Co-op Mutators List: Names, Icons, Descriptions and Mechanics

Detailed Mutator Information

The vision range of Afraid of the Dark is highly reduced. Below is an example of what it looks like:

Notice how the Probe lies outside the vision range. This means that it can be attacked and not be able to attack back. Units can only attack if they have vision provided by your camera.

Vision Ranges are listed below:

Unit/Structure	Vision Range	Example
Primary Structure	7
Any other structure	2
Unit	0
Camera (Hover to play clip. Please provide time for clip to load.)	4 + 3(1-{distance to closest unit}/12)

Any units with a Map Boss tag will not be affected by the mutator. These are usually mission-specific units, such as the Artifact Truck on Cradle of Death and Terrazine Harvesters on Mist Opportunities.

Attack wave and Objective ping markers will not be shown on the minimap.

Commander-specific Tips

• Dehaka: Dehaka's Pack Leaders are Map Bosses and therefore retain their regular vision.
• Han/Horner: Horner's Call in the Fleet ability generates its own vision circle as it moves through strafing area.
• Mengsk: Earthsplitter Bombardments provide vision regardless of camera position.
• Raynor: Raynor's Scans can provide temporary vision for the duration of the scan.
• Stukov: Brood Queen's Ocular Symbiote ability increases vision for units.
• Stukov: Units mind-controlled by the Aleksander retain their full vision.
• Zeratul: Afraid of the Dark disables Zeratul's map-wide terrain vision. You may need to use Rally Points to find the Artifact Fragments, shown below:
  

Detailed Mutator Information

Drops will prioritize player units which fulfill particular conditions. These are:

• It has a weapon (ie. can deal damage).
• It costs more than 0 supply.
• It is not a queen

The drop will spawn 7 units away from the potential target. If no potential target is found, the drop will spawn between 25 and 40 units away from the player's base.

Drop Pod Details, along with their Strength and Tech levels are shown below. For more information on Strength and Tech levels, check the Enemy Compositions page.

Wave	Time	Tech Level	Strength Level
1	4:50	1	1
2	7:00	1	2
3	9:10	2	3
4	11:20	2	4
5	13:30	3	4
6	15:40	4	4

After the 6th wave, Drop Pods will drop every 2:10 and have Tech level 6 and Strength level 5.

Commander-specific Tips

• Abathur: Units spawned from Aggressive Deployment drops do not drop Biomass.
• Alarak: The Mothership is not a valid unit for Aggressive Deployment drops.
• Dehaka: Units spawned from Aggressive Deployment drops do not drop Essence.
• Kerrigan: Assimilation Aura can be used on the drops to gain additional resources.
• Mengsk: Units spawned from Aggressive Deployment drops do not provide Royal Guard experience.
• Stukov: Units spawned from Stukov's Infested Colonist Compound are valid targets for Aggressive Deployment drops.
• Tychus: Tychus is not a valid unit for Aggressive Deployment drops.
• Vorazun: Time Stop delays Aggressive Deployment timings.

Detailed Mutator Information

The number of Broodlings that spawn is equal to the unit's supply cost. If the unit costs no supply, 1 Broodling is spawned. Note that Hybrids take up 8 supply. Broodlings do not have a timed life and will remain on the map indefinitely until killed.

Commander-specific Tips

• Abathur: Broodlings do not drop Biomass.
• Dehaka: Broodlings do not drop Essence.
• Mengsk: Broodlings do not provide Royal Guard experience.

Detailed Mutator Information

When a unit dies, it gives out a certain number of Avenger stacks to units within a 1.25 range. The number of stacks equals the unit's supply count. If the unit costs no supply, 1 stack is given. Note that Hybrids take up 8 supply.

The total number of Avenger stacks (buffs) a unit can have is 10. These stacks are lost when the unit ownership changes (Mind Control, Domination, etc.).

Each Avenger stack provides the following buffs to the unit receiving the stack. Stacks are additive.

Stat	Buff
Attack Speed	10%
Movement Speed	10%
Armor	0.3
HP	10%
HP Regen	1
Shields	10%
Shield Regen	1

Avenger stacks can be transferred to the hybrid on Part & Parcel. On Oblivion Express, the train counts as a whole unit. Therefore, only 8 stacks will be provided.

Below are a list of mission-specific unit Avenger stacks given out on unit death. :

• Chain of Ascension Slayn Elemental: 1
• Cradle of Death Gatekeeper Construct: 10
• Dead of Night Hunterling: 1
• Dead of Night Kaboomer, Spotter: 2
• Dead of Night Choker: 3
• Dead of Night Stank: 12
• Lock & Load Xel'Naga Construct: 10
• Miner Evacuation Blightbringer, Eradicators: 1
• Oblivion Express Train: 8
• Part and Parcel Moebius Hybrid Experiment: 8
• Part and Parcel Train: 8
• Rifts to Korhal Pirate Ship: 6
• Temple of the Past Void Thrasher: 10
• The Vermillion Problem Molten Salamander: 10
• Void Launch Shuttle: 2
• Void Thrashing Void Thrasher: 10

Commander-specific Tips

• Zeratul: Zeratul's Avatar of Essence's Devolve ability will devolve a unit and cause it to lose any Avenger stacks it has.

Detailed Mutator Information

Barrier triggers when a unit or structure first takes damage. Therefore, you can bypass Barrier by oneshotting a unit. The Barrier buff applies a 5 second shield that absorbs up to 100 damage. Once a unit has received the Barrier buff, it cannot receive it again.

Commander-specific Tips

• Swann: Due to how Pulse Cannon damage is dealt, Pulse Cannon will trigger Barrier if the unit has more than 100 HP.

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.

Detailed Mutator Information

Blizzards slow down unit movement speed to 12% over the span of 5 seconds. It also deals 5 damage per second to all units in its range. The debuff lasts for 2 seconds.

Commander-specific Tips

• Artanis: The Dragoon's Trillic Compression Systems upgrade can allow Dragoons to survive longer in Blizzard.
• Stukov: Stukov's Rooted Bunkers can outheal the effect of Blizzard.
• Vorazun: Time Stop stops currently-present Blizzards from moving. Newly-created Blizzards will move as normal. All Blizzards still deal damage.
• Zagara: Zergling evasion applies to damage dealt by Blizzard.

Detailed Mutator Information

The bots will spawn from any enemy building. If you clear all enemy buildings on the map, the bots will stop spawning. Note that all-clearing Malwarfare and Void Launch does not stop them from spawning, because Suppression Towers and Launch Bays are indestructible enemy structures.

A Boom Bot is shown below:

When a Boom Bot spawns, one player will see its code above the unit. The other player will see "?-?-?-?". The player that sees the code must provide the other player with the code, so that they may input it into the Boom Bot. Once a bot is clicked, losing vision does not cause the player to lose the command card and they can still input the code.

The Boom Bot starts off with 1.25 Movement Speed. Inputting an incorrect digit will prevent the player from any further input for 8 seconds. Additionally, it increases the Boom Bot speed by 1.0, up to a maximum of 4.75.

The spawn timings of the Boom Bots are as follows:

Time	Bots Spawned
2:30	1
4:00	1
5:30	1
7:00	1
8:30	1
10:00	1
11:30	1
13:00	2
14:10	2
15:20	2
16:30	2
17:40	2
18:50	2

After the 18:50 spawn, 2 Boom Bots will appear every 50 seconds.

When a bot reaches a player unit or structure, it will detonate a nuke. The nuke deal a base damage of 750 (950 vs structures) within range 4, 50% of base damage within range 6, and 25% of base damage within range 8 of the center of the nuke. Once a Nuke has been detonated, there is a 4 second cooldown before it can be used again.

Bots will not actively attack Aurana's transport and Data Cores on Malwarfare, Terrazine Harvesters on Mist Opportunities, Artifact Trucks on Cradle of Death, and the Evacuation Ships on Miner Evacuation. However, their nukes will cause those units damage.

Commander-specific Tips

• Abathur: Disabling Cloud prevents Boom Bots from attacking.
• Abathur: Place a Toxic Nest and disable automatic detonation which can be used to get vision of Boom Bots.
• Kerrigan: Kerrigan's Nydus worms can tank two Boom Bot nukes before dying.
• Mengsk: Earthsplitters provide temporary vision in the bombardment area, which can be used to get vision of Boom Bots.
• Raynor: Use Scans to get vision of Boom Bots far in advance.
• Stetmann: Spread Stetellites around the map to provide you with vision of the Boom Bots.
• Vorazun: Corsair Disruption Webs stop Boom Bots from attacking.

Detailed Mutator Information

The start of the game has three mutators active. At 4:30 one mutator will get cycled out. 15 seconds later, one more gets added. Mutators get replaced every 90 seconds.

