Overseer Spawn Changeling

How to scout your opponent without fear of losing your units - or them finding out. The Changeling is a new unit in StarCraft 2 that gives Zerg players an interesting ability to scout the enemies base potentially undetected.

Difficulty Rank:

4/5



 

When to Use:

 

Featured Units:

When you want to see what your opponent has and an Overseer is near their base.   Overseer is used for this strategies
     

[What to do]

Spawn a Changeling outside of your opponents sight range and move them in next to the opponents Army. You can then slowly move it around inside the opponents base while hopefully being unnoticed.
 

[Tips for Pulling This Off]

Spawn the Changeling outside of your opponents sight range and move the Changeling in next to their Base defense army first. After that you can move the Changeling into the base to scout more but will likely be noticed shortly.
 
     

Good vs. These Races / Strategies:

 

Bad vs. These Races / Strategies:

This is good if your opponent has things happening all over the map and will not notice a Spawn Changeling. Also, your Overseer may not be using a lot of his energy so it's not a big waste either.   This isn't that great if your opponent has a good handle on his defense and a lot of Map Control. Your Spawn Changeling won't really be able to get you any vision.
     

What to do in Success:

 

What to do in Failure:

Scout as much of the opponents base and army as possible.   Try it again later, or just return your Overseer to your base to regenerate energy.
     

Abilities


  • [Detector]

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

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

Starcraft 2 Zerg Strategy