During the midgame, she is the cornerstone of your army. On some maps, she can even spawn just in time for the first wave, you will have to kite with zerglings for a few seconds. She can easily solo the waves 2, 3 and 4. Overall : Your gameplay is really built around Kerrigan as she is the core of your army. But you can easily remax, especially with 10+ orbitals Able to get online early game : 2/5 relies on spells in the early game Also, you can only spam Missile Turrets with your minerals, which is less efficient than the other heroes (Bunkers are pretty terrible to spam). You don't have the explosive DPS to insta-kill the wave (Vorazun Dark Templars), units to tank the wave (Kerrigan) or crowd control the wave (Vorazun Black Hole). Leveling : Despite the fact that you have tanks, you often have trouble defending AI push at low level because you will always have small losses to AoE. Recommended cookie-cutter army : Marine, medic and a squad of 10 vultures
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Or you struggle a bit, have a hard time getting your 4th orbital and never go above 120 supply as your army keeps on getting being reset. It is really easy to predict how a game will go : sometimes, you just roll over the first few waves, build orbitals after orbitals (try to get a dozen) and just spam marines all game long. I find him very fun to play as you have to constantly split your huge bio ball. I often end up building a small group of Vikings to help push out because you lack AA otherwise. Try not to fight with vultures, but losing them is not an issue as you have too much minerals anyways. You need to be able to spread mines and recharge your vultures efficiently (Jakatak's tricks for efficient spamming come to mind). It requires a bit of APM, but it mainly consists of making tanks and spamming vulture mines and turrets. One very interesting point is that it's possible to play Mech Raynor on defense maps. Note that you should try to play with a small squad of vultures all game long, it's good practice for your micro to drop mines regularly. Honestly it's often more efficient to literally never build anything else than marine/medic for your main army. Marauder/Firebat, Tanks, Vikings/Battlecruisers, basically, pick one tech tree. You have so much mineral that it seems that you are lacking gas all game long, which means that you will be able to choose one or two units to build beside marines/medics. Of course, you could try mass vultures, but I found them very lacking in straight up fights in high numbers (20+). You are the only hero that can mine substantially more thanks to MULEs, and this obviously will make you spam marines all game long. Overall : A heavily mineral oriented hero. Raynor : Bio commander who mines more than anyone else Hard to rebuild army (even if you are good, some mutations will simply kill all your units) Lack of mobility to snipe a crucial enemy on the other side of the map *Karax is tied for #1 on defense maps at level 15Įach hero has a small section, where I discuss their most important features, as well as the usual army compositions and build orders for low level heroes.įor mutations, the typical weaknesses are the following : I mostly rate the commanders on their ability to carry the game if your partner cannot hold his/her own. In doubt, pick Nova, or Vorazun if you didn't buy any commander, and avoid Zagara/Kerrigan/Swann/Abathur Mutations are very varied, so it's hard to give an accurate ranking. So, let's get down to business!įor the lazy, here are the rankings for standard missions:Īt level 5 : Vorazun > Swann/Abathur/Nova > Kerrigan/Alarak > Zagara/Raynor/Artanis > KaraxĪt level 15 with no mastery : Vorazun/Zagara/Nova >Swann/Kerrigan/Raynor/Abathur/Artanis/Alarak >Karax*Īt 60+ masteries : standard missions are trivial, every commander can solo them.
#Starcraft 2 coop how to#
This guide is not aimed to be an introduction on how to play Co-op, rather what are the possible strategies and strength/weaknesses of commanders. I will also assume that you know what Co-op missions are. For reference, I am ranked Master, and play exclusively Brutal after I leveled my characters. The heroes have good design, the missions are rather fast paced, and I have a blast playing them.
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I have been enjoying Co-op missions a lot.