• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EST 14:37
CET 20:37
KST 04:37
  • 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
Rongyi Cup S3 - RO16 Preview3herO wins SC2 All-Star Invitational10SC2 All-Star Invitational: Tournament Preview5RSL Revival - 2025 Season Finals Preview8RSL Season 3 - Playoffs Preview0
Community News
Weekly Cups (Jan 12-18): herO, MaxPax, Solar win0BSL Season 2025 - Full Overview and Conclusion8Weekly Cups (Jan 5-11): Clem wins big offline, Trigger upsets4$21,000 Rongyi Cup Season 3 announced (Jan 22-Feb 7)19Weekly Cups (Dec 29-Jan 4): Protoss rolls, 2v2 returns7
StarCraft 2
General
PhD study /w SC2 - help with a survey! StarCraft 2 not at the Esports World Cup 2026 Oliveira Would Have Returned If EWC Continued Rongyi Cup S3 - RO16 Preview herO wins SC2 All-Star Invitational
Tourneys
OSC Season 13 World Championship $21,000 Rongyi Cup Season 3 announced (Jan 22-Feb 7) $70 Prize Pool Ladder Legends Academy Weekly Open! SC2 All-Star Invitational: Jan 17-18 Sparkling Tuna Cup - Weekly Open Tournament
Strategy
Simple Questions Simple Answers
Custom Maps
[A] Starcraft Sound Mod
External Content
Mutation # 509 Doomsday Report Mutation # 508 Violent Night Mutation # 507 Well Trained Mutation # 506 Warp Zone
Brood War
General
Gypsy to Korea [ASL21] Potential Map Candidates Which foreign pros are considered the best? BW General Discussion BW AKA finder tool
Tourneys
Small VOD Thread 2.0 [Megathread] Daily Proleagues [BSL21] Non-Korean Championship - Starts Jan 10 Azhi's Colosseum - Season 2
Strategy
Current Meta Simple Questions, Simple Answers Soma's 9 hatch build from ASL Game 2 Game Theory for Starcraft
Other Games
General Games
Nintendo Switch Thread Battle Aces/David Kim RTS Megathread Stormgate/Frost Giant Megathread Beyond All Reason Awesome Games Done Quick 2026!
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
Vanilla Mini Mafia Mafia Game Mode Feedback/Ideas
Community
General
NASA and the Private Sector US Politics Mega-thread Canadian Politics Mega-thread Russo-Ukrainian War Thread Things Aren’t Peaceful in Palestine
Fan Clubs
The herO Fan Club! The IdrA Fan Club
Media & Entertainment
Anime Discussion Thread [Manga] One Piece
Sports
2024 - 2026 Football Thread
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
Computer Build, Upgrade & Buying Resource Thread
TL Community
The Automated Ban List
Blogs
Navigating the Risks and Rew…
TrAiDoS
My 2025 Magic: The Gathering…
DARKING
Life Update and thoughts.
FuDDx
How do archons sleep?
8882
James Bond movies ranking - pa…
Topin
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 2274 users

New Infestor Ability - Tentacle Grab - Page 3

Forum Index > SC2 General
Post a Reply
Prev 1 2 3 4 Next All
guitarizt
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States1492 Posts
April 19 2010 22:00 GMT
#41
The unit being dragged would just kill the infestor. This is too much like neural parasite.
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” - Hemingway
Kin~Slayer
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada56 Posts
April 19 2010 22:04 GMT
#42
Maybe it would just be an anti light-Terran ability and the infestor would spit out an infested terran 5 seconds later
MorroW
Profile Joined August 2008
Sweden3522 Posts
April 19 2010 22:04 GMT
#43
i dont wanna sound negative but i dont like this idea at all

besides i think u should focus at finding a replacement for infested terran not neutral parasite

imo i think they should just start over with the infestor, i dont like it at all. defiler was so much cooler xd
Progamerpls no copy pasterino
elforama
Profile Joined April 2010
United States1 Post
April 19 2010 22:09 GMT
#44
That seems like a really cool ability. The poor humans run for their lives only to be dragged back into the angry mass of zerg.
Swarm the horde!
Wr3k
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Canada2533 Posts
April 19 2010 22:11 GMT
#45
AHHHHHHHH FRESH MEAT.
Sabu113
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States11075 Posts
April 19 2010 22:19 GMT
#46
On April 20 2010 05:33 LunarDestiny wrote:
I like the idea, why the name has to change because it sounds too "hentai." You don't not want to give bullshit reason for the South Korea rating board any excuse to rate this game "R"


