Where does they come from ? Xenomorphs: H.R. Gigers Art Tyranids: Inspired by Xenomorphs Zerg: Legally distinct Tyranids.

Xenomorphs: Planetary threat, Zerg galactic sector threat, Tyranid: Galactic threat

When Xenomorphs are considered "weak" by comparison, you have a SERIOUS problem on your hands.

You made a mistake when it comes to face huggers. There are multiple theory's on whats going on but the most common canonical answer among the different media is that cell clusters from the face hugger are deposited that force the host body to construct the xenomorph within their own body. Which is why you get Xenos that appear and act differently depending on the host body and DNA which is used to create and gestate the alien. see the Predalien and Alien T-Rex among others.

Xenomorphs: Classic. Zerg: Used to be metal until SCII utterly ruined them. Tyranids: Peak space bugs of death. Reason they don't get more wins is because GW doesn't allow them.

Rule of thumb, 40k wins.

The Brutalisks and Omegalisks would be the largest Ground Creatures for the Zerg.

Tyranids also have the Norn Queen and there have been 3 hive fleets attacking from 3 different sectors of the galaxy now

I've already seen the whole debate of who would win between the Zerg and the Tyranids with another video back then. Personally as a fan of both, played Starcraft 1 and its expansions, starcraft 2 and its expansions, Dawn of War 1 to 3, read some books with tyranids on them, and came to a conclusion that before a full time battle can even take place between the Zerg and the nids. The Zerg would have lost all of its leadership (i.e. the Brood Mothers) due to the Shadow of the warp. What's the Shadow of the warp you say? And why can It beat the Zerg even though it only affects the warp as its name implies? Well to put it simply, the Shadow of the Warp is a psychic connection between the hive and its thousands if not millions of tyranids connected together, or simply put the entire will of the hive manifested so strong that it blocks the psychic connection of any warp touched beings to the warp. So strong that any psyker that dares to even try to use their psychic abilities would have their minds fried due to the millions of chattering of the hive that their brain overloads. Since the Zerg uses psychic connection between the Brood mothers to control that specific swarm on a specific planet/system would mean that before a hive fleet could even reach them for a full on batlle, the Zerg would have lost already due the reach of their psychic will. But lets say that the "Shadow in the warp" doesn't affect them. That a full on battle ensues? Its a battle of attrition that the zerg cannot win. The Zerg uses minerals and biomass to biofrom its units (ie Larva>bioform). The Nids only uses biomass to biofrom their units. But how can the zerg lose a war of attrition? Simple, the Nids recycle everything, every biomass that dies on the field whether they be nids or zerg, would be recycled to create more new bioforms by the oh so small but numerous on the thousands things called Rippers who'd gorge themselves on any biomass that they can eat and throw themselves on any reclamation pools once their full . Don't forget that in the process of having a planetary battle that the nids are also eating the biomass of the planet to create more bioforms first to crush the resistance. How about adaptability? The Zerg would win on this with their Proactive adaptability, adapting their already present units and new bioforms on the go, while the Nids are reactive on the adaptability. Or so you would think, The Nids have what we call the Lictors. An independent creature that scouts and gathers all the information that the hive fleet needs. The state of the planet, its nature, terrain, the planetary resistance, and would even go as far as gathering info by ambushing and analyzing its prey. So in turn if, and thats a big IF, that the lictors survives and were to assimilate back to the hive fleet, all the info would have given the hive a proactive adaptability. Overall the Zerg has a small chance of winning against the Nids. (edit: spelling)

Tyranids is what happens if Zerg wins. Xenomorph is what happens when a weak strain of zerglings accidentally got lost.

The Xenomorphs don't stand a chance in a three way battle. Out of the other two species god help the rest of the universe as whatever ends up leaving the battlefield will be a combination of the best traits of both the Tyranids and Zerg. Which I don't believe anything would be prepared for.

The (a) Gravemind out here like: "Am I a joke to you?"

Trick question: they're all the same. Tyranids were inspired by the xenomorphs and zerg were a replacement for tyranids, since GW wouldn't give the developers their IP (which was probably among the dumbest decisions of GW).

