40 Hero Level 2 Effect Armored Effect Damage: Attack: 30 (+9 vs Armored) Leap Level 1: 40 (+4.5 vs Armored) Psionic Effect Damage: 60 Hero Level 3 Effect Armored Effect Damage: Attack: 40 (+12 vs Armored) Leap Level 1: 45 (+6 vs Armored) Leap Level 2: 55 (+9 vs Armored) Psionic Effect Damage: 80 Hero Level 4 Effect Armored Effect Damage: Attack: 50 (+15 vs Armored) Leap Level 1: 50 (+7.5 vs Armored) Leap Level 2: 62.5 (+11.25 vs Armored) Psionic Effect Damage: 100 Hero Level 5 Effect Armored Effect Damage: Attack: 60 (+18 vs Armored) Leap Level 1: 55 (+9 vs Armored) Leap Level 2-3: 70 (+13.5 vs Armored) Psionic Effect Damage: 120 Hero Level 6 Effect Armored Effect Damage: Attack: 70 (+21 vs Armored) Leap Level 1: 60 (+10.5 vs Armored) Leap Level 2-3: 77.5 (+15.75 vs Armored) Scorching Breath: 70 (+21 vs Armored) Psionic Effect Damage: 140 Hero Level 7 Effect Armored Effect Damage: Attack: 80 (+24 vs Armored) Leap Level 1: 65 (+12 vs Armored) Leap Level 2-3: 85 (+18 vs Armored) Scorching Breath: 80 (+24 vs Armored) Psionic Effect Damage: 160 Hero Level 8 Effect Armored Effect Damage: Attack: 90 (+27 vs Armored) Leap Level 1: 70 (+13.5 vs Armored) Leap Level 2-3: 92.5 (+20.25 vs Armored) Scorching Breath: 90 (+27 vs Armored) Psionic Effect Damage: 180 Hero Level 9 Effect Armored Effect Damage: Attack: 100 (+30 vs Armored) Leap Level 1: 75 (+15 vs Armored) Leap Level 2-3: 100 (+22.5 vs Armored) Scorching Breath: 100 (+30 vs Armored) Psionic Effect Damage: 200 Hero Level 10 Effect Armored Effect Damage: Attack: 110 (+33 vs Armored) Leap Level 1: 80 (+16.5 vs Armored) Leap Level 2-3: 107.5 (+24.75 vs Armored) Scorching Breath: 110 (+33 vs Armored) Psionic Effect Damage: 220 Hero Level 11 Effect Armored Effect Damage: Attack: 120 (+36 vs Armored) Leap Level 1: 85 (+18 vs Armored) Leap Level 2-3: 115 (+27 vs Armored) Scorching Breath: 120 (+36 vs Armored) Psionic Effect Damage: 240 Hero Level 12 Effect Armored Effect Damage: Attack: 130 (+39 vs Armored) Leap Level 1: 90 (+19.5 vs Armored) Leap Level 2-3: 122.5 (+29.25 vs Armored) Scorching Breath: 130 (+39 vs Armored) Psionic Effect Damage: 260 Hero Level 13 Effect Armored Effect Damage: Attack: 140 (+42 vs Armored) Leap Level 1: 95 (+21 vs Armored) Leap Level 2-3: 130 (+31.5 vs Armored) Scorching Breath: 140 (+42 vs Armored) Psionic Effect Damage: 280 Hero Level 14 Effect Armored Effect Damage: Attack: 150 (+45 vs Armored) Leap Level 1: 100 (+22.5 vs Armored) Leap Level 2-3: 137.5 (+33.75 vs Armored) Scorching Breath: 150 (+45 vs Armored) Psionic Effect Damage: 300 Hero Level 15 Effect Armored Effect Damage: Attack: 160 (+48 vs Armored) Leap Level 1: 105 (+24 vs Armored) Leap Level 2-3: 145 (+36 vs Armored) Scorching Breath: 160 (+48 vs Armored) Psionic Effect Damage: 320

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Steady Targeting

After carefully aiming for 1.43 seconds while not taking damage, the Ghost fires a sniper round dealing 130 damage (+40 vs Psionic). Ignores armor. Can only target biological units.

This ability is cancelled if the target moved a over 13.5 range away from the ghost. This ability can also be manually cancelled.

Usage
Hotkey R Cost 50 Range 10 Cooldown 1.43

Acquisition
Purchased from Already researched

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Development

StarCraft II patches and balance updates · Call to Action v • e

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The attribute Psionic was initially just a flavor element. But after Patch 1.4.3, it became important since the Sniper Round ability of ghosts dealt additional damage to Psionic units. In Legacy of the Void, since the ghost lost this ability in exchange for Steady Targeting, Psionic came back to being a flavor attribute. In Patch 4.0.0, Psionic yet again stopped being a flavor attribute with the introduction of the raven's Interference Matrix.