The list of mutators that can appear is shown below:

• Aggressive Deployment
• Alien Incubation
• Avenger
• Barrier
• Black Death
• Blizzard
• Concussive Attacks
• Darkness
• Diffusion
• Double-Edged
• Eminent Domain
• Evasive Maneuvers
• Fatal Attraction
• Going Nuclear
• Just Die!
• Laser Drill
• Lava Burst
• Life Leech
• Micro Transactions
• Mineral Shields
• Missile Command
• Orbital Strike
• Outbreak
• Photon Overload
• Polarity
• Propagators
• Purifier Beam
• Scorched Earth
• Self Destruction
• Slim Pickings
• Speed Freaks
• Temporal Field
• Time Warp
• Transmutation
• Twister
• Void Reanimators
• Void Rifts
• Walking Infested
• We Move Unseen

From the above list, the following mutators cannot appear in the starting set of three:

• Mineral Shields
• Propagators
• Slim Pickings

Commander-specific Tips

• Vorazun: Time Stop does not affect Chaos Studios timings.

Detailed Mutator Information

The debuff reduces movement speed by 50% and lasts 60 seconds to any unit or structure that is damaged by Amon or the Environment. Units with the "Frenzied" buff are immune to Concussive Attacks and cannot be slowed. These include Ultralisks, Brutalisks, Tyrannozors and Tychus' Odin.

Commander-specific Tips

• Tychus: Medivac Pickups can be used to remove the Concussive Attacks debuff.

Detailed Mutator Information

Attack wave and Objective ping markers will not be shown on the minimap. Reducing your Shader Settings to Medium quality and below will allow you to see the terrain, nullifying the mutator.

Commander-specific Tips

• Abathur: Place a Toxic Nest and disable automatic detonation to provide you vision of key areas of the map.
• Stetmann: Disabled Stetellites provide normal vision.
• Zeratul: Darkness disables Zeratul's map-wide terrain vision. You may need to use Rally Points to find the Artifact Fragments, shown below:
  

Detailed Mutator Information

50% of the damage you deal is split equally across all units within 5 range. This effect will only apply if the unit survives damage that is being dealt. Oneshotting a unit will not trigger Diffusion.

Commander-specific Tips

• Mengsk: Units inside Supply Bunkers do not take damage from Diffusion.
• Nova: Nova's Defensive Drones' Defensive Matrix can block damage dealt by Diffusion.
• Raynor: Units inside Bunkers do not take damage from Diffusion.
• Stetmann: Stetmann's HUGS Overload can block damage dealt by Diffusion.
• Swann: Swann's Science Vessels' Defensive Matrix can block damage dealt by Diffusion.

Detailed Mutator Information

HP is healed at 1 HP per 0.1 seconds as per the in-game code. However, due to the design of this function, HP is only healed at roughly 8HP per second on average. Only the unit that deals damage gets impacted by Double Edged. For example, Carriers are not affected, but their Interceptors are. Units within transports will be safe from the mutator if they are picked up.

Double Edged has an interesting interaction with Life Leech effects on units, such as those from Dehaka's Gene Mutations. Damage that is dealt by Double Edged is also counted towards damage dealt. That is, if a unit deals 100 damage to an enemy unit, it deals 100 damage to itself, and therefore, a total of 200 damage is counted for the Life Leech effect. This results in 40 life heal and 100 life healed over time.

• Abathur: Units with 100 or more Biomass can ignore Double Edged damage.
• Alarak: Units (including Alarak) may be loaded into a War Prism as soon as they attack or use their abilities to prevent damage through Double Edged.
• Artanis: Arkship Commandant Unbound Fanatics Plasma Waves kill themselves when they deal damage, severely reducing Unbound Fanatic effectiveness.
• Artanis: Shield Overcharge can block damage dealt by Double Edged.
• Dehaka: Dakrun and any Tyrannozors with the Spiked Hide mutation will kill themselves due to the damage reflect very quickly (within 2 seconds).
• Fenix: Conservator's Fields can be used to reduce the damage taken by Double Edged.
• Kerrigan: Kerrigan's current Mutating Carapace gets consumed by Double Edged, before the new Mutating Carapace (from the damage dealt) gets added.
• Mengsk: Units inside Supply Bunkers do not take damage from Double Edged.
• Nova: Nova's Defensive Drones' Defensive Matrix can block damage dealt by Double Edged.
• Raynor: Units inside Bunkers do not take damage from Double Edged.
• Stetmann: Stetmann's HUGS Overload can block damage dealt by Double Edged.
• Swann: Swann's Science Vessels' Defensive Matrix can block damage dealt by Double Edged.
• Tychus: Tychus' Medivac Pickup can be used on the Odin after it fires its missile to protect it from taking damage when the missile hits. The same applies to all Outlaw abilities.
• Zagara: Zagara's Baneling Barrage does damage to Zagara if it hits structures. However, it can be used against units, without dealing damage back to Zagara.
• Zeratul: Void Apparitions that are created by the Ambushers are considered units themselves. Therefore, Ambushers do not take damage from Double-Edged when they blink.
• Zeratul: Tornadoes created by Herald of the Void do not deal damage to Zeratul.

Detailed Mutator Information

Shields and HP are replenished after the structure is captured. The structure will be destroyed if there's no path to player 1's base. Heroic Structures (with the exception of Swann's Laser Drill) are not stolen by Amon.

Structures will only be captured by Amon under the following conditions:

• The structure is not a Nydus Worm
• If an Amon unit killed the structure, the unit is still alive
• The structure is not killed by static defense
• There exists a valid path between the unit that killed the structure and a point within 5 range of Player 1's starting location.

Due to how Siege Tanks work, a sieged up siege tank cannot trigger Eminent Domain on a kill.

In any other circumstance, the structure will be destroyed as normal. One loophole in this logic is allowing Terran structures to burn down. A structure burning down will be automatically converted to Amon's ownership, regardless of the unit that dealt damage to the structure, including player units. This allows you to wall of maps against certain compositions as Amon will not attack his own structures.

Commander-specific Tips

• Mengsk: Earthsplitters stop attacking when captured by Eminent Domain. Any units loaded into the Earthsplitter are lost.
• Mengsk: Units loaded inside a Supply Bunker are lost if the Supply Bunker is captured by Eminent Domain.
• Raynor: Units loaded inside a Bunker are lost if the Bunker is captured by Eminent Domain.
• Stetmann: Stetellites will only respawn once before being destroyed permanently.
• Swann: If you lose your drill to an enemy, it will respawn as Amon's Laser Drill. After destroying it, the drill goes on cooldown before respawning again. This means you will permanently lose your drill and have no way of getting it back.
• Zeratul: Eminent Domain affects Cannon Projections. If a Cannon Projection has been captured by Amon, it can be cancelled by cancelling the Projection at the source Cannon.
• Zeratul: Tesseract Monoliths are not converted by Eminent Domain and will be destroyed instead of converted.
• Zagara: Bile Launchers stop attacking when captured by Eminent Domain.

Detailed Mutator Information

The enemy unit will teleport within 5 range of the attacking unit if the attacking unit is less than 20 range away. Otherwise, it will teleport within 5 range of its current position.

In addition to the teleport, the unit becomes invulnerable for 0.25 seconds. A unit cannot teleport more than once every 2 seconds.

Only non-heroic units get the Evasive Maneuvers buff.

Commander-specific Tips

• Swann: Due to how Pulse Cannon damage is dealt, Pulse Cannon only deals about 50% of its stated damage.

Detailed Mutator Information

All player units within 9 range get affected by Fatal Attraction on the death of a unit. This only applies to units which can move. Burrowed Swarm Hosts, Sieged up Siege Tanks, etc. are not affected by Fatal Attraction. The supply cost of a unit determines the strength of the pull as well the length of time the unit is stunned (cannot use attack, use abilities or be moved) as shown below:

Supply	Pull Time	Stun Time
0-1	0.1875 seconds	0.1 seconds
2-5	0.375 seconds	0.2 seconds
6+	0.625 seconds	0.3 seconds

Commander-specific Tips

• Alarak: Use the Havoc's Force-field ability to prevent your army from being drawn in by the mutator.
• Dehaka: Impalers get pulled by Fatal Attraction.
• Dehaka: Pack Leaders are immune to Fatal Attraction.
• Nova: Fatal Attraction will cancel Nova's Nuke and the nuke will be lost.
• Han/Horner: Han's Widow Mines get pulled by Fatal Attraction.
• Tychus: The Odin is immune to Fatal Attraction.

Detailed Mutator Information

Fear lasts for 10 seconds on non-heroic units and 5 seconds on heroic units. Fear is applied as a chance, depending on a unit's vitality (HP + Shields). It is calculated as a percentage as 2000/Vitality. So, a unit with 20 vitality or lower has 100% chance of getting feared.

Commander-specific Tips

• Artanis: Shield Overcharge prevents Fear from triggering on the unit.
• Nova: Defensive Drones' Defensive Matrix prevents Fear from triggering on the unit.
• Swann: Defensive Matrix prevents Fear from triggering on the unit.
• Stetmann: H.U.G.S Overload prevents Fear from triggering on the unit.
• Tychus: Medivac Pickup does not remove the Fear debuff.

Detailed Mutator Information

When an enemy unit dies, it launches a number of fireworks equal to its supply cost. This will target random player units within a range of 10. However, if no player units are nearby, it will target random locations within a range of 3. Fireworks deal 50 damage each.

Commander-specific Tips

• Zagara: Zergling evasion applies to damage dealt by Fireworks.

