[Q] Thor for tank or DPS? - Page 2

LilClinkin

Australia667 Posts

October 14 2010 06:47 GMT

#21

Also the thor can tank significant damage before dying; while the thor is still alive your army dps remains at a constant rate. If the z is instead killing your rines and ignoring the thor, then your army dps is decreasing incrementally as each individual rine dies.

jaybrundage

United States3921 Posts

October 14 2010 06:53 GMT

#22

Personally I always have my Collousi in the back they are soo good in the early to mid game that you want to keep it and stalkers/zealots are a dime a dozen plus each extra collousi you get in the mid game makes them that more powerful especially in pvp. Not to sure about thors tho but im assuming the same thing applies

Silver player here btw XD just to show not all of TL is mid Diamond lol i think im gonna get promoted soon tho i won my last 6 games

naventus

United States1337 Posts

October 14 2010 07:02 GMT

#23

Thor is for tanking. They just happen to have high DPS because it needs to have the approximate DPS value of a similar number of food/resources.

However, since you cannot guarantee that they will be shooting at the right things, it's really just a great use of gas, and not as backbone (still marines).

What they tank is not banelings (since good Z will not detonate on them, or will drop them), but roach and lings that would chase down your marines, as you spread and dance your marines. You use them as pillars essentially that you pull your marines through, while stationary marines/tanks/hellions target the appropriate units.

If you don't dump gas into thors, Z can threaten to just overpower the remainder of your army after baneling/fungal.

Cibron

Sweden253 Posts

October 14 2010 07:09 GMT

#24

Thor is for tanking no doubt. That's why you bring SCVs!! BUT if Z's got mutas you might want to save that last thor for defending against them...

BEARDiaguz

Australia2362 Posts

October 14 2010 07:26 GMT

#25

Have you also seen the TLO vs Nada reps from the latest TL weekyl? He goes Thor first in one of those to pretty damn good effect. It's possible he just had a bad day, although considering how much TvT he plays nowadays, TLO might be pretty damn confident with his Thor opening.

I kinda like the opening, what I don't like is that it's very vulnerable to early air play. It relies on setting up aggression so as to discourage sneaking a plane into the mineral line, but I'd still feel uneasy as hell doing it.

Cibron

Sweden253 Posts

October 14 2010 07:30 GMT

#26

On October 14 2010 13:20 Benshin88 wrote:
Thor's tank and dps... most IMBA unit in the game. Absolutely no weakness to it.

Dude if you can't beat thors you're doing something wrong. Only good matchup like previous poster stated is TvZ and then it's NP and slings. It's not OP since it costs craploads of gas and is as close to static defense as an army unit can get.

wxwx

527 Posts

October 14 2010 07:50 GMT

#27

Thors/Colossus don't get FF'ed

Patriot.dlk

Sweden5462 Posts

October 14 2010 08:22 GMT

#28

I use a build that is basically pure marines off one barrack with reactor, thors out of one factory and medivacs out of one starport.

The point of the medivacs is to heal zealots and marines and microing thors. Thus I have thors right in the middle of everything so they have to kinda go out of their way to target it and then I medivac lift it so they loses focus and immediately drops it down.

this was I often manage to tank a lot of damage and not die with the thor. I also let the marines die to save the thors because they don't have grades etc.

bLah.

Croatia497 Posts

October 14 2010 08:43 GMT

#29

It really depends on situation. If you have 1 or 2 thors and there are mutalisks flying around, then you don't want your thors to tank everything because they need to be ready as anti air. But if there are banelings coming at you, you will want to put 1 thor in front so it can absorb that splash damage.
In TvT thors are for tanking and doing splash damage vs clumped vikings.
In PvT there are no thors.

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