AFAIC having 30 Carriers in campaign with SoA abilities is basically cheating.
Or 45 Void Rays/Destroyers.
Or the DT corsair combo of Vorazun
Either way the Hybrids didnât really feel like significant threats. It was always golden armada, taldarim, blablabla
It would be nice if there was a Hybrid brood whom challenges Abathur in its evolution
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The idea was supposed to break the hybrid before they were numerically significant; shakuras destroyed is to take hybrids out.
koRHal does not show what was already shown in sector six, the hybrids not only SERVE AS A ZERG CONTROL NODE, they control a HUMAN army and with the support of xelnaga technology it is literally stopping an army
The protoss shows the mental advantage in this aspect during this the battle and avoids an annihilation and ravascar shows that the threat would continue to rise creating âhybrid shipsâ
Probably a lot, all of the high templar variety. Mental domination is both a question of psionic might and personal willpower. We know Kerrigan herself is pretty good at the psionic domination game. At least in SC1 she was. See: Raszagal. She not only took over Raszagal, but did so across the void of space.
So really domination is a matter of psionic reach, control, and willpower as opposed to raw might.
If you want a numberâŚiunno, 5? 10? Whatever arbitrary number of high powered, highly controlled, and willful high templar you want.
The answer of âwhy didnât they?â is probably plot. Here, let me impersonate Blizzard real quick.
clears throat
âWELL YâSEE SON KERRIGAN WAS THE MOST POWERFUL PSIONIC AT THE TIME AND UH SHE WAS REAL SAVVY IN THE HEADBRAIN SO UH UM NO PROTOSS COULD KEEP UP WITH HER AND SO THEY NEVER BOTHERED TRYING.â
Something dumb like that.
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SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM
clears throat
ExecutorâŚ
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Hybrids are the epitome of what the Protoss and Zerg are.
I must admit WoL Hybrids are more terrifying than LotV Hybrids. But I think the first time around you must be intimidated like you dont know this enemy so powerful kind of thing that when LotV came around like âWell, here we go againâ.
I think part of it is just that the protoss are flat out stronger than the terrans and zerg. When it comes down to it, the zerg (sans Kerrigan) all but have to get slaughtered in droves to fight them, and the terrans can only put up a fight when they control the terrain and outnumber the hybrids by a lot. The protoss meanwhile can fight them head on, and win in a fair fight, as we see with Artanis and Kerrigan on Ulnar. Its a level of matched power we donât see anywhere else in the campaign.
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There is one issue, though. Somehow Raynor could stand against Selendis and won⌠That kind of put power level in chaosâŚ
Just make Havenâs Fall canon. The Protoss research is so much better anyway.
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How do you know psionic power is additive? What if power canât be combined in that way?
Thatâs their whole adage; In unity, there is strength. Among other thing, the creation of Archon is something that only two Templars working together can make (Unless one of them is Tassadar, who can switch back and forth between both state all by his lonesome).
There is also a prominent Dark Archon (whose name I canât spell) made out of seven Dark Templar. He is must more menacing than average Dark Archon. He was somewhat repelled by a number of Templar working together as well.
Admittedly, this could all be the result of writer having zero idea about quantity and quality of energy, but this is canon!
That Dark Archon name was Ulrezaj and indeed he was extremely powerful.
However I think Kerrigan keeping up and eventually defeating Narud, a Xelnaga (even if a less powerful one if compared with Amon), who was also empowered by the energies of several Xelnaga temples (who tend to contain immense energies) solidly put her well above even Ulrezaj.
As Queen of Blades (especially) she was indeed on a monstrous level both as individual power level and as numbers of victims she had done across the space when she has get rolling and focused on something.
XelâNaga are overrated. They got personal feats of strength themselves.
Primitive protoss and zerg killed XelâNaga too, so thatâs not much of an achievement.
An infested human holding a candle to giant alien gods or a walking energy storm like Ulrezaj is mind numbingly stupid writing. This is worse than Dragonball Z power creep.
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Wasnât that Amon was also involved then? Anyway, if we go that route we have a zerg creep sample going wild when experimented on it with deadly viral agents and infesting and psionicaly mind dominating protoss (even getting inside khala, iirc, or cutting them from there)
Well, Kerrigan wasnât quite your random infested human, he was pretty powerful even as human (highest psionic on record), adding the zerg infestation and modifications and the power up she get like that and isnât quite far fetched that she is superior to Narud or Ulrezaj. After all the Overmind chosen her, and infested her in that way so to be able to take the swarm out of Amon control. And to fight the protoss on their own ground, psionically
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The Xelânaga not being that much stronger than the protoss or terrans on an individual level isnât all that far fetched. DBZ beam attacks aside, we already know that psionic powers, properly trained, allow you to inflict mass destruction (its the premise of the High Templar after all), and its canon that Terran psionics are better suited for it than protoss psionics, which lean towards telepathy. Even Amonâs host body on Aiur isnât all that unreasonable given that it was specifically designed and created for that sort of destruction.
As with many things, its the epilogue that makes the whole thing nonsense, with Amon suddenly being a literal god who cant be killed except for another literal god.
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Yamatos and SoA fire would kill him. Change my mind.
The protoss have black holes. Just open one up on his face.
It would never penetrate his plot armor!
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Wasnât that just Xelnaga physical bodies could be killed in âreal universeâ but they just go back to the void and recover there, and you need to also kill them there to finaly eliminate them? And they were also having a civil war with Amon and his followers, which actually produced the main damage?
Amon was powerful enough to mind control most of the khala protoss, a species linked in a psionic network and made all from more or less powerful psionics (isnât that protoss need to control their telepathy when talk with normal humans so to not blow up their brains?). And he did that even without to enter in the real universe, but residing in a parallel one, in the void.
Also in the future vision received by Zeratul he was extinguishing suns or solar systems iirc, he seem pretty powerful when unleashing his full abilities. But yes, Xelnaga had a mixed record on this and their physical bodies can be killed by lesser means and at least some of them seem visible weaker than others
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