I do this only if i can get hellions in the mineral line of the main/ natural those usually have the most larva, I can sometimes get all the larva and if its a decent zerg they'll just morph them

Chaosvuistje

Netherlands2581 Posts

November 27 2011 06:25 GMT

#42

Banelings kill larvae in one shot as well, wonderful to take out those shrubby ZvZers that just can't spend all their larvae instantly and just flood their base with Zerglings without them being able to do anything

Spicy_Curry

United States10573 Posts

November 27 2011 06:36 GMT

#43

larva should be psionic honestly

bittman

Australia8759 Posts

November 27 2011 06:43 GMT

#44

Do larva kills ping the minimap with an alert? Because I've done some dark templar larva harass myself (since they one shot them) and it's pretty easy to get a tonne of larva out of the way relatively fast before someone reacts, so I'm wondering whether alerts don't happen or something?

billiebrightside

United States150 Posts

November 27 2011 06:43 GMT

#45

I don't know how it works with races, but with Protoss DTs I've found as much success with killing larvae when drones run away, especially if I have more than 1 DT, so I can have one running behind the drones. I've found that it throws zerg off massively

KMARTRULES2

Australia149 Posts

November 27 2011 06:54 GMT

#46

Don't forget DTs. If you dt rush a zerg but his drones are running around or he has a spore crawler covering a base, go for larvae next. They 1 shot larvae so just queue up attack commands.

StrinterN

Denmark531 Posts

November 27 2011 09:00 GMT

#47

Its gonna be fun trying to storm drop and dt drop on larvae :D

Xapti

Canada2473 Posts

November 27 2011 10:59 GMT

#48

Technically missed one: overseer — killing larva by preventing them from being made.
The advantages of this is that it's not possible to stop by morphing the larva.

Grend

1600 Posts

November 27 2011 11:09 GMT

#49

The way I see it its almost always a better target available to kill than larvae.
Workers come to mind.
The only place I can see it working is ling bling wars. If you can spend one bling killing five larvae youre pretty much going to win imo.

Qikz

United Kingdom12027 Posts

November 27 2011 11:17 GMT

#50

On November 27 2011 13:55 absalom86 wrote:

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Ravens are not a waste at all in TvZ. They may not be used much at the moment, but they have their uses especially for detection as well as point defense drones along with mech usually.

The hellions will be a lot more likely to be seen on larva sniping duty than a raven, but a seeker missile is absolutely devastating if you get the hit in.

I definately think that with the Warhound the Ravenw ill be used more as Mutas become less of an annoyance and the raven will survive more often.

Sniping the larvae is a really cool idea btw, never thought of trying to kill the larvae before if there's no drones there.

gullberg

Sweden1301 Posts

November 27 2011 11:24 GMT

#51

I've tried this in ZvZ and you have to be lucky in order for it to actually do anything. Good zergs will just make those larva into eggs.

acidstormy

United States191 Posts

November 27 2011 11:24 GMT

#52

if no one said this before, DTs do the job as well. This tactic is still commonly used imo, i use it as often as i can.

bgx

Poland6595 Posts

November 27 2011 11:27 GMT

#53

baneling larvae snipe in zvz is OLD, its generally used when you cant attack drones so you use on larvae, however ive seen dimaga using spines to target larva/eggs while spine rushing and that was i never thought off (well i almost never spine rush maybe thats why-_-)

absalom86

Iceland1770 Posts

November 27 2011 17:29 GMT

#54

On November 27 2011 19:59 Xapti wrote:
Technically missed one: overseer — killing larva by preventing them from being made.
The advantages of this is that it's not possible to stop by morphing the larva.

That's already popular. Killing them off is what is mainly underused.

Masq

Canada1792 Posts

November 27 2011 17:31 GMT

#55

nuking hatchery lategame tvz to get rid of larva is good too

Yoshi Kirishima

United States10366 Posts

November 27 2011 17:52 GMT

#56

On November 28 2011 02:29 absalom86 wrote:

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That's already popular. Killing them off is what is mainly underused.

wow didn't know lol =O i guess if u do that to some ultras that would be quite useful

Also guys keep in mind that late game where the main has no more resources, usually it's undefended cus well he doesn't need his army there lol. So especially if the macro hatch is there, and there's lots of larvae at each, it's easy to fly in with raven and SM both hatcheries' larvae. You could kill so many larvae :D

metho

Germany28 Posts

November 27 2011 18:03 GMT

#57

I can maybe see this work in a 200 200 stalemate situation, when the zerg has no chance to turn his larvae into eggs. Snipe larvae just before you force an engagement and the Zerg will have trouble reinforcing. Only problem there: the zerg will be up to at least 4 bases that late in the game.

Gimmickkz

154 Posts

November 27 2011 18:38 GMT

#58

Ghost rush to snipe queens is a really annoying and effective alternative

greyconnect

39 Posts

November 27 2011 19:06 GMT

#59

Saw EmpireWelmu (sp?) using his phoenixes to kill larva after he killed most of the drones at an expo. Admittedly he had quite a few phoenixes, but the larva died very quickly.

Shinespark

Chile843 Posts

November 27 2011 19:21 GMT

#60

I find it very evil to kill so many infants but in all seriousness, the hellions and ravens really surprise me. You want to get hellions in your opponent's base to kill drones anyway, why not go for the larvae if his drones ran away in time? As for the raven, since larvae can't escape and the hunter seeker will instantly kill them without losing the raven unless he has mutas (although they are a very common strategy) which I find pretty interesting.

DTs do one-shot larvae but typically people go for the queen, spire or something like that when they can't get the drones. I imagine a tech building is worth more than larvae and specially the spire since it takes about a year to make.