• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EST 12:02
CET 18:02
KST 02:02
  • Home
  • Forum
  • Calendar
  • Streams
  • Liquipedia
  • Features
  • Store
  • EPT
  • TL+
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Smash
  • Heroes
  • Counter-Strike
  • Overwatch
  • Liquibet
  • Fantasy StarCraft
  • TLPD
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Blogs
Forum Sidebar
Events/Features
News
Featured News
RSL Revival - 2025 Season Finals Preview8RSL Season 3 - Playoffs Preview0RSL Season 3 - RO16 Groups C & D Preview0RSL Season 3 - RO16 Groups A & B Preview2TL.net Map Contest #21: Winners12
Community News
ComeBackTV's documentary on Byun's Career !8Weekly Cups (Dec 8-14): MaxPax, Clem, Cure win4Weekly Cups (Dec 1-7): Clem doubles, Solar gets over the hump1Weekly Cups (Nov 24-30): MaxPax, Clem, herO win2BGE Stara Zagora 2026 announced15
StarCraft 2
General
When will we find out if there are more tournament ComeBackTV's documentary on Byun's Career ! Weekly Cups (Dec 8-14): MaxPax, Clem, Cure win RSL Revival - 2025 Season Finals Preview Weekly Cups (Dec 1-7): Clem doubles, Solar gets over the hump
Tourneys
$5,000+ WardiTV 2025 Championship RSL Offline Finals Info - Dec 13 and 14! Master Swan Open (Global Bronze-Master 2) Winter Warp Gate Amateur Showdown #1: Sparkling Tuna Cup - Weekly Open Tournament
Strategy
Custom Maps
Map Editor closed ?
External Content
Mutation # 504 Retribution Mutation # 503 Fowl Play Mutation # 502 Negative Reinforcement Mutation # 501 Price of Progress
Brood War
General
FlaSh on: Biggest Problem With SnOw's Playstyle How Rain Became ProGamer in Just 3 Months screp: Command line app to parse SC rep files BGH Auto Balance -> http://bghmmr.eu/ [BSL21] RO8 Bracket & Prediction Contest
Tourneys
Small VOD Thread 2.0 [Megathread] Daily Proleagues [BSL21] WB SEMIFINALS - Saturday 21:00 CET [BSL21] RO8 - Day 2 - Sunday 21:00 CET
Strategy
Game Theory for Starcraft Current Meta Simple Questions, Simple Answers Fighting Spirit mining rates
Other Games
General Games
PC Games Sales Thread Stormgate/Frost Giant Megathread Nintendo Switch Thread Path of Exile General RTS Discussion Thread
Dota 2
Official 'what is Dota anymore' discussion
League of Legends
Heroes of the Storm
Simple Questions, Simple Answers Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Deck construction bug Heroes of StarCraft mini-set
TL Mafia
Mafia Game Mode Feedback/Ideas Survivor II: The Amazon Sengoku Mafia TL Mafia Community Thread
Community
General
US Politics Mega-thread Russo-Ukrainian War Thread Things Aren’t Peaceful in Palestine The Games Industry And ATVI YouTube Thread
Fan Clubs
White-Ra Fan Club
Media & Entertainment
Anime Discussion Thread [Manga] One Piece Movie Discussion!
Sports
2024 - 2026 Football Thread Formula 1 Discussion
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
Computer Build, Upgrade & Buying Resource Thread
TL Community
TL+ Announced Where to ask questions and add stream?
Blogs
The (Hidden) Drug Problem in…
TrAiDoS
I decided to write a webnov…
DjKniteX
James Bond movies ranking - pa…
Topin
Thanks for the RSL
Hildegard
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 875 users

tvp how to stop blinkstalker with MECH

Forum Index > StarCraft 2 Strategy
Post a Reply
Gyro_SC2
Profile Joined November 2010
Canada540 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-10-07 12:53:31
October 07 2011 12:52 GMT
#1
(sorry my first language is not english)

I was reading the Predy treat: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=270769 and I tried some MECH TvP.

I find out blink stalker are so annoying for a mech player. With their observer they can blink into your base and retreat. And its never fun to unsiege your tank to defend your base.

At first, I thought with a turretwall around my cliff I would stop the observer but no. The range of the turret is 7 and the observer's vision is 9. So even with the range upgrade Hi-sec auto tracking(give+1 range) you wont stop the observer.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/824/blinkturret.jpg

PLEASE BLIZZARD GIVE +2 RANGE TO THE HI-SEC AUTO-TRACKING


I discovers two way to instatly kill the observer before he gives the vision.

1. First one is to have a thors ready. Thors have 10 range and kill observer in one shot. Probably in a real game, you'll see his stalker army coming with your sensor tower and you bring one thors with a medivac to your turretwall. (maybe you can use this medivac for hellion drop or thors drop later). With a thors in your base you can also stop warp prism and zealot-DT drop.

2. Use vickings. They have 9 range and kill observers in 3 shots. More risky than a thors but more mobil.


I know MECH is difficult but I hope Terran players will start to think in a new way how to use MECH in this matchup.
pycho
Profile Joined January 2011
Paraguay372 Posts
October 07 2011 13:41 GMT
#2
you could spread your tanks around your main and nat so when he comes to close to the cliff with blink stalkers he gets shoot by a tank and if he comitts to somehow blinking in to snipe that tank, he gets shoot at by 3 other tanks... u do not really need every single tank at your natural to defend pushes since tanks are such good defensive units, especially with some kind of simcity
Gyro_SC2
Profile Joined November 2010
Canada540 Posts
October 07 2011 16:24 GMT
#3
It's very hard to spread when you have 2 base and even more hard with more base. If he blink all his army ( i dont know maybe 20-30 stalker) I think I need all my army. i can't defend with only 3 tanks.

