How to counter scorpions?

[Caecilius]

Absurd aoe, absurd range, great dps, great hp, this unit always recoups its cost, and 100% counter wheels and hammers making them unplayable

[HolgFromHell]

use multiple waves of chaff to distract it, e.g. some crawlers at the frontline, some near your towers and some at the very end of your board
then the Scorpion will never shot at your damage dealers and they can kill it
you can also go air to be safe

[Caecilius]

Replayed the last game, added an extra wave of crawlers and it worked, thanks

[Dominic]

little tip to add on, you can put crawlers behind bigger units to split them up a bit so less potentially die in big aoe. for example if you put crawlers horizontally behind a tower or saber it will generally split into 2 groups as they go around the tower/saber

[Arti_Sel]

Originally posted by Caecilius:

Replayed the last game, added an extra wave of crawlers and it worked, thanks

Pretty cool hu? A single group of crawlers really can make all the difference.

[Etho]

Originally posted by Caecilius:

Absurd aoe, absurd range, great dps, great hp, this unit always recoups its cost, and 100% counter wheels and hammers making them unplayable

The best counters are chaff (especially loose crawlers and shielded fangs), and high damage air, like phoenixes and overlords.

Fortresses at the same level also usually win against scorpions, especially on aggro. Sabertooth has similar damage and HP for a lower cost, so you can win by numbers, as long as win the chaff wars.

Scorpions are much stronger if they have space to do their damage, due to their superior range. So they are stronger against standard than against aggro.

[Pimpin Pippin]

Scorpions heavily rely on upgrades to do anything worthwhile.

So any Emp, especially long range EMP like stormcallers/snipers/phoenix, completely sabotages the scorpions - and then the short range scorpions walk to their doom.

[83athom]

Sabertooth counters it directly, especially if you give it Double Shot. Also anything air, most popular of which being the Phoenix.