Getting back into it

Ramza

I haven't played SC in months, I went off of it for ages, mainly because I was bored of being crap and couldn't seem to improve. I got thrown into low bronze again after being in high silver, so this annoyed me too!

Apologies to Sinister who was giving lessons and had promised to help me out, I haven't been playing in ages man

I think I'm more inspired to get better now, so hope to you see all soon!

Sorry for making a semi pointless thread, but, yeah :pac:

RoyalMarine

welcome back! i too have decided to improve, although i self demoted myself to bronze, which was a mistake... so if you want a sparring partner who is also looking to improve, then give me a shout. im usually on irc all day.

i play random, but if your looking for a particular race to play vs then i dont mind at all.

Yapamillias

Bronze FTW, I dont know if anyone in the higher levels of play would like a padawan but I could do with some tips to propel me into the dizzy heights of silver

Im Terran btw

IRL_Sinister

Ramza wrote: »

I haven't played SC in months, I went off of it for ages, mainly because I was bored of being crap and couldn't seem to improve. I got thrown into low bronze again after being in high silver, so this annoyed me too!

Apologies to Sinister who was giving lessons and had promised to help me out, I haven't been playing in ages man

I think I'm more inspired to get better now, so hope to you see all soon!

Sorry for making a semi pointless thread, but, yeah :pac:

Don't worry about it

I'm still around, occasionally (exams), to offer my my advice and coaching but I'm heading to Canada in 4 weeks so won't be for much longer (:

godspal

me yapamillias played. he won 2-0. Can't find the replays myself. Maybe he has him.
Alright guy, hope to play him again.

UnholyGregor

play protoss. build deathball. profit.

Decerto

UnholyGregor wrote: »

play protoss. build deathball. profit.

This, got me to masters in 50games, start 3gate expo then just make sure to wall off your 3rd with gateways and build cannons behind them and chrono upgrades, then a move into the zerg with around 30 stalkers, 5 colosus and 6-7 sentrys all upragaded to 3-1 and blink ofc and listen to zerg tears all the way until you reach a level where zergs understand that they need do drops/deny 3rd/early-mid game pressure or have higher tech with broods and infestors but luckily they all just wanna drone and max out on roaches.

Its harder v terran because you also need to get some chargelots and fend off drops/cloaked banshees but u can play more greedy at the start.

And pvp just do the 1gas 4gate perfectly(not hard because the build order only goes up to 26 food) and you will destroy noobs.

In fact if you want you can just 4gate every race and it will be effective till high diamond/low masters

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoGz88LpJuw

Here is an awesome 1min guide to do it

UnholyGregor

Decerto wrote: »

This, got me to masters in 50games,

Thats sickening

IRL_Sinister

Err, Protoss ball also works vs Terran. Just build cannons all over and get 200-200 with 3-3 and you'll have a 70% win ratio..... just look at coL. CrunCher.

VikingErik

First you have to survive long enough to build up deathball. I know it's easy for people that know their timings and such, but for lower levels players we don't don't necessarily get our natural up and running because we're dead :P

I've started to realise that I'm really bad with my forcefield use and it's the reason I loose to zerg most of the time, and terran for that matter.

ShadowHearth

I haven't played in ages too . I was just getting worse and worse. Too much stress playing it. Would live to get back, but I would get railroaded . I would prefer to play with lads friendly matches then laddering so.

Is chicks still playing? We always had fun tvp with her.

IRL_Sinister

She is.

NeoSlicerZ

UnholyGregor wrote: »

Thats sickening

Doing the build this way also gets you dead, a LOT in masters.

Decerto

NeoSlicerZ wrote: »

Doing the build this way also gets you dead, a LOT in masters.

You dont need to excuse protoss, standard 3gate-expo or forge fe into 3base deathball v z has 100 and 1 counters, if zerg wants to keep trying to play "standard" versus it and max out on roach/hydra when ur only 150 food with with 3k more gas in your army and then complain about imbalance its their problem.

Or they can follow what top players like zen,losira and nestea are doing.

Protoss has a negative winratio in both gsl and nasl currently because top zerg players are adapting and the stanard protoss play is being picked apart and more and more counter builds are being created.

http://nasl.tv/Statistics

http://www.gomtv.net/records/index.gom?searchType=3&race=P&vsrace=Z&season=2011&leaguetype=20&leagueid=21581&gamever=0&mapid=0

Kirby

Decerto wrote: »

if zerg wants to keep trying to play "standard" versus it and max out on roach/hydra when ur only 150 food with with 3k more gas in your army and then complain about imbalance its their problem.]

I think the complaint from regular players revolves around the fact that 4 gate deathball is very easy to do, and countering is not. It's very easy to talk about harass and drops.....but as a 4 gater you aren't doing any of that. It's very easy and cookie cutter and I think thats what gets regular peoples back up.

Ofc the pro's will punish it hard but from bronze to diamond......4 gate is an easy, easy way to win. Thats what annoys people. Not balance...just how easy it is to a move a deathball to victory in 99% of games at this level.