Detailed Mutator Information

The first gift spawns at 3:00. Following gifts will spawn after 2:10 intervals until the mission time exceeds 20:00, after which gifts will spawn every 1:40.

Gifts only spawn 40 units away from Players 1, 2 and 3 and as long as no units are within 7 range of the intended gift spawn location.

Ahead of a gift spawn, an icon will be displayed on the minimap. The player has 40 seconds before it appears and can be captured. Amon will send forces to capture the gift. Gifts take 20 seconds to be captured.

If players capture 2 consecutive gifts, Amon will steal the third. Players cannot stop it.

The potential rewards for players are:

Reward	Details
Vespene Rain	15+{Mission Minutes Elapsed} Vespene drops appear around the map. Each Vespene drop contains 50 gas.
Chrono Wave	Chrono Wave is activated (500% increase in build speed for 20 seconds).
HERC/Scout/Queen	You get a HERC/Scout/Queen depending on your race.
MULE Party	Drops 3 MULEs in your base.
{Unit} becomes an Avenger	The selected units gains 10 stacks of the Avenger buff (see Avenger details for more information).
The Naughty List has been cleared	Clears the Naughty List
An Archangel	Gives the player an Archangel.
Everything is free for 10 seconds	Removes costs associated with training all units and research.
Healing	(Only available after the 8-minute mark) Heals all units for 100HP, then provides a buff that heals units for 6.6 HP every second.

The potential rewards for Amon are:

Reward	Details
A Temporary Mutator	Picks a random mutator from the list below (see details in the Chaos Studios mutator details for more information) for 3 minutes. Alien Incubation Blizzard Concussive Attacks Going Nuclear Just Die! Mutually Assured Destruction Outbreak Self Destruction Transmutation We Move Unseen
Hidden Threats	Spawns a mix of 30 Burrowed Widow Mines, Burrowed Banelings and Stasis Wards around the map.
Banelings/Scourge	Spawns Scourge (if players have more than 5 air units) or Banelings otherwise at the gift location, depending on the mission time as follows: Mission Time Units Spawned 0:00-6:00 30 6:00-10:00 45 10:00+ 60
Hybrid	Spawns Hybrids depending on the mission time as follows: Mission Time Hybrids Spawned 0:00-8:20 2 Hybrid Reavers 1 Hybrid Dominator 8:20-11:40 2 Hybrid Reavers 2 Hybrid Dominators 1 Hybrid Behemoth 11:40+ 2 Hybrid Reavers 2 Hybrid Dominators 2 Hybrid Behemoths
Kill Bot	Puts a Killbot on the field, with kills depending on the mission time. The kill bot will require 30 kills before 10:00, after which it will require 50 kills.
Overcharged Shuttles	Overcharges 5 Shuttles. Each overcharge does 20 damage every 0.25 seconds.
Shrink Wave	Shrinks all player units for 60 seconds, reducing all damage (including Spell damage), HP and Shields by 50%.

Once a gift is available for capture, a small attack force of Amon's units will be created to try and capture the gift. The power level of this attack force is dependent on a number of factors, listed below:

• Each gift claimed by the Allied Commanders adds 1 to the power of the attack force.
• Each gift claimed/stolen by Amon removes 1 from the power of the attack force.
• Every 2:00 of mission time adds 1 to the power of the attack force.

The composition of the attack forces are shown below. For more information on Strength and Tech levels, check the Enemy Compositions page.

Power Level	Strength Level	Tech Level	Hybrids
0-1	2	1	-
2-3	4	2	-
4-6	4	3	1x Destroyer
7-8	5	4	1x Reaver
9	2	1	2x Destroyer
10	3	1	2x Reaver
11	4	1	1x Behemoth
12	4	2	1x Behemoth 1x Dominator
13	4	3	1x Behemoth 1x Nemesis
14	4	3	1x Behemoth 1x Nemesis 1x Dominator

One of the most valuable gift rewards (particularly in the early game) for players is Everything is Free. To make advantage of this, ensure you have at least one structure (preferably one that uses minerals and gas) on Rapidfire and use it to spam these structures anywhere, for free. Once the effect wears off, cancel the structures and you will be refunded the original cost of resources for those structures.

Commander-specific Tips

• Abathur: Units spawned from Gift Exchange drop Biomass.
• Artanis: Artanis' Warp Field counts as a unit, and therefore, his calldown can be used to capture gifts.
• Dehaka: Units spawned from Gift Exchange drop Essence.
• Mengsk: Units spawned from Gift Exchange provide Royal Guard experience.
• Fenix: Fenix loses all Avenger stacks given to him if he changes suit.

Detailed Mutator Information

Nukes get deployed every 2 seconds (with a marker appearing on the ground) and will always be at least 25 units away from your main and at least 15 units from any resource patch.

Nukes will be deploayed within 50 range of a randomly-selected player unit.

Nukes deal a base damage of 750 (950 vs structures) within range 4, 50% of base damage within range 6, and 25% of base damage within range 8 of the center of the nuke.

Commander-specific Tips

• Kerrigan: Kerrigan's Omega Worms can be used to load units in to save them from being killed by a nuke.
• Nova: Nova's Tactical Airlift can be used to save units from a nuke, before dropping them back down in the same location.
• Tychus: Tychus' Medivac Platforms can be used to save units from a nuke, before dropping them back down in the same location.

Detailed Mutator Information

Hardened Will checks a distance of 6 units around a Heroic unit's area. If there are any non-heroic units in that area, Hardened Will gets applied.

Commander-specific Tips

• Dehaka: Devouring a unit with more than 10 vitality with Hardened Will will leave it at 1 HP.
• Vorazun: Hardened Will does not get removed from units while Time Stop is active.

Detailed Mutator Information

Heroes will be added to attack waves as the mission goes on using a "Hero Pool" system which keeps track of how many heroes can spawn. The Hero Pool starts at 1. Every time a hero spawns, the Hero Pool gets reduced by 1. At particular mission times, the current value of the Hero Pool is increased as per the following table:

On Dead Of Night, Nydus unloads are regarded as attack wave spawns and will therefore also spawn Amon heroes.

Time	Count
5:00	2
6:30	1
8:00	1
9:30	1
11:00	1
12:30	1
14:00	1
15:00	1
16:00	1
17:00	1
18:00	1
19:00	1
20:00	1

Every 30 seconds past 20:00, the counter goes up by 1.

Every attack wave, the Hero Pool will attempt to be depleted and summon the number of heroes in the Hero Pool, subject to the following constraints:

• Maximum allowable heroes per attack wave: 6
• On Mist Opportunities, maximum heroes in a harass wave: 1
• On Temple of the Past, maximum heroes in side ramp attack wave: 1
• On Temple of the Past, maximum heroes in North drop attack wave: 0
• Attack Wave is not an Air Drop attack wave

Note that heroes will not spawn at the attack wave spawn location, but at the attack wave gather location.

Heroes are spawned in a particular order for the first 9 spawns as follows:

1. Raynor
2. Tychus
3. Dehaka
4. Karax
5. Nova
6. Zagara
7. Zeratul
8. Artanis
9. Kerrigan

After the 9th spawn, a random hero will be selected from each set of three heroes (1-3, 4-6, 7-9). For example, spawn #10 will contain either Raynor, Tychus or Dehaka. Spawn #11 will contain either Karax, Nova or Zagara, etc.

Information on the available heroes is shown below.

Artanis

HP/Shields: 2000/2000

Passives:

Passive	Name	Description	Cooldown
	Resurgence	Grants Artanis invulnerability for 3 seconds upon taking lethal damage, preventing death and replenishing his Shields and Life. Also releases a large blast of energy that knocks back and deals 100 damage to all nearby enemies. This effect cannot occur more than once every 60 seconds.	60 seconds

Abilities:

Skill	Name	Description	Cooldown
	Lightning Dash	Artanis charges forward, unleashing a blast of energy that deals 100 damage to nearby enemies and stuns them for 2 seconds.	5 seconds
	Astral Wind	Heals Artanis and all nearby friendly units for 300 life and 200 shields.	15 seconds

Dehaka

HP: 1500

Passives: None

Abilities:

Skill	Name	Description	Cooldown
	Drag	Pulls the target to Dehaka's location and temporarily stuns it (5 seconds).	10 seconds
	Generate Spawns	Generates two Spawns of Dehaka that deal 100% normal damage but have 50% life. Spawns last 30 seconds.	45 seconds
	Mend	Heals Dehaka for 150, and heals nearby friendly units for 50. An additional 50% of the amount healed regenerates over 15 seconds.	10 seconds

Karax

HP/Shields: 750/750

Passives:

Passive	Name	Description	Cooldown
	Master Phase-smith	Karax generates a power field similar to a Pylon. Structures within the power field gain 100% attack speed and 900% production speed.	0 seconds

Abilities:

