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STARCRAFT II GAME UNITS CORRUPTOR

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UNITS

CORRUPTOR
Protoss and Terran forces alike
deeply fear Corruptors.
Fortunately these giant brain-like
creatures, with their snapping
beaks and dangling tentacles, are
usually found near only the most
advanced Hive clusters. The
Corruptor is a genetic marvel that
can cover targets in acid, causing
them to take additional damage from attacks.

UNIT STATISTICS

3D MODEL BASIC INFORMATION PRODUCTION COMBAT

Race: Zerg Producer: Larva Upgrades:

Life: 200 Hotkey: C
Armor: 2 (+5) Requires: Spire
Movement: Fast Cost: 150 100 Weapon:
Attributes: Armored - Biological Supply: 2
Build time: 40 Ability:

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GENERAL STRATEGY

Anti-air flying unit.

STRONG AGAINST
Can evolve into a Brood Lord to assault ground forces.
Can make enemy units take extra damage with its Corruption ability.

Battlecruiser Mutalisk Phoenix

WEAK AGAINST

Viking Hydralisk Void Ray

COUNTERMEASURES

VS Terran

Anti-air ground units (like Marines and Thors) can ignore Corruptor attacks
while blasting them from below.

Vikings can deal substantial damage to the armored Corrupters, and can
also outmaneuver and outrange them. Also, Vikings can transform into

ground units to avoid the air-only attacks of Corrupters if they are

outnumbered.

VS Zerg

Hydralisks provide an excellent counter to Corruptors.

Uprooting and grouping Spore Crawler buildings together can provide an

extremely effective defense against Corruptors.
Use Fungal Growth to hold them in place while your Hydralisks or Spore

Crawlers kill them

VS Protoss

Stalkers are excellent in battle against Corruptors – they can’t be hit by

Corruptor attacks and deliver damage quickly thanks to their bonus damage
against armored targets.

Targeted Void Ray attacks can decimate Corruptors, particularly with a

grouping of multiple Void Rays.

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TERRAN PROTOSS ZERG

Larva Drone Overlord Zergling Queen Hydralisk Baneling Overseer

Roach Infestor Mutalisk Corruptor Nydus Worm Ultralisk Brood Lord

Comments (153)

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ThePreator 19 hours, 4 minutes ago

the only way i like them is when they are mutating into a Broodlord other wise i'd Just use mutalisks

Ironspider 3 days, 22 hours ago

Chicks dig squids.

JetfirePrime 2/14/11 11:03 PM

The Devourer can totally beat all light and all massive air units including small wraiths, small mutalisks, small corsairs and all kinds of air

units due to their acid can reveal the cloaked wraiths if the devourers acid can splash them otherwise if its acid does not detect those

wraiths then the wraiths will kill the devourer before a detector comes by.

Cavyking 2/14/11 3:17 AM

the BW verison was better...

TheSys 1/21/11 5:02 AM

Corruptors supposedly have a range of 6 however, I notice that when I attack target a the colossus of a Protoss army they fly well over

the stalkers to hit the colossus. Clearly not at a range of 6. (same range as stalkers and pre-upgraded colossus)

YakZSmelk 1/22/11 3:42 AM

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@TheSys: I had this same problem the other night. The Corrupter flew over the entire army (meaning I lost all but 2) and

then they attacked.

JetfirePrime 2/11/11 10:47 PM

@YakZSmelk: If these things are faster than vikings then the Vikings are doomed due to they get outnumbered and worst

gets corrupted.

River 2/13/11 3:58 AM

@JetfirePrime: Yeah but Vikings do bonus damage to them. :C

JetfirePrime 2/13/11 6:03 PM

@River: Yes but in case Corruptors can be spawned into huge numbers more faster than a huge viking squadron then I hope

the Ravens PDD can save those planes from the Corruptor. Also the Reason why that Battlecruisers are weak against

Corruptor is the Corruptor does bonus damage to only the flying massive objects and the BCs laser against air is 6 while its

laser on ground is 8. Still marines and Thors are the safest way of dealing with these flying freaks.

Ironspider 2/16/11 7:00 PM

@JetfirePrime: More Faster? Nice grammer.

