[MrNayNay]

hey guys. am trying to switch to terran. used reapers to open and won all since my opponents wasnt expecting reapers. are reapers really that bad now?

[DFM]

Reapers are ok, especially against toss, since they don't really have a unit that moves quite as fast as reapers. Against zerg it's different cause speedlings on creep are the fastest ground Unit and i think even off creep they move faster than speed upgraded reapers. The key difference now is that reaper speed comes much later, specifically it comes quite a bit after ling speed, making it much harder to keep a ball of reapers alive to even make use of the upgrade. And besides that, roaches are now much better against them because of the range buff.
Against toss... Well it can work if you catch 'em off guard but because the stalker doesn't take extra damage from reapers it takes quite a few reapers to kill even one stalker and mass stalker played cleverly beats mass reaper any day.
If your talking about just opening with reaper harass then of course that's still good, you might do some damage but more importantly you get to scout relatively easily.
Getting some reapers lategame can also be quote good as most people don't expect it.
If you say it's working for you, then it's really kinda hard to argue against it, instead post a replay so we can see why exactly it worked, whether it's you just out minoring your opponent or they making some critical mistake.

[Cute]

I haven't seen a Terran open reapers against me in forever. I kinda miss them

[MrNayNay]

yeah... thats y... i feel they are still strong though...

[Apth]

There were a few Reaper openings in the GSL, but they were using them for scouting and map control to cover an expansion, not for damage.