Retribution/Lictor Alpha/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)	Lictor Alpha, Lictor	Become invisible. Attacking or using abilities will partially reveal the squad. Partially revealed units have received damage lowered by 20%. Can be fully revealed by detector units or when capturing points. Drains 1 per second.
Requires	Default ability
Cost	1 per second


Unit(s)	Lictor Alpha	Fires terrible barbed hooks at enemy infantry that do 140 sniper damage and pull the target towards you with weapon knockback. 70 second cooldown.
Requires	Default ability
Cost	45


Unit(s)	Lictor Alpha	Reveals the fog of war in radius 35 around enemy heroes for 20 seconds. 50 second cooldown.
Requires	Tier 1
Cost	35


Unit(s)	Lictor Alpha	Calls down a squad of Spore Mines. 180 second cooldown.
Requires	Tier 2
Cost	125


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)	Lictor Alpha	The Lictor Alpha releases a cloud of poisonous spores that deal 10 piercing damage every second for 10 seconds to enemies within radius 10 of the Lictor Alpha. 40 second cooldown.
Requires	Toxic Cysts
Cost	30


Unit(s)	Lictor Alpha	Soar through the air and land with a high impact, inflicting 35 damage and doing weapon knockback to everything in radius 10. 30 second cooldown.
Requires	Deadly Jump
Cost	20


Unit(s)	Lictor Alpha	Emits a cloud of pheromones at the target location that lasts 18 seconds and allows allied infantry to reinforce. Enemy infantry within radius 15 of the cloud have their damage reduced by 30%. 50 second cooldown.
Requires	Pheromone
Cost	65


Unit(s)	Lictor Alpha	Force a non-hero infantry unit to retreat back to their HQ. 60 second cooldown.
Requires	Menacing Visage
Cost	60