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Originally Posted by Inso0
This is the default behavior of any unit that is idle and begins taking damage. It will always move away from the source of the damage. You likely make use of this in every ZvZ matchup when you're killing idle Overlords early on with your queens, or at least you should. If you move "outside" the OL and attack, it will automatically wander closer to your base and to its inevitable death. If you attack from "inside" your creep then the OL moves outward and might escape once your queen runs out of creep to walk on and the enemy makes it to a break in the landscape.
I know (mutas attacking ground-to-ground units is another example), but generally you don't see it in actual fights because 99% of units you'd ever see in this situation can fight back against damage and thus will try to do so as a default, not spread nicely for you.
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Originally Posted by Inso0
Not exactly.
If you stop command right before the bomb goes off on a clumped group, this happens. If you stop command afterward, you lose all your ravens.
Tested this in the unit tester, I intentionally clumped a group of ravens, bombed them, continued to spam-clump and then as soon as I pressed "S", insta-spread. On top of this it takes multiple parasitic bombs to kill a raven and I think they don't stack anymore.
I played a game against mass raven the other day and it wrecked me - this person just made tons of planetaries all over the map, tons of extra CCs (because they have a million minerals), and it felt like there was nothing I could do because any army engagement ends in me getting wiped out. I got too deep into hydras as my main attempt at countering it, so I think next time I hit this I might try infestor/viper (downside: that comp can't kill autoturrets), and as a last resort I think trying to keep a corruptor clump decently spread (think Thor-ish magic boxing) to make their AA missiles detonate against the raven clump might be a good tactic - but after that I'm out of ideas, no idea how to beat it. I had like 10 mutas in the early game to try to snipe workers/expansions and he was like LOL and wiped the whole group out with 3-4 missiles.
Last edited by goofyballer; 05-07-2018 at 11:00 PM.