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Originally Posted by Inso0
I lost another game to literally 8 Phoenix and force fields. It was pretty hilarious, and the opponent and I both laughed at my complete and utter impotence at dealing with it.
Yeah, LotV has expanded the wide world of Protoss bull**** and it can be hard to deal with at times, especially if you can't get good scouting off. I lost a game like this recently, forget if it was phoenix or oracles that they built a ton of. Artosis said in GSL recently that there was a week or two where Korean Protosses would just build a million oracles and then go kill Zerg.
One of the things I struggle most against is this sort of Protoss build:
1. Make a bunch of adepts to drone harass (you can make this cost ineffective for them but it's impossible to stop them from getting several drones if they put the investment into this)
2. Behind this, go into stargate + 3rd base; it's really hard to counterattack because you need hydras to counter the stargate and step 1 means you need to spend time droning up before going into hydras
3. Follow up with whatever endgame you want (sometimes robo + robo bay for colossi or disruptors, sometimes templar archives for archons/storm, sometimes more stargates for skytoss) - if they get to this stage it can be pretty hard to kill them
I find the skytoss variation is the hardest to deal with, because it's impossible to counterattack their third when they invest into cannons and turtling up for the long carrier buildup.