The video is in Bulgarian. This page sums it up in English.
A Protoss guide for StarCraft: Remastered: Pylon tricks, Cannon Rush, Dragoons vs Spider Mines, Zealot bombing, Shield Batteries, Total Recall and Reaver micro.
- A Probe only starts a building and goes straight back to mining.
- Two Dragoon shots (10 damage each) kill a Spider MineSpider MinesVulture mines that burrow and jump at enemy ground units that come close. Observers or scans reveal them..
- Pick the Reaver up into the Shuttle just before enemy shots land.
Try these in your next game
Tick a lesson once you have practised it.
How many hits?
Check the numbers from this episode, or try any pair of units. Armour comes off every hit, then the damage type scales what is left by the target's size. Shields take full damage.
Brood War base stats against one target: no splash, bounce or Chitinous Plating.
What this episode covers
- Grast opens episode 8: the history, specifics and microMicroControlling individual units in a fight: focus fire, pulling back hurt units, spreading out. of the Protoss.
- The Protoss as the firstborn of the Xel'Naga, their psionic link (the Khala) and high morale.
- The economic differences: expensive units, Pylon power, and a Probe that is free the moment a building starts.
- A 2007 clip of Reach vs iloveoov on Requiem with Zealot bombing against Siege Tanks.
- Practical tricks: the Pylon prison to trap Dragoons, a Manner PylonManner PylonA Pylon built in the opponent's mineral line to block a patch and slow their mining. to slow mining, and a Cannon Rush on Korhal in Series.
- Micro: Dragoons clearing Spider Mines, kiting SCVs with a Probe, and splash attacks against burrowed Lurkers.
- Reach's comeback against Chojja with a Dark Archon, and the Arbiter's Total RecallTotal RecallMineral-walking a Probe through the middle of a big clump of units so they bug out and stack on top of each other, letting a single Arbiter Recall teleport far more of them than it normally can. in Movie vs Sharp (2018).
- First-person footage of Bisu's Dragoon 'dance', killing Spider Mines with two shots of 10 damage each.
- Shield Batteries recharging shields in a game between Light and Tempest.
- A detailed PvPPvPProtoss versus Protoss. on Longinus between Grast and the Bulgarian player Jadaja, won with Reaver and Shuttle micro.
Test yourself
4 quick questions on this episode.
1. How many Dragoon shots kill a Spider Mine?
A mine has 20 HP and a Dragoon deals 10 to small units: exactly two shots.
2. What is special about building with a Probe?
A Probe only opens the warp-in; an SCV stays busy and a Drone is consumed.
3. Which Arbiter trick became famous in 2018?
Movie showed Total Recall against Sharp and the trick spread from there.
4. How does Grast win his PvP against Jadaja?
Precise Reaver and Shuttle control turns the game against a three-Gateway attack.
Questions this episode answers
How many Dragoon shots does it take to kill a Spider Mine?
A Spider Mine has 20 HP. A Dragoon's attack is explosive and deals half damage to small units, 10 per shot, so two Dragoon shots kill the mine before it explodes.
What is Zealot bombing in PvT?
Zealots ride in a Shuttle and are dropped right on top of Siege Tanks in Siege ModeSiege ModeSiege Tanks deploy into stationary artillery with long range and heavy splash damage, but they can't move until they unsiege.. The tanks fire at the Zealots next to them and their splash destroys their own neighbouring tanks.
How is Protoss building different from the other races?
The Probe only opens a warp-in inside Pylon power and is free at once to mine or scout. A Terran SCV stays busy for the whole construction, and a Zerg Drone turns into the building and is gone.
What is the Pylon prison trick?
Protoss builds three Pylons tight around the exit of an enemy Gateway or Cybernetics Core. A freshly made Dragoon is trapped and can't get out, leaving the attacker free to hit the economy with Probes or Zealots.
Full summary
Episode 8 is the Protoss episode. It is for beginners and intermediate players who want to understand the race's history, its economic quirks, building placement and the high-level micro Protoss uses against the other races. Grast starts with the lore of the Protoss as the firstborn race of the Xel'Naga, then their specifics: expensive, powerful units, buildings warped in within Pylon power without tying up the worker, and shields that regenerate on their own.
Through classic clips and replays he shows the race's tricks: trapping enemy units with Pylons (the 'Pylon prison') on Lost Temple, an extreme Cannon Rush walled with Pylons at WCGWCGThe World Cyber Games, the international esports championship with national qualifiers., Dragoons killing Spider Mines, Zealots dropped from a Shuttle straight onto Siege Tanks (Zealot bombing), Shield Batteries recharging shields, and the Arbiter's Total Recall, a trick that spread in 2018 after Movie used it against Sharp. In the second half Grast analyses his own close PvP on Longinus against the Bulgarian Protoss Jadaja, showing how precise Reaver and Shuttle control turns a game against a three-Gateway attack.