Abomination (Warcraft III)

For other versions, see Abomination (disambiguation).

Abomination
Race	Abomination
Faction	Undead Scourge
Statistics
Hit points	1175
Hit point regeneration	Blight
Hit point regeneration rate	2.00 HP/sec.
Unit Type	Undead
Level	4
Gold	240
Lumber	70
Food	4
Produced at	Slaughterhouse
Build time	40 sec.
Requires	Black Citadel
Hotkey	A
Collision Size	48
Combat
Weapon(s)	Cleaver and Hook
Normal attack	33-39 (36 avg)
Can attack	Ground, Structure, Debris, Item, Ward
Range	12.8 (Melee)
Attack type	Normal
Cooldown	1.90 sec.
Weapon type	Normal
Armor Type	Heavy
Armor	2
Day Sight	140
Night Sight	80
Movement Speed	Average (270)
Sound
Sound Set	Abomination

This article contains lore taken from Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, the manuals, and/or official bonus maps.

The twisted, mutilated bodies of the Abominations are comprised of multiple dead limbs and body parts from various corpses. These enormous warriors love to carve flesh and tear their enemies apart. The slow moving and slow-witted Abominations constantly drip blood behind them and smell like a disease ridden slaughterhouse. They carry large cleavers into combat and wield various sickle-bladed hooks on their disproportionate limbs.

Information

Abominations are very powerful ground melee troops with lots of hit points. You should build two Slaughterhouses so that you can build two Abominations at once. Be sure to upgrade the Abominations as much as possible. Abominations are a good progression after Ghouls.

Use Abominations with Necromancers. Cast Unholy Frenzy on Abominations to make them even more powerful. The Abominations are the Undead counterpart of the Human Knight, Orc Raider and Night Elf Huntress.

Counters

Abominations have heavy armor which means it's best to use magic attacks against them.

Spells and abilities

Cannibalize

Consumes a nearby corpse to heal 25 hit points per second. It takes 20 seconds to fully consume a corpse.

Research Cost Researched At Upgrade Time 50 Crypt 15 sec.
Duration Range Allowed Targets Effect 20 sec. 5 Dead, Organic Heals 25 HP/sec.

Notes: The most wounded units are prioritized, if a group is ordered to cannibalize.

Cannibalize takes a while to work so its best to use it after a battle or to make sure the enemy isn't attacking you while you're using it. Cannibalize and Raise Dead will automatically use corpses in a Meat Wagon as if the corpses were on the ground. So bring Meat Wagons with Exhume Corpses. When units Cannibalize, the most injured units do so first. Group orders won't apply to Ghouls (and Abominations) that are busy Cannibalizing corpses. This is because it would prevent them from healing (Cannibalizing) before the process is complete.

Disease Cloud

Infects nearby enemy living units with Disease Cloud. Disease Cloud deals 2 damage per second. Lasts 75 seconds.

Research Cost Researched At Requirements Upgrade Time 100 200 Slaughterhouse Black Citadel 45 sec.
Duration Allowed Targets Effect 75 sec. Ground, Enemy Organic, Neutral Deals 2 damage/sec.

Though the negative regeneration means almost nothing against most units (especially when the enemy has increased natural regeneration), the disease cloud acts as a pseudo-wall when the Abomination dies.

Upgrades

Unholy Strength

Increases the attack damage of Ghouls, Meat Wagons, Abominations, Skeleton Warriors, and Skeletal Mages.

Research Cost	Researched At	Upgrade Time	Effect
125 50	Graveyard	60 sec.	Normal attack: 34-46 (40 avg)

Improved Unholy Strength

Further increases the attack damage of Ghouls, Meat Wagons, Abominations, Skeleton Warriors, and Skeletal Mages.

Research Cost	Researched At	Requirements	Upgrade Time	Effect
200 150	Graveyard	Halls of the Dead	75 sec.	Normal attack: 35-53 (44 avg)

Advanced Unholy Strength

Further increases the attack damage of Ghouls, Meat Wagons, Abominations, Skeleton Warriors, and Skeletal Mages.

Research Cost	Researched At	Requirements	Upgrade Time	Effect
275 250	Graveyard	Black Citadel	90 sec.	Normal attack: 36-60 (48 avg)

Unholy Armor

Increases the armor of Ghouls, Abominations, Skeleton Warriors, and Skeletal Mages.

Research Cost	Researched At	Upgrade Time	Effect
125 50	Graveyard	60 sec.	Armor: 4

Improved Unholy Armor

Further increases the armor of Ghouls, Abominations, Skeleton Warriors, and Skeletal Mages.

Research Cost	Researched At	Requirements	Upgrade Time	Effect
200 150	Graveyard	Halls of the Dead	75 sec.	Armor: 6

Advanced Unholy Armor

Further increases the armor of Ghouls, Abominations, Skeleton Warriors, and Skeletal Mages.

Research Cost	Researched At	Requirements	Upgrade Time	Effect
275 250	Graveyard	Black Citadel	90 sec.	Armor: 8

Backpack

Gives the ability to carry up to two items. Items carried by the unit will be dropped upon death.

Units can not use or gain benefits of items that they carry.

Research Cost Researched At Requires Upgrade Time 50 25 Townhall-type Structure Player-built Shop 20 sec.

Quotes

• See Warcraft III Abomination quotes

Trivia

• In the early development of Warcraft III, Abominations were originally meant to be hero units, with one of the random hero names being "Miasmus".

Patch changes

• Patch 1.15 (2004-05-10): Hit points increased to 1175 from 1080.
  

External links

Battle.net Warcraft III - Undead -> Units -> Abomination

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