Zagara | |
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"The Swarm endures." | |
Basic Info | |
Title | Broodmother of the Swarm |
Role | Ranged Assassin |
Difficulty | Medium |
Franchise | StarCraft |
Price | 500 / 4,000 |
Release Date | June 26, 2014 |
Base Stats | |
Attack Type | Ranged |
Health | 1550 |
Health Regen | 3.2304 |
Resource | 500 Mana |
Unit Radius | 1.125 |
Attack Speed | 1.25 |
Attack Range | 6.6 |
Attack Damage | 83 |
Data Page |
Zagara, the Broodmother of the Swarm, is a Ranged Assassin Hero from the StarCraft universe.[1] If Kerrigan is the Queen of the Zerg, then Zagara is the mother of the brood. Cunning and tenacious, she commands her vicious children on the field of battle. Encounter her brood and beware: mess with her children, and you'll answer to mama.
Zagara is a Summoner who provides lots of vision of the battleground.
History[ | ]
Like many of the Queen of Blades' creations, the Broodmother Zagara was birthed of the terrible ash and heat of Char. Unlike most zerg, Broodmothers are capable of complex problem-solving and multi-tasking, and are possessed of the ability to command members of their race with fewer sapient traits. Each Broodmother is an important piece of the greater Zerg organism, able to provide large groups of Zerg with a nearly "independent" perspective.
Zagara is as vicious and resilient as any in the Swarm, but she also possesses extreme cunning. In the years since her emergence, the Broodmother came to see the volcanic planet of Char as the Swarm's crucible: a brutal environment that pushes the zerg to increasing fitness, sharpening their claws and teeth and forcing their flesh to grow thicker.
Autonomic learning has convinced Zagara of the inferiority of other intelligent species, and the time she spent uniting disparate feral broods on Char only strengthened her contempt for the weakness of most races in the galaxy.
When Kerrigan first returned to Char, Zagara resisted Kerrigan's attempt to retake the Swarm, but when Kerrigan defeated her, Zagara submitted, and thus she served the Queen of Blades.
Zagara continued to serve the Queen of Blades during her campaign of vengeance against Arcturus Mengsk. After Kerrigan's victory against the Dominion, she turned her focus towards destroying Amon, a fallen xel'naga. Eventually Kerrigan, Artanis and Jim Raynor met a xel'naga who could gift his essence into Kerrigan to transform her into a xel'naga. Zagara participated in defending a flank during Kerrigan's long transformation sequence as Amon's forces attacked her. Just before the transformation was complete and as Amon's forces were decimated by a psionic pulse eliminated by Kerrigan, the Queen of Blades relinquished her leadership and gave the Swarm to Zagara.
After aiding her Queen in destroying Amon, Zagara took her Swarm and returned to Char where she forcibly lay claim to Char and the systems surrounding it, and crowned herself Overqueen. However, seeing the only way forward for the Swarm in the sector as peaceful co-existence with the terrans and protoss, Zagara set forth motions of peace to the Dominion and Daelaam. This was met with hostility from Abathur, who instigated a silent coup against Zagara in an attempt to respark conflict, but Zagara was able to discover Abathur's plot and foil it, maiming and imprisoning the evolution master and allowing peace talks to continue.
Gameplay[ | ]
Zagara is a long Ranged Assassin who draws support from her seemingly endless brood to wreak havoc on her opponents. Creep Tumor is Zagara's most iconic ability, providing not only buffs to several of her attributes including attack range and movement speed, but also supplying precious vision throughout the Battleground. Zagara is capable of tearing down enemy defenses from afar and when left alone for even a small duration will turn the strongest enemy structures into nothing more than heaps of rubble.
Strengths[ | ]
- Excellent long range, sustained damage
- Great waveclear
- Incredibly strong sieging and pushing power
- Creep Tumor provides a massive amount of vision throughout the entire map
- Good poke and harass
Weaknesses[ | ]
- Quite vulnerable to crowd control
- Zero mobility, except on Creep
- Painfully Mana hungry; requires careful Mana conservation
- Low burst damage
Abilities[ | ]
- See Data page for a table of scaled values at key levels.
Talents[ | ]
Banelings can travel 50% farther before exploding.
- Actually a 44.4~% increase in range.
Reduces the cooldown of Infested Drop by 3 seconds and Roachlings have 30% more Health.
Nearby Ranged Minions deal an additional 125% damage, plus an additional 1% per 1000 Siege damage Zagara has dealt. Can be toggled on or off.
- Damage bonus stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers that can affect target units' Basic Attack damage.
Cooldown: 30 seconds
Activate to have Zagara's next Basic Attack apply 230 damage over 5 seconds.
Basic Attacks deal 33% damage to three nearby targets.
