Void rays are made to be countered, heck, any StarCraft 2 unit is, there is not one strategy that I have came across in my years of playing StarCraft that can not be countered, and the void ray is not an exception. So let's begin shall we?

As you probably already know, v-rays are rather expensive and can be hard to get a hold of, they cost the combine amount of 5 marines, and 2 stalkers, which are two very useful units and numbers.

So Rays can definitely be used to turn the tide on your opponent, you have to know exactly what you are doing with a v-ray in order to succeed. Rays do most of their damage on stationary targets. So a group of Rays focusing on a command center, hatchery, etc, can pretty much end you.

That's because their beam increases strength gradually when it is on the same target uninterrupted. One thing that you want to do is to make sure you are never a stationary target (other that structures of course, this can rarely be prevented).

So here's a counter mini-guide for all three races!

Zerg Counter
This is first because zergs have the hardest time against v-rays. If you find your opponent is creating tons of void rays, you want to create a lot of corruptors, use corruption, and provide anti air support, try to build 2 mutalisks for every one void ray!

Terran Counter
Marines are pretty good against the protoss type ships, void rays never really get the chance to charge up much because marines die quite easily against them, so they have to keep recharging and focusing their beam, you also want to use stim packs as well!

Another thing that you can do, especially if your opponent is kiting, is to use a Viking, You can kite pretty well (hit and run) against void rays because Vikings actually have more range and shoots missles, not a charged beam; if you micro well enough you can actually destroy void rays with Vikings without a single scratch on your Viking!

Protoss
This is pretty easy, all you have to do is to build about 2 stalkers per void ray (which is surprisingly easy to do. And after you build this you want to use blink ability so you can kite. You want to blink under them, fire on them. Just try to master the "shift blink" technique, and you'll be unstoppable.

Expert Terran, Zerg, Protoss build orders. Knowing each of these three races and their individual units including the unit's strengths, weaknesses, countering & detailed strategy for every single unit vs. every other unit is imperative to master StarCraft 2 Online.
 
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