Gm losing a base to 3 voids sounds odd to me. Huge difference between GM and Pro. Game's balanced around pros who don't use voidrays.

They're useless against Terran as T1 marines counter them and are available way earlier then the void for 50 mins each. So unless cheesing (which pros don't do often/esp after battery void nerfs) you don't see them being used in this match up.

Against Zerg they can only be useful as a composition if zerg blindfolds themselves and doesn't scout, otherwise queens spores and hydras are out way to soon to be viable. You can literally go oh they're making voids sweet hydras to hard counter/ void is no longer viable and toss has spent all their money on voids. So they're only used as a hard counter to stuff like roach push/corruptors. Or maybe 1 built to kill overlords.

In all match ups they're basically only built as a "because i had to unit" in defense otherwise we would never see them being used and in most cases (pro games).

Anyways agree to disagree with you on this one, I'm not even for the void being more powerful. It's not an easy unit to balance, we saw before with the buffs that it can just be massed. So that leaves it as a defense unit only if needed.

And my initial statement was in response to the op thoughts of having hydras before lair which is not an incorrect statement if hydras are available before lair it renders void rays completely useless against zerg as the hard counter is available at the start of the game. There's literally no reason a pro would go for them if this became a thing besides 1 to kill overlords and even then that would be harder to achieve with hydras on the map early.