Overlord Rush at 2000+ MMR

[link0]

8 out of 10 games today at ~2000 MMR has been overlord rushes with mobile beacon. Balanced or OP? Anyone high MMR have success with defending this?

[Kopernik]

i didnt meet this strat, could you tell us more about it ? (i probably will not meet this for long time im not hardcore player XD)

for strat is marksman and phoenixes with emp not working ? (give them range too)

[puschit]

This usually only means that a streamer tried something new and a bunch of copycats, well, copied it. And I am glad you posted this because, well, as long as every week another unit is called OP, the game is in a good state

[76561199533526698]

overlord is so expensive,200+400+tech cost,also you need crawler or ball to protect it, these things can easily kill by mustang or missile,also usually these player do not protect their back side so you can use phonix or crawler to attack their back

[some guy]

Overlord gotta pretty big buff with stangs being nerfed vs OL specifically. So it might be very good. But people just gravutate to the hip strat and so far nothing stuck out too hard like fang and shield, ball and crawler, rhino crawler/Phoenix ASF.

[Snuggy Serian]

Spamming suddelny overlords in longer rounds isn't that surprising, even under 1k elo (my range).
Especially in combination with the protection ability.

Talking about it, there is no real counter against that ability, is there?

[link0]

The problem is the mobile beacon's interaction with Overlords. 2000+ MMR players will attack from a different direction every turn, combined with Rhinos, and only needs a lucky tower from one direction. It makes the game just a RNG dice roll whether you guess the correct direction.

Attacking has the advantage over defense.

[SanityBasket]

Honestly I wish they would just remove mobile beacon from the game. The unit AI just isn't good enough to handle it. Heck there are vids of an unupgraded phoenix pair destroying an overlord without the overlord being able to get close to hitting them, and then sniping a tower to boot.

[Neerex]

This strat is 2 month old, shielded fangs + melting was pretty fine at countering that. It starts getting annoying with some additional flank spam but not much