Zerg has more individuality than Tyranid and Tyranid strategies may change but it only have one mind. Zerg's comanders are unique while extremely loyal to their superiors

It's really not fair to compare these 3 races even though they seem similar at a glance. We are talking 3 different magnitudes of power here. Aliens are the weakest by far in that they lack any real common connection and cannot reproduce on their own. They are a containable problem with a minor threat level on the galactic scale. Zerg come in at at least a magnitude above Aliens. They can evolve and create more of themselves and have an overriding will to work together. They have numbers and time on their side and can move through space very well. Their main weakness comes from their strength, because they are connected psychically, they are also weak to psychic interference and attacks or even machines that can re-produce similar waves. Without a leader, the average Zerg is a mindless animal incapable of action other than instinctual self defence. They are also susceptible to a number of poisons and biological agents. All in all the Zerg are a significant threat on the galactic scale, but still a manageable one. Tyranids are a whole level of magnitude above the Zerg. They can do everything the Zerg can do only better, except for space travel. Tyranids evolve faster and more completely, they can work under a single will or on their own. They have numbers far exceeding any other on this list and create more in faster and more efficient ways. They have their own psychic abilities and a massively powerful psychic hivemind leader. Once Tyranid spores have landed on a world that world is lost, no if's, and's or but's. They are the only species on this list that does that, they are closer to the Flood from Halo than the others here. The Tyranids are a deadly threat on the galactic scale that no one has an answer for at this time. If the Zerg and Aliens met then the Zerg would just end up adding the Aliens strengths to their own, except that I don't think that the Aliens have anything that the Zerg do not already do better. If the Tyranids met the Zerg, they would add the Zerg space travel ability to their own and become an even worse threat. In every other way the Tryanids are already stronger than the Zerg and would just use them for biomass to fuel their own spawning.

Zerg are easily my favorite by far. The greater individuality of the swarm leaders makes them much more interesting story telling potential wise than the tyranids to me. It gives you a lot more options to work woth

An old GW lore blurb, now likely forgotten, said the the Swarmlord destroyed the Khala Empire. It was a reference to the Protoss. It implied that maybe the Zerg became the Tyranids, or at least the Swarmlord. The original xenomorphs look the coolest out of the three. At least the old guys win in the style awards.

I think the Zerg would infact have the better evolution factor. What you described for them is infact correct, how ever they play by the Tyranid rule set as well. Most zerg forms were not desinged by the zerg. But were creatures that the hivemind saw some use for and thus were consumed changed and released in their new forms to fight for the swarm. The zerg evolve trough mutation and assimilation to predict problems rather then just countering them though they are experts at that as well.

Kerrigan taking control of the Tyranids wouldn't be possible but that would be coooool.

The tyranid swarm is the size of a galaxy, fight demonic gods and their hordes, superhumans, ancient undead robots, space elves, space orks, space dwarves and anime robots with grey aliens piloting them all at the same time... End of debate.

I’d say it’s between Tyranid’s and Zerg. Tyranid’s strategies and Zerg strategies are similar in many ways. Also both are ran by powerful beings. I don’t mean Kerrigan, given she became a god at the end of 2, just like Amon. Since she was literally integral to make sure all life don’t get extinct. But the thing is their strategies tend to work better on more sophisticated civilizations, where swarming and battle through attrition is more favorable to them. But if it was a battle between the two, it literally be a battle of adapting and evolving, to the edge over the other. The question is, can Amon take control of the Tyranid hive mind? Or even worse use the Hivemind as his vessel, which Kerrigan was going to be originally. Especially if the Tyranid take in Zerg traits. Which Amon has psionic potential and intelligence of undefinable scale, like the rest of his race. Also he has matter manipulation and can be only killed by his own species. Especially on his home turf.

With tyranids you really have to consider we never really even made it into their territory. This is just what they're sending out to us.

