Tychus

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 an Assassin who shreds High Health enemies.

History
The truth about 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 for the right sum, while others portray him as a loyal soldier who risked his life to save his fellow  during the. 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 military.

As the war progressed, Findlay became a member of the, an elite fighting force tasked with high-priority missions on. Tychus was an exceptional soldier with a lousy discipline record, and his unit—nicknamed the “”—quickly earned a reputation as a daring and effective military asset. However, soon the corruption of the commanding officer of the Rangers, Colonel, 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, 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, and put into cryosleep. However, the fall of the Confederacy and the rise of the, 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 to pay him for the recovery of an alien, 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, 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 Ranged 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 Ranged 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

 * See Data page for a table of scaled values at key levels.

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.
 * Tychus's Minigun and Frag Grenade abilities come from his appearance in the Wings of Liberty mission "," though Tychus briefly used the minigun in the mission "."
 * In Co-op Missions, Tychus uses the minigun, which has an armor piercing upgrade, likely a reference to his Heroes of the Storm anti-tank role.
 * comes in the Wings of Liberty mission "," where Tychus guided Raynor to one that was used to break open a xel'naga temple door.
 * The is a prototype Terran Dominion walker that Tychus steals in the Wings of Liberty missions "." and "." However, the model used in Heroes of the Storm is that of a  rather than the Odin.
 * The level 13 talent "That's the Stuff!" is a reference to the voice line that would play when and  used the  ability in the original StarCraft.
 * The level 13 talent "Neosteel Coating" is a reference to, 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.
 * On the Infested Tychus skin, the missiles of the Ragnarok Missiles ability is replaced with, zerg suicide flying units. The impact zone for the Level 20 "Big Red Button" ability is also changed to that of a zerg symbol.