Abathur

Abathur
Basic Info
Title	Evolution Master
Role	Support
Difficulty	Very Hard
Franchise	StarCraft
Price	750 / 10,000
Release Date	March 13, 2014
Base Stats
Attack Type	Melee
Health	685
Health Regen	1.4257
Resource	None
Unit Radius	0.75
Attack Speed	1.43
Attack Range	1
Attack Damage	26
Data Page

Abathur, the Evolution Master, is a melee specialist hero from the StarCraft universe. Abathur, the Evolution Master of Kerrigan's Swarm, works ceaselessly to improve the zerg from the genetic level up.

Abathur does not directly engage in combat, but rather can act through his allied Heroes and Minions and place Toxic Nests to defend important locations.

Background

This section concerns content exclusive to the StarCraft universe.

From their conception, the zerg have been driven to pursue the perfection of their race through merciless, predatory evolution. If the Overmind has been the force behind this directive, the being known as Abathur was born as the instrument of its will.

Abathur is an old organism, long serving as an “evolution master” – a guiding hand spinning the strands of zerg DNA into mutations of existing zerg and entirely new strains. Left to its own devices, Abathur’s approach to evolving the Swarm is unorthodox: consuming living tissue, and dissolving it into genetic components able to be quickly reassembled (often painfully).

Abathur’s methods are far from the only means of evolving the Swarm, but the creature has refined them over years of wanderlust following the death of the original zerg Overmind. During its time on Char, the detached, meticulous Abathur modified any zerg it stumbled across, and grew fixated on diversifying the Swarm.

As much as a hive creature can, Abathur sees itself as personally responsible for the continuation of the zerg. It undertakes each experiment as though the survival of the species depended on it alone, and tolerates no evolutionary backstep. Abathur will push the swarm forward... and change it utterly in the attempt.

Abilities

Locust Strain

Cooldown: 15 seconds

Spawns a Locust to attack down the nearest lane every 15 seconds. Locusts last for 16 seconds, have 350 Health and deal 46 damage with each Basic Attack. Locusts deal 25% bonus damage to enemy Structures.

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Type: Summon

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Locust

Type: Active

Scaling: 4.00% (damage & Health)

Targeting: Automatic

Health: 316

Basic Attack damage: 46

Attack speed: 1.00

Attack range: 1.5

Movement Speed: 3.25

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• Damage bonus to Structures stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Locusts' Basic Attack damage.

Q

Symbiote

Cooldown: 4 seconds

Spawn and attach a Symbiote to a target ally or Structure. While active, Abathur controls the Symbiote, gaining access to new Abilities. The Symbiote is able to gain XP from nearby enemy deaths.

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Type: Invulnerable summon

Affects: Allies

Targeting: Unit target

Cast time: 0.5 + 1.0 seconds

Range: Global

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• Allied and enemy Symbiote hosts display a crown icon above their portraits on the Minimap.
• Symbiote will be paused if the allied target enters a Stasis effect. Symbiote can still be canceled in these situations, but no Symbiote Abilities can be used.

Q

Symbiote - Stab

Cooldown: 3 / 1.0 seconds

Shoots a spike toward target area that deals 119 damage to the first enemy it contacts.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Skillshot

Cast time: Instant

Range: 8.75

Hitbox: 1.25 x 1.75

Missile speed: 25

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• Starts with 2 charges.

W

Symbiote - Spike Burst

Cooldown: 6 seconds

Deals 120 damage to nearby enemies.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: No target

Properties: Area of Effect

Cast time: Instant

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 4.0

E

Symbiote - Carapace

Cooldown: 6 seconds

Shields the assisted ally for 150. Allied Heroes are healed for 22 Health per second while the Shield is active. Lasts for 6 seconds.

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Type: Healing / Shield

Scaling: 4.00% (both)

Affects: Non-Structure allied Heroes, Monstrosity / Allies

Targeting: No target

Cast time: Instant

Tickrate: 1.0 per second

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• Healing ends immediately if Shield is destroyed.

W

Toxic Nest

Cooldown: 10 seconds

Spawn a mine that becomes active after a short time. Deals 153 damage and reveals the enemy for 4 seconds. Lasts 90 seconds.

