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@Clee: Only protoss has no counter to them (marines and hydras), but protoss can build voids of their own

@Dragonosh: Stalkers

@Dragonosh: Phoenix > Voids. All you need is some micro, hit and run (don't engage when alignment is active) + range upgrade (switch low hp phoenix to the back of the group and they'll still be within range to hit the voids) = GG voids.

@Eternity: it was obviously because you didnt have enough, did you know that 20 mutas cost the same as only 8 voids? 20 mutas killed 8 voidrays and only lost 7, its safe to say mutas >>>>> Voids

@Eternity: Indeed, mutas and, overall, any cheap anti-air unit in sufficient numbers is devastating against void rays. A Squad of let's say 40 marines (2000 minerals) with about 10 medics (1k resources min/gas) can easily wipe the 8 void rays you can purchase with 3,200 resources with focus fire, no even need to kite, attack head-on. Mutas are great against them because they're fast, cheap and since they're not armoured they don't take extra damage from prismatic alignment.

@Braunz: 20 mutas = 10 voids, 400 vs 200

@Haro: you need 2 vikings per void, which is the same supply and gas but the 2 vikings cosst 50 mins more than the 2 voids, but the thing is vikings have 9 range voids only have 6, u can kite and win, if they activate charge you can fly away because vikings move faster then go back and fight.

Void Rays > BCS.
They are countered.

@WrathofShane: Its supposed to be like that... now more than ever

@WrathofShane: Mass marines beat mass void rays

@Dragonosh: 1 min 45 in game seconds

@Dragonosh: You are my kind of player. When I play Protoss, Mass Void Ray is my favorite move. Every time I succeeded in doing it has been a battle won. Wonder if this will last come LotV...?

I once played a custom game 2v2 as Protoss. I had a Zerg ally and both of our enemies were Protoss if I remember correctly. The settings allowed 300 max supply and I think the Void Rays had been set to an extra psi requirement, but I still massed them until I reached max psi. In the late-game, I was scouting a point in the last remaining enemy's base for my Zerg ally to spawn a Nydus Worm, but things got too hairy when I got much closer (which is what I prepared for by scouting with all of my Void Rays BTW) and the enemy Protoss has a large army and due to the settings, I think he had plenty of Photon Cannons placed.

In the end, I had a much smaller group of Void Rays left when the battle was over, but I sealed my duo's victory in what was ultimately another Mass Void Ray landslide. And I am actually still a beginner at this whole game. It just goes to show that when fighting Protoss, it is best to attack quickly in case they may be massing Void Rays. I stand by what I learned from the user I know in person taught me that I mentioned some comments below: Nothing can stop a fleet of Buku Void Rays. (For any and all readers who may not be familiar with the word "buku", it means "A LOT")

@TriAQuadC: I am on a 6 game 4v4 winning streak with mass voids, and now I can add tempests to it :)
It only seems to work in ffa and 4v4 though, sometimes in 1v1 or 2v2

@TriAQuadC: the word is beaucoup, it's French

@Boris: Now you can choose when you want Prismatic Alignment to activate. It has a 60 second cool down period, though.

@XELNAGA: Well in a stats race, the void ray still wins. When their beam is fully charged up, it is a force to be reckoned with. The supposed counters at least from my personal experience are only useful en masse. Pulling something from Team Liquid's wiki on the VR <i>A critical mass of ten fully charged Void Rays has a DPS of 133.33 and 266.66, against non-armored and armored targets respectively. This can kill most buildings in a few seconds (e.g., a Hatchery in less than 5 seconds) and destroy a small base in less than 30 seconds.</i> That in and of itself is pretty frightening to think about that they can destroy a base that fast. With fully charged beams, they have a damage output on par with or greater than a siege tank in siege mode and can destroy a base faster than a mass of banelings from personal experience. I'm not good with numbers so again, if someone has something to the contrary, I'd love to see it.

Just so I could make sure that I saw both sides of the story and wasn't incredibly biased, I even used a mass void ray build and found the same thing when I used them. I beat a very hard level in 15 minutes with the ray where with zerg and terran, it always takes multiple unit compositions. I didn't bother to take on the elite because I would rather get it with my go to race and take the harder route but I dare say it is possible. If I mass anything on the other races, the overall result is laughable. Looking back at the replay, I also found that my friends macro and micro were lower than mine and they hadn't focus fired quite as well as I had. If they had, I wouldn't have won. I didn't go counting them but I want to say that i had 40 3/3 corruptors and they had 33 3/3/2 VRs so it was about even. I'm honestly not complaining about them too much because the comments about mass void rays are true. If your opponent can pull this off against you, you deserve to get squished at least on zerg from my experience. I deserved the times that I lost to them because I didn't have the right build. My complaint about them being the go to unit now for the protoss still stands.

@XELNAGA: Also, if I hadn't been covering them with corruption, it would have been a wrap.

@Vorlock: What happened to them in HotS?

@Lingua: Some kind of overcharge. I realy do not know much about it, but my best guess is that it charges the void ray's beam to full instantly. RIP everything with armor.

@EugeneTwo: Found it: "Prismatic Alignment" increases damage towards armored units by 6, lasts for 20 seconds, and has a 1 minute cooldown. Oh, and by the way, voidrays no longer have to charge up, but they have a longer cooldown when switching targets. In other words, All Your Base Are Belong To Us.