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FairForever
Canada2392 Posts
Consider the fact that lings die so quickly, it's rare for a ling to get more than one shot off, two at most. They're not the real damage dealers of your army late game, that's what the infestors/broodlords are for. If I'm going ling/ultra/infestor composition it's a must though, because in that case the ultras are tanking while the lings provide the dps. | ||
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OxyFuel
Canada195 Posts
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aderum
Sweden1459 Posts
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WeddingEpisode
United States356 Posts
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guN-viCe
United States687 Posts
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Itsmedudeman
United States19229 Posts
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ilovelings
Argentina776 Posts
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mikiao
United States161 Posts
To my un-Zergy eyes, it would seem that not getting adrenal glands would be like not getting stim for marines. It makes sense if you're not relying on them to do the majority of damage, but rather to distract and take damage which seems to be the case in a lot of games...you have roachs/mutas/fungal growth to do the damage, the lings are there for fodder. But I'm terran...so if adrenal glands are good to get versus terran...DON'T GET THEM! :D | ||
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Nothingtosay
United States875 Posts
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Sporadic44
United States533 Posts
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Geovu
Estonia1344 Posts
On October 23 2011 08:14 ilovelings wrote: That upgrade is awesome if you are not playing with Broodlords. Don't most Zergs support their Broodlords with mass zerglings? I know I've seen that a lot personally, especially in ZvP | ||
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FeyFey
Germany10114 Posts
But they forgot that lings were terrible strong compared to their bw buddies from the start, that was why the end had to be weaker. Lings were since then never considered damage dealers, but then people found out the real damage comes from the broodlings and they started to upgrade melee attack for their broodlings. As a sideeffect they noticed how good lings suddenly are. A funny way how a ground t1 unit becomes popular because of a flying t3 unit. Don't worry after their recent success upgraded lings will soon become popular. Though right now mutas are the thing again. | ||
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xlava
United States676 Posts
On October 22 2011 13:34 Antisocialmunky wrote: I sometimes wonder what would happen if you broodlings got crack upgrade. It would make the brood lord the worse mother ever as it would be throwing her crack addicted baby suicide bombers. LOL This is golden. | ||
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TangSC
Canada1866 Posts
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iAmJeffReY
United States4262 Posts
On October 23 2011 16:10 TangSC wrote: As terran, how do you kill 250 3/3 Zerglings with adrenal? I think that it would take an insane marine/tank/medivac army in great position or maybe some sort of mass blue flame hellion thor tank style with heavy upgrades. In any event, I'll be incorporating adrenal glands in the late game much more often now Which means... never? Since you never get past 15 minutes? I've said for ages fast upgraded lings rape face and break the game lol. As a terran, what's 200/200 at that point when you're already on 4+ base. Get the upgrade, just to make a 'base trade' situation faster with sling bling muta. Run bys are more deadly. You can completely surround and kill a PF rather fast with cracklings, and not even lose them all! | ||
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ETisME
12621 Posts
On October 22 2011 17:05 Cyro wrote: We see pro's almost everyday fighting with 100+ lings without adrenal when hive was done 10 minutes ago and they are floating 5k/3k etc saving up for hive tech units? just because hive is finished doesn't mean you can get the broodlords+ultras right away the upgrade is nice and well worth it imo. But lings alone cannot deal with split map situations with planetary fortress and tanks splitting the map. I do think that ling drops with adrenalin glands could be extremely amazing in late game through | ||
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mizU
United States12125 Posts
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iDrone
United States176 Posts
no zerg ever expects to trade zerglings for marines, that is a mistake on the terran part. the reason pros don't get it is because zerglings are useless lategame besides for counter attacks - the only purpose they serve is to deal splash damage to the terrans units. talks of trading marines for zerglings is useless because you will almost always have 10+ more zerglings to clean it up than you need. the 200/200 is a big investment for something that gets off 2 attacks and dies, if that. the + dmg is for banelings, not zerglings | ||
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Nourek
Germany188 Posts
On October 23 2011 08:53 mikiao wrote: Is adrenal glands better than getting +3 attack? It depends on the target's armor. Adrenal glands increases Zergling dps by 18.6%. +3 Melee vs +2 Melee increases Zergling dps by 1.44. So vs 0 armor: 14.3% 1 armor: 16.7% 2 armor: 20.0% 3 armor: 25.0% 4 armor: 33.3% 5 armor: 50.0% 6 armor: 100.0% Overall, I'd rather get +3 melee, especially given banelings and ultras. If I can afford it, I'll get both obviously. That said, Adrenal Glands does research 90s faster (130s vs 220s). Not to be overlooked IMO. | ||
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chrisgreg
Canada61 Posts
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