(this is translated by google, I won't be able to catch all the errors) so many people say that tryanids can easily defeat zerg and I'm not surprised, but it's not that simple. first of all, no one knows if the tyranids came from more than 1 galaxy or if they just surrounded the galaxy on purpose to perform their favorite encirclement tactic, even if it took them thousands of years it wouldn't matter to the swarm. Tyranids wouldn't send everything to the zerg at once either. This race seeks to obtain as much biomass as possible at the lowest possible cost, and the only thing mindless about this swarm is that they are attracted to the psionic lamp at the center of the empire. So let's start: The Tyranids encounter a swarm of zerg and then this happens: A: the Tyranids are carefully sending out a huge wave to clear the planet and obtain zerg biomaterial and biological upgrades B: the Tyranids send a large fleet, but many zerg managed to hide kilometers, if not hundreds of kilometers below the surface, or escape, along with information about what the Tyranids are and with their upgrades already obtained C: the tyranid fleet sent to the swarm turned out to be smaller than the swarm (maybe most of the army was underground and the tyranids misjudged the attack), maybe the fleet suffered serious damage from the scurge in orbit, or maybe the swarm decided that even the loss of the fleet would bring them a profit, after all, they are connected and they will get their upgrades even if the entire swarm dies during the fight. And why would tyranids be interested in zerg? but not enough to send everything. Well, it's a bio race whose upgrades would be much easier to implement than the genetic cybernetic upgrades of the super marine, and yet the tyranids use the upgrades of the super marines to some extent, so the zerg are like a buffet, but sometimes there are large pieces of glass in the food, so you watch what you eat carefully . Similarly, the Tyranids would not send everything they have to a potentially difficult opponent, they would first send a fleet of scouts. while zerg, zergo is an infectious race. while tyranids almost always process biomatter and only copy parts of their victims' genes, the zerg infect and enhance their victims and then create copies of them with the zerg consciousness already embedded and without unnecessary additions. if the zerg were able to escape or win then they would gain massive amounts of upgrades themselves, simply by infecting even tyranid corpses and bringing them back to life. if the hive mind was clothed in some specific way that made it aware that its units were not dying but being captured, it would allow the tyranid to take some actions, but if the tyranids were not aware of it or it was just a fleeting thought in the hive mind, then zergo they would have already been in a winning position. Tyranids go from A to Z, they don't miss opportunities, and so when the Tyranid fleet was flying from planet to planet, the Zerg could skip almost all of them and stop at K, infect the globe and hide the infection by having no buildings on the surface and only muted animals. The Tyranids are arriving and their forces are landing. Zerg infected animals begin to attack, the Tyranids send support, suddenly zerg appear from underground hives through the Nydus network around the battlefield and the Tyranid army is eaten piece by piece as a swarm of mutalisks, scourges and other zerg flying units fly out from some nearby asteorid. (yes, the Multalis prefer atmospheric flight, but it is not necessary for them) the Tyranid swarm collapses. another trap causes another Tyranid fleet to escape, abandoning the ground forces, another one falls into an ambush when a leviathan specializing in flying units emerges from the gas giant in the xxx system and the units already produced after weeks of waiting and the entire Tyranid dies before it lands. once the zerg reach swarm level in a given location, it's over. almost the entire fight against the zerg is a fight against their tactics of stealth taking over targets and setting traps. Tyranid swarms either began to play very carefully with random paths and starved themselves for decades, or the zergos quickly eliminated or incorporated the remnants into the zerg swarm. and by the way, the tyrannids would destroy the galaxy because the zerg are a sectoral threat only because it is not profitable for them to expand further. kergian literally for years only strengthened the swarm on already captured worlds because taking over new ones made no sense at that time. however, the requirement to fight something so powerful would quickly push the swarm to gain more power, until everyone around them is weaker, the zerg are passive and slowly develop, but if the zerg consider your race to be more advanced in terms of strength, they will begin to massively destroy all other civilizations around just to be stronger than you and your worlds will slowly start to disappear as chica infections take over everything. and the simplest zerg unit, zergling... zergli could have a matter-annihilating field around them and it wouldn't change anything in their lore. they are super fast and maybe you can easily kill them from a distance, but if the zergling comes at close range, you simply die, there is no other option. but it's not like the tyranids wouldn't have a chance if they didn't annihilate every zerg planet they came into contact with. if the tyranid attack allowed the zerg to retreat but the tyranids won the battle, they could change their tactics knowing that weaker units would be easily captured by the zerg, so the tyranid swarm would only send heavy units and telepathic units acting as a hive mind amplifier by prevent them from taking control and may even disrupt the zerg's control. Zergs also have more physical improvements, you won't eliminate zerglings or hydralisks without completely destroying the swarm, but if there is a good unit that is not popular in the swarm and is simply not useful in 99% of attacks on weaker targets, you can physically destroy most of such units and the places where they are produced, and since a zerg swarm does not store every bit of information about itself in its mind, the swarm may lose access to transforming such units, maybe even permanently if you properly clean the surviving specimens. Tyranids could therefore target planets with mutalisks to reduce the number of their mutations and evolutions, etc. however, I think that after the zerg and tyranids act, the tyrannids might not have condemned Siena to extinction, but they would certainly have created a powerful enemy for themselves. and if someone is wondering why in Wings of Libery the zerg suddenly started to develop quickly, between sc1 and sc2 kerign received messages from amon who tried to convince her to join him but since he no longer had control, kerign started developing the swarm to match the stronger enemy even if she knew she would lose. In those days, kerigan was 100% zerg, and the swarm would also be confused after kerigan gave it to the zagar. it grows slowly and carefully when no one can threaten you and quickly and extremely when someone is stronger than you.

