10 Flaws: ZERG SWARM (StarCraft} 

You forgot that Zerglings are allergic to lemon juice.

the zerg are powerful. especially with a Korean overmind

"Zerg are easy for Terran and Protoss to kill." I think the Zerg would say the same about them too. After all, they took Aiur and wrecked a lot of Terran worlds. As for the tech, they may fall behind for a bit, but then they'll evolve again. Abathur is always working.

"Perfection is their religion" Kerrigan: "Can something be perfect?" Abathur, Zerg Darwinist: "No, impossible, too complex, chaotic" Dehaka, Zerg Nietschean: "Just keep eating, it'll do" Stukov: "I have no idea, I was just kinda forced into it, how am I supposed to know"

Zerg actually do have bones including backbones and are actually able to withstand radiation as shown by Ultralisk adaptations.

I know one thing - the Zerg have a very distinct and effective sound track on their trailer for Heart of the Swarm that is used again in some game sequences. When you hear that Zerg theme start up, you know someone's day is about to be well and truly ruined, Xenos bug swarm style...

they do have technollogy, they can infest terran units like infested marines or infested buildings, and an infestor can mind control an scv or probe into building a command center or nexus and have the tech of the 3 races. overall good list, i would add that the overmind is not in control of the swarm anymore. it passed control to kerrigan and the cerebrates, and is now in control of the queens, which can be grown when needed, thus removing the flaw of the zerg going feral. also, feral zergs can organize into broods without an overmind, they would follow the strongest zerg.

Another advantage the Zerg have is the ability to convert nonbiological minerals into biological matter. This gives them a huge advantage over races like the flood who require biological tissue. If the flood is stranded on a deserted lifeless planetoid they have to wait for living beings to come to them if that ever happens, while the Zerg can build up their swarm by converting minerals into Zerg tissue and eventually create leviathans to leave the planet and continue their conquest.

The greatest flaw of the zerg is the psionic link which the terrans actually use it against them lmao While its greatest advantage is they evolve too damn fast faster then sonic XD

"we men get God, let's give women thunderstorms" (Murican Ben, 2019) I will quote it

The chimera from Resistance series !!!!!!!!!!!!!

To be fair, the Zerg don't seem so formidable on a one-for-one basis because every other combatant is equipped with power armor as a bare minimum.

Awe Zerg my favorite Tyranid splinter fleet.

When comparing the Zerg to the Tyranids or the Flood and saying how much more powerful the two are compared to the former keep in mind that both the Tyranids and the Flood are extra galactic races in their respective universes and as such had a whole galaxy to themselves to expand and consume creating those massive numbers that the Zerg can't match simply because they had the misfortune to exist in the same galaxy as Terran and Protoss. If the Zerg would have been given the whole galaxy to themselves and let to grow undisturbed then they would easily match or even outmatch the power of the other swarm-like species in other game franchises.

New series, best/worse of *Machine races.* And are there any that don't want to kill/enslave their creators?

radiation is debatle, see the ultralisk tarrasque strain evolution mission, they turned the radiation used against them as a new mutation granting them revival from death

Literally both new strains of Ultralisk form Heart of the Storm came about only because Terrans tried to use radiation/poison to kill Zerg.

Always remember this rule for Humanity First empires, If your ship is approached by an alien ship take proper action and blow them to pieces with a well placed warning shot. (Ben if you are reading this, is this rule In the Humanity First guide book, is so will we ever be able to buy it?)

Correction: The PRIMAL zerg do not age due to their constant "evolution" as they collect one another's essence. It is then implied in the same sentence that regular swarm zerg DO age

I want to see one on the Tau Empire from Warhammer 40K.

For the swarm!

I would like to see a 10 flaws video on the Necrons from warhammer 40k.

Where's my 10 Flaws of the Burning Legion? Those bastards are made of Xenos and Heretics.

thinking about dangerous Xenos you guys should really cover the Infested from Warframe

Suggestions: King Ghidorah's spiecies(MonsterVerse) Cravers(Endless Space) Formics (Ender's Game)

I like how most of the lore is to explain away how zerg act when there is a human player at the keyboard.

finally some one talks about the zerg.

