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TheGiz
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada708 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-03 17:35:57
December 03 2010 16:45 GMT
#1
Allow me to give a little background as to how I play and what led me here.

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Before I start: Yes, I am fully aware that people simply might NOT CARE. Read this blog if you want. I'm not going to cry if you're not interested.


Previous RTS Experience:
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I played a lot of Brood War but only ever played Sunken/Turret defense online. My RTS experience is storied, but again, I never played anything online until SC2.

RTS games I have played in the past:
-Warcraft II
-StarCraft + Brood War
-Warcraft III
-Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds + Expansion
-Command & Conquer: Tiberium Wars


Playing 1v1:
It took me a while to start playing 1v1 because I was extremely nervous. Naturally, I started at the bottom of the barrel in Bronze League. Playing a game actually made my heart RACE and I'd even get the shakes. It was weird.

Choosing my race didn't take long. I wanted to be Zerg but realized that it requires some special thinking to play Zerg, and I am much more methodical in the way I do things. Terran and Zerg, while having more diverse play options, seem disorganized dull to me (HUMANS & PURPLE). So guess what, I'm Protoss with no secondary race.

Since sticking with one race I've done extensive planning with my build order. I've gone through the following builds since starting:

-Blink Stalker opening into an unplanned Mid-Game:
Usually involving Immortals but being extremely Gateway heavy. If I didn't win early this failed. I didn't know Stalkers were bad at the time.

-2-3 Gate opening into High Templars:
Was a lot more successful against Terran but failed miserably against Protoss. Realized after a while though that this build was too slow and left you vulnerable for too long.

-3 Gate Robo with Colossi on 2 bases into HTs on 3 bases:
This is now my standard build and I only make small changes from it in-game. It's pretty solid except against major cheese. I often get the HTs up pretty late now since the Gateway/Colossi mix is strong enough to win on its own. My play-style is very macro-based as I always try to outpace my opponent, which is how I win games. I'm also very focused on map control as opposed to killing my opponent, since it is easier to starve him by denying expansions and making him admit defeat. I will employ the 'just fucking kill him' idea when it is obvious that he is teching though.

Stuff that has helped me:
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-Learning all Warp Gates are auto-hotkeyed to 'w'.
-Hotkeying the Nexus to 4 and hitting '4e' to make probes CONSTANTLY.
-Trying to keep your money down by dumping it into units/upgrades/expansions.
-Scouting. This includes early game tech and late-game expansions.
-Keeping up pressure but always preserving your army - Protoss units are weak and expensive, but they have shields.
-Sentries are awesome - <3 FF.


Where I am now:
I am now rank 24 in my Silver league and moving on up. The matchmaking system has been pitting me against Gold players for quite a while now, and I believe a promotion is not far off. My low initial placement may have actually hurt me in the long run because who knows what my REAL skill level is now. Either way I'm pretty high up for having played so few games. Everyone else on my server has played ~300 games whereas I've only played half of that.

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Life is not about making due with what you have; it's about finding out just how much you can achieve. Never settle for anything less than the best. - - - Read my blog!
Railgan
Profile Joined August 2010
Switzerland1507 Posts
December 03 2010 17:20 GMT
#2
-Sentries are awesome - <3 FF.
I bet you learned that from watching sen's how to sentry videos
Grandmaster Zerg from Switzerland!!! www.twitch.tv/railgan // www.twitter.com/railgansc // www.youtube.com/c/railgansc
TheGiz
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada708 Posts
December 03 2010 17:39 GMT
#3
I think it might have been Day[9] or just reading TL actually. The best part about it is cutting up enemy concaves to zone them better in battles.

Terran early pushes used to wreck me, but now I cut them off quite handily and wreck Terran back. I still have to learn to hold 'f' and use the spell instead of clicking each time, but that's a minor detail.
Life is not about making due with what you have; it's about finding out just how much you can achieve. Never settle for anything less than the best. - - - Read my blog!
Metalwing
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Turkey1038 Posts
December 03 2010 17:49 GMT
#4
Good blog, I hope you do more of these. I wish you had started with Zerg, like me.
#1 CheckPrime fan // Terrans gonna Terran
Wassow
Profile Joined November 2010
United Kingdom32 Posts
December 03 2010 17:50 GMT
#5

It took me a while to start playing 1v1 because I was extremely nervous. Naturally, I started at the bottom of the barrel in Bronze League. Playing a game actually made my heart RACE and I'd even get the shakes. It was weird.


I'm exactly the same, I've just started playing 1v1's and I really only play like 1 game a day on ladder due to my nerves and shaking. It is quite irritating, but personally I practice in co-op AI mostly on getting my build order right. And I'm also a protoss too :D

I've had the idea of doing the same kinda thing as this, making a blog post perhaps once a week writing about my games and what happened, and what I should of done/ improve on. since remebering what to do next game never works for me.
SubtleArt
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
2710 Posts
December 03 2010 19:46 GMT
#6
I am now rank 24 in my Silver league and moving on up. The matchmaking system has been pitting me against Gold players for quite a while now, and I believe a promotion is not far off. My low initial placement may have actually hurt me in the long run because who knows what my REAL skill level is now. Either way I'm pretty high up for having played so few games. Everyone else on my server has played ~300 games whereas I've only played half of that.


Don't get into that mentality. After my friend did my placement and got me into bronze, I reached Diamond after 64 games and I'm not a good player by any means. New players have to realize how bad silver, gold, and even platinum players are. I'm not saying this to be cocky, it just leads into my next point: MACRO. Silver isn't really the place to start experimenting with build orders and strategies. Just focus on your macro, always make units, always make probes, and you'll improve exponentially. Keep telling yourself that the people you're playing against are noobs, and whenever you lose its not because you messed up some attack timings, you just didn't macro well enough.

best of luck
Morrow on ZvP: "I'm not very confident in general vs Protoss because of the imbalance (Yes its imbalanced, get over it)."
Roe
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Canada6002 Posts
December 03 2010 20:04 GMT
#7
well I think that's the tops
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