Arqade is a question and answer site for passionate videogamers on all platforms. It only takes a minute to sign up.
Sign up to join this community
Recently I've notice that Terrans do less bioball/tank against Zerg and go for a thor heavy play. The first problem with the mass thor push is that it's really difficult to distinguish from a standard mech play (hellions, tanks, thors) when you scout the Terran base (you just see "a lot" of factories with Techlabs on them).
The second problem is that this push often occurs before the Zerg player techs up to broodlords, which could be a pretty good counter to this.
What can Zerg do about it ?
As Artosis said, an army made mainly of Thors is quite immobile so you can abuse this with Mutalisks and Zerglings.
magic box technique to avoid too much splash damage
Apr 22, 2011 at 14:41
Neural Parasite from infestors are pretty good against thors and I've had lots of success running those against terran players. Fungal growth is great to have as well vs blink stalkers as well, so I really like infestors in general.
The usual zerg answer to thor in the midgame is to use roaches, and possibly lings as well for extra DPS and tanking shots. Roaches are fairly cost effective vs thors, at least before the thors hit 3 attack upgrades, but they are horribly supply inefficient, so they will only work for so long. If they are bringing a lot of SCV's, you'll want banelings to deal with those as well.
Late game, ultras work alright if you are not fighting in chokes, and broodlords work fantastically as long as you have enough of them. Again, use banelings if they have a lot of SCV's with them as well.
Infestors are also an option, as you can neural the thors. This requires some more micro though, and you have to manage to keep your infestors alive long enough for the captured thors to do their work.
And as meta mentioned, you can also just attack wherever they are not, as thors are horribly slow.
If you absolutely have to engage the Thors, rather than avoid them and attack elsewhere, Ultralisk/Hydra can be very helpful.
Try for least an equal number of ultralisks as they have Thors. The hydralisks will do massive damage to the thors, and the ultra wall will buy them enough time to do so.
Thor armies are so dps-heavy, that if you don't have the supply and unit mix quite right, all your units can die before they really start doing damage. Because of this, a close loss can seem like an absolute slaughter.