The Zerg are the best Zerg

I am commenting before even starting to watch the video while the youtube forces an advert on me which I don't care about. I always had this comparison in mind. thanks for the video.

Name a planet the tyranids have consumed that is actually important to the warhammer setting. They are drumbed up as a threat, yet carry no weight in the setting beyond faceless goons. I love their design and lore, just wish their promise of a threat was delivered on.

One point that's overlooked, Starcraft takes place in the year 2259, Warhammer is 40k. The zerg could easily be the ancestors of the tyranids.

Xenomorphs: Take a third party (hosts) in order to procreate, and take too long to grow Zerg: Run by a hive mind, can consume enemies to adapt units for various upgrades Tyranids: Do similar to the Zerg, but also use both their own dead and the enemy's to procreate, so the longer you fight them, the more of them and more adapted they will be. No possible way for Xenomorphs to even compare. Zerg can do it on a micro scale, maybe be able to stand up to the 'nids for a while, but on the macro scrale, 'nids would have the Zerg fleet surrounded and consumed before any ground battle was complete.

What I find interesting about involving the xenomorphs in this discussion is that despite them probably being the weakest, if you set them loose against the zerg or nids, they'd just need a small foothold and then they'd effortlessly wipe out entire fleets.They're like the perfect hardcounter to the other two.

Zergs... their evolution rate and capacity to absord other sentinent live into the swarm and their numbers makes them the best of them all.

Xenomorph is the OG. You wouldn’t have Tyranids or Zerg if not for the Xenomorphs.

Zerg are biological life form capable of interstellar travels, telepathically communication, spinning DNA strands without any tools; and they have the numbers, there is no contest.

While I am a huge fan to all 3 of these xeno species, the reigning king by no long shot is the Tyrannids. With soo many variations, forms and unknown secrets still left behind with a longer timespan caparative to the other 2, the only close match second is Zergs followed lastly by Xenomorphs.

Haven't watched yet, but I'm gonna predict one thing. To cite an old movie, whoever wins, we lose. To varying degrees, they all adapt traits of their host species/gathered dna. The potential of that when you're consuming others with the same capability is terrifying.

In my opinion, the biggest weakness of the Tyranids agains Zerg is their relatively slow space travel. This means the Zerg can concentrate disproportionate numbers of forces on one Tyranid hive ship. While this attack must be led by something like a Cerebrate or Kerrigan because "psychic stuff", victory against one of these will pretty much give the Zerg all they need to continue to defeat Tyranid Hive ships with relative impunity.

I have a soft spot for the Zerg

Xenomorph is like a special forces unit. You send it when you need a ship, or a city, or a planet gone. Zerg is for when when you need a planetary system deleted. Tyranids is for when you need a galaxy deleted.

