Aerolysts are flying Sentient combat drones with the ability to heal their allies. They are immune to harm until the eight canisters surrounding their torsos are destroyed.
Sentient Adaptation[]
As a Sentient, Aerolysts have the ability to adapt up to 4 damage types from attacks: a Sentient's health is gated such that upon its hit points falling below a fixed percentage, it will grant resistance to the damage type it has received the most. The Sentient will adapt to damage once per health gate, at the percentages listed below:
- First gate: 25% Health lost.
- Second gate: 45% Health lost.
- Third gate: 65% Health lost.
- Fourth gate: 80% Health lost.
Subsequent adaptation will be done in descending order of damage proportion for each health gate. A single Sentient can adapt against a maximum of 4 damage types even if another Sentient transfers their adaptation, and Sentients will still receive full damage from any damage that exceeds their health gate before adapting.
On adapting to a damage type, the color of the glowing core on their chest changes to the corresponding damage type they recently adapted to, along with displaying the icon of said damage type below their health gauge.
The adaptation decreases in effectiveness the more damage types it resists.
- For the first adaptation, the Aerolysts will resist the damage type by 90%.
- For the second adaptation, the Aerolysts will resist the damage type by 80%.
- For the third adaptation, the Aerolysts will resist the damage type by 75%.
- For the fourth adaptation, the Aerolysts will resist the damage type by 70%.
Using the Operator's Void Beam, 
Excalibur Umbra's 
Radial Howl, a rank 40 
Paracesis, 
Shedu's pulse on expending all ammo, or 
Xaku's 
Xata's Whisper will remove and rest all their acquired damage resistances. Sentients can still regain their resistances, however, the aforementioned abilities and weapons will always be able to remove them.
The Aerolysts also receive another 40% resistance to the damage type at each adaptation, which stacks multiplicatively with the previously listed ones. These resistances cannot be removed by any of the methods listed above.
The damage gating also prevents Aerolysts from being killed in one shot, as the maximum percentage of health removable in one instance is:
- 25% at full health
- 20% between 75% & 55% max HP
- 20% between 55% & 35% of max HP
- 15% between 35% & 20%, after which there is no limit and the Aerolysts will take damage normally at every instance
Behavior[]
- The Aerolyst is immune to damage until the eight canisters on its torso are destroyed. Destroying them will stun the Aerolyst, but it will replenish the canisters and regain invulnerability after 10 seconds from being stunned.
Strategy[]
- The Aerolyst capability of being totally immune to damage until its canisters are destroyed added to its innate Sentient damage adaptation makes the Aerolyst one of the most troublesome Sentients to deal with, as they are difficult to target and being a flying unit will rarely be on range for a melee attack. For these reasons, the Aerolyst should be a priority target to eliminate before the number of other Sentients units make it too difficult.
- The Aerolyst projectiles are, however, far easier to avoid compared to Battalysts lasers, therefore even slowing it down and stalling it can be a good strategy while more dangerous Sentients are dealt with.
- Weapons with large hitboxes, such as
Fluctus, Ignis ( Wraith), Arca Plasmor, Fulmin, or Catchmoon are effective at destroying the canisters. - Nova's Molecular Prime can considerably slow down the Aerolyst, making the process of targetting and destroying the canisters easier.
Media[]
Trivia[]
- The Aerolyst first appeared in the Erra quest in a cinematic.
Patch History[]
Hotfix 32.0.2 (2022-09-08)
- Sentient Aerolyst changes (this applies game wide, but is especially relevant with their presence in the Archon Hunts):
- Removed reactions to damage from the Aerolysts.
- Their flailing around animations when being damaged was causing visibility issues when trying to target their canisters.
- Changed their canister color to red and increased the contrast to make them easier to see/target.
- Lowered its knees for better canister visibility.
- Extended the charge period of its seeking missiles attack so that it gives players an opportunity to shoot the cannisters.
- Added a short delay between its dodging animations.
- Removed reactions to damage from the Aerolysts.
Update 31.0 (2021-12-15)
- Fixed script error with the Aerolyst’s projectiles.
Update 30.7 (2021-09-08)
- (Undocumented) No longer immune against status effects.
Update 27.4 (2020-05-01)
- Fixed some animation inconsistencies with the Aerolyst.
Hotfix 27.3.12 (2020-04-14)
- Fixing script error occurring when the Aerolyst uses its wing attack.
Hotfix 27.3.11 (2020-04-09)
- Fixed the Aerolyst enemy giving less-than-intended Affinity.
Hotfix 27.3.10 (2020-04-08)
- The Aerolyst canister mechanic now has a 10 second cooldown before the canisters refill after becoming stunned from destroying all of them.
- Our intentions here are to alleviate some frustration over the Aerolyst canister mechanic that we’ve been receiving. If you were quick to dispatch the Aerolyst before you likely won’t notice a difference!
- Fixed inability to destroy the Aerolyst’s canisters if you were attacking in Limbo’s Rift.
Hotfix 27.3.7 (2020-03-31)
- Fixed the Aerolyst remaining invulnerable with its canisters destroyed, if disarmed by Naramon Disarming Blast.
Update 27.3 (2020-03-24)
- Introduced in Operation: Scarlet Spear.
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