Fucking Copper. - Page 2

On May 04 2010 20:54 majesty.k)seRapH wrote:
dont worry too much if you get completely curbstomped by someone in copper/bronze. one of my friends,a C- bw player, got faced with 3 superior players playing their placements, so he went 2-3 and got stuck in bronze. sad for him, took him a lot of overpool->roach push to get back into platinum.

On May 04 2010 21:00 Back wrote:
I know where you're coming from. Was bronze for a bit, and lost all my placement matches after the profile resets to find myself at the bottom of copper where I would barely win half my matches. For someone who has only been playing for a few weeks, that seems about right BUT, when you spend all day thinking about starcraft2, watching replays, planning builds... etc, you kinda feel like you should be progressing much faster. It turns out the only problem might have been that I was all over the place and stopped doing the basics once things got complicated.

Then one day I try a 4-warpgate push, works well. Did it again and again. Perfected the timing, worked on my unit micro, thought of ways to go from there should it fail, learned to scout for specific things that I know will counter my build. I think it comes down to this:

Keep it simple. Find a build that only focuses on producing as many units as you can sustain and do so. Make it so you have nothing else to do but remembering to produce units and control them well. The idea is not to "cheese" your way to the top (this is the beta, who cares about ranking). It's to master the basics before moving to the next step. Once you can execute your rush/push/whatever build perfectly and without even thinking, doing more safe/solid variations aren't so complicated anymore. And best of all, you don't forget to spend money because that's what you've been practicing all this time.

I'm still pretty low ranked, so don't take this as advice. But if you're about to quit from frustration, try it before you do :D

On May 04 2010 20:05 deL wrote:

Fucking copper, how does it work?

On May 04 2010 21:59 madnessman wrote:
Yeah I got into a gold winning 4/5 placement matches without ANY sc2 knowledge or experience just by keeping it simple. My basic formula is this... Stay one base, build 4 gates, wait for them to push, defeat their push, expand, macro until i hit 200 and attack them. It worked well my for my placement games but I'm actually having a little trouble in Gold because I don't know anything about the new units or counters so my army gets decimated although my 'graph' is always higher than theirs... I'm gonna watch some user streams and actually learn how to play after APs.

On May 04 2010 20:25 willeesmalls wrote:
How to get to platinum:

1) select zerg
2) make roaches quickly.
3) Send roaches to enemy base when you have 7, rally your hatchery to enemy base and keep making roaches.

Seriously, I don't see anyone below gold knowing how to beat that. Just play zerg and make a gazillion drones before u rally units at your opponents base. Nobody below like, top 30 platinum players know timing or can cheese properly.

On May 04 2010 22:01 jhNz wrote:
i got seeded into copper too. i think i had really good opponents in my placement matches.
climbed up to silver and i think i can go higher.

On May 04 2010 22:03 faction123 wrote:
Use the time you spend in copper to try 8 refinery 10 ebay 10 depot 11 planetary fortress in your enemies nat, as you may never get another chance to

On May 04 2010 21:59 madnessman wrote:
Yeah I got into a gold winning 4/5 placement matches without ANY sc2 knowledge or experience just by keeping it simple. My basic formula is this... Stay one base, build 4 gates, wait for them to push, defeat their push, expand, macro until i hit 200 and attack them. It worked well my for my placement games but I'm actually having a little trouble in Gold because I don't know anything about the new units or counters so my army gets decimated although my 'graph' is always higher than theirs... I'm gonna watch some user streams and actually learn how to play after APs.

On May 04 2010 22:23 Pyrrhuloxia wrote:

I am low gold and falling fast, probably belong in Silver. But when I scout that I can get cannons and zeals and stop it. I think someone tried it and I held it off and then kicked their ass with phoenix / immortal / zeal / stalker / sentry. I think I lost to it also, though. If you don't see it coming it will kick your ass.

On May 04 2010 22:16 ohaicami wrote:



Interesting. Like I said, I've only ever placed Bronze, and even then I didn't really know what was going on. How are you holding up in Gold? I guess what I'm asking is, do you struggle? Or are you having a pretty good time? I'd like to at least get to a point where I'm equally challenged in a fun and fair game, as opposed to either completely beasting on someone... or getting slaughtered.

On May 04 2010 21:58 fredd wrote:

that's exactly what I thought this was reading the title