Corrupted Ancient

The Corrupted Ancient is an -controlled . Like their Infested originals, the Corrupted Ancient radiates an aura that grants to their allies.
==Behavior==
*Periodically emits 4 pulses, granting it and each allied enemy within 10 meters 225% of their maximum health as per pulse.
** granted by the Ancient is capped at 900% of a unit's maximum health.
***Multiple Ancients cannot increase the total , but rather regenerates it up to the total.
**Overguard is granted without a line of sight restriction.
** granted this way decays at a rate of 5% per second, meaning that all will be gone after 20 seconds.
***Allied units that leave the aura range will retain the Overguard and will decay as normal.
***Killing the Ancient Protector does not remove Overguard given to allied units.
***If a unit is under the status effect when the Overguard is fully decayed, they will also suffer from an additional status effect.Overguard
**If under the effect, an Ancient Protector will only grant Overguard to itself.
*When made into an ally, such as a Specter or , the 10 meter aura instead redirects 90% of incoming damage and all status effects received by Tenno within range to the Ancient Protector. Redirected damage will heal the Ancient Protector, up to 150% health.
**Defense objective, data terminals, and Excavators all benefit from this aura.
*They will occasionally deploy grappling hooks to reel in players into melee range, identical to that used by .
**The grappling hook has a 1 second delay before being reeled back and inflicting . During this time the player can cut the rope with a melee attack, or bullet jump or roll which will cause the Ancient Protector to be dragged along.
==Farming Locations==
These are based on opinions and may not be 100% true. These should be viewed as advice for finding the enemies until better facts are proven.
==Trivia==
*As the is the only type of Infested to be found in the Void, and may have been trapped there for centuries, it can be assumed that Ancient Protectors are the oldest form of Ancient Infested.
*Until , the Corrupted Ancient was the only Corrupted enemy in the game that functioned differently from its normal version, having the behavior and abilities of the pre- Ancient Protectors. This was fixed in the aforementioned update, which gave Corrupted Ancients the same abilities as their Infested counterparts.
==Media==
Sanguine Ancient Elder.png|A Corrupted Ancient with the Lifesteal Leader buff.
Caustic Ancient Elder 1.png|Corrupted Ancient with Fire Eximus buff, stuck on a plant. (1/3)
Caustic Ancient Elder 2.png|Corrupted Ancient with Fire Eximus buff, stuck on a plant. (2/3)
Caustic Ancient Elder 3.png|Corrupted Ancient with Fire Eximus buff, stuck on a plant. (3/3)
==Patch History==
==See Also==
*Orokin
*Corrupted
*Factions
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