Mutator: Black Death

Some enemy units carry a plague that deals damage over time and spreads to other nearby units. The plague spreads to your units when the enemy unit is killed.

Difficulty points	7
Available in custom	Yes
Rollable in Chaos Studios	Yes

Detailed Mutator Information

Any enemy unit has a 33% chance of having the Black Death mutator applied to it. This unit can infect up to 3 units within 5 range when it dies. Black Death does 1% of a unit's HP in damage every 0.5 seconds and ignores all shields.

Commander-specific Tips

• Abathur: Roaches that burrow can outheal the effect of Black Death.
• Abathur: 100 Biomass units don't take damage from Black Death.
• Abathur: Due to lack of regeneration, Ultimate Evolutions die quickly to Black Death. Disable making Ultimate Evolutions by right-clicking on "Evolution" for newly-created units.
• Abathur: 100+ Biomass Essence Hoarder will cause units to gradually heal themselves with Black Death.
• Fenix: Changing Fenix suits removes the Plague debuff.
• Kerrigan: Units inside Kerrigan's Omega Network do not take damage.
• Kerrigan: Kerrigan's Creep allows units to regenerate at 1HP/s. This means any unit below a max HP of 50HP, standing on Kerrigan's Creep, will not die from Black Death. This is increased to 100 HP if using the Malevolent Matriarch Prestige.
• Nova: Nova's base health regeneration (even without the upgrade) counters the effect of Black Death.
• Nova: The barrier created by Nova's Defensive Drone can be used to prevent damage ticks of Black Death.
• Stukov: Stukov's Rooted Bunkers can outheal the effect of Black Death.
• Stetmann: Max mastery Stetzone (on HUGS) can outheal Black death for your units up to 800HP, or allied units up to 400HP.
• Tychus: Rattlesnake's upgraded Revitalizer can outheal the effect of Black Death.
• Vorazun: Emergency Recall recalls your units to the closest Nexus. Build a Nexus away from your main and expansion, towards where you are pushing to prevent your units from being Recalled with Black Death and killing your workers.

Mutator Interactions

Aggressive Deployment	Units from Aggressive Deployment Drops can carry Plague.
Alien Incubation	Broodlings can carry Plague.
Double Edged	Units with Black Death will die twice as fast with Double Edged active.
Fear	Plague damage ticks do not have a chance of applying Fear.
Gift Exchange	Units spawned from Gift Exchange can carry Plague.
Heroes from the Storm	Amon Heroes can carry Plague.
Just Die	Whether a unit has Plague or not is retained when it takes fatal damage. Plague only spreads when the unit is finnally killed.
Kill Bots	Kill Bots cannot carry Plague.
Mag-nificent	Mag-mines cannot carry Plague.
Minesweeper	Mines can carry Plague.
Missile Command	Missiles cannot carry Plague.
Outbreak	Infested and Aberrations can carry Plague.
Propagators	Propagators can carry Plague.
Transmutation	Transmuted units may or may not carry Plague, irrespective of whether it carried Plague or not before Transmuting.
Trick or Treat	Units spawned from Civilians can carry Plague.
Turkey Shoot	Turkeys cannot carry Plague. The Turking can carry Plague.
Void Reanimators	Void Reanimators can carry Plague. Resurrected units may or may not carry Plague, irrespective of whether it originally carried Plague or not before it died.
Void Rifts	Units spawned from Void Rifts can carry Plague.
Walking Infested	Infested can carry Plague.
Boom Bots	Boom Bots cannot carry Plague.

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