A Brief Protoss Campaign Unit Tier List 

Zeratul sacrificed himself, not for Artanis, but to provide an excuse to make the nerazim units ridiculously overpowered. Alarak's ascendants just stole that ability in coop.

Now we can make a run only using "bad" unit for all campaign, nice

Grant: I'm not gonna put anything into D-tier, they're all basically alright Also Grant: *puts the Reaver into D-tier* Jayborino: Yes, good, good...

"You can make mass sentries and you can probably win with it." Well I think we found your next challenge run.

Sentinel is the best Zealot variant not only in gameplay but in lore. Far fewer valuable Protoss are dying or emergency teleporting to the sickbay when you've got far more practical basic AI constructs doing the charging and tanking.

8:10 The Dragoon in Legacy of the Void has 7 range, that's actually one of the perks the armory screen mentions when you select the Dragoon. In Co-Op, Artanis's Dragoon has 6 range, until you get the upgrade that gives it 8 range. This actually makes them quite viable in Sky Shield and other Terran missions because the 7 range outranges a marine's 6 in a bunker. The larger hitbox is still a problem of course.

For your awareness, the Avenger DT has a 60s cd, half of the sentinel (which has 120s) While the other DTs are well... still superior, I find having 50supply of DT as a free attackwave with a 1 minute respawn time quite humorous

The high templar does restore shield once you've done their unlocking mission It's their announced upgrade

So far the C tier is "it doesn't have a hitbox" and "it has too much of a hitbox". That probably says something about grants hitbox size preferences.

I like how not a single Aiur unit is above B tier It kinda reflects the lore, they're decent, but they're so stuck in their ways where every other kind of protoss improves on them

Spin lot has same dps as normal Zealot, but it's in 1 attack instead of 2. Making it good against zerglings and better then normal against high armor targets.

using a 1-5 scale for the tiers (D=1, S=5) here is the averages for each of the factions in Legacy. I also went on the Wiki Order so I could double check which each faction belonged to, instead of Video Order. Khalai: C, C, B, B, B, B, B, B, D, B= 2.6 Nerazim: B, B, A, S, A, S, S = 4.143 Purifier: A, A, A, C, A, B= 3.5 Tal'Darim: A, A, B, C, C, C, A=3

It's here at last! Random thoughts: Off-topic, but one thing I never liked about LotV: how inconsistently loud the music is. Centurion - Sometimes I forget this is a mineral-only unit. Its the Vile Roach of LotV, a powerful ability on a cheap unit. It's so satisfying to see your army crash into the enemy without micro and mass-stun 100 units. Dragoon - Agreed. Who else thought the game was bugged when trying to warp-in an army of these? They. Are. So Fat. Funfact: Vorazun in Coop combines all 3 Dark Templars. And further boosts them. Vanguard: It's funny how their projectiles make a wimpy "phut" sound, but whatever they targeted (or was in the same continent as the target) explodes. Mirage: This DID deserve D-tier. They don't just become invulnerable, but also untargetable, meaning the enemy will simply attack someone else. Why create a discount Phoenix when the Scout was right there? High Templar: You know they did a good job making the units fun, when they buffed Psi Storm to hell, but despite that, the other unit choices are also fun. And it's so good they have an attack now, they no longer move into the enemy when you A-move your army. Dark Archon: Forget Confusion, forget Mind Control, the best part is hearing the enslaved units chant in unison "W̢e̸͠ ͡͏a͟͠r̴̀e̴ ̨͜à̀s̕ ̨͢o̷̧n̵e.͟" Destroyer: Don't know why, but I have an affinity for these. I could beat some challenging modded missions with mass Destroyer, but not with anything else, not even mass Void Ray. Random guess: they get exponentially better when massed (as in 180 supply) and for people like me who suck at micro (the lag they cause probably helps). Guess I need to play around with Adepts and the Mothership more. They sound broken when used correctly.