Skill	Name	Description	Cooldown
	Reclamation	Permanently takes control of target enemy robotic unit or Protoss structure. Robotic units include Sentries, Immortals, Reavers and Colossi.	5 seconds
	Phase Cannon	Phases in a Photon Cannon that lasts for 30 seconds before leaving the battlefield. The Photon Cannon must be placed within a power field.	10 seconds
	Warp In Khaydarin Monolith	Extremely powerful defensive structure. Has superior range and damage, but is very expensive and attacks slowly. Can attack ground and air units.	10 seconds

Kerrigan

HP: 5000

Passives: None

Abilities:

Skill	Name	Description	Cooldown
	Leaping Strike	Kerrigan leaps to her target and deals 150 damage. Can be used without a target to travel quickly.	0 seconds
	Psionic Shift	Kerrigan dashes through enemies, dealing 50 damage to all enemies in her path.	0 seconds
	Apocalypse	Deals 300 damage to enemy units and 700 damage to enemy structures in a large area.	60 seconds

Nova

HP: 2250

Passives: None

Abilities:

Skill	Name	Description	Cooldown
	Snipe	Deals 200 damage to target enemy ground or air unit from long range. Can target biological and mechanical units.	0 seconds
	Nuke	Calls down a Nuclear Strike at a target location. Nukes take 5 seconds to land, but they deal up to 600 damage to enemies in a large radius.	60 seconds

Raynor

HP: 1000

Passives: None

Abilities:

Skill	Name	Description	Cooldown
	Penetrator Round	After carefully aiming, Raynor fires a Penetrator Round that strikes enemies along its path, dealing 80 damage.	20 seconds

Tychus

HP: 1000

Passives:

Skill	Name	Description	Cooldown
	Hail of Lead	Tychus' Chaingun deals splash damage (50%) in a small area (1.25 range) around the target.	0 seconds

Abilities:

Skill	Name	Description	Cooldown
	Toss Shredder Grenade	Tosses a grenade that explodes for 80 damage in a small radius (2 range). Does not harm friendly units.	20 seconds

Zagara

HP: 2250

Passives: None

Abilities:

Skill	Name	Description	Cooldown
	Baneling Barrage	Launches 4 Banelings towards the target point. Each Baneling explodes for 40 damage (80 vs structures).	10 seconds
	Spawn Hunter Killers	Spawns 4 Hunter Killers at the target point that last 20 seconds.	30 seconds
	Mass Frenzy	Grants all friendly units on the map 25% attack speed and 25% movement speed for 15 seconds.	120 seconds
	Infested Drop	Calls down 10 drop-pods onto the target area, dealing 50 damage with each drop-pod and spawning a total of 10 Roaches that last 30 seconds.	60 seconds

Zeratul

HP/Shields: 2000/2000

Passives:

Skill	Name	Description	Cooldown
	Permanently Cloaked	Zeratul is permanently cloaked.	0 seconds

Abilities:

Skill	Name	Description	Cooldown
	Blink	Teleports Zeratul to a nearby location.	3 seconds
	Void Armor	Grants nearby friendly units +100 shields for 10 seconds.	10 seconds
	Shadow Blade	Slashes an enemy unit for 500 damage. Can only target ground units.	6 seconds

Commander-specific Tips

• Dehaka: Dehaka can Devour Amon's Dehaka (with an Easter Egg voice line). He cannot Devour other heroes.
• Dehaka: Dakrun's knockback can cancel Kerrigan's Apocalypse and Nova's Nuke.
• Tychus: Crooked Sam's Moebius Restraint Matrix upgrade can be used to stun Amon Heroes with his Demolition Charge.
• Vorazun: Oracle Stasis Wards can be used to disable Heroes. Combine with the Stasis Calibration upgrade to be able to attack them while in stasis.

Detailed Mutator Information

Inspiration grants an increase of 25% attack speed and 3 armor to all units within 5 range of a Heroic unit. The buff can also be applied to structures and static defense.

Detailed Mutator Information

A unit that has just died and is being revived by the mutator is stunned (cannot move, attack or use skills) and invulnerable for 1 second.

Objectives and bonus objectives that are non-structures will have Just Die! applied, so they will respawn once after killed.

Note that units do not respawn. Instead, their HP, shields and energy are reset to full when they take fatal damage for the first time.

Commander-specific Tips

• Abathur: Units will only drop one Biomass drop, which is when they are finally killed.
• Dehaka: Units will only drop one Essence drop, which is when they are finally killed.
• Mengsk: Units will provide Royal Guard experience once, which is when they are finally killed.

Detailed Mutator Information

The bots will spawn from any enemy building. If you clear all enemy buildings on the map, the bots will stop spawning. Note that all-clearing Malwarfare and Void Launch does not stop them from spawning, because Suppression Towers and Launch Bays are indestructible enemy structures.

There are three types of Kill Bots that will spawn, as follows:

Bot	Kills Required	Picture
Murder Bot	5
Death Bot	10
Kill Bot	15

The spawn timings of the Kill Bots are as follows:

Time	Bot Type	Bots Spawned
3:35	Murder Bot	1
5:05	Murder Bot	1
6:35	Murder Bot	1
8:05	Murder Bot	2
9:35	Murder Bot	2
10:45	Death Bot	2
11:55	Death Bot	2
13:05	Death Bot	2
14:15	Death Bot	3
15:25	Death Bot	3
16:35	Death Bot	3
17:45	Death Bot	3
18:55	Death Bot	3
20:05	Kill Bot	2
21:05	Kill Bot	3
22:05	Kill Bot	3
23:05	Kill Bot	3
24:05	Kill Bot	3
25:05	Kill Bot	4

After the 25:05 spawn, 4 Kill Bots will appear every 60 seconds.

Bots will attack Aurana's transport and Data Cores on Malwarfare, Terrazine Harvesters on Mist Opportunities, Artifact Trucks on Cradle of Death, and the Evacuation Ships on Miner Evacuation.

When playing commanders that have Evolution Chambers, use those to feed Kill Bots. When they are destroyed (1 kill), they spawn 6 Broodlings (6 kills).

Commander-specific Tips

• Kerrigan: If using Zerglings to feed Kill Bots, avoid getting the Hardened Carapace upgrade until Kill Bots start to spawn. This will allow the Death Bots to 1-shot the Zerglings.
• Mengsk: Kill Bots do not aggro Zerg units from Dogs of War.
• Raynor: Spider Mines do not add to Kill Bot kill counters.
• Stetmann: If using Zerglings to feed Kill Bots, never get the Hardened Egonergy Shield upgrade as this prolongs Zergling life, keeping Kill Bots alive longer on the map.
• Stukov: Volatile Infested do not add to the Kill Bot's kill counter.
• Vorazun: Corsair Disruption Webs stop Kill Bots from attacking.
• Vorazun: Units that get Emergency Recalled do not add to the Kill Bot's kill counter.
• Vorazun: Time Stop does not affect Kill Bots timings.
• Zagara: If using Zerglings to feed Kill Bots, avoid getting the Hardened Carapace upgrade until Kill Bots start to spawn. This will allow the Death Bots to 1-shot the Zerglings.
• Zeratul: Cannon Projection kills do not add to the Kill Bot's kill counter.
• Zeratul: Legion units do not get attacked by Kill Bots.

Detailed Mutator Information

The drill does damage in three separate phases, depending on the time it is left attacking a certain unit, as shown below:

Attack Time	Damage
0-15 seconds	2/0.1 seconds
15-30 seconds	4/0.1 seconds
30+ seconds	6/0.1 seconds

The drill can be destroyed if players are able to reach it. It has 1000HP, 2000 Shields and 2 armor. However, it will go into repair mode and will take 120 seconds before it starts attacking again.

Note that when facing up against Zerg compositions, Creep Tumors provide vision for the Laser Drill.

The spawn points of the Laser Drill are shown below:

Commander-specific Tips

• Dehaka: If the Laser Drill locks onto Dakrun, it will kill itself from his damage reflect.

Mission	Spawn Point
Chain of Ascension
Cradle of Death
Dead of Night
Lock & Load
Malwarfare
Miner Evacuation
Mist Opportunities
Oblivion Express
Part and Parcel
Rifts to Korhal
Scythe of Amon
Temple of the Past
The Vermillion Problem
Void Launch
Void Thrashing

Detailed Mutator Information

Lava Bursts appear every 0.5 seconds and will always be at least 25 units away from your main and at least 10 units from any resource patch. Lava Bursts will also not appear directly underneath your structures.

Lava Bursts will be marked on the terrain. These markings will last for 4 seconds before they start dealing damage. Lava Bursts deal 5 (+2 vs. Armored) damage per 0.125 seconds (40 DPS) to non-heroic units. The damage phase of the Lava Bursts lasts 16 seconds.

Lava Burst damage to Heroic units is based on the unit's maximum HP. This is summarized in the table below:

Unit HP	Total DPS
100	24
150	36
200	48
250	60
300	72
400	128
500	120
600	144
800	192
1000	240
1500	360
2000	480

Commander-specific Tips

• Alarak: Place force-fields over Lava Bursts to prevent your units from accidentally walking over Lava Bursts. Be careful if you use Massive units, because they can break force-fields.

Detailed Mutator Information

Life Leech heals Amon's units for 100% of the damage they do against player units.

Detailed Mutator Information

All enemies get +3 to their ranged weapon range and sight range.