This is one of those match ups where the WH40K group gets to just say "our's are bigger and better bacause there is no lore backing up any limitations". Zerg number in the tens of trillions of individual bugs, are guided by a humanish hive mind, has independant special bugs, and can intentionally adapt to new threats almost instantaniously. Tyranids we intentionally do not know the relative scale of the population of the bugs, the relative inteligence of the hive mind is unknown, there are few known independant special bugs, and the rate that they adapt to new condidtions is unknown. I don't think any individual planet could survive a Xenomorph infestation in any setting, but can see how a coordinated effort by an organized government/hivemind could isolate the infection and snuff it out.

Everyone seems to forget that we have no idea what the actual tyranids are, we have seen literally nothing but "scouting" tendrils

Awaken my child and know the glory that is your birth right. Know that I am the Overmind, the Eternal Will of the Swarm and that you have been created to serve me.

Tyranids have the largest numbers, but the Zerg are by far the most adaptable and most powerful individually. Let's not even talk about The Queen of Blades as a Xel'naga which was a High Universal if not a Low Multiversal entity, capable to stomp everything in the 40k verse (outside of the Warp which is a separate thing entirely).

Tyranids are by far the more significant threat to all other life.

I see no one even talk about Zerg virus. Zerg is more like Tyranid combine with the Flood from Halo

Zerg had the overmind as its first leader

I'd rather a theory video about them all being the same species and how to make that work in the lore or a speculation video about if they infected each other over yet another video pitting fandoms against one another.

Zerg are based on Tyranids which are based on Arachnids from starship troopers which are based on xenonorphs which are based on space vampires which are based on people misunderstanding dead bodies. Humans win!

The WhiteSpikes from Tomorrow War were pretty freaking cool tbh

I think the Vajra of Macross frontier is the deadliest swarm monster considering they can adapt to almost any weapon and armor their enemy uses against them

Can you imagine a Zerg or Tyranid fleet just descending onto earth out of nowhere The utter terror. But America might turn out ok against such an invasion given the firearm per capita

The only difference between the Tyranids and the Zerg are the Tyranids have been around longer, but I believe the Zerg are smarter and as such, pose a much larger threat

Tyranid's purely on their numbers and being able to travel in space. Xenomorphs are terrible because they can't exceed their numbers past the population they are attacking. I know nothing about Zergs only that they are tiny numbers compared to Tyranid's.

Xeno - Rock and Roll. Zerg - Punk. Tyranid - Metal.

Tyranids are on another level

I think the point is Moot because they pretty much linear progression of one race to the other Aliens came first, Aleins influenced Games Workshop to make the concept of the original Tyranids, Games Workshop was originally tied with Blizzard to make a warhammer 40k game but that contract fell through and the concept was used to make the Zerg in essence they are all the same thing just different interpretations. From an evolutionary standpoint they could all be the same race at different points of existence with Xenomorphs being the earliest and most primitive with an almost eusocial insect structure with one real isolationist hierarchy and mophology and population limited to hosts of the planet. Next is the Zerg which becomes more advanced in social structure and cooperation between different groups and reproduction becoming more self reliant as long as there is more biomass and more diversity with genes pulled from conquered races. Finally culminating in Tyranids which while individual between hive fleets is all united under a single goal and is conscientiously adapting not entirely reliant on genes from conquered species but actually rewriting their genetic code to adapt to their situation and again is self replicating as long as it has food. If these factions were to come into conflict the logical conclusion is that each species pliable DNA would intermingle with each other just resulting in one hybridized species that would remove the weaknesses present from the others

All have interesting aspects. I think arachnids in starship troopers book was the best depiction of a hive mind species. The flood, and symbiotes, like venom will always have a special place in my heart. Being my first hive mind villains seen on screen. If anyone have an suggestions for books, shows, games or movies with hive minds.

Tyranids are far larger than the other groups in number for that reason they win.

