Help me out

[TankSpecialist]

What is a good way to counter defilers when they use darkswarm

[PowderBB3D]

Terran:
Irradiate the defiler (this will kill it, even if it burrows). Firebats can keep the units away from the tanks while tanks in siege mode do damage. Use science vessels to irradiate the bigger units, like ultralisks, so the radiation does more damage to ambient units. Plant spider mines with vultures. Pull your units out of the cloud if possible.

Zerg:
Zerg has some good melee units, namely the adrenaling and the ultralisk. You can also cast plague with your own defilers to severely damage the enemy's units under the cloud. Queens can spawn broodlings to remove defilers and large units (like ultralisks). If you have infested terrans this is the perfect time to use them (although who ever really has them?).

Protoss:
Zealots are extremely useful because of their high HP and attack value; the cloud will actually help them out because they can dominate even adrenalings and hydras can't touch them. You can also use reavers, but perhaps one of the best ways to deal with this threat is to use psionic storm (templar ability). Dark Templar are also useful if they don't have overlords nearby.

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[Kamikaze_Chicken]

the only way to counter it is to use it to your advantage... it gives the perfect cover for tanks to seige

[Sambo83]

the cloud will actually help them out because they can dominate even adrenalings
Zealots do not dominate lings with adrenal upgrade. wtf are you talking about? Zealots need their shield ups late game to hold even with crackling when fighting en masse.

the only way to counter it is to use it to your advantage... it gives the perfect cover for tanks to seige
So that the zerglign can run in and chew them up?

[PowderBB3D]

Zealots do not dominate lings with adrenal upgrade. wtf are you talking about? Zealots need their shield ups late game to hold even with crackling when fighting en masse.

Yes but if their zerglings have complete upgrades then there is no reason why your zealots won't.

There's no reason why you can't be using shield batteries either...

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[Kamikaze_Chicken]

So that the zerglign can run in and chew them up?
oh yeah that doesnt really help but i dont play against many zerg players that use defilers anyways oh well

[TF-Sasuke]

yeah 3-3 cracklings beats fully upgraded zealots real bad. what's good about the 3-3 toss grades is that archons fully upgraded kills lings in one hit.