Devourer

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Devourer
Unit
Race	Zerg
Role	Heavy Assault Flyer
Armament	Corrosive acid
Properties
Hit points	250
Size	Large
Production
Minerals	150
Gas	50
Control	2
Build time	40
Produced at	Mutalisk
Requires	Greater spire
Hot key	D
Combat
Air attack	25e
Cooldown	100
Armor	2
Attack range	6
Sight range	10

The devourer is a zerg anti-air flyer.

Contents 1 Overview 2 Game Unit 2.1 StarCraft 2.1.1 Upgrades 3 Images 4 References

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Devourers are an evolution of the mutalisk first encountered during the Brood War. Devourers spit a venom of corrosive acid at aerial targets that can eat through the reinforced armor plating of terran and protoss capital ships. A single spat of venom may splash over multiple targets.^[1] The acid spores in the venom may hinder the fighting ability of the target.^[2]

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Devourers are the anti-air aspect of the mutalisk. They are slower than mutalisks but faster and more resilient than guardians.

The devourer's attack has the additional effect of attaching "acid spores" to anything it hits. A unit affected by spores will be revealed (if cloaked), have its attack speed slowed by 1/8 per spore, and take 1 point of additional damage from every attack for every spore attached. A maximum of 9 spores may affect a target at any one time. Spores will disappear after a period of time.

The fast firing and bouncing attack of mutalisks benefit greatly from the acid spores. Against a group of targets splashed with 9 spores a single mutalisk can deal 18 damage on its first attack instead of the normal 9 damage, this also applies to the mutalisk's second and third attack which makes it effective take out high armor targets faster, like battlecruisers and carriers, and able to go toe to toe with area-of-effect anti-air units like corsairs and Valkyries.

Devourers have a very slow rate of fire, and the attack travels slowly. If a devourer moves before the glob of acid strikes, the glob disappears. The devourer's slow speed and rate of fire also makes it vulnerable to hit-and-run attacks from groups of scouts and wraiths.

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Flyer Attacks
Evolved at	Spire Greater spire
Properties
Level Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Minerals 100 175 250 Gas 100 175 250 Required Lair Hive
Notes
+1 bonus to attack per level for mutalisks +2 bonus to attack per level for guardians and devourers.

Flyer Carapace
Evolved at	Spire Greater spire
Hotkey	C
Properties
Minerals 150 225 300 Gas 150 225 300 Required Lair Hive
Notes
+1 bonus to armor per level for overlords, mutalisks, guardians, devourers, scourge and queen.

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Devourer profile

Devourer stat profile

[edit] References

1. ↑ Underwood, Peter, Chris Metzen and Bill Roper. StarCraft: Brood War (Manual). Irvine, Calif.: Blizzard Entertainment, 1998.
2. ↑ Devourer. StarCraft Compendium. Accessed on 2008-02-07

Zerg Units and Structures of StarCraft/Brood War
Ground units	Larva · Drone · Zergling · Hydralisk · Defiler · Ultralisk • Brood War only • Lurker
Air units	Overlord · Mutalisk · Guardian · Scourge · Queen • Brood War only • Devourer
Infestation units	Broodling · Infested terran
Transition units	Egg · Lurker egg · Cocoon
Basic buildings	Hatchery · Extractor · Evolution chamber · Spawning pool · Creep colony · Spore colony · Sunken colony · Hydralisk den
Advanced buildings	Lair · Hive · Spire · Greater spire · Queen's nest · Nydus canal · Defiler mound · Ultralisk cavern · Infested command center
Other	Creep