Epi's zerg survival guide

UnholyGregor

Theres been a lot of Zergs struggling lately on the forums, so instead of constantly re-posting the same advice over and over, im gonna just make this guide. This should get any zerg to masters easily, providing they practice and heed my advice. Hopefully some good terrans or toss can do a similar thread for their respective races.

Disclaimer:
This isnt a miracle ''get into masters fast'' gimmick. If you want to get good, it takes alot of work and dedication. On average, i play about 3 hours a day, every day. No matter how many articles you read on improving, you have to have solid mechanics, or you will never get anywhere, no matter how ingenious your strategies. I have about 140-150 apm, and i still find my apm lacking to keep up at times. Mechanics are never perfect, and will only improve by playing. You gotta have every hotkey memorized, accurate mouse control, and fast hands. Reading this thread cannot give you those. Only practice and experience can. for reference, i played about 1500 1v1's and about 1000 2v2s last season.


Il do zvz first.

ZvZ go 14gas 14pool, get speed, a queen and 4 lings to scout. Pull your drones from gas to get your expansion asap, and throw down a roach warren immediately, and return mining gas, if your opponent isn't expanding himself, as hes prob going ling bane all in.

Vs a ling bane all in, get 1 spine at your nat. By the time his ling bane all in hits, you should have 3-5 roaches, 2 queens, a spine and a handful of lings. You will win easy unless you **** the defense up horrifically.
V a roach ling, do the same, only make more drones earlier, delaying your roaches, as this all in hits later. so the extra drones early pay dividends.
On big maps, and close air maps, where my ov can see his pool timing, go 15 hatch 15pool ,18 gas ,20 roach warren (unless you're being cheesed) . This will beat most all ins, basically the same as above, ideally you want 4 or 5 roaches, a spine and 2 queens.

If your opponent goes 15 hatch, id go 15hatch, 16 gas, 16 pool, and get about 12 or 14 speedlings, for map control. This will allow you to drone heavily, and allow you to annoy your opponent with speedlings, try sniping his drones with ling runbys, as every drone counts in zvz.
Go t2 at around 50 supply, into roach infestor.

Its better to play defensive with infestors, taking greedy expansions and droning very heavy, using massinfestors to give you map control. The key to winning zvz is to have a better economy, without putting yourself at risk.

Late game, the optimal composition to have is broodlord infestor corrputor, with roach support. Never, NEVER build ultralisks. EVER. as a general rule of thumb, dont go hive before 4 bases, as you wont be able to afford hive tech safely.

UnholyGregor

reserved for zvt
jesus this is so much work, what am i getting myself into......

UnholyGregor

reserved for zvp

Kirby

Eagerly awaiting tips for deathball.

UnholyGregor

roach with bane drops, and a **** load of infestors for fungle and neural parasite