The Xenomorphs would be completely obliterated by either of the other two. They don't have the numbers, the space fleets, the reproduction rate or the advanced ranged weapon biomorphs. Literally would be a brief snack. Between the Zerg and the Tyranids...it's interesting. The Tyranids have the initial numbers, but the Zerg are far more coordinated and can evolve far more quickly. If the Starcraft galaxy was invaded by the Tyranids and the Zerg immediately started using careful guerilla-warfare tactics, using hit-and-fade attacks and focusing on absorbing, learning and adapting all of the critical Tyranid biomorph tech, it probably wouldn't take them very long to develop ground and space units even more dangerous than the Tyranid ones and they'd definitely learn of, and take advantage of, the Tyranid's extreme dependence on its Synapse Node control units. And the Zerg could definitely use biomass as well to replenish their forces...it would be an interesting theoretical matchup.

Zerg, xeno, Tyranid. Just need a big boot for squashing big bugs

Zerg would win simply because they can consume biomass itself and make mutations on the fly. They also have the psionic factor, the only thing holding the zerg back in their lore is plot lol.

hello NutBug another eggcellent video

Ultralisk starts at 6m, saying it is about the same as hierophant (~14m) is weird, even in cinematic it is close but still smaller (less than 4 story building). And if comparing the big ones, it requires Omegalisk (over double Ultralisk so let's say 30m) vs Norn-Queen (100-500m)

At 5:07, did you get a text? :D

One critique, the zerg swarm was made from the zerg by Amon who also made the Protoss, he then used the protoss and zerg to make the hybrids for the hybrids weren't a natural creature

Should have added the flood. They're definitely a similar vein.

I am not familiar with the Tyranids, But the Zerg can capture and add powerful skillsets to their ranks. Kerrigan/Queen of blades were one of the strongest (if not THE strongest) Terran Ghost in history and the Zerg made Her power their own. And certain Zerg units are invulnerable to many forms of attack, and have a weakness (Dark Templar energy/Xel'Naga energy), that is very hard to learn and use effectively. Zerg Cerebrates, the Overmind and the Queen of Blades were nigh unkillable, and even if they were damaged, they were healing super fast, and could resurrect/reform if not killed off for good. In short: The Zerg army has invulnerability on their side as well as only growing more stronger, as they discover new traits which will be added to their ranks/skillset. If the Tyranids doesn't have a way to defeat invulnerability/nigh-unstoppable resurrection and defending against the ever growing power of the Zerg arsenal, then I'd say the Zerg is the winner in the end. Did Tyranids destroy any planets entirely? If not, then there could always be a few Zerg remaining burrowing deep and waiting to lash out. That's why the Protoss used to laser-cook a planet until 0% life remained on it, and even they couldn't be sure that they have got all Zerg...

Xenomorphs are so special. Zerg and nids have nothing on them.

Tyranids>Zergs (depend if something like Kerigan is alive)>Xeno (can't replicate without host, they are like genestealers).

you forgot the Slivers XD they are also a great Swarm from the many MTG Universes

You should add Terminids into the video!

Any fight between Zergs and Nids would be a huge fucking L for the rest of the universe, no matter who comes on top.

To be fair, there is most likely enough tyranids that we dont have words or numbers to express it, we would need to invent new words just to be able to communicate the sheer insanity of their force. The only thing that can possibly stand against is another insanity, like Flood or Orkz (because I refuse to believe that fully united WAAAAAGH! can lose, even if it makes no sense, or, especially since it makes no sense, because WAAAGH!).

