Atriox/Gameplay

Skirmish/Multiplayer

"Atriox focuses on a cunning and defensive style, supported by heavy cover and invulnerability powers."

— In-game description of Atriox.

• Unique Units: Atriox's Chosen
• Privileges: Able to use more abilities related to invulnerability than the others.
• Tier 1 Leader Powers
  • Countermeasures: Drops Plasma mines around newly captured Control Towers and Power Nodes. Also allows Jiralhanae Jumpers to drop TR/9 trip mines when they use their jump packs.
  • Fortifications I: Reduces costs and build times for the Stronghold upgrade, the Fortify upgrade, and Turret upgrades.
  • Fortifications II: Improves all benefits provided by Fortifications.
• Tier 2 Leader Powers
  • Plasma Mines I: Drops a line of cloaked mines.
    • Population Cost: N/A
    • Supply Cost: 25
    • Power Cost: 100
    • Cooldown: 105 seconds
  • Plasma Mines II: Increases number of mines dropped.
    • Population Cost: N/A
    • Supply Cost: 50
    • Power Cost: 200
    • Cooldown: 105 seconds
  • Dying Breath: Targets own units to keep on fighting for 4 seconds after they are killed.
    • Population Cost: N/A
    • Supply Cost: 300
    • Power Cost: 80
    • Cooldown: 180 seconds
• Tier 3 Leader Powers
  • Atriox’s Bulwark I: Creates a healing area. Grants invulnerability for 1.5 seconds.
    • Population Cost: N/A
    • Supply Cost: 350
    • Power Cost: 125
    • Cooldown: 200 seconds
  • Atriox’s Bulwark II: Increases area, healing amount, and duration of Atriox’s Bulwark. Grants invulnerability for 2.0 seconds.
    • Population Cost: N/A
    • Supply Cost: 450
    • Power Cost: 175
    • Cooldown: 200 seconds
  • Atriox’s Bulwark III: Further increases area, healing amount, and duration of Atriox’s Bulwark. Grants invulnerability for 2.5 seconds.
    • Population Cost: N/A
    • Supply Cost: 550
    • Power Cost: 225
    • Cooldown: 200 seconds
  • Spirit Assault I: Drops off two Suicide Unggoy squads.
    • Population Cost: 4
    • Supply Cost: 240
    • Power Cost: 60
    • Cooldown: 165 seconds
  • Spirit Assault II: Drops off two upgraded veteran Suicide Grunt squads and one veteran Jump Pack Brute squad.
    • Population Cost: 7
    • Supply Cost: 375
    • Power Cost: 140
    • Cooldown: 165 seconds
  • Spirit Assault III: Drops off two upgraded veteran Suicide Grunt squads and two veteran Jump Pack Brute squads.
    • Population Cost: 10
    • Supply Cost: 520
    • Power Cost: 220
    • Cooldown: 165 seconds
• Tier 4 Leader Powers
  • Glassing Beam I: Fires a controllable plasma beam.
    • Population Cost: N/A
    • Supply Cost: 350
    • Power Cost: 150
    • Cooldown: 228 seconds
  • Glassing Beam II: Increases Glassing Beam size and damage.
    • Population Cost: N/A
    • Supply Cost: 450
    • Power Cost: 250
    • Cooldown: 228 seconds
  • Glassing Beam III: Further increases Glassing Beam size and damage.
    • Population Cost: N/A
    • Supply Cost: 550
    • Power Cost: 350
    • Cooldown: 228 seconds
  • Teleport I: Teleports own units to any location within range.
    • Population Cost: N/A
    • Supply Cost: N/A
    • Power Cost: 200
    • Cooldown: 165 seconds
• Tier 5 Leader Powers
  • Unbreakable: Grants invulnerability to all your deployed units for 7 seconds.
    • Population Cost: N/A
    • Supply Cost: 1,200
    • Power Cost: 800
    • Cooldown: 330 seconds
  • Eradication: Unleashes eight converging glassing beams.
    • Population Cost: N/A
    • Supply Cost: 1,000
    • Power Cost: 1,000
    • Cooldown: 360 seconds

Blitz

Starting Army:

• Bulletproof
  • 2 Grunt Squads
  • 1 Elite Rangers
  • 1 Ironclad Wraith

• Warlord
  • 1 Marauder
  • 1 Chopper
  • 2 Banshee

Strategy

• Countermeasures allows the de-capture Power Node captured by Atriox more longer than other leaders, except for Leaders that possesses a Leader Power to speeds it up (Such as Captain Cutter's UNSC Raid or Let 'Volir's Banished Raid)
• Time the leader power correctly, as Unbreakable and Atriox's Bulwark combination can be proven very lethal against all units.
  • Note that Isabel's Ghost In the Machine can nullify this combination, as she can snatch all of your armored units inside Bulwark's area.
• Dying Breath is a very useful Leader Power as your units can draw the aggro from the enemy unit as much as you could without worrying about your other units for 4 seconds. As long as the dying unit keeps drawing fire, it can give the player a good chance to obliterate the attackers with less opposition.