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The Sectoid is the first alien species XCOM will encounter during a campaign. Far from the scrawny foot soldiers of the initial invasion, the Sectoids now boast integrated human DNA, enhancing their durability as well as their psionic prowess.

In battle, the Sectoid unleashes its psionic powers through its Mindspin ability, capable of disorienting, inducing panic, or even seizing control of its target's mind! Psi Reanimation, meanwhile, allows it to revive a humanoid corpse as a Psi Zombie. And if these abilities are unavailable or a flanking oppurtunity presents itself, the Sectoid is more than capable of causing significant damage with its Plasma Pistol. However, Sectoids are not without weakness: mental effects such as disorientation will immediately return their zombies to dust and undo the terrifying effects of Mind Control, and their seemingly well-built bodies will quickly fold to melee strikes.

As the campaign progresses, the mightier Sectoid Commander appears. Stronger, tougher, and even deadlier with their pistols, Commanders are capable of using Mindspin and Reanimation over an area, affecting multiple targets and escalating the situation more quickly.

Sectoid (Rank 1)

Difficulty	Health	Aim	Psi Offense	Crit Chance	Flanking Crit Chance Bonus	Mobility	Will	Detection Radius (tiles)
Rookie	7	70	15	0	33	12	80	10
Veteran	8	75	20	0	33	12	85	10
Commander	8	75	25	10	40	12	85	10
Legend	9	75	30	10	40	12	85	10

Weapon	Damage	Crit Damage	Clip Size	Other
Beam Pistol	3 - 4	2	3	-

Max Units in Pod = 4
Force Level	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
Leader Spawn Weight	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Follower Spawn Weight	0	0	0	2	3	5	6	7	8	7	6	6	6	6	7	8	8	8	8	8

Abilities and Tactical Upgrades
Mindspin Launch a mental psionic attack, inflicting a negative mental effect. 3-turn cooldown.	Psi Reanimation Raise a humanoid corpse as a psionic zombie. 4-turn cooldown	Melee Vulnerability The sectoid's fragile frame makes it more vulnerable to melee attacks, taking an additional 3 damage.
Center Mass You do one additional point of base damage when using guns. 16% chance of applying after completion	Will To Survive Enemy damage is reduced by 1 when in cover and attacked through that cover. Also grants 5 will. 15% chance of applying after completion	Lethal You do 2 additional points of base damage and 1 additional point(s) of bonus critical damage with your primary weapon. 8% chance of applying after completion

Sectoid Commander (Rank 2)

Difficulty	Health	Aim	Psi Offense	Crit Chance	Flanking Crit Chance Bonus	Defense	Mobility	Will	Detection Radius (tiles)
Rookie	12	75	30	10	33	10	12	100	12
Veteran	14	75	35	10	33	10	12	105	12
Commander	16	80	40	10	40	15	12	105	12
Legend	18	80	45	10	40	15	12	110	12

Weapon	Damage	Crit Damage	Clip Size	Other
Beam Pistol	3 - 4	2	3	-

Max Units in Pod = 3
Force Level	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
Leader Spawn Weight	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	2	2	3	3	3	3	3
Follower Spawn Weight	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	4	5	5	6	7

Abilities and Tactical Upgrades
Mass Mindspin Launch a mental psionic attack against all enemeis within a cone, inflicting a negative mental effect. 3-turn cooldown.	Mass Reanimation Reanimate all humanoid corpses in a large area into zombies. 3-turn cooldown.	Melee Vulnerability The sectoid's fragile frame makes it more vulnerable to melee attacks, taking an additional 3 damage.
Flashbang Resistance Have a chance to resist the effects of flashbangs.	Center Mass You do one additional point of base damage when using guns. 16% chance of applying after completion	Will To Survive Enemy damage is reduced by 1 when in cover and attacked through that cover. Also grants 5 will. 15% chance of applying after completion	Lethal You do 2 additional points of base damage and 1 additional point(s) of bonus critical damage with your primary weapon. 8% chance of applying after completion

Tips

Like most flankable units, they will ideally try to find reasonable cover whenever flanked. This can be taken advantage of if you want to force enemies to move.
Unlike in the vanilla game, Sectoids are not required to use their abilities first before any other actions. They can and will shoot you if there is a very desirable target.
Inflicting any negative mental effect on Sectoid's is a very powerful counter as it will cancel their reanimation or mind controls active.
The Reaper's Throwing Knives do not gain Melee Vulnerability bonus damage.
Despite the frightening possibility of losing a soldier, Mind Control is arguably the best result from a Mindspin, as a simple Flashbang (or other mental effect) will cancel the effect and waste the Sectoid's turn (presuming you have such tools!). Panic shuts down a soldier, but can be taken care of via tools such as Revival Protocol or killing the Sectoid. The seemingly innocuous effect of disorientation can in fact be the worst, as killing or disabling the Sectoid will not cancel it--without removal tools, the soldier has no choice but to grin and bear it.