Not included: The Flood, which would sweep them all away with ease

Oh my goodness the comment section is painful to read XD. The Zerg genuinely do not stand a chance. The Zerg have a physical control point for theirs in the form of Kerrigan. Kerrigan dies or is incapacitaded, the Zerg get completely shut down, which I do believe has happened in game (not 100% on this since i only played SC1). Zerg will not work without command units, literally depending entirely on them for even remotely standing a chance at doing anything efficiently. The Tyranids hive mine however cannot actually be harmed, as it isnt an actual entity, but rather it is a literal hive mind, made from the individual consciousness of every single tyranid bioform merged into one, its presence directed through the presence of synapse creatures. You kill of incapacitate a synapse creature, the other one that was on the other side of the battle field just takes over that section. Kill every synapse creature, the nids revert to pre programed instinct, of which varies between bioform. Gaunts for example, follow 3 base functions when outside of the hivemind, hide and reproduce if outnumbered, collect biomass, kill that direction because its not made of tyranid. Despite the incredible lack of coordination, this still leaves tyranids perfectly capable of consuming a planet without any form of leadership present. And don't even get me started on the space travel thing. Zerg are fast over short distances because they actually need to be based on a planet. Nids are ridiculously fast over long distances but slower across short spans because a: its more efficient in regards to the biomass gained from not appearing directly over a planet and obliterating it from the gravitational shockwave of their ftl travel methods (Google tyranid narvhal, its a bit to long for a yt comment), and b: they don't need a planetary base. They can very much afford to be slow, because again, it uses less biomass / fuel, and they don't need to focus on getting to the next planet before defenses can be prepared, as they can either out gun it easily, seed the planet with spores small enough to bypass defenses, employ genestealer cults etc. In basically all aspects, the Tyranids are winning. If your still salty about this, just approach it logically and read up on both factions. It becomes clear very quickly that one is better then the other / has super easy ways to counter the other.

i love these comparisons. WH40k always has the most insane batshit OP everything!

There's only one right answer in this comment thread. And that is the fact that there's an old lore piece about the Swarmlord destroying the Zerg and the entire setting, and they end up being consumed by the Tyranids.

Zerg also have endless adaptation basically they are in a constance state of evolution purity of essence and they have infinite lifespan

I would say Xenomorphs are the scariest in person/individually. Tyranid the least (tho things like bio titans are obviously super dangerous, but if you compare stuff of similar sizes). And Zerg inbetween. But when it comes to as a whole, it's the complete opposite (besides Zerg still being in the middle). As a species Tyranid is the most dangerous, with Xenomorphs being the least.

Tyranid motives: OM NOM NOM

First of all ultralisk isn't the biggest zerf unit, brutalisk is and zerg are not primordial zerg which where designed to be the litteral definition of evolution on the spot , they got tainted + reengeenired by amon to be more controllable and virulante . I do believe that putting primals vs nids would be in great advantage for the primals

Try to do a video about the three magic the gathering swarms and how they compare to the xenomorphs zerg and tyrannds. The three swarms creatures are Slivers, Eldrazi, and Phyrexians

Tyranids are the most dangerous until or if we count in the flood from halo.

8:00-8:10 " they are gigantic cells that make a super 'orgasm' .... ALSO AT 8:30!!! 😂😂😂

Tyranids actually have a faulty story line. Every good virus eventually learns not to kill its host or at least not to be too good at killing its potential hosts. You can shear a sheep over and over, but you can only skin a sheep once. Tyranids COMPLETELY skin all potential for more sheep. The Tyranids actually possess at least limited intellect if not super intellect, so it can easily work out the mechanics of the advantage of farming and herding (like ANTS do) over absolute sterilization. A planet with life and a sun will keep churning out biomass in unlimited quantities forever, especially if it is managed. If biomass is what Tytanids crave, then that is the optimal path. Secondly, Tyranid mother beings are HUGE! They can use any star to create their own biomass growth and eat asteroids for minerals and water. Once again, unlimited supply of biomass. A Tyranid colony could occupy an entire belt around a star creating a bio Dyson's sphere. They still have every incentive to spread (like a virus), and kill all competing life forms. They could just be way more efficient at it and less nomadic. There is no reason why the Tyranids could ever be stopped. They can evolve on the fly and should have no limit for growth either in size or number. Their only down side is their slow rate of interstellar travel. The xenomorphs and Zerg are both unnaturally engineered, so their niche in the evolution of species was determined by an intelligence making it difficult for them to change their MO or evolve in a matter of centuries. Xenomorphs are only barely thinking beings with short term planning and hibernation or genetic dormancy to get them through times when they don't know what to do with themselves (like bears). They are incapable of interplanetary travel and not a threat to any interplanetary species with nukes and a will to use them. And really, acid for blood?!?!? Think about it. So, where are the bullets made out of baking soda or lye???? Why, when containing a xenomorph, wouldn't you put it in a cell lined with lye?? PLOT HOLLLLE. Zergs have a story. They have a known history. They (whoever controls them) has a plan. They have fast interstellar travel. They have strategy and tactic backed up with overwhelming bio energy and no use for biomass of any other species except for samples. When they are not at war, they are planning and building infrastructure. They can't just whip out new bioforms on the fly, like Tyranids. They just keep manufacturing troops until they overwhelm. Once they conquer, they default to building infrastructure and occupying forces. They don't necessarily do it to survive, they do it to win.