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Type: Summon

Scaling: 4.00%

Targeting: Point target

Cast time: Instant

Range: 70

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• Toxic Nests align with the map grid, i.e. each 1 x 1 square can hold only 1 Toxic Nest.

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Toxic Nest

Type: Passive

Scaling: 4.00% (health)

Properties: Invisible

Health: 80

Basic Attack damage: -

Movement Speed: -

Sight radius: 3.5

Unit radius: 0.5

Arming delay: 5 seconds

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• After the arming period Toxic Nest becomes invisible, grants vision around it and is capable of exploding.
• Invulnerable targets do not affect any Toxic Nests they walk over.

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Toxic Nest Explosion

Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Properties: Area of Effect

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius:
- Trigger: 1.5
- Damage: 2.0

R

Ultimate Evolution

Cooldown: 70 seconds

Clone target allied Hero and control it for 20 seconds. Abathur has perfected the clone, granting it 20% Spell Power, 20% bonus Attack Damage, and 10% bonus Movement Speed. Cannot use their Heroic Ability.

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Type: Summon

Affects: Allied Heroes

Targeting: Unit target

Properties: Channeled cast (stationary), Stasis

Cast time: 1 + 0.0625 seconds

Range: Global

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• Interrupting the Ability puts it on a 10 second cooldown.
• The target of Ultimate Evolution must be a real Hero; other Heroic Targets, like Heroic Pets and Vehicles, cannot be cloned.
• Upon successfully casting Ultimate Evolution, Abathur is put in Stasis for its duration. In addition to usual effects of Stasis, Abathur is removed from ground plane (disjoints certain projectiles), has no collision, cannot regenerate Health, Mana, Energy or Shields and cannot be seen on the minimap or revealed.
• Abathur returns to the same location where he cast Ultimate Evolution once it ends.

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Ultimate Evolution Clone

Type: Hallucination

Scaling: -

Targeting: Direct control

Health: 100%

Damage: 120%

Attack speed: 100%

Attack range: 100%

Movement Speed: 110%

Sight radius: 100%

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• Ultimate Evolution Clone is untalented and does not inherit any progress on baseline quests.
• It is possible to complete baseline quests on the Clone, but any progress and rewards are reset for the next cast.
• Clone does not gain Ability effects that are unlocked by reaching a certain level, such as Muradin's Storm Bolt pierce.
• Clone can Mount, use the Healing Fountain and can benefit from, but not directly collect, Regeneration Globes.
• The Clone can fake channeling Objectives, but it cannot complete the channel to capture the Objective.
• The Clone's Summons, including Junkrat's traps, Probius's Warp Rifts and Pylons, Lunara's Wisps, and Nova's Holo Decoys do not expire when the Clone expires or is destroyed. However, Misha and Samuro's Images exceptionally do expire.
• There are some limitations and exceptions to cloning certain Heroes:
  - Deathwing cannot be cloned due to his Trait.
  - Cloning Cho'gall only grants access to Cho's Abilities.
  - Cloning a Viking only clones the specific Viking targeted.
  - D.Va's clone can only use the form she was cloned from. Pilot D.Va's Call Mech is disabled, and activating Self-Destruct in Mech mode immediately returns control to Abathur, leaving the exploding Mech on the Battleground. Additionally, if Ultimate Evolution expires during this time, the Mech will instantly explode as it does.
  - Kharazim's level 1 Talent is inherited, as it is his Trait.
  - Murky's Trait, Spawn Egg, is disabled.
  - Alexstrasza's and Ragnaros's Traits start on full cooldown every time they are copied, making it impossible to use Molten Core and Dragonqueen during the clone's lifetime.
  - The effects of Jaina's Frostbite, Malthael's Reaper's Mark, Murky's Slime, Sylvanas's Banshee's Curse, Tassadar's Psionic Storm, and Zagara's Creep Tumor do not stack and are instead shared, benefiting both the clone and the cloned Hero regardless of who applied the effect.
  - Qhira and her Clone can both apply their own instance of Bleed from Blood Rage. However, only the unit who placed the first Bleed stack on the unit may activate Blood Rage on it. Additionally, the stack count and duration are shared among all Bleeds on the target, allowing both Qhira and Abathur to instantly gain the current stack count on the target and increment and extend each other's Bleed stacks on the target. Bleeds placed by the Clone also remain even after when the Clone has expired.
  - Both Probius and his Ultimate Evolution Clone can fully interact with each other's Pylons and Warp Rifts.
• The Clone grants no XP or Takedown credit on death.
• The Clone's Summons do not benefit from this Ability's Spell Power bonus.
• Attack Damage and Spell Power bonuses stack additively with offensive damage modifiers and healing dealt modifiers.