Detailed Mutator Information

Envelopes either contain 50 gas or 50 minerals for both players and need to be picked up. They can only be picked up by ground units.

During the first 3:00, all envelopes will spawn within 30 range of player bases every 7 seconds. After that, envelopes can spawn anywhere on the map every 5.4 seconds.

Detailed Mutator Information

At the start of the game, 200 Mag-mines are placed randomly throughout the map. Mag-mines cannot be placed within 30 range of player start locations or within 5 range of resource patches.

The mines will deal 250 damage, after a 2.5-second trigger delay, allowing you to dodge them easily. They trigger without the need for detection.

Additionally, there are some other map-specific limitations:

• Chain of Ascension: Mag-mines will not be placed within 15 range of Ji'Nara.
• Lock & Load: Mag-mines will not be placed within 8 range of the Celestial Locks.

Commander-specific Tips

• Raynor: Hyperion Point Defense Drones can shoot down Mag-mines.
• Zeratul: Shieldguards have a 50% chance to remove a Mag-mine projectile.

Detailed Mutator Information

Hero units, top bar abilities and Tychus outlaws all cost 10 minerals and 5 gas to issue commands to. The cost of issue a command to a regular unit depends on its actual unit cost and supply cost. For gasless units, the cost is 2 x its supply in minerals. For gas units, it's 1 x its supply in gas and minerals. Note that if you do not have the resources, issuing orders is free. However, if you have no gas, then Micro Transaction mineral cost will be doubled.

Costs will only be applied if commands are issued to a unit. Therefore, units following another unit will only incur the initial cost to set them on follow. When that unit moves, no costs will be charged for all units following that unit.

If your ally leaves, commands issued to their units will also not be free.

Detailed Mutator Information

The first set of mineral shields will appear at 2:40. Following mineral shields will appear every 2:00. Each mineral patch has a 15% chance of getting shielded. This percentage goes up by 5% for every round of Mineral Shields.

Each Mineral shield has 50HP and lasts for 60 seconds. Mineral shields do not get auto-targeted, so you will need to manually target them to destroy them.

Commander-specific Tips

• Han/Horner: Two sets of Mag-mines can clear out all the minerals shields that spawn on a mineral line.
• Stukov: Patrol a Diamondback with the Caustic Mucus upgrade behind the mineral line to clear the shields automatically.
• Zagara: Place Bile Launchers behind mineral lines so their bombardments can clear Mineral Shields automatically.

Detailed Mutator Information

At the start of the game, a total of 25 patches of Widow Mines and Spider Mines will be created. Each patch will contain 5 Widow Mines and 7 Spider Mines. The patches cannot be placed within 30 range of player start locations or within 5 range of resource patches or within 8 range of each other.

Widow Mines deal direct target damage 250 (+35 vs shields) and splash damage of 80 (+40 vs shields). They have 180HP and will trigger from 5 range.

Spider Mines deal a base damage of 250 within range 1.7, 50% of base damage within range 2.25, and 25% of base damage within range 3. They have 25HP and will trigger from 4 range.

Since both, Spider Mines and Widow Mines do not attack structures, commanders with movable static defense are great at efficiently clearing mines.

Mines will trigger on Aurana's transport on Malwarfare, Terrazine Harvesters on Mist Opportunities, Artifact Trucks on Cradle of Death and the Balius on Part and Parcel.

Additionally, there are some other map-specific limitations:

• Chain of Ascension: Patches will not be placed within 15 range of Ji'Nara.
• Lock & Load: Patches will not be placed within 8 range of the Celestial Locks.

The below image shows an example of a field generated by the mutator. Remember that you will need detection to clear the mines.

Commander-specific Tips

• Kerrigan: 25 points into the Immobilization Wave mastery will allow Kerrigan to 1-shot Widow Mines.
• Kerrigan: Folly of Man Fury stacks can hit mines without detection.
• Stetmann: Getting the Hardened Egonergy Shield upgrade for Zerglings will allow them to clear mines efficiently without taking heavy losses.

Detailed Mutator Information

Missiles get launched from the sides of the map. The spawning of the missiles cannot be stopped, but the missiles can be destroyed. There are different types of missiles that will appear. These are shown in the table below:

Missile	HP	Damage	Description	Picture
Standard	10	100	This is the standard missile and most commonly-spawned missile.
Point Defense Missile	15	-	This travels alongside a missile and will stop when it reaches the target building. It starts with 200 energy and shoots down any projectiles. Each projectile shot drains 10 energy.
Splitter Missile	20	175	When destroyed, this will split into two smaller missiles.
Splitter Missile Child	5	75	Spawned from a Splitter Missile.
Nuke	100	300 (500 vs Structures)	Accompanied by 5 PDM's. Nukes can only be deployed once every 60 seconds. Damage dealt depends on distance from center of hit: 100% within 4 range 50% within 6 range 25% within 8 range

Depending on the mission time, the spawn rate for the missiles is different as shown in the table below, as well as the percentages for each of the missiles. Note that 2 missiles are fired every spawn cycle, one for each player.

Mission Time	Spawn Rate	Standard %	Standard + PDM %	Splitter %	Nuke + 5 PDM's %
0:00-5:00	15 seconds	100%	0%	0%	0%
5:00-10:00	5 seconds	90%	10%	0%	0%
10:00-15:00	2 seconds	60%	20%	20%	0%
15:00+	1 second	40%	20%	30%	10%

Point Defense Missiles shoot down all Projectile attacks until they run out of energy, but they be shot down/bypassed by Hitscan attacks. The video below explains the difference between the two attack types:

Another option would be to simply overwhelm the Point Defense Missiles. Point Defense Missiles will lose energy quickly and cannot shoot down all projectiles if many are being fired at them at the same time.

Commander-specific Tips

• Artanis: High Templars/High Archons can feedback the Point Defense Missiles.
• Kerrigan: Desolate Queen Kerrigan's Kinetic Blast is blocked by Point Defense Missiles and Point Defense Drones.
• Stetmann: Super Gary's auto-attack cannot be shot down by Point Defense Missiles and Point Defense Drones.
• Vorazun: Time Stop does not affect Missile Command timings.
• Zeratul: Tesseract Monoliths can stun Point Defense Missiles, allowing projectile attacks to connect with their targets.

Detailed Mutator Information

Moment of Silence is cast within 8 range of the dead unit. It has a 12-second duration.

If the hybrid is a Hybrid Nemesis, there is a 2-second delay before the effect is applied. Otherwise, there is a 1-second delay.

Commander-specific Tips

• Dehaka: Dehaka's Pack Leaders are Map Bosses and are therefore immune to Moment of Silence.
• Kerrigan: Omega Worms can be used to dodge the Moment of Silence Debuff before it triggers.
• Nova: Tactical Airlift can be used to dodge the Moment of Silence Debuff before it triggers.
• Tychus: Medivac Pickup can be used to dodge the Moment of Silence Debuff before it triggers.

Detailed Mutator Information

All hybrids detonate a nuke. There is a 2-second delay before a nuke detonates if the dead hybrid is a Hybrid Nemesis or a Moebius Hybrid A from Part and Parcel, 1-second delay otherwise.

If the hybrid is a Hybrid destroyer, it detonates a small nuke. All other hybrids detonate a large nuke. Nukes deal a base damage of 750 (950 vs structures) within radius #1, 50% of base damage within radius #2, and 25% of base damage within radius #3 as shown in the table below:

Nuke Type	Radius #1	Radius #2	Radius #3	Example
Small	2	2.5	3
Normal	4	6	8

Detailed Mutator Information

Each kill adds a damage stack that increases the damage dealt to the unit by a certain amount. The amount of damage increase is based on the number of kills a unit as, as shown in the following table:

Kills	Damage Per Stack
1-4	1%
5-14	4%
15-150	6%

When a Hero unit dies, the debuff is not applied until the hero makes a kill, after which the debuff will be applied based on its kill count throughout the entire game.

Commander-specific Tips

• Fenix: Changing Fenix suits does not reset the Naughty List.
• Fenix: Fenix Champions retain their kill counts from previous shells.
• Zeratul: Zeratul's Shade Projections do not count towards Cannon/Monolith kill counts. The Projection gets the Naughty List count, but disappears after the Projection despawns and gets reset.

Detailed Mutator Information

Orbital Strikes will be cast every 1:20 seconds from the start of the game. They will be at least 30 units away from your main and at least 15 units from any resource patch. Additionally, they will also not be cast if there are less than 5 viable targets.

The number of targets is dependent on the mission time, as shown in the table below:

Mission Time	Targets
0:00-5:00	10
5:00-8:20	3
8:20-11:40	4
11:40-16:40	8
16:40+	10

Orbital Strike will fire in two volleys. Each volley has three shots per target, dealing damage of 50 (100 vs armored).

Mission objectives, although not particularly targeted, will take damage from Orbital Strike splash damage.

Detailed Mutator Information

Infested will start spawning from enemy structures starting at 2:00. If you clear all enemy structures, the infested will stop spawning.

Infested spawn in random quantities per wave, each wave occurring every 25 seconds. Before 13:20, between 2 to 4 infested will spawn per wave. After that, 4 to 6 infestd will spawn per wave.

