Probius | |
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Basic Info | |
Title | Curious Probe |
Role | Ranged Assassin |
Difficulty | Hard |
Franchise | StarCraft |
Price | 750 / 10,000 |
Release Date | March 14, 2017 |
Base Stats | |
Attack Type | Ranged |
Health | 1260 |
Health Regen | 2.625 |
Resource | 600 Mana |
Unit Radius | 0.6875 |
Attack Speed | 1.11 |
Attack Range | 3.0 |
Attack Damage | 33 |
Data Page |
Probius, the Curious Probe, is a Ranged Assassin Hero from the StarCraft universe. Since his activation, Probius has always wanted to prove himself. He may be small, but he made a big difference by warping in a critical pylon during the retaking of Aiur. As the bravest of Probes, Probius is eager to fulfill his purpose in the Nexus.
Background[ | ]
Originally designed by the Khalai caste to lay the foundation for Protoss settlements, Probes are robotic drones that service the Nexus and gather the numerous resources needed to power Protoss technologies. Probes also manufacture and plant the micro-beacons that anchor the teleport matrices of structures. These beacons allow the Protoss to warp-in prefabricated structures from their homeworld. Often Probes are used as rudimentary spies, sent ahead to survey the potential locations of enemy encampments.
Probius is a Protoss Probe who took part in the initial stages of the Reclamation of Aiur as part of an Akhundelar under Kaldalis. During the initial landing, Probius was able to set down a warp beacon for a Pylon while the conflict raged around him. Though the Akhundelar suffered heavy casualties, Probius's Pylon allowed reinforcements to be warped in at a key moment, allowing the Daelaam to establish a beachhead on Aiur.
Probes are not programmed with individuality, personalities, or traits such as curiosity, as self-aware AI was deemed heretical to the Protoss at the time of Probius's creation due to an AI uprising named the Purifier Rebellion in their distant past. However, Probius gained a spark of life upon entering the Nexus, bringing him to "life" and granting him a sense of curiosity and adventure.
Gameplay[ | ]
Probius is a high damage Summoner who must stay near Pylons to be effective.
Strength[ | ]
- Strong area control
- High burst damage
Weaknesses[ | ]
- Fragile
- Requires setup time
- Needs frontline
Abilities[ | ]
- See Data Page for a table of scaled values at key levels.
Talents[ | ]
Disruption Pulse now returns to Probius 1.25 seconds after reaching its target, dealing 100% damage on the return trip.
- Returning pulse has the same properties as initial pulse, it can detonate Warp Rifts and interacts with all Talents affecting Disruption Pulse.
- Damage reduction stacks additively with offensive damage modifiers that can affect Disruption Pulse's damage.
❢ Quest: Hit Heroes with Warp Rift explosions.
❢ Reward: After hitting 8 Heroes with Warp Rift explosions, increase the explosion damage by 120.
❢ Reward: After hitting 16 Heroes with Warp Rift explosions, Warp Rift gains 1 additional charge.
❢ Quest: Gather Minerals to increase the Health of Photon Cannons by 8, up to 560.
❢ Reward: After collecting 70 Minerals, Photon Cannons deal 35% more damage.
- Damage bonus stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Photon Cannon's damage.
While a Photon Cannon is alive and powered, Probius gains 40 Spell Armor.
- Does not stack with itself or other positive Spell Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.
Worker Rush grants an additional 10% passive Movement Speed while in a Power Field, and its cooldown is reduced by 14 seconds.
Probius gains permanent Shields equal to 10% of his max Health. Shields regenerate quickly as long as he hasn't taken damage recently.
After hitting 3 Heroes with Disruption Pulse the next Warp Rift detonated by a Disruption Pulse fires 4 additional pulses that deal 78 damage from the impact location in different directions.
Passive: Reduce the cooldown of Disruption Pulse by 0.5 seconds.
- Additional pulses are always fired relative to the direction from Probius's current location to the detonated Warp Rift. Pulses are aligned 30 degrees from the direction and perpendicular to it on both sides.
- Additional pulses can detonate Warp Rifts, but do not interact with Talents affecting Disruption Pulse, including itself.
Hitting a Warp Rift with Disruption Pulse within 1 second of its arming deals 105 damage over 3 seconds.
Reduce Photon Cannon's cooldown by 3.5 seconds when Disruption Pulse or Warp Rift damages an enemy Hero.
Cooldown: 80 seconds
Increase the size of Pylon power fields and allow them to attack enemies within it for 96 damage per second. Lasts 10 seconds.
Cooldown: 25 seconds
Vector Targeting. Project a barrier of negative energy in the target direction that lasts 4 seconds. Enemies who touch the barrier take 76 damage per second and are slowed by 80% for as long as they remain in contact with it.
Pylon's Power Field grants allied Heroes 35% increased Basic Attack damage.
- Damage bonus does not stack with itself, but stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers that can affect the targets' Basic Attack damage.
Pylon's Power Field grants allied Heroes 10% increased Spell Power and 2 Mana per second.
- Spell Power from Power Overflowing does not stack with itself, but stacks additively with other sources of Spell Power and other offensive damage and healing modifiers affecting targets' Spell Damage or healing output.
Pylon's Power Field grants allied Heroes 28 Shields per second, up to 112. Shields persist for 2 seconds after exiting a Pylon Power Field.
- Shield gain starts after the Hero has been in a Pylon's area for 0.5 seconds.
Enemies continue to be Slowed for 3 seconds after their last contact with a Warp Rift.
Enemies are Slowed more the closer they are to the center of the Warp Rift, up to a maximum Slow of 60%.
- Applies 40% Slow within 2.0 radius and 60% Slow within 1.0 radius of the center.
Enemy Heroes hit by Warp Rift detonations have their Spell Power reduced by 35% for 5 seconds. Additionally, enemies hit by Warp Rift explosions are knocked away from the center.
