Protoss Defensive Advantage - Page 2

Bibdy

United States3481 Posts

July 12 2010 16:36 GMT

#21

Yeah I'm not seeing much reason to try expanding in PvP except on LT. Even then, you better be in opposite corners. I kept a guy locked in his base with Blinkers and a Warp Prism and got a huge economic lead with a full expansion set up, but it didn't make a damn bit of difference when he ended up ahead in Collossus count and just steamrolled over me.

ToxNub

Canada805 Posts

July 12 2010 17:01 GMT

#22

I'm not on my home comp atm, but I have an awesome replay that really showcases the effectiveness of defensive walling for protoss. I spotted some guy doing a stalker/immo build on kulas ravine, so I expected an easy win by countering with mass chargelots. To my surprise, he grabbed his natural, and as we all know, has 2 entrances, making it a really crappy choke. Thinking my army to be favored between the composition and the fact that he had spent money expanding, i pushed, only to find 3 pylons per entrance with a wall of stalkers behind them. Only 1 chargelot could fight at once per entrance, and I had to retreat. I followed up with some stalkers to take out the pylons, only to find collossus now wrecking my shit from the safety of the wall. I lost this game horribly. I don't think that a wall off is always appropriate (VR for example), but it can definitely help.

Not that this gives P an equal defensive ability, but still.

Jovian

United States39 Posts

July 12 2010 17:01 GMT

#23

Protoss is the race that has the greatest Offensive Advantage, so much so that it can even outweigh another race's def. advantage. With blink stalker able to get in almost anywhere and warp prisms you can base in his base so much easier than zerg or terran. I also disagree that cannons are a 'sideways' tech... because you NEED a forge to upgrade all your ground units - and odds are you will have quite a few of them.

But I view it like Toss are the mainly aggressive race and if you play them defensively you just do not get the full effect from them.

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