The type of infested that spawn is dependent on the mission time, as shown in the table below:

Mission Time	Infested
0:00-6:20	Infested Terran
6:20-20:00	Infested Marine
20:00+	Aberration

Additionally, after 15:00, an Infested Medic will spawn with every spawn of the infested wave.

Due to the unique mechanics of Dead of Night that target Infested units, Infested Marines and Aberrations will burn during the day if they have spawned from Infested Structures, even those spawned from this mutator. If they spawn from other Amon structures, they will not burn.

On Miner Evacuation, all infested from Outbreak will have double HP.

Outbreak can spawn infested from the part boxes on Part and Parcel and can have some unexpected mutator interactions. Only the following mutators interact with the infested that spawn from the part boxes (these infested will appear with a white-colored alliance):

• Concussive Attacks
• Diffusion
• Eminent Domain
• Fear
• Life Leech

Commander-specific Tips

• Abathur: Units spawned from Outbreak do not drop Biomass.
• Dehaka: Units spawned from Outbreak do not drop Essence.
• Mengsk: Units spawned from Outbreak do not provide Royal Guard experience.
• Vorazun: Time Stop does not affect Outbreak timings.

Detailed Mutator Information

It gets cast on any structure that takes damage (shield or life). Deals 20 damage to a single unit within 10 range every 1.25 seconds and lasts for 15 seconds.

Detailed Mutator Information

Applies to both, units and structures. Units do not take damage, but can be debuffed.

Commander-specific Tips

• Alarak: Alarak's Structure Overcharge will lock onto units in Polarity, even though it cannot damage them, which can waste the calldown.
• Kerrigan: Folly of Man's lightning strikes can stun Polarity's units (although the damage will not be applied).
• Tychus: Crooked Sam's Demolition Charge's Stun can stun Polarity's units (although the damage will not be applied).
• Vorazun: Centurion's Dark Coil does not stun units with opposite polarity.
• Vorazun: Confusion affects units with any polarity.
• Vorazun: Stasis wards can stasis units with any polarity.
• Vorazun: Vorazun's Withering Siphon prestige deals damage to units with any polarity.
• Zeratul: Units devolved by the Avatar of Essence will have a random polarity.

Detailed Mutator Information

At the start of the game, all units start with 50 energy and have an energy regeneration rate of 0.5625. They have a maximum energy of 200. The skills and the energy bar are lost when the unit ownership changes (Mind Control, Domination, etc.).

While these units have an energy bar and use it for casts, they draw from a total energy pool for each player. Once this pool is depleted, no skills will be cast, even if the unit has energy. Additionally, if the unit does not have energy, it will not cast a skill, even if the pool has enough energy.

Note that this energy bar is an energy bar specifically used as an indicator for Power Overwhelming. It is unaffected by EMP and Feedback.

Skills can be cast without detection, so Cloaked units can still be targeted.

Depending on the mission time, skills will only be cast once the minimum energy level has been reached. Skills cast are random, but it means there is a chance of higher energy skills being cast as the game progresses. Additionally, there is a regeneration rate, and a maximum energy in the pool. This is shown in the table below:

Mission Time	Minimum Energy	Maximum Energy	Regeneration Rate (per second)
0:00-5:00	80	90	1
5:00-8:00	80	110	4
8:00-10:00	80	140	6
10:00+	150	290	10

The list of abilities and other information is listed below:

Ability	Energy Cost	Range	Other Notes
Abduct	20	9	-
Black Hole	150	9	-
Defensive Matrix	20	6	-
Disruption Web	40	9	Only used against structures with attack. 10% chance of being used.
Fungal Growth	45	10	-
Graviton Beam	20	4	Cannot be cast on Heroic or Massive units.
Guardian Shield	20	10	-
Irradiate	45	9	Only gets used against biological units.
Phase Shift	40	10	Only used against structures
Point Defense Drone	20	9	-
Psi Orb	40	10	-
Psionic Storm	40	9	-
Seeker Missile	20	10	-
Time Warp	30	9	-

Commander-specific Tips

• Artanis: Feedback cannot be cast on units that do not have energy without Power Overwhelming.
• Dehaka: Even though units have Psionic abilities, they do not gain the Psionic tag, so devouring them with Dehaka does not cause area of effect damage.
• Dehaka: Point Defense Drones from Power Overwhelming can block Murvar's Locusts and Creepers from spawning.
• Kerrigan Desolate Queen Kerrigan's Kinetic Blast is blocked by Point Defense Drones.
• Mengsk: Emperor's Shadow Feedback deals damage to units with Power Overwhelming. This is covered in the following Mythbusters video:
• Mengsk: Emperor's Shadow EMP's drain energy from the Power Overwhelming Energy bar.
• Nova: Ghost EMP's drain energy from the Power Overwhelming Energy bar.
• Stetmann: Mecha remnants can be shot down by Defensive Drones, preventing Gary or Stetellites from collecting them.
• Stetmann: Super Gary's auto-attack cannot be shot down by Defensive Drones.
• Vorazun: Due to Power Overwhelming being a map-wide effect, rather than a unit-based one, Time Stop does not prevent skills from being cast.

Detailed Mutator Information

Propagators spawn from enemy buildings, so all-clearing a mission will stop them from spawning. Note that all-clearing Malwarfare and Void Launch does not stop them from spawning, because Suppression Towers and Launch Bays are indestructible enemy structures.

An additional word of warning: On Temple of the Past, the first Propagator will attack the rocks and convert them to another Propagator, thus forcing players to deal with two Propagators on the first spawn. One way of avoiding this is to destroy the rocks prior to the Propagator spawn.

They have 450 HP with 0 armor, are Heroic units and detectors and can attack both, air and ground units within 1 range. They have a movement speed of 1.6.

Below is an image of a Propagator.

Propagators spawn in waves at different times throughout the mission, as shown in the table below:

Mission Time	Number spawned
3:28	1
4:58	1
6:28	1
7:58	1
9:28	1
10:28	1
11:28	1
12:28	2
13:28	2
14:28	2
15:28	2
16:28	2
17:28	2
18:28	4
19:28	4
20:28	4
21:28	4
22:08	4
22:58	4
23:48	5

After 23:48, Propagators will spawn every 50 seconds in spawns of 5.

Propagators can attack all Heroic structures but not commander spawn points, or Zeratul's Artifact Reserve. Swann's Laser Drill, Fenix's Purifier Conclave and Karax's Solar Forge will be destroyed and will start to respawn, with no Propagator Spawning.

The other Heroic Structures will be destroyed and will spawn a Propagator. The player will need to rebuild the Heroic Structure manually. The exception to this is Han & Horner's Starport, which cannot be rebuilt if it is destroyed.

Propagators do not attack any unit with a MapBoss attribute. Therefore, Propagators will attack Data Cores but not Aurana's Transport on Malwarfare. They do not attack Harvesting Bots on Mist Opportunities, nor Artifact Trucks on Cradle of Death, nor the Evacuation Ships on Miner Evacuation.

Propagators can be path-blocked, which can be used to trap them while slower-attacking units kill them off. For more information, watch this video below:

Commander-specific Tips

• Dehaka: A minimum of six Impalers are required to be able to deal with a Propagator.
• Dehaka: Dehaka's Pack Leaders are Map Bosses and therefore are immune to Propagators.
• Kerrigan: Kerrigan's Heroic unit can be used to kill a Propagator with 13 points in the Primary Ability Damage. The video below demonstrates this.
  
• Stetmann: Stetellites can be converted to Propagators. Place Stetellites on unpathable terrain.
• Stukov: Disable autocast of the "Spawn Infested Civilian" ability at the Infested Colonist Compound to prevent your units from accidentally engaging a Propagator.
• Stukov: Two fully upgraded Bunkers (attack upgrades and Barracks Tech upgrades) or Four non-upgraded Bunkers can kill a Propagator assuming they all attack together. Three Bunkers can deal with a Propagator, but a Bunker will be lost, assuming no micro.
• Tychus: Crooked Sam's Moebius Restraint Matrix upgrade will stop a Propagator from moving when Demolition Charge is used.
• Vorazun: Manually cast Shadow Fury with Dark Templars to prevent them from accidentally wandering too close to a Propagator.
• Vorazun: Time Stop does not affect Propagators timings.
• Zagara: With a max'ed Baneling Damage mastery, Zagara can kill a Propagator with a Baneling Barrage and two auto attacks.
• Zeratul: Shade Projections generate Propagators when killed by a Propagator.

Detailed Mutator Information

The Purifier Beam cannot be destroyed. It does a base damage of 10 every 0.25 seconds within 1 radius, 50% of the base damage within 2.2 radius, and 10% of the base damage within 2.8 radius.

Purifier Beams will always stay least 20 units away from resource patches.

An additional beam will spawn at 10:00 and another one at 20:00. Purifier Beams will always spawn at least 80 units away from Player bases.

