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One of the most difficult opponents to deal with if you are playing as a Protoss is the Terran. You will most often have to deal with Reapers eventually. You can however follow a few tips to handle this. The best method to approach this is to proxy in a one versus one game. This would involve constructing Gateways as quickly as you can at your opponent’s base. At the very beginning of the game, send a Probe outside your opponent’s base to a hidden spot. In the meantime, build a probe at your own base to harvest minerals.

Once your probe reaches the opponent’s base at the right location, build a pylon and to Gateways after that. As soon as the first Gateway is completed, send in a Zealot by Chrono Boosting. If one or two Marines attack you, you can easily dispatch them. If you opponent is constructing a tech lab, destroy it immediately as you do not want Reapers at any cost.

Keep building more Zealots as you send them inside in more numbers. This would be a good way of harassing the opponent and keeping him from building units. Even if he survives your attack, you need to ensure that you contain him effectively as you expand the map.

Another strategy is to rush Stalkers. Build one Pylon at 8/10 as well as one Gateway at 12/19. As you are building your Gateway, pump out Probes. Once you get the spare minerals, build an Assimilator. When you Gateway is done, then build a Cybernetics Core. In the meantime, build a Zealot, one more Pylon and pump out more workers. Once the Cubernetics Core is done, Chrono Boost out a Stalker. A clever opponent might send a Reaper before your Stalker. But that is not an issue as you may not lose many Probes before you get your Stalker. Then position your Stalker in the minerals operation.

Some times the opponent might react even quicker and rush the Reaper even at the cost of a few workers. But then again, it is not a huge problem as you will only lose a few Probes by the time your Stalker arrives. If the opponent had actually sacrificed building works in favor of rushing the Reaper, that would have done more damage to him than to you.

Once you have your Stalker in hand, you can start building units to counter his game plan. If he is using Mauraders, then you can counter them by using Charge Zealots / Sentries. In case he comes out with Marines, then you need to use Colossi. Siege Tanks can be effectively countered by using any one of Immortals, Void Rays, or the Phoenix. Void Rays can especially be a great asset when you are playing against Terran players.

Since the Terrans are the most difficult players to play against when you are a Protoss, you need to have a good strategy to counter the opponent’s power. Using the strategies outlined above can be an effective weapon against the Terrans in any game. 

The Protoss in the Starcraft game are futuristic aliens. Their main asset is their advanced technology and their large and powerful units which they can use to defeat the enemy. Most people like to choose the Protoss race and they are one of the most popular as they are easy to play with. However, it could be quite challenging to become a great player in Starcraft 2 using the Protoss player.

One of the main reasons for people choosing the Protoss is that the game is real fun playing with them as they are powerful enough to counter any kind of attack from the enemy. We will briefly see how it is very effective to use the Protoss unit Immortal as a good strategy to play Starcraft 2.

One of the first things you need to understand in this Starcraft 2 strategy when using the Immortals is that they have two very unique qualities. The great thing about the Immortals is that they are equipped with a special shield that protects them from attack. Using this shield, they can take a maximum damage of 10 beyond which the hits are deflected. In other words, when a single hit can cause a damage much beyond 10 in other units, the maximum damage it can inflict on the Immortals is restricted to 10 because of their special shield.

The next important quality of the Immortals is that they can inflict more damage on their enemy based on what armor the enemy has on them. When these two special qualities of the Immortals are combined, they really turn out to be a force to be reckoned with. As a result of these properties, they can be extremely effective even against large units such as the Ultralisks or the Thors. While that is a great advantage, there is a caveat here that you need to be aware of. These special properties that we saw with the Immortals however make them susceptible to much smaller units such as the Marines or the Zerglings. For instance, the Zerglings or Marines can easily chew up the Immortals which is something that you need to be careful about.

When a Terran player gathers an army full of Tanks or Thors and aims a full scale attack on you, the wisest Starcraft 2 strategy that you can adopt to counter their attack would be to use Immortals. But on the other hand, if the enemy brings smaller units such as the Marines, you need to immediately remember that the Immortals are extremely vulnerable against the Marines. Therefore you should never bring them out to fight against the Marines. Most Zerg players also never realize that Roaches can do a slow damage attack of 16 damage. Therefore the Immortals can cause more damage to them than they receive. They are also effective against the Ultralisks and Hydralisks. You however need to be careful with the Zerglings as they can take down Immortals quite easily. You can use Colossus against the rushing Zerglings instead.

So you need to always keep the Immortals in your build order. Knowing their power and how to use them is a great Starcraft 2 strategy for victory.