+LowkoTV Oh, and more specifically, what I love is when you go really in depth about what's running through your mind. Like when you say that you're having the Corruptors focus fire the Carriers, while stutter step transfusing with the Queens. That's the kind of stuff that really helps me improve my own play. So that entire last 5 minutes of the video was absolute gold for me.
Great job on correcting your behavior when you saw the opponent take their third. You made it known you had a habit of trying to shut down that base, but this time you corrected yourself, and went along with Neuro's coaching advice!
Just beat a protoss player with the exact same tactics on the same map. Had no idea how to deal with it before this vid. Thanks Lowko - great as always.
nah, out-micro him. lowko was sitting on a huge bank at the end with nowhere to put the resources. I've been there before and lost because my micro wasn't up-to-par
Eveyone overlooked this... you need to take care of interceptors... more interceptors dying = less skytoss damage......., if you look closely, lowko is using the queens to kill the interceptors, and even he is moving the creep and spore crawlers to take care of them too, and not 1 or 2... (10+ spore crawlers + 10+ queens) vs Interceptors
Beautiful counter to Skytoss there. The run by where you nuked down his one base was particularly shrewd. That first engagement when you lost your corruptors to his prismatic alignment told me he wasn't that great at microing his force as his units clumped allot. That final engagement could've been even easier and quicker if you'd added on two to four Vipers and had parabomb.
ive also found that early game agression with hydras with a double gas trick at the beguining and maybe 6 banes to fend off cannons is almost always a quick gg to mass stargate
what a great tutorial. unfortuanly my micro won't be able to pull this off. I usually do vipers and mass hyrda vs mass air... sometimes works sometimes not.. depends on timing
Thats a big help! I always try to go mass hydra against mass air toss :D next time curroptor queen, can that army also deal with tempests? i dont really know how to handle them? Your vids are so funny and they help a lot :3 just go on and stay as are! greetings from germany!
Hi Lowko, great video, I like when you explain specific countres. However as a protoss player that plays voidray/carrier in PvZ since LotV beta i have to disagree with one or two things that you said. First off i do not think that "pissing" on nexus with corruptors in the early game is a good idea. In the early game when you did that protoss will always have enought voidrays to evaporate your corruptors before you can destroy the nexus and usualy you will give him nice lead. Secondly NEVER focus fire carriers. If protoss has decent micro he can release interceptors from that carrier as soon as you focus fire it and he will not lose any DPS. It is much better to focus fire the void rays because if you kill them than you significantly lower his DPS because prismatic aligment is very good against corruptors. Also i think that hydra/queen with upgrades with upgrades - armor is much more important - is in my oppinion better counter because it destroys inerceptors quickly. That said i am only diamond league noob so i might be wrong, these are just my observations after 200+ games with this style.
I always add around 4 infestors to my army when my opponent has many carriers, because if u get a good fungle on the interceptores the carriers are dead supply. But i use hydralisks instead of queens...i think i have to change this ;) Well thanks for the vid it helps a lot!
Not to mention try and sneak in a nexus snipe. Recent subscriber and love seeing you take out a base ... little bit of damage ohh it might survive BAM GONE! hahaha
It's when Protoss go for tempest that this becomes a very difficult fight because you have to engage the tempest and when you do voidrays will have prismatic alignment ready & waiting
+Andrew Clark Lowko in FFA games open to anyone, almost a challenge you want to tweet to the pro's / ex-pro's to see if anyone wants to snipe him out ;)
So, the rule is simple, you upgrade attack first on anything that fights fast and armour on anything that fights slow. It's utilizing the units' functions best.
Great play Lowko! Could you please share how to beat that as a Terran too? I tried mass Marine with Viking support but... well, at least I tried. Carriers are freaking savage with the new update..
did you target fire the carriers? you hit the interceptors if u a click. the rest is your macro. how fast u get upgrades, how many workers and how many bases. u can only get better by practicing so keep on playing and playing. keep a fun mindset and not competitive. but learn from mistakes.
Hi Lowko, what do you think about the new balancemap/possible patch.. Do you think getting rid of the meditank is a good thing? And thank you,for the tip against skytoss,struggled a lot against it :) Nice video! :D
@LowkoTV thx for the tutorial I just got hit with this (only been playing for a 1 week) LUL any way you can separate your tutorials based on the race you are playing and make them a playlist?
