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Spazer
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Canada8033 Posts
February 19 2011 07:23 GMT
#21
Defilers, no contest. Dark swarm is, imo, the most imbalanced spell in BW. It literally has the ability to stop entire terran armies. Coupled with consume, the defiler is basically capable of pushing all the way across the map and killing everything. Plague is just the non-nerfed version of fungal growth.

There are some very good reasons why vessel count is so important in lategame TvZ, and keeping the defiler population under control is one of them.
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xxpack09
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States2160 Posts
February 19 2011 07:24 GMT
#22
Defilers are a completely game changing unit in ZvZ. The craziness that is hive ZvZ would be impossible without them
Chimpalimp
Profile Joined May 2010
United States1135 Posts
February 19 2011 07:31 GMT
#23
Defiler is one of the best units in Starcraft history, infestor PALES in comparison.
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Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States2474 Posts
February 19 2011 07:34 GMT
#24
It's really hard to choose a spellcaster with limited energy over a spellcaster with infinite energy.

Defilers are probably the most imba unit in a game full of imba units.
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Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Canada6688 Posts
February 19 2011 07:56 GMT
#25
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February 19 2011 07:56 GMT
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February 19 2011 07:56 GMT
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FractalsOnFire
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Australia1756 Posts
February 19 2011 08:01 GMT
#28
^ Awesome Triple post

If anyone says infestor over defiler they must be absolutely downright retarded. There is simply no better zerg spellcaster, invincibility cloud, PLAYGU which simply imba thanks to the koreans and consume for unlimited energy.
TheAntZ
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Israel6248 Posts
February 19 2011 08:01 GMT
#29
Oh come on. Noone in their right mind would think the infestor beats the defiler in any way. Its like kerrigan decided "hmm...well these defilers here singlehandedly won me battles against terran...but nah screw that im gonna make em extinct and breed a species of weak sissy little pukey green thingies"
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numLoCK
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Canada1416 Posts
February 19 2011 08:47 GMT
#30
What a ridiculous question. Defiler would win without even without consume, but give the thing infinite energy = insanely powerful unit.
Infestor doesn't even compare.
SpoR
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States1542 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-02-19 09:17:43
February 19 2011 09:15 GMT
#31
Defiler hands down. Plague would just compliment everything especially banelings. Swarm + banes would probably be cheaper than BW lurker+swarm, not to mention swarm is some of the greatest AA defense ever. Consume is ridiculously good and there is no irradiate anymore T would have to go EMP making their army even weaker.

Infestor pretty much only has burrow movement for harass and it's only really useful spell is fungal.


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Existential
Profile Joined December 2010
Australia2107 Posts
February 19 2011 10:53 GMT
#32
Defiler is so much better than the Infestor.
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Liquid`Drone
Profile Joined September 2002
Norway28797 Posts
February 19 2011 13:07 GMT
#33
even though infestors have the best spell in sc2, defilers are way, way better. zerg needed them in bw - but consume+swarm+lurker was completely broken if you look at it independently.
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FlaShFTW
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States10398 Posts
February 19 2011 21:20 GMT
#34
On February 19 2011 18:15 SpoR wrote:
Defiler hands down. Plague would just compliment everything especially banelings. Swarm + banes would probably be cheaper than BW lurker+swarm, not to mention swarm is some of the greatest AA defense ever. Consume is ridiculously good and there is no irradiate anymore T would have to go EMP making their army even weaker.

Infestor pretty much only has burrow movement for harass and it's only really useful spell is fungal.


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it seems that the winner is defiler. THANK FOR THE FEEDBACK!
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