To add to the lore counterpart of the zerg, they are a race that is actually OP even in warhammer standards. The only problem is that people look to the starcraft games instead of the lore to get a grasp of how powerful each unit is. The standard units in these games are toned down to the extreme to make gameplay viable. For example, the zerg unit known as hydralisk is powerful enough to tank hypersonic rounds, shoot grooves made of bone which can pierce power armor and rip them with their scythes in close quarters. The ultrarisks have kaiser blades which are literally monomolecular blades. The standard marine in sc2 wields a C-14 rifle. although the rounds are much smaller than the bolters of Warhammer, the bullets are much faster and shoot faster, also it is the standard basic unit of the terrans-basically their roles are similar to the guardsman with lasguns. I can go on and on but one of the most idiotic points is that the protoss unit known as scout use antimatter missiles. Note that antimatter can release more energy than nuclear weapons with a few grams. Like this, the starcraft universe is quite idiotic. The abilities of each race are many magnitudes above the warhammer universe. The only reason why its scale is not as great is due to literal numbers. The imperium of man is in possession of over 1 million worlds, the chaos gods literally have the immaterium to themselves, tyranids have devoured entire galaxies already and so forth. Give any one race as much resources as one of these factions and they will dominate the entire warhammer universe. Many will disagree and I understand. The scale starcraft plays in is much smaller than warhammer.

"Zerg are not that hard to kill individually" wait until he notices the size of a zergling or hydralisk. lol

Love the enslaving Idea regardless, and I am with thee 100%

Cool vid and finally

Great video Ben; although, I would've also mentioned that the Zerg are weak against fire as well. It's actually canon to Starcraft's lore and strategy guides. They can also be controlled with the use of psionics, provided there isn't an overmind present to usurp said control.

The thing 82 should be next on their list

10 Flaws: Invader Zim, species and Government

Thank you for finally doing this its great to see more starcraft content on this channel.

Just remember that the Zerg were able to overwhelm and defeat the god like Xel'lnaga with just endless waves, and the zerglings are weak to lemon juice.

Live for the swarm

Come to think of it, if Blizzard makes StarCraft 3 I'd like to see a couple changes done to the Zerg to better showcase their evolutionary superiority. Raise your hands if you like my idea. Instead of training different units at different structures, like what normally happens in an RTS, how about the Zergling has the ability to evolve over time into different lifeforms? You start with a handful of Zerglings, sick them local wildlife or enemy units to gather genetic material, then depending on what your Zerglings eat opens up a selection of possibilities. Winged creatures grant flight, armored creatures make tougher skins, acidic defenses, bigger sizes, and so forth. These add-ons are specific to individual units that kill specific targets and they direct how the Zerglings will evolve naturally. It's kind of like a level-up system that turns Zerglings into everything from drones who create hives needed to produce more Zerglings, to mutalisks for air combat, to ultralisks. And the initial evolutions wouldn't be automatic, you'd have a list of options to unlock by collecting different materials and the stuff you don't want to use can get stockpiled back at the hive for later use. This also allows battle maps to be broken down into different climate zones to hunt down new organisms with new advantages.

1: When connection is interrupted but a Queen is present the will become not feral. Yes they wont move or adapt much but will defend an consume the planet they are on. 2: The Zerg and Protoss fought for over a hundreds years or so and nobody got the uper hand.The swarm allways find a way to evolve

I think zerg vs tyranids is fundamentally flawed due to both race can assimilate each other and slowly becoming just like each other through battle or understanding (yes the tyranid can come to understanding) Because i know about tyranids than zerg, by assimilating with zerg creep they can build a hive fleet out of a PLANET. By covering it with creep tyranid style and sail it around with nids propulsion and zerg ftl.

So yeah I would advise this guy to just remake this cause he has never even read the zerg lore it seems and has only read the front page of the Wikipedia site

There is no flaws if the zerg have a korean commander they capture transform them. Then we are screwed.

To add more to the creep; They spread rather fast that they could cover an entire planet of creep in just days, thus practically terraforming the planet. Because creep is also a living organism, it could also be used tactically as some kind of early warning system.

*Cough* Saiyans *cough*

Well, if we are talking overmind time period of Zerg, you can't break their control, so that's not actually a weakness. The overmind wasn't a physical entity until it physically manifested, which required specific conditions, which we don't have now, and thus we cannot kill it, nor can we "make it pause" like the protoss did, cause we don't have any dt's. Tech isn't a weakness of the Zerg, they are known to easily overwhelm technologically advanced species, regularly. Honestly, tech needs to catch up with the Zerg, not the other way around. They don't have trouble holding territory either, in their entire history, they have lost VERY few planets, which is entirely compensated for with the number of planets they conquer. Clearly you don't know your lore, Zerglings are easily a match for Terran marines, you only need one to kill a marine, and Hydralisks and roachs frequently fought Templar to either a standstill, or win for the Zerg. Indeed one Hydralisk killed 3 marines in lore. Further, the Zerg preference for overwhelming numbers isn't a weakness, they are never going to be outnumbered, and you can't kill them all. Radiation is not a weakness of the Zerg. Look at the newer Torrasque. It RUNS on radiation. If this video is anything to go by, the Zerg are a perfect species. But take that with a grain of salt, cause this guy didn't do his homework.

