Destroyer (Warcraft III)

Large flying unit that must consume magic to sustain its mana. Breaking free of the obsidian stone that holds them, these monstrous creatures roar into battle, swallowing magic to feed their insatiable hunger as they move between battles and rain destruction down upon their foes. Has Spell Immunity. Attacks land and air units.

Information
This is an anti-caster unit designed to fight spellcasters. This unit is created by morphing an Obsidian Statue into a Destroyer. Once morphed, the Destroyer cannot turn back into an Obsidian Statue.

Destroyers start with 0 mana.

Destroyers cannot regenerate mana from a Fountain of Mana due to balance reasons.

A b sorb Mana

 * Takes all mana from one of your units and gives it to the Destroyer.

D evour Magic

 * Consumes all positive and negative buffs from all units in an area. Each unit that is devoured of magic gives back the Destroyer 50 hit points and 75 mana. Deals 180 damage to summoned units.

Devour Magic does not give health or mana when a player devours friendly buffs. Devour Magic dispels the owl summoned by Sentinel, but does not give mana to the Destroyer.

O rb of Annihilation

 * Adds 20 bonus damage to the Destroyer's attack and causes his attacks to do area of effect damage.

Spell Immunity (Passive)

 * Renders this unit immune to negative spells.

Upgrades

 * Creature A ttack
 * Increases the attack damage of Crypt Fiends, Gargoyles, Destroyers, and Frost Wyrms.


 * BTNImprovedCreatureAttack.png
 * Improved Creature A ttack
 * Further increases the attack damage of Crypt Fiends, Gargoyles, Destroyers, and Frost Wyrms.


 * {| class="darktable" style="text-align:center"

! Research Cost !! Researched At !! Requirements !! Upgrade Time
 * - class="alt"
 * 200 [[File:WC3gold.gif]] 125 [[File:WC3lumber.gif]] || Graveyard || Halls of the Dead || 75 sec.
 * }


 * BTNAdvancedCreatureAttack.png
 * Advanced Creature A ttack
 * Further increases the attack damage of Crypt Fiends, Gargoyles, Destroyers, and Frost Wyrms.


 * {| class="darktable" style="text-align:center"

! Research Cost !! Researched At !! Requirements !! Upgrade Time
 * - class="alt"
 * 250 [[File:WC3gold.gif]] 200 [[File:WC3lumber.gif]] || Graveyard || Black Citadel || 90 sec.
 * }


 * Creature C arapace
 * Increases the armor of Crypt Fiends, Gargoyles, Destroyers, and Frost Wyrms.


 * BTNImprovedCreatureCarapace.png
 * Improved Creature C arapace
 * Further increases the armor of Crypt Fiends, Gargoyles, Destroyers, and Frost Wyrms.


 * {| class="darktable" style="text-align:center"

! Research Cost !! Researched At !! Requirements !! Upgrade Time
 * - class="alt"
 * 200 [[File:WC3gold.gif]] 200 [[File:WC3lumber.gif]] || Graveyard || Halls of the Dead || 75 sec.
 * }


 * BTNAdvancedCreatureCarapace.png
 * Advanced Creature C arapace
 * Further increases the armor of Crypt Fiends, Gargoyles, Destroyers, and Frost Wyrms.


 * {| class="darktable" style="text-align:center"

! Research Cost !! Researched At !! Requirements !! Upgrade Time
 * - class="alt"
 * 250 [[File:WC3gold.gif]] 325 [[File:WC3lumber.gif]] || Graveyard || Black Citadel || 90 sec.
 * }

Trivia

 * The Destroyer was originally known as a "Black Sphinx" in the Frozen Throne Beta.