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>and they weren't stacked.
That's basically the point. It used to be that if you landed one or two irradiates the stack of mutas melted. Now they just don't, they either unstack them or instasplit the irradiated muta and it's fine. Of course he fumbled the attempted kill move anyway but it shows why the old irradiate tactic feels more like a "gotcha" move nowadays. If those were valkyries instead of vessels he'd have simply wiped the mutas, still would've lost for other reasons but yeah.
I'm not saying vessels are bad of course, you always prefer to have as many as you can use in the long term, it just no longer feels like they're the anti-muta unit. As micro naturally improves over time, Terrans got better with valkyries and zergs got better against vessels simultaneously.

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