Stalker vs Immortal

thers no point speculating on build times, cost, population. to firgure out which is best, stalkers could be tier 3 for all we know

 

and there's no point speculating on what the immortal shields will work on. it could be useless in a normal fight, for all we know.

 

it's wrong to say that. against a siege tank, an immortal would win. against 4 zerglings, a stalker would win. it all depends on the context in which the battle is taking place

 

against a siege tank, stalker could win. blink into minimum range, pound on it while it undeploys, kill it.

 

Stalker can kill things that the immortal may be able to kill too, but not as efficiently as a Stalker.

 

elementt, you do realize i'm taking actual in game things and not 1 unit vs 1 unit right?

 

The only problem with saying that the Stalker's Blink ability is "OMGWTFL33T!!!1!one!!!1" against Tanks is that from what I saw in the vid, the Blink range is roughly half of a ST's siege range. That means that a stalker would take at least two blows from the ST. While that isn't enough to kill one, you'll still end up hurting, especially if there are multiple tanks, with support. I'm thinking that Stalkers and Immortals may be best when combined. When assaulting, march the Immortals in first, and once the first ST barrage has fired, run the Stalkers up close to the Immortals, and then Blink into minimum range of tanks.

 

I say it really depends on their situation. Stalkers are built to handle small units and are designed as flankers/surprise attackers, I wouldn't image they can handle big units that well. Immortals, on the other hand, are painfully weak to small units but really effective against really powerful units.

 

yes, but also in the gameplay/artwork video we see a bunch stalkers getting killed by some marines pretty easily. its cool, but not as strong as u think.

 

theres also like 20-30 marines there... of course you're gonna have some losses.

 

ive got to agree with you there we dont know yet we dont know anything about zerg and not much about terrain

 

immortals arnt painfully weak to small units. the immortals in the gameplay trailer took a pounding from about 5 seige tanks and then took on the reapers. they still managed to take out like 5 reapers which is pretty good lol

 

their shields are completely normal to weak attacks, they are just strengthened from strong attacks.

 

but the question is, what attacks are strong?

 

i sould say yamato, siege, reaver, baneling, collosy maybe, and psi storm maybe.

 

I doubt the colossus is a heavy attack. Though it may be. Maybe it's plague resistant too assuming plague is still in the game.

 

was aircraft ever effected by plague?

 

yes, every unit was affected by plague

 

Stalkers are either harrassing units, units that kill ranged units (siege tanks are the best example) or they can be an excellent unit to give yourself some time for the real army to arrive. Those 4 stalkers kept the zerglings busy for like 30 seconds and the guy wasn't really paying attention either, he just blinked and stood there instead of running to a high cliff or running/attacking/running/blinking when zerglings are close.

 

Yeah had the guy actually wanted the stalkers to stay alive, they would have been fully capable of doing so.