Praetorian

XENOMORPH - TIER 3
Praetorian	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

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. (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. Cooldown: 2.5 seconds.
Dash	Dash a short distance at a desired location of your choice. Costs 10 Plasma, cooldown: 5 seconds.
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

	Strains
Vanguard	Dancer	Oppressor

Vanguard

Abilities:	Description:
Warleader	PASSIVE: You are granted a shield that perfectly blocks one attack and rapidly decays after you're hit. The shield recharges while out of combat.
Pierce	Stab through your enemies with your tail against tall hosts with a two tile range. If you hit two people with your pierce, your shield is instantly recharged. Costs 20 Plasma.
Dash	Charge through enemies with a range of 4 tiles. Upon stopping you will slash everything around you in a 3x3 tile range. Costs 10 Plasma.
Cleave	Root: Immobilises your target for 1 to 2.5 seconds in the ground, making them a sitting duck. Fling: Flings your target away from you, sending them flying backwards. Costs 0 Plasma.
Toggle Cleave Ability	Switches which cleave ability you will use.

Dancer

Abilities:	Description:
Finesse	PASSIVE: For a short time after slashing a marine, you have increased evasion. Hitting a marine with a slash applies a tag that can be used by your other abilities. Missing a click with your offensive abilities adds a short cooldown to tagging.
Impale	Impale a marine next to you with your tail for moderate damage. If they have been tagged, impale them twice. Costs 100 Plasma.
Dodge	Gain a speed boost and pass through hostile opponents with ease for 5 seconds. Slashing cancels this effect. Costs 100 Plasma.
Tail Trip	Target a marine within two tiles of you apply a daze to them and trip them. If they are tagged, knock them down instead. Costs 50 Plasma.

Oppressor

Abilities:	Description:
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Stomp	Channel a stomp that knocks down all opponents in a line where you target. It has a range of 6 tiles. Costs 50 Plasma.
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. Costs 50 Plasma.
Tail Lash	Knock marines back in a 2x3 area in front of you after a short windup. Costs 50 Plasma.

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.

Pheromone:	Description:
Recovery	Increases heath regeneration, plasma regeneration on weeds, reduces stun times of affected Xenos.
Warding	Grants a reduction in armor taking damage, can also slow and even prevent crit bleedout for Xenos. Additionally provides a small health boost to critically wounded xenomorphs. Potent enough warding pheromones will completely negate bleed out and improve damage reduction to armor.
Frenzy	Increases movement speed and damage from slashes.

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.