Reaver scarabs arent stopped by gaps, grant. They have no pathfinding, they are regular missiles in vanilla lotv and coop

0:00 Intro 1:00 Aiur Zealot 3:12 (Nerazim) Centurion 4:31 (Purifier) Sentinel 6:00 (Nerazim) Stalker 7:44 (Aiur) Dragoon 10:02 (Purifier) Adept 13:15 (Aiur) Sentry 14:13 (Tal'Darim) Havoc 14:54 (Purifier) Energizer 16:03 (Aiur) Avenger 17:22 Nerazim Dark Templar 18:40 (Tal'Darim) Blood Hunter 19:55 (Aiur) Immortal 21:00 (Nerazim) Annihilator 22:24 (Tal'Darim) Vanguard 23:55 (Aiur) Phoenix 25:08 (Purifier) Mirage 26:16 (Nerazim) Corsair 27:46 (Aiur) High Templar 30:05 (Nerazim) Dark Archon 31:39 (Tal'Darim) Ascendant 33:29 (Purifier) Colossus 35:49 (Tal'Darim) Wrathwalker 37:27 (Aiur) Reaver 38:58 (Nerazim) Void Ray 40:47 (Tal'Darim) Destroyer 42:52 (Aiur) Arbiter 45:28 (Aiur) Carrier 47:37 (Purifier) Tempest 48:53 (Tal'Darim) Mothership 51:55 Conclusion & Outro

Vanguard can be warped in if you choose certain ability on the Spear of Adun. And campaign version of High Templar's Psi storm does restore shield by 50.

High Templar in legacy of the void does have the restauration ability, which does make him a lot better as you can trade the sentry for the havoc and energizer without worrying so much about recovery. While I do love dark archon, high templear can be a cool and better reliable unit support to you composition and I believe the AI doesn't count it as a healer, this literally means that overaggressive composition can a good option for some missions. Definitely should be at A tier.

Please remember to do the nova covert op campaign, not many people play it but it would still be helpful for those who are like me who grind achievements

I'd say annihilator is S tier simply because it single-handedly removes the chunky aerial threats. Coupled with Nerazim DT, they are literally the only unit you need. You can finish the campaign by spamming Nerazim DT and Nerazim Imm.

The arbiter really suffers from the campaign it's in. It doesn't really get a chance to shine. I was doing the coop version of wings of liberty protoss edition with a friend and the arbiter is so good there. It's best mission being the dig which, we originally struggled with hard until I picked up the arbiter. The ability to freeze one group of enemies while you take care of the other is just massive. Made the mission so easy. You don't really get a big moment like that for the arbiter in LotV

Tbh, the Adepts shades are just so beyond broken they should be S Tier. They make everything good. Even Destroyers do 18 dps splash with Adepts close by. Their beam ticks once every 0.3 if i'm not mistaken.

Avengers, from what I read, actually only has a 60 second cooldown on their recall instead of the 120 that you mentioned. I think the reason why you thought it was 120 seconds is because the Sentinel's revive is 120 seconds, and you mixed the two unit's cooldown up and thought the Avenger also has a 120 second cooldown on their ability as well. That goes to show how underused the Avenger is, that you don't even remember the cooldown of their one, singular ability is lol.

man, this makes me wanna see a challenge in which you beat the campaigns with the C and D tier units

Carriers combo well with mechanical army builds since the repair drones heal any mechanical units. This includes the purifier templar-further upping their survivability. Also, the Spear of Adun can only heal three units at a time. So, carriers can be an important source of healing (and are also good if you want a different Spear of Adun ability for that passive slot).

I've only just started watching you since the Brutal+ episodes (even though I've always been a big SC2 fan since early Husky days lol). Just wanted to say I am finding your vids fantastic, I especially love your subtle humour. You don't try too hard about it like 95% of youtubers out there but just adding the word "brief" to a 53min video somehow made me crack up

I replay all the campaigns a lot. So I have a very solid understanding of these units and I gotta say you absolutely nailed it. Even opened my eyes to a few things. Great vid man thank you

Love your content, Grant. It's amazing how you come up with so much and it's always good You're awesome

I love how Ascendants are at the bottom here, but are kicking butt in the Perpetual Randomizer campaign. That heal aura was perfect.

high templar does have plasma storm actually so maybe bump it up a tier in lotv.

I mean if you have carriers and recomstructive beam, they just don’t really ever die, so the enemies target firing them doesn’t often matter. But yeah, if you had to choose between carriers or Void Rays and a Mothership, it’s not even a competition.

