Muton (LWOTC)

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The Muton are the alien's main frontline unit that carries brutish strength.

"The Mutons are the alien's main frontline unit and their main troopers that carry great physical strength in many areas. As a main frontline trooper unit, they are capable of performing Suppression, pinning down our soldiers and rendering them incapapble of acting effectively. They also carry plasma grenades and their strength allows them to throw them at incredible range. Utilizing their strength, they have a Bayonet attached to their rifle that allows them to strike against our soldiers and potentially disabling them. They are also capable of performing counterattacks against our own soldier's melee attacks making it unwise to do so.

As they improve, they carry greater strength and fearlessness which allows them to Bayonet Charge to dash to our soldiers directly to strike at them. They are also now capable of performing War Crys which empowers their allies and even more so for their fellow Mutons.

Muton (Rank 1)

Difficulty	Health	Armor	Aim	Crit Chance	Flanking Crit Chance Bonus	Defense	Dodge	Mobility	Will	Detection Radius (tiles)
Rookie	8	1	80	0	33	10	0	12	55	9
Veteran	9	1	80	10	33	10	0	14	60	9
Commander	10	1	80	10	40	10	0	14	60	9
Legend	11	1	80	10	40	10	0	14	60	9

Weapon	Damage	Crit Damage	Clip Size	Other
Beam Rifle	5 - 7	3	3	-
Plasma Grenade	3 - 8	-	1	Range: 12 Radius: 4 Shred: 2 Env Dmg: 10
Bayonet	4 - 8	3	-	-

Max Units in Pod = 4

Force Level				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
Leader Spawn Weight				0	0	0	0	1	1	2	2	3	4	4	3	2	1	1	1	0	0	0	0
Follower Spawn Weight				0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	6	9	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12

Abilities and Tactical Upgrades

Suppression Fire a barrage that pins down a target, grants reaction fire against it if it moves, restricts the use of many abilities, and imposing a -25 penalty to the target's aim.	Bayonet Strike at a target in melee range with a chance to inflict a negative mental effect. 3-turn cooldown	Counterattack You may parry melee attacks and counterattack	Throw Grenade Throw a grenade at the target area.
Center Mass You do one additional point of base damage when using guns. 16% chance of applying after completion	Lethal You do 2 additional points of base damage and 1 additional point(s) of bonus critical damage with your primary weapon. 8% chance of applying after completion	Damage Control After taking damage, gain 2 armor through the end of the turn. 20% chance of applying after completion	Hard Target Gain 5 dodge per enemy you can see, up to a maximum of +30. 25% chance of applying after completion

Muton Centurion (Rank 2)

Difficulty	Health	Armor	Aim	Crit Chance	Flanking Crit Chance Bonus	Defense	Dodge	Mobility	Will	Detection Radius (tiles)
Rookie	12	2	75	0	33	10	0	12	80	9
Veteran	13	2	80	10	33	10	0	13	85	9
Commander	14	2	80	10	40	15	0	13	85	9
Legend	15	2	80	10	40	15	0	13	90	9

Weapon	Damage	Crit Damage	Clip Size	Other
Beam Rifle	5 - 8	3	3	Pierce: 1 (On Rookie: 0)
Plasma Grenade	4 - 7	-	1	Range: 15 Radius: 4 Shred: 2 Pierce: 1 (On Rookie: 0) Env Dmg: 15
Bayonet	5 - 10	3	-	Pierce: 1 (On Rookie: 0)

Max Units in Pod = 4

Force Level				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
Leader Spawn Weight				0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	4	6	6	6	6	6	5	5	5	5
Follower Spawn Weight				0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	4	6	8	10	12	12	12	12

