Manticore and Scorpicore

Dungeon creatures
Level 1
Troglodyte
Infernal Troglodyte
Level 2
Harpy
Harpy Hag
Level 3
Beholder
Evil Eye
Level 4
Medusa
Medusa Queen
Level 5
Minotaur
Minotaur King
Level 6
Manticore
Scorpicore
Level 7
Red Dragon
Black Dragon
Towns

Statistics
Manticore
Cost per troop  850
	Attack 15 Defense 13 Damage 14–20 Health 80 Speed 7 Movement Flying Size 2 Growth 2 AI Value 1547
Scorpicore
Cost per troop  1050
	Attack 16 Defense 14 Damage 14–20 Health 80 Speed 11 Movement Flying Size 2 Growth 2 AI Value 1589
Special abilities:
• Paralyzing Venom
Portraits

Manticores and Scorpicores are the level 6 creatures of the Dungeon. They are recruited from the Manticore Lair.

"Manticores and their venomous cousins, the scorpicores, have features combined of bat, lion and scorpion. They attack with stabs from their stinging tails. Scorpicore attacks have a 20% chance of paralyzing an opponent. Creatures thus petrified take 50% damage and are unfrozen when attacked or after three rounds." ^{RoE manual}

Special Ability: Paralyzing Venom

Effect	Affected unit cannot act
Duration	3 Rounds
Chance	20%
Resist	Gold Dragons Black Dragons Magic Elementals

Paralyzing Venom is a special ability of Scorpicores. A target surviving a Scorpicore's attack has a 20% chance of being paralyzed immediately after. Paralyzed creatures forgo their turn for the remainder of the current combat round and the two combat rounds thereafter, unless they are attacked meanwhile. Paralyzed creatures take full damage from attacks, but retaliate at only a quarter of their strength. The effect can be removed with Cure or Dispel. Paralyzing Venom is negated by the Recanter's Cloak and Cursed Ground, but not by the Orb of Inhibition.

The description of the Paralyzing Venom attack seems to be wrong, since it is just copy-pasted from Petrification. The Paralyzing Venom is actually significantly better (in not making creatures take 50% less damage, but retaliate more weakly), but the very low stats of Manticores and the still just as low probability of a trigger don't help much.

Heroes with a specialty

• Synca the Overlord has manticores as a specialty, which increases the attack and defense skills of any manticores or scorpicores for each level attained after 6th level and gives them a speed bonus of 1.

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Because of their low stats for a level 6 creature, especially in health, two Minotaurs are considered to be a better deal than one Manticore, at the same cost with double the damage and more health. Basic Manticores are almost useless as their speed isn't sufficient to fly into a town, and they don't have paralyzing ability. Scorpicores are decent for sieging towns, and also they can be used to block shooters, paralyze stacks and soak up retaliations, leaving the Dragons and Minotaurs to finish off the opponent without receiving damage (the latter have only 50 HPs, thus an attack with retaliation may be fatal for them). The high speed of Scorpicores allows a hero to use them for rushing through the map, when Dragons are yet to be purchased. External Links Thread: Rules for (Creature) Spells and Orbs in Heroes Community

See also:

• List of creatures

• Comparison of Level 6 Creatures