[math] PvZ shield +1 before armour +2 vs mutalisk - Page 3

Post a Reply

Prev 1 2 3 All

Darth Caedus

United States326 Posts

November 16 2011 00:16 GMT

#41

Creative Protoss thinking to help with a problem that is not a new timing? I like this!

jumai

Canada115 Posts

November 16 2011 00:38 GMT

#42

TheSambassador: of course I verified all this before posting, but if you don't believe attacks can do less than 1 damage, open up unit_test_map and have a look yourself. Or, just start a game against the computer as zerg and attack one of your larva with a drone. (It's health will appear to go down at less than 0.5 per attack, but that's because zerg regeneration synchronizes very closely with the drone's attack cooldown.)

ExorArgus: I'm not sure I understand what you're calculating, exactly. Here's a probe health chart for different defense upgrades being attacked by a +0 mutalisk:


|| 0/1/1  || 0/2/0  || 0/1/0  || 0/0/1  || 0/0/0  ||
  ________  ________  ________  ________  ________
   20//20 || 20//20 || 20//20 || 20//20 || 20//20
   12//20 || 11//20 || 11//20 || 12//20 || 11//20
    4//20 ||  2//20 ||  2//20 ||  4//20 ||  2//20
    0//17 ||  0//15 ||  0//14 ||  0//16 ||  0//13
    0//9  ||  0//8  ||  0//6  ||  0//7  ||  0//4
    0//1  ||  0//1  ||   --   ||   --   ||   -- 
     --   ||   --   ||        ||        ||

I don't see any easy advantages to persue there. +1 mutas might have a slightly easier time doing enough bounce damage to enable a 4-shot kill on 0/2/0 (6 bounce needed) than on 0/1/1 (5 bounce needed after shield armour), but neither configuration is going to make mutas over your probe line a thing you can solve with armour upgrades.

stuzH

United States56 Posts

April 18 2012 03:33 GMT

#43

I have started to get shield upgrades over armor in a lot of pvz and pvp games. In pvt EMP destroys shields anyway and zealots benefit more from armor. YUMYUM upgrades snarf pingus

KalWarkov

Germany4126 Posts

April 18 2012 03:46 GMT

#44

id go for

+1 attack
+2 attack
+1 shields
+3 attack
+2 shields
+1 armor
+3 shields
+2 armor
+3 armor

in a perfect scenario if i know mutas are coming.

shield upgrades are great for blinkstalkermicro since you regain "armored health". also, they help archons. They furthermore make buildings stronger which can be helpful in basetrade scenarios but also - and thats the most important part - they make cannons thougher.

but u cant always choose and u are unlikely to know mutas are coming, so thats just in theory.

Prev 1 2 3 All

Please or register to reply.

[math] PvZ shield +1 before armour +2 vs mutalisk - Page 3

Completed

Ongoing

Upcoming