XCOM 2/Faceless

"We've heard rumors of some sort of shape-shifter. I'm guessing this is it" ~Central Officer Bradford



The Faceless is a covert shapeshifting Alien. They most often appear on retaliations and disguise themselves as ordinary civilians. Whenever xcom gets close, they will transform into their true form: a tall and hideous beast with a deadly claw attack.

Stats
Assume unlisted values are 0 or N/A. Unless otherwise specified, all damage ranges are uniformly distributed - each outcome is equally likely.

The claws are an ability, not a melee attack, and is capable of destroying cover.

Abilities
Regeneration: The faceless regenerates 2 health at the start of its turn

Scything Claws: The faceless unleashes a claw attack in a cone-shaped area. It hits all units and terrain in its area of effect. Requires 1 action point to use and ends the turn.

Transform: The faceless leaves its human form and shapeshifts into its alien form. It uses this ability when any of the following conditions are met:
 * All other alien units on the map are killed
 * An xcom unit moves within 2 tiles of the faceless in civilian form
 * The faceless takes any damage
 * It can see an XCOM unit within move + scything claws range. This occurs at start of alien turn.
 * Beware that in vanilla XCOM 2, the faceless will immediately get 2 action points and be able to take their full turn after they transform. In War of the Chosen, they instead remain in place for the duration of the enemy turn.
 * It is scanned by a battle scanner or scanning protocol ability.

Appearance
Faceless most commonly appear on retaliation missions. There will always be one faceless (disguised as a civilian) on the first retaliation mission. The Alien Infiltrator dark event will also put some disguised faceless on guerilla ops and council missions. Faceless may also appear on Operation Leviathan, and if playing War of the Chosen may appear on missions with a savage sitrep.

There is only one faceless variant