Mountain Giant (Warcraft III)

For lore, see mountain giant.

Mountain Giant
Race	Mountain giant
Faction	Night Elf Sentinels
Statistics
Hit points	1600
Hit point regeneration	Night
Hit point regeneration rate	1.50 HP/sec.
Level	6
Gold	425
Lumber	100
Food	7
Produced at	Ancient of Lore
Build time	50 sec.
Requires	Tree of Ages, Ancient of Wonders
Transport slots	2
Attacking priority	8
Hotkey	G
Collision Size	48
Combat
Normal attack	34 (46*) avg
Can attack	Ground, Structure
Range	Melee (12.8)
Attack type	Normal
Cooldown	2.5 sec.
Weapon type	Normal
Secondary attack	41 (54.5*) avg
Can attack	Ground, Structure
Range	Melee (25)
Attack type	Siege
Cooldown	2.5 sec.
Armor Type	Medium
Armor	4 (10*)
Day Sight	120
Night Sight	80
Movement Speed	Average (270)

This article contains lore taken from Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, the manuals, and/or official bonus maps.

These monstrous creatures, crafted by the Titans when the world was young, are composed of living stone and stout flora. Benevolent and solitary by nature, the mountain giants have awakened to find that the tranquil world they once helped to shape has become a hectic battlefield of fire and sorrow. Now the mountain giants have pledged their courage and strength to the night elves' cause -- and stand ready to banish the last remnants of the Burning Legion from the world. These massive melee units that can take incredible amounts of punishment from attackers.

Information

Mountain Giants are one of the Night Elves' ultimate melee unit - the other being Bears. Though extremely expensive and taking up a massive amount of food, Mountain Giants are incredibly bulky to make up for this; 1,600 health and several abilities to compliment it.

Taunt prompts the Mountain Giant to perform a yell, forcing all hostile units to target the Mountain Giant and overriding manual attack commands (such as focusing on an enemy Hero). This forces the enemy to reinsert the command again to make their units act the way they wanted them to.

Mountain Giants may also rip a tree from the nearby area and use it as a weapon of their own. The Mountain Giant's attack is temporarily changed to Siege, and also has 200 range. The tree lasts for 15 swings, after which the Mountain Giant discards the tree and attacks with their bare fists.

Make sure to research Hardened and Resistant Skin. Hardened Skin reduces incoming physical damage dealt to the Mountain Giant by 12, and Resistant Skin makes them immune to specific spells and weakens the effects of other spells that would normally last longer on other common units.

Spells and abilities

Taunt

All nearby enemies are forced to attack this unit.

Cooldown Area of Effect Allowed Targets Effect 15 sec. 45 Air, Ground, Enemy Nearby enemies attack Mountain Giant

War Club

Picks up a tree to give the Mountain Giant Siege damage, and increased attack range. Last for 15 strikes

Duration Range Allowed Targets Effect 15 hits 3.2 Tree Switches to Attack 2.

Hardened Skin (Passive)

Reduces all attacks on the Mountain Giant by 12 damage.

Attacks cannot be reduced below 3 damage.

Research Cost	Researched At	Requirements	Upgrade Time
100 175	Ancient of Lore	Tree of Eternity, Ancient of Wonders	40 sec.

This means that lower units can't really damage him. You will need to use Tier 3 units such as Tauren, Knights, Bears, and Abominations.

Resistant Skin (Passive)

Gives Mountain Giants increased resistance to spell damage.

Research Cost	Researched At	Requirements	Upgrade Time
50 100	Ancient of Lore	Tree of Eternity, Ancient of Wonders	75 sec.

This gives the unit hero magic resistance, similar to the resistance that level 6+ creeps have.
Namely, you can't be Polymorphed, Possessed, etc, and all offensive spells have a shorter duration on the target (such as stuns, Ensnare, etc).
It DOES NOT reduce damage dealt to the target, however. That’s an effect of hero armor, not hero magic resistance.

Upgrades

Strength of the Wild

Increases the damage of Druids of the Claw in Bear Form, Druids of the Talon in Storm Crow Form, Dryads, Mountain Giants, Faerie Dragons, Hippogryphs, and Chimaeras.

Research Cost	Researched At	Upgrade Time
100 75	Hunter's Hall	60 sec.

Improved Strength of the Wild

Further increases the damage of Druids of the Claw in Bear Form, Druids of the Talon in Storm Crow Form, Dryads, Mountain Giants, Faerie Dragons, Hippogryphs, and Chimaeras.

Research Cost	Researched At	Requirements	Upgrade Time
175 175	Hunter's Hall	Tree of Ages	75 sec.

Advanced Strength of the Wild

Further increases the damage of Druids of the Claw in Bear Form, Druids of the Talon in Storm Crow Form, Dryads, Mountain Giants, Faerie Dragons, Hippogryphs, and Chimaeras.

Research Cost	Researched At	Requirements	Upgrade Time
250 275	Hunter's Hall	Tree of Eternity	90 sec.

Reinforced Hides

Increases the armor of Druids of the Claw in Bear Form, Druids of the Talon in Storm Crow Form, Dryads, Mountain Giants, Faerie Dragons, Hippogryphs, and Chimaeras.

Research Cost	Researched At	Upgrade Time
150 50	Hunter's Hall	60 sec.

Improved Reinforced Hides

Further increases the armor of Druids of the Claw in Bear Form, Druids of the Talon in Storm Crow Form, Dryads, Mountain Giants, Faerie Dragons, Hippogryphs, and Chimaeras.

Research Cost	Researched At	Requirements	Upgrade Time
200 150	Hunter's Hall	Tree of Ages	75 sec.

Advanced Reinforced Hides

Further increases the armor of Druids of the Claw in Bear Form, Druids of the Talon in Storm Crow Form, Dryads, Mountain Giants, Faerie Dragons, Hippogryphs, and Chimaeras.

Research Cost	Researched At	Requirements	Upgrade Time
250 250	Hunter's Hall	Tree of Eternity	90 sec.

Backpack

Gives the ability to carry up to two items. Items carried by the unit will be dropped upon death.

Units can not use or gain benefits of items that they carry.

Research Cost Researched At Requires Upgrade Time 50 25 Townhall-type Structure Player-built Shop 20 sec.

Patch changes

Patch 1.17 (09/20/2004)
Taunt now affects only the 10 closest units. It is also now disabled by Banish.

• Patch 1.10 (2003-07-03):
  • Mountain Giant base armor increased to 4 from 0 and hit points increased to 1600 from 1400.
  • Hardened Skin upgrade cost reduced to 100/175 from 100/250, and damage reduction reduced to 12 from 15.
    
• Patch 1.07 (2003-07-01): Added.
  

External links

Battle.net Warcraft III - Night Elves -> Units -> Mountain Giant