Tychus

Tychus
"Hell, it's about damn time!"
Basic Info
Title	Notorious Outlaw
Role	Ranged Assassin
Difficulty	Medium
Franchise	StarCraft
Price	500 / 4,000
Release Date	March 18, 2014
Base Stats
Attack Type	Ranged
Health	1925
Health Regen	4.0117
Resource	500 Mana
Unit Radius	0.8125
Attack Speed	4.00
Attack Range	4.5
Attack Damage	50
Data Page

Tychus Findlay, the Notorious Outlaw, is a ranged assassin hero from the StarCraft universe. He is a big man with a big ego and even bigger gun. Fortunately enough, his loyalty is easily won. Buy him a whiskey or three and promise him enough credits, and there's no job in the whole universe too dangerous for this outlaw.

Tychus is a Assassin who shreds High Health enemies.

History

This section concerns content exclusive to the StarCraft universe.

The truth about Tychus Findlay is hard to come by. Stories about him are common enough, but distilling fact from fiction is another matter entirely. Some tales describe Findlay as a scoundrel who would sell his own mother to Kimeran Pirates for the right sum, while others portray him as a loyal soldier who risked his life to save his fellow Marines during the Guild Wars. Even the one man who knows him best, Jim Raynor, isn’t sure if all of the stories are true. He can only attest to what he saw with his own eyes after he and Findlay became friends in the Terran Confederacy's military.

As the war progressed, Findlay became a member of the Colonial Rangers Battalion, an elite fighting force tasked with high-priority missions on Turaxis II. Tychus was an exceptional soldier with a lousy discipline record, and his unit—nicknamed the “Heaven’s Devils”—quickly earned a reputation as a daring and effective military asset. However, soon the corruption of the commanding officer of the Rangers, Colonel Javier Vanderspool, caused both Findlay and Raynor to turn against him after he had planned for their demises, and the two put a bullet in Vanderspool before going AWOL from the Confederacy, a train full of stolen minerals in tow.

Findlay and Raynor spent the next few years on the run as outlaws. Together they stalked the Koprulu sector, pulling off heists and amassing a small fortune. Findlay in particular became the stuff of legend due to his habit of embellishing the details of his exploits to everyone he met. He was well suited to this life of crime, and the credits he obtained allowed him to enjoy what he considered the finer things in life: booze, brothels, and the best cigars in the Koprulu sector. But the good times didn’t last. Vanderspool, who had survived their last confrontation but was trapped in an iron lung, hired a bounty hunter after the duo, forcing them to go deeper and deeper into the criminal underworld to survive. After a bank heist went south, Tychus took the fall to allow Raynor to escape and start a better life for himself.

For years Tychus Findlay was locked away in New Folsom Prison, and put into cryosleep. However, the fall of the Confederacy and the rise of the Terran Dominion, the new emperor Arcturus Mengsk needed an ace in the hole to deal with the now-rebel Raynor and ensure all of his enemies were wiped out. He released Tychus from prison, but made him a deal: if he ensured that Raynor made good on his promise to kill his former lover (and now leader of the zerg) Sarah Kerrigan, he would be free and his past crimes forgiven. Tychus agreed, and was sealed in a suit of marine armor that would shut down his organs if Mengsk saw he was breaking his deal.

Findlay allied with Raynor, coming to him under the guise of an offer from a terran science group named the Moebius Foundation to pay him for the recovery of an alien artifact, and helped him during his attempts to save lives in a second zerg invasion, and even helped him in operations against the Terran Dominion. However, as it was revealed the relic they were trying to get would purify Kerrigan, and Raynor saw this as a chance to bring his lover back, as well as received news that she was key to a prophecy regarding preventing the extinction of the universe, Tychus began to have doubts about his mission, feeling trapped in his "deal with the devil." He tried to dissuade Raynor from attacking Kerrigan's stronghold on Char, but after seeing he would not back down Tychus helped in the operation, purifying Kerrigan with the artifact. As Raynor held the now-human Kerrigan in his arms, Mengsk ordered Tychus to shoot Kerrigan and began to activate his suit's kill switch, which and Tychus remorsefully tried to shoot her. Seeing his old friend's betrayal, Raynor drew his pistol, and used the one bullet he had saved for Arcturus Mengsk to kill Tychus. By this act he saved Kerrigan, but left his former comrade's corpse on the floor of a forgotten Char hive.

