Once again, mind telling me how do I split against an INSTANT -100shield -100 energy spell that has virtually 11 range, 2 radius (bigger than storm). I’d love if you “Terran pro spliters” would tell me, because I’m sure my terran is higher than yours even though I play PURE BIO and my micro is probably trash right ?
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Once again, mind telling me how do I split against an INSTANT -100shield -100 energy spell that has virtually 11 range, 2 radius (bigger than storm). I’d love if you “Terran pro spliters” would tell me, because I’m sure my terran is higher than yours even though I play PURE BIO and my micro is probably trash right ?
I’ll assume your GM. So before moving your army into his to attack you pick your battle. Watch terrain. High ground helps if you can keep the opponent from using vision for his spell casting. You bait with the smallest amount of units that are very close to your army. it can force your opponent to engage with his micro and having his EMP be his second choice. He either EMPs the small group or moves too forward to use the EMP on your entire army.
A separate hotkey isnt necessary. just lasso a small group and move foward while your army is moving backward. then you immediately move your army forward. You give some space between both groups. its risky, but it can work. if he moves whole army in you can psi storm them, then move your army back then throw down feedback if his ghosts still decide to move in to use EMP.
It takes a lot of practice.
Secondly in an open area you can move your army to one side in an open area next to opponent army. just out of range. then lasso half the army and move it slightly away from your bigger portion and immediately move your army to the other side. it creates this “lined” spread. its good for Bio against storm before engaging. it lessens the amount of causalities.
Both take some finesse.
I’m sure even sniping ghosts with HT in a prism still works. It all depends on how well you execute and the player your facing. I don’t really play much protoss, but the mechanics are the same. You might be splitting army with more space between them to avoid critical emp damage.
You can proxy some batteries before you take your engagement. Just bring 1 or 2 probes with you. Hide them behind your army. This requires patience and map awareness as to not give away your planting batteries in the field just behind your army. when you think you have a good spot to attack and get hit by an EMP just retreat a little to the batteries.
These wont give you a 100% win rate, but if successful it can turn the tides in a match up. Just my 2 cents.
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nah, mostly because Terran players can’t handle all in, which is Protoss only strat nowaday. Protoss used anything to their full potential… which is not many, hence why they have so much succeed. Terran has a lot of options and are used to being the aggressor so the concept of playing defensively until EMP feel “strange” to them.
It is like how you at a certain ELo where you never close the ramp, then suddenly when you close the ramp, your ELo went up from Silver to Gold-Plat
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Holy hell this thread is toxic on all fronts.
For starters, yes upgraded EMP is probably overpowered vs Protoss.
Next off, it’s not impossible to play the game when the upgrade comes out…but it’s definitely 100% not fun.
Finally, this isn’t JUST EMP’s upgrade causing the issue. It’s a mix of EMP+potent abilities like STIM to finish the Protoss army off. Or EMP+Liberators or hell, even EMP+Widow Mines. If you layer them, it gets even more obnoxious to play against in TvP.
P.S. win rate doesn’t always indicate balance. If the win rate is 50% but Protoss end up allinning 80% of the time, that’s indicative of a balance issue as something is spurring Protoss into allinning 80% of the time and that needs to be addressed.
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I’m gonna give you a chance to grow thumbs and try write that to where people with an IQ higher than that of a f*cking house plant can understand.
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Thats why protoss is still 37% gm on kr and pvt winrates are 54% on aligulac and protoss leading months. You have 3 nexus economy vs terran 2 base. YOu get extra 30 chargelot, which you a move and autowin and yet you will complain you wh0re ? If you can’t win pvt you suck. Uninstall you trash…
Just because your IQ is lower than a house plant doesn’t mean other can’t understand it. And I don’t need to write it for people with IQ lower than a house plant to understand.
Protoss have only one way to win and become GM: 3 bases all in. This is why there are so many people become GM. It doesn’t take much skill to execute proper build order that early in the game.
This is why I want to push for Protoss change. If Protoss have their late game option back, their early all in can be nerf and that GM protoss number will plummet.
Yep, 3 base economy is broken. Protoss economy is overpowered as hell…
Yet, with that superior economy. Protoss will still lose once Terran got the EMP. Ridiculous, right?
https:// www.rankedftw. com/stats/races/1v1/#v=2&r=-2&l=-2
Terran all League: ~34%
Terran GM: <29%
Protoss all League: 29%
Protoss GM: Almost 40%…
I’m sorry your free wins are AS easy as they used to be?
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Already talked about that. Read.
Yeah. I’m even going to try and decipher that wall of stupid. I know English is probably your 15th language or you have a speech/typing impediment, but NO ONE understands the crap you’re trying to say.
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Nah, probably only you since you have lower IQ than a house plant.
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Same way you split against storm - you pre-spread for the engagement. Its called preparation.
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Doesn’t change the fact that ghosts do instant 100 damage to shield against the entirety of the protoss army, protoss units are bit, clunky and slow it just doesn’t work. How clueless do you have to be to not notice that the best KR pros lose lategame really hard to EU terrans once EMP is out ? I mean c’mon I know you aren’t 10 IQ so please make your mind.
EMP right now is as if Protoss had already stormed your army and you lost 50% of your health without any counterplay whatsoever or as if there was a disruption ball hiting 100% of the time without skill needed or micro.
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EMP does not kill with spell damage alone.
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Disruptors do like… 160 damage or something. Also most protoss units don’t have 50% of their health in shields. In fact, as far as I recall, only the stalker and the adept do (archons aside of course, since they’re all shields), though I could be mistaken.
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Dude, if you take a few bad EMPs, you lose the fight. You take ONE bad disruption nova and you lose the game.
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Mind telling me which units protoss use when terran in lategame build libs / BC’s ? Oh yeah that’s right, stalkers, tempests and disruptors, all of which have their HP mostly from Shield.
Not gonna mention the fact that BCs hard counter their supposedly hard counter because Blizzard doesn’t want protoss to have a good capital ship in the game anymore.
Yeah, as if when terran hits EMPs (which happen 100% of the time for players with actual working hands past plat league), he’s not gonna engage and let protoss replenish his shields freely without hard punishing toss, killing all the army and key units that cannot be replaced in 0.5sc like MMM.
Ask any Pro, watch pro play, Terran is utterly broken against Protoss, just like Zerg is broken against protoss right now
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Colossus arent ‘counterplay’ to marines its hardcountering. meaning theres nothing you can do against it.
I still have 0 reactions from Protoss what to do vs warm prisim speed. Typical fanboys dont even know there own race.
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