Banshee

The Banshee is a new Terran unit in StarCraft 2. The Banshee is an air-to-ground supremacy unit and is very effective at base harassment or if used for army suport. Additionally, the Banshee has the ability to cloak, giving it extra leeway if you are attacking your opponent and they have anti-air but no detectors. The Banshee is not very durable, however, so be cautious when using this expensive and devastating unit. Check out the strategies and videos on the right for more tips on how to effectively use the Banshee. The Banshee is a Tactical Strike Aircraft and has a unit type of Light - Mechanical.

[The Good]		[The Bad]
Strengths		Weaknesses
Air to Ground, Early Harass, Army Support, Lack of Detectors, Ground to Ground Units		Air to Air, Large AA units/groups, Magic Casters
Good vs		Bad vs
Marauders, Helions, Tanks, Zealots, Sentrie, Stalkers, Roaches and Zerglings, Workers		Air to Air Units, Thors, Hydralisk
Hard Counters		Hard Countered
Terran: Marauders, Tanks Protoss: Zealots Zerg: Roaches, Zerglings		Terran: Thor, Viking Protoss: Pheonix Zerg: Mutalisk

[Cost]

Minerals

Vespene

Supply

Build Time

Sight

150

100

[The Basic]

Health/Shield

Armor

Energy

Movement

140

200

2.75

[Ground Attack: ]

Damage

Speed

Range

Ground DPS

Attack Info

2x12 (+1) vs Normal

1.25

19.2 vs Normal

[No Air Attack]

Abilities

[Cloak] Hotkey: (C)
	Cloaks the Ghost, preventing enemy units from seeing or attack it. A cloaked unit will only be revealed by detector units or effects. Drains .9energy per second
Type:	Command
Requires:	Ghost Academy

[Cloaking Field] Hotkey: (C)
	Enable Banshees to use the Cloak ability. Cloaking renders the Banshee invisible to enemies unless the unit is revealed by detector units or effects.
Type:	Command
Requires:	Starport, Tech Lab
Minerals:	200
Vespene:	200
Duration:	110