Ursa

Ursas protect allies by redirecting some of the incoming damage to the Ursa.

The Ursa is a Tier 3 Omnivore Amoeba. Ursas are very bulky amoebas that can absorb half of the damage nearby teammates take from enemy amoebas, greatly increasing their team's survivability at the cost of their own.

As Omnivores, Ursas can feed from both algae and attacking other amoebas. Due to their high food cap, they need to eat a full algae tree, 4 microalgae, or attack enemies 20 times to become Well Fed (all of these actions will contribute to their progress, even partially.) Omnivores also regenerate health twice as fast as Carnivores and Herbivores (2 health per second instead of 1) and move at normal speed through undergrowth.

When a teammate up to 2 tiles away from an Ursa gets attacked by an enemy amoeba, the damage is split into half and distributed to both the teammate and the Ursa. This can only happen once; no matter how many Ursas are near an amoeba, the damage will only be split with one Ursa.

### Ursa Upgrades

* **Iron Hide**: All damage taken by the Ursa is reduced by 3. This does not affect Alphas' Hunt the Weak upgrade.
* **Bearing the Brunt**: Doubles the max health of Ursas to 600.

### Omnivore Upgrades

* **Natural Highway**: Entering undergrowth increases the Ursa's movement speed by 50% while in it and for 4 seconds after exiting it.
* **Regeneration**: Ursas will regenerate 4 health per second instead of 2.

## Outbreak

Similarly to Battle Royale, players start each mission with 3 Locusts that drop at a random spot on the map. This initial drop can include an Ursa with AMI deployment modules.

Traits

Ursas can receive the following traits:

* X +5% Max Health (for a total of +x% Max Health)
* X +1HP/2sec Health Regeneration (for a total of +xHP/ysec Health Regeneration)
* X +5% Starting Food Points (for a total of +x% Starting Food Points)
* X +5% Movement Speed (for a total of +x% Movement Speed)
* X +5% Attack Speed (for a total of +x% Attack Speed)
* X +5% Mutate Cost Refund (for a total of x% Mutate Cost Refund)

## Tips

* Due to their high health, one might find Healing Probes to be preferable over Poison Probes in combat. Since the healing effect is based on percentage, Ursas gain more health than any other amoeba: 30 (or 60 with Bearing the Brunt) health every 2 seconds, for an effective 15 (or 30) health per second regeneration for 10 seconds.
* Ursas have the second highest health stat in the game, beaten only by the Chaos Amoeba.

## Trivia

* In the 2012 DSiware release "Amoebattle", Ursa's didn't have a protection buff. Many Amoeba were balanced only for the single player campaign due to Skirmish and Battle Royale modes being absent. The old Ursa was a simple tank with high HP, but testers found that human players would simply run around them to more vulnerable targets. The protection buff was originally an Upgrade for Battle Royale, but testers felt Ursas were more fun with it always active. The change allows Ursas to soak damage by just being present in your army, making them less awkward to use and much better tanks.

## Gallery

Official portrait art of the Ursa.In-game appearance of the Ursa in various colors.