EPTCan't wait for people to start using these :D
[LP] Seeker Missiles - Page 2
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DarkspearTribe
568 Posts
Can't wait for people to start using these :D | ||
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AcidReniX
United Kingdom66 Posts
As I like to call them... Jihad ravens are extremely effective against mutalisks. Obviously mutalisks can outrun the HSM if cast at a long distance, but I'll fly 2 ravens in amoungst the group of mutalisks, fire 2 HSMs at point blank range, and then yell the quote off the Matrix film; "Dodge this..". Watch how an army of 20 mutalisks turns into 3 low HP ones. It's usually followed by a GG. The other use for HSM I find is to move a significant number of units away from your army. Again, mutalisks are a good example. If you fire a long range HSM at the group, they will fly away. This keeps your ravens safe (or other army if you aren't going mass ravens) while you plant auto turrets or push into their base. HSM is also good at killing drones though I generally prefer auto turrets. If you drop a few auto turrets in a zerg's mineral line, he usually runs his drones to his natural. I try to put a HSM on one of the retreating drones and if they don't seperate it, it will chase them to the natural and end up killing all of the drones that came from the main (as they are still grouped up) and a few from the natural that were allready at the mineral patches. One last word of advice. Don't use HSM on ultralisks or other large melee units. Especially if they are in your mineral line. HSM does hurt friendly units and I once made a mistake and nuked an ultra that was in my mineral line. I don't need to go into further details... | ||
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universalwill
United States654 Posts
all of the units that can't outrun it seem like units that it would be aworthless/terrible idea to HSM. there's no point wasting 125 energy to kill an observer when you could just shoot it down with a marine, or, should you be insane and not have any units that hit air, drop a turret. 125 energy isn't worth damaging the shields on a carrier or mothership (and how often are those ever used in 1v1?). and i wouldn't dare allow my ravens to get anywhere near a high templar for fear of feedback. a ghost would be a far better choice of spellcaster against templar. so yeah, i do still think ravens will become more important, but of all the raven's spells, it's unlikely that the seeker missile will be the one players get the raven for. | ||
Pholon
Netherlands6142 Posts
On September 13 2010 02:33 MorroW wrote: ye u use them in tvt late game u can also use them vs terran in midgame if he plays mass air vs zerg i dont know, maybe can be good im not sure. we see jaedong split irrodate muta under 1 second which is alot harder than sending away the raven missle mutalisk because they are not stacked so it will probably become very useless once zergs get mouse precision and reaction speed like jaedong (will take a while lol) My fave moment was when NTT went Raven/Rine/Tank vs Slayer who played excellently. When the Z got out the Broodlords he cloned the SMs on them to see the BLs disappear in a mist of red. <3 | ||
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Sanguinarius
United States3427 Posts
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bobbingmatt
Australia224 Posts
On September 13 2010 01:31 seRapH wrote: but the acronym is so much cooler! also less... inappropriate... i mean, would you rather call it HSM or.... SM? FIRER THE HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL!! | ||
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Scodia
United Kingdom588 Posts
Ty for the info Liquidpedia! | ||
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Al Bundy
7257 Posts
 About the Seeker missile, yes it it underused, but anyway I feel that atm a lot of caster units are underused. | ||
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Alphaes
United States651 Posts
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Jonoman92
United States9111 Posts
...you can Neural Parasite a Mothership - any recalled Larvae will crawl back to the nearest Hatchery? That's definitely my favorite random fact from above. | ||
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BeaSteR
Sweden328 Posts
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bL1Nd
Canada45 Posts
On September 13 2010 02:33 MorroW wrote: vs zerg i dont know, maybe can be good im not sure. we see jaedong split irrodate muta under 1 second which is alot harder than sending away the raven missle mutalisk because they are not stacked so it will probably become very useless once zergs get mouse precision and reaction speed like jaedong (will take a while lol) watch the BratOK vs Mondragon on HD's channel, its great play with the ravens. (its ofc TvZ). Also, when irrodate was used in SC1 it told you which one of your mutas is the target, I don't think the hunter missile shows the enemy which of the flock you targeted, so its not so easy to pick out and run from. (personally though I would just split my ball in 3 groups while running away and work on eliminating the targeted unit of the group its following from there.) | ||
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barnak
Canada3 Posts
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Steelflight-Rx
United States1389 Posts
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Dagobert
Netherlands1858 Posts
On September 13 2010 06:00 Steelflight-Rx wrote: This is some awesome information, really useful as a T who has been struggling against muta/bling destroying my MM balls. It will be good to nullify/reduce the threat of mutas! Nullify mutas with a SM? Hahahaha. Split, half that doesn't have a SM following kills the raven, the other gets halved again until the targeted unit can be selected individually and sent to escape. Not hard after a bit of practice. | ||
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deL
Australia5540 Posts
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NuKedUFirst
Canada3139 Posts
On September 13 2010 06:24 deL wrote: tis good for taking out the carpet of banelings if the T doesn't suspect it or isn't paying attention. Oh really? TvZ Zerg get's hunter seeker missile vs. the Terran banelings? good to note. I have been using HSM more and more but upgrading it sucks. It's pretty good if you have like 5 ravens. | ||
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TheFeared
United States67 Posts
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xxSK8rGUy277xx
300 Posts
If terran shoots a seeker missle and the protoss uses the black hole thing, will the seeker missle go into the black hole? if so I can see some pwnage 8D Terran shoots seeker at an zealot. Mothership uses black hole and runs zealot into it. Everybody warps back in and boom! oh, if this is a new idea. We are nameing it after me, xxSK8rGUy277xx | ||
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404.Delirium
United States1190 Posts
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against mondragon and against demuslim i think!
