Wasp

Wasps are simple amoebas with a long ranged attack.

The Wasp is a Tier 1 Herbivore amoeba. Similarly to other Tier 1 amoebas, Wasps aren't particularly strong in low numbers, but their low food cap and relatively small replicate cost and cyst time allow them to grow in numbers more easily than higher tier amoebas. Wasps in particular are good at supplementing the damage output of melee units and targeting specific enemy units to prioritize removing bigger threats like Carnivores first.

As an Herbivore, Wasps can only become Well Fed by eating algae, requiring 1/4 of a large algae tree or one microalgae. They also receive 50% increased attack damage and regenerate an extra 10 health per second when standing in the grass surrounding algae. While Wasps don't inflict a debuff when attacking like other Herbivores, their ease of replication and upgrades in Battle Royale make them a worthwhile unit for their high combined damage outfit.

The attack boost from grass is added onto the Well Fed attack boost. Without any upgrades, a Well Fed Wasp standing on grass will gain +6 attack damage, doubling its base attack damage to 12.

A Well Fed Wasp with the Stuffed upgrade on grass with the Go Green upgrade will gain +9 attack damage (+4.5 from both grass and Well Fed), giving it a total of 15 damage per hit.

###  Upgrades

####  Locust Upgrades

* **Sharpened Stingers**: Increases the attack range of wasps by 2, for a total of 8 units of attack range.
* **Pew Pew Pew**: Wasps attack 50% faster. With this upgrade, Wasps will wait 1.33 seconds after finishing an attack to start another instead of 2 seconds.

####  Omnivore Upgrades

* **Grass Fed**: Increases the efficiency of Wasp feeding by 60%. With this upgrade, up to 6 wasps can become well fed from an algae tree, and a 7th wasp can fill 2/3 of its food cap.
* **Go Green**: Increases the Wasps' attack and healing bonuses when standing on algae grass by 50%, making their grass bonuses +75% attack damage and +15 health per second.

## Outbreak

The primary role of Wasps in Outbreak is to deal large amounts of damage. Their traits and discovery upgrades are centered around increasing their attack damage and attack speed.

###  Traits

Wasps can receive the following traits:

* 5 +5% Max Health (for a total of +25% Max Health)
* 7 +1HP/2sec Health Regeneration (for a total of +7HP/2sec Health Regeneration)
* 4 +5% Starting Food Points (for a total of +20% Starting Food Points)
* 2 +5% Movement Speed (for a total of +10% Movement Speed)
* 8 +5% Attack Speed (for a total of +40% Attack Speed)
* 4 +5% Mutate Cost Refund (for a total of 20% Mutate Cost Refund)

and Discovery Upgrades: (TODO)

* Unstable Growth: When a Locust replicates, all enemy amoeba adjacent to it are hit for 20 damage.
* Accelerated Growth: When a Locust replicates, 34% of the replication energy cost is refunded.
* Unchecked Growth: When a Locust replicates, 3 new Locusts are produced instead of 2.
* Locust Swarm: Each Locust will count as 1/3 against the amoeba cap.
* Regeneration: Increases the base health regeneration of Locusts by 100% for a total of 4HP/sec.
* Natural Highway: Entering undergrowth increases the Locust's movement speed by 100% while in it and for 2 seconds after exiting it.

## Tips

* Wasp shots travel through terrain, so wasps can target amoeba behind the cover of a wall as long as you have units on the other side granting you sight of the enemy.
* With the Sharpened Stingers upgrade, Wasps have the highest attack range in the game (at 8 units.)
* With the Pew Pew Pew upgrade, Wasps are the only kind of amoeba to have an attack period that isn't 2 seconds.
* Wasps do best when they target a single enemy amoeba together, as it minimizes the amount of attack damage wasted due to health regeneration and the amount of damage the enemy could do with their own amoeba. A control group can be useful in selecting all wasps at once to do this.
* Wasps are significantly stronger while on grass. It's best to fight them off their own turf. They can be avoided until the miasma pushes them out, and Battle Royale extinction upgrades like Armageddon and Call of the Wild can scare the herbivores off as well as kill a significant amount of their amoebas if they aren't prepared.

## Trivia

* The Wasp was the first amoeba to be designed and was originally going to be the first amoeba acquired in the campaign. This was changed to the Locust due to it having more opportunity to explain game mechanics such as replication and both methods of feeding units.

## Gallery

Official portrait art of the WaspIn-game appearance of the Wasp in various colors.Early concept art for the Wasp. This was the first instance of the cute, blobby visual style eventually used in the full game.Early concept art for the Wasp.Early concept art of the Wasp.Early concept art for the Wasp and other tier-1 amoeba