Roach

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The Roach is a melee attack unit similar to the Zergling, but with vastly increased health regeneration.

The Roach is strong against Hellion, Zealot and Zergling; but weak against Marauder and Immortal.

Contents 1 Background 2 Game Unit 2.1 Abilities 2.2 Upgrades 3 Roach Breeds 4 Development 5 Gallery

Background

StarCraft II Unit [e]
Roach
Race:	Zerg, Tier 1
Role:	Short Range Attack
Unit Statistics
Size:	Medium
Type:	Ground, Biological
Speed:	Normal
Transport Slots:	1/8
Hit Points:	145
Plasma Shields:	N/A
Energy Points:	N/A
Offence
Armament:	Acid Saliva
Ground Attack:	10 (Normal)
Air Attack:	N/A
Range:	3
Defence
Armor:	2 (Armored)
Sight:	x
Cooldown:	N/A
Special Abilities
Burrow This unit can burrow HP Regen Has improved regeneration while buried
Production
Hotkey:	R
Supply:	1
Resources:	75 25
Build Time:	27
Produced by:	Larva
Prerequisite:	Roach Den

The Roach is a Zerg breed similar to the Zergling in that it is land-based and is more or less a melee attacker, but there is one great difference, and that is its capability to mend damages to its tissue at an alarming rate. A small group of marines would not be able to kill the Roach before it had managed to defeat them. In larger battles it will force its opponents to focus fire on one roach at a time, or be consumed rapidly with minimal losses for the Roaches.

Game Unit

The Roach will defeat almost all other units one-on-one, as its health regeneration of 15 HP per second will be greater than most units' attack capabilities. This will require the opponent to focus fire on one roach at a time to be able to defeat them, and their foremost strength is in battles with few number of combatants. A Roach can heal fast enough to retain approximately 50% of its hit points if hit by the full time of a Psi Storm, and over 80% of its hit points after its regeneration has been upgraded.

The main counter to a Roach attack is to micromanage the attacks of units to kill one Roach at a time with focused fire.

Abilities

• Burrow
• 15/sec HP Regeneration

Upgrades

• Evolve Roach 1-3

Roach Breeds

• Roach

Development

The Roach could originally attack air units with its limited range weapons, this has been removed.

Gallery

• General StarCraft II Shots
  • In-game Shots
  • Concept Art
  • Unit Models

The Roach ingame model in StarCraft II.

Concept art for the Roach.

Zerg Units (StarCraft II) [e]
(i) = Infested (z) = Zerg-evolution (g) = Swarm Guardian spawn
Ground Units:	Hive Queen | Larva | Drone | Zergling | Baneling (z) | Roach | Hydralisk | Lurker (z) | Nydus Worm | Infestor | Ultralisk
Air Units:	Overlord | Overseer (z) | Mutalisk | Swarm Guardian (z) | Corruptor |
Additional Units:	Broodling (g) | Infested Terran (i) | Infested Protoss (i) | Egg (z) | Lurker egg (z) | Cocoon (z)
Basic Buildings:	Hatchery | Extractor | Creep Tumor | Spawning Pool | Spine Crawler | Roach Den | Baneling Nest | Evolution Chamber | Spore Crawler
Advanced Buildings:	Lair | Hydralisk Den | Deep Warren | Spire | Nydus Network | Hive | Greater Spire | Infestor Pit | Ultralisk Cavern
Cancelled Units:	Shrieker (z)
Cancelled Buildings:	Sunken Colony | Spore Colony | Swarm Clutch

Zerg Units (StarCraft I & Brood War) [e]
(q) = Queen-infested (z) = Zerg-evolution
Ground Units:	Larva | Drone | Zergling | Hydralisk | Lurker | Defiler | Ultralisk
Air Units:	Overlord | Scourge | Mutalisk | Guardian | Devourer | Queen
Additional Units:	Broodling (q) | Infested Terran (q) | Egg (z) | Lurker egg (z) | Cocoon (z)
Basic Buildings:	Hatchery | Extractor | Evolution Chamber | Spawning Pool | Creep Colony | Spore Colony | Sunken Colony | Hydralisk Den
Advanced Buildings:	Lair | Hive | Spire | Greater Spire | Queen's Nest | Nydus Canal | Defiler Mound | Ultralisk Cavern | Infested Command Center (q)
Hero ground units:	Torrasque (ult) | Matriarch (qu) | Infested Kerrigan (it) | Unclean One (def) | Hunter Killer (hyd) | Devouring One (zlng) | Infested Duran (unk)
Hero air units:	Kukulza (mut, grd) | Yggdrasill (ovl)
(ult) = Ultralisk -- (qu) = Queen -- (it) = Infested Terran -- (def) = Defiler -- (hyd) = Hydralisk -- (zlng) = Zergling -- (unk) = Unknown -- (mut) = Mutalisk -- (grd) = Guardian -- (ovl) = Overlord