Gameplay

Tychus is a sustained damage Assassin who excels at damaging Heroes with large Health pools, because Minigun deals damage to Heroes based on their maximum Health. He is an especially good pick against double Tank compositions, where there are more high Health targets for him to punish. Tychus can hold his own against other types of Heroes, but his relatively low range can make trading with other ranged Assassins dangerous. This defines his niche as an anti-tank Assassin.

Strengths

• Extremely high sustained damage, especially against Tanks
• Can kite very effectively
• Good waveclear

Weaknesses

• Overkill and Minigun (Tychus' main sources of damage,) can be interrupted
• Lacks notable burst damage
• Relatively low range for a ranged Assassin
• Dealing meaningful damage with Minigun can be unsafe, as using Basic Attacks means being somewhat immobile.

Abilities

Minigun

Cooldown: 12 seconds

Activate to have Basic Attacks against Heroes deal bonus damage equal to 2.5% of their maximum Health. Lasts 3 seconds.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: -

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Targeting: No target

Properties: Attack modifier, Percent Damage, Primed

Cast time: Instant

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• Minigun duration starts at the first Basic Attack after activating the trait.
• Cooldown starts when the duration ends.
• Bonus damage from Minigun is dealt in a separate instance.

Q

Overkill

60 Mana Cooldown: 12 seconds

Deal 552 damage to the target and 276 damage to nearby targets over 4 seconds. Reactivate to select a new target. Can move and use Abilities while channeling.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: Unit target

Properties: Area of Effect, Mobile channel

Cast time: Instant

Range: 7.5

Area of Effect: Radial

Radius: 8.0

Arc: 45 degrees

Tickrate: 3.0 per second

Damage per tick:
- Primary: 46
- Secondary: 23

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• Tychus can cancel Overkill by starting to Mount or casting Commandeer Odin.
• If the main target of Overkill dies while it's active, it will automatically retarget the closest enemy within its radius.
• If the main target is simply out of range, Overkill remains fixated to it until a new target is issued by reactivating the Ability.

W

Frag Grenade

50 Mana Cooldown: 10 seconds

Lob a grenade that deals 256 damage, knocking enemies away.

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Type: Spell Damage, Crowd control

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Area of Effect, Knockback

Cast time: 0 + 0.225 seconds

Range: 8.0

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 2.25

Missile speed: 25.6

Knockback duration: 0.1875 seconds

Knockback speed: 12

E

Run and Gun

50 Mana Cooldown: 10 seconds

Dash a short distance.

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Type: Movement: Dash

Affects: Self

Targeting: Point target

Cast time: Instant

Range: 4.0

Missile speed: 14

R

Commandeer Odin

100 Mana Cooldown: 100 seconds

Call down an Odin to pilot. The Odin deals increased Damage, has 100% increased Basic Attack range, and uses different Abilities. The Odin has 25 Armor and lasts 23 seconds.

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Type: Transformation, Defensive damage modifier, Status effect

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Self

Targeting: No target

Properties: Attack modifier, Armor, Unstoppable

Cast time: Instant

Odin Basic Attack damage: 191

Odin Attack Speed: 1.00

Odin Attack Range: 9.0

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• Tychus is unable to act for 2.75 seconds while entering the Odin. During this time Tychus is Unstoppable. This delay is included in its duration.
• Activating Commandeer Odin immediately ends Minigun and Overkill.
• Cooldown starts immediately when the Ability is cast.
• Tychus cannot use Minigun and does not benefit from Sizzling Attacks while piloting Odin.

Q

Commandeer Odin - Annihilate

Cooldown: 7 seconds

Fire the Odin's cannons in a straight line, dealing 196 damage to everything in the path.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Area of Effect, Clamping

Cast time: Instant

Area of Effect: Rectangle ⁽¹

Width: 3.6

Height: 18.8

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• ¹⁾ Annihilate's search area is a line of 7 circles with 1.8 radius, which centers are 2.5 units apart.
• Impact on each sub-area is delayed by 0.1 seconds from the previous, but a target cannot be hit more than once per cast.
• Does not stack with other positive Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.
• Only available while Commandeer Odin is active.