Also the goal of the thors+turret is to remove the pin(turtle mode) and let you move outside your base.
captainwaffles
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States1050 Posts
October 07 2011 18:36 GMT
#4
Are you sure this stop the stalkers? I think they can blink with just a second of vision, have you tested this?
https://x.com/CaptainWaffless
Gyro_SC2
Profile Joined November 2010
Canada540 Posts
October 07 2011 22:53 GMT
#5
Yea, thor kill the observer with 10 range in one shot before he gives vision.
TheWarbler
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States1659 Posts
October 07 2011 23:11 GMT
#6
this is one of the reasons mech is not very good, but when I used it, I put 3 siege tanks in my base spread out to help defend against it. They are going to blink in someway.
if you can believe you can concieve
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
Big Brain Bouts
17:00
#102
YoungYakov vs Jumy
TriGGeR vs Spirit
RotterdaM275
Liquipedia
OSC
14:00
King of the Hill #234
SteadfastSC63
Liquipedia
WardiTV 2025
11:00
Playoffs
ShoWTimE vs CureLIVE!
WardiTV1882
ComeBackTV 1043
TaKeTV 558
IndyStarCraft 261
Rex145
LiquipediaDiscussion
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft 2
Lowko496
RotterdaM 275
IndyStarCraft 261
Rex 145
Liquid`VortiX 90
SteadfastSC 63
BRAT_OK 43
DivinesiaTV 13
MindelVK 12
StarCraft: Brood War
Britney 24248
Calm 3278
Bisu 2147
Rain 1744
Horang2 723
actioN 707
Stork 511
Shuttle 407
Larva 150
firebathero 145
[ Show more ]
Mini 130
Hyun 125
Mind 77
Zeus 62
JYJ 61
Aegong 45
Killer 40
Mong 34
JulyZerg 34
Shinee 27
ggaemo 26
910 23
soO 17
GoRush 14
sorry 14
Yoon 14
ajuk12(nOOB) 11
Sacsri 11
SilentControl 7
Dota 2
Gorgc6035
singsing4458
qojqva2922
LuMiX1
Super Smash Bros
Westballz30
Other Games
hiko575
FrodaN526
crisheroes384
KnowMe191
XaKoH 147
Trikslyr65
Chillindude38
Organizations
StarCraft 2
Blizzard YouTube
StarCraft: Brood War
BSLTrovo
sctven
[ Show 12 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• poizon28 21
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• intothetv
• Kozan
• IndyKCrew
• LaughNgamezSOOP
• Migwel
• sooper7s
StarCraft: Brood War
• BSLYoutube
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
League of Legends
• Nemesis4596
Upcoming Events
The PiG Daily
3h 58m
SHIN vs ByuN
Reynor vs Classic
TBD vs herO
Maru vs SHIN
TBD vs Classic
CranKy Ducklings
16h 58m
WardiTV 2025
17h 58m
Reynor vs MaxPax
SHIN vs TBD
Solar vs herO
Classic vs TBD
SC Evo League
19h 28m
Ladder Legends
1d 1h
BSL 21
1d 2h
Sziky vs Dewalt
eOnzErG vs Cross
Sparkling Tuna Cup
1d 16h
Ladder Legends
1d 23h
BSL 21
2 days
StRyKeR vs TBD
Bonyth vs TBD
Replay Cast
2 days
[ Show More ]
Wardi Open
2 days
Monday Night Weeklies
2 days
WardiTV Invitational
4 days
Replay Cast
5 days
WardiTV Invitational
5 days
ByuN vs Solar
Clem vs Classic
Cure vs herO
Reynor vs MaxPax
Liquipedia Results

Completed

Acropolis #4 - TS3
RSL Offline Finals
Kuram Kup

Ongoing

C-Race Season 1
IPSL Winter 2025-26
KCM Race Survival 2025 Season 4
YSL S2
BSL Season 21
Slon Tour Season 2
CSL Season 19: Qualifier 1
WardiTV 2025
META Madness #9
eXTREMESLAND 2025
SL Budapest Major 2025
ESL Impact League Season 8
BLAST Rivals Fall 2025
IEM Chengdu 2025
PGL Masters Bucharest 2025
Thunderpick World Champ.
CS Asia Championships 2025
ESL Pro League S22

Upcoming

CSL Season 19: Qualifier 2
CSL 2025 WINTER (S19)
BSL 21 Non-Korean Championship
Acropolis #4
IPSL Spring 2026
Bellum Gens Elite Stara Zagora 2026
HSC XXVIII
Big Gabe Cup #3
OSC Championship Season 13
ESL Pro League Season 23
PGL Cluj-Napoca 2026
IEM Kraków 2026
BLAST Bounty Winter 2026
BLAST Bounty Winter Qual
TLPD

1. ByuN
2. TY
3. Dark
4. Solar
5. Stats
6. Nerchio
7. sOs
8. soO
9. INnoVation
10. Elazer
1. Rain
2. Flash
3. EffOrt
4. Last
5. Bisu
6. Soulkey
7. Mini
8. Sharp
Sidebar Settings...

Advertising | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use | Contact Us

Original banner artwork: Jim Warren
The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2025 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.