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Counter(s) to archons?
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mrmin123
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Carnac
Germany / USA16648 Posts
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XaI)CyRiC
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0x64
Finland4601 Posts
 .terran with emp and vults. protoss, with goon but this depends so much on the situation, archons are good low mineral units. | ||
Twisted
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SillyCat
United States960 Posts
At least a 3:1 ratio. Or mass Red ones, and mind control all of them. This is of course is if your opponent is dumb enough to use his MASS ARCHON STRATEGY. | ||
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FreeZEternal
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Countdown
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SillyCat
United States960 Posts
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AutumnLight
Ukraine2488 Posts
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SillyCat
United States960 Posts
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FreeZEternal
Korea (South)3396 Posts
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FloOfy
Canada57 Posts
You could also consume them with a defiler or even use the terran's most dangerous spell: Defence matrix! | ||
Rekrul
Korea (South)17174 Posts
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FakeSteve[TPR]
Valhalla18444 Posts
Usually units with concussive damage (IE Vults) suck vs large units, but shields take full damage from everything. So basically goons, vults, tanks, and hydras. | ||
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mrmin123
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STIMEY d okgm fish
Canada6140 Posts
u shouldnt b asking questicons like this, don't wonder what the proper counter to something is, especially "mass archons". u should be playing your own game and if it's weak against "mass archons" then u probably have 1-2 other options you can see after reviewing the game and that's that. no need to "wonder" what races can do against "mass archons" -- the best way to find out is to try it and see, assuming you can play the race. when i want to see how a cheese can lose, for instance, i try to do it a lot. at first, i lose because i can't execute it properly. but soon, i work out those quirks, and the cheese catches some people off guard. i check out the replay and see what they did, and find the explanation for their loss. eventually i find things that don't lose to the cheese, and then i can watch the rep, and find out why. eventually i can see a clear line drawn between "loses to N" and "doesn't lose to N", and positions and micro can effect these of course. but "mass archons" is a midgame thing, not a cheese, u should say. well that's an even bigger point. your midgame depends on what happened already, which depends on what happened already, etc. so when u talk about "mass archon" it really depends on the situation you and your opponent are in, which techs you got first, how many bases you both have and when, if either of you lost some workers or should have lost workers or should have been killed already etc. etc. etc. so dont think about countering mass archons, or what might counter them. some things are hard to use by themselves against archons, and the rest aren't. archons do lots of dmg (kind of like a dt) but they have a bit of range, can hit air, and splash. in many situations you can kill them while they're morphing or pick off high temps before they can merge. you can move back and forth with muta and archon shouldnt catch you because of ground obstructions. archon can defend something that can shoot farther than a muta and force muta to move away from wherever archon moves to, and can provide high dmg (high dmg is effective against high armor like ultra) similar to a dt but farther and also vs air and there is also some splash. it's still 350 shields, full dmg from all. high dmg also attracts ai targetting. um. so there shouldnt be an answer to the question because the question is weird. mass archon is not a good strat, and you wont need a good strat vs it to beat it. | ||
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MannerLess_
Brazil535 Posts
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Dang-it
United States557 Posts
On April 30 2004 15:32 FloOfy wrote: Ya plague very good strategy, you could also spawn broodling or lockdown them. Feeddback and maelstrom are also very good. But the real best way to kill them is with mines. Irradiate also work wonders. You could also consume them with a defiler or even use the terran's most dangerous spell: Defence matrix! you can lock down archons? ~_~_~_~_~_~_~ | ||
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Fedaykin
Netherlands2003 Posts
You can't notice that was sarcasm?  | ||
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