Protoss' High Templar is a better defense against infantry Raids. The only zerg specie that could survive the Psi Storm is the Ultralisk and Roach (half dead) but all the rest would be killed by it. As for the Terran. Every unit under the barracks as well as Hellions will get killed easily for about 2 Psi Storms. I've seen a team of 6-7 High Templars kill an army of 3-4 Thors + 12 Marauders get defeated by microing Stalkers. So the question is ... How do you kill the High Templars from afar? Broodlords might be the answer but the metagames urges you to do otherwise. Taking fire need assistance~
Ghots's Snipe for Terran. As far as I know, 2 hits should kill a fully upgraded High Templar. Easy. And if you get that many Thors killed, then you're a total noob. The new single unit damage ability they have can pick off a High Templar before they even get within casting range. As for the Zerg, send Zerglings (with speed upgrade) to swarm them quickly. They can't really target with themselves in the target area, so a High Templar will die almost a 100% sure if Zerglings can get close. By the way, it should also be noted that the area of Psi Storm has been decreased since the original game. It still works, but you can dodge it more easy. Or he you get caught in one, you can get out more quickly. I'm more concerned about the new Carriers. You know, since they now already have Interceptors when they're warped in.
If you have tanks covered and you can get snips off or emps i dont see a problem vs High templars. Unless theres like 20 of them and you just cant stop them all.
You won't need that many HT i think 4-5 sounds reasonable enough.... and bear in mind that the AoE has been lowered.
Carriers start with interceptors, and Overlords have become old, ****ty and senile, and need to be morphed into ****seers for detection. Sense? Missing in action.
why are people now worryed with the HT's? its like a Zerg player not liking the way the queen has turned out. and the same with the terrans and the thor, watch BR4 and you will see that the Thor seems balenced, and the HT's are balenced enought, if you had the right numbers of HT's though you could wipe out whole players and many bases of units. and yea it seems like the Zerg units have gotten down grades, but I don't think their that bad to play, all we need is a Battle Report with David Kim playing Zerg and we will see how F***ing bad @ss they are.
That's a sneaky *** adbot. How much damage does Psi Storm do anyways? And how long does it last at the targeted area?
Psy storm in SC1 did 112 dmg over quite a long period (maybe 7 seconds? I dont remember) In SC2 it does less, with narrower Area of Effect, and I've heard it does 80 dmg but over a much shorter time.
Using snipe i easier said than done, it deals 45 damage (ignores amor, no bonuses, only biological units, 25 mana)according to latest info. Well placed Siege Tanks in siegemode is probelby a better counter if some sort of spotter is used. Emp could also be usefull but it is tricky to fire it without being hit if there is a observer nearby.
Don't ever forget that the High Templars can also cast hallucination, although it is an underrated skill, the benefits for using it are tremendous especially when used at the right time and at the right target. I've seen deception tactics in korean e-sports using hallucination to make it look that the player has a lot of carriers wherein fact he just had 2 and made it look like he has 6. With good hallucinations, snipers success ratio will be lessened.
Forcing a Protoss player to use Hallucination is already a partial victory- every point spent on a Hallucination is a point not spent on Psi Storm. -- A so far unmentioned Zerg counter: Infestors. Neural Parasite.
Last I saw from the Wiki, Hallucination has been moved to the Nullifier, so what's left for the HT is Storm + Phase shift. The latter being quite nifty I think ^^. But In any case, Hallucination is much more useful than you think. Besides the "bluffing" and "scouting" factor, it is also used as an antiminer and as some gamers like to call it, a Tank "bomber". I would bet those roles haven't changed too much in SC2.
I never really explored hallucination during sc1 but can someone confirm if a hallucination of a probe can gather minerals? Since they gave the hallucinations the power to attack, maybe harvesting isn't much a difference. I could just imagine how useful it can be as a resource harassment or possibly a proxy miner.
