Starcraft 2 - How to use Hallucination effectively - Tips & Tricks

[aBrandNewSkyy]

@starcraftboy69 i look at guitar videos because i have a real hobby. i make dubstep cause i like to DJ.

you pay out people on starcraft videos cause your a goat.

you look at porn because you struggle to get a girlfriend.

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[aBrandNewSkyy]

@starcraftboy69 hahaha he looks at porn on youtube! HAHAHA

Get a girlfriend you lonely fuuck, or get off starcraft because you're an absolute goat.

nice vid tyler.

[Tyler73123]

@starcraftboy69 You realise you have "69" in your name, you're 17 years old, and all your comments are hate comments. It also appears like you watch porn on youtube. Let's go, Tyler.2615

[Karthig1987]

how does hallucinate work anyway?you click on the ability or press the hotkey and a list of units appears?

[NeoddSC]

Liked it right away. This upgrade doesn't get enough appreciation.

[Whothehellisme]

Why dont you see pros using hallucination high templars in PvT?

[bravesirrobin99]

@Whothehellisme

Because in lategame, terran always scans before moving in to snipe any templar in sight. Ofcourse the scan will also reveal any fake templars.

[SC2News]

If I send hallucinated probes to a mineral patch, do they mine hallucinated minerals?

[Jag0n03]

Another tip: Hallucinated Immortals have Hardened Shields as well but they take 20 damage instead of the usual 10 from hardened shields. This is useful when breaking tank lines when you don't have enough Immortals to soak damage.

[Hershka1212]

haha neat vid xD i've always thought it would be good to set your self up in a strong defensive position and hallucinate probes and just run them into the enemy base, throw a "oh goddammit" in all chat prompting them to attack or think they are significantly farther ahead then they really are

would only work in the lower leagues but it would be funny :P

[88naka]

This is actually very low level. You waste energy on hallu when you could spam FF and shield.

[Jstocky14Productions]

how many force fields did you use in that game because hallucination cost much energy you can do 1 of 2 things 1. build more sentries = weaker army and less gas or 2. not use force fields = weaker army so as you can see hallucination does 2 things 1. weakens your army and 2. tricks BAD players once. THIS ONLY WORKS VS BAD PLAYERS why do you think you dont see pros using this all the time

[andord123]

Hallucinated Warpprism is good if you opponent scouts it.

The hallucinated transfer isn't great because If the zerg player is any good, finding a hidden expo is really easy considering they have tons of cheap units to scout. Midgame many good zergs spread overlords to all bases so they can tell when Protoss is trying to take a hidden expo.

[hit9uget9]

@starcraftboy69 This comment coming from some asshole w/ 'boy' and '69' in his name. How is middle school treating you?

[isthisnecessary11]

KYLE, IT'S A RETARD MAGNET

[1point61803]

Because I'm lazy, can hallucinated units such as collossi walk over forcefields?

[koihoshi]

this is some brilliant strategy. i agree. it is not often used enough. great play to psych out your opponent. thanks for the great video.

[cubeface21]

That hallucinating probes idea is actually very good. Nice video.

[TTneko1]

This is retarded, zerg can just make an overseer for like 50/50 and then you have 0 forcefields and a bunch of clusterfucked units. Maybe this might work in your bronze league

[GigazVidz]

@TTneko1 I think your in over your head, got promoted to silver and think your the best. This would work simply cause theres too much and not everyone will havea n over seer, and if you have that many collossuss you can put them over your units and they cant be targeted and colosusss get prioritized.

[cole4797]

@TTneko1 Your right, partially, with the probe and warp prism examples chances of the zerg spotting that with a prism is pretty slim

With the collossi example yes they would be spotted.

[AteronsStarcraft]

You forgot to mention the real use of hallucination that is making players leave MLG bracket games by hallucinating a bunch of void rays

[Malusifer]

Really like to probe transfer you could do some mean stuff with that

[fishbone937]

dat macro sucks

[funlovin1155]

Once you start to macro better you will have far fewer sentrys than this. You will need your gas for non gateway units and will not have more than 6 of them. 2 guardian shields and as many force fields as you can get are better than hoping they have no detection. Good idea with the probes though for some early mid game play where you are confident the zerg is not going to attack for awhile and you want to either force units or get them to double expand.

[firei11]

Another trick : Hallucinations trigger PDDs even when detected. Hallucinated Phoenixes can burn through PDD energy ridiculously fast even if the ravens show they are hallucinations!

[deadlizard64]

@firei11 thats evil ....

[XerxesStudios]

Great ideas.

[0spinnaker]

actually learn to macro first?

[Tyler73123]

@0spinnaker It was a game vs. my friend so that I could get everything done in one game. I'm top masters ladder.

[tydvirtaal]

@Tyler73123 LOLPWNED

[0spinnaker]

@Tyler73123: So you should have no problem to find examples from real games by browsing some of your replays. Sorry, but demonstration videos are just not doing it for me. I can make a demonstration video showing that it's perfectly viable to attack him with probes only, doing wonders with it n' stuff, because it's arranged. It's always fun and great in theory, but i'm only interested how it translates into appliance.

[cubeface21]

@0spinnaker It's called a demonstration video.

[theeviljesii]

this guy is from canada

[paulowarren31]

that wasnt helpful. Protoss is an easy race everyone knows that. And what the fuck are you saying in this video.

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[Kanidan93]

very clever uses. good video

[ticktox]

not the real tyler

[meta30403]

Nice, simple and informative.

[mikecmtong]

is it really smart to hallucinate that many collosi? i feel like hallucinating 3-4 collosi and then using the rest for forcefields / guardian shield is a much better option.

[Tyler73123]

@mikecmtong Yes, hallucinations should be used with guardian shield and forcefields for a much better result.

[Jstocky14Productions]

@Tyler73123 are you aware of how much gas that would cost to make enough sentries to use guardian shield and force fields

[garythecoconut]

brilliant

[bumdiggity]

nice vid yo

[BlackPlane]

But what if you need energy for forcefieldsß

[Kvothe98]

Subbed. Also loved the casting tutorial. Keep up the good work. Front page of r/starcraft. Impressed.

[makulatolkien]

hallucinating probes! brilliant!

[Bobby69Brown]

people should be aware tho, that if your opponent has detection his units automatically stop attacking your hallucinated units

[ddrirc]

halluc collo when you have zero real collo is what I would consider a BAD idea. A couple guardian shields and maybe some zealots would be much better. The halluc collo will just stay in the back and not soak up any damage for your real army.

[thecandide]

cool tips

[Blargh21212]

also in the early game you can trick your opponent to gg by the looks of an overwhelming army.

My tip probably only works on lower ranked players.

[minored360]

@Blargh21212  or with Idra

[1337Kupo]

I enjoyed. Thanks.

[SOADOGSOWNZ1]

Also you can reveal some tech units like Void Rays or Collosus and then pull them back and have them respond to the bad information. I agree hallicuination is under used and it will be exciting to see it utilized by pros in the future.

[AllHDGaming]

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