Ravager

XENOMORPH - TIER 3
Ravager	Evolves From: Lurker Evolves To: N/A Role: Bring death to all that face you. Use a powerful, short-range charge to knock a Marine off their feet and finish them off with powerful blows capable of chopping limbs clean off. Ambush, hit and run or even frontal assaults are all options for you. Guides: Art of the Ravager

Playing a Ravager

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The huge red unfriendly Barney with the power slash the sh*t out of anyone alive. At first thought, the notion of a somewhat slow, very tough tier 3 with a guaranteed armor penetrating tail stab and the ability to knock anyone into crit in 2-3 hits seems pretty overpowered, right?

I won't say you're wrong, but that sort of mentality also leads to bad Ravager plays. Though you are very tanky, don't rely on it as much. Your frontline prowess of dealing and taking damage is as good as your competency. Keep an eye on your health and armor when tearing up marines into swiss cheese.

Overview

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The Ravager is a tier three Xeno of the ambush caste. It means you'll have to evolve three times to become one. From larva, to Runner, to Lurker, to finally Ravager. Your best chances of becoming Ravager lie with being a round-start Xeno. Until you can evolve fully, do the standard early-round cycle of looking for monkeys and survivors.

Runners are more likely to evolve if they fear their mortality, and I can't stress that enough. Don't take unnecessary risks, don't get cornered, and you'll be fine. Stick your neck out too far, and some bumbling Marine is bound to come around and cut it.

The Ravager is, the slowest of the tier threes, perhaps only slower than a 100% healthy and fed Marine with heavy armor or a walking Crusher. The Ravager is a very offensive Xenomorph that excels at dealing damage to enemies. Her claws are extremely sharp. She's fire-proof and armored. Ravagers can tank a lot of damage, and deal a lot of damage. Ravagers can shred through tables and slice them into metal. As the ultimate killing machine, she's designed to eliminate tough foes. But always be aware that Ravagers can't sustain a massive quantity of damage when everyone is shooting at you.

Understanding Your Limits

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A lot of people tend to think of Ravagers as pretty much behaving in the same way as a Runner. Here's how most runners live and die:

1. Evolve from a Larva
2. Find a Marine
3. Attack
4. Find out that the marine wasn't alone
5. Get surrounded
6. Limp back to safety
7. dead.jpg

They are not necessarily wrong, in this regard. A lot of Ravagers end up going into combat alone and wind up dying in some far-flung southern end of the map. Such behavior earns the vitriol they receive from their comrades. As a Ravager, it is vital to know when it's high time to back the hell off and charge away to safety. The yellowish-green meter on the side of your HUD is your health indicator. Trust it and don't trust it. It's a little finicky and doesn't give an accurate representation of your actual health, but it's still a good indicator.

Perhaps tend to retreat when at half health or below. Technically, the tanking capabilities of a Ravager mean you'll always be frontlining, but truly stop fighting at half health or below. Leg it back to the Hive for health or find a safe spot.

Abilities

Abilities:	Description:
Rest	Used to rest and get up. Xenos heal faster when resting on weeds.
Regurgitate	To devour, grab a host with Ctrl + Click or Grab intent (3 in hotkey mode) then click yourself, standstill. To stop the host from getting up and running away, you can switch to an empty hand (X in hotkey mode) and keep tackling them using Disarm intent (2 in hotkey mode) when you are devouring them. Xenos with devoured humans inside them can not vent crawl but Xenos with devoured monkeys can. Hosts with boot knives can injure the Xenomorph they are inside if they are conscious. Using this ability with a host devoured will regurgitate them back up, giving a moderate stun. (Edit this template)
Cruelty	PASSIVE: Your slashes increase in damage based on the amount shield points you have.
Empower	Grants you 75 shield points with an additional 50 for each human in view range. Must be activated again to get the additional shield bonus. Cost 70 Plasma.
Charge	Lunge 5 tiles in the direction you selected. If you have more than 175 shield points you'll bash into anyone in the way of your lunge, flinging them backwards. Costs 10 Plasma.
Scissor Cut	Slash a 1x4 line on the tile you click on damaging anyone from you to the end of the line. If you have more than 175 shield points, those who are damaged are also dazed. Costs 20 plasma.

Attainable Strains

Strains:
Veteran	Hedgehog

Berserker

Abilities:	Description:
Bloodrage	PASSIVE: You gain a level of rage whenever you slash a target. Each stack of rage increases your armor, movement speed, and attack speed. Rage decays while out of combat. When you reach max rage, you are 'locked' at max rage for 6 seconds. Your rage also stacks with your Apprehend speed buff.
Apprehend	Select any tall host within 6 tiles of you and start a 2.5 second count down. If the tall host is still within the 6 tile range, you will be pulled right next to them. If the tall host has move outside of range or you were incapacitated, you'll use up the ability without pulling yourself towards the target. Costs 10 plasma.
Clothesline	Expend a stack of rage to deal moderate damage to a target next to you as well as applying a daze on to the target. This will also heal you by a small amount. If you use the ability without any rage to expend, you won't heal from the attack. Costs 10 Plasma and 1 Rage Level.
Eviscerate	Root yourself in place, immobilising yourself and start a wind up. Depending on your rage level, unleash a devastating strike against foes all around you. You will also heal yourself, for every marine within 1 tile of the eviscerate. The heal is 50 for a single marine, growing to a maximum of 250 for more marines within the tiles around you. Rage Levels: Damage Activation Delay Range Rage Levels: Level 1 5 Brute Damage 2.0 seconds 1 tile range Level 2 10 Brute Damage 1.8 seconds 1 tile range Level 3 25 Brute Damage 1.6 seconds 1 tile range Level 4 45 Brute Damage 1.4 seconds 2 tile range Level 5 70 Brute Damage 1.0 seconds 2 tile range Expends all of your rage level(s), minimum 1 rage, cooldown: 23 seconds. Remove these when MOBA is in

Hedgehog

Abilities:	Description:
Spike Spray	Launch small shards of spikes in the direction you click embedding shrapnel into tall hosts slowing them down. Though the spikes themselves don't do much damage, it causes brute damage to the host when they move. Costs 30 plasma.
Spin Slash	Spin your claws around yourself to attack anyone near you, dealing a lot of damage. Costs 60 plasma.

Ravager Maturity

Ravagers can not Evolve any further, as they are a Tier 3 Caste.

Sources and Reading

• Art of the Ravager by Bath Salts Addict - Where the wiki page is based upon. (Most of the evolution explained in that guide are outdated. The actual gameplay of the Ravager can somewhat apply). Applies to the Veteran Strain.