Players can "distract" a Purifier beam by setting a unit (or a structure if they are playing Terran) on patrol around the beam. The approximate size of the circle that will work for units of any size or any movement speed should be a circle with diameter equal to the vertical visible area on the screen. By having units set in patrol around the Beam, the Beam will end up following that one unit around throughout the course of the game. Note that for Zerg commanders, Overlords may be used, but they will require the Pneumatized Carapace upgrade.

Commander-specific Tips

• Karax: With enough Shield Batteries, a Purifier Beam can be "trapped" on a Pylon while Shield Batteries around it recharge its shields. A picture is shown below:
  
  

  Note that the you will need to have the "Rapid Recharging" upgrade researched for this work. The Shield Battery placement marker in green shows a possible location for a 7th. This can be placed after researching the "Fortification Barrier" upgrade, preventing the Cannon from taking any hull damage and freeing up the repair beam.

  The placement layout of the Photon Cannon, Pylons and Shield Batteries is shown below:

  
  

  The video below demonstrates this in action:

• Kerrigan: Kerrigan can use Omega Worms to lure the Purifier Beam away from an area.
• Vorazun: Time Stop delays Purifier Beam timings.

Detailed Mutator Information

Picks a random mutator that is available on the Custom Mutator list, except for Vertigo.

Detailed Mutator Information

Scorched Earth only deals damage to ground units. There are three sizes of scorching areas of effect. This depends on the supply cost of the unit used. This is with exception to the Xel'Naga Construct on Lock & Load, which spawns a large circle. Details of scorching areas are shown below:

Supply Cost	Scorching	Damage	Radius	Time on Ground (seconds)
0-1	Small	7 per 0.5 seconds	0.25	15
2-4	Normal	7 per 0.5 seconds	0.5	30
4+	Large	7 per 0.5 seconds	1.5	60

Detailed Mutator Information

All enemy units explode, dealing damage to player units. The explosion occurs after a 1.75 second delay and deals 20 damage in a 1.5 radius. For units with supply cost 3 or more, the explosion repeats at [supply cost + 1] times.

Detailed Mutator Information

Used supply is shared between both players. However, total supply caps are still player-based. Therefore, regular commanders will still be limited by the number of Pylons/Supply Depots/Overlords that they have. Max supply commanders will still have access to their normal supply cap. However, both players' supplies will be affected when a unit is produced on either side.

Commanders with a supply cap of 100 can suffer greatly with this mutator. If they are paired up with a 200 supply cap commander who consumed over 100 supply, the 100 Supply cap commander will be unable to produce any units which cost supply until the total consumed supply falls below 100.

Detailed Mutator Information

Reduces all player units sight range by 60%, down to a minimum of 1 range. Units that have 0 range (e.g. Essence or Biomass drops) will have their range increased to 1.

Commander-specific Tips

• Abathur: Biomass drops provide vision.
• Dehaka: Essence drops provide vision.
• Han/Horner: Salvage drops provide vision.
• Kerrigan: Assimilation Aura drops provide vision.
• Raynor: Raynor's Scanner Sweep can be used to provide regular vision in the area of the Scan.
• Stukov: Brood Queen's Ocular Symbiote ability increases vision for units.
• Stukov: Units mind-controlled by the Aleksander retain their full vision.

Detailed Mutator Information

All mineral patches contain a maximum of 1500 minerals per patch. Automated refineries, assimilators, MULEs and workers will all harvest 1 resource per tick/trip.

Resource pickups spawn every 5.4 seconds before the 3-minute mark, after which they will spawn every 7 seconds. Each pickup contains either 50 minerals or 50 gas. A spawn will either contain two mineral pickups, or 1 mineral pickup and 1 gas pickup. They can only be picked up by ground units.

Every other spawn, a pickup will spawn anywhere on map, while the other will only spawn within 30 range of the starting location. This only occurs before the 3-minute mark, after which pickups will never be limited to spawning at the starting location.

Detailed Mutator Information

All enemy units have a movement speed of 5.5.

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Temporal Fields scale time to 1% of the normal speed, reducing all time-based effects in their area of effect. All cloaked units are revealed. This includes cooldowns, regeneration, and attacks. Heroic units' movement speed and attack speed are slowed to 50%. They spawn every 3 seconds and there is a 1 second delay before a Temporal field becomes active. Each field lasts for 20 seconds.

Temporal Fields will always be at least 30 units away from the starting locations as well as at least 4 units away from mineral patches.

• Dehaka: Primal Mutalisks caught in a Temporal Field do not die as long as they have their Primal Reconstitution passive available.
• Karax: Sentinels caught in a Temporal Field do not die as long as they have their Reconstruction passive available.
• Kerrigan: Ultralisks caught in a Temporal Field do not die as long as they have their resurrection passive available.
• Nova: Infiltration Specialist Nova will lose Super Cloak if she walks into a Temporal Field.

Detailed Mutator Information

Time Warps scale time to 33% of the normal speed, reducing all time-based effects in their area of effect. This includes cooldowns, regeneration, timed life and attacks. They spawn every 3 seconds and there is a 2.5 second delay before a Time Warp becomes active. Each field lasts for 30 seconds. Units with the Frenzied passive (such as Brutalisks, the Odin and Ultralisks) will be unaffected.

Time Warps will always be at least 25 units away from the starting locations as well as at least 4 units away from mineral patches.

Detailed Mutator Information

Every time an enemy unit does damage to a player unit, it has a chance to change to a unit of 1 higher supply that it costs. 0 supply units are counted as 1 supply units.

Note that the change is permanent. Therefore, newly Transmutated units will drop higher amounts of Biomass, Essence, etc. than the unit they were previously. Additionally, units that would not drop Biomass (such as units from Void Rifts) will also start to drop Biomass.

The chance of Transmutation triggering is calculated as a percentage of damage dealt as Damage/2. So, if a unit does 200 damage, it has a 100% chance of triggering Transmutation. This calculation occurs after damage reduction is calculated in the form of armor/shield damage reduction and damage reduction buffs.

If an enemy unit kills a player unit, it jumps a number of tiers equal to the killed unit's supply. If that unit is a heroic, the killing unit instantly jumps to the max tier.

Transmuted units also drop Biomass, Essence and Mengsk Royal Guard experience, even if the original unit did not (e.g. from Void Rifts).

Tiers are shown below:

Tier	Units
1	Baneling Marine Zergling
2	Hellbat Hellion Reaper Roach Widow Mine Zealot
3	Adept Firebat Hydralisk Marauder Sentry
4	Dragoon Goliath High Templar Mutalisk Stalker
5	Banshee Infestor Phoenix Scout Viking Warhound
6	Cyclone Ghost Lurker Oracle Siege Tank Swarm Host
7	Archon Disruptor Immortal Liberator Ravager Void Ray
8	Battlecruiser Brood Lord Carrier Colossus Reaver Tempest Thor Ultralisk
9	Hybrid Destroyer Hybrid Nemesis Hybrid Reaver Loki
10	Hybrid Behemoth Hybrid Dominator

Commander-specific Tips

• Alarak: Structure Overcharge prevents Transmutation from triggering on the unit.
• Artanis: Shield Overcharge prevents Transmutation from triggering on the unit.
• Fenix: Fenix Champions do not count as Heroic units that cause max-tier transmutation.
• Nova: Defensive Drones' Defensive Matrix prevents Transmutation from triggering on the attacking unit.
• Stetmann: H.U.G.S Overload prevents Transmutation from triggering on the unit.
• Swann: Defensive Matrix prevents Transmutation from triggering on the attacking unit.

Detailed Mutator Information

The Candy Bowl can store a maximum of 50 candy. You have to spend 25 minerals to add 1 candy to the bowl. The candy bowl is shown below:

Civilians spawn from random enemy structures. If you destroy all enemy structures on the map, they will stop spawning. These civilians will make their way towards your Candy Bowl. Note that all-clearing Malwarfare and Void Launch does not stop them from spawning, because Suppression Towers and Launch Bays are indestructible enemy structures.

Civilians spawn every 30 seconds. The number of civilians that spawn depends on the mission time. This is shown below:

Mission Time	Civilians Spawned
0:00-6:00	2
6:00-12:00	4
12:00-18:00	5
18:00+	6

If a Civilian walks up to the bowl which has candy, they will take 1 candy and despawn. If there is no candy in the bowl, they will transform into a unit tier as per the mission time. Tiers match that of the Transmutation mutator (see details in the Transmutation mutator details for more information). Additionally, if they cannot make their way to your bowl, they will transform after 5 minutes.

Mission Time	Tier
0:00-2:00	1
2:00-4:00	1-2
4:00-6:00	1-3
6:00-7:00	2-4
7:00-7:30	3-5
7:30-8:00	4-6
8:00-8:30	5-7
8:30-9:00	6-8
9:00-9:30	7-9
9:30+	8-10

Currently, this mutator is bugged. After 10:00, the tier resets down to Tier 1.

Commander-specific Tips

• Abathur: Units spawned from Trick or Treat drop Biomass.
• Dehaka: Units spawned from Trick or Treat drop Essence.
• Mengsk: Units spawned from Trick or Treat provide Royal Guard experience.
• Vorazun: Time Stop does not affect Trick or Treat timings.

