Mothership - Game - StarCraft II

  Log in or Create an Account ACCOUNT SUPPORT EXPLORE

Search StarCraft II

Log in with your Battle.net account to

post comments and personalize your
HOME GAME COMMUNITY MEDIA FORUMS SERVICES site content.

STARCRAFT II GAME UNITS MOTHERSHIP

Previous Protoss Unit: Carrier Next Protoss Unit: Probe

UNITS

MOTHERSHIP
During the golden age of
Protoss expansion,
Motherships led vast armadas
throughout deep space. In the
centuries since, these primary
command ships had departed
the field of battle and become
holy shrines, venerated by
mystics and historians. But the
loss of Aiur has convinced the Protoss to resurrect
their oldest and most powerful weapons. All
Motherships hold a huge khaydarin crystal infused with
enough psionic energy to distort the very fabric of time
and space. When wielding this force, these vessels
can instantly destroy squadrons of enemy ships or
even entire planets.

UNIT STATISTICS

3D MODEL BASIC INFORMATION PRODUCTION COMBAT

Race: Protoss Producer: Nexus Upgrades:

Life: 350 Hotkey: M
Shield: 350 Requires: Fleet Beacon, Mothership
Energy: 200 Cost: 400 400
Weapon:
Armor: 2 (+5) Supply: 8
Movement:Very Slow Build time: 160 Ability:
Attributes: Armored - Mechanical -

http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/game/unit/mothership[3/3/2011 10:02:52 AM]

Mothership - Game - StarCraft II

Psionic - Massive

GENERAL STRATEGY

Massive vessel that can attack air and ground targets.

You can only field one mothership at any given time. WEAK AGAINST

Projects a Cloaking Field capable of turning all nearby units and

buildings invisible.
Can open up a Vortex that swallows all air and ground units in the
target area. The affected units will be invulnerable and unable to act for Viking Corruptor Void Ray

the duration.

Its Mass Recall ability allows you bring friendly units to the Mothership’s
location, either to summon forces immediately to defend against an
enemy threat or to assault your opponent’s fortified positions.
Combine with Carriers, Phoenixes, and Void Rays to form a powerful

aerial strike force.

COUNTERMEASURES

VS Terran

Launch Vikings to neutralize it. Their long firing range will prove ideal for
this.

Use the Ghost’s EMP round to drain the Mothership’s energy and also deal
damage to its shields.

Assemble a large force of Marines, with Stimpacks and Combat Shields, and
preferably with Medivac support.

VS Zerg

Spawn Corruptors, as their powerful blasts should help in bringing it down.

Assemble a large force of Hydralisks and research the Grooved Spines
upgrade.
Swarm the Mothership with Mutalisks.

VS Protoss

http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/game/unit/mothership[3/3/2011 10:02:52 AM]

Mothership - Game - StarCraft II

Build Void Rays, as they should be able to take it out quickly. Watch for
enemy units supporting the Mothership.
Use the High Templar’s Feedback ability to drain its energy and deal

damage.
Assemble a large force of Stalkers, preferably with Blink, and make sure
you focus fire.

TERRAN PROTOSS ZERG

Probe Zealot Stalker Sentry Observer Immortal Warp Prism Colossus

Phoenix Void Ray High Templar Dark Templar Archon Carrier Mothership

Comments (534)

ADD A REPLY

Zealous 3 hours ago

I say screw the mother ship and bring back the arbiter or give it a damn collossus beam. nothing is more annoying than seeing this

massive dreadnot get takin down by a small group of marines.

TyStorm 1 day, 9 hours ago

anser my second qwestion plese

Froopermoop 2 days, 4 hours ago

Not many people care for motherships because they don't have the "flying dreadnaught" quality that the Alpha build had. Planet cracker...

ftw... on a side note, it would be hilarious if a single ht took out a mothership who wasnt paying attention by using feedback xD

Aaaah, feedback, more unused that assault mode vikings :3

TyStorm 2 days, 14 hours ago

whold they be killed intantly?

http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/game/unit/mothership[3/3/2011 10:02:52 AM]

Mothership - Game - StarCraft II

TyStorm 2 days, 14 hours ago

what happins if it vortexed groud units into a nexus,hatchery,or a comand center?