Abilities and Tactical Upgrades

Suppression Fire a barrage that pins down a target, grants reaction fire against it if it moves, restricts the use of many abilities, and imposing a -25 penalty to the target's aim.	Bayonet Strike at a target in melee range with a chance to inflict a negative mental effect. 3-turn cooldown	Counterattack You may parry melee attacks and counterattack	Throw Grenade Throw a grenade at the target area.	Beastmaster Become immune to taking any damage from berserkers.
War Cry Shout a war cry granting all allies within range bonus aim, will and mobility. 6-turn cooldown	Flashbang Resistance Have a chance to resist the effects of flashbangs.	Bayonet Charge Dash to a target within movement range and deliver a melee attack with a chance to inflict a negative mental effect. 3-turn cooldown.	Center Mass You do one additional point of base damage when using guns. 16% chance of applying after completion	Lethal You do 2 additional points of base damage and 1 additional point(s) of bonus critical damage with your primary weapon. 8% chance of applying after completion

Muton Elite (Rank 3)

Difficulty	Health	Armor	Aim	Crit Chance	Flanking Crit Chance Bonus	Defense	Dodge	Mobility	Will	Detection Radius (tiles)
Rookie	18	3	75	0	33	15	0	12	100	10
Veteran	24	3	80	10	33	15	0	13	105	10
Commander	25	3	85	10	40	15	0	13	105	10
Legend	27	3	85	10	40	20	0	13	110	10

Weapon	Damage	Crit Damage	Clip Size	Other
Elite Plasma Cannon	6 - 10	4	6	Pierce: 2 (On Rookie: 1)
Plasma Grenade	6 - 7	-	1	Range: 16 Radius: 4 Shred: 2 Pierce: 2 (On Rookie: 1) Env Dmg: 20
Bayonet	5 - 10	3	-	Pierce: 2 (On Rookie: 1)

Max Units in Pod = 2

Force Level				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
Leader Spawn Weight				0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Follower Spawn Weight				0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	3	5	6	8

Abilities and Tactical Upgrades

Suppression Fire a barrage that pins down a target, grants reaction fire against it if it moves, restricts the use of many abilities, and imposing a -25 penalty to the target's aim.	Bayonet Strike at a target in melee range with a chance to inflict a negative mental effect. 3-turn cooldown	Counterattack You may parry melee attacks and counterattack	Throw Grenade Throw a grenade at the target area.	Beastmaster Become immune to taking any damage from berserkers.	War Cry Shout a war cry granting all allies within range bonus aim, will and mobility. 6-turn cooldown
Flashbang Resistance Have a chance to resist the effects of flashbangs.	Bayonet Charge Dash to a target within movement range and deliver a melee attack with a chance to inflict a negative mental effect. 3-turn cooldown.	Personal Shield Generate a shield granting 5 shield HP that lasts 5-turns. 5-turn cooldown.	Shredder Your primary weapon attacks shred armor. 16% chance of applying after completion	Grazing Fire Missed shots with your primary weapon have an additional roll to become a graze. 25% chance of applying after completion	Center Mass You do one additional point of base damage when using guns. 16% chance of applying after completion	Lethal You do 2 additional points of base damage and 1 additional point(s) of bonus critical damage with your primary weapon. 8% chance of applying after completion

Tips

• Like most flankable units, they will ideally try to find reasonable cover whenever flanked. This can be taken advantage of if you want to force enemies to move. Unlike most other units though, Mutons are much more fearless and will decide to stay out of cover if they deem it to be more dangerous to move. THis can be taken advantage of to force them to remain out of cover but it isn't always beneficial.
• Like most units with AOE moves, you ideally want to spread your soldiers out in order to greatly dissuade them from ever using them.
• Mutons are extremely likely to melee if they have an opportunity to. This can be manipulated to melee a soldier with Combatives to effectively waste their turn but also receive a counterattack.
• Muton's counterattack grants them bonus dodge against melee attacks which makes it a poor option against them. If you need to melee attack them, it is best to disable them in some way like disorienting to prevent the use of it or to have high crit to mitigate the chances as much as possible.
• War Cry is a very powerful ability granting all allies bonus stats. It is best to disable the muton in order to prevent this or to disable their allies to prevent from utilizing these bonuses.