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evanthebouncy
Profile Joined November 2004
China491 Posts
December 27 2004 06:00 GMT
#1
it just came to my head... it would be good vs zerg right? zerg normally mass hydra vs toss and scout/zeal is like muta/ling
tell me what u think, i pretty much expect this idea turn out to be like... say... bat vs hydra
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littlechava
Profile Blog Joined March 2004
United States7221 Posts
December 27 2004 06:03 GMT
#2
no.
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neSix
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
United States1772 Posts
December 27 2004 06:03 GMT
#3
I don't like the idea, personally. Scouts would be sexy against those overlords and mutas, but just because Nal_rA and kingdom used scouts doesn't mean they're gosu and everyone else should use them. where is everyone getting this idea from...? These guys are pro's for a reason ~~

Anyway, I just think hydra would rape the strat... It might have better luck against something like mutaling.
Alpha
Profile Joined September 2004
France1495 Posts
December 27 2004 06:04 GMT
#4
Not at all, scouts r just too expensive, make it zealot carosairs and some storms , then it might work
The psi bolts enlighten me.
ShabZzoY!
Profile Joined July 2004
Great Britain760 Posts
December 27 2004 06:07 GMT
#5
scouts cant deal/absorb any dmg :p
i tried dt/scout once for fun and it failed miserably
Mindcrime
Profile Joined July 2004
United States6899 Posts
December 27 2004 06:08 GMT
#6
evan... shhhh
That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.
evanthebouncy
Profile Joined November 2004
China491 Posts
December 27 2004 06:09 GMT
#7
On December 27 2004 15:08 Mindcrime wrote:
evan... shhhh

curse u... u always kill my ideas like that~
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evanthebouncy
Profile Joined November 2004
China491 Posts
December 27 2004 06:35 GMT
#8
k tested, not working. zeal=/=hyperdmg=ling
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Veigh
Profile Joined November 2003
Netherlands300 Posts
December 27 2004 06:39 GMT
#9
two words:

hydra lurk....

no need to say more, eh?
Mirror matchups are imbalanced by definition
pheered.user
Profile Joined March 2003
United States2603 Posts
December 27 2004 06:40 GMT
#10
hahaha, when i was a big big newb i thought zeal/sair was the best pvz strategy and used it very very successfully vs my zerg friends.
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CuddlyCuteKitten
Profile Joined January 2004
Sweden2909 Posts
December 27 2004 06:55 GMT
#11
zeal sair worked succesfully for me to on a noob level.
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Mmad
Profile Joined October 2004
Netherlands124 Posts
December 27 2004 06:57 GMT
#12
u whould think it works, just like scourge/ling, but practily it su=x
Alpha
Profile Joined September 2004
France1495 Posts
December 27 2004 06:59 GMT
#13
sice when do scourge/ling WORKS?
The psi bolts enlighten me.
SoMuchBetter
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Australia10606 Posts
December 27 2004 07:05 GMT
#14
zerg vs zerg

and it does work, if youre skilled enough to handle it...
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Milzo
Profile Joined March 2004
France656 Posts
December 27 2004 07:41 GMT
#15
Zeal/scout might work if you play Vanilla.
Deleted User 3420
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
24492 Posts
December 27 2004 08:02 GMT
#16
On December 27 2004 16:41 Milzo wrote:
Zeal/scout might work if you play Vanilla.


no
hasuwar
Profile Joined April 2003
7365 Posts
December 27 2004 08:09 GMT
#17
The only problem with this strat, is the fact that scouts move slower than mutas, they cost 3 times as much(literally), they do less damage, they shoot slower, their attacks don't bounce, and they can't be built in waves
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evanthebouncy
Profile Joined November 2004
China491 Posts
December 27 2004 08:51 GMT
#18
On December 27 2004 15:39 Veigh wrote:
two words:

hydra lurk....

no need to say more, eh?

works for me

project failed,

scout/zeal = :r
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wakiki
Profile Joined September 2004
United States65 Posts
December 27 2004 13:10 GMT
#19
1v1? No.

But the surprising thing is, this actually works on FFA.

Since Zeals are the fastest land unit, and Scouts are very very fast, you can defend all your stuff very easily, but just placing your units near the middle of all of your expansions, and moving out to defend one when its attacked. Unless you are hugely over extended, it works. It requires basically no micro, so you can just focus on macroing from 3-5 expos.

Once you get 3 control groups of Scouts, they can be deadly as harrassers, because the only air counter to scouts is Valkyries. (Thirty-six Scouts can beat any air force. And if they, for some bizarre reason, are losing, they can outrun any other air unit.) Scouts are far more manueverable than any ground unit(i.e. they can out run Goliaths, etc.). And Zeals provide the backup for other stuff. Scouts and Zeals aren't incredibly powerful - they probably couln't take on a well-rounded Terran force of Tanks, Turrets, and Goliaths - but they are a decent combination, and they require very little micro (you just use attack move with Zeals, and move / attack move with Scouts).

Ah, but let me re-iterate:

1v1? No.
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gg_hertzz
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
2152 Posts
December 27 2004 13:13 GMT
#20
On December 27 2004 15:40 pheered.user wrote:
hahaha, when i was a big big newb i thought zeal/sair was the best pvz strategy and used it very very successfully vs my zerg friends.


What do you mean 'when you were a newb'?

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