R

Evolve Monstrosity

Cooldown: 90 seconds

Turn an allied Minion or Locust into a Monstrosity. When enemy Minions near the Monstrosity die, it gains 2% Health and 2% Basic Attack damage, stacking up to 40 times. The Monstrosity can be healed by Carapace and has the ability to Burrow to a visible location every 80 seconds.

Using Symbiote on the Monstrosity allows Abathur to control it, in addition to Symbiote's normal benefits. This Ability can be reactivated to automatically cast Symbiote on his Monstrosity.

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Type: Summon

Affects: Allied Minions & Locusts

Targeting: Unit target

Cast time: Instant

Range: Global

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• Cooldown starts when the Monstrosity is destroyed.

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Monstrosity

Type: Active

Scaling: 4.00% (damage & Health)

Targeting: Automatic, Direct control

Health: 1350

Basic Attack damage: 85

Attack Speed: 1.0

Attack Range: 2.0

Movement Speed: 4.0

Sight radius: 9.0

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• Monstrosity can use Deep Tunnel on an 80 second cooldown. This cooldown is separate from Abathur's.
• Monstrosity can heal in the Hall of Storms.
• Damage bonus from Minion kills stacks additively with itself and multiplicatively with offensive damage modifiers that can affect Monstrosity's Basic Attack damage.

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Deep Tunnel

Cooldown: 30 seconds

Quickly tunnel to a visible location.

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Type: Movement: Teleport

Affects: Self

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Channeled cast (stationary)

Cast time: 2.5 (ch) + 0 seconds

Range: Global

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• Deep Tunnel can be canceled by issuing a "move" or "stop" command.
• Deep Tunnel goes on a 10 second cooldown when interrupted by enemy or allied Abilities, including self-canceling.
• Deep Tunnel has an allied chat announcement upon activation.

Z) Deep Tunnel Cooldown: 30 seconds Quickly tunnel to the target visible location.

Talents

1

Pressurized Glands

Increases the range of Symbiote's Spike Burst by 25% and decreases the cooldown by 1 second.

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Bonus radius: 1.0

Envenomed Nest

Toxic Nests deal 75% more damage over 3 seconds and reduce the Armor of enemy Heroes hit by 10 for 4 seconds.

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Type: Spell Damage / Defensive damage modifier

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies / Enemy Heroes

Properties: Armor reduction, Damage over Time

Tickrate: 1.0 per second (x3)

Damage per tick: 38.25

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• Damage-over-time from multiple Toxic Nests does not stack.

Reinforced Carapace

Increase the Shield amount of Carapace by 40%.

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Type: Bonus Shield

Scaling: -

Affects: Allies

Survival Instincts

Increases Locust's Health by 100% and damage by 60%.

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Type: Bonus Health, Offensive damage modifier

Scaling: -

Affects: Locusts

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• Damage bonus stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers.

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Adrenal Overload

Heroic Symbiote hosts gain 25% increased Attack Speed.

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Type: Status effect

Affects: Allied Heroes

Properties: Attack Speed

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• Does not affect current Symbiote target when Talent is taken. Symbiote must be canceled and re-applied to grant the buff.
• Attack Speed bonus stacks additively with other effects that can affect the target's Attack Speed.

Needlespine

Increases the damage and range of Symbiote's Stab by 20%.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Ability

Bonus range: 1.75

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

Prolific Dispersal

Increase the duration of Toxic Nests by 45 seconds, reduce its cooldown by 2 seconds and add 2 additional charges.

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Vile Nest

Toxic Nests Slow enemy Movement Speed by 40% for 2.5 seconds.

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Type: Crowd control

Affects: Enemies

Properties: Slow

Networked Carapace

Using Symbiote's Carapace also applies an untalented Carapace Shield to all nearby allied Heroes, Minions, and Mercenaries.