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-The '''Sectoid''' are the first aliens we've ever faced that carries psionic capabilities and a better physical body integrated with human DNA.
+The '''Sectoid''' is the first alien species XCOM will encounter during a campaign. Far from the [[Alien Life Forms (Long War)#Sectoid|scrawny foot soldiers of the initial invasion]], the Sectoids now boast integrated human DNA, enhancing their durability as well as their psionic prowess.
-The Sectoid was the first aliens we've faced but now integrated with human DNA has granted them a more durable body. Though despite this they seem to be more fragile to certain weapons and causing them to have a [[Perk List (LWOTC)#Melee Vulnerability|Melee Weakness]]. The first special ability they are capable of is [[Perk List (LWOTC)#Mindspin|Mindspin]] that launches a mental attack to inflict a negative mental effect including mind control. The next ability they are capable of is [[Perk List (LWOTC)#Psi Reanimation|Psi Reanimation]] which allows them to revive a humanoid corpse as a zombie. As the aliens progress, a stronger version appears that can cast these abilities over an area affecting multiple targets and escalating the situation more quickly.
+In battle, the Sectoid unleashes its psionic powers through its [[Perk List (LWOTC)#Mindspin|Mindspin]] ability, capable of disorienting, inducing panic, or even seizing control of its target's mind! [[Perk List (LWOTC)#Psi Reanimation|Psi Reanimation]], meanwhile, allows it to revive a humanoid corpse as a Psi Zombie. And if these abilities are unavailable or a flanking oppurtunity presents itself, the Sectoid is more than capable of causing significant damage with its Plasma Pistol. However, Sectoids are not without weakness: mental effects such as disorientation will immediately return their zombies to dust and undo the terrifying effects of Mind Control, and their seemingly well-built bodies will [[Perk List (LWOTC)#Melee Vulnerability|quickly fold to melee strikes]].
+As the campaign progresses, the mightier '''Sectoid Commander''' appears. Stronger, tougher, and even deadlier with their pistols, Commanders are capable of using Mindspin and Reanimation over an area, affecting multiple targets and escalating the situation more quickly.
 ==Sectoid (Rank 1)==
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 == Tips ==
 * Like most flankable units, they will ideally try to find reasonable cover whenever flanked. This can be taken advantage of if you want to force enemies to move.
-* Unlike the vanilla game, Sectoid's are not required to use their abiltiies first before any other actions. This means that sectoids can and will shoot you if there is a very desirable target.
+* Unlike in the vanilla game, Sectoids are not required to use their abilities first before any other actions. They can and will shoot you if there is a very desirable target.
 * Inflicting any negative mental effect on Sectoid's is a very powerful counter as it will cancel their reanimation or mind controls active.
-* The best result from a mindspin is mind control due to the many tools at your disposal to cancel it, such as a simple flashbang, and effectively waste their turn but make sure you actually have a way to cancel it if it does happen. The next best effect is panic as this can be cured by simply killing the sectoid or various tools to cure the panic. The worst effect is disorient as there is no way around it but to suffer the effect or have tools to cure the effect such as [[Perk List (LWOTC)#Revival Protocol|Revival Protocol]].
+* The Reaper's Throwing Knives do not gain Melee Vulnerability bonus damage.
+* Despite the frightening possibility of losing a soldier, Mind Control is arguably the best result from a Mindspin, as a simple Flashbang (or other mental effect) will cancel the effect and waste the Sectoid's turn (presuming you have such tools!). Panic shuts down a soldier, but can be taken care of via tools such as [[Perk List (LWOTC)#Revival Protocol|Revival Protocol]] or killing the Sectoid. The seemingly innocuous effect of disorientation can in fact be the worst, as killing or disabling the Sectoid will not cancel it--without removal tools, the soldier has no choice but to grin and bear it.
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