StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty/Protoss units

Note that the game is still in pre-alpha stage, and any of the unit stats could change for balance and other purposes.

Cancelled/Unconfirmed Units

• Soul Hunter
• Star Relic (Statis Orb?)
• Tempest

High Templar

• Anti-Gravity

High Templar can lift enemy units and structures (such as the Supply Depot) into the air, preventing them from moving and attacking, and rendering them as air targets. It does not work on resource-collecting structures such as the Nexus. The ability is channelled, which means that the High Templar using the ability should not perform any other action (such as movement) while using the ability if it is to continue. It costs 50 energy.

• Psionic Storm

High Templar still have the ability to use psionic storm, although it now does less damage.

• Summon Twilight Archon

Two High Templar, or one High Templar and one Dark Templar can combine to form a Twilight Archon.

Carrier

Carriers

Auto build interceptors.

Colossus

Colossus can attack multi targets

• HP: 400
• Shields: 325
• Built At: Robotics Facility
• Weapon: Twin Thermal Lances
• Type: Heavy

A long legged mechanical unit, the Colossus is able to walk up and down cliffs. Each Colossus has its own pair of long ranged lasers. These lasers burn enemies over time and are good against weaker enemies and for sweeping a battlefield. They have a weakness against flying enemies and their size makes them vulnerable to Missile Turrets.

Dark Templar

Elite Troopers that are Stealth, wore dark capes and armed with double Psi Blades for ground foes.

Immortal

• HP: 240
• Shields: 100
• Built At: Gateway
• Weapon: Twin Phase Disruptors
• Type: Medium

After the destruction of Aiur, the Protoss were forced to adapt. As a result, Dragoons were passed up for this new and improved ranged combination of Protoss warrior and machine. They have a short ranged energy pulse attack in which the projectiles move faster than the eye can see.

Immortals are produced from the Gateway and require a Twilight Council to be built.

They can only attack ground units. Their powerful shields protect them against enemy units with heavy attacks but they are easily counterable by units such as Reapers, Marines, Zerglings or Banshees.

• Hardened Shields

Researched: Twilight Council The hardened shields reduce incoming damage[8]to a set amount.

Abilities

• Concussion shield: Immortals have the ability to automatically create a powerful shield around them when struck by a very powerful attack. It can reduce the damage taken from enemies such as Terran Siege Tanks.

Quotes

   *  I return to serve.
   * It is destined.
   * There shall be a reckoning.
   * I feel your presence.
   * Our cannons shall sing.
   * We march to victory.
   * We shall obey.
   * I hear the call.
   * I am the wrath of the Khala.
   * For the ancients!
   * The battle is ours!
   * Our duty is eternal.
   * En Taro Adun!
   * The cycle is...unchanging.
   * Let darkness be parted.
   * The enemy closes.
   * These steel limbs are not my own.
   * The enemy has broken.
   * I have known only eternity of the war.
   * My memory is not like it was. 

Mothership

The Mothership is powerful

• HP: 950
• Shields: 350
• Energy: 300
• Psi:8

The Mothership is the ultimate Protoss battleship. A player is only allowed to control one at a time and they cost a significant amount of resources to summon.

Abilities

The Mothership's standard attack consists of eight disruptor pulses, that spread out and attack all enemies within range. These can attack both air and ground units.[2] This makes them quite ideal as support in the back lines of a battle, dishing out pain to the front lines. While the Mothership has an immense amount of a hit points, they are incredibly expensive, and are not worth the risk of being exposed to open fire. Indeed, expect the enemy to throw everything they have in destroying these immense vessels.

The true power of the Mothership comes from its three special abilities. Each one has the capacity to turn defeat to victory.

