Swarm Guardian

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The Swarm Guardian is the heavy, long-range artillery of the Zerg, and infests the unit it hits to produce Broodlings.

Contents 1 Background 2 StarCraft II Unit 2.1 Abilities 2.2 Upgrades 3 Swarm Guardian Breeds 4 Development 5 Gallery

Background

StarCraft II Unit [e]
Swarm Guardian
Race:	Zerg, Tier 3
Role:	Ranged Artillery
Unit Statistics
Size:	Large
Type:	Flying, Biological
Speed:	Normal
Transport Slots:	n/a
Hit Points:	200
Plasma Shields:	N/A
Energy Points:	N/A
Offence
Armament:	Plasmatic Acid
Ground Attack:	25 (Slow)
Air Attack:	N/A
Range:	x
Defence
Armor:	1 (Armored)
Sight:	x
Cooldown:	x
Special Abilities
None
Production
Hotkey:	G
Supply:	2
Resources:	100 100
Build Time:	33
Produced by:	Mutalisk
Prerequisite:	Greater Spire

The Swarm Guardians are based on the breed of Guardians, and have spent the years between the Brood War and present day to evolve into an even more powerful air-based artillery unit. The new Swarm Guardian can also hatch Broodlings with its shots, and is even more of a threat to the enemies of the Swarm.

StarCraft II Unit

The new Broodling spawn of the Swarm Guardian introduces an additional aspect of the Zerg, and makes the unit both work as a nuisance to enemies as well as a heavy damage dealer.

Abilities

• Spawn Broodling

Upgrades

• Evolve Swarm Guardian 1-3

Swarm Guardian Breeds

• Mutalisk
  • Guardian
    • Swarm Guardian

Development

Since StarCraft I, the Swarm Guardian has not only changes the name from Guardian, but also changed appearance. The front of the creature looks similar in StarCraft II, but it has also increased in bulk, and received a sort of waving tail behind it. The picture to the left is the only picture that is available of the Swarm Guardian. It is a bootleg video filmed at the Korean Zerg Reveal Press Tour. The yellow flare on the picture to the left is not part of the Swarm Guardian's animation sequence, it is part of something else. The Video quality is very poor, so it is hard to see. Recently, this unit has been pulled from the game and replaced with a new unit called, the Brood Lord.

Gallery

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

The Swarm Guardian model in SC2.

An early screenshot of the Swarm Guardian.

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