What is the counter for posession?

[Karthal]

I just played a very long and frustrating 1v1. I was beating this guy pretty badly. I was Orc. He was undead. Then he started pumping out banshees. He used possession to turn the tide of every battle despite the fact that I had him out numbered. He eventually wore me down.

How do you counter banshees if you are Orc? What about the other races?

 

[HungLung[SC]]

use wyverns. cast purge on the banshees with your shaman and attack them then keep purging them so they cant get to you or just run-)

 

[Karthal]

I was reading up on this last night here: http://www.battle.net/war3/undead/units/banshee.shtml

There is a trick that not many people know about, which can allow you to possess air units. The Crypt Fiend's Web ability causes air units to be treated like ground units, which also means that the banshee is able to possess them while they are webbed! This works great if your opponent is massing air units, and is especially effective because it is so unexpected.

This is exactly what he was doing. So I bet he would have nailed me if I came at him with air units. This page goes on to recommend using lots of ranged attackers to take out banshees before they reach their targets.

 

[PsYcHoTiC]

Don't use taurens, that parts easy... Get mass grunts instead, and use stasis with doctors to stun the bitches so you can take em out easily. I've never really had any problems with banshees

 

[Karthal]

Yeah, I'm still just a newbie though, so I didn't understand what was happening until it was too late.

 

[Placebo]

Okay here is what I suggest. Orcs are huge (as in unit size) In order to counter banshees you need fast attackers (units with speed) so get some Head Hunters, Shamas and Docs back the up with a chieftain (warstomp/edurance aura) or Far seerer (chain and summon) That should take care of them good.

Also if they have other units besides banshees you may want to add some wryvens for back-up (mirco them behind your main force)

 

[Emperor Pan I]

The only way to block a banshee, is to use a banshee. Nothing escapes its terrible cry, but the dark magic that binds them have been cut with patch 1.04. Actualy u have it easy, before the patch banshees had no cooldown so possession was extremely fast.

Banshee isn't a good unit to mass produce and he is extremely stupid. I suggest, stay away from taurens in any game, or shamans. If he starts go for raiders and HH, ensnare as many banshees as possible before they strike, and hit em with spears. Banshee can use antimagic shield though, so i wouldn't suggest getting close with magic. just as an aside, Blood lust will do nothing but help them. You bloodlust a grunt, he turns with a possession, u now have a bloodlusted enemy, you have a master shaman, you have an enemy who bloodlusts the enemy with a possession. not good. take it from me, banshees are hard to counter, never let them build up to them or all hell will brake lose.

use wyverns. cast purge on the banshees with your shaman and attack them then keep purging them so they cant
get to you or just run-)

Just imagine someone teching to Frost wyrms or Chimeras. Just picture lossing a 450 gold Wyrm to a 180 Gold banshee. not smart.

 

[PsYcHoTiC]

The only way to block a banshee, is to use a banshee. Nothing escapes its terrible cry, but the dark magic that binds them have been cut with patch 1.04. Actualy u have it easy, before the patch banshees had no cooldown so possession was extremely fast.

lol

 

[x42bn6]

Taurens suck BAAAADDDD. Usually Chain Lightning those idiots and use Wyverns to kick their butts off. Other than that there is hardly a way to counter it.

 

[TwiSPi]

actually i was the one playing vs him.
if he hda gone wyvern i would've have crypt fiends. and possessed his wyverns
if he had gone shaman i would mass ghoul
once i mass banshee you are pwned

 

[GreenClover]

That's super Twispi, so your record is flawless because you when you mass banshee you 'pwn' everyone? k that's what I thought thanks though, you tried. As for Banshee's in RT games...people hardly ever get banshee's and I'm level 12 so it's not like I don't play 'decent' people. And polymorph is 'almost' as bad as possesion, shouldn't dryads be able to use the anti magic thing on possesion? it's still magic?? they can do it for polymorph? hello blizzard where were you on this one?

 

[flashflores2]

dont try to counter banshees with wyv's they get poss. all they need to do is get spiders and web all of um down then they can poss them.

 

[TwiSPi]

wow

i'm sooooooo impressed by your level 12 in RT hahahaha
idiot Banshee's pwn in RT
nobody goes them because they are all newblar.
btw normally i mass ghoul so stfu
greenclover = n3wb
pwned by my 1337ness

 

[Emperor Pan I]

Originally posted by GreenClover
That's super Twispi, so your record is flawless because you when you mass banshee you 'pwn' everyone? k that's what I thought thanks though, you tried. As for Banshee's in RT games...people hardly ever get banshee's and I'm level 12 so it's not like I don't play 'decent' people. And polymorph is 'almost' as bad as possesion, shouldn't dryads be able to use the anti magic thing on possesion? it's still magic?? they can do it for polymorph? hello blizzard where were you on this one?

Dryads dont use anti magic on spells that do automatic damage, like frost nova or possession because they dont have lasting effects. Abolish magic is only used for lasting spells like bloolust and slow, or summons like skeletons and water elementals.

Possession is the best magic EVER!!!