"brief"

Need an enemy tier list or threat dossier for each campaign now!

I would put the Destroyer in B simply for the "Rule of Cool". That unit just looks so nice and I am so happy that one of the prestige upgrades for coop Alarak lets to actually build them. But on the other hand Void Ray is so OP that it overshadows that poor Tal'Darim knock-off ray.

So the thing about Wraith Walkers, at least based on my using it in co-op, is it works great as a "Hybrid Buster" unit, doesnt matter what hybrid unit it is, if the hybrid shows up, you bring your wraith walkers in and delete them. The idea you need to have when using them is basically a walking Yamato Cannon Launcher.

Dark Archon has won me some of the harder missions on Brutal solely because of confuse. Using it on important units that can do AoE especially, watching them merk their own frontline instead of taking you down. Dropping a confuse on a couple ultralisks and then a few hydralisks immediately after? Watch that 80 pop Zerg army suddenly just implode upon itself while your probe scoots out to restore the one photon cannon that died in the conflagration.

I will note an overlooked characteristic of the wrathwalker is that is can also fire on the move. They're a bit better in co-op though because there's an upgrade to make the charge faster. I also really like the destroyer because they may take more mass to be effective than the void ray but they can be very strong en masse from that chain. I know they're unpopular but I used mostly destroyers on the last levels on hard and they did swell. Also they sound AWESOME!!! One more note when I intitially played the campaign I was stuck on the last protoss mission until I decided to use the arbiter and I used recall. I set an arbiter to every entrance and would recall my forces in a chain to where they were needed. Granted I'm not that great but it helped me alot.

I think the best mission for the arbiter in LOTV would have been the carrier-mission. The ability to fly around to different platforms, put stasis on the defenders, and then instantly transport your troops using recall to quickly take out any detection and then destroy the rest while being cloaked once stasis wears off would have been awesome rather than another capital-ship mission with low resources. Or heck, go behind enemy lines somewhere, use recall on a drone to build a pylon, and start warping in troops right there. Otherwise, watching these tier lists, it really shows how shafted transport-type units got in starcraft 2. There are very few missions (outside of a few cheesable spots) where loading a ton of dropships with troops and using it to bypass enemy defenses or attack vulnerable infrastructure is a good strategy. I mean sure you can do it, but it is usually not necessary and you are better off spending the resources on just getting some more troops. The medivac and Hercules are usually only useful on the mobius missions or crazy challenge-runs, I am pretty sure there is no transport unit in HOTS, and the arbiter is only available in the last couple of missions in LOTV where its transport ability is almost worthless outside of maybe moving your troops around really quickly in Salvation. It was actually something I appreciated about Maw of the Void Nightmare edition. It quickly became apparent that it would be a brutal slog fighting my way through the Taldarim to get to the vault so I instead used my battlecruisers to yamato cannon the photon cannons and observers and then used my hercules to ferry the dark templars around to destroy their ability to produce more units and kill their troops until their defenses were weakened enough that I could drop the dt's onto the vault and destroy it with no risk of detection. The hercules was great there due to being able to withstand the enemy attacks long enough to get them where they needed to. It took a long time, but I had an absolute blast.

If anyone is curious who the strongest Protss Faction is here's the breakdown. Khalai: 10 Units S-0 A-0 B-7 C-2 D-1 Nerazim: 7 Units S-3 A-2 B-2 C-0 D-0 Tal'darim: 7 Units S-0 A-3 B-1 C-3 D-0 Purifiers: 6 Units S-0 A-4 B-2 C-1 D-0 Really should have to be said the Nerazim are the top tier as there are only 3 S tiers and all are Nerazim. Add the fact they have nothing below B and that 5 of their units are the best for their category and they are the clear winners by a lot. With 4 As and the only two Bs the Purifiers are a respectable but still distant second. Tal'darim are just a step behind them with a few more middling Units. Their stuff was ok but almost always outclassed by something else. Dead last and not even close is the Khalai with a lot of middling Bs, no A or S ranks and the only D. Really surprising they would be this bad overall, I know they are typically the vanilla choice of each option but this is still pretty bad.

I'm still annoyed that not ONCE did we get to use the scout in LOTV. It's literally in every. single. campaign. Why can't I use it?