I caught that Nautaloid you snuck in there. Maybe you should have included the Ithilid (mind flayers) from DnD.

They're all really good swarm races but I'm going to have to give it to the zerg. The xenomorphs have to use a parasitic host in order to reproduce that automatically takes them out of the running for first. If you guys have played the campaign in starcraft all the way through and you've played the sir campaign you know how the Zerg work and what I mean by that is when they consume something they take the stronger bits and then the Zerg upgrade they evolve on the spot so if the tie reads and the Zerg fight it would be an equal fight at first until the Zerg start sequencing the tyrants DNA into the Zerg DNA and then evolves to become too strong for the tie reds to fight. I have obsessed over this idea in my free time on which swarm is better versus which space marine ECT.

Xenomorphs are pretty much out of the running and would be squashed by one or both of the other factions within mere hours of coming in contact in whatever theaters they may be encountered in. The xenomorphs have never displayed any ability to travel in space and don’t have any technology nor its equivalent, both the Zerg and the tyranids do.

xeno morphs are the original alien, and were never meant to be on a planteary swarm scale. Tyranid as the most numberous and driven, and are sole the inspiration for the zerg. The zerg are cool but thanks to Kerrigan are knowable, not nearly as mysterious as the other two

as much as i love xenomorphs...tyranids will always win this

It's funny. Xenomorphs inspired the Tyranid and the Tyranid inspired the Zerg.

This is one of those uncomfortable topics: who is king of whom. Because we all know that Starcraft stol from Warhammer40K, but also an important theme is Warhammer40K thefts from HR Giger xenomorph, also from HP Lovecraft, maybe a little bit of the Thing, and a little bit of Terminator. Also from Starship Troopers. I love this stuff, but I also like to comment on the level of original ideas about it, and often times I see similarities if there are any from each other in other ideas. I know this is off topic, but I often wonder if people notice the obvious similarities. Because people know that StarCraft took Tyranids and the very idea from Warhammer40K, but no one says that Warhammer40K also took from many places. So to me Xenomorph and Starship Troopers are the root of all these Xeno-like ideas. But maybe I love Zerg Hydralisk original design from Brood War the most. And some Tyranid and Xenomorph elements here and there. But who is the strongest? Well, it's definitely Tyranids. Xenomorph Alien was not developed to be outside of movies and comics and to be in military strategy. But the Xenomorph Alien is the father and mother (the beginning) of this type of creature.

Haven’t watched yet, but I’m guessing tyranids

Where’s the Terminids? Where’s the Arachnids. I want to know more!

Now do, space marines comparison and diffrences

I absolutely despise the idea that the xenomorph from Alien is engineered.

in a single ship to single ship basis between the 3 i feel the zerg are the bigger threat cause of their viral traits that can act as spores raining down or infect water supplies turning consumers into infested. meanwhile the tyranids im pretty sure at least need to make landfall before they can be a real threat to the planet. the xenomorphs well a simple orbital defence station can probily keep them at bay if used properly.

I'd also add the bugs from starship troopers :)

Should add in the Scrin form C&C and the Bugs from Starship Troopers.

I vote that the the tyranids are a way bigger threat because they fight astartes bro, Zerg and xenomorphs would get turned into a red mist by a space marine or a dreadnought

You forgot the Brood and the Klyntar (and probably some more)

the way i see this is. it depends on which stage we are talking about. at stage 1 or when they have just begun to expand. Xenomorphs have the highest chance to survive. if left unchecked stage 2 where they have already spread a bit and have acquired numbers, zerg would have a very good chance at Surviving, if further left unchecked well then the Tyrranids win hands down. They get exponentially stronger the longer they are left alone, but they start of very week comparatively.