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Type: Shield, Healing

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Allied Heroes, Minions & Mercenaries

Properties: Area of Effect

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 3.0 ⁽¹

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¹⁾ Extended by the target's unit radius.
• Is also created by Hivemind's Carapace but is not reduced by half for it. Hivemind's Carapace also adds a full Carapace Shield to the primary Symbiote target.

Calldown: MULE

Cooldown: 60 seconds
Active: Activate to calldown a MULE that repairs Structures, one at a time, near target point for 40 seconds, healing for 90 Health every 1 second.

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Type: Summon

Targeting: Point target

Cast time: Instant

Range: Global

Summon delay: 4 seconds

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• Calldown: MULE can only be cast in visible area.

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MULE

Type: Active

Scaling: 43 per minute (Health, up to 30 minutes)

Targeting: Automatic

Health: 140

Basic Attack damage: -

Movement Speed: 2.5

Sight radius: 9.0

Unit radius: 0.375

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Repair

Type: Healing

Scaling: -

Affects: Allied Structures

Targeting: Automatic

Properties: Stationary channel

Range: 1.0

Tickrate: 1.0 per second

Healing per tick: 90

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Ultimate Evolution

Cooldown: 70 seconds
Clone target allied Hero and control it for 20 seconds. Abathur has perfected the clone, granting it 20% Spell Power, 20% bonus Attack Damage, and 10% bonus Movement Speed. Cannot use their Heroic Ability.

Evolve Monstrosity

Cooldown: 90 seconds
Turn an allied Minion or Locust into a Monstrosity. When enemy Minions near the Monstrosity die, it gains 2% Health and 2% Basic Attack damage, stacking up to 40 times. The Monstrosity can be healed by Carapace and has the ability to Burrow to a visible location every 80 seconds.

Using Symbiote on the Monstrosity allows Abathur to control it, in addition to Symbiote's normal benefits. This Ability can be reactivated to automatically cast Symbiote on his Monstrosity.

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Spatial Efficiency

Symbiote's Stab gains 1 additional charge and its Cooldown is reduced by 0.5 seconds.

Soma Transference

Symbiote's Spike Burst heals the host for 64 Health per enemy Hero hit.

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Type: Healing

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Non-Structure Allies

Bombard Strain

Locust's Basic Attacks become a long-range siege attack and their duration is increased by 75%.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Locusts

Properties: Attack Modifier, Splash

Attack range: 7.0

Splash radius: 0.4

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• Bombard Strain attacks can be dodged, similarly to Catapults' and Siege Giants' attacks, i.e. they can be dodged, although no preview is shown.
• Against targets within 3 range, fires a projectile that cannot be dodged (except by being disjointed).

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Envenomed Spikes

Abathur's Symbiote's Spike Burst also Slows enemy Movement Speed by 40% for 2 seconds.

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Type: Crowd control

Affects: Enemies

Properties: Slow

Adrenaline Boost

Symbiote's Carapace increases the Movement Speed of the target by 40% for 3.5 seconds.

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Type: Status effect

Affects: Non-Structure Allies

Properties: Movement Speed

Volatile Mutation

Ultimate Evolution clones and Monstrosities deal 137 damage to nearby enemies every 3 seconds and when they die. Enemy Heroes hit heal the clone or the Monstrosity for 100% of the damage dealt.

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Type: Spell Damage / Healing

Scaling: 4.00% / -

Affects: UE Clone & Monstrosity

Properties: Area of Effect, Lifesteal

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 4.0

Tickrate: 0.33 per second

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• Damage from Volatile Mutation does not benefit from Ultimate Evolution clone's damage bonus.

Locust Brood

Cooldown: 45 seconds
Active: Activate to spawn 3 Locusts at a nearby location.

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Type: Summon

Targeting: Point target

Cast time: Instant

Range: 6.0

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Evolutionary Link

Increase the duration of Ultimate Evolution by 50%. As long as the Ultimate Evolution is alive, the original target of the clone gains a Shield equal to 35% of their maximum Health. Refreshes every 5 seconds.

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Type: Shield

Scaling: -

Affects: Allied Heroes

Tickrate: 0.2 per second

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• Shield from Evolutionary Link does not stack with itself.
• If an Ultimate Evolution Clone expires or dies while the target of Ultimate Evolution (the real Hero) is flagged as Immune to AOE, then that Hero will also receive Shields from Evolutionary Link while Ultimate Evolution is active on any other target.