There's a reason Sarah's a zerg. Jimmy just wasn't enough. ^_^
Biomine is a drunken chick who is on industrial strength amphetamines and would just grab your dick and jerk it as hard and violently as she could while screaming 'OMG FUCK ME', because she saw it in a Sasha Grey video ...-Wombat_Ni
LunarDestiny
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
United States4177 Posts
April 19 2010 22:57 GMT
#47
On April 20 2010 07:19 Sabu113 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 20 2010 05:33 LunarDestiny wrote:
I like the idea, why the name has to change because it sounds too "hentai." You don't not want to give bullshit reason for the South Korea rating board any excuse to rate this game "R"


There's a reason Sarah's a zerg. Jimmy just wasn't enough. ^_^

Jim's bald head always reminds me of an overlord. I think if he becomes an overlord, he will have enough tentacle to please kerrigan.
nitdkim
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
1264 Posts
April 19 2010 23:01 GMT
#48
search Pudge on youtube (dota)
PM me if you want random korean images translated.
Shiladie
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Canada1631 Posts
April 19 2010 23:02 GMT
#49
it would need to have the energy cost reduced but I can see it being effective, as long as it can also target air...
NrGMalice
Profile Joined February 2010
United States104 Posts
April 19 2010 23:15 GMT
#50
Make the investor invulnerable to the unit it dragged for 5 seconds and I'm on board.
Follow me @ twitch.tv/nrgmalice & twitter.com/nrgmalice
NuKedUFirst
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Canada3139 Posts
April 19 2010 23:22 GMT
#51
On April 20 2010 05:40 Kralic wrote:
I don't want a death knight unit in this game.


Lmao!! I was thinking the same thing!! Or even the new cataclysm priest ability "life grip"!
FrostedMiniWeet wrote: I like winning because it validates all the bloody time I waste playing SC2.
Broodie
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
Canada832 Posts
April 19 2010 23:37 GMT
#52
isnt neutral parasite the same thing but better?

you get control of that unit so you can attack with and and walk it into your army to die?

I dont understand how this would make the infestor better? taking away an okay ability?
SilentLiquid.Broodie - Author of Tango Terminal, Ophilia RE, Cajun Quandary, & The Beneath
bakedace
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States672 Posts
April 19 2010 23:39 GMT
#53
I always thought it would be cool to see a

"tentacle toss"
Throw target enemy/ally to target area causing X amount of damage while dealing an additional X amount of damage per unit that is effected.

almost exactly like tiny/pebbles in dota/hon

great synergy with fungal growth
iCCup.Nove
Profile Joined March 2010
United States260 Posts
April 19 2010 23:46 GMT
#54
Not trying to be a negative nancy but I think our time and energy would be better spent if we took more time trying to figure out how to utilize a units spell, rather than trying to figure out how to make an imaginary spell viable.
ReachTheSky
Profile Joined April 2010
United States3294 Posts
April 19 2010 23:48 GMT
#55
i swear i had a dream about this ability right before i woke up. very crazy.
TL+ Member
billyX333
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United States1360 Posts
April 19 2010 23:55 GMT
#56
On April 20 2010 05:29 G-Dy wrote:
Sounds fun, indeed... but don't you usually want to keep your infestor away from enemy units ?


I think they key here is the range (9)

I'd totally sacrifice an infestor for an easy colossus kill
(whats max energy of infestor) maybe incentive as well to upgrade infestor energy boost when they spawn for a grab + a neural parasite (neural parasite is very short ranged compared to the unit types they would want to control)
miklotov
Profile Joined March 2010
United States62 Posts
April 20 2010 00:16 GMT
#57
the main problem with NP is that a) the range is too short, and b) it takes too long to actually cast.

it's tough to see in the thick of battle but when you hit R the infestor doesn't actually gain control of the enemy unit for about a second or so... this, combined with the relatively short range compared to the only units worth NPing makes the infestor already die almost immediately when you try to NP... so basically you get a split second, tops, of Mind Control and then the infestor is toast... at least with the tentacle grab, it would be instant, so even if the infestor dies quickly, you've still dragged the collossus/thor/etc:... to where you want it... so it's not a complete waste... as it is now... NP just basically throws away your infestor for very little gain if any... at least this would give you SOME usefulness before the infestor gets raped.

i guess an easier way to solve the problem while still keeping the Mind Control would be to just have the Infestor "inhabit" its host... so basically the infestor jumps inside whatever unit it's targeting and takes control for like 30 seconds or until the unit is killed, at the end of the 30 seconds, if the unit is still alive, the infestor dies and unit control returns to normal... but if the unit dies first, the infestor could either die also or it could just plop out of the debris and scuttle away.

i really like the Mind Control part of the ability, but the way it's implemented currently just makes it rather useless... unless you're really lucky or playing someone who just isn't very good.

