I was playing some ranked earlier today and was playing as Zerg. I used the overlord scout, saw he was making a starport and thought immediately “Hey, Bc rush.” and made a lotta queens. Little did I KNOW that BC’s can basically 3v1 queens and BARELY survive (If the queens have little energy and move around a bunch of course, they’re not gonna just win automatically.)
Then I saw that he went for a CRAP ton of BCs after I killed the first one, of which I lost a lot of my Overlords in the process…
Is there any way to counter this? Are Corruptors a good idea or are they not fast enough to take down Bc’s with Jump?
Also, friend told me that BC Rushes have a 90% winrate against Zerg… and I can see why, they’re rediculously strong but NOT overpowered.
I’m not here to complain about balance changes, I just wanna ask if there’s actually a good way to prevent Battlecruisers wrecking your… everything in the early game.
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You should be making 6 queens anyways no matter what, since they hold every build terran can do with just couple lings and bannes. You don’t even need to scout if you want, camp 1 ling in front of his base to see when hellions go out to make lings. And pull drones don’t leave them for bcs to kill: first pull behind spore and if he dives pull them out. Then don’t engage with queens try to get shots of distance. You may want to leave some queens at third to help vs hellion. If you can hold bcs with 2 queens for a while just don’t lose any drones.
Have connected main with natural with creep and don’t forget to make spores just in case if you don’t scout.
If he makes more than 1, you can get spire just in case and mass corruptors that shuts that down extremely hard ! If you have overlord speed scout for second starport, or if he is making 2nd bc. Especially if he is going mech, check early gas on natural and for second starport, in that case you can mass corruptors. If he is going bio, he won’t go more than 1 probably, or maybe 2. Or you can open overlord speed and see everything he is doing for 75/75 and not lose overlord, also you can send them everywhere on the map.
If you take dmg you should rebuild drones instantly and go for 4th during all of this.
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Yeah, Corruptors shut down Battlecruisers very, very hard. If you see that he is making additional Battlecruisers beyond the first, that’s the cue to drop a Spire and start producing a lot of Corruptors.
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Corruptors. If mass BC then neural.
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First, Queens, Second, Corruptos, Fifth, Infestor.
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Queens can deal with the first BC. After that, you need a spire. After scouting fusion core research or multiple BCs on the way, you get a spire and corruptors. Eventually, get infestors to prevent him from jumping away.
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