Retribution/Hive Tyrant/Abilities

Default abilities


Unit(s)	Heroes and most melee units	This unit always takes 40% less damage from melee weapons. Does not affect damage from ranged weapons.
Requires	Default ability
Cost	Always active


Unit(s)	Greater Tyranid creatures	Reduces the received ranged and melee damage and received suppression of non-Warrior, non-Commander, non-Swarmlord allied Tyranids by 20%. Ranged damage reduction is increased to 22%/25%/27% at level 2/3/4. Also increases Tyrant Guard speed by 1.5, makes Rippers immune to suppression, and allows Hormagaunts to vault obstacles. Radius 32.
Requires	Default ability
Cost	Always active


Unit(s)	Hive Tyrant	Constructs a Brood Nest that allows allied infantry in radius 50 to reinforce.
Requires	Tier 1
Cost	75 4 15


Unit(s)	Hive Tyrant	Calls down mycetic spores which do 50 explosive damage and ability knockback in radius 9, then spawn a Warrior Brood and allow allied infantry in radius 30 to reinforce. 300 second cooldown.
Requires	Tier 2
Cost	300 150


Unit(s)	All Tyranid heroes	Spawns a Ripper Swarm at your base. Rippers are a weak melee unit very resistant to small arms fire and direct melee attacks, excellent at tying up ranged units. 240 second cooldown.
Requires	Tier 2
Cost	50 100


Unit(s)	All Tyranid heroes	After a 4 second delay, 7 Capillary Towers begin to erupt from the ground. The center tower emerges first, doing 300 explosive damage in radius 7. The three towers in the right and lower quadrants do 300 explosive damage in radius 10, while the three towers in the left and upper quadrants do 50 explosive damage in radius 7. All towers do ability knockback on emerging and emit a synapse in radius 45, affecting non-Warrior and non-hero allied Tyranids (increasing ranged damage by 15% and reducing received damage by 15%). 120 second cooldown.
Requires	Tier 3
Cost	500


Unit(s)	Hive Tyrant	Deals 35 piercing damage and weapon knockback to enemies in radius 10 of the Hive Tyrant. The ground in radius 15 becomes poisoned for the next 10 seconds, doing 6 piercing damage every second to enemy infantry. 45 second cooldown.
Requires	Rending Talons
Cost	50


Unit(s)	Hive Tyrant	Charge at the targeted location, increasing speed by 200%. Each second, all units in radius 6 take 7.5 piercing damage and ability knockback. Targets in radius 2 take an additional 7.5 piercing damage. 50 second cooldown.
Requires	Extended Carapace
Cost	60


Unit(s)	Hive Tyrant	Allied non-synapse, non-Commander Tyranid infantry in radius 25 have their health increased by 25%.
Requires	Improved Synapse
Cost	None (always active)


Unit(s)	Hive Tyrant	Renders the Hive Tyrant invulnerable for 9 seconds. 80 second cooldown.
Requires	Bonded Exoskeleton
Cost	80


Unit(s)	Hive Tyrant	Activates a psychic field that causes damage to reduce energy rather than health while active. Field strength is 5 damage taken per 1 energy drained.
Requires	Warp Field
Cost	1 to activate


Unit(s)	Hive Tyrant	Reduces the damage of enemy infantry in radius 25 of the Hive Tyrant by 30% for 15 seconds. 50 second cooldown.
Requires	Psychic Scream
Cost	45


Unit(s)	Hive Tyrant	Hurls a blast of bio-plasma, doing up to 80 plasma cannon damage and weapon knockback in radius 5. 45 second cooldown.
Requires	Bio-Plasma
Cost	50