My problem at the moment is dealing with terrans, and their 1-1-1 7 minute push, where they push out with a bunch of marine, marauder, tank, liberators and a few medivacs. I can never seem to get out enough units to deal with that
Hey lowko, not really new to StarCraft but im starting to really try to get into the competitive scene but its going slow and there's still alot that i just don't understand. right now I'm sitting at a pathetic 80 apm with Zerg and i was trying to make sure i hit my injects correctly but, i was wondering if you had any videos that explain what your actually doing with the space-bar and all the messing around with the map and getting closer to 200-300apm. any links and help would be awesome. always love your vids and keep smiling ma dude. thanks
For this unit combination - void + carrier - the best unit composition is muta and infestor with fungal. Void doesnt get bonus attack - coz muta isnt armored. Carriers with fungal on interceptors are useless;] And one more - we dont need to micro it ;] Coz interceptors will die very quick and our mutalisks will shoot on voids ;] Cheers ;]
What if it is a 3v3, do you think infestor hydralisks are valid? neural parasite and parasific bombs (and infested marines if you have energy to spare) would help against the carriers while hydralisks shread through the void rays that for some reason are using prismatic allignment against a light unit
How would you deal with hellion/hellbat + cyclone + liberator? I've found that combination is quite effective against the zerg. Hellbats serve as a shield/distraction while cyclones are destroying roaches/ravagers (upgraded cyclones take doswn ultra quite fast, let alone roach...) while liberators take out muta and lurkers. Zerg can outmicro me with muta/lurkers though. I wonder how would this work in higher leagues.
Hey Lowko, have you ever done a mass Infrestor/Swarm Host tactic? I find it one of the most cheesy and enjoyable strats in the game and did that today. 14 Swarm Hosts, 12 Infestor, 900 Broodlings and Infested Marines.
Solid wreckage of the toss there. I got a little concerned when the toss had archons and you had bunched up corruptors. Is it not an issue if the enemy has archons in that situation, or was it just the small numbers?
What is the advantage in going for Queens instead of Hydras? Of course the Queens can transfuse the corruptors but you can mass hydralisk much quicker and they can help dealing with void rays quit nicely. But I'm just a noob asking the stupid questions :D
wouldn't mutas be better against mass void rays? I mean they're not armored and the bounce attack should work nicely against multiple targets... (Not criticizing just curious, I fear skytoss to no limit. So I wanna know how best to kill) Ps: Thanx for the great videos lowko, I only played single player until I found your channel. Its like a whole new game now :D
viper is good for hydra based army, where the opponent has the deathball, that you CANT fight so youu pick off their units one by one, like the tempest, carrier, arcon, high Templar, mothership army
Viper has 3 useful spells therefore good for situations where you need any of the 3. Ils good for grab with hydra balls but also against mass weak air units with bomb and to engage high dps on standard attacks army with blind, especially with hard to move units as tanks
vipers would be annoying to micro I imagine considering you have to micro your queen transfuses and shift click the carriers with your corrupters, you're doing a lot of work. A parasitic bomb wouldn't help that much and a good protoss would micro the unit out of the mix anyway, you would need to land a fungal too which means two more control groups. It's ery easy to mess up, and even the slightest delay can cost you the game.
I couldn't disagree more. I believe the whole reason for parasitic bombs introduction, was to give zerg a strong counter to mass air especially voidray. The micro isn't difficult or time consuming, once u have sight on enemy simply, hold_shift > multi sect targets for parasitic bomb > right_click a retreat location, then take control of the rest of your army. U would target the voidrays, as thy clump up more than carrier or tempest, causing them to suffer greater overlap damage. also clumping makes voidrays more difficult to micro out single units. onece voidrays r eliminated protos has lost their strongest counter to corrupters.
Thanks Lowko, helpful as always! :) I've seen Neuro go mass queen hydra (queen infront to tank), and lategame ultra (also to tank / deal with any ground) to hit a timing attack before the Protoss maxes out like you do... but what do I do if the Protoss has actually maxed out on carrier?! I've tried queen ultra hydra + 8~ vipers for the mass parasite bomb but usually the carriers survive on 20% HP and run away while I lost way more. Abduct individual carriers and run? Try and fungal the intercepters? Help!
+Mjolnir If they are maxed out on air, make them come to you. Fight with Corruptor Queen support by Fungal and Parasitic Bomb with Spore Crawlers. Then often times you can reinforce with Hydras to clean it up.
