Creatures

Creatures, also known as minions, is a type of non-playable characters in Gigantic. Their purpose is to help player controlled heroes in the match.

Overview

Creatures are the beasts which can be summoned by heroes on power circles. Their prime role is to guard the circle from enemy heroes and harvest power orbs once they are spawned, and doing so faster than heroes themselves. However, there are exceptions with some creatures not harvesting power, and there are also restrictions on where and how much heroes can summon them. Creatures also wield special passive, environmental abilities, designated by their families (types); these abilities give advantages and bonuses to their team.

Despite having huge health pool, much larger than heroes do, creatures are still vulnerable and can be killed with a coordinated effort of an enemy team. By doing so it can receive more power and make its guardian to get closer to rampage state. Thus summoning a creature requires careful planing and attention.

Summoning

Heroes can summon any creature on team affiliated and neutral power circles. Restricted circles let players summon only Ancient Obelisks, and thus making them harvest power by themselves.

At first hero summons a young creature. It costs nothing to do it, but there is limited amount of tries, depending on family or species. It takes about 3 seconds for baby creature to fully spawn, at that moment player would see a dark silhouette with a timer. The creature is especially vulnerable at this stage and must be protected by heroes until fully spawned.

Killing young enemy creatures will give 10 in the Power Race, just like killing an enemy hero.

Upgrading

As heroes gain FOCUS
Special resource that is accumulated and stored throughout every match, and can be used to unleash a FOCUS ABILITY, or upgrade young creatures to powerful adults.
Focus requires to build up FOCUS CHARGES (maximum 3) before it can be used. They can be accumulated by dealing damage to enemies, healing allies, taking damage, and sometimes after being defeated and sent to the Airship.focus in the course of the match, they have a choice to use it in the battle against enemies, or use it to upgrade the creature which was summoned previously. An adult beast is significantly bigger, sturdier and more dangerous than baby version, and possess even more powerful abilities, not to mention even faster harvesting of power orbs. The amount of needed focus charges varies between species.

It takes about 20 seconds for creature to “grow up”, and just like in summoning, it must be protected until fully spawned.

Killing an adult enemy creature will give 20 towards the Power Race, the same quantity as a harvesting power from a power circle.

Loadout

Player is able to choose and “equip” in the loadout, before the match, 3 types of creatures. When hero stands on the Power Circle they'll be able to summon or upgrade one of them, per circle.

At first player has a set of 3 default creatures, one from each of 3 common families: a cerberus, a bloomer and a cyclops. To use different creatures player should purchase them in game's shop with or . Some creatures are also included in content packs and bundles, which let player save big while purchasing multiple items.

Creatures

Bellow is the list of available in the game creatures with their basic stats and information.

Family	Creature	Health		Summon limit	Upgrade cost	Shop price		Notes
		Young	Adult
Cerberuses Reveal enemies on minimap.	Cerberus Majoris	4,900	6,400	1	1	Default		No additional bonuses.
	Shadow Cerberus	4,900	6,400	1	2	9,000	675	Grants STEALTH Makes hero invisible to enemies, creatures, and Guardians. Damage indicators and debuffs will still display when striking a stealthed hero. Invisible heroes also will be shown on the minimap by anything that reveals enemies, such as the vision radius of the Cerberuses.invisibility in its zone of impact, teleporting attacks.
	Stone Cerberus	4,900	7,000	1	3	11,000	675	Very powerful melee attacks.
Cyclopes Create protective wall near circle's location that lowers for allies.	Mountain Cyclops	5,100	6,500	1	2	Default		No additional bonuses.
	Yeti Cyclops	5,100	6,600	1	3	11,000	675	Creates FREEZE Reduces movement speed by 20% and damages enemies over time. DEEP FREEZE and FULL FREEZE are more powerful.Frost field near its location, FREEZE Reduces movement speed by 20% and damages enemies over time. DEEP FREEZE and FULL FREEZE are more powerful.freezing attacks.
	Riftborn Cyclops	5,100	6,500	1	3	11,000	675	Creates translucent wall which lets allies see and shoot trough.
Bloomers HEALING Provides HEALTH every second. The amount is determined by the source of the healing.Heal an ally in their zone of impact and create up to 2 healing blooms.	Summer Bloomer	6,000	6,200	1	1	Default		No additional bonuses.
	Winter Bloomer	6,000	6,600	1	2	11,000	675	Blooms grant FREEZE Reduces movement speed by 20% and damages enemies over time. DEEP FREEZE and FULL FREEZE are more powerful.frost SHIELD Absorbs 85% of all incoming DAMAGE for the duration of the shield, or until the shield is destroyed (if it has a HP value).shield.
	Spring Bloomer	6,000	6,400	1	2	11,000	675	Blooms grant CLEANSED Removes any debuffs and prevents debuffs from being reapplied for a period of time (up to 4 seconds).cleanse.
	Autumn Bloomer	6,000	6,500	1	2	11,000	675	Blooms grant STEALTH Makes hero invisible to enemies, creatures, and Guardians. Damage indicators and debuffs will still display when striking a stealthed hero. Invisible heroes also will be shown on the minimap by anything that reveals enemies, such as the vision radius of the Cerberuses.invisibility and SPEED BOOST Increases the speed of hero by a percent determined by the skill applying it.speed boost.
Drakes Perform periodic siege attacks.	Fire Drake	4,900	6,300	1	2	7,500	450	Attacks inflict BURN Deals damage over time.burning.
	Storm Drake	4,900	6,300	1	3	11,000	675	Attacks inflict SHOCK Deals damage over time, when expires a burst of damage explodes from the affected target. MAJOR SHOCK and MASSIVE SHOCK are more powerful.shock.
Infernals Create one-way portals near circle's location.	Crimson Infernal	4,500	5,050	1	2	11,000	675	No additional bonuses.
Obelisks Can be summoned on any Power Circle, don't harvest power orbs and don't grant power on kill.	Ancient Obelisk	2,400	4,200	2	1	7,500	250	No additional bonuses.

Motigas

Main article: Motiga (Creature)

Motigas are a special type of creatures, which initially were summonable and would give DAMAGE BOOST
Increases outgoing DAMAGE dealt by skills.damage bonus to their team. Somewhere in development of the game they were removed from this position and since then serve as AI controlled dummies in the Practice Arena.

Unreleased creatures

Main article: Unreleased creatures

Due to premature shutdown of Gigantic, not all types of creature were released, being left in game's test builds in unfinished state.