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Heroes IV · CREATURE PROFILE

Black Dragon in Heroes IV: stats, cost and abilities

Black Dragon in Heroes IV: Flying breakthrough with penetrating breath. Practical use, abilities, weaknesses, recruitment and 400 base health.

Quick guide: where it fits

Flying breakthrough with penetrating breath

Check the target and the stack behind it before attacking.

Watch for: Breath can hit a friendly creature.

Exact dwelling, growth and items →
Black Dragon — creature appearance in Heroes 4
Source · Game artwork

How to use this creature in practice

Flying breakthrough with penetrating breath

Check the target and the stack behind it before attacking. Magic immunity helps against spells; also evaluate enemy physical attacks.

Watch for: Breath can hit a friendly creature. Complete immunity also prevents ordinary friendly buffs.

Melee attack
40
Ranged attack
—
Melee defense
40
Ranged defense
40
Damage
55–110
Health
400
Action speed
7
Combat movement
15
Adventure movement
30
Shots
0
Mana
0
Weekly growth
1
Experience per creature
1233

Cost per creature: 8000 gold + 4 sulfur

Edition: Heroes IV

Alignment: Chaos

Abilities and limitations

  • Breath attack

    Also hits a stack directly behind the main target. Check the entire line, including any friendly stack occupying it.

  • Magic immunity

    Blocks hostile and beneficial magic as well as magical ability effects. Account for losing access to your own support spells when building the army.

  • Flying

    Crosses obstacles, units and walls during combat movement. It still needs a free, reachable landing position.

Reference ↗

Where to obtain and develop this creature

The building unlocks this form. Availability and hiring are separate.

Growth and construction prerequisites (3)

Growth support is not another recruitment site. A prerequisite may unlock one of the recruitment forms.

Reference stack cost and health

These values multiply every resource in the undiscounted reference price and full base health. Hero, equipment, spell, price and growth modifiers are excluded. This is neither final damage or battle survival nor a guarantee that the listed number is available to recruit.

Black Dragon · reference values before bonuses
CreaturesTotal costBase health
1
  • 8,000 gold
  • 4 sulfur
400
5
  • 40,000 gold
  • 20 sulfur
2,000
10
  • 80,000 gold
  • 40 sulfur
4,000

Reading this profile correctly

Action speed, combat movement and adventure-map movement are separate attributes. Weekly growth compares reference values; Heroes IV replenishes creatures daily.

Resource costs are part of recruitment. For an entire stack, multiply every component, not just gold. Base growth excludes additional town, map and hero bonuses. Zero shots means no regular ranged attack; the creature can still have spells or other active abilities.

Numerical reference source ↗

Original roster scope

74 creatures from historical Jaskinia Behemota tables: 48 town creatures and 26 neutrals, including four from The Gathering Storm and three from Winds of War. This is not a separate Equilibris database. Action speed, combat movement and adventure movement are distinct stats. Melee and ranged defense are listed separately. Growth is a weekly comparison value; Heroes IV adds creatures daily. Check how a neutral creature can actually be obtained.