Overseer Contaminate Ability
How to stop your opponents buildings from producing units - and save the day. The Contaminate ability is new in StarCraft 2 and can disrupt a building from producing units or defending from attackers.

Difficulty Rank:

4/5


 

When to Use:

  

Featured Units:
Use on enemy buildings to stop them from producing units.   Overseer is used for this strategies
     

[What to do]
Cast Contaminate on an enemy structure.
 

[Tips for Pulling This Off]
- Quickly cast it and get out so your Overseer does not die.- Focus on high tech buildings to get the best bang for your buck.
 
     

Good vs. These Races / Strategies:

  

Bad vs. These Races / Strategies:
This is good when you are attacking to stop any counters or if you just want to harass and slow down your enemies production.   This is not useful if their base is well defended.
     

What to do in Success:

  

What to do in Failure:
Retreat your Overseer and push in with your army.   Escape with your overseer while you still can.
     

Abilities

  • [Detector]
    Detector is an ability of overseer-contaminate-ability This unit can detect cloaked, burrowed, or hallucinated units.
    Type: Passive
       

  • [Spawn Changeling]

    Hotkey: (C)
    Spawn Changeling is an ability of overseer-contaminate-ability Spawns a Changeling. A small fast unit that can take the form of the enemy.
    Type: Command
    Duration: Duration: cost of the research ability150
       

  • [Contaminate]

    Hotkey: (C)
    Contaminate is an ability of overseer-contaminate-ability Targets a single enemy structure which cannot train units or research upgrades for 30 seconds.
    Type: Command
    Duration: Duration: cost of the research ability30
       

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