JetfirePrime 2/19/11 8:07 AM

@Ironspider: Anyway the PDDs can be useful to protect our flying fleet of victory otherwise you can enjoy corruptors

corrupting everything that flies in the skies including all light and armored units but the Devourer is still better due to its

acid can review cloaked units and splash. Devourers can kill Capital ships just as fast as Vikings and Void rays can do due

to their acid effects.

Morpheus 1/17/11 11:31 PM

Oh,I COULD go into how wrong you are but i find it easier to humor people like you below than explain stuff. :D

Crimson 1/16/11 9:39 AM

this unit is !%!%ing useless.

Slawter 1 day, 16 hours ago

@Crimson: Well it depends on how you use it, if you use it to kill units like Pheonix, Vikings, Colossus and Battlecruisers,

this unit is amazing and will thin out their army with ease. if you use it to stop MMM, your a @#%#ing idiot and your post

is moronic

Slayalisk 1/9/11 5:30 PM

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In my last 4v4 game I massed corruptors and destroyed the other teams airforce single- handedly. Then I morphed all of them into brood

lords and ROFLstomped the enemy.

bubble 1/27/11 5:29 AM

@Slayalisk: Congrats sir. Hope you had fun

bartender 1/4/11 12:41 AM

these never work for me.. i just see them as a step to brood lords

Jin 1/17/11 3:58 AM

@bartender: You crazy, LOVE these, even though they weak against void rays, I combo them with mutalisk and corrupt

which makes mutalisk to wipe em clean. Extremely effective in 3v3s =D

niko 1/2/11 3:12 PM

if these things formed a government, there would be mass corruption XD

Kerplode 1/7/11 1:21 AM

@niko: A master of wordplay here.

Bloodchillz 2/6/11 6:52 AM

@niko: Ahahaha

Clavius 1/2/11 2:24 AM

rigged

Artanis 12/13/10 3:42 AM

i hate these stinkin things

HELLsMESENGR 12/11/10 8:21 PM

these troops just suck period. voidrays, vikings, and phoenixes can blow these things from thin air. the only thing they can kill effectively

are capital ships, and you don't see those around alot.

Scythe 12/15/10 12:10 AM

@HELLsMESENGR: they destroy collossi, u see those often

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Slayalisk 1/9/11 5:32 PM

@HELLsMESENGR: Corruptors counter voidrays quite easily if you use the corruption ability.

Jin 1/17/11 3:59 AM

@HELLsMESENGR: especially when corruptors are combo with mutalisk.

legoo 12/3/10 4:01 AM

How dous this thing even fly?

ManWitTheHex 12/23/10 4:19 AM

@legoo: Look at the art under the mouth. Those look like weird vents that would keep it afloat.

Ainokea 12/28/10 5:16 AM

@legoo: Helium, perhaps?

Neon 11/30/10 10:02 PM

Which creature was mutated to form the corruptor.. ? it doesn't say

Bocray 11/28/10 10:20 PM

hhh

I held off like ten of these with a battle cruiser being repaired by around 20 scvs

Leader 11/20/10 5:52 PM

corrupter is the only unit that's from the brood war expansion pack in starcraft 2

Doncroft 11/21/10 5:32 PM

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@Leader: You're getting it confused with the Devourer.

KaNE 12/4/10 1:20 AM

@Doncroft: Yeah the Devourer was better in my opinion. It is similar to the curruptor but the Devourer's acid attack was

passive.

DarthVader 11/17/10 12:58 AM

almost like a viking can switch from aa to ag

Subspacer 1/20/11 5:16 AM

@DarthVader: but then it cant change back

Aradrad 11/16/10 7:12 PM

Nice, but way too expensive to produce as needed. If I make any, I usually need to make Brood Lords so I can take out turrets.

ghoul 11/16/10 6:48 PM

uggh they dont have loto air units it be more fun if there was more plus they should of let mutas keep an evolution upgrade maybe into

some new unit.

Skywing 11/15/10 11:01 PM

If your gonna use these, use them against BCs or Carriers. If yoou just want some out then make 3 into broodlords :P

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