W

Commandeer Odin - Ragnarok Missiles

Cooldown: 7 seconds

Launches a volley of missiles at target area, dealing 132 damage and Slowing enemy Movement Speed by 30% for 2 seconds.

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Type: Spell Damage, Crowd control

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Area of Effect, Slow

Cast time: Instant

Range: 14.0

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 4.0

Impact delay: 1.5 seconds

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• Only available while Commandeer Odin is active.

E

Commandeer Odin - Thrusters

Cooldown: 8 seconds

Dash in target direction.

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Type: Movement: Dash

Affects: Self

Targeting: Point target

Cast time: Instant

Range: 4.0

Missile speed: 14

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• Only available while Commandeer Odin is active.

R

Drakken Laser Drill

100 Mana Cooldown: 100 seconds

Call down a Laser Drill to attack nearby enemies, dealing 142 damage every second. Reactivate to assign a new target. Lasts 22 seconds.

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Type: Summon

Targeting: Point target

Cast time: Instant

Range: 7.0

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Drakken Laser Drill

Type: Active

Scaling: 4.00% (damage & Health)

Targeting: Retargetable

Health: 1255

Basic Attack damage: 71

Attack speed: 2.00

Attack range: 10.0

Movement Speed: -

Unit radius: 1.5

Sight radius: 9.25

Leash radius: -

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• Drakken Laser Drill has a 2 second spawn delay. This delay is included in its duration.
• Cooldown starts immediately when the Ability is cast.
• Laser Drill's attack is a channeled beam that deals Spell Damage.

Talents

1

Quarterback

Increases Frag Grenade's damage by 10% and its range by 50%.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier

Bonus range: 4.0

Dash

Increase the range of Run and Gun by 50%. When cast, increase Tychus's Movement Speed by 20% for 2.5 seconds.

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Type: Status effect

Affects: Self

Properties: Movement Speed

Bonus range: 2.0

Press the Advantage

Increase Tychus's Basic Attack range by 1.

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• Does not affect Tychus's attack range during Commandeer Odin.

4

In the Rhythm

❢ Quest: While Minigun is active, Basic Attacks against Heroes permanently increase future Minigun durations by 0.03 seconds.

The Bigger They Are...

Increase the damage bonus to 4% while enemy Heroes are above 30% Health, but Minigun no longer has any effect on targets below 30%.

Master Assassin

Passive: Increase Tychus's Attack Speed by 10%.

❢ Reward: After getting 15 Takedowns, Tychus's Attack Speed is increased by an additional 15%.

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• Also affects Tychus's Attack Speed during Commandeer Odin.

7

Melting Point

Enemies hit by Frag Grenade take an additional 75 damage over 3 seconds. This damage is increased by 100% against Minions, Mercenaries and Monsters.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Properties: Damage over Time

Tickrate: 1.0 per second (x3)

Damage per tick: 25

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• Does not benefit from the damage bonus from Quarterback.
• Bonus damage to Minions, Mercenaries and Monsters stacks additively with offensive damage modifiers.

Combat Tactician

Reduce the cooldown of Minigun by 4 seconds. Reduce the cooldown by an additional 4 seconds after using Run and Gun.

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• Casting Run and Gun while Minigun is still active has no effect on the cooldown.

Relentless Soldier

Being Stunned or Rooted grants 30 Armor for 3 seconds, reducing damage taken by 30%.

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Type: Defensive damage modifier

Affects: Self

Properties: Armor

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• Does not stack with other positive Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.

10

Commandeer Odin

Cooldown: 100 seconds
Call down an Odin to pilot. The Odin deals increased Damage, has 100% increased Basic Attack range, and uses different Abilities. The Odin has 25 Armor and lasts 23 seconds.

Drakken Laser Drill

Cooldown: 100 seconds
Call down a Laser Drill to attack nearby enemies, dealing 142 damage every second. Reactivate to assign a new target. Lasts 22 seconds.

13

Spray 'n' Pray

Overkill Slows enemy Movement Speed by 25% and its range is increased by 25%.

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Type: Crowd control

Affects: Enemies

Properties: Slow

Bonus range: 1.875

Bonus radius: 2.0

That's the Stuff!

