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Jaeden
Profile Joined September 2008
Romania1489 Posts
October 22 2008 18:00 GMT
#21
On October 23 2008 01:40 disciple wrote:
cola or pepsi


easy choice
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Raithed
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
China7078 Posts
October 22 2008 18:25 GMT
#22
On October 23 2008 01:53 waterGHOSTCLAWdragon wrote:
Archons cost a lot less mins, but slightly more gas.
Archons do a lot more damage than ultras
ultras have lots more armor than archons (esp at that point in the game)
ultras probably have dark swarm on their side
archons have psistorm on their side
they regen health at about the same time
ultras need lings to be effective (even amount of gas, archons > ultras in general)
zerg should have more bases to go ultra, so, once again, it counters the more min cost.
you need more ultras than you need archons (toss needs less bases).

This thread isn't that helpful for....anything.

but he wants to compare unit to unit. its theory ofc.
Archaic
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States4024 Posts
October 22 2008 19:10 GMT
#23
On October 23 2008 03:00 Jaeden wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 23 2008 01:40 disciple wrote:
cola or pepsi


easy choice


Premise A: Diet soda tastes worse than regular soda.
(d) = diet
Pepsi tastes like diet Coke.

Pepsi == Coke(d)
Coke(d) < Coke
Pepsi < Coke

Sorry for not stating the rules. I completely forgot the laws.
capek
Profile Joined September 2008
United States585 Posts
October 22 2008 19:28 GMT
#24
before i got into pro starcraft and learned that queens were useless, i used to use them a lot (for broodling).
i hated the fact that you couldn't broodling an archon but you could do it to an ultra.
Equinox_kr
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States7395 Posts
October 22 2008 19:40 GMT
#25
Archons rip shit open. Enough said.
^-^
Equinox_kr
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States7395 Posts
October 22 2008 19:41 GMT
#26
On October 23 2008 04:10 Archaic wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 23 2008 03:00 Jaeden wrote:
On October 23 2008 01:40 disciple wrote:
cola or pepsi


easy choice


Premise A: Diet soda tastes worse than regular soda.
(d) = diet
Pepsi tastes like diet Coke.

Pepsi == Coke(d)
Coke(d) < Coke
Pepsi < Coke

Sorry for not stating the rules. I completely forgot the laws.


More simply put, Pepsi is overloaded with sugar and thus tastes a hell of a lot worse than Coca Cola. And when I think about it, Pepsi DOES taste like Diet Cola.
^-^
inlagdsil
Profile Joined May 2008
Canada957 Posts
October 22 2008 19:44 GMT
#27
Archons are stronger alone. Ultralisks' main goal is to soak up damage, so they become super effective with high damage low HP support units.
In other words:
archons > ultralisks
archons < ultraling
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WhatisProtoss
Profile Blog Joined February 2004
Korea (South)2325 Posts
October 22 2008 20:10 GMT
#28
Mass archons are the perfect counter for ultralisk/zergling.

If the numbers are even, archons will win, hands down.
andrey3332
Profile Joined October 2008
Romania15 Posts
October 22 2008 20:16 GMT
#29
arcon > ultra

arcon / zelot > ultraling

HT / arcon / zelot > defiler / ultraling


but if there are lots of spreaded lurkers around all protoss army vanishes in seconds (( i hate when that happens
dont mess with me me knows to make 4pool
Eatme
Profile Blog Joined June 2003
Switzerland3919 Posts
October 22 2008 20:21 GMT
#30
The most annoying thing is that the unit that plauge looks "best" on is the archon. It's also the unit that takes least effect by the spell.
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PH
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States6173 Posts
October 22 2008 20:25 GMT
#31
The only real advantage ultras have are speed and higher armor.

The only WEAKNESS archons have is they take full damage from all unit types, and are made completely useless in the face of EMP.
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Durak
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Canada3685 Posts
October 22 2008 20:59 GMT
#32
On October 23 2008 05:21 Eatme wrote:
The most annoying thing is that the unit that plauge looks "best" on is the archon. It's also the unit that takes least effect by the spell.


I know. I always feel so proud of myself getting them plagued until I realize how much of a waste it is.
YPang
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
United States4024 Posts
October 22 2008 21:29 GMT
#33
efficient= Ultralisks, they are much faster, and can be produced at a greater mass...

stronger=archon.
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lololol
Profile Joined February 2006
5198 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-10-22 21:38:03
October 22 2008 21:32 GMT
#34
Archons are tons better, mass archons easily beats mass ultras, they have more damage, splash, can attack air, better range, can cast storm before morph, e.t.c.
It's just that zerg's economy is better(and they have swarm) or ultralisks wouldn't be as viable.

Just imagine Zerg with Archons and Toss with Ultralisks, ling/archon would rape so bad :D
I'll call Nada.
Twisted
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
Netherlands13554 Posts
October 22 2008 21:56 GMT
#35
On October 23 2008 02:00 FrozenArbiter wrote:
On the topic of dark swarm in PvZ vs archons, I don't know if he was THE first, but Twisted (like, the Tl.net Twisted) was definitely one of the first zerg players to use swarm vs mass archons

Just like how rekrul/american tosses started using arbiters PvT a while before they became popular among progamers.



Didn't see anyone else use it at that time, not progamers and not top foreign players and no-one actually knew this.

I remember a game against hexer where he would not believe me, I won the game and we did the test at the end of the game with an archon against an ultra under swarm. Archon did 5 damage .

Yay I can still gloat in 2008 ;D
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Bozali
Profile Joined January 2008
Sweden155 Posts
October 22 2008 22:25 GMT
#36
Archons have splash damage and they can attack air which makes them way superior.
Grobyc
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada18410 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-10-22 23:39:55
October 22 2008 23:38 GMT
#37
I say ultralisk because:
1. Many units do no do full damage to them becaus of their large unit size(i.e vultures).
2. They can have a total of 6(!!!!) armour.
3. For the same cost archons have a total of 360HP, ultralisks have 400
4. You can upgrade ultralisk speed
5. You just 'S'U' and done, a group of ultralisks, no need to merge anything to get them
6. They do full damage under dark swarm
7. They cost a 1:1 mineral:gas ratio, which can be maintained easier than paying 300 gas instead of 200 gas, minerals aren't too big of a problem for zerg, it usually just goes to adding more lings to the army, which wouldn't be effective against storm/archons/MnMs anyway.

I'm sure archons have advantages too like higher damage, can hit air, splash, but even after considering those it still appears that ultralisks are 'better'.
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stenole
Profile Blog Joined April 2004
Norway869 Posts
October 23 2008 00:22 GMT
#38
I'd say archons because they don't leave a mess when they die.
YPang
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
United States4024 Posts
October 23 2008 00:22 GMT
#39
On October 23 2008 09:22 stenole wrote:
I'd say archons because they don't leave a mess when they die.


xD.... arcrhons just go directly into another dragoon, and then they make a mess...
sMi.Gladstone | BW: B high| SC2: gold T_T
sqwert
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States781 Posts
October 23 2008 00:29 GMT
#40
On October 23 2008 01:40 disciple wrote:
cola or pepsi

coke
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