How to beat Void rays AND carriers. Build Hydras. They are purpose built to destroy voids and still manage to beat carriers. So much for the golden armada, or death ball, or whatever you want to call it. Is building and A-moving hydras too simple? Oh, well then try something that takes a little micro, like a fungal. Two fungals will take out an entire fleet while also making some of the slowest units in the game even slower, to the point where they essentially stand still. Or a parasitic bomb: again, two will destroy an entire fleet. If you feel really ambitious, you can just build mass queens and transfuse to keep them all alive longer than the entire protoss fleet. Or Neural half the fleet and make them fight each other. And lastly, lets not forget the mass spore crawler strategy. But hey, why not keep it simple. Use a tier one unit in mass, and a-move it. Voila, victory Hydras.
I had one encouter today. Protoss tried canon rush at beginning, i defended so he went for void rays, when he moved his 10 voids out of base all around border of the map my hydras were waiting (i scouted direction of attack). After his failiure he made 6 voids and went mass carrier (to the time of my attack he had 10). I attacked him with my hydras (37) 9 brood lords to harass and bait him out and 3 infestors (there were also 3 corruptors i belive). Fungal made fight childish easy. I throw 2 at him, attack-moved hydras and sky toss was gone. Fungals also reveals invisible units (in case if he had mothership). I don't know how, but i lost only 3 hydras. Toss had 3 stargates at beginning up to 5 or 6 at end.
My buddy does mass void ray and carriers and I still haven't got viper controller mastered yet. I'll have to try this. Can you explain how to do stutter stepping in a vid? Thanks!
So if he'd had a cadre of charge zealots, or a few disruptors or something, to take out those queens, you'd have been toast? Maybe zealots mixed with dark templar, for increased dps?
Lowko, i ''lowe" watching your games..but question: since you had no recon in his base, how did you know he was going mass voidrays? i mean you say 2 stargates @ 5:36...then you just built up for mass voidrays...are you playing with friends with pre-determined strategies?? i never saw you use infestors vs terran & protoss..or vipers to pull then tanks ..
In this, i like the unit comp. would this still work out okay with mass hydra??? or why wouldnt you use hydras? Hydras are super good vs void rays, and then courptors are very good vs carriers. What if you went for like, a hydra heavy + courptors?
Fighting the cannons wouldn't be worth it with Hydra. They're very low in HP. Think of Queens as more powerful Hydras because of their health and spells (and lack of cost of Gas). If Hydras get stormed they're gone. Queens don't really mind.
Lowko what do you think about muta-hydra composition? because running away from the prismatic alignment can give him the chance to debast your queens and spore crawlers' static defense, or not?
+LowkoTV Yeah that's true, I just followed the rule about 3 mutas or hydras against a voidray, and it actually works most of the time against full air, cause even if he manages to kill everything on the first battle (usually they just end up with a couple units), the reinforcements just clean everything up. Maybe you can try it in one of your "wonky strategies" gameplays lol, Btw love all of your content ! Greetings from Perú !
I have 3 questions: 1) When you move a unit to the future base at 1:10 you are clicking the unit to move in circles? Why not one click only? 2) What are you continually doing with the mouse at 0:54 when you seem to be selecting all but only one unit gets selected. 3) You are not using The Core layout but you recommended it on their website. Is it useful or not compared to grid?
+Bogdan Vaida 1) That's called speshul master APM spamming ^^ 2) He doesn't he selects all the workers, and then goes back to the hatcheries with the hotkey he has set for it, again apm spamming. 3) For as far as I know he's using grid but with a small adjustment, I thought he had his base select on spacebar.
+Bogdan Vaida 1 and 2 are just stuff you can do when you have enough speed. You got excess actions so he just does random stuff that doesn't do anything at all. Could act as a warm up for the hands or something before the part of the game where faster hand movements is required. Better than staring there listening to the queen saying NOT ENOUGH MINERALS!!!! xD
Lowko's life lesson of the day: You can piss anywhere on your enemy's side.
"very greedy player he is"
mines off of 2 gold bases to start
who needs actual television when you have LowkoTV?
+Christopher Coker I like the way you think Christopher.
Holy crap, I needed this so much... Thanks Lowko!
Fantastic tutorial Lowko. Thanks for the vid! :D
Thanks Syy!
+LowkoTV Oh, and more specifically, what I love is when you go really in depth about what's running through your mind. Like when you say that you're having the Corruptors focus fire the Carriers, while stutter step transfusing with the Queens. That's the kind of stuff that really helps me improve my own play. So that entire last 5 minutes of the video was absolute gold for me.
