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impar, I too am finding protoss harder to beat lately...

 

Greetings!

Yeah. I was having that impression for the last weeks so decided to keep a record of the outcome.
My BO is just not prepared to sustain 4gaters.
Will have to experiment.

PS: The removal of Shakuras Plateau hasnt helped either.

 

hullo gent's

...not been doing much 1-1 at the moment (been doing lots of 4-4's lately cause' its fun!) but I have found that with toss I can either win if I rush them really early on, or completly outmacro them in the mid-late game. last zvp I played on metropolis - I managed to hold the first 4gate push using sling/roach - keep my expo - drone up - go for a third, then use roach/hydra + corruptor to stop the next push (he expanded then went for collosi!). after that it was just about stopping his third/gold expo whilste double expanding myself - then get space for broodlords! I find zvt the hardest atm....
Cheers
f.

 

Same as me then felix, if you survive the initial 4gate your fine afterwards usually!

 

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Not if the Protoss used the attack to expand.
The purpose of the first 4gater attack, around the 6th minute, is not to attack the main, is to screw the Zerg expansion.
Once he succeeds he has two bases against one base. Chronoboost and warp just speed things up.

It will get even worse with todays patch. Protoss will start making Phoenixes to kill supply and Queens.

I am 4 wins away of the Infestor portrait (500 1v1 wins) and am thinking on leaving the Swarm for Protoss.

 

If a toss 4gates you and you hold it then you'll be way ahead. What you've gotta be careful of is them just fake pressuring you while they expand. They wont actually attack you but just make you use up all your larve. I rarely ever 4gate but I do like fake pressure to get ahead.

The new patch should be out now so I'm going to try and get into masters league, I was already top 5% of diamond so lets hope

 

oh Noe's - another swarm brethren leaving?

...I swear with the new patch toss will be so OP its not even funny! faster killing of overlords + cheaper obs. I wonder who will have the most map control now?

I can't wait till they patch roaches so that they can fire at Air - or fix hydras for that matter - until then I will 4-4 for funsies!

 

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Doing a pause in 1v1 for the time being. Will get some campaign achievements.

For the record, my last 98 games win ratio pre-1.2:
Protoss - 32,4%
Terran - 55,6%
Zerg - 71,4%

Not even funny.

 

was meant to say faster (to build) phoenix - hence faster overlord killin'

I stopped playing 1-1 a long time ago - 4-4 is more fun, and I can be sleepy and play Started doing the campaign on brutal last night - lets see how far I get before I get bored/pissed off!
gl hf!

 

hahahaha.

I did not understand a single sentence of that!

 

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Eheh!
I find a lot of similarities between Starcraft 2 and Chess. Once you study both you learn about the different openings, counters, relations between units, etc.

 

SC2 is ofcourse alot more non-linear compared to chess.

Has anyone hit masters league? I was so hoping to get in that league but haven't moved up yet Looking at stats I'm in the top 800 diamonds atm so it shouldn't be long til I'm masters

 

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Sure, and the available intel is not the same. On chess you know exactly where the adversary pieces are. But still, there are some parallels between both games.

 

Pughy i'm still looking up at silver

 

silver
silver
silver
platnium

...started in plat. for 1-1 but got moved down after I decided to play off race for about 50 games (not a good idea!)...I think I am at about 300ish wins 550something games...

edit - yes the similiarities to chess are there - but unless you are playing a complete nonce - chances are the other player will have some kind of idea of what to do/what not to do! this means that apart from doing something cheesy, you need to rely on your micro to win! 4-4 as zerg is fun as every team needs someone to go mass sling for expansion runby's - 3 players attack one side - one zerg sling army goes and takes out every single worker at every single expo

 

Just started getting into PvP (haven't had SC2 long and played through the single player first). Any tips on the best way to get started?

I've done 5 practise league matches and found them a bit useful, but they can also be inconsistent and so I find it difficult to know what I can do in the future to improve. (Inconsistent in that in the 5 matches I've played, 2 of my allies left within the first 1-15 minutes, in another my ally sucked and had no army and barely any resource collectors, etc).

So yeah, any tips on the best way to get into PvP would be appreciated

I've done some Googling around but most results for 'starcraft 2 tips' seem to be 'buy this ebook via my affiliate link' style articles/sites so not much luck there.

 

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Tristanperry:
http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Main_Page

 

impar: Many thanks for the link; that looks a useful resource

 

I have found that once you meet some good people (when you are in a 4-4 and find someone you work well with) send them a message after the game - see if they fancy another. This way I now have a group of swedish/dutch guys who are always up for a game and are pretty damn good! You can chat tactics/thoughts with them + once you play more games together get better as a team rather then playing with randoms that are n00bs/do their own thing!

 

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