Let's Learn Starcraft #7: Intro to Zerg Units 

Can we just talk about how genuinely good of an instructor Day9 is? I legit wish some actual, paid for, collegiate instructors were more like this.

The Mutalisk overlord trick made me cry literally. I have spent so much time manually clustering my mutas to get them in some sort of ball. :_: Now I just feel like an idiot.

1:48 Zerglings 5:10 Hydralisks 8:32 Mutalisks 13:46 Scourges 16:32 Guardians 19:32 Devourers 24:16 Queens 26:17 Broodlings 28:25 Ultralisks 31:52 Defilers 37:08 Lurkers 44:25 Overlords 46:08 Infested Terrans 52:02 ZvZ just a little help for those like me who like to re-watch these videos to make some notes

Day9 I discovered you watching Purge’s streams on Dota 2 and I got into sc2 a few months ago and BW very recently and I just wanted to say that you’re a fantastic teacher and you made this game very exciting for me!

I just love how one of the best parts of Zerg music starts when he starts taking bout the hydralisks

What I love most about Spawn Broodlings is the Siege Tanks wildly shooting around inside their own ranks trying to kill them, which does nothing but friendly splash damage.

I'm just sad he never showed on screen a group of cracklings(zerglings with adrenal glands) in action... It's something you have to actually witness to truly understand its power.

Honestly, an introduction by swallowing your own spit is oddly appropriate for Zerg

30:02 the experience that you're going to have -- playing brood war -- is you're going to go: oh my god-- OUR FORCES ARE UNDER ATTACK

Hey man, I think you forgot to mention that ensnare also reveals cloaked units. Not always relevant because obviously you have overlords, but they are revealed for the duration of the ensnare. Maybe they killed your nearby overlords or simply moved away from them, boom ensnare. Situational like the rest of queen's stuff. Great series, keep them coming!

11 Mutalisk + 1 Ovelord = Family

"most unfair unit that has ever been printed" Oko, the Defiler

There was a really fun Use Map Settings game called Bunker Command, you had a bunker and got better and better units the more you killed and you got points for killing units and a lot of points for killing a bunker. The ultimate cheese tactic in that map was to Defensive matrix an infested terran.

Just as a small side note, lurker attack does NOT count as melee. They just do splash damage, and every splash damage is in full effect under dark swarm, melee or range. Source: wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/Dark_Swarm

Thanks so much for doing Starcraft again. My favourite material you've ever made was from the broodwar and SC2 dailies of yore, and so far this is even better.

Caveat: At the pro level, *few* people use overlords for hold position lurkers. It's *far* more reliable to target a building in the Fog of War until they need to attack.

I'd think that parasite is useful for both subtle scouting and for having vision of enemy bases without the enemy knowing you have vision of them...and for having vision for free. Basically, while other things are going on around the map, you send a queen in to parasite a probe. You then have vision of that base, and he probably won't even notice that you spotted the base in the first place. Then you can surprise him with a drop and devastate the probe line or take out the base. Granted, it's still super-niche, but it's something. Using it on neutral critters can be useful, since the enemy is unlikely to attack them, giving you free vision of various areas of the map for the whole game. I can't help but wonder how much more interesting this game would be if custom patches were allowed. It's just such a shame that we almost never see so many of the units in this game--ghosts, queens, dark archons, scouts, infested terrans, nukes, etc. And so many other units that are cool and interesting but hardly ever seen--firebats, devourers, valkyries, wraiths, etc.

Do lurkers really do melee? I thought it was just cuz they were splash damage dealers so they still hit things under swarm?

"Hydralisk is the Dragoon of the Zerg" -- So TRUE!!!

1) iirc ensnare also removes invisibility f.e. from DT's or ghosts.. queen is thus a fast mobile detector 2) parasite is usable on critters like the birds to monitor when an expansion is being taken

a hydra has the same dps as a dragoon since hydras shoot twice as fast as a goon

In reference to your comments around 29:30. An ultralisk actually does a lot more dps than a zergling. About 50% more. DPS per resource is a different matter of course.

thank you so much for this, for someone who even has a hard time with the harder missions in campaign, this is good!

34:22 Actually units under dark swarm is not take no damage from range attack. It is just like unit on top of ramp with 100% miss chance. However the range attack that attack the unit at behind will kill the unit in font because of the ramp properties in broodwar.

Best Intro Ever!!! Thank you for your videos... I'm playing SC since 1999 and i'm still learning....

PLAAAGGUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!

49:25 map name: Holy World (there is a pro match on it, with a ZvP - Zero - Kal)

This intro had me in tears lol

I was laughing quite a bit while you were talking about the defiler.

Omg, I didn't remember how much the Defiler portrait looks like the Violator from Spawn.

is it relevant at all that ensnare and plague reveal cloaked units?