+LowkoTV you are so cool lowko
This is one of my favorite videos that you have made! I love the replay in depth look afterwards!
Great job on correcting your behavior when you saw the opponent take their third. You made it known you had a habit of trying to shut down that base, but this time you corrected yourself, and went along with Neuro's coaching advice!
Just beat a protoss player with the exact same tactics on the same map. Had no idea how to deal with it before this vid. Thanks Lowko - great as always.
So to sum up, the only way to beat an air toss as zerg is to out-eco him.
sounds pretty hard in 3v3
nah, out-micro him. lowko was sitting on a huge bank at the end with nowhere to put the resources. I've been there before and lost because my micro wasn't up-to-par
Eveyone overlooked this... you need to take care of interceptors... more interceptors dying = less skytoss damage......., if you look closely, lowko is using the queens to kill the interceptors, and even he is moving the creep and spore crawlers to take care of them too, and not 1 or 2... (10+ spore crawlers + 10+ queens) vs Interceptors
Cool video and i really like the replay analysis at the end!
Thanks and please keep up the good work ^^
I love you game commentaries. One of the very beat out there.
Great video as always Lowko. Thanks a lot and keep doing what you're doing!!
any one else enjoying invisible sc1 background music?
Lowko, its amazing how good of a player you are when you play at your full potential.
and he is playing talking and joking and watching the chat.....
Dude lowko, thank you so much! skytoss is the bane of my existence!
Beautiful counter to Skytoss there. The run by where you nuked down his one base was particularly shrewd. That first engagement when you lost your corruptors to his prismatic alignment told me he wasn't that great at microing his force as his units clumped allot. That final engagement could've been even easier and quicker if you'd added on two to four Vipers and had parabomb.
ive also found that early game agression with hydras with a double gas trick at the beguining and maybe 6 banes to fend off cannons is almost always a quick gg to mass stargate
very nice analysis at the end. just lowkolicious!
thank you so much!now im not afraid of prottoss you helped me so much :)
Thanks for the tutorial, very informative commentary
what a great tutorial. unfortuanly my micro won't be able to pull this off. I usually do vipers and mass hyrda vs mass air... sometimes works sometimes not.. depends on timing
As a protoss player, this is a very helpful video. haha
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Crazy sarcasm in the beginning lol i like it
Thank you sooo much for the tips! Great tips!
Thats a big help! I always try to go mass hydra against mass air toss :D next time curroptor queen, can that army also deal with tempests? i dont really know how to handle them?
Your vids are so funny and they help a lot :3 just go on and stay as are!
greetings from germany!
Needed this! You go lowko!
Hi Lowko, great video, I like when you explain specific countres. However as a protoss player that plays voidray/carrier in PvZ since LotV beta i have to disagree with one or two things that you said. First off i do not think that "pissing" on nexus with corruptors in the early game is a good idea. In the early game when you did that protoss will always have enought voidrays to evaporate your corruptors before you can destroy the nexus and usualy you will give him nice lead. Secondly NEVER focus fire carriers. If protoss has decent micro he can release interceptors from that carrier as soon as you focus fire it and he will not lose any DPS. It is much better to focus fire the void rays because if you kill them than you significantly lower his DPS because prismatic aligment is very good against corruptors. Also i think that hydra/queen with upgrades with upgrades - armor is much more important - is in my oppinion better counter because it destroys inerceptors quickly. That said i am only diamond league noob so i might be wrong, these are just my observations after 200+ games with this style.
Great video! golden armada can be really hard to beat!
I always add around 4 infestors to my army when my opponent has many carriers, because if u get a good fungle on the interceptores the carriers are dead supply. But i use hydralisks instead of queens...i think i have to change this ;)
Well thanks for the vid it helps a lot!
Queens are quicker (in tier), healthier and no upgrade needed... but Hidras have 2x damage compared to Queens...
Great counter video, Lowko!
lol after you bring out this video i saw nobody again do this op strategy ty so much i hated it rly hard xD
Not to mention try and sneak in a nexus snipe. Recent subscriber and love seeing you take out a base ... little bit of damage ohh it might survive BAM GONE! hahaha
Saw this IIIIIIIIIII in other videos vs lowko like Canon Rush. Now Turtle into Mass air... Seems like Boss of all Grand Masters had been found.
Good work lowko!