LunarDestiny
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
United States4177 Posts
April 20 2010 00:25 GMT
#58
I think it would be funny to see that the "tentacle grab" use as a counter to the force field.

Sentries use force fields.
-the zerg's force is blocked.

Infestors use "tentacle grab"
-grab 4 Colossi over the force field.
LOL, you just got pwned by your own force fields.
OptimoPeach
Profile Joined July 2009
United States137 Posts
April 20 2010 00:28 GMT
#59
On April 20 2010 05:40 Kralic wrote:
I don't want a death knight unit in this game.

.
wolfe
Profile Joined March 2010
United States761 Posts
April 20 2010 00:31 GMT
#60
sounds gimmicky and a bit dirty....
Swift as the wind, felt before noticed.
Prev 1 2 3 4 Next All
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
Next event in 15h 24m
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft 2
mouzHeroMarine 366
ProTech144
UpATreeSC 118
MindelVK 36
StarCraft: Brood War
Calm 2298
Shuttle 441
GuemChi 427
Dewaltoss 200
ggaemo 137
firebathero 110
910 14
HiyA 12
Dota 2
qojqva3684
Fuzer 212
Pyrionflax86
canceldota26
Counter-Strike
fl0m3633
Fnx 1000
Super Smash Bros
hungrybox756
Mew2King70
Heroes of the Storm
Liquid`Hasu386
Other Games
gofns5637
Grubby2956
Beastyqt786
ceh9459
Mlord433
allub369
FrodaN295
mouzStarbuck213
ToD150
KnowMe145
DeMusliM141
ArmadaUGS112
QueenE94
Livibee52
Organizations
StarCraft 2
angryscii 2
Blizzard YouTube
StarCraft: Brood War
BSLTrovo
sctven
[ Show 21 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• StrangeGG 93
• LaughNgamezSOOP
• sooper7s
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• Migwel
• intothetv
• Laughngamez YouTube
• Kozan
• IndyKCrew
StarCraft: Brood War
• 80smullet 17
• FirePhoenix6
• Pr0nogo 2
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
• BSLYoutube
Dota 2
• WagamamaTV567
League of Legends
• Jankos1940
• Nemesis1792
• TFBlade1329
Other Games
• imaqtpie1780
• Shiphtur299
Upcoming Events
RongYI Cup
15h 24m
Clem vs ShoWTimE
Zoun vs Bunny
Big Brain Bouts
21h 24m
Percival vs Gerald
Serral vs MaxPax
RongYI Cup
1d 15h
SHIN vs Creator
Classic vs Percival
OSC
1d 17h
BSL 21
1d 19h
RongYI Cup
2 days
Maru vs Cyan
Solar vs Krystianer
uThermal 2v2 Circuit
2 days
BSL 21
2 days
Wardi Open
3 days
Monday Night Weeklies
3 days
[ Show More ]
OSC
4 days
WardiTV Invitational
4 days
WardiTV Invitational
5 days
The PondCast
6 days
Liquipedia Results

Completed

Proleague 2026-01-20
SC2 All-Star Inv. 2025
NA Kuram Kup

Ongoing

C-Race Season 1
BSL 21 Non-Korean Championship
CSL 2025 WINTER (S19)
KCM Race Survival 2026 Season 1
Rongyi Cup S3
Underdog Cup #3
BLAST Bounty Winter 2026
BLAST Bounty Winter Qual
eXTREMESLAND 2025
SL Budapest Major 2025
ESL Impact League Season 8
BLAST Rivals Fall 2025
IEM Chengdu 2025

Upcoming

Escore Tournament S1: W5
Acropolis #4 - TS4
Acropolis #4
IPSL Spring 2026
uThermal 2v2 2026 Main Event
Bellum Gens Elite Stara Zagora 2026
HSC XXVIII
Nations Cup 2026
PGL Bucharest 2026
Stake Ranked Episode 1
BLAST Open Spring 2026
ESL Pro League Season 23
ESL Pro League Season 23
PGL Cluj-Napoca 2026
IEM Kraków 2026
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 © 2026 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.