Zerg attacks in huge numbers and thats a the thing, like 50 zerglings can easily overwhelm its enemies

The largest zerg flaw is that the zergling is allergic to lemon juice (this is actual lore)

Magog. Their brutal treatment of humans and their flagship makes them worth covering. You think that Ork attack moons or Necron world engines are bad? The Magog fly around in a mobile star system.

Lmao we men get god i love your humor so much

Zerg ❤️

Suggestions for future alien videos. The Radam (Space Knight Tekkaman Blade.) The BETA (Muv Luv) The Abyssals (Kantai Collection) The Goblins (Goblin Slayer) I know the last two are not space aliens, but I consider them alien enough to be threats to humanity.

Zerg:we are the biggest treat to life of any Sci fi franchise Me:Laughs in tyrannid

Great video

I'm still keeping my fingers crossed that Generation films will do an episode of the Strongest aliens on the Harvesters from the Independence day franchise!

Ceph from crysis would be neat

Cool! And fxxx those bugs! Plus please make video about most heroic Majors, include Major Scott J Mitchell from Ghost Recon game series? Yet he was a Captain, then Lieutenant Colonel but then demoted to Major.

8:50 Not really a point when you consider Zerg can infest structures/aliens which themselves use technology, they've been known to infest Terran Battlecruisers and Terran structures. Speaking of which, they "can't retain territory"? They infest entire worlds. You're not going to be taking that back, you're going to be glassing it. I'm pretty sure that's some very good territorial retention. 9:40 You could probably say that about a lot of things, Zerg are all about logistics - they're going to lose a lot in the meantime but they will win in the end. Defeated them over your major planet? Well, let's just ignore the fact they've swarmed over all the orbital assets over your local star and gas giants, they've swarmed your colonies and have begun building additional fleets from these other systems.

I wish that for the flaws, he would give examples and more elaboration as to why they're considered flaws. I mean, I play starcraft so I know these, but if I didn't i would just have to accept at face value not k owing if the information is right or wrong.

Can you do a top ten flaws of the Cybertronians(Transformers). The alien race that brought their millions of years long degenerate civil war to earth with the Autobots being considered the “good guys” because they try to limit civilian casualties yet have no interest to get the war moved off planet. The Decepticon’s leader Megatron is to earth as King Leopold was to the Congo.

Flaws of the Garla Empire

Would love to see them do this again and use aliens they didn’t look at like mass effect Geth and Half life Xen

After this series please do a best mech based armies in sci-fi. My suggestion is the UN Spacey from SDF Macross. Also for this list the Vajira from Macross frontier.

Forgot to add why the Overmind created Kerrigan in the 1st place. To free the Zerg from control of the evil Xelnaga, Amon that wanted to wipe out the universe using mainly the Zerg to do it. And how Kerrigan was such a perfect creation that she was deemed worthy of becoming essentially a freakin god.

The zerg have bones. Their fossils are in the second game

I do think there are a few points you didn't bring up that make the zerg even more menacing. Things like zerg plagues, neural parasites that allow the zerg to control other biological organisms, shapeshifting zerg organisms for infiltration... and unlike other fictional alien races with a "kill this thing to instantly defeat the entire invasion" creature, the overmind and it's cerebrates (Or the brood mothers, depending on what stage of evolution you're looking at) can be regenerated after death, and should the overmind be killed the remaining cerebrates can merge together to form a new overmind, which can then in turn spawn a collection of new cerebrates.

WHY WASN'T THIS IN MY RECOMMENDED EARLIER!!!

Zerg, aka Tyranid Lite.

You should do a generation tech handbook I'd buy one just for shits n giggles lol Would be a good read and finally a book to live by

Not all of the zerg are invertebrates. Some of them have bones. Like the hydralisk skull used as a trophy on Mar Sara, Or the Dark Templars using their bones as armor.

Thanks for the keks

The Zerg don't need tech to survive and thus fight. You need to know the we are unending... We are limitless... Ever evolving... We ArE tHe SwArM!!

WooooHoooo!

Zerg has become too strong that the lore and plot itself has been trying its very best to nerf them lmao

the swarm conquers all

"We men get God. Lets give women thunder storms". Lost my shit.

i wonder how first contact would go if Zerg and Borg meet

In the video it is said that Zergs do not age however i know that the Zerglings have only a few hours lifespan

quite frankly,,, I love the zerg. They,, are real. See, what happens is,,, As chemical technology continues to advance, chemicals will store incredible amounts of energy per volume. consider a standard hydrocarbon. Combustion is only some degree of efficiency, and some organisms are able to metabolize complex hydrocarbons. This results in less complex hydrocarbons as waste,, which are then able to be metabolized again. This means, that very complex chemical compounds, if able to be metabolized within a body, would be able to provide incredible amounts of energy without continuous supplies of bulk matter. (like we need, metabolizing only carbohydrates). This means that the zerg can do a lot, with a lot less,,,,, assuming they have access to more complex chemical compounds as a food. So,,, keep sprayin that bug spray!! it's only a matter of time!!

i love zergs

Look up the harvesters or the independent day’s aliens

The Zerg come close to rivaling the Tyrranids in shear terror and scale!

