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Evolves From: Spitter Evolves To: N/A Role: Use your speed and lingering acid to engage in close quarters and stack lingering acid on anyone who would oppose the hive. Guides: |
General Information
Lingering Acid
| Tier | Maximum Burn Damage | Duration | Maximum Damage Locations |
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Marines can resist to stop-drop-and-roll, which reduces their lingering acid duration timer by 27 seconds per roll. So, rolling once always removes tier 1 acid, but it can take up to 3 to remove the strongest lingering acid.
Only a despoiler can apply tier 3 lingering acid to targets, which uniquely reduces the target's brute and bio armor by 15.
Your abilities are based on comboing off each other to increase lingering acid stacks, and your speed lets you quickly get in and out to make use of your close-range kit.
When you slash a target, if it has less than 20 seconds left on its lingering acid, it is refreshed to 20 seconds. To increase lingering acid past 20 seconds, or in other words, increase the tier of lingering acid, you need to use your abilities.
Your only way to apply tier 3 lingering acid is by continuously slashing a target affected by tier 2 acid while empowered by corrosive slash until the color of the acid on them changes.
| Maximum Health | 650 | ||
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| Maximum Plasma | 500 | ||
| Plasma Regeneration | 4 | ||
| Armor | 25 | ||
| Evasion | 0 | ||
| Speed | 2 | ||
| Slash Damage |
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| Claw Strength | 1 | ||
| Explosion Resistance | 20 |
Playing as a Despoiler
You do not gain much health or armor compared to other Tier 3 xenomorphs, but you can create powerful combos with your lingering acid. And you are faster than even a dancer praetorian, which makes you the fastest Tier 3. Use your speed and acid to quickly deal bursts of damage before escaping.
- Be mindful of pushing too far off of weeds due to your heavy reliance on plasma.
- Decomposing enzymes will not apply lingering acid to a target. It will only increase the strength of any existing acid and purge helpful chemicals.
- Other xenos can apply lingering acid, which can jump-start your combos and increase the potency of your decomposing enzymes.
- Acid runner's slashes, tailstab, and for the hive explosion applies tier 1 lingering acid.
- Boilers landing direct hits with their acid gas bombardment apply tier 1 lingering acid.
- Queen's acid splatter spit applies tier 1 lingering acid.
- Spitter's charged acid spit applies tier 1 lingering acid.
- Spitter's charged acid spit into an acid spray combo applies tier 2 lingering acid.
Abilities
| Abilities: | Description: |
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| Acid Slashes | PASSIVE: When slashing a Marine, you apply tier 1 lingering acid on them, inflicting 25 burn damage over 20 seconds. |
| Hyper Corrosive Acid | PASSIVE: This caste can apply tier 3 lingering acid. A target affected by tier 3 lingering acid has its brute and bio armor reduced by 15 for as long as tier 3 lingering acid affects them. |
 Rest |
Used to rest and get up. Xenos heal faster when resting on weeds. |
 Release |
To haul, grab a host with Ctrl + Click or Grab intent (3 in hotkey mode) then click yourself, keep still, this will start restraining them. 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 restraining them, once fully restrained you will haul them. Xenos hauling humans can not vent crawl but Xenos hauling monkeys can. Hosts with boot knives or other melee weapons can injure the Xenomorph they are being hauled by if they are conscious. Using this ability whilst hauling a host will free them from your grip, giving a moderate stun. |
 Corrosive Acid |
Vomit a glob of acid on an item to dissolve it. Multiple items can be clicked at once as long as you are standing still. The cost of plasma is higher because of the despoiler's corrosive acid strength. Costs 125 plasma. |
 Corrosive Slash |
During this ability's 5-second duration, your slash delay is reduced, and each slash progresses any lingering acid durations by 20 seconds. This can apply tier 3 lingering acid. Costs 100 plasma, cooldown: 12 seconds. |
 Corrosive Spit |
Your spit is like a shotgun. It has a 3 tile range, and when you hit a target, it splatters acid onto nearby enemies. You can spit at barricades which has the same effect as a spitter's acid spray. This cannot apply tier 3 lingering acid, and splattered acid can only apply tier 1.
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 Decomposing Enzymes |
Creates an acid cloud around you for 6 seconds. Upon initial release, all enemies in the cloud with existing tier 1 lingering acid have it upgraded to tier 2. The cloud progresses any existing lingering acid by 10 seconds per tick. This ability cannot apply tier 3 lingering acid. Anyone in the cloud will rapidly lose helpful chemicals, including stims, up to a maximum of 15 units per cloud. Costs 50 Plasma, cooldown: 24 seconds. |
 Finishing Acid Stab |
Activating tail stab will begin a windup of one second, and upon conclusion, will enable you to launch a two-tile attack that deals 1.2 times your maximum melee damage. It requires a direct click on the target's sprite; however, if it is missed, it only incurs a standard slash delay. Additionally, it will always hit the targeted limb. A despoiler's tail stab will deal an extra 15 burn damage per lingering acid tier to a maximum of 45 burn damage. This bonus damage bypasses any biological or acid resistance. This does not apply lingering acid. Cooldown: 10 seconds. |
Despoiler Tactics
Your abilities can be chained into a powerful combo that can take out small groups of enemies. Here is an example of an extended combo where you focus down a single target:
- Use your corrosive spit like a shotgun to apply tier 1 acid to your target and anyone near them.
- Release your decomposing enzymes to upgrade anyone in the cloud's acid to tier 2.
- Empower yourself with corrosive slash to quickly apply tier 3 acid on any unlucky foes.
- Use your tail slash to deal a burst of damage to anyone with tier 3 lingering acid, which will likely apply a severe burn or eschar.
- Quickly get away before taking too much damage.
Your tail stab and corrosive slash make great combo finishers.
Despoiler Stats
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