How important are basic upgrades in each match up? Like do you alway get evo chambers in PvZ and TvZ?

one thing you forgot to mention about parasites: they work on critters, and it's really hard for a player to click on a critter and notice that there is a parasite there, and it's free vision, so its actually a cool trick

Depending on which way the infestor change is going to go, sc2 will be back to zergling muta too. With banelings replacing scourges

49:30 Zero vs Kal - Map: Holy world (infested terrans in zvp)

want to add that ensnare completely negated stim aswell(both the movespeed and attackspeed) so even stimmed marines move and shoot as if they were ensnared WITHOUT stim

Im still mad you can't infest a terran command center in SC2

Maybe he talks about this in his zerg micro video, but I wish he talked more about overlord drops. When I watch pros doing a big drop they make every overlord (or shuttle/dropship) drop so fast and I don't really understand how that technique works.

I been debating trying to get back into starcraft

using the Queens Ensnare on a cloaked unit will reveal it, for the duration of the Ensnare, right ?.. maybe I'm wrong, but I just seem to remember finding out about that on accident during some zerg campaign mission

CraCklings with a few Defilers is insane

These videos are great! Thank you for your dedication and tutelage

I remember using the larva to stack up my mutas because it doesn't move. Is there a reason you don't do that?

can you do a series like this but for sc2? i just started playing. eeryone tells me zerg suck but im determined to make them work lol

what about ensnare + guardians which are slow? what about vs enemy zerg which are fast?

No mention of how the Ensnare ability reveals cloaked units, making it good at targeting Observers/DT's? I mean, sure, not the most necessary thing a lot of the time due to Overlord abundance, but it is still a thing you can use it to do!

"Are we serious with this shit?.." - Mark Twain

You should have mentioned how Ensnare completely negates the bonus RoF for stim. It's a beautiful thing

He forgot one thing about the green queen gack, it also reveals cloaked units for it's duration.

25:20 ensnare cancels stim too

I wish I could make my Zerklings unkillable... Oh wait...

“What’s the counter to ultralisks?” “Harass and kill his den 10 minutes ago before he got them???” will forever be the funniest thing

Instead of adding an overlord to the muta group why not a burrowed zergling? seems like it would be more convenient especially once you get overlord speed

Synposis: 2 out of 3 brood war units are shit. Don't build them.

Zerg are my absolutely favorite race of all time

Why everyone forget that ensnare reveal stealth units?

Should mention ensnare reveals cloaked units if they are tagged with the spell

It took until the Queen for me to realize this was SC1, not SC2.

Day9 ure vids are amazing bro XD...thx for explanations its very informational and detailed.. thx a bunch

Anyone else that things that the Defiler 3d portrait looks like the Violator from SPAWN? Or the other way around

I gotta ask, why reduce the screen size so much? It's not like you're uploading pirated TV shows, just put your face in the unit portrait or command interface like most good casters

Does ensnare and acid spore attack speed debuff stack?

thank you for making these

>redownloaded bw >Haven't played since I was 12 >Looking into tactics >See how fast everyone is with keyboard Guess I'll be stuck playing against pc forever lol

So in BW you never have a choice of composition? You just look at the match up and have a list of units you have to build?

best day9 moment ever 45:17

Me at my first appointment: 0:17

Starcraft 1: In this game its good to harass workers Also Starcraft 1: In this game one of the best ways to do damage is suicide

0:19 Real intro

anybody knows a cheat for more energy? for terran energy units?

It baffles me why people don't use queens. If you have like five queens the energy requirement for broodling isn't that bad. Ensnare also reveals cloaked and burrowed units though I did not know about the attack speed decrease. Parasite is awesome if you know how to use it. The usefulness of parasite varies from the target. You want to hit something that is gonna get a lot of use and is too important to side line. Terran is the only one that can actually get rid of a parasite. Zerg and protoss are stuck with it. Queens also have some absurd range on their abilities.

did they update AI for remastered?

Oh Lurker is maybe Torbjorn in overwatch. So similar

Where are today's shows??

is that the remaster?

Great show :D

The defiler is so good, and i thinmed he sucked cuz i didnt know what he did

Does Sean delete comments?

nice vid man!

i love how hes using examples on his units when hes literally playing against a protoss :D

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Geeeeez you forgot dark swarm infested marine

0:19, forever repeat

yay!

Whenever I start a Day9 video, I Iaugh. Don't know why.

ZVZ seems scary

Also devouerers reveal cloak.

I've never swallowed my own spit before, Mr. Day. What is it like?

woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

So many restarts and annoying audio warnings of combat... but it never occurred to him to just murder the AI's Nexus/CC, which he only did to show off Infested Terrans. ;p

im getting carpal tunnel just listening to you click

playguuu!!!

It's the internet so I just want to reiterate something important: "They come in these stuttery, sputtery chunks." - Day9

Haha the introduction

Muta + drone stuck in mineral line ez

you forgot to talk about infested terran with the queens

I don't like when lurkers, reavers, or firebats are described as dealing melee damage under dark swarm. ITS CALLED SPLASH DAMAGE DANGIT. Only melee and SPLASH damage are dealt under dark swarm. And I just tested that siege tanks do full damage under dark swarm at the explosion as well, it just lands short of their target and thus deals less damage to their primary target, but if a unit happens to be exactly under the explosion, it deals full damage.

super-white teeth my guy

Intro to zerg? Step 1 mine Step 2 make zerglings Step 3 ???? Step 4 win Literally all my games.

Man zerg make some gross noises