Replays that show good unit synergy

The game isn't really about synergy for the most part.

I mean, there is some, but it's only a small factor when it comes to unit comp. Most of the focus is on what the game-state is, and what your opponent's composition is.

If you like synergy, then shieldbot fac is the right choice for you, but rogue/dirtbag probably won't cut it. Rogue is more about countering specific opposition than synergising (two+ units with output greater than the sum of parts) with the rest of your units. Dirtbag is somewhat synergistic in that it can facilitate the use of other units, but it's pretty fiddly and without crisp decision-making and control you're going to waste more metal than you gain the vast majority of the time.

Synergy is kind of a red herring. It won't have you win the game that much, and if it does then whatever comp you're using will be nerfed (unlikely to happen though). Compositions in ZK are meant to be dynamic, meaning no matter how synergistic two units are there is a counter that an opponent can exploit.

I think many larger teamgames involve synergy between Swift, Shockley, and Silencer.

Maybe we're thinking about it differently, because I think for the most part our appraisal of compositions etc. overlaps.

When I think synergy I'm thinking of increasing the value of units through combining them, without reference to opponents units. For example, thug/law is synergistic because you combine them and their combat strength is multiplied. When units address each others weakness, that's good composition, but I don't think of it as synergy. Maybe I'm silly.

Synergy does have importance - this helps cover one unit's weaknesses whilst getting defended themselves.
Something like Skirmishers + Riots.
or assaults + raiders.
Artillery + Raiders...

But almost always it's more on the tactics; are you going to attack head-on? perhaps funnel the opposition into a trap? Wage an attrition war? Fight small skirmishes?
What strategy will you use? Will you be shock and awe, obliterate them before they have a chance to attacl, or will you be a siegemaster, slowly pummeling their defenses?


It's better to go into tactics/strategy than to go to synergy units, mostly because as Bass said, it's on the gamestate and opposition composition of units. This is because tactics go into every factory - synergy does not, most tactics you learn can be put onto another factory - certainly not the exact same, the execution will have to be pulled off differently, but the spirit of it is the same

"Most tactics" can go into another factory e.g;
Raiders work well for cloak/LV
Skirm spam works for Amph/Hover

Funneling works for HT.

Getting enemy units stuck in a tight place e.g mountain and then rushing with riots

Rogues have been buffed significantly since I last saw you play.

People seem mixed in their evaluation of them now. I think they're pretty good.