I literally JUST watched his other tier lists from months ago last night and was looking for this one... he knew

Me: Wow, new tierlist! Me, 5 second later: ONE HOUR?! This os going to be amazing!

If I recall from your zealot-only run, the aiur zealots were really effective against the hybrid due to all of them being able to just blend him into oblivion. They also wasted their spin-attack on flying units and have the issues with aoe damage, but they can murder hybrid insanely-well.

Say what you want, I will always build mirages even if only to hear that smooth, smooth voice

I will die on the hill that critical mass Destroyers will shred damn near anything. It has gotten my stupid ass through Rak’shir, The Host, and Salvation several times, and I will always love it for that.

The High Templat in the War Council have the Plasma Surge ability and restore 50 Shield over 4 seconds. Its insane especially if you use Archons as frontliners. But its incredibly Gas Hungry as a Strategy and Protoss suffers from a lack of gas already :P

Sounds like someone just volunteered to do a Reaver Fever run

"A brief protoss campaign unit tier list" *Looks at the video length* Huh, so that's what brief means to Grant

I kinda want to see a Brutal+ playthrough using just C and D tier stuff now... Edit: He made a claim at 39:18 that I now to see Grant backup as well; using just Nerazim DT, DA or Voids, can you beat all of LotV?

>longest >brief Love you grant

You should do a tier list of Spear of Adun abilities!

First time I played the last mission of the protoss campaign I thought I would get the wrathwalker for the big tough targets and the destroyer for the smaller more numerous targets. I didn't understand why I kept losing.

So I had a thought like this for the swarm host for HoTS, but I think it also applies to the tempest here. I In multiplayer, the reason to go for swarm host or tempest is that they have the potential to be very efficient. The Tempest can pick things off from long range, while the swarm host can siege with free units. But they both pay for this efficiency potential by being rather bad in a straight up fight. The problem is that in campaign, efficiency doesn't matter nearly as much. Because the enemy can keep rebuilding forever. They don't mine out the map like an opponent does in multiplayer. I wonder if one way to encourage the kind of slow, methodical, pick-apart and drain of resources style that units like the swarm host and the tempest lend themselves to in multiplayer would be to give the enemies resource caps in the campaign. The enemy will rebuild if you destroy their units or buildings, but only a certain number of times, or only a certain amount of resources worth. And maybe this only applies to defensive structure. So attack waves would keep coming forever, but defenders wouldn't rebuild forever.

I could stand to hear more

The Dragoon: bringing back SC1 pathing.

Energizer will always be S tier. You cannot change my mind. I'm surprised Grant didn't place it in S tier, seeing how his face glows up talking about the Energizer

something that (unless i missed it) grant didn't directly mention about the adept is that unlike in multiplayer it hits air. I didn't use it in my first run because i assumed it was like in multiplayer and i would lack AA.

I remember using the arbiter on Templars charge (mobieus/hybrid mission) to disable the final base and recall to defend if I had to. Also on that mission I learned, that the lotv carrier is really bad at focusing targets. More than once my carriers were being shot at by marines, vikings and goliath, while half of my intercepters were busy killing random supply depots and barracks. Sadly I didn't know how strong the void ray is

Dark Archon confusion is outstanding stuff. Instantly stops Baneling waves. Turns Ultralisks into Zergling chow. Use on a pack of Phoenixes to have them sit there levitating their own army. Wiki doesn't say if the campaign version affects heroic units or not, but still super powerful. Most of the time this is better than Mind Control, because deleting waves of enemies is usually better than getting one Tempest or one un-upgraded Carrier. I would say Destroyer is at least a B tier since you can mass build them and they will obliterate groups of enemies. In the campaign there are lots of opportunities for a pack of Destroyers to burn through chunks of enemies unopposed, whereas in Co-op with the prestige unlocked, if you were to go mass Destroyers only they would get shredded to bits.

I personally think the mothership is S tier for all the reasons you said and with air damage upgrades it gets insane bonuses like the vanguard thanks to those 6 attacks it has. Arbiter I believe is C tier because lets be honest, you only get it for two or three missions, by then the selections you have are already in place and you have your broken strategy so you will likely never select it. Stasis is really good yes but the chances you'll actually use it are low since it'll be shot down rather quickly. It is just better to get void rays which as you said can solo when maxed. I agree with the rest of the tier list.

