Dragoon

Dragoon
Faction	Cerberus
Type	Organic
Armament	M-25 Hornet Biotic lashes
Abilities	Smash  Lunge
Armor	Moderate
Locations	N/A

The Dragoon is a Cerberus unit encountered in Mass Effect 3. Dragoons are heavily armored soldiers capable of lunging toward their enemies with considerable speed and biotic lashes.

Capabilities

Offensive

Cerberus Dragoons are equipped with the M-25 Hornet SMG and biotic lashes, which they can use to lunge toward the player or slam the ground with them for a circular melee attack. They can instantly kill downed players with a stomp execution.

Defensive

While they possess powerful armour, Dragoons are devoid of any shields or barriers whatsoever. Given their nature as an armored enemy, Dragoons cannot be grabbed over-cover for instant-kills. However, headshots will still deal 40% more damage.

Tactics

• Dragoons are geared towards close-quarters-combat; their biotic lashes ignore cover, and they lunge considerable distances in order to engage the player while performing their Smash attack. They tend to avoid taking cover, instead opting to charge directly into close range, pushing players out of their cover. Most players should maintain their distance and only engage them from afar.
• One should take care to consider the fact that Dragoons move extremely quickly, much quicker than any other Cerberus type opponent.
• With a timing precise enough, one can easily dodge the Dragoon's lunge attacks using combat rolls or even side-stepping.
• It should be noted that player attacks can end up hitting the space behind a Dragoon if he is already initiated in a lunge.
• Dragoons can be stunned repeatedly.
• Dragoons almost always travel in groups of 2 or 3. On higher difficulties, it's not uncommon to find them lunging at isolated players in coordinated assaults that down the player almost instantly.
• Rather than hopping over low cover, Dragoons will attempt to hit you with their whips - and miss, strangely enough. You can use this to your advantage and have your teammates sideswipe the Dragoon in question while you sit back and relax. Watch out for other enemies, though, as the Dragoons can pin you down while allies flank you if you are not careful.
• It should be noted that Dragoons are partially immune to being staggered while in their lash animations and completely immune in their lunging animations. This can be especially troublesome with classes that rely on staggering enemies.
• Despite being built as melee enemies, their ranged capabilities are not to be underestimated. Their Hornets are immensely powerful. Combined with their aggressive nature, their guns can actually become more of a threat than their biotic whips.
• The Phoenix attacks are slightly quicker than their Cerberus Phoenix Operative counterparts.

Trivia

• The term dragoon originally referred to mounted infantry with training in both regular infantry fighting skills as well as in horseback riding.
• Dragoons may have been the end-result of Project Phoenix, since both ex-Cerberus Phoenix operatives and Dragoons share the similar Lash biotic armament, but yellow instead of white, not to mention being equipped with the same design of armor.