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STARCRAFT II GAME UNITS OBSERVER

BASIC INFORMATION

Race: Protoss

Life: 40

Shield: 20

Armor: 0 (+3)

Movement: Slow

PRODUCTION

Producer: Robotics Facility

Hotkey: B

Cost: 25 75

Supply: 1

Build time: 40

Upgrades:

Ability:

COMBAT

U N I T S

OBSERVERThese small drones are

employed to survey vast

wasteland areas or record

battles for the Protoss

archives. Their complex

sensor array can detect

cloaked enemies with ease,

making the Observer an

invaluable auxiliary unit on the

battlefield. However, the sensor array also depletes

the Observers overall energy, which weakens the

units defensive capabilities. To compensate for their

lack of armor power, Observers are equipped with a

micro-cloaking field to hide them from the enemy. The

drones small sensor signature allows it to maintain

this field over long periods with very little drain on its

power core.

Next Protoss Unit: ImmortalPrevious Protoss Unit: Sentry

UNIT STATISTICS

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Attributes: Light - Mechanical

Banshee Roach Dark Templar

Missile Turret Spore Crawler Photon Cannon

STRONG AGAINST

WEAK AGAINST

Light unit that provides detection.

Permanently cloaked.

Fragile; be careful of anti-air defenses that can detect them.

Extremely valuable as a scout. Use it to explore the map or track the

enemys movements.

An attentive opponent may notice the shimmering outline of your

observer, even if they are cloaked. Try not to move through heavily

monitored areas, like going through the middle of the enemys base.

GRAVITON BOOSTER: Passive increase to the Observers movement speed.

VS Terran

Build Missile Turrets around your base to detect them.

Build a Raven and some Vikings, and fly around the map to hunt down

enemy Observers.

If you see the shimmering form of the Observer, use a Ghost to fire an

EMP round at it. This will reveal it for a few seconds, giving your Ghost

enough time to kill it.

VS Zerg

Morph some Overlords into Overseers for their detection capabilities, or

GENERAL STRATEGY

UPGRADES

COUNTERMEASURES
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Comments (109)

build a few Spore Colonies around your base.

Spawn Mutalisks and team them up with an Overseer. Proceed to scour the

map in search of Observers.

Have an Infestor use Fungal Growth if you spot a shimmering outline. This

removes the cloak for a few seconds and allows your anti-air units to kill

the Observer.

VS Protoss

Place a few Photon Cannons around your base to detect them.

Use Phoenixes coupled with an Observer of your own to hunt down enemy

Observers.

Observers are extremely fragile, so units that can attack air (and can see

them) will be able to kill them quickly.

TERRAN ZERG

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PROTOSS

Probe Zealot Stalker Sentry Observer Immortal Warp Prism Colossus

Phoenix Void Ray High Templar Dark Templar Archon Carrier Mothership

2/18/11 6:54 PM

do 'toss perverts set these up in the girls restroom? I wonder...

*Starts whacking brain*

Bad Brain! Stop thinking dirty thoughts!

Ironspider

2 days, 16 hours ago

This annoying stealth robot is a reason why stalkers, phoenixes, carriers and void rays can sense my cloaked banshees and ghosts.

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12/27/10 1:26 AM

ITS A PROBE!!!!!!!!!!!

PAINCRAFT

1/12/11 12:21 AM

Thank you, Blizzard, so much for the 25/75 badly needed Observer buff, which you still haven't updated on this page. :-D

Doncroft

1/12/11 3:50 AM

All you need to do is update the page...

Xcalibur

1/28/11 6:56 AM

@Conquerer: Could always use a changeling

Devek

1/26/11 1:34 AM

@masternoob: he means something available earlier, not something that requires two upgrades and a lair

Conquerer

1/23/11 5:45 PM

@Fergilicious: a "cloaked spy" could easily be either a burrowed infestor or roach moving through the ground into their base.

masternoob

1/18/11 10:03 PM

zerg need a cloaked spy like this

Fergilicious

1/23/11 5:44 PM

its always a cool feeling putting this in an enemy base and he doesnt even notice it until he looks very closely

masternoob

1/27/11 4:52 AM

lol they haven't updated the page yet. They cost 25 less each now like they did in the origonal but this time they don't need a tech

building which is a HUGE improvement.

bubble

2/14/11 5:00 AM

all these things need is a death laser and 100 more shields

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12/5/10 3:30 AM

WARBARBARBARBARBARBBARB

what the little guy sounds like when built

Joey

12/27/10 1:24 AM

@Campbell: because they are stupid

PAINCRAFT

12/7/10 5:05 PM

Why would that Terran player put cloaked ghosts in his own base?