I love how your sloppy play is better than my best play haha!
Got 2-3 infestors with neural parasite upgrade in army like yours making skytoss even more easier
Lowko u r gr8 thnks for the vids and the tutorials ;)
excellent vid mate! cheers!
It's when Protoss go for tempest that this becomes a very difficult fight because you have to engage the tempest and when you do voidrays will have prismatic alignment ready & waiting
fun to watch even from a protoss prospective
have you ever streamed any 4 or 8 player FFA or Team games?
+Andrew Clark Lowko in FFA games open to anyone, almost a challenge you want to tweet to the pro's / ex-pro's to see if anyone wants to snipe him out ;)
So, the rule is simple, you upgrade attack first on anything that fights fast and armour on anything that fights slow. It's utilizing the units' functions best.
Great vid man
Great play Lowko! Could you please share how to beat that as a Terran too? I tried mass Marine with Viking support but... well, at least I tried. Carriers are freaking savage with the new update..
did you target fire the carriers? you hit the interceptors if u a click. the rest is your macro. how fast u get upgrades, how many workers and how many bases. u can only get better by practicing so keep on playing and playing. keep a fun mindset and not competitive. but learn from mistakes.
Hi Lowko, what do you think about the new balancemap/possible patch.. Do you think getting rid of the meditank is a good thing? And thank you,for the tip against skytoss,struggled a lot against it :) Nice video! :D
you made me reinstall sc2! :D man you play fast
I understood SO much of this. Totally. I can now 100% destroy mass air protoss. Totally.
wow, he really was the most stereotype protoss i have seen in a long time XD
@LowkoTV thx for the tutorial I just got hit with this (only been playing for a 1 week) LUL any way you can separate your tutorials based on the race you are playing and make them a playlist?
Make sure to pick up the bladder upgrade to enhance the zergling's pissing sustain XD
My problem at the moment is dealing with terrans, and their 1-1-1 7 minute push, where they push out with a bunch of marine, marauder, tank, liberators and a few medivacs.
I can never seem to get out enough units to deal with that
THIS IS GOLD
Hey lowko, not really new to StarCraft but im starting to really try to get into the competitive scene but its going slow and there's still alot that i just don't understand. right now I'm sitting at a pathetic 80 apm with Zerg and i was trying to make sure i hit my injects correctly but, i was wondering if you had any videos that explain what your actually doing with the space-bar and all the messing around with the map and getting closer to 200-300apm. any links and help would be awesome. always love your vids and keep smiling ma dude. thanks
Nice one Lowko, but man do I really dislike leavers...
Just in time for lunch break :)
For this unit combination - void + carrier - the best unit composition is muta and infestor with fungal. Void doesnt get bonus attack - coz muta isnt armored. Carriers with fungal on interceptors are useless;] And one more - we dont need to micro it ;] Coz interceptors will die very quick and our mutalisks will shoot on voids ;]
Cheers ;]
just a thought, a vid about dealing with liberators would be nice
Could you prepare some video where you explain when use shift attack and when simple attack (playing zerg)?
will you do archon mode again?with temp0? it was a fkin great match!!!
Awesome stuff.
No hydra?
What if it is a 3v3, do you think infestor hydralisks are valid? neural parasite and parasific bombs (and infested marines if you have energy to spare) would help against the carriers while hydralisks shread through the void rays that for some reason are using prismatic allignment against a light unit
How would you deal with hellion/hellbat + cyclone + liberator? I've found that combination is quite effective against the zerg. Hellbats serve as a shield/distraction while cyclones are destroying roaches/ravagers (upgraded cyclones take doswn ultra quite fast, let alone roach...) while liberators take out muta and lurkers. Zerg can outmicro me with muta/lurkers though. I wonder how would this work in higher leagues.
Hey Lowko, have you ever done a mass Infrestor/Swarm Host tactic? I find it one of the most cheesy and enjoyable strats in the game and did that today. 14 Swarm Hosts, 12 Infestor, 900 Broodlings and Infested Marines.
7 voidray is nothing and carrier suck...try this on 30+ voidray with mothership its unbeatable:/
30 Hydras beat 30 void rays. They are cheaper, build faster, and move faster too.
Not anymore
richitko hrichitko that’s the point. You need to stop them BEFORE they get there.
