Brood Lord

Brood Lord is a starcraft-2 zerg unit
The Brood Lord is an awesome new Zerg unit in StarCraft 2 and replaces the Guardian from the original StarCraft. The Brood Lord uses an attack that launches Broodlings at the opponent and the Broodlings do their original impact damage and then stick around to attack on their own. Broodlings also serve another purpose - absorbing attacks from your opponent. The Broodlings are able to save your armies units by being the fodder for your army - making Broodlings devastating for ground armies to deal with. For srtategies and videos on using this unit look to the right. The Brood Lord and has a unit type of Armored - Biological - Massive.


[The Good]

 

[The Bad]

Strengths

 

Weaknesses

Base Pushes, Army Pushes, Cliffs/Difficult Terrain   Fast Anti-Air units, some spellcasting

Good vs

 

Bad vs

Any Ground Unit   Any Air to Air Unit

Hard Counters

 

Hard Countered

Any Ground Unit except Thors (ok vs. Thor's)   Any Air to Air Unit

[Cost]

Minerals

Vespene

Supply

Build Time

Sight

mineral cost of the unit150 gas vespene cost of the unit150 unit supply food required4 units build time34

[The Basic]

Health/Shield

Armor

Energy

Movement

225 1 1.41  

[Ground Attack: ]

Damage

Speed

Range

Ground DPS

Attack Info

1x20 (+3) vs Normal 2.50 9 8.0 vs Normal

[No Air Attack]

Abilities


  • [Swarm Seeds]

    Swarm Seeds is an ability of brood-lord Spawns 2 broodlings on each of the Brood Lord attacks.
    Type: Passive
       

Upgrades


  • [Flyer Attack]

    Hotkey: (A)

    Flyer Attack is an upgrade of the unit brood-lord Increases attack damage of all Zerg air units. 3 Levels
    Requries Spire or Greater Spire
    Vespene Vespene cost of the building100/175/200
    Duration Duration cost of the duration140/170/200
       
  • [Flyer Carapace]

    Hotkey: (C)

    Flyer Carapace is an upgrade of the unit brood-lord Increases the armor of all Zerg air units. 3 Levels
    Requries Spire or Greater Spire
    Vespene Vespene cost of the building150/225/300
    Duration Duration cost of the duration140/170/200