The Tal'Darim: "We live to kill." The Nerazim: "That's cute."

I would put motheship in S tier hands down best unit u can have it will outlass other All other units in equal resource and it doesn't matter you can have one, one combo that most wish would work is carriers + void rays but with TM it works

Let's gooo, NCO now :))) It's gon' be a short one, so could touch on Nova's equipment a bit?

I found it rather amusing that all the units from the Conclave era ended up in the bottom half.

"Order me to war" is S tier

Personally I would bump up Havok to A-tier, and Energizer to S-Tier While you cant win by massing energizers, You can get a lot of value out of a few of them. As support units, their power scales with how powerful all your other units are, which in this campaign is very powerful. Havoks range is very nice, its biggest flaw is that the havoks own range isn't so great, they often get targeted down, energizers on the other hand cast on allies instead of enemies so you don't need to put them in enemy range at all. Everything else is spot on

Some stats: Aiur: 6 B tier, 2 C tier, 1 D tier Nerazim: 3 S tier, 2 A tier, 2 B tier Purifier: 4 A tier, 1 B tier, 1 C tier Taldarim: 3 A tier, 1 B tier, 3 C tier So an overall ranking of: 1st: Nerazim 2nd: Purifier 3rd: Taldarim 4th: Aiur The to lowest Nerazim Units are in B tier and they are the two most basic units =)

I remember my first playthrough of LotV, the mission The Host gave me such a hard time, it was the only mission I had failed on more then once, by the 10th restart I switched over to the NZ Dark Templar. 9 of them, 4 shadow cannon Immortals ( mainly for the anti air) and a few stalkers just cleared out every attack wave. The Dark Templar alone pretty much wiping out all the ground forces gave me such a big shift in mood. I went from frustration to pure delight. It was at that point they became my favorite unit in LotV. NZ Dark Templar are what I would dub SS tier.

About Dark Archons, Dark Archons are REALLY GOOD, but they CANNOT STEAL "void entities"😭

"Brief." *looks at video length* You and I have different definitions of brief.

Interesting analysis! I'd be curious to know which version of a unit you would prefer for the ones that you put on the same tier. Say you're loading into a completely random LotV mission where all the immortal options would normally be unlocked, but you don't know which mission - would you pick the Annihilator or the Vanguard? If you couldn't pick the energizer, would you pick the sentry or havoc? Or would you have no reason to prefer one or the other or just pick according to whim? Would also like to know which you'd choose for a random mission in HotS for Vile vs. Corpser and the swarm host evolutions (if you were forced to build some) and Raven vs. Science Vessel in WoL. I think those are all the ones that compete that you put on the same tier, so if you clarify those things we could do a personal challenge run like "pick all the units Grant thinks are the worst!" (Also if you're looking for more tier list ideas, I'd be interested to see a tier list for WoL armory/mercenary investments, to see which options you think give the most value for your money, as well as Spear of Adun and Kerrigan ability tier lists.)

i know that this is not related to the video but this is something that was wandering for my mind. You will do Heart of the swarm nightmare edition and Legacy of the void Nightmare edition? or that will be created by your decendants

Ascendants may be "C tier" in terms of combat effectiveness, but I personally sill love these guys for how fun they are to play with. "Press F to instantly delete an enemy unit" is SO satisfying to use, when you have a few dozens of them

High templar has a base form, then an upgrade with shields recharge in campaign. Making it a lot better and you can have heal and energizers. Also adept shade is on cooldown, not energy

thank god, background music

4:30 its 2+ zealots, pretty hard to compete with that

The high templar in lotv does restore shield, you could check this in the war council

Nerazims once again proving they are the best Protoss

I love the purifier zealots. You get Kaldalis in the co-op version with Fenix, that THING is insane. AoE slashes, and when he dies, he gets uploaded to another body, and starts charging from miles away. Soon as he gets close he just minces my enemies, and it keeps getting better with each death. On his final death he's like the Shy Guy SCP, absolutely destroying Hybrid all by himself.