I vote for the infested or the Sentients from Warframe.

The Zerg in terms of swarm enemies could be hte highest, for they may lack technology, they are natural selection in physical form thus technology is redundant, without a form of a central organism that direct the zerg, the zerg are not much to write home about but when they are being lead, their evolutions would either let run rampant or directed, yes a swarn faction may lack technology but the biggest one is that they do not need tech for it is redundant, but instead if we attempted ot kill a bunch of zergligns with mustergas, well a lot of hte zerglings will die but the ones that survive will emit mustergas, use an acid formula on them, well the ones that live will use that acid formula, hell if it enough time a zergling or a hydralisk will use terran armor as shells, in a way they barrow technology however the worse about the zerg is that they are adaptive

Could you do 10 flaw of Gamilas (space battleship Yamato )

Protoss please!

Do the top ten on the gouls from THEY LIVE.

Men get the sky, women get the ground. Zeus makes thunderstorms, Gaia soaks up the rain and grows stuff.

Well, they may be insanely smart and shez as long as you've got the world's nuclear arsenal in your pocket you're good to go lol

Make episode about Brother Moons from dead space . I kidding , they have not flaw , we all gonna die .

its really sad that this is the best zerg lore video on youtube like i cant find shit on starcraft lore DX

how would you rate the Necron?

The overmind looks like one of the old gods

I like how you just have the weirdest media of starcraft. Shure, why not, just put in beta and alpha footage.

10 Flaws sentients(warframe)

4.2mi = approximately 7km Also, I suspect you’re on this, but although not often in direct combat some Colonels, (O-5, and full O-6) have found themselves in the front lines. A few have even been heroic. Please note that the naval equivalents are Commander, and Captain respectively. This also is where Grp.Capt. Jack Harkness would be situated.

I'm confused a bit. How can the Zerg have a leviathan ship that travels through space, yet the species is vulnerable to radiation? Space is full of high levels of radiation. (I don't play Starcraft, so this is an honest question.)

The Zerg are definitely nasty critters - adaptable, resilient, numerous, strong, vicious - but they have a few weaknesses that really hamstring them. First, their psychic collective seems to be relatively easy to disrupt or even subvert. Repeatedly in the StarCraft lore, Zerg forces have either had their unity of purpose thrown into total disarray by psi-disrupters, or have been lured to specific locations and even controlled entirely, often as individual creatures and on some occasions even en masse, by psi emitters. The Swarm also doesn't seem to be able to develop a consistently effective way to resist this type of manipulation. Unlike most Hive Mind Swarm armies, the Zerg can be (and have been on multiple occasions) hijacked by comparatively low tech adversaries. That risk of loss of autonomy is a massive weakness. Next, the Zerg collective consciousness is typically invested into physical creatures. The Overmind developed a physical body, and Kerrigan later commanded the Swarm, also with a physical form. Should this physical manifestation of the Zerg collective mind be killed or captured, the disruption to the Zerg is so total that it presents an existential threat to their species. This is a very serious weakness, especially compared to other Hive Mind species that have a collective consciousness that is distributed across countless billions or even trillions of its constituent creatures, thereby making eliminating the collective mind in one strike impossible. This represents a weakness that is comparatively easy to exploit. As a related point, once that single creature that embodies the collective will is lost, even once the Zerg start to recover, they are given to infighting and factionalism until a new alpha mind can be established. That lack of singular purpose when the Swarm is at its most vulnerable only compounds this weakness still further. The Zerg vulnerability to certain wavelengths of radiation is also a big problem, especially for a void travelling, and at least partially void dwelling, species. Hard radiation of massive intensity is a common effect of many stellar and cosmic phenomena, making it very possible that entire Zerg fleets could be wiped out at a stroke by naturally occurring phenomena with no warning, a weakness more radiation resistant predatory Xenos forms like the Xenomorphs do not share. On balance, the high level of organisation and physical prowess of the Zerg make them a force to be reckoned with, but they suffer from a set of persistent and significant weaknesses that hold them back from matching the most virulent and deadly of Xeno-forms. As such, I think they deserve a rating of 4 on the scale.

What if the Necrons and Zergs fight? What would happen?

Zerg are also allergic to lemon juice.

You forgot the infestation mechanic of the Zerg, but besides that great video.