- Spell Power reduction from Interference does not stack with itself, but stacks additively with other sources of Spell Power and other offensive damage and healing modifiers affecting targets' Spell Damage or healing output.
Probius can now have up to 3 active Pylons, and increase the damage of Pylon Overcharge by 25%.
- Damage bonus stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Pylon Overcharge's damage.
Null Gate lasts indefinitely if either end is within a Power Field.
Enemy Heroes hit by Disruption Pulse take a bonus 2.5% of their maximum Health as damage.
Passive: Reduce the cooldown of Disruption Pulse by 0.5 seconds.
Whenever a Rift explosion hits 1 or more enemy Heroes, create a new Warp Rift in the same location.
Builds and guides[ | ]
Probius Community Build Guides @ HeroesFire
Probius Community Build Guides @ Heroes Hearth
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Backstory: Since his activation, Probius has always wanted to prove himself. He may be small, but he made a big difference by warping in a critical pylon during the retaking of Aiur. As the bravest of probes, Probius is eager to fulfill his purpose in the Nexus. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
750 / 10,000 Curious Probe |
Free Purifier |
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Backstory: Despite loud opposition from the SCV pilot's union, the Dominion Engineering Corps continues its attempts to replicate the technology utilized by the protoss in their construction of probes. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Quotes[ | ]
Main articles: Probius/Quotes
Development[ | ]
- Probius's first design was of a builder doing a Cannon Rush or having Pylons occasionally warp in some Zealot Minions. However, it didn't work out very well. When the developers realized the pure builder angle wasn't working out, they took a step back and approached him from a different perspective, and they're very satisfied with the result.[1] According to MattVi: "It was kind of like playing Abathur without his Q ability. It was cool for a couple of games, but the novelty wore off very quickly =( I think what we ended up with gives him a much more active playstyle and lots of room for mastery, while still being very builder/setup focused."[2]
- Alexstrasza's second Heroic Ability, Cleansing Flame, had its core concept originally meant for Probius, where he would summon a Protoss Mothership to bombard his enemies. The development team found that to contradict with his builder-oriented gameplay, and scrapped the idea. This was later moved to Alexstrasza instead.[3]
- There was a question during development as to whether Probius actually needed a Basic Attack, since his cooldowns are so short and he has nearly unlimited Mana. According to MattVi: "It's true that he rarely uses his BA, but even so it feels good to be able to use it when you need it - plus his little zap is just the cutest thing ever >_>" [4]
Trivia[ | ]
- The Development Team started referring to Probius as "Beep, Boop - You're dead" because of his incredible burst damage.[5]
- Probes first appeared in StarCraft (March 1998). Probius first appeared in the opening cinematic for StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void (November 2015). However, he was not given a name, personality and identity until Heroes of the Storm.
- The second tint of Probius's default skin depicts it as a Purifier probe, and the third one as a Tal'darim Probe.
- The skin "Terran Probius 01" is a reference to the anime "Evangelion" in which a giant mecha called "Eva 01" has a similar color design.
- Probius is the smallest StarCraft Hero in the game.
- Probius appears as an Easter egg in StarCraft II's Co-op Missions mode as a special champion for the Purifier Fenix. If the player constructs all six champions and then constructs another Probe, the Probe will have a special Purifier model and be named "Probius." This Probe does not have any additional stats or Abilities.
- Probius's Warp In Pylon ability spawns a Pylon, which serve as a power conduit for the Protoss race, and allow Protoss players to expand the number of units they can build.
- The Warp Rift ability is a reference to the Probe's ability to set down micro-beacons that allow for warping in Structures from long distances.
- Photon Cannons are Protoss defensive structures that can fire at range. Much like in Heroes of the Storm, Photon Cannons cannot function without a Pylon.
- Pylon Overcharge references the removed StarCraft II ability of the Mothership Core "Photon Overcharge," which allowed pylons to fire on the enemy.
- Probius's Z ability Worker Rush is the name of a StarCraft tactic where the player sends their workers to attack the enemy base early in the game in hopes of catching them unaware.
- The Level 1 talent Gather Minerals references the Probe's main function in the StarCraft series, which is gathering minerals and vespene gas. This Ability spawns mineral clusters on the field. The quest reward that allows Photon Cannons to detect Stealthed Heroes is a reference to their function as a detector in StarCraft and StarCraft II.
- The Level 4 talent Shield Capacitor references the fact that all Protoss units, including Probes, are equipped with plasma shields.
- The Level 7 talent Tower Defense references a genre of games where players construct static defenses to hold off hordes of enemies. This genre is often credited with having been started in StarCraft custom maps, many of which used Photon Cannons.
- The Level 13 talent Shield Battery references the Shield Battery structure, which allows Protoss units to recover their shields.
- The Level 13 talent Power Overflowing references the Archon quote and StarCraft invulnerability cheat code "Power Overwhelming."
- The Level 20 talent Construct Additional Pylons references the famous voice line when a Protoss player has reached their supply limit "You must construct additional Pylons."
- The Level 20 talent Shoot 'Em Up references the Shoot 'Em Up genre of video games, as the many small pulses it fires are similar to those found in the genre.
- The Level 20 talent Probius Loop is a reference to the geometrical shape of the Moebius Loop.
Gallery[ | ]
General[ | ]
Heroes of the Storm represented by Probius at BlizzCon 2017
Abilities[ | ]
Gameplay[ | ]
Videos[ | ]
References[ | ]
External links[ | ]
- Probius Hero Week
- Probius - Heroes of the Storm
- Probe - StarCraft Game Units
- Probius - StarCraft Wiki
- Probius Balance Changelog - Heroes Patch Notes
- Probius Sound Files - Sounds of the Storm
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