Invader

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Invader

Arachnid Invader

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Four-legged robot. Excels at initiating fights: Invader can jump into the enemies and drastically lower their firepower

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— in-game description

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Invader

Purchase Information
In-Game Cost	Real Value	Exp Level
10,000	$75	19
Robot Information
Class	Ability	Faction
Medium	Incursion	DSC
Base Statistics
Level	Durability	Speed
1	154,846	40 kph
Armaments			Standard Paint Jobs
Hardpoints	2x Light 1x Medium
Default Weapons	2x Punisher 1x Punisher T
Module Slots			Legendary Paint Jobs
Active	Yes		coming soon
Passive	3
Other			Legendary Pilots
Tier	~
Wiki Class	Heavy
Potential Role	~

Workshop Production Information
1 Day Cost	3 Day Cost
200,000	660,000
Components	Components
60	170

Introduction

The Invader is a medium robot with a medium and 2 light hardpoints. It is unofficially classified as a heavy robot based on wiki criteria.

Ability

Invader's ability is Incursion. When activated the Invader jumps and gains 33% damage resistance to all enemy weapons (except Titan weapons, which ignore damage resistance), then lands in a similar way to Mercury, meaning the pilot can command the Invader to smash down onto the ground immediately, or plane down based on the initial trajectory of the jump.  Upon landing the Invader retains its damage resistance for 5 more seconds while emitting an electrical impulse which suppresses the weapon systems of all enemies within 100 meters, reducing their damage output by 66% for 5 seconds. When factoring in Invader's damage resistance, the net damage to Invader is reduced by 78% for 5 seconds.  Incursion has a cooldown of 16 seconds.

Strategy

The Invader is one of the biggest threats to every robot due to its ability. For a medium robot, Invader has exceptional durability and can jump onto an opponent with damage resistance. Even the most powerful and dangerous robots, such as the Bulwark, and even Ares will be caught off guard by Invader's ability. Once activated, Invader can jump pretty far with its 4 legs and dramatically weaken an opponent's weapons. After that, Invader overwhelms any kind of robot with its weapons. Due to this, its play style centers around Incursion.

Despite the very long jump distance, the Invader still needs to be able to approach enemy robots, even under fire. Using available cover and the Invader's slightly lower profile is a good idea to take the least damage as possible, and the Invader's high health also ensures that mishaps are more easily forgiven. Once within jumping distance, pilots should activate the ability (especially if against multiple enemy bots) to reduce several enemy robots’ weapon damage at once, ensuring that you and your teammates sustain less damage and can hopefully destroy the entire group.

As enemy pilots will be wary of Invader and its ability, they may try to retreat behind cover or get out of the effect radius. Despite Invader's decent speed, fast robots such as the Kumiho can fall back pretty quickly. To try and counter this, again, use cover to stay out of sight and immobilization weapons such as Corona, Halo, Pulsar, and Shredder can come in handy to immobilize enemy robots and therefore preventing them from escaping.

The one limitation of the Invader is its mediocre firepower, consisting of only 1 Medium and 2 Light weapons. Due to this, the Invader should be played as a support robot, ideally with teammates as a mobile-strike group. Playing with teammates allows the Invader to decrease enemy bots’ firepower and let heavier armed brawlers deal most of the damage. However, if you do find yourself alone, the Invader can hold its own against beacon cappers and other robots such as the Kumiho, Haechi and even some Ares, if you're skillfull enough to land inside its shield. Even if you don't, you can still supress it with it's wide radius of effect.

Invader is an extremely powerful robot and shouldn't be underestimated. It is incredibly difficult to play against for every robot because of its ability to shrug off obscene quantities of damage and still deal massive damage itself. Once a robot is hit by Incursion, it becomes virtually impossible to deal any meaningful amount of damage to the opposing Invader, and even the invader's team, so to counterplay it mostly revolves around avoiding that fateful smackdown. Dash robots are especially good at this, as they can evade Incursion's debuff by moving away. Similarly, lockdown weapons can be used to prevent Invader from jumping to begin with, thus avoiding having weapons being crippled.

The potential of the healing module for the Invader cannot be underestimated either as it’s high HP comes with high potential as well. This means it has the potential to heal a large percentage of its health, thus allowing it to stay in the fight for a MASSIVE time period.

Nevertheless, it is reccommended to command the Invader in a Custom Game first, as its long legs are quite easy to get tangled in certain maps, especially compact ones like Shenzhen or Dead City.

