Shade

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Shade
Kharaa
Team Resources 13
Supply 20 / 200
Health 600 (1200)	Armor 0
Abilities
Abilities: Cloak, Ink
Miscellaneous
Tech Requirements: Build on Infestation
Builds From:	Alien Commander
Buy From:	Advanced Tab
Hotkey:	S
Maturation Time:	120 seconds

Introduction

The Shade is an Alien advanced structure that will passively cloak players and structures until they enter combat, become damaged or a hostile marine touch them. When the Aliens have the Shade hive, the Shade gains a second ability called Ink that the commander can use to surround the Shade in a shroud of Ink making it harder for Marines and rendering scans and ARCs useless.

Abilities

Passive Ability

Cloak

Cloak Cloaks nearby Alien structures, players, and Drifters Targets Player, Structure, Drifter Requires not on fire

Triggered Ability

Ink

Ink Creates a cloud of Ink around the Shade for Alien units to hide in Hotkey A TRes 3 Duration 5.30 seconds seconds Cooldown 15 seconds seconds Targets Player, Structure, Drifter Requires Shade Hive, not on fire

Kharaa

• Lifeforms
• Abilities
• Evolutions
• Commander
• Units / Structures
• Miscellaneous

Classes - Skulk  •  Gorge  •  Lerk  •  Fade  •  Onos

Mechanics - Alien Vision  •  Evolve Menu  •  Hive Sight

Base Abilities
Skulk - (Sneak  •  Wall Walking  •  Bite  •  Parasite)  •  Gorge - (Belly Slide  •  Spit  •  Heal Spray  •  Build Menu)  •  Lerk - (Flight  •  Roost  •  Poison Bite  •  Spikes)  • 
Fade - (Swipe  •  Blink)  •  Onos - (Gore)

Unlockable Abilities
Skulk - (Leap  • Xenocide)  •  Gorge - (Bile Bomb)  •  Lerk - (Spores  •  Umbra)  •  Fade - (Metabolize •  Advanced Metabolize •  Stab) •  Onos - (Charge  •  Bone Shield  •  Stomp)

Shift Hive - (Adrenaline  •  Celerity  •  Crush)
Shade Hive - (Aura  •  Camouflage  •  Focus)
Crag Hive - (Carapace  •  Regeneration  •  Vampirism)

Removed - Frenzy  •  Swarm  •  Phantom  •  Silence  •  Feign Death  •  Hyper-mutation

Mechanics - Alien Commander  •  Biomass  •  Infestation  •  Maturation  •  Consume  •  Resource Model

Abilities - Heal Wave  •  Ink  •  Echo  •  Nutrient Mist  •  Rupture  •  Bone Wall  •  Contamination  •  Enzyme Cloud  •  Hallucination Cloud  •  Mucous Membrane

Gorge - Babbler  •  Hydra  •  Clog  •  Webs
Build - Cyst  •  Harvester  •  Drifter  •  Tunnel  •  Hive (Egg)  •  Pheromones

Advanced - Crag  •  Shade  •  Shift  •  Whip  •  Shell  •  Veil  •  Spur

Game Information - Options  •  Maps  •  Console Commands  •  Patches
In Game - Damage Types •  Status Icons  •  Ranking System  •  Badges

Other - Skins  •  DLC  •  Mapping  •  Matched Play