Minigun heals Tychus for 100% of the bonus damage dealt after it expires.

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Type: Healing

Scaling: -

Affects: Self

Properties: Lifesteal

Neosteel Coating

Cooldown: 30 seconds
Activate to gain 75 Spell Armor for 4 seconds, reducing Ability Damage taken by 75%.

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Type: Defensive damage modifier

Affects: Self

Targeting: No target

Properties: Spell Armor

Cast time: Instant

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• Does not stack with other positive Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.

16

Armor Piercing Rounds

Each time Overkill hits an enemy, its damage against them is increased by 15%, stacking up to 60% bonus damage.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Ability

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• Damage bonus stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Overkill's damage.

Titan Grenade

Frag Grenade deals bonus damage to Heroes equal to 5% of their maximum Health. Each enemy Hero hit by Frag Grenade reduces its cooldown by 1 second.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: -

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Properties: Percent Damage

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• Bonus damage is dealt in a separate instance.

Sizzlin' Attacks

Basic Attacks deal bonus damage to Heroes equal to 1% of their maximum Health. Stacks with Minigun.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Properties: Attack Modifier, Percent Damage

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• Bonus damage is dealt in a separate instance from both Tychus's Basic Attacks and Minigun.
• Commandeer Odin does not benefit from Sizzlin' Attacks.

20

Big Red Button

Odin lasts 50% longer and Ragnarok Missiles also launches a Nuclear Missile, which lands 2.5 seconds later, dealing 319 damage in its area.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Properties: Area of Effect

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• Nuclear Missile is launched at the same location as Ragnarok Missiles and has the same radius.
• Nuclear Missile does not Slow.

Focusing Diodes

Increases the range of the Drakken Laser Drill by 50%. Deals increased damage the longer it remains on a single target, up to 100% extra damage.

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Type: Bonus damage

Scaling: -

Affects: Ability

Bonus attack range: 5.0

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• Damage increases in 20% increments every second Laser Drill has been locked to a target, up to 5 times.
• Changing target instantly resets the bonus.
• Damage bonus stacks additively with itself and multiplicatively with offensive damage modifiers that can affect Drakken Laser Drill's damage.

Can Do This All Day

Reduce Overkill's cooldown by 5 seconds. While Channeling Overkill, Tychus gains 40 Armor.

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Type: Defensive damage modifier

Affects: Self

Properties: Armor

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• Does not stack with other positive Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.

Bob and Weave

Run and Gun and Odin's Thrusters gain 2 additional charges and reduces Run and Gun's Mana cost from 50 to 25. After using Run and Gun, increase Tychus's Basic Attack range by 1.5 for 4 seconds.

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Cooldown between charges: 0.5 seconds

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• Does not affect Tychus's attack range during Commandeer Odin.

Skins

Tychus Skins
Notorious Outlaw
Backstory: Tychus Findlay is a big man with a big ego and even bigger gun. Fortunately, his loyalty is easily won. Buy him a whiskey or three and promise him enough credits, and there's no job in the whole universe too dangerous for this outlaw.
500 / 4,000 Notorious Outlaw	Free Navy	Free Slate
Custom Rig
Backstory: Sure, that suit may be his prison... But you and I both know that's not going to stop him from sprucing the thing up... Now, is it?
120 / 75	120 / 75 Shock	120 / 75 Toxic
Infested
Backstory: Maybe keeping that visor open on Char wasn't the best idea...
Features: Replaced voice-over, themed abilities, themed animations.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of alternative history skins.
750 / 1,600	750 / 1,600 Dominion	750 / 1,600 Abandoned
Prisoner
Backstory: They say no one has ever escaped from New Folsom Prison. Wasn't too long ago that they were still right.
Features: Altered voice-over.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of character's pre-change skins.
160 / 100	160 / 100 Camo	160 / 100 Jailbird

Tychus Event Skins
Power Briefs
Backstory: Welcome to the gun show.
Features: Themed abilities, themed animations, replaced voice-over.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of holiday skins.
600 / 1,200	600 / 1,200 Onyx	600 / 1,200 Tanned	600 / 1,200 Azure	600 / 1,200 Pink
Power Drench
Backstory: Hell, it's about summertime.
Features: Themed abilities, themed animations, replaced voice-over.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of holiday skins.
350 / 400	350 / 400 Verdant	350 / 400 Dark	350 / 400 Zergy	350 / 400 Arctic