Possible Setups

These setups are recommended for the Invader:

Note: Each slot type is filled with only one particular weapon. For example, if a robot has 3 light all three of those slots are filled with Pinatas, as mixing weapons of the same slot type is not advisable.

Close Range (350m or less)

Slot Types →	Light Slot (Opt. 1)↓	Light Slot (Opt. 2)↓	Light Slot (Opt. 3)↓	Light Slot (Opt. 4)↓	Medium Slot ↓
#Slots →	x2	x2	x2	x2	x1	Name (If Applicable) ↓
Setup 1 →						Mini Death Button
Setup 1 →						Flamethrower
Setup 2 →						Mini-Plasma Death Button
Setup 3 →						Mini-Leadhose
Setup 4 →						Shotgun
Setup 5 →						Energy Shotgun

Mid-Range (500-600m)

Slot Types →	Light Slot (Opt. 1)↓	Light Slot (Opt. 2) ↓	Medium Slot ↓
#Slots →	x2	x2	x1
Setup 1 →
Setup 2 →

Mark I Statistics

Purchase Information

Level	Durability	Speed	Cost
1	154,846	40	10,000

Upgrade Information

Level	Durability	Speed	Cost	Time
2	165,169	40	100,000	2 hours
3	175,492	41	200,000	5 hours
4	186,754	41	400,000	14 hours
5	198,954	42	2,000,000	1 day 4 hours
6	212,092	42	4,000,000	2 days 18 hours
7	225,231	43	6,000,000	4 days 6 hours
8	239,308	43	11,000,000	5 days 4 hours
9	254,323	44	17,000,000	5 days 20 hours
10	270,277	44	36,000,000	6 days 4 hours
11	287,169	44	52,000,000	6 days 12 hours
12	305,000	44	70,000,000	6 days 20 hours

	Cost	Time
Totals	198,700,000	34 days 1 hour

Mark II Statistics

Purchase Information

Level	Durability	Speed	Cost
1	305,000	44	500

Note: Level 12 Mark I is required to enhance (purchase) to Mark II.

Upgrade Information

Level	Durability	Speed	Cost	Time
2	310,600	44	2,500,000	1 day
3	316,200	44	5,000,000	2 days
4	321,800	44	10,000,000	3 days
5	327,400	44	22,500,000	4 days
6	333,000	44	22,500,000	4 days
7	338,600	44	22,500,000	4 days
8	344,200	44	22,500,000	4 days
9	349,800	44	22,500,000	4 days
10	355,400	44	22,500,000	4 days
11	361,000	44	22,500,000	4 days
12	366,600	44	22,500,000	4 days

	Cost	Time
Totals	170,000,000	38 days

Update History

Version	Changes
5.7.2	Arachnid model bonus durability increased from 5% → 10%
5.7	New alternative model: Arachnid Invader (Lunar New Year 2020)
5.6	New limited edition skin: Symbiotic (Operation: Cold Snap)
	New skin: Symbiotic
5.2.0	New skin: Red Baron (Above the Stars event)
5.0	Speed increased by 10%
	Durability decreased by 6%
	Ability cooldown increased from 13 seconds → 16 seconds
4.8.0	Total Upgrade Time: 49 days 8 hours 30 minutes⟶34 days 1 hour
4.7.0	Gains 33% damage resistance during jump and 5 seconds after landing (ability)
	Total Upgrade Time: 58 days 17 hours⟶49 days 8 hours 30 minutes
4.5	New skin: Wartpat (Christmas)
	Economy Changes:
	Total Upgrade Cost: 170,700,000 Ag⟶198,700,000 Ag
4.3	Robot was added to the game

Paint Jobs

Available For Purchase

Limited Edition

Alternative Model (+10% Durability)

Arachnid

Trivia

• The Invader is the first four-legged robot to be able to jump.
• The Invader has one of the largest health pools in the entire game.
• The Invader is the only four-legged robot that suffers from landing lag.
• The Invader's Suppression can be activated in mid-air. 
• The special variant - Arachnid Invader - when using its ability, it does not make a sound or create a large yellow wave upon landing unlike the Invader. This allows for a stealthier surprise attack on a target.
• The Arachnid Invader also has an idle animation, which would make it the first robot variant to have an idle animation.
• This robot can have over 1.75 million effective hp when it's ability is active.
• The Invader's Incursion ability actually does damage, though only very little. Getting a kill just by Incursion is a rare sight.
• Click [[1]] here] for a 3D image of this robot.

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