• Time Bomb - Slows down all enemy movement within a radius around the Mothership's position when it casts this. It also stops ranged weapons from reaching their targets, causing projectiles to "collect" within the field and drop harmlessly to the ground when the effect ends. Ideal for dealing with static defense like Missile Turrets.
  • Time Bomb can stop attacks such as nukes.[3]
  • Time Bomb cannot stop beam attacks, such as those of the Colossus or Warp Ray.[4]
• Planet Cracker - Deals massive damage to an area directly below the Mothership's position (ideal for destroying buildings and slow-moving targets such as Siege Tanks) over a period of time. It has no effect on air units.
• Cloaking Field: The Mothership has the ability to cloak not only all ground units under it, similar to that of the Arbiter, but buildings as well. The field is only active when the Mothership is stationary.

Quotes

• As all are one.
• Justice has come!
• Downloading orders.
• Directive confirmed.
• We await.
• Direct us.
• We proceed.
• By light of Aiur.

In game Quotes

• Defensive systems failing.
• Breach in progress! We are undone!
• As the Khala wills.
• We are the voice of Aiur.
• Our systems pulse with the truth.
• Our light show the pathway through the stars.
• Target confirmed.
• Weapon systems engaged.
• The glow of the infinite is within us.

Nullifier

The Nullifier is a mechanical hovering ground unit and has 100 energy points. It has an attack similar to the Terran Marine's.

It is produced from the Gateway and requires a Cybernetics Core. It costs 50 minerals and 100 Vespene gas.

Abilities

• Force Field
• Energy Cost: 30
• Creates an invincible 'globe' over a small area that lasts 15 seconds that blocks the movement of ground units and melee attacks. Units caught under the shield when it is placed may escape. The Colossus may step over the shield.

• Null Void
• Energy Cost: 50
• Prevents any unit caught in the target area from using abilities that cost energy.

It does not affect abilities such as a Stalker's Blink, a Carrier's Build Interceptor, a Phoenix's Overload or an SCV's Repair. Units that move out of the field immediately can immediately use their abilities.

Nullify acts as a detector, decloaking units such as Ghosts and Dark Templar and revealing burrowed units. The ability to detect cloaked and burrowed units is currently being subjected to balance testing.

The effect lasts 15 seconds.

Development

The Nullifier was previously known as the Stasis Orb. The Force Field ability was used by the High Templar in earlier builds of StarCraft II.

Observer

Observer in Starcraft II

Phase Prism

• HP: 100
• Shields: 40
• Built At: Robotics Facility
• Weapon: N/A
• Type: Transport

Phase Prisms are basically mobile Pylons. They are able to deploy and become stationary like a Pylon, providing an energy source to buildings, and able to be moved again when a player decides to remove the energy source. These units are advantageous for battles where photon cannons play a large role in a player's success. They also come in handy when repairing a town that has had its pylons destroyed, but need the energy to protect the town and energize the buildings. The energy emitted by a Phase Prism can also be used for warping in fellow Protoss units.

Phoenix

This air unit can shoot down almost anything.

• HP: 120
• Shields: 60
• Built At: Stargate
• Weapon:Twin Ion Cannons
• Type: ATA

A new unit for air-to-air combat. It has a short ranged, quick-firing energy weapon that is weak against ground. It replaced the Scout and Corsair.

Abilities

• Overload: The pheonix unleashes a flurry of energy attacks against nearby enemies. When it stops the attack, the phoenix shuts down and becomes vulnerable to attack.

• Time for battle.
• On the wings of justice!
• Warp field online.
• For honor!
• Teleport successful.
• Understood.
• The skies await.
• Where do our enemies lurk?
• We shall rise from the ashes.
• Warp field overloading.
• Valour shall rise again.
• I long for the skies of Aiur.
• I soar to victory.
• Our fury shall be unleashed.
• Weapons primed.
• None shall escape.
• They've broken through.
• Duty is my shield.

Probe

The Protoss worker; able to gather resources and warp in buildings.

Stalker

Stalker

• HP: 120
• Shields: 60
• Built At: Gateway
• Weapon: Chronal Web
• Type: Light Mechanical

Although the Dragoons were lost, the technological advancement made by the Protoss has also spawned the Stalker, one of the Dragoons' successors. It is a four legged, Protoss manned machine with a medium ranged dual beam cannon, with the souls of Dark Templar that have voluntarily offered their service.