Evolution Complete

Increase Monstrosity's Basic Attack damage by 100%.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier

Scaling: -

Affects: Monstrosity

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

Hivemind

Symbiote creates an additional Symbiote on a nearby allied Hero. This Symbiote mimics the commands of the first, but does half damage and Shielding.

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Ally search radius: 10

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• Hivemind's abilities have their own base values that are half the original.

Locust Nest

Cooldown: 45 seconds
Active: Activate to create a nest that periodically spawns Locusts. Only one Locust Nest can be active at a time.

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Type: Summon

Targeting: Point target

Cast time: Instant

Range: 6.0

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Locust Nest

Type: Passive

Scaling: 4.00% (Health)

Health: 319

Basic Attack damage: -

Movement Speed: -

Unit radius: 0.5

Sight radius: -

Skins

Abathur, Evolution Master
Abathur, the Evolution Master of Kerrigan's Swarm, works ceaselessly to improve the zerg from the genetic level up. His hate for chaos and imperfection almost rivals his hatred of pronouns.
Default	Bone	Char
750 / 10,000	File:Abathur Evolution Master 2.jpg Free	File:Abathur Evolution Master 3.jpg Free
Kaldir
100
Swarm
Evolution is a process that's unending. Survival requires adaptation. Even Abathur, a master of manipulating evolution itself, is no exception to this cardinal rule of nature.
Default	Pallid	Crimson
File:Abathur Master 1.jpg 100	File:Abathur Master 2.jpg 100	File:Abathur Master 3.jpg 100
Pajamathur
Upon occasion reality appears unsuitable. Desire for absence occurs. Inhibit ocular reception. Internally visualize. Possible for current location to alter. Make dreams come true.
Skin Features: Themed abilities. Pajamathur's Locusts wear toy trains on their backs. His Symbiote wears the head of a stuffed bunny like a mask. Note: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of pajama skins.
Default	Planey	Zergy
1,600	1,600	1,600
Skelethur
Exoendoskeleton... logical next advancement. Secondary benefit, elicits fear in adolescent terrans. Useful.
Skin Features: Themed abilities. Skelethur's Locusts have bone plates and exposed brains on their backs. His Symbiote is a skull with tendrils and an exposed brain.
Default	Planey	Zergy
(not available)	(not available)	(not available)

Trivia

• Abathur first appeared in StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm (2013).
• Abathur is voiced by Steve Blum.
• Abathur was one of the 18 heroes revealed at BlizzCon 2013.
• Abathur is a new type of hero that won't be found in the thick of a fight himself. Instead, he’s behind the scenes, manipulating the battlefield a little bit at a time in many places. In doing so, he can help his team secure big advantages and shape the flow of battle.
• Heart of the Swarm implied that Abathur was a huge worm-like creature players only ever saw the top of, which wasn't really viable in Heroes. The art team shortened him down so he could scoot around the battlefield.
• Players end up not actually looking at Abathur much while playing him (and the enemy sees him even less), so Blizzard made sure his skins modified his symbiotes and locusts as well as his model.
• One of Abathur's gag quotes references the song Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger by Daft Punk, a punk rock, eloctronic music duo that originated in northern France in 1993.
• The original inspiration behind Abathur was the Overmind with global powers and immobility. The kit evolved to be more mobile to add a dimension both to his strategic location and to give him more personality (he is rarely present on the map instead of never there), and Blizzard mapped/adjusted powers to Abathur instead.

Gallery

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  Abathur's artwork.

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  Classic Abathur.

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  Bone Abathur.

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  Char Abathur.

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  Concept art for Abathur and Pajamathur.

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  Concept art for Skelethur Abathur.

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  Q: Symbiote.

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  W: Toxic Nest.

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  R1: Ultimate Evolution.

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  R2: Evolve Monstrosity.

External links

• Abathur - Heroes of the Storm
• Abathur - StarCraft II
• April Fools - Pajamathur
• Abathur - StarCraft Wiki
• Abathur Build Guide on Icy Veins
• Abathur Balance Changelog - Heroes Patch Notes
• Abathur Sound Files - Sounds of the Storm