Portraits

Tychus Portraits
Carbot Tychus120 / 75	Custom Rig Tychus75 / 40	Infested Tychus75 / 40	"Jack of Clubs" Tychus75 / 40	Power Drench Tychus75 / 40	Tychus Hero	Tychus Mastery
Whistleblower75 / 40

Sprays

Tychus Sprays
Batter Up!180 / 112	Carbot Tychus120 / 75	Cartoon Tychus75 / 40	Convict 62675 / 40	/flex120 / 75

Emojis

Tychus Pack 1			Tychus Pack 2
Emoji	Name	Shortcut	Emoji	Name	Shortcut
	Tychus Happy	:tychushappy: :tychhappy:		Tychus Angry	:tychusangry: :tychangry:
	Tychus ROFL	:tychuslol: :tychusrofl: :tychlol: :tychrofl:		Tychus Cool	:tychuscool: :tychcool:
	Tychus Sad	:tychussad: :tychsad:		Tychus Embarrassed	:tychusoops: :tychusembarrassed: :tychoops: :tychembarrassed:
	Tychus Silly	:tychussilly: :tychsilly:		Tychus in Love	:tychuslove: :tychusinlove: :tychlove: :tychinlove:
	Tychus Speechless	:tychusmeh: :tychusspeechless: :tychmeh: :tychspeechless:		Tychus Surprised	:tychuswow: :tychussurprised: :tychwow: :tychsurprised:

Quotes

Main article: Tychus/Quotes

Trivia

• Tychus first appeared in StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (July 2010).
• Tychus is voiced by Neil Kaplan.
• Tychus was revealed as a assassin hero on March 11, 2014, via Facebook.
• Coloration is the main thing that distinguishes Tychus's default skin from Raynor's.
• Tychus used to smoke a cigar, but it was removed from his model because it would have changed the game's rating in certain regions.
• The Navy and Slate skins feature decals depicting the Overwatch characters Widowmaker and Tracer, respectively.
• One of Tychus' gag quotes references the use of firearms and the term "spray and pray".
• Tychus's Minigun and Frag Grenade abilities come from his appearance in the Wings of Liberty mission "Belly of the Beast," though Tychus briefly used the minigun in the mission "Engine of Destruction."
• Drakken Laser Drill comes in the Wings of Liberty mission "The Dig," where Tychus guided Raynor to one that was used to break open a temple door.
• The Odin is a prototype Terran Dominion walker that Tychus steals in the Wings of Liberty missions "Engine of Destruction." and "Media Blitz."
• The level 13 talent "That's the Stuff!" is a reference to the voice line that would play when marines used the stimpack ability in the original StarCraft.
• The level 13 talent "Neosteel Coating" is a reference to neosteel, the terran metal most of their armor and vehicles are made from.
• The level 20 talent "Big Red Button" is a reference to Tychus discovering "a little button with a skull on it" during the mission "Engine of Destruction," which would launch a nuke.
• On the Infested Tychus skin, the Frag Grenade animation is replaced with a baneling.
• On the Infested Tychus skin, the missiles of the Ragnarok Missiles ability is replaced with scourges, zerg suicide flying units. The impact zone for the Level 20 "Big Red Button" ability is also changed to that of a zerg symbol.

Gallery

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  Tychus's artwork.

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  Tychus (old model).

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  Infested Tychus (old model).

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  The Blizzard DOTA models of Tychus and various other heroes.

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  Prisoner Tychus.

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  Q: Overkill.

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  W: Frag Grenade.

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  E: Run and Gun.

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  R1: Drakken Laser Drill.

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  R2: Commandeer Odin.

External links

• Developer Insights: Talkin’ ‘Bout Tychus
• Tychus Hero Week
• Tychus - Heroes of the Storm
• Tychus - StarCraft II
• Tychus Findlay - StarCraft Wiki
• Tychus Build Guide on Icy Veins
• Tychus Balance Changelog - Heroes Patch Notes
• Tychus Sound Files - Sounds of the Storm