- Additional Basic Attacks target enemies within the sector in front of Zagara.
- Attacks prioritize enemy units that are closest to Zagara.
- Damage reduction stacks additively with offensive damage modifiers that can affect Zagara's Basic Attack damage.
❢ Quest: Each Basic Attack against a Hero increases Zagara's Attack Damage by 0.2%.
- Damage bonus stacks additively with itself and other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Zagara's Basic Attack damage.
Gain 2 additional charges of Baneling Barrage, but increase its cooldown by 2 seconds.
Banelings Slow enemies by 25% for 2.5 seconds.
❢ Quest: Passively increases the radius of Infested Drop by 20%.
❢ Reward: After hitting 12 Heroes with Infested Drop, it spawns an additional Roachling.
Cooldown: 80 seconds
Summon a Devouring Maw that devours enemies for 4 seconds. Devoured enemies cannot fight and take 94 damage per second.
Usable on Unstoppable enemies.
Charge Cooldown: 120 seconds
Summon a Nydus Worm on Creep anywhere that Zagara has vision. Zagara can enter a Nydus Worm and travel to any other Nydus Worm by right-clicking near it. While inside a Nydus Worm, Zagara regenerates 10% Health and Mana per second.
Stores up to 2 charges. Maximum of 4 Nydus Worms at a time.
Passive: Creep spreads 15% farther.
Passive: While on Creep, each Basic Attack reduces all of Zagara's cooldowns by 0.4 seconds.
Zagara is healed for 60% of the damage dealt by Hunter Killers' Basic Attacks to Heroes.
While on Creep, Zagara gains 20 Armor, taking 20% less damage.
- Does not stack with itself or other positive Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.
Every 30 seconds, gain 50 Spell Armor against the next enemy Ability and subsequent Abilities for 3 seconds, reducing the damage taken by 50%.
Can be toggled to allow or prevent this talent from triggering automatically.
- Does not stack with other positive Spell Armor effects. Other damage modifiers may stack.
When attacking Heroes, Hunter Killers and Roachlings deal additional damage equal to 1.75% of their maximum Health.
- Damage is dealt in a separate instance.
Reduce the cooldown of Hunter Killer by 4 seconds. Hunter Killer now spawns a Mutalisk. Mutalisks have a bounce attack and last for 30 seconds.
- Mutalisk's attacks bounce twice, dealing 50% less damage with each bounce.
- Bounces are chained and attacks cannot bounce back to the initial target.
- Bounces cannot target enemies that are not visible or to unaggroed Mercenaries.
- Bounces prioritize the closest enemy unit to the target.
- Bounce damage reduction stacks multiplicatively with offensive damage modifiers.
While on Creep, Zagara gains 50% more Basic Attack damage and her Attack Range is increased by 1.1.
- Damage bonus stacks additively with other damage modifiers that can affect Zagara's Basic Attack damage.
Devouring Maw deals 50% more damage. Takedowns reduce its cooldown by 25 seconds.
- Damage bonus stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Devouring Maw's damage.
The cast range for Creep Tumor is increased by 2000%. Creep Tumors now last 600 seconds. While on Creep, Zagara gains an additional 10% Movement Speed.
- Actually a 1900% increase in cast range.
Every 3rd Basic Attack also launches a Baneling towards the target.
Passive: Gain 20% bonus Attack Speed.
- Broodmother Banelings have the same basic properties as the ones launched via Baneling Barrage.
- Broodmother Banelings benefit from the Viscous Acid Slow and the damage bonus from Volatile Acid but not from Volatile Acid's range increase.
Zagara and her summons deal 20% more damage to enemies attacked by a Hunter Killer in the last 2 seconds.
- Mutalisk's bouncing attacks do not apply the marker to secondary targets.
- Only affects Zagara's (and her summons') damage from her Abilities and Basic Attacks.
- Damage bonus does not stack with itself, but stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Zagara's damage.