The Havoc increase damage by 30%, not 15%, and it's range is 7, if I remember well, which mean that if you use Adept with it, the Adept will advance farther than the Havoc. It's great to annihilate strong unit like hybrid FAST, especially since it cumulate with the Adept -5 armor for insane damage. . The Blood Hunter isn't limited to detector, it can also neutralize an ultralisk, thor or something else for a few seconds, but the auto-cast (there is a auto-cast in coop at least, I don't remember for campaign) focus on detectors. . Ennemy unit continue to attack the Mirage even when their ability is active, so they can soak up tons of damage for free, including the blast ability from hybrids (I think it's the destroyer?). Supposing constant fire, they are imune to damage 40% of the time (2 second everey 5 seconds), and you can use them to pull the ennemy anti-air units. No need to spam them, just put a couple in your army, it's enough to tank the fist few shots, and I find myself actually using them far more often than the Phenix. Still prefer the Corsair though. . High templar have the shield regeneration on it's psy storm in the campaign too, so they are very good at maintaining your zealoth alive . Whrathwalker can shoot while mooving, which is very important in my opinion as with it's long range, you can shoot at the enemy from affar and retreating while they pursue. It synergize well with the Vanguard that cover it's weakness to swarms of enemies like zerglings (splash ground), with the Stalker as it's also a Hit&Run unit that favor retreating assault, and with both the Energizer (the attack goes from 3 sec to 1.5 + extra mobility) and the Havoc (give it an insane range).

Playing WoL Protoss Edition made me appreciate the Destroyer a lot more. A fleet of them can solo either All In on brutal with zero micro (just Time Stop Kerrigan). If they take 80 shots or whatever to kill a zergling I sure didn't notice. In my playthrough they melted attack waves in seconds. There's just no mission for them in LotV besides the Colossus intro mission, and they share their niche with all the other Protoss AoE while the Void Ray and Arbiter have unique advantages. Wrathwalkers have an awful overkill problem. The fact that is fires while moving is almost a hindrance because it makes it that much harder to optimize where and when they shoot.

A "brief" tier list : proceeds to make the longest of the three tier lists xD

Now I'm waiting Brutal+ LotV with C-tier units and reaver only :-)

There is quite a lot of stuff that I disagree with. First of all I don't see how a tempest is B tier, it's dps is terrible, it's hard to tech into, it's expensive, and it just doesn't do much. Disintegrate is insanely meh, it damages VERY slowly, it's only really good at killing big stuff on the ground(the anti air range is ridiculously low for a artillery unit), it does nothing against small stuff. In 1v1 it's main niche is sniping capital ships, but the 6 range makes that soo clunky. And there are so many better choices for killing hybrid and big units, I will choose any of the three immortals, void rays hell even stalkers are better imo. it doesn't do anything better than other cheaper and lower tech units. It still flies and kinda bulky so it should still be C tier, but defenietly not B. The high templar are at least A tier, it does have the shield restoration for psi storm, and the unit is simply just very strong. Psi storm is amazing in almost every situation. You only need like 4 HT and every single fight will be waaaaaaaaay easier. 2 or 3 storms can most of the time win the fight single handedly, and even one storm can be insanely influential. Feedback also invalidates the scariest unit in the game. And they just make EVERY single protoss army far better. They are also way less vulnerable than people think, mainly because of the shield restoraiton on the storm, if your templar get surrounded by lings or something you just throw down a strom and they will be fine most of the time. Archons can be very useful as well. The stalker could be A tier easily. Mainly because it is soo overpowered in the early stages of the campaign and in almost every every single mission in the early game. If you can blink micro well, they are disgustingly resource effiecent. They are worth building at the start in every mission, they let you stay alive against everything, you can start clearing very early and they can soak damage for the important units in the later stages very well too. They do require at least decent micro to be effective though. it's not a unit that you build a late game army around or just mass them and a move, but no other unit can do what the stalker does.

"and can't warp in like a nerazin dark templar" that hability that gives you the capability of warping in everything:what i am to you?

Now an upgrades ranking !!

It's wild that Grant kept gravitating towards assuming that every respawning unit had a three minute cooldown. Sentinel only has two minutes and Avenger has a redonkulous 60 second cooldown on respawning.

