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According to the official faction-traits article, Synapse creatures such as the Hive Tyrant empower nearby Termagants and Hormagaunts with Berserk, which increases movement speed and damage. Destroying that Synapse source temporarily stuns nearby lesser bioforms. The Synapse guide treats this as a target-priority idea: if the smaller Tyranids around a larger bioform suddenly become faster and more dangerous, look for a source rather than trying to grind down every empowered body one by one.
That is a suggestion derived from the stated mechanic. It is not proof that rushing a dense swarm is safe. The source does not give a universal stun duration, aura radius, or health threshold, and those figures are not invented here. It also does not claim that every large Tyranid is a Synapse emitter, or that killing one clears every buff across the whole stage.
Other Tyranid skills still apply while you deal with Synapse. The developer’s enemy-skills write-up describes Von Ryan’s Leaper rearing up and pouncing over other enemies to reach the player. A packed front rank is not a wall.
If you are also using fire, remember the status-effect rules: Burning deals damage over time and increases enemy movement speed, while Poisoned slows them, and Oiled increases damage from fire-inflicting weapons. Faster movement on a Tyranid pack is not automatically a fire-DoT at work. Champions can be affected by statuses too, and some enemies are immune, so a status plan should not assume every target reacts the same way.
These action mechanics use Warhammer faction identities, but they are not the tabletop rules and should not be read off a miniature datasheet. The same caution applies on a mixed-faction Hobby Table stage: identify the skill in front of you, rather than assuming one pack behaves like another.
Sources include Auroch Digital’s faction-traits focus (17 September 2026) and enemy-skills focus (3 September 2026). The guide’s source review is 12 November 2026. Procedures have not been independently play-tested on this page.