Abilities

• Teleport: The stalker is able to instantly move a short distance to a new location. It is possible to use this ability to avoid obstacles such as cliffs, however it is primarily used as an offensive ability for chasing down fleeing enemies.

Quotes

• "From the shadows I come. "

Select Quotes

• "I will comply."
• "Clever."
• "What would you ask of us?
• "We are intrigued."
• "Fear is an illusion"
• "I bask in twilight"
• "We go unseen"
• "The darkness writhes"
• "You seek our service? "
• "We cannot be stopped."
• "Darkness comes!"
• "I strike from the shadows."
• "By the shadows of Shakuras."
• "Twilight falls upon us all."
• "I cannot maintain."
• "The void claims is own."
• "We are the darkness."

Twilight Archon

A Twilight Archon.

• HP:
• Shields:
• Built At: Merge 2 Templars of any kind
• Weapon: Psionic Shockwave
• Type: Heavy, Short Range

The Protoss Twilight Archon is a heavy assault unit in StarCraft II, replacing the Archon and Dark Archon.

A Twilight Archon can be created from the merging of either two High Templar, two Dark Templar, or one of each type of warrior.

Both branches of the Protoss warrior tradition share the ability to merge their souls. Twilight Archons radiate incalculable power and can unleash devastating psionic storms against enemy forces both in the air and on the ground.

The Twilight Archon noticeably blends the past two archons in appearance, as it appears to have the physical body of a Dark Archon and the energy manifestation of the Archon.

The true abilities of the Twilight Archon are still shrouded in mystery, though it is clear that they are more than capable of taking care of themselves and dishing out considerable damage to clumps of weaker ground units. They are described as "attacking with psionic storms" which is identical to the Archon description in the StarCraft I manual.

Twilight Archons possess the Dark Archon's feedback ability, an ability revealed at BlizzCon 2007.

Warp Ray

File:StarCraft II Warp Ray Stats.png

• HP: 125
• Shields: 75
• Built At: Stargate
• Weapon: Prismatic Beam
• Type: Light Siege

An aerial unit with an advantage against heavily armored units and structures. The longer a warp ray attacks a target, the more damage the target will take. They can target all units, but are weak against small units because they waste time powering up the damage against a single, small enemy; by the time one is killed, the Warp Ray will be seriously damaged.

Quotes

• "Channel the light of Aiur!"
• "It shall be done."
• "All paths are seen through the prism of fate."
• "Calibrating warp lenses."
• "Phase crystals charged."
• "We are at full power."
• "Invasion commencing."
• "Conflict must not be seen through the lenses of desperation."
• "Prismatic core online."
• "Our wills are aligned through the holy Khala!"
• "This vessel shall avenge."
• "Khas Arashad."
• "For Aiur!"
• "Prismatic beams aligning."
• "The enemy has been purged."
• "Infinity burns around us."
• "Fire at will, Commander."
• "Prismatic core failing; we require assistance!"
• "Lock beams and incinerate."

Zealot

• HP:
• Shields:
• Built At: Gateway
• Weapon: Twin Psionic Blades
• Type: Light, Melee

The traditional Protoss melee warrior.

Abilities

• Charge: A non-linear distance covering ability in which the Zealot moves a short distance at an increased rate. This allows them to face ranged enemies with less of a disadvantage.

Quotes

• "My meditation is over."
• "En Taro Tassadar!"
• "By your will!"
• "We stand as one!"
• "Khasar De'Templari!"
• "My life for Aiur!"
• "We are the blades of Aiur!"
• "For Artanis!"
• "Our fury is boundless!"
• "Blades of justice!"
• "I am Templar! I am the sword of truth!"
• "Command me."
• "None shall stand!"
• "Victory is the only truth that matters!"
• "We cannot hold!"
• "Justice be done!"
• "Honour guide me!"
• "It must be done!"
• "None can withstand the Templar!"
• "Combat is the anvil of will!"
• "Our enemies must be eradicated! "