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[BW] Battle Report - C rank recelebration

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Kiante
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Australia7069 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-04-11 13:45:39
April 11 2011 13:22 GMT
#1
So i haven't gotten around to writing one of these for a while, party because i haven't had any achievements to celebrate. My skill has been stagnating, so much that i was stuck at C- for a long time this season, despite reaching C last season. I've been streaming alot and speading my games over a fair few accounts. Note: I've never dodged koreans, and i usually play higher ranks if they join my games.

My Aspition account is 18-3 C-, my best C- win ratio to date. Clicky. This was after a reset, where i went on a great tear (winning alot of pvt's) and hit C- surprisingly efficiently.

My Kiante account is C- over 130 games with ~50% win rate. Clicky. This account has had a fair few big losing streaks hence the bad score over so many games.

My HerpDerp-_- account is now C over 80 games with a 57% win ratio. Clicky. I had some bad losing streaks on this account but this morning i had a good string of pvp's and finally hit my C rank for this season, meaning i've now got 2 consecutive seasons with C rank.

What is interesting to note about these accounts is the different % win rates vs the different races. On aspition i am 73.5% vs terran, meanwhile on kiante i'm 35% vs terran and i'm ~55% vs all races on herpderp-_-. I cant really explain these, because they're all sampled over a fair few games, but i guess it really comes down to my focus on the day and the map/matchups i was playing. When map the week is a P favoured map i'd hit alot more protoss than usual, while when something like FS or python was in the rotation i'd hit a fair few more terrans, and it would come down to my own focus on the day.

When i lack focus i tend to 12 nex in pvt alot more, and i struggle alot holding off bunker rushes. I never really seem to profit from a 12 nex but i end up doing it alot anyway. Funny how the mind plays with you sometimes

Anyways, as is customary, and promised in the title, its time to do a battle report. I picked a PVP played on longinus, one of the games i played today while hitting C rank. I've put it in a spoiler because it has a fair few images. Enjoy!!


Battle report inside
+ Show Spoiler [Battle Report!] +


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The game opens up on the map Longinus. A great 3 player map from the age of the dragons.

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The game opens up with my opponent spawning in the 11 position and Me spawning at 7. He opens with a 9 scout and a 1 gate no gas opening

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Meanwhile, i 12 nex, because 12 nex pvp is pretty cool.

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He expands after 1 zealot, minimising my economic advantage from the 12 nex and manages to get 2 probe kills with his first zealot due to my fail probe micro.

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I do the standard 5 zealot push from a 12 nex and get in a really great position, then decide to pull back. My zealots were damaged, but his were almost dead, if i'd pressed with the attack i could've done alot more damage, but i killed a couple of probes, so i'm left with a slight economic advantage after the openings.

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We both go for DT followups, but i have my army out of position and he sneaks a DT into my main, which kills my nexus before i can get some detection in range

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The he storm drops my nat with all my probes at it, dropping me down to about 15 or so probes and 1 nexus

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I'm forced into a counter attack, where i level his army and do some significant eco damage, but not really enough to level the game, and i'm dropped to 35 supply

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He storm drops again even after i have cannons in position, and i'm really low on probes at this point. meanwhile we've both taken a double gas expansion

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And more storm drops are causing my probe count to dwindle. Luckily my macro is slightly better than his meaning i'm not irrevocably behind yet.

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He then uses 3 shuttles to ferry units into my double gas and takes out the nexus but i was just taking another two nexus's and claiming the important double gas expansion between our mains.

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I did some storm drops of my own and clear his double gas of probes as well!

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And more storm drops hit my second double gas, and almost 20 minutes into the game i'm still frantically producing probes out of 4 nexii ><

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I finally go in for a battle, and we trade armies off, but i'm still about 10 supply behind.

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He comes in for even MORE storm drops (i was stressing pretty hard at this point) but i managed to juke his storms and take out his templars with my probes ^_^ I'm sure those little guys felt good getting a bit of revenge.

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So he decides to take the natural of the unclaimed main, while i take the main, both unknown to each other

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Another huge battle in the middle, and i manage to come out a bit ahead this time, and i've almost equalised the supplies!

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Transferring probes: a valid method of expansion scouting. (Hillariously 3 of the probes made it through).

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I throw my army into the cannons, refusing to let him take another gas

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He takes out my mineral only and i give chase!

