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Evolves From: Warrior Evolves To: N/A Role: Use your powerful pheromones to lead and support major assaults. Enjoy even stronger neurotoxin and acid spits. Use a special resin spit to cover a small area in mobility-inhibiting sticky resin. Use your strong acid to quickly melt into places. Guides: Guide to Pheromones |
Playing a Praetorian
Praetorian combat gameplay is, appropriately, similar to that of a combat Queen though without her screech (your Acid Spray is a paltry substitute) and with considerable damage drop off to your acid spit. However as compensation you are much faster than your glorious leader -- a young praetorian matches the speed of a mature runner. Bully the marines with your physical bulk and use your potent neurotoxin to very effectively crowd control the enemy. Your claws are not the sharpest, but they'll get the job done if you are going for the kill and, if instead you are capturing, neurotoxin and warding pheromone makes it easy to retreat with your unfortunate victim. A skilled praetorian can easily fight multiple enemies and emerge the victor.
Protect your sisters and the Queen, or lead them on the warpath at her command. When the Queen herself emerges to fight for the Hive, be by her side at all times.
Abilities
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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) |
Corrosive Acid |
Vomit a glob of acid on item to dissolve it. Multiple items can be clicked at once as long as you are standing still. The cost of plasma is increased compared to other castes due to how the praetorian has stronger corrosive acid.
Costs 100 plasma. |
Corrosive Acid | PASSIVE: Your acid-based abilities apply a stack of acid to your enemies. When a target reaches 5 stacks, they take 30 additional burn damage. |
Xeno Spit |
Use middle mouse button to spit globs of acid against your foes.
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Dash |
Dash a short distance at a desired location of your choice.
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Acid Ball |
Throw a ball of acid that explodes into acid spit in all directions.
Costs 75 Plasma, cooldown: 18 seconds. |
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Attainable Strains
Strain Abilities
Vanguard
Dancer
Oppressor
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Smackdown | Template:Ability Smackdown Description |
Stomp |
Channel a stomp that knocks down all opponents in a line where you target. It has a range of 6 tiles.
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Crush |
Upon activation, your click delay as been reset and your next slash will deal additional damage. If the target is prone, they will be rooted to the ground for 1.5 seconds.
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Tail Lash |
Knock marines back in a 2x3 area in front of you after a short windup.
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Warden
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Bulwark | PASSIVE: You gain a buffer of health built by your slashes and spits that you can use to defend yourself or your allies. Your stored health will automatically be spent to self-heal or when you heal others at 50% efficiency. Additionally, you gain the ability to emit pheromones. |
Emit Pheromones |
Emit one of the three Pheromones. It is advised to emit the pheromone that are not already being emitted, as pheromones don't stack.
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Spray Acid |
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Protect |
Target an ally to protect them, depending on the type of protection you've selected.
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Toggle Protection Type |
Toggles the protection type you will use. |
Pheromones
Pheromones scale based on what caste and upgrade tier is emitting them, aka an Elder Drone emitting pheromones will have a stronger pheromone effect then a Young Drone emitting them and as such the strongest will be used instead. If a Xeno is injured, use recovery. Also use recovery to keep the pressure up if there's a skirmish. If there's a big push or fighting on grass, use Warding. Frenzy may be most useful during an attack, trying to contain escaped hosts, or moving around the map with high plasma. Note that same type pheromones do not stack but varied ones do. e.g. Recovery and Warding.
Take note that only Warden Strain Praetorians may emit Pheromones
Praetorian Maturity
Praetorian Maturity are focused on improving combat efficiency and general versatility. Their health increases moderately, with their spit becoming more potent and faster recharging. Pheromones grow stronger quickly (yours will match a Queen of the same upgrade tier) and plasma and health regeneration will also improve.
Praetorians can not Evolve any further, as they are a Tier 3 Caste.