Advena

"Creatures not out of this world, designed to adapt and kill" Advena is the starter breed of Sipho, and overall a very powerful and reliable option early on.

Appearance
They have an aesthetic comprised primarily of a base steel-blue sheen, with fleshy pink-orange highlights forming ringed tubes, webbing, cysts, and structure for the main weapon, which are often flanked by very dark cobalt ridges which they are attached to. They have visibly sturdy cordlike connections which are darker than the base color, but have the same sheen.

Some zooids of this breed appear to have sockets with a purple-pink interior.

Ingame
Advena is a very hostile breed, it seems to attack everything on sight.

It is a starting breed.

Zooids
It has Zenoplate as a starter structure zooid.

It has 20% more health than a standard structure zooid and increases combat zooids' damages.



It has a Radial as a starter movement zooid which can move at equal speed in all directions but not as fast as other movement zooids.



It has a Spike for a starter combat zooid that can damage without activation, when activated, it will extend like a piston and impale an enemy Sipho, causing massive damage; it can block projectiles.



It has a sprayer as a starter utility zooid, a ranged utility zooid that sprays a cloud of poison in front of it with medium range.All enemy zooids within the cloud will be poisoned and will take 3 ticks of damage from the poison over time, much like the miner.

Tactics used against or as an Advena. (More to be added soon)
As an Advena...

You can place 2 spikes aiming at the same place; Able to one-shot an exposed head, thus causing massive damage. It also extends the range of the spikes because they are very bouncy, and the spikes can bounce off of eachother, and, as it is may be obvious, the more spikes aiming at the same place, the greater the damage.

If you seek energy regen, add Sprayers, plus, you can spam everything if you have a lot of them. Take note that Sprayers' poison does periodic damage, which means damage is dealt over a period of time.

Use using Zenoplates to hold weapons, as it increase its damage and Zenoplates have a lot of armor.

The Guardian of Depths
If you need help anyway, get rid of the scissors with melee or ranged attacks; take care not to be hit by its claws, as it will do a lot of damage. After destroying the claws, now that its claws are gone, it will try to push you into the spike balls next to the walls of the arena; just destroy the blowers then the head.

The Queen
When fighting a Buginis boss it is recommended to replace some melee weapons with Sprayers; To kill it, avoid getting damaged, and not lose as many Zooids, you can increase the range of the Sprayers with a Greaser.

Mhajh'tha
When fighting a Cra'Than boss, it is recommended to use melee weapons instead of ranged weapons to fight the boss because it can heal its Zooids and its morpheus very quickly, if the boss has spawners, destroy the spawners, kill the minions, and kill the boss' morpheus.

Frakir
When fighting the last boss, Frakir, kill all of its minions first, without getting attacked by Frakir, because the minions around it would be a problem when you are close to killing it. Change some of your weapons to ranged weapons, or if you don't have any, use Sprayers, like you may have used the Buginis boss, just spray it until it's dead.

And... Boom. You just beat the game.

If you are fighting against an Advena, you always want to avoid the spikes as much as possible, due to how easy it is to lose a Zooid to them.

I recommend using ranged weapons against them because their movers are slower than most movers

Trivia
The Advena is the only class in the game that is of a hybrid type. This can be seen in the Lair of Frakir.



Advena and its starter zooids appearance changed twice during the game's development. Its morpheus and Zenoplate was more greenish yellow and more alien-like. Its mover was different than the new one, its the only Advena Zooid that doesn't look quite similar to the new one. Its original appearance was literally a meatball.

The Sprayer's Zooid name has been changed many times during the development of the game.