Dawn of War II/Hive Tyrant/Abilities

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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 damage and suppression of non-Warrior, non-hero Tyranids by 20%. Ranged dmg. reduction increased to 22%/25%/27% at level 2/3/4. Increases Tyrant Guard speed by 1.5, makes Hormagaunts leap over obstacles and makes Rippers immune to suppression. Radius 32.
Requires	Default ability
Cost	Always active


Unit(s)	Hive Tyrant	Construct a Brood Nest that allows allied infantry in radius 50 to reinforce.
Requires	Tier 1
Cost	100 4 15


Unit(s)	Hive Tyrant	Calls down mycetic spores which do 50 legacy 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 Hormagaunt Brood, a Termagant Brood and a Warrior Brood at your HQ. 240 second cooldown.
Requires	Tier 2
Cost	500 300


Unit(s)	All Tyranid heroes	Cause capillary towers to erupt from the ground, damaging enemies and transforming the area. Capillary towers emit a synapse in radius 45 that affects non-Warrior and non-Hero allied Tyranids. It increases ranged damage by 15% and reduces 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, doing ability knockback and up to 30 piercing damage to everything in the Tyrant's path. 50 second cooldown.
Requires	Extended Carapace
Cost	60


Unit(s)	Hive Tyrant	Allied Tyranid non-hero, non-synapse infantry units 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 12 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