Campbell

12/11/10 6:30 AM

I dearly hope the change to Observers in the PTR gets applied. Observers 25/75 would be so much more practical. Terrans have gotten

so good at sniping them, many Protoss are getting halucinated Phoenix instead. 25/75 would make them practical again, less devastating

if they get scan-sniped.

Doncroft

12/13/10 4:11 PM

dont use them as a scout,sent them with ur void rays to detect any enemy the void ray cant

Kevin

1/26/11 1:36 AM

@Espearican: No. That's op. A lot. Besides, toss already have warp prisms and motherships

Conquerer

12/13/10 10:01 PM

They should be able to teleport units to designated areas.

Espearican

2/22/11 8:05 PM

@PAINCRAFT: if it is a probe then it is a stealth detecting probe

ThePreator

1/27/11 5:05 PM

@PAINCRAFT: no, its an invisible flying video camera. the toss send footage of noobs to AFSC2V

randomperson

1/23/11 5:46 PM

@PAINCRAFT: a FLYING probe. works great for airbourne expansions

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11/14/10 9:45 PM

Why are they strong against roaches?

EnnuiKidd

11/15/10 9:46 PM

could u guys run faster?

LEE

11/24/10 2:19 PM

Yay, it got fixed/update, Spore Crawler with Spore Crawler pic. Lol fail.

ArconTe

12/7/10 5:04 PM

@legoo: It depends on your army composition because if you don't upgrade them they might lag behind then you owned by

Dark templars. Besides observers are cloaked.

Campbell

12/3/10 3:50 AM

What idiot would waste his money upgradings mobile detectors with abolutly NO other use.all the upgrade would do is make it more likely

to rush ahead and get mauled by the other guys army.

legoo

1/26/11 1:37 AM

@legoo: As in use neural parasite, or reveal them?

Conquerer

12/3/10 3:52 AM

hey i just noticed zerg infestor can infest cloaked units apperently XD

legoo

12/11/10 6:59 AM

@CLockwerk: You are not forced into a robo. You don't have to build colossus you know? Just get the robo bay and

observers, then transition into other tech with an expo.

creamwolf

12/9/10 11:51 PM

@Starviper: Also, to get this your forced into robotics play, which limits the protoss tech tree. By being forced into the same

build over and over, protoss can get somewhat dull.

CLockwerk

12/3/10 7:45 PM

Protoss Rant #4: Observers: Despite having been moved down one grueling Protoss tier, these guys are still .5-1 tier above the cloakers

of the other races. Meaning it might not make a difference if you build observers if the enemy attacks with cloakers.

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11/19/10 12:30 AM

@Chicken: Lol.. its funny because you don't know what a spore crawler looks like.

Lego

11/10/10 2:24 AM

Lol, I see a mistake. Up there it says spore crawlers and they put a picture of a spine crawler.

Chicken

11/19/10 6:51 PM

@Kelhadar: lol ty

ArconTe

11/18/10 8:31 AM

@ArconTe: i can see you are an intelligent protoss player. im still siver league. with these posts, im just examining possible

things we might see in the protoss expansion on campaign mode. this was a possible way to make the observer more

useful. templar and sentries already have alot on their plate.

Kelhadar

11/14/10 12:52 PM

@Kelhadar: that's a good idea, but it doesn't make sense, Observers are just flying cloaked drones. not wizards. I'd give

that to High Templars or Sentries.

ArconTe

11/13/10 5:30 PM

A simple way to upgrade these for the protoss expansion would be to give the observer the ability to cloak one additional unit for a short

time. Imagine a cloaked carrier flying into your base at the 7 min mark. Might be a good ability at the use of 100 energy for a max of 2

at a time, or cooldown of 40 seconds. A battle will only last for so long.

Kelhadar

12/3/10 3:51 AM

@EnnuiKidd: Because the boserver has a Big cannon hidden in tis eye that it can only use against roaches,darktemplars,

and banshes. XD

legoo

11/16/10 2:14 PM

@EnnuiKidd: One of the roaches' main strengths is their rapid regeneration while burrowed. Observers can detect the

burrowed roaches, allowing you to pick them off with other units. Same reason it's listed as strong against Banshees and

Dark Templars: it's strong versus units that rely on their cloaking.

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