Best Protoss Counters against Vikings – How To Counter & Defeat Viking Strategies
The viking is produced from the starport. Due to their high speed and long range vikings are effective at fighting slower enemy units like battlecruisers using hit and run tactics to avoid counterattacks. Vikings are useful for raiding worker lines due to their ability to quickly infiltrate and escape bases.
Corruptors are not meant to fight Vikings. Both units are made to fight the strong air units like the BCs and the Carrier, but one has a bonus to massive and the other to armored, and almost all (if not all) massive air units are also armored, so the Viking is strong against more air units than the Corruptor.
There is no doubt, vikings absolutely rape air units. So in terms of just air units, there is no direct Protoss counter to the Viking. Phoenixes can’t attack ground units, so the Vikings can just switch to ground mode, if they encounter them. But they can still graviton beam them i guess.
Stalkers, with fully upgraded damage, preferably can stop vikings, and blink helps too, but those vikings can fly away fairly quickly.
I am going to go best with the Void Ray, it has good range and with FLux Vanes upgrade will kill most large units quickly. Also, the Viking’s ‘massive’ attack will not kick in, even though the void ray looks like a mini star destroyer and is about the same size as the carrier..
Here are the Protoss Units Counter to Vikings :
- Stalker – Deals high damage, and can kite land mode vikings
- Void rays – High DPS to armored targets when fully charged, requires some micro though, and can be kited without speed upgrade
- Immortal – Annihilates land mode vikings