Detailed Mutator Information

Players start with 50 supply and will need to kill Turkeys on the map in order to raise the supply cap.

The max supply will be reduced every variable interval. The interval is based on the supply. Supply drops by 1 every 250/[Supply]. So, at 250 supply, you will lose 1 Supply/per second.

If players have more supply than they have available, their units will start taking damage after 3 seconds unless they gather more supply. The player whose units will take damage is the player who is currently using the bigger share of the supply. If they are both using the same supply, a player is randomly picked to take damage. Every second, a random unit from that player will take 20 damage. If the player stays above supply cap, the number of units that take damage is increased by 1 every 3 seconds. Combat units are first to take damage. Once all combat units are taking damage, workers will start to take damage.

Initially, 30 turkeys spawn on the map within 7 and 40 range of the player bases. Every 8 seconds, two turkeys will spawn on the map, at least 20 units away from a player's current camera location.

When a turkey is killed, any turkey within 10 range will target the player. Each turkey provides 2 supply. A turkey is shown below.

Turkeys deal 8 damage (16 vs. Structures) every 1.5 seconds and have 10 HP and 0 armor.

On Oblivion Express

This mutator occurred on a weekly mutation which was played on Oblivion Express called "Fowl Play". When trains are destroyed, they normally spawn 5 regular turkeys per carriage (either 7 or 13 carriages per train). However, specific train waves would spawn infested turkeys. The details are shown below:

Train Wave	Infested Turkeys Per Carriage	Total Spawned
3	3	39
5	4	52

Infested Turkeys do not generate supply when killed. An infested turkey is shown below:

Infested Turkeys deal 0 damage (70 vs structures) every 2 seconds and have 150 HP and 1 armor.

When the 6th train wave is destroyed, the Turking will spawn. The Turking is shown below:

The Turking deal 250 damage (500 vs structures) every 2 seconds and has 6000 HP and 3 armor. It has an ability "Terrifying Gobble" with a 30-second cooldown that fear all player units within 11 range.

Detailed Mutator Information

The total number of Twisters on the map is based on the map size. It is the (width + height)/19. Each Twister does 25 damage and knocks all units back.

Twisters will always be at least 25 units away from the starting locations as well as at least 5 units away from mineral patches.

Twisters do not knock back any units with an "Untransportable" tag (such as the trucks on Cradle of Death). Instead, they deal their damage continuously, and can destroy the unit within seconds.

Detailed Mutator Information

Every 20 seconds, your camera will change position.

Detailed Mutator Information

Void Reanimators will spawn 10 seconds after the first killed enemy unit from a random enemy building. Following Void Reanimators will spawn every 55 seconds. If you destroy all enemy buildings on the map, no Void Reanimators will spawn. Note that all-clearing Malwarfare and Void Launch does not stop them from spawning, because Suppression Towers and Launch Bays are indestructible enemy structures.

Void Reanimators have 200 HP and 200 Shields. They do not have an attack. There can only be a maximum of 4 Void Reanimators on the map. They only resurrect dead enemy units. Below is an image of a Void Reanimator:

Void Reanimators will try to revive the closest dead unit to them. They revive dead units at different speeds, depending on their supply cost. This is detailed below:

Supply Cost	Reanimation Time (seconds)
0-1	1.5
2-5	4
6+	8

Only a total of 500 corpses are stored. When the list fills up, the dead unit will replace a random one on the corpse list if the dead unit has a supply cost of 2 or more.

Void Reanimators can be path-blocked, preventing them from reaching their targets for resurrection. For more information, watch this video below:

On Dead of Night, Infested units that are resurrected will not die to sunlight and will have to be killed by the player.

On Miner Evacuation, Void Reanimators will not resurrect any of the Infested units.

Commander-specific Tips

• Abathur: Units resurrected by Void Reanimators do not drop Biomass.
• Dehaka: Units resurrected by Void Reanimators do not drop Essence.
• Kerrigan: Units resurrected by Void Reanimators drop resource pickups from Assimilation Aura.
• Mengsk: Units resurrected by Void Reanimators do not provide Royal Guard experience.

Detailed Mutator Information

Void Rifts have 500 HP with 1 armor. They spawn random enemy units as time progresses. An image of a Void Rift is shown below:

Before 8:00, the Void Rifts will only spawn between 30 and 80 range away from the players' starting location. After that, they can spawn anywhere on the map. There are also other limitations as to where they will spawn:

• They cannot spawn within 10 range of a resource patch.
• They cannot spawn within 20 range of another Void Rift.
• There can only be a maximum of 3 enemy units within 10 range of the intended Void Rift Spawn point.

The Void Rift spawn timings and number of rifts are shown below:

Mission Time	Number Spawned
2:20	2
3:50	2
5:20	2
6:50	2
8:20	4

At this point, 4 Void Rifts will spawn every 1:30.

There are two particular timings of interest for Void Rifts:

• Trickle: This is a small trickle of a fixed number of units.
• Spawn: Spawn waves occur much less frequently but slowly grow in power if the Void Rift is not destroyed.

Trickle

Trickle occurs every 24 seconds in Custom Mutator mode and every 12 seconds in Weekly Mutations. The trickle is randomized every time the Void Rift wants to spawn units. It also depends on which mode is being played. This is detailed below:

Variant	Custom Mode	Weekly Mutation
1	1 Roach	2 Zerglings
2	1 Marauder	1 Marine
3	1 Zealot	1 Zealot*

*This causes the next trickle to occur after 24 seconds instead of 12 seconds.

Spawn

The first Spawn wave occurs 30 seconds after the Void Rift has spawned. Subsequent waves will spawn in intervals of 90 seconds each. Only certain units can be spawned from the Void Rifts. These are listed below:

1. Zergling
2. Baneling
3. Roach
4. Hydralisk
5. Marine
6. Marauder
7. Hellion
8. Adept
9. Zealot
10. Stalker
11. Siege Tank
12. Immortal
13. Ravager
14. Mutalisk
15. Void Ray
16. Banshee
17. High Templar
18. Raven
19. Infestor
20. Hybrid Destroyer

The mission time has a big effect on what can spawn from the Void Rifts. Void Rift spawns are limited by a resource cost. Each spawn will only have a maximum Mineral + Vespene cost, as detailed below:

Mission Time	Resource Cost
0:00-8:20	300
8:20-20:00	600
20:00+	1050

The mission time also determines what units can spawn. Notice how the list provided earlier is numbered. Void Rifts can only spawn the following units (based on their index) depending on the mission time:

Mission Time	Possible Spawns
0:00-10:00	1-10
10:00-16:40	1-16
16:40+	1-20

Commander-specific Tips

• Abathur: Units spawned from the Void Rifts do not drop Biomass.
• Abathur: Use Brutalisks' Deep Tunnel ability to snipe Void Rifts as it does not require vision.
• Artanis: Spread Observers around the map and use five Orbital Strikes to clear out a single Void Rift.
• Dehaka: Units spawned from the Void Rifts do not drop Essence.
• Dehaka: Try to explore the entire map, which will allow you to drop Greater Primal Wurms to handle Void Rifts.
• Han/Horner: Three Precision Strikes can kill a Void Rift. With the Napalm upgrade, two can clear a Void Rift, given enough time.
• Karax: Level 2 Solar Efficiency + max'ed Chrono Wave Energy Regeneration mastery will allow Karax to have enough energy to snipe all Void Rifts as they spawn.
• Karax: Spread Observers around the map and use five Orbital Strikes to clear out each Void Rift.
• Kerrigan: Units spawned from the Void Rifts drop resource pickups from Assimilation Aura.
• Kerrigan: Use Kerrigan's Leap ability to get past enemy bases so you can snipe Void Rifts as they spawn.
• Mengsk: Units spawned from the Void Rifts do not provide Royal Guard experience.
• Nova: One Sabotage Drone can 1-shot a Void Rift with 15 points in the Primary Ability Improvement Mastery.
• Raynor: Build extra Orbital Command Centers to allow you to scan on Void Rifts when they spawn to provide vision for you and your ally to clear them.
• Swann: Use a Tactical Jump from a Hercules to gain vision of a Void Rift. Set it on "Hold Position", then manually target the Void Rift with the Drill to clear it.
• Vorazun: Time Stop delays Void Rifts timings.
• Zagara: Roach Drops do not require vision and can be used to snipe inaccessible Void Rifts.
• Zagara: Use Apex Predator's Zagara's Deep Tunnel ability to get quickly get to Void Rifts.
• Zeratul: Spread Observers around the map and use Projections to kill Void Rifts. Three projections can kill a Void Rift as soon as it spawns.

On Miner Evacuation, all infested from Walking Infested will have double HP.

Detailed Mutator Information

The number of Infested Terrans that spawn is equal to the unit's supply cost. If the unit costs no supply, 1 Infested Terran is spawned. Note that Hybrids take up 8 supply.

Commander-specific Tips

• Abathur: Infested Terrans do not drop Biomass.
• Dehaka: Infested Terrans do not drop Essence.
• Mengsk: Infested Terrans do not provide Royal Guard experience.

Detailed Mutator Information

All non-structure units are cloaked, including map objectives.