Can someone explain the Roach to me?

[horror]

apparently roaches are massively OP when burrowed. saw some video the other day with a burrowed roach, buffed up max, being attacked by an ultra, muta and some other unit. the roach was healing as fast as the damage was being taken. ad that to the fact that they can move while digging, really cool

[Krikkitone]

Well that is the beauty of the Roach, they are a one man army... of course that also is their weakness they are only a one-man army... if you can take out one roach, you can take out all of them... the problem is having enough to take out the first roach.

[Norfindel]

I think that the Roach is possibly the ugliest designed unit of all time after the original Infestor. I completely agree about the blades looking ugly and disfunctional. I don't understand how this unit still looks like this, i thinked it was a placeholder when i first seen the model.

[Rezildur]

I think that the Roach is possibly the ugliest designed unit of all time after the original Infestor. I completely agree about the blades looking ugly and disfunctional. I don't understand how this unit still looks like this, i thinked it was a placeholder when i first seen the model.

QFT. Dysfunctional was exactly the word I was looking for to describe the design.

[don]

I like the "4 legs + 2 topmounted blades" design, i don't like the vomit attack.
They should make it spit blobs of acid instead of vomit it. Or maybe some dual water-gun action.

[Kimera757]

apparently roaches are massively OP when burrowed. saw some video the other day with a burrowed roach, buffed up max, being attacked by an ultra, muta and some other unit. the roach was healing as fast as the damage was being taken. ad that to the fact that they can move while digging, really cool

Try focus fire. Roaches don't have that many hit points. (IMO, it was better when they had even fewer hit points, though, since that made it easier to one-shot them like that.)

[Visions of Khas]

I like the "4 legs + 2 topmounted blades" design, i don't like the vomit attack.

I was never keen on their use of this design, because they're basically fat zerglings. The vomit attack isn't terribly attractive either. Not that the zerg are supposed to be attractive, but the attack method itself is uninspired.