Medic (Zombie)

Medic (Zombie)
This enemy causes an infection that increases the health of all zombies within a small area.
Main Stats
Health 80 Melee Damage 10
Crit. Chance	0%
Speed	4
Rage Drop	4
Behavior Stats
Agility	25
Aggression	25
Morale Stats
Charisma	-8
Charisma Radius	50
Abilities
Activation Chance	50%
Resistances
Knockback	20%

Medic is an infected dressed in a lab coat and blue pants. Its rib cage and chest have burst outward, causing almost all of its ribs to stick out at unnatural angles. It emanates floating blue particles around its body.

Overview

Medic is one of the few zombies that has supportive abilities. It's capable of providing 30 shield points to all zombies in an area around it, but not itself. The area's radius is equal to 100 range.

The shield application ability comes with a special animation during which Medic is unable to attack. Its activation chance is relatively high.

Medic's shields do not stack: every time it applies a shield on a zombie, regardless of how many SP it might have, the number always resets to 30.

Strategy

Medic, and more specifically, its ability, can be very dangerous as it can seriously hinder a push and slow down progress during the mission. The SP Medic provides allows zombies to survive powerful hits such as a Grenadier's grenades or Mechanic's additional damage attack so long as they have at any amount of SP left. If zombies are fought while Medic is nearby, they can reapply SP over and over again. This can potentially keep them alive long enough for them to kill opponents while taking little to no damage to their regular health. As stated earlier, Medic cannot use its own ability on itself to gain additional protection but can benefit from another Medic.

Due to Medic's ability constantly stopping it in place on top of its already slow movement speed, it typically keeps itself safe in the backline or in the middle of crowds, allowing it to constantly provide SP to all zombies around it while staying out of reach from units. However, it is vulnerable to rage abilities, meaning players can simply bypass this issue by dropping Empty Barrel, Red Barrel, and even Molotov directly on it to quickly eliminate it. Red Barrel and Molotov are particularly powerful, as SP does not stop their fire damage. While Grenadier isn't able to damage zombies directly as long as they have SP, an unprotected Medic is a very easy target.

Trivia

• Medic has an appearance very similar to Skeleton.
• SP granted by Medic will not allow zombies to survive certain lethal attacks, such as being run over by the bus.

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