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Funnelweb OP?

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1 @PowerGuy 1 @PowerGuy
2 Yeah that's not the norm. They are all-terrain, meaning opponents are often limited in what can even move to underneath their shield. They also have large hitpoints (not for cost), meaning killing them can't really 'just happen'. You have to catch it very out of position to cause real casualties, and anything less is the widow beating you. Bad players might send widows out on their own where they can be hit, but a very easy application for widow is parking on a cliff outside range of turrets or units, and just taking the small attrition advantage while you wait for your next funnel. 2 Yeah that's not the norm. They are all-terrain, meaning opponents are often limited in what can even move to underneath their shield. They also have large hitpoints (not for cost), meaning killing them can't really 'just happen'. You have to catch it very out of position to cause real casualties, and anything less is the widow beating you. Bad players might send widows out on their own where they can be hit, but a very easy application for widow is parking on a cliff outside range of turrets or units, and just taking the small attrition advantage while you wait for your next funnel.
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4 @Forever
5 I think the discussion is warranted. No need to shout him down. Dealing with funnels takes more experience than most people have.
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7 AA alone doesn't actually kill the funnel -> one funnel can kill infinite aa without taking any damage. Dealing with them is more complex than simple unit counters and your tone does not reflect this.
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9 If you make 900 in razors the funnel can go round. If you then make more razors at every point the funnel could possibly go you are spending a lot of money to hold something back temporarily. You then need to doubledown on those razors in order to maintain their viability or the second widow will compound the power of the first and break through. Pure widow escalation beats pure AA escalation.
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11 So the solution requires the coordination of more than one unit, which is a rare quality and far more difficult to deal with than 'make unit X'.