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Heroes VI · CREATURE PROFILE

Sun Rider in Heroes VI: stats, cost and abilities

Sun Rider in Heroes VI: Melee core and holding approaches. Practical use, abilities, weaknesses, recruitment and 90 base health.

Quick guide: where it fits

Melee core and holding approaches

Sun Rider should take reachable melee exchanges or hold an approach to more valuable units.

Watch for: Base stats are not the final exchange result.

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

Haven · Elite

Sun Rider

Base form

How to use this creature in practice

Melee core and holding approaches

Sun Rider should take reachable melee exchanges or hold an approach to more valuable units. Before advancing, identify its next target and enemies able to attack it afterward.

Watch for: Base stats are not the final exchange result. Account for retaliation, current creature count, target immunity and subsequent action order.

Timing, specific abilities and the follow-up plan

Combat movement 6 and Initiative 35 are separate. Choose a reachable target by current order and the actual physical or magical attack type.

  • Charge: Sun Rider gains 10% damage per tile travelled before the hit. A blocked approach can reduce the available bonus.
Might damage
14–16
Magic damage
—
Might protection
35 %
Magic protection
21 %
Health
90
Initiative
35
Combat movement
6
Ranged reach
—
Morale
10
Luck
7
Reference growth
3

Cost per creature: 410 gold

Abilities and limitations

  • Charge

    Sun Rider gains 10% damage per tile travelled before the hit. A blocked approach can reduce the available bonus.

  • Living

    Can receive applicable healing and resurrection and is affected by morale. A particular spell must still satisfy its own targeting rules.

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.

Sun Rider · reference values before bonuses
CreaturesTotal costBase health
1
  • 410 gold
90
5
  • 2,050 gold
450
10
  • 4,100 gold
900

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.