Solid wreckage of the toss there. I got a little concerned when the toss had archons and you had bunched up corruptors. Is it not an issue if the enemy has archons in that situation, or was it just the small numbers?
it is if you don't have a couple brood Lords the archons targeted the broodlings and were cleaned up by then
how do u switch between buildings and units so fast? (im new to starcraft 2)
What is the advantage in going for Queens instead of Hydras? Of course the Queens can transfuse the corruptors but you can mass hydralisk much quicker and they can help dealing with void rays quit nicely. But I'm just a noob asking the stupid questions :D
Gut gespielt!!
great video :)
how do you play the original SC music?
+bunnyswallows There is an option for it in the options -> sound menu.
thank you David
wouldn't mutas be better against mass void rays? I mean they're not armored and the bounce attack should work nicely against multiple targets...
(Not criticizing just curious, I fear skytoss to no limit. So I wanna know how best to kill)
Ps: Thanx for the great videos lowko, I only played single player until I found your channel. Its like a whole new game now :D
very cool thank you! :)
feel like an idiot for asking... but why no Viper?
+MetaTypSapienNobilis I was wondering that to.
+Umega Darkstar Viper good vs mass weak and clumbed units such as phoenixes, carries have way bigger hitboxes, and too much hp for parasitic bomb.
viper is good for hydra based army, where the opponent has the deathball, that you CANT fight so youu pick off their units one by one, like the tempest, carrier, arcon, high Templar, mothership army
Viper has 3 useful spells therefore good for situations where you need any of the 3. Ils good for grab with hydra balls but also against mass weak air units with bomb and to engage high dps on standard attacks army with blind, especially with hard to move units as tanks
Why not create any vipers?
vipers would be annoying to micro I imagine considering you have to micro your queen transfuses and shift click the carriers with your corrupters, you're doing a lot of work. A parasitic bomb wouldn't help that much and a good protoss would micro the unit out of the mix anyway, you would need to land a fungal too which means two more control groups. It's ery easy to mess up, and even the slightest delay can cost you the game.
I couldn't disagree more. I believe the whole reason for parasitic bombs introduction, was to give zerg a strong counter to mass air especially voidray.
The micro isn't difficult or time consuming, once u have sight on enemy simply, hold_shift > multi sect targets for parasitic bomb > right_click a retreat location, then take control of the rest of your army.
U would target the voidrays, as thy clump up more than carrier or tempest, causing them to suffer greater overlap damage. also clumping makes voidrays more difficult to micro out single units.
onece voidrays r eliminated protos has lost their strongest counter to corrupters.
Savage Rodent true, if it's just the one.
I know it's old, but some vipers could help against the little mini-carriers with the aoes no ?
hi lowko good job mutalisk and roach are they good in this type of the game?
It helped a lot!!!
Thanks Lowko, helpful as always! :) I've seen Neuro go mass queen hydra (queen infront to tank), and lategame ultra (also to tank / deal with any ground) to hit a timing attack before the Protoss maxes out like you do... but what do I do if the Protoss has actually maxed out on carrier?! I've tried queen ultra hydra + 8~ vipers for the mass parasite bomb but usually the carriers survive on 20% HP and run away while I lost way more. Abduct individual carriers and run? Try and fungal the intercepters? Help!
+Mjolnir If they are maxed out on air, make them come to you. Fight with Corruptor Queen support by Fungal and Parasitic Bomb with Spore Crawlers. Then often times you can reinforce with Hydras to clean it up.
Awesome thanks man. Already been having some success with corruptor/queen, feels more logical than hydra :)
my hero
How to beat Void rays AND carriers. Build Hydras. They are purpose built to destroy voids and still manage to beat carriers. So much for the golden armada, or death ball, or whatever you want to call it. Is building and A-moving hydras too simple? Oh, well then try something that takes a little micro, like a fungal. Two fungals will take out an entire fleet while also making some of the slowest units in the game even slower, to the point where they essentially stand still. Or a parasitic bomb: again, two will destroy an entire fleet.
If you feel really ambitious, you can just build mass queens and transfuse to keep them all alive longer than the entire protoss fleet. Or Neural half the fleet and make them fight each other.
And lastly, lets not forget the mass spore crawler strategy.
But hey, why not keep it simple. Use a tier one unit in mass, and a-move it. Voila, victory Hydras.
