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Bearing little resemblance to the docile Brontoliths from which they were evolved, Ultralisks are the most powerful of the Zerg ground forces. They serve as the backbone of the Swarm’s armies and are as dangerous as any armored vehicle. These massive monstrosities are used as living battering rams against their enemies. Their large bone-like scythes allow them to tear through most known substances with ease. The Ultralisk’s genetic material has been subjected to countless tests and experiments, and only the final viable code is used by Zerg Larvae to morph into new Ultralisks.
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General Strategy
- Superior ground-attacking melee unit.
- Can deliver ’area of effect’ ground attacks against multiple targets. Extremely potent against basic combat units (Zealots, Marines, Zerglings).
- High armor and hit points.
- Can increase armor with Chitinous Plating upgrade.
- Can burrow with Burrow upgrade.
- Massive units such as the Ultralisk has have the ability to break Force Fields. Combo this ability with units that are normally weak vs. Force Fields such as Zerglings.
- Utralisks are immune to stuns and mind control.
Tech Lab Upgrade
- Burrow: Allows the unit to take cover underground, rendering it unable to attack. A burrowed unit is invisible unless revealed by detectors or effects.
- Chitinous Plating: +2 bonus to ultralisk's armor.
Countermeasures
VS Terran
- Anti-ground air units like Banshees and Battlecruisers can do immense damage to Ultralisks while completely avoiding their attacks.
- Spreading out ground infantry units can help minimize damage from Ultralisks’ “cleave” attacks
- Anti-armored ground units like Marauders can also crack through Ultralisks’ reinforced carapaces as long as they can keep the Ultralisk at range by kiting it with Stimpack’s movement speed increase.
- Thor’s 250mm Strike Cannons ability can kill an Ultralisk in one shot.
- Siege tanks Tanks can focus down Ultralisks while also doing damage to other Zerg units nearby.
VS Zerg
- Air-to-ground units, like Mutalisks and Brood Lords, can damage Ultralisks without risking any retribution.
- Hydralisks can attack Ultralisks at range while spreading out to avoid the “cleave” attack.
VS Protoss
- Stalkers and Immortals are effective counters against Ultralisks. They deal extensive damage, and benefit from exceptional mobility (in the Stalkers’ case) or armor (in the Immortals’ case).
- As mentioned above, spreading out ground infantry units can help minimize damage from Ultralisks’ “cleave” attacks.
- Flying units, such as Void Rays, Carriers and even Motherships, can perform extremely effectively against Ultralisks, who won’t be able to reach them and will suffer from their attacks.
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Well, offcourse this is in a way right, they cant fight back. But I just used a flock of muta's against some ultra's (mine upgrade once, his upgrade 3 times + extra 2) and my second and thirth attack didnt do any damage. I had to shoot 100 times with 1 muta to kill one ultra. Thats insane =P
Offcourse I should have upgraded more, but the argument stays that the armor of the ultra is insane against muta's.
Speaking about Ultralisks, which usually will take even longer to tech to, then sometimes its hard to understand if you win or lose when making them instead of Zerg's regular army. I have even seen Ultralisks used in gosugames a few times, but it usually ends up that the Zerg just stops producing then as they accomplish nothing really more then Zerg's normal army. Indeed, these units might be usefull in some situations but that is not enough what you invest and sometimes risk by teching to Hive, building Ultralisk Caven and spending gas.
I hope that this unit will be improved with some buffs in HotS.
I mean how the Toss and Ters dont see a big hole in the ground???
I wish they attacked faster too, but only hit 1 unit. dealing more damage too! I only use them to deal with heavy units, and shields, so having this will take up an un-used role of anti-heavy zerg unit.
but it is the best unit for ZvZ (provided you can actually get to it. ZvZ tend to be fast XD)