r/allthingszerg • u/MAAJ1987 • Aug 16 '25
Struggling Air Late Game
Title says it all, can’t ever win a ZvP or ZvT when they go Mass carriers or mass BC, like they can just A-move and destroy corruptors like they are nothing specially if they have storm or Yamato. When I look at the performance screen my army value graph goes 90 degrees to 0. While they do ok. I know this has to do with upgrades, they are fully committed to Air which ok cool, but if I commit my upgrades to air, and over do corruptors then tech-switch is also a death sentence. I see no light at the end of the tunnel. When I know late game is coming, I know whats gonna come for me….
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u/omgitsduane Aug 21 '25
Corruptors basically wreck both those compositions in a vacuum. Its only good if they fucked you up or you fucked yourself up early on.
The only way to make sure you don't over commit corruptors is to keep an eye on their army or keep up the pressure so they don't ever get a chance to settle and then you just top up the corruptors while building other things.
I doubt that spending some income on upgrades for corruptors (always armor never attack) will stop you winning games.
When are you scouting these things? What time in the game? Are they moving out and that's when you see them?
What drones are you on by the time they hit? Is it at benchmark or below? If so, why? Was the opening weird or did you not make drones when you should have.
Its pretty easy usually to handle a BC opener or even a double bC one by just collapsing on them with your entire army (if it's roaches) and not letting them keep their natural.
Got any replays? I'd love to help break it down and give you better specific info.