I had one encouter today. Protoss tried canon rush at beginning, i defended so he went for void rays, when he moved his 10 voids out of base all around border of the map my hydras were waiting (i scouted direction of attack). After his failiure he made 6 voids and went mass carrier (to the time of my attack he had 10). I attacked him with my hydras (37) 9 brood lords to harass and bait him out and 3 infestors (there were also 3 corruptors i belive). Fungal made fight childish easy. I throw 2 at him, attack-moved hydras and sky toss was gone. Fungals also reveals invisible units (in case if he had mothership). I don't know how, but i lost only 3 hydras. Toss had 3 stargates at beginning up to 5 or 6 at end.
My buddy does mass void ray and carriers and I still haven't got viper controller mastered yet. I'll have to try this. Can you explain how to do stutter stepping in a vid? Thanks!
ur actually a machine dude u playing gives me anxiety u move so fast so swiftly and so precise dude ur great hopefully i get good soon :(
So if he'd had a cadre of charge zealots, or a few disruptors or something, to take out those queens, you'd have been toast?
Maybe zealots mixed with dark templar, for increased dps?
Lowko, i ''lowe" watching your games..but question: since you had no recon in his base, how did you know he was going mass voidrays? i mean you say 2 stargates @ 5:36...then you just built up for mass voidrays...are you playing with friends with pre-determined strategies?? i never saw you use infestors vs terran & protoss..or vipers to pull then tanks ..
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smash!!! Why no vipers tho?
11 minutes.. Protoss turtle is max out air. Seen it many times. Still hard, if that air move to your main base for trade, it is gonna wipe it clean.
Any chance you can make a video on how to defeat mass void ray in 2v2 or 3v3? Is there a counter other than trying to prevent the macro?
I miss the Psi-Storms, i think they are more effective than Archons in this situation. Remember 3 Archons = 18 Storms
Neither are very efficient against Corruptor Broodlord. They're a nice addition in damage I suppose.
always keep in mind where you can piss :D
preferably not upwind. :)
why not vipers to pull carrier inside of corrupter-ball?
what are you thoughts on parasitic bomb against skytoss?
could you replace hydralisks with Queens instead
In this, i like the unit comp. would this still work out okay with mass hydra??? or why wouldnt you use hydras? Hydras are super good vs void rays, and then courptors are very good vs carriers. What if you went for like, a hydra heavy + courptors?
Fighting the cannons wouldn't be worth it with Hydra. They're very low in HP. Think of Queens as more powerful Hydras because of their health and spells (and lack of cost of Gas). If Hydras get stormed they're gone. Queens don't really mind.
as a protoss that wanna go mass air , that guy was so screwed and slow in income and gases ....
Amd how to get a logo next my main building?
alot of channels on twitch require a email address where go to do that? please leave a link if there is a website
Lowko what do you think about muta-hydra composition? because running away from the prismatic alignment can give him the chance to debast your queens and spore crawlers' static defense, or not?
Muta Hydra is not very good against this unit composition as they will be dead in seconds. Both units have barely any hp.
+LowkoTV Yeah that's true, I just followed the rule about 3 mutas or hydras against a voidray, and it actually works most of the time against full air, cause even if he manages to kill everything on the first battle (usually they just end up with a couple units), the reinforcements just clean everything up. Maybe you can try it in one of your "wonky strategies" gameplays lol, Btw love all of your content ! Greetings from Perú !
+LowkoTV How About Muta-Parabomb? You Parabomb his army and pick off the vulnerable ones with mutalisks as he split~~
I hear retro starcraft music in the background... is that you or is that a gameplay option??
And how can you switch ctrl teams?
Why didn't he activate prismatic alignment at the end?
I have 3 questions:
1) When you move a unit to the future base at 1:10 you are clicking the unit to move in circles? Why not one click only?
2) What are you continually doing with the mouse at 0:54 when you seem to be selecting all but only one unit gets selected.
3) You are not using The Core layout but you recommended it on their website. Is it useful or not compared to grid?
+Bogdan Vaida
1) That's called speshul master APM spamming ^^
2) He doesn't he selects all the workers, and then goes back to the hatcheries with the hotkey he has set for it, again apm spamming.
3) For as far as I know he's using grid but with a small adjustment, I thought he had his base select on spacebar.
+Bogdan Vaida as far as i know its a manner off APM :D
+Bogdan Vaida 1 and 2 are just stuff you can do when you have enough speed. You got excess actions so he just does random stuff that doesn't do anything at all. Could act as a warm up for the hands or something before the part of the game where faster hand movements is required. Better than staring there listening to the queen saying NOT ENOUGH MINERALS!!!! xD