TyStorm 2 days, 14 hours ago

and an scv whold just explode if it ran into a mothership

TyStorm 2 days, 14 hours ago

motherships are so cool,why does evreybody hate them

cam 6 days, 9 hours ago

MOTHERSHIP RUSH I tried it and it works

JetfirePrime 6 days, 6 hours ago

@cam: Not me and people say they think they can do battlecruiser or carrier rush especially when there is zergling rushes.

ThePreator 2/22/11 8:18 PM

the mothership is so awesome it only Shows What It is weak aganst like Siege Tanks.

fudungi 6 days, 17 hours ago

@ThePreator: are u retarded or just trying to be funny?

ThePreator 2/21/11 8:03 PM

Motherships Should Be More Powerful And Shielded

StargazerLos 2/19/11 12:04 AM

Blizzard should allow it to use the vortex ability from anywhere in the map just like mass recall; that way you would be able to pull off

the archon toilet without danger to your mothership.

Seeing as to how vulnerable this unit is and how many disadvantages there are to it, this would be a good trade off.

After all, not all of us are kiwikakii.

Lucifer 2/20/11 1:54 PM

@StargazerLos: How about harassing witch a bunch of blink stalker and pull them out of danger with mass recall? I've seen

someone doing that and it's really effective

http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/game/unit/mothership[3/3/2011 10:02:52 AM]

Mothership - Game - StarCraft II

Nvisible 2/17/11 5:11 PM

As a protoss player i dont think the mothership is a bad idea... Mass recall will help with heavy units.... Thors Collusi, and ultralisks. If

you are not playing v protoss or v terran i dont think that mothership is a bad idea. As with the cloaking ability bronze silver and gold

zerg do not usually think of overseers.

MASTERCHIEF 2/17/11 12:53 AM

"The ultimate protoss vessel" as they call it. This thing sucks.slow.slow attack.only good for cloaking units and delaying their death.

firebat 4 days, 14 hours ago

@MASTERCHIEF: if you know half a protoss strat then it is realy good to put into any army it can turn the tide of any battle

its also good for harrasment if you time it right. P.S. the mothership is not slow it just take a bit till it gos at max speed

amd its attack isnt so slow it has 6 waves of damage per attack so its attack is strong and its not only good for cloaking

units(but that is a really strong aspect of the mothership) overall it is "the ultimate protoss vessel" if you know half a thing

about protoss.

Frezer 2/16/11 4:11 AM

I killed this with 20 marines while carriers were killing me so motherships are so bad an scv could kill it ;)

fudungi 6 days, 17 hours ago

B.S.! go try to fool someone else, unless you had the marines quad stimmed with full health and a medivac on each, its

rather impossible to kill something that does 42 damage on hit

JetfirePrime 2/15/11 9:46 PM

Okay here is one thing I have to say: WHY THERE'S NO PORTRAIT OF A MOTHERSHIP LIKE NO PORTRAIT OF AN OBSERVER?!! THE

CARRIER AND BATTLECRUISERS HAVE AN UNLOCKABLE PORTRAIT IF PLAYERS WIN 750 TIMES AS TERRAN AND THE TOSS but instead of

a mothership portrait WHY'S THERE'S A PORTRAIT OF A TOSS THAT KILLED THE FIRST OVERMIND INSTEAD OF A MOTHERSHIP ONE?!!

chickenman 2/19/11 8:33 PM

@JetfirePrime: Would you have a portrait of what looks to be a pylon or a protoss with a mystic energy surrounding him?

Precisely.

JetfirePrime 2/21/11 9:43 PM

@chickenman: Hey theres a portrait of Artanis and thats a mothership unit and besides the Brood lord, Battlecruiser, Carrier

and of course almost every unit in the game has a portrait.

darkzealot 2/14/11 4:56 AM

they need planet cracker and to make it not OP they could have it so you have to recharge to use it again and while recharging it wold

not be able to move or attack

http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/game/unit/mothership[3/3/2011 10:02:52 AM]

Mothership - Game - StarCraft II

Griffonheart 2/13/11 3:39 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFEuXYlgD1s

Watch Kiwi uses it to dominate.

Wikipii 2/8/11 11:54 PM

Meh. Too many weaknesses

CaptPikPik 2/4/11 3:10 AM

I just use it as a very expensive building. I make it sit around in the base and mass recall everyone to death. Useful for late-game FFAs I

guess.

