4 rax 3 depot proxy

pyaar

United States423 Posts

September 03 2010 22:31 GMT

It was just a normal day on Desert Oasis. It was a PvT against a Terran with a siege tank icon; I was a bit worried, but I decided to stick with a normal 3 gate stargate build. I sent my scout a bit late and didn't even check for a proxy. He'd begun to build a barracks.

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My probe came back and was vaporized (visible as a puff of probe guts in the picture; RIP) after it scouted three barracks and two supply depots with four marines already out. The supply depots made me scratch my head a little bit, but I was too busy being scared out of my socks to muse over it since I only had one stalker out.

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I had to use a (very poorly handled) probe drill to push them back and buy time for more units.

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He almost got to my mineral line but zealots and sentries came out just in time. He didn't even micro his marines away from my zealots.

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From here on all I did was wait for him to come up my ramp, FF the ramp, and sick my zealots on him.

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Since clearly three barracks pumping marines wasn't cutting it, my opponent decided to add another.

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Orbital commands are overrated.

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He finally left the game without even a GG after I had a bunch of sentries and zealots out with a void ray on the way.

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I checked his profile and he was a 933 Terran, at the top of his division in diamond. wat?

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I don't know what it is with all these hilarious proxies I've been getting (got a 3 gate 1 forge proxy in an earlier game) but I certainly don't mind the easy wins.

micronesia

United States24770 Posts

September 03 2010 22:34 GMT

Probably just does stupid crap whenever he gets desert oasis lol

Archaic

United States4024 Posts

September 03 2010 22:35 GMT

The advantage I have is I barely notice icons, let alone what the mean. I could come across a guy with a 99% 500+ win ratio icon, and I would play just like any other time. It's all mental, man!

And I don't know what's up with these proxies. They just seem so ridiculous. They never seem effective in the slightest... But as you said, free wins :D.

2WeaK

Canada550 Posts

September 03 2010 22:47 GMT

Haha, I played that guy he tried to proxy rax -> bunker rush me on Metapolis and it failed horribly. :\ He couldn't keep his money low so he couldn't me off when I went 13 gate.

He went 7 rax too.

BookTwo

1985 Posts

September 03 2010 22:56 GMT

not as frightening as playing [KR] on iccup

ghrur

United States3786 Posts

September 03 2010 22:57 GMT

Isn't zeus a streamer on TL?

m3rciless

United States1476 Posts

September 03 2010 23:06 GMT

desert oasis + tvp, i would do stupid shit like that also.

Deleted User 3420

24492 Posts

September 03 2010 23:22 GMT

On September 04 2010 07:57 ghrur wrote:
Isn't zeus a streamer on TL?

there is another zeus he is much higher rated

MrBitter

United States2940 Posts

September 03 2010 23:40 GMT

Just goes to show that the benchmarks we were measuring ourselves against a few weeks ago don't mean crap anymore.

900 used to be "high level". Now it's scrubtacular.

I just played a ZvP vs a 935 Toss who walled my ramp with pylons and cannons. The typical follow up to that is to expand, right?

Not this guy. He built 3 more cannons in his main and teched to void rays.

... Yea, he lost.

pyaar

United States423 Posts

September 04 2010 04:19 GMT

#10

On September 04 2010 08:40 MrBitter wrote:
Just goes to show that the benchmarks we were measuring ourselves against a few weeks ago don't mean crap anymore.

900 used to be "high level". Now it's scrubtacular.

I just played a ZvP vs a 935 Toss who walled my ramp with pylons and cannons. The typical follow up to that is to expand, right?

Not this guy. He built 3 more cannons in his main and teched to void rays.

... Yea, he lost.

against players like these I just have to imagine that they're letting a friend or their kid play. there's just no way you can get to even mid-level diamond when you pull off really weird plays like these.

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