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Best Protoss Counter for Reapers – Shokz Starcraft 2 Strategies to Stop Terran, Anti-Reaper Units

July 21st, 2010 |

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Isn’t this annoying? When in early game, all you have are zealots then all of a sudden 5 reapers come in my back and start shooting at my probes. If you send your zealots over there, the reapers just jump off the cliff, disapear, and seconds later, they’re back in your base in some other corner harrassing the crap out of everything. Zealots are slow to catch them.

Now here are some ways to counter them :

You want to be looking at a 1-gate cybernetics build where your cybernetics core finishes around the same time as your first or second zealot allowing you to immediately get a stalker or two. Your first scout should give you a clue – if he’s going for reapers he’ll be trying to finish his first refinery at the same time as his barracks to rush them but that’s not always conclusive. Your best bet is to send a second probe about a minute after your first one is forced off by his initial marine and send it up the ramp, chances are the terran will have his units behind his wall and you will see them before your probe dies.

If you see reapers you get a couple of stalkers (by this stage you should have at least two warp gates) if you see marauders then chances are reapers won’t be coming at you. Having a couple of stalkers on your probe lines really shuts down reapers as they suck vs stalkers and have very low hp.

If you do have a bunch of zealots, then just plant them at the edge of the cliff. If the enemy player is stupid enough to jump back up in the same spot, the Zealots will be there to greet them. The enemy player won’t have vision once they jump off, and I’ve seen way too many players jump back up the same place they jumped down.

Here are other good ways for protoss counter of reapers :

Sentry’s Force field and Guardian shield – FF to prevent them from kiting, guardian shield to reduce their damage, See video guide
Phoenix – Move faster than Reapers and do bonus damage to them
Stalker – Take little damage and deal near full damage