Ranma 2/9/11 3:35 AM

@CaptPikPik: HOLY **** you can mass recall enemy units?

Willowsage 2/2/11 9:31 AM

The Mothership has it's uses, and is a Must Have for late game Protoss. Yes this unit is expensive, but that cost is an unbelievably small

investment if your able to perform the any number of maneuvers it allows you to pull off. Does the 2 other races have the ability to push

through and snipe high priority structures and then teleport to a safe location with virtually no losses and little micro... No they dont.

Does the 2 other races have the ability to lock down half your 200/200 army and destroy it with a 6 units(Archon Toilet), while all you

can do is attempt to take on their max army with your 100 supply army...No! It is true Terran have the Nuke but i mean lets get real, I

giant Red Dot and a screaming warning telling you to move your main army... Very very easy to avoid. Vortex on the other hand is an

instant removal of a mass quantity of your army that cannot be microed out of. And lastly the Mothership's idea of a hero unit, meaning

your only aloud to have 1 out at a time, is unique to this race. Yea Bliz will most likely add in a Hero unit for Zerg and Terran both in the

future, But for now this mega unit is a Protoss exclusive!

CombatWombat 2/7/11 3:56 PM

@Willowsage: I would like to refer Blizzard to this post as a reason to nerf protoss as soon as possible. Possibly change

Terran Nukes so that they're more difficult to avoid, even if just slightly. Terran's most effective strat is MMM, and that's

easily taken care of by either race. Players are constantly complaining about how Terran is OP and needs to be nerfed more.

Come on. 4 Patches later and Terran hasn't been thrown a bone, pay attention.

Slawter 2/10/11 3:24 AM

@Willowsage: I know this has nothing to do with it but... HOW DID YOU GET THE GRUNTY PORTRAIT?!?!?!

Cavyking 2/15/11 2:42 PM

@Slawter: win 100 1 vs 1

http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/game/unit/mothership[3/3/2011 10:02:52 AM]

Mothership - Game - StarCraft II

Slawter 2/21/11 2:58 AM

@Cavyking: As what race? random?

InsaneHuman 2/1/11 8:54 AM

How about a speed upgrade for it?

Dylan 2/1/11 5:53 AM

SUCH A WASTE OF MONEY! In the beta it looked like it did some damage and had some awesome abilities but not anymore.

Suspiria 2/6/11 5:39 PM

@Dylan: Have you seen all the pro-Protoss using this lately? It's definitely not a waste. This thing ends games.

Darksabre 1/30/11 9:27 PM

mothership photon cannon cheese.

Bruticus 1/30/11 3:18 AM

Is it me, or is this basically just the SC1 Arbiter, only 10 times slower, and you could build more than 1 Arbiter?

Davidlook 1/29/11 1:08 AM

Sigh... when will blizzard learn! Instead of totally nerfing a unit because they think it's OP, they should simply increase the power levels

of other units. That way, the unit not only keeps it's original awesome value, but everything else gets a little more epic, too.

bubble 1/27/11 4:41 AM

Most nerfed unit ever! If they let it have the attacks and the abilities it had in development, then it would be worth its costs. This ship

should destroy at least five workers in one or two hits! I could just picture other people going on a rant about this unit.

CombatWombat 2/7/11 4:00 PM

@bubble: Oh Gawwwwwd. 5 Workers in 2 hits? What do you think this is? An extremely expensive Siege Tank that flies and

cloaks units within a certain radius? Pffff. PFFFFT. Yeah right.

1 2 3 4 … 14 Next >

http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/game/unit/mothership[3/3/2011 10:02:52 AM]

Mothership - Game - StarCraft II

BATTLE.NET HOME GAMES ACCOUNT SUPPORT

What is Battle.net? StarCraft II Can’t log in? Support Articles

Buy Games World of Warcraft Create Account Parental Controls
E-Sports Diablo III Account Summary Protect Your Account
Account Classic Games Account Security Help! I got hacked!
Support Game Client Downloads Add a Game
Real ID Redeem Promo Codes

©2011 BLIZZARD ENTERTAINMENT, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED LEGAL PRIVACY POLICY COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT AMERICAS - ENGLISH (US)

http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/game/unit/mothership[3/3/2011 10:02:52 AM]