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Heroes VI · CREATURE PROFILE

Lich in Heroes VI: stats, cost and abilities

Lich in Heroes VI: Ranged stack requiring usable line of sight. Practical use, abilities, weaknesses, recruitment and 65 base health.

Quick guide: where it fits

Ranged stack requiring usable line of sight

Lich needs line of sight to an important target.

Watch for: Distance, obstacles, engagement and ammunition are separate conditions.

Exact dwelling, growth and items →
Lich — creature appearance in Heroes 6
Source · Game artwork

Necropolis · Elite

Lich

Base form

How to use this creature in practice

Ranged stack requiring usable line of sight

Lich needs line of sight to an important target. Position the screen against actual enemy reach; repeated ranged actions matter only when the enemy cannot quickly engage it.

Watch for: Distance, obstacles, engagement and ammunition are separate conditions. A ranged attribute alone does not guarantee full damage against every target.

Timing, specific abilities and the follow-up plan

Combat movement 4 and Initiative 25 are separate. Choose a reachable target by current order and the actual physical or magical attack type.

  • Darkness vulnerability aura: The target and adjacent stacks become 15% more vulnerable to Dark damage. Plan a following Dark attack around the affected group.
  • Emotionless: Unaffected by morale-changing effects. Morale buffs therefore do not provide their ordinary benefit to this stack.
Might damage
—
Magic damage · Dark
14–17
Might protection
21 %
Magic protection
23 %
Health
65
Initiative
25
Combat movement
4
Ranged reach
100
Morale
—
Luck
6
Reference growth
3

Cost per creature: 420 gold

Abilities and limitations

  • Darkness vulnerability aura

    The target and adjacent stacks become 15% more vulnerable to Dark damage. Plan a following Dark attack around the affected group.

  • Undead

    Uses neutral morale, gains 20% Water protection and resists poison, disease, blindness and mind control. Healing requiring a living target does not automatically work on it.

  • Emotionless

    Unaffected by morale-changing effects. Morale buffs therefore do not provide their ordinary benefit to this stack.

  • Light vulnerability

    Demons and undead are 20% more vulnerable to the relevant Light attacks. Some healing Light spells damage them rather than restoring health.

Heroes connected to this creature

Weekly recruitment availability (5)

The specialty increases weekly recruitment availability for this creature. Account separately for buying and transporting reinforcements. The named form is an established target; do not treat further variants as a second simultaneous reward.

Reference ↗

Where to obtain and develop this creature

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

Growth and construction prerequisites (1)

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.

Lich · reference values before bonuses
CreaturesTotal costBase health
1
  • 420 gold
65
5
  • 2,100 gold
325
10
  • 4,200 gold
650

Reading this profile correctly

Read Might/Magic damage and protection separately. Protection percentages are not raw Defense attributes. Campaign forms, bosses and transformations do not establish separate ordinary recruitment.

The table separates Might and Magic damage, including the element. Protection percentages are not raw defense attributes; ability bonuses cannot simply be added to them. Growth belongs to the listed reference recruitment form and does not guarantee the same count in every town and patch. Ranged reach is not ammunition. Read separate conditions for bosses and Namtaru forms.

Numerical reference source ↗

Original roster scope

111 stat profiles from eight historical Acid Cave inventories: 86 faction forms, 12 neutrals and 13 bosses. The faction inventory covers 84 base and upgraded creatures, with additional separate humanoid and spider forms for Fate Spinner and Fate Weaver. A boss is not an ordinary recruit. Might and Magic damage are separate; protection percentages are not raw defense attributes. Values describe the cited reference tables rather than every patch and scenario.