Corsair's ability is so freaking good in defense! In that "waking purifiers by disabling null circuits" mission, mass defense structures (BIG cannons, cannons, batteries) around KEY STRUCTURE + Corsairs (POSITION is key! Also, make sure to make them HOLD POSITION), & no matter what the enemy throw at me, they WILL ALWAYS walk around while constantly being hit hard by my defense structures around (Corsairs' disruption web ability), & when the ability wears off, there are so few units left that they do NOT pose any threat to me

Being able to pick and choose between, in some cases, wildly different units to suit the needs of each mission, is something that I wish someone could implement in mods for WoL and HotS.

Nova covert ops next? all those nova loadouts and unit upgrades have alot of potential.

Brief note about the Aiur Zealot that makes it slightly less terrible (only slightly): it does 16 damage in one hit instead of 8 damage twice. So it's the same against unarmored targets, but suffers less against armor than the other zealots do, making it the best anti-armor zealot option. Not that you really need zealots to be anti armor with the plethora of Protoss anti armor units that exist, but it has a niche. The stun and revive are still better, but it gives it a use as a backup anti-armor mineral dump on a mission where you decide to go with a gas heavy army.

If the "brief" tier list is 53 minutes, I wonder how long the "big" list would be :P

i always got a kick out of the wraithwalker with the energizer. get some zelots to soak and a mass of them can erase everything

Destroyers carried me through brutal Salvation. Point is you need critical mass.

I thought the Reaver would at least see the Destroyer as a friend in A tier, but unfortunately like the other SC1 unit that returned in Legacy of the Void, they tend to get outclassed by other units

After all unit tires I belive they made units having sc1 map design in mind with all the clifs and islands on the map that you usually need to take ... I would love a sc2 remake on the campaigns...

HT does restore shields in campaign, pretty sure. And the reaver's scarab is a projectile, so it doesn't have to path properly.

It always astounds me that the immortal can't attack air units, because in their idle animation - they point their guns UPWARDSSSSSS AAAARGHHH I love the Wrath Walker - I keep it in it's own control group, and shift queue attacks onto long range air units like carriers, battlecruisers, guardians or other things that I don't want to have to walk my army towards to take care of. The final stand mission on Legacy of the Void on brutal was made much easier due to the Mothership. I love it. I choose it almost everytime. The black hole ability just trivializes pushing into some scary positions, like during the mission where you have to destroy Amon's body. I think you did the Destroyer a little dirty, because you can win the game with a Void Ray ball because it's just that - it's a Void Ray ball; you're massing them. It takes 70+ chain attacks to kill a Zergling....if you were targeting like an Ultralisk and only chaining to the Zergling with a single void ray, but that's not what's happening. You have like 30-45 (or more if you sacrifice your probes) - so even with maximum armor upgrades, the minimum damage is ½ a point - 45x½ is still 22.5 - so once they are all attacking and chaining, it's constant splash damage that will kill any weaker units behind your primary target pretty rapidly.

All Mirage as anti air is kind of interesting in that the enemy will usually try to "burst" down the first thing most of their units can fire at in range as the groups naturally meet, leading to the Mirage soaking a lot of shots for the one tic of damage it takes. They then rotate to the next Mirage and repeat and with enough Mirages they can end up cycling back to earlier ones within those 5 seconds easily, meaning a Mirage will only die as fast as the one hit it takes every few seconds. On average, given random AI shooting and all and assuming no micro, micro will extend it. This ended up with something silly like 5 Mirages could tank an enemy air attack wave for 30+ seconds before losses. Tried it out for my first crack at "no unit losses" in Templar's Charge and it seemed OK to hold enemy attack waves while the Carriers painfully slowly swept the map. Then I didn't get the 10th anni achievement, read up about how buggy it is with the Spear of Adun, got Void Rays first and did it with them and not using anything from the Spear just to be thorough and not even risky Interceptor deaths, though I read they don't count. But after one 30+ minute save-scum slog... Doesn't really raise them out of C tier but given how damage and army engagements work in Starcraft it is a surprisingly resilient passive.

I start to understand why I had problems completing LotV on Easy. I was using only C and D units because they look cool ! And never tried to learn spear of adun abilities.

Now I kinda wanna see a unit tierlist for WoL real scale