Builds and guides[ | ]
Zagara Community Build Guides @ HeroesFire
Zagara Community Build Guides @ Heroes Hearth
Skins[ | ]
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Backstory: If Kerrigan is the Queen of the Zerg, then Zagara is the mother of the brood. Cunning and tenacious, she commands her vicious minions on the field of battle. Encounter her brood and beware: Mess with her children, and you answer to mama. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
500 / 4,000 Broodmother of the Swarm |
Free Char |
Free Zerus |
120 / 75 Kaldir | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Backstory: Within the Nexus are an infinite number of universes and an infinite number of undead to recruit into the Lich Lord's army. Crypt Queen Zagara now serves as the ultimate living siege weapon of the Scourge. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of other universes merging into Warcraft skins. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
350 / 400 |
350 / 400 Unholy |
350 / 400 Blighted |
350 / 400 Abyssal |
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Backstory: The sands of Luxoria are ever shifting. In ancient times, they were ruled by the Scorpid Swarm, and if the ancient Queen Zagara has her way, they shall be once again. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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600 / 1,200 |
600 / 1,200 Obsidian |
600 / 1,200 Sand |
600 / 1,200 Ruby |
900 / 1,800 Smoldering | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Backstory: Dr. Wright hypothesized only insects would survive in the apocalypse. Years later, as the mutated hivemother's pincers closed around his neck, he realized how right he was. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
160 / 100 |
160 / 100 Aquatic |
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Backstory: As his Queen ordered, Abathur augmented Zagara, allowing her more flexible thinking and a stronger control over her brood... but there's always room for more improvement. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
120 / 75 |
120 / 75 Molten |
120 / 75 Frozen |
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Sprays[ | ]
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Carbot Zagara |
Creepy Clay |
Cute Zagara |
Xenotech Zagara Insignia |
Emojis[ | ]
Quotes[ | ]
Trivia[ | ]
- Zagara first appeared in StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm (March 2013).
- Zagara is voiced by Nika Futterman.
- Zagara was one of the four heroes revealed at PAX East 2014.[2]
- Due to her size and the length of her legs, Zagara is limited to mounts she can stand on (such as Blackheart's Doubloon, Champion's Nexagon, Championship Banner, Hearthstone Card, Magic Carpet, Star Chariot, and Void Speeder).
- In the lore, Zagara is a zerg broodmother that summons and commands an endless legion of zerg to destroy her enemies. The developer took that fantasy to heart when they designed her kit and made it so all of her power was reflected in her summons, which can easily outnumber and overwhelm minion waves. They made sure that all of her abilities summoned in some fashion, and they matched the ability functionality with a zerg unit that properly represented it. Another huge part of the zerg fantasy is their ability to spread and use creep. Being a zerg summoner, it felt appropriate for Zagara to be able to lay Creep Tumors down.[3]
- According to Jeff Beaudoin, Zagara definitely has limited the design space, from an engineering and design perspective. Implementing a ground changing effect other than Creep alongside Starcraft's Creep implementation is complex. The system wasn't meant to support more than one texture overlay on our geometry, and expanding/rewriting the system would take considerable time/resources. This is in addition to the visual issues this would cause, trying to display multiple terrain types coherently and still have them look good. Having other characters that create and use Creep is problematic, because they would have super strong synergy with Zagara. Even a hero that can spread creep and do nothing else would massively increase the value of Zagara's abilities, making it much stronger in any game with an allied Zagara, but not necessarily by itself.[4]
- Zagara's Heroes of the Storm abilities were later used as the basis for her abilities in StarCraft II's Co-op Missions mode.
- The Creep Tumor ability utilizes the creep tumor from StarCraft II, which is usable by the queen unit Zagara is based off of. Creep allows a zerg player to build structures on ground corrupted by it, and in StarCraft II, creep gives a speed boost to zerg units.
- Baneling Barrage utilizes banelings, suicidal zerg attackers in StarCraft II that evolve from zerglings.
- Hunter Killer references an advanced strain of hydralisk that appears as a hero unit in StarCraft and an advanced unit in StarCraft II.
- Infested Drop uses a zerg sac to drop in roachlings. Roachlings first appeared in Heart of the Swarm as a temporary spawn from the Corpser strain of roach.
- Nydus Network is based off of the nydus network structure from StarCraft II, which similarly allowed for nydus worms to be spawned and transport units across the field.
- The Level 1 talent Infest references the ability queens had in the first StarCraft to infest terran command centers.
- The Level 4 talent Medusa Blades later appeared as an upgrade for Zagara in StarCraft II's Co-op Missions.
- The Level 13 talent Mutalisk changes the Hunter Killer into a mutalisk, a light and nimble flying strain of zerg.
Gallery[ | ]
Videos[ | ]
References[ | ]
- ↑ 2011-10-31, Blizzcon 2011: Blizzard DOTA FAQ, Photos, & Video. Blizzplanet, accessed on 2011-11-07
- ↑ 2014-04-11, PAX EAST: DAY 1, accessed on 2014-04-11
- ↑ Developer Insights: Spillin' the Creep on Zagara
- ↑ Heroes of the Storm Design AMA - May 9, 2019
External links[ | ]
- Developer Insights: Spreadin’ The Creep On Zagara
- Zagara Hero Week
- Zagara - Heroes of the Storm
- Zagara - StarCraft II
- Zagara - StarCraft Wiki
- Zagara Balance Changelog - Heroes Patch Notes
- Zagara Sound Files - Sounds of the Storm
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