Pre-prestige and pre-buff dayz
Raynor - I remember playing as Jim Raynor on co-op reminiscing about the good old original sc1 days with marines, firebats, medics, except the marauder wasn’t in it, good stuff blowing up things using siege tanks and vulture spider mines , battlecruisers, won my first Brutal game as level 7 Jim Raynor with a level 9 Vorazun ally who helped tremendously with the blackhole as I spammed MULES, vikings and vultures/ spider mines on Oblivion Express before I knew you can rapid-fire. I think I broke the C key on the old keyboard. I ended up getting a new keyboard after getting things mixed up using a different key since it broke. To this day the vulture spider mines live up to my dearest sc2 coop memories as Jim Raynor. I cheese most maps running around with packs of vultures and vikings and spam Cs after Cs until it is a cease-fire.
Kerrigan - oh the glorious Kerrigan, the Swarm Queen of the Blades . I love earning extra resources for me and my ally, loved mass hydras and seldom 5-7 ultras packed into 6 omega worms I could spam for days and as living fleshy detector walls on dead of night and lurkers, Mmmm love them! Her zerglings+muta+brood lords were epic too. I was a super Kerrigan fan until I purchased abathur then dehaka. I still play Kerrigan decently though, if the random button blesses/curses me with it.
Artanis - I was saddened that he did not have the Mothership. Alas, I sighed and appropriated with good ol’ 'lots, 'goons, 'chons, bye templars. Rarely ever used the meme-sake Reavers. Only, out of pure whim, surrendered massive amount of resources to build a robotic worm-brigade on Miner Evac splitting them up so they don’t overkill a dead soul. Oh, I hated the Miner Evac side missions, especially the bottom right one on Brutal missions. I would just save up a dozen hundred minerals and send zealots to them and use the solar bombardment on them. When I didn’t have them? I would lose half, if not most of my army trying to get that measly side obj exp, if my ally wouldn’t offer up some live sacrificial pawns for the death ritual ahead.
Swann - I heard he was a defensive commander, so I decided to try him. I liked him. I like supporting roles. At level 5, the amount of love I get for boosting up our vespene income up a notch or butter-scotch - totally worth giving up some couple hundred minerals. Only those who think it’s free are the ones that I couldn’t stand. Heck, early game, some guys see their teammate is Swann, they feel that they are entitled to an automatic gas boost as soon as they finish building their geyser constructs as if it was the Swann player’s one-and-only function in life was to know exactly when and down to the final second when their gas buildings are available to drop gas harvester drones on. Some would get angry , in turn, making me angry , spamming alt+f pings on the map as giving the aforementioned provisions were my top priorities. Nah. I’d deliberately up-yours on them. I loved mass wraiths and some sci vessels, siege tanks on miner evac, turrets and all that! Loved blasting to the abyss the trains in oblivion express and part & parcel as thors, cyclones and siege tanks. I would mix a combination of all available units. I used to think Swann was a master-race Terran, until I got Tychus. I only played Swann from Ascendence Lv. 218-871 then I truly got utterly sick and tired of playing Swann. That’s also when in 2018 or 2019 or something they released Mengsk. And them Prestiges, making me to play Swann again.
Zagara - in the beginning I’d hate the idea of suicidal bombings/bombers so I skipped playing her. Perchance, the random commander button had chosen Zagara for me was whence I had realized she wasn’t bad. She wasn’t some lunatic commander who sends her army to death. She IS what she IS. She was born to command the army of volatile things! I loved weakening down big boss unit or trains using the corruptor ability. Oh lordie lord, before the range buff from one of the 2019 patches or somewhere there can’t remember when, I used to meme-purpose the bile launcher on centre cliff and top expo cliff of OE and as defensive DoN strat. Her Masteries have been bugged for the longest time.
Vorazun - I used to think Vorazun was a master-race Protoss commander. At Lv. 2 gained her automatic assimilator! Whoopie doo! Spawn dark templars whoohooo! Enemy ars* is slashed sparse! Blackhole , DT or Corsair attack! Higher level Vorazun (forgot which Lv.) Blackhole ignores armor! Way to go with Corsair pewt pewt splash kaboomza damage! Ohhhhhhh hnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng~ Lv. 10 TIMESTOPpppppppp! Stahp impressing meeeee we you masta-racer I’d hafta paste mustard-hey sirrr *purr (lol whut). Good times. But needs micro on higher difficulty to avoid splash deaths.
Karax - oh boy I can’t tell you how many times I got cheesed over how many times they changed Karax’s Masteries. The 2019 or somewhere-there buff has me playing Karax again. It was nigh-impossible to max supply with high-tier units (Carriers, *wink ) before that. I wouldn’t complain about the Energizer Reclaimation ability, however. I would mass Zealots and Energizers and prefer to (over Terran mechs) control enemy Toss mechs like there was no tomorrow.
Abathur - the cookie monster . The happy ending. Got me so enticed over Kerrigan. The Ultimate Evolutions were bomb! But I liked spamming Corrosive Biles and vipers more! Recently realized you can manually prevent a certain unit from turning into an UE by right clicking the -born/spawned-that-way unit who has turning into UE autocast at birth. Oh my ill-begotten losses!
Alarak, Nova, Stukov, Fenix, Dehaka, Han & Horner, Tychus, Zeratul, Stetmann, and Mengsk - TBA