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Photon Cannon
From The StarCraft 2 Wiki
The Protoss Photon Cannon is a basic Ground to Air and Ground to Ground defensive structure. This is the only Protoss building which posses the passive trait: detection.
[edit] Background
A compltely mechanical automatic defensive structure.
| StarCraft II Building [e] | |
|---|---|
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| Photon Cannon | |
| Race: | Protoss, Tier 1.5 |
| Role: | Defense |
| Unit Statistics | |
| Size: | Small |
| Type: | Structure |
| Slots: | N/A |
| Hit Points: | 150 |
| Plasma Shields: | 150 |
| Energy Points: | N/A |
| Offence | |
| Armament: | N/A |
| Ground Attack: | 20 |
| Air Attack: | 20 |
| Range: | x |
| Defence | |
| Armor: | x |
| Sight: | x |
| Cooldown: | x |
| Special Abilities | |
Passive | Allows the unit to see Cloaked and Burrowed units. |
| Production | |
| Hotkey: | P |
| Supply: |  0
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| Resources: |  150  0
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| Build Time: | x |
| Produced by: | Probe |
| Prerequisite: | Forge |
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[edit] Development
The Protoss Photon Cannon was originally replaced with Phase Cannon. Blizzard believed that the idea of movable base defenses better fit the motif of the Zerg. Thus regular Photon cannons made their return and the Zerg Spine Crawlers were born.
| Navigation - Protoss - Terran - Zerg [e] |
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| Protoss Units (StarCraft II) [e] | |
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| Ground Units: | Probe | Zealot | Stalker | Nullifier | Immortal | Colossus | High Templar | Archon | Dark Templar |
| Air Units: | Warp Prism | Observer | Phoenix | Void Ray | Carrier (Interceptor) | Mothership |
| Basic Buildings: | Nexus | Assimilator | Pylon | Gateway | Warp Gate | Forge | Photon Cannon | Cybernetics Core |
| Advanced Buildings: | Twilight Council | Templar Archives | Dark Obelisk | Robotics Facility | Null Circuit | Stargate | Fleet Beacon |
| Cancelled Units: | Purifier | Reaver | Star Relic | Tempest (Shuriken) |
| Cancelled Buildings: | Phase Cannon | War Shrine | War Beacon | Dark Pylon | Observatory |
| Protoss Units (StarCraft I & Brood War) [e] | |
|---|---|
| Ground Units: | Probe | Zealot | Dragoon | Reaver | High Templar | Archon | Dark Templar | Dark Archon |
| Air Units: | Shuttle | Scout | Arbiter | Carrier (Interceptor) | Observer | Corsair |
| Basic Buildings: | Nexus | Assimilator | Pylon | Gateway | Forge | Shield Battery | Cybernetics Core | Photon Cannon |
| Advanced Buildings: | Robotics Facility | Stargate | Citadel of Adun | Robotics Support Bay | Fleet Beacon | Templar Archives | Observatory | Arbiter Tribunal |
| Hero ground units: | Dark Templar (Hero) (dt) | Zeratul (dt, arc) | Tassadar (ht, arc) | Fenix (zl, dr) | Warbringer (r) |
| Hero air units: | Mojo (sct) | Gantrithor (cr) | Danimoth (arb) | Artanis (sct) |
| (dt) = Dark Templar, (arc) = Archon, (ht) = High Templar, (zl) = Zealot, (dr) = Dragoon, (r) = Reaver, (sct) = Scout, (cr) Carrier, (arb) = Arbiter | |