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I catch up to his forces fleeing from my mineral only and many storms ensue

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But my forces get taken out

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He then moves and takes out the contentious double gas expansion

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And still continues to storm drop my expansions, much to the dismay of my probes

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However, i finally managed to spend my gas excess....on ARCHONS! Balls of death going everywhere! rawr!!

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And GG, I come from behind and am victorious!!





Here is a link to the replay
http://repdepot.net/replay.php?id=41528

And i cut the vod from my stream recordings, unfortunately its in 2 parts, however you get to hear me lamenting over my horrible position in real time ^_^
Part 1: http://www.justin.tv/kiante/b/283458061
Part 2: http://www.justin.tv/kiante/b/283458109

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Sewi
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
Germany1697 Posts
April 11 2011 13:30 GMT
#2
Nice comeback dude!
I love how you bring your probes to the unscouted main. I would like to see both your faces during that :p

The archon-ball looks pretty sick... Good job!
"Well, things were going ok until he lost all his stuff" - Tasteless, 17.02.2016
aimaimaim
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Philippines2167 Posts
April 11 2011 13:55 GMT
#3
nice come back .. Archons are indeed cost effective :D
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2Pacalypse-
Profile Joined October 2006
Croatia9522 Posts
April 11 2011 13:56 GMT
#4
Nice battle report and nice game!

Now time for C+ !
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Bash
Profile Joined August 2007
Finland1533 Posts
April 11 2011 13:58 GMT
#5
BW PvP, the matchup of kings.

5 thumbs up.
I can't sing and I can't dance, but still I know how to clap my hands.
a9arnn
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States1537 Posts
April 11 2011 14:29 GMT
#6
Awesome comeback, and congrats on getting C!
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PH
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States6173 Posts
April 11 2011 14:39 GMT
#7
Keep at it! I'm glad to see there are still people going at it in BW.
Hello
pyrogenetix
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
China5098 Posts
April 11 2011 14:42 GMT
#8
very nice getting C. great work and so rare to see people still training at sc1
Yea that looks just like Kang Min... amazing game sense... and uses mind games well, but has the micro of a washed up progamer.
Kiante
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Australia7069 Posts
April 11 2011 14:47 GMT
#9
I wouldn't say i'm training, i just play it because its fun ^_^
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Ayush_SCtoss
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
India3050 Posts
April 11 2011 14:53 GMT
#10
Wow, that was interesting. Congrats getting C rank. The highest I ever got was D+ lol.
End my suffering
Funnytoss
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
Taiwan1471 Posts
April 11 2011 15:06 GMT
#11
Nice job getting C, that's my goal this season too. Been a C- player forever, unable to break through mostly because I'm a wimp and I can't take losing that much. I've decided to make sure I had a losing record on every account this season, to guarantee I've gone a far as I can go!
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XsebT
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Denmark2980 Posts
April 11 2011 15:08 GMT
#12
Gz again. Nice battle report!
화이팅
DorF
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Sweden961 Posts
April 11 2011 15:11 GMT
#13
haha, I absolutely love battle reports, great job and grats getting C-rank
BW for life !
XenOsky
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Chile2288 Posts
April 11 2011 16:05 GMT
#14
C+ gonna be ez ^_^! keep up the gj
StarCraft & Audax Italiano.
Megaliskuu
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States5123 Posts
April 11 2011 16:37 GMT
#15
Gratz #1 ^^~
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Kiante
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Australia7069 Posts
April 11 2011 16:38 GMT
#16
thanks #2
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Megaliskuu
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States5123 Posts
April 11 2011 16:39 GMT
#17
One day I'll start playing bw again, or you'll start playing sc2, and we will grudgematch, like no other grudgematch has ever gone down before. Then I'll be the one calling you #2.
|BW>Everything|Add me on star2 KR server TheMuTaL.675 for practice games :)|NEX clan| https://www.dotabuff.com/players/183104694
Kiante
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Australia7069 Posts
April 11 2011 16:41 GMT
#18
only if you're #3
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garbanzo
Profile Joined October 2009
United States4046 Posts
April 11 2011 16:57 GMT
#19
I agree about worker transfer being a valid form of scouting. It's a pretty standard technique.

Great battle report. Congrats on the promotion.
Even during difficult times, when I sat down to play the game, there were times where it felt like god has descended down and played [for me].
Kiante
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Australia7069 Posts
April 11 2011 17:00 GMT
#20
haha my probes had a pretty hard time that game but they had the two victories. first one killing the templar drop, and second the 3 probes that made it through the massive cannon line XD
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