Wait WHAT??
Well that is a plot twist. Hmm.
I always said zergs begin to talk before they can walk…
League is really largely irrelevant. Silver players can be doing 1 or 2 things right while GM players can be doing 1 or 2 things wrong. As long as we’re on the same page and have a decent discussion that everyone has some takeaway it’s all good.
Except when it involves balance whining from any of the 3 races, then you just walk away because you know none of them actually know what they are talking about.
You want to know what counter Thors?
Thors!
So build Infestors.
GLHF all
Roach/ravager/lings +/-bane (for hellbat) with double attack upgrades is probably the best way to counter mass thor. You try to do some hit and run with bile (thor are really slow), so you try not to defend just in front of your base, but as soon as they leave the T base to have more space (space is very important versus mech).
You can add some vipers too for blinding cloud, it will reduce thors’DPS.
You can aslo ultras+lings +/- vipers, or lings/lurkers (you try to block thors at lurkers mass range, so thors can’t move close enough to hit lurkers, but lurkers keep hitting thors.
It is rather difficult in my own experience, especially if there are Siege Tanks and Hellbats backing them up. There are two things you need… Vipers, and good macro, especially with Larva. Pull individual Thors into your mass of Roach/Hydra (Hydralisks are generally a good choice here because of their high DPS), cast Blinding Cloud on groups of tanks if you get the chance (or Abduct individual ones), and make sure you can re-max your regular army units quickly. Vipers may get shot down, so you’ll need a handful of them to get off some Abducts and Blinding Clouds.
Also, make sure all of your units can attack. If you have Hydralisks dancing around the back, move your army forward slightly.
Lurker, Neural, Roach Hydra Viper.
Welcome to zerg. We have one good unit right now its called the baneling. Your job is to perfectly time your mineral and gas income so that you can afford massive waves of banelings at the right points in the game. This is important because banes are expensive and not cost efficient at all. But if you can afford enough of them you can beat any army. Its the ultimate ‘but I have more money than you’ unit.
I remember when people thought hydras were good xD then theyre like ‘i dont understand why are my hydras dying to tanks’
Because theyre not banes, stupid. Zerg has no other good units. Just mass banes.
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you can gg or die slowly. Like, yes make lurkers then expect some tanks that erase everything on earth, vipers try to pull some thors while they prioritize air units.
To be honest if terran hits mass mech just gg, is better or just waste your time if u want.
Terran has the strongest end-game composition if allowed to reach that point, which is either mass BC (like 15+), or Thor+ differing ratios of Hellbats and Tanks. I believe this is the case in BW as well.
I don’t think it’s an issue though, since
- It builds up very slowly and needs critical mass to be that efficient. You can take bases and force trades, even if unfavorable for you, as long as it’s within reason
- Constantly force tanks and liberators to siege and unsiege. Keep vision on the army. If it gets to your base without your knowing, that’s on you.
If you fail to do 1 and 2 as any race, you will lose to their deathball regardless of what you do.
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Surely Mass BC is pretty bad on it’s own? Wouldn’t it die to Zerg the same way Mass Carrier does? Getting slowly pulled apart by abducts into spore crawlers.
nah because they can jump and also have hit-and-run capability of Yamato and jump, or Yamato half of your corruptors and killing the rest, for example.
Without other kinds of support BCs are much better than Carriers.
Yeah, I guess Tactical Jump does kinda slant that matchup a bit. Though if a Terran has somehow managed to max on pure Battlecruiser, the Zerg screwed up extremely hard.
Yeah for sure, even in the case of mass carriers. Considering how long it takes for them to build (including 4 additional interceptors), if you let them get to that point you SHOULD lose the game.
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Ravager, Lurker, Ultralisk vs. Liberator, Thor
Nah, you also have to Neural 
Please don’t give advice when you open 4 depot before rax every game.
I was watching Golden’s stream and he defeated mech with ling bane muta.T has many Thors and also did some BC.Magic box, good surround and thor-hellbat-tank was defeated every time.
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so what you’re saying is that if I build almost exclusively banes, i will be able to be masters zerg?
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how-to-counter-thors-as-zerg
You don’t.
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