"Shade" - New Rivals Unit for Nod

EA has announced a new unit for the Nod faction in Command & Conquer: Rivals. The Shade. You can read this directly on the EA page, but the link currently seems to work only on Mobile.

What are the key facts about this unit?

• Type: Air
• Cost: 40 Tiberium
• Speed: Fastest
• Attack: Burst attack on ground only (i.e. a bit like the GDI Orca)
• Special ability 1: Stealth (detected by Infantry, like the Stealth Tank) 
• Special ability 2: EMP discharge that is triggered by nearby units and seems to stun all air and vehicle units adjacent to the Shade

If you follow the link above, you can also see it in action in a short video. You can see there that it one-shots a GDI Slingshot, which means that it's damage isn't that far off an Orca. With higher speed compared to an Orca, and the EMP stun effect, it seems strangely strong for a unit that costs only 40 Tiberium.

We might not see it that much on ladder initially, as it's an Epic unit that is harder to get for most players. And of course, we didn't really see it in action at all, so far. But it certainly has the potential to become a strong unit in the meta game. To read what other players think, check out the discussion on Reddit.