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Switching to Zerg, possibly

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teekesselchen
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Germany886 Posts
May 13 2011 04:42 GMT
#1
Sadly I was totally forced to inactivity in the last time by my university schedule (chemistry, bachelor), which was expanded by additional 20hrs/week of practicum lately.
However, beeing thrown out of consistent playing anyways, I think it's a nice timing to switch races once more.

During beta I played Terran (Platinum/Diamond), then, after a long time of activity after SC2 release, I switched to Protoss (Diamond->Master). Now I'm thinking about switching to Zerg again.

Reasons: Protoss often feels very, very static. Against Terran it is dangerous to leave the base at all when there it is no commited push, as stim infantry will definitly catch and destroy a too small army. Against Zerg it feels like it is pretty much the same at certain points, even though more movement is possible after a certain time.
Also Protoss feels like it has a certain macro cap, that does not totally exclude further improvement, but basically says "from here on you should work on tactics, tactics, tactics".

It feels a lot more fun to be Zerg to be honest. It's easier to force spread out games instead of "one push and that's it"-games, it's easier to be active on the map and I feel less constraint in general.

One thing I noticed quite soon: Playing Zerg "feels" like requiring more skill, but actually does not. But all of the sudden I can reproduce that feeling so many Zergs have when saying "P/T is so easy, you have forcefields, you have (insert lot of stuff here), your pushs are so strong, and my macro is so hard.".
Playing with a much less defendable base and relying more on units as well as having to spend more attention on macro definitly shifts the game a lot, but I feel like Zerg benefits a lot more from good intuition and relies way less on good strategy. This way I overall feel like it is not really more difficult, just different.

It's kind of weird, but even though Zerg usually is the race that often gives up on initiative and just has to expect what the enemy does, it seems actually to be the race setting the pace.
It always has the choice between attack, harass, counterattack or expand further and what else might be possible, while playing P or T always felt like "now exactly this is my gameplan and this must be my next step and only when something exeptional happens I can derivate.".

P/T's paths are somewhat like on rails. Building a production facility means to set a direction for the rails I'll be on for the upcoming time. Zerg is like an ATV in comparison, always free to chose any direction once a single building is there. I think many Zergs tend to underestimate how limited these races can sometimes be.

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Demonace34
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States2493 Posts
May 13 2011 04:56 GMT
#2
Don't do it, it feels good to have all the space and movement at first, then you stuck between a natural and a siege tank (read as your natural and their siege tanks) and a limited amount of choices...engage now or die.

I've actually been thinking about switching to Protoss or Terran just because the larva mechanic bites me in the ass every game. You think you see the push coming, you produce a ton of units and your economy goes in the shitter. You make no units, they keep pushing and you have overdroned. So many games are decided based on that fact. If you are a godly Macro Terran or Protoss and expand you'll always be able to continue worker production while having a decent sized army. Hell, you can even cut workers at certain points in the game and push out with a godly army at an optimal timing.

Maybe I'm just QQing or trying to save you some frustration, but if you want to take the dive go for it.
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TheGrimace
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States929 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-13 05:54:18
May 13 2011 05:53 GMT
#3
If you really enjoy it, go for it. I feel the same way when I play other races. Old concerns go away and it feels pretty good. It never hurts to understand more matchups. I've said to friends it's the difference between knowing how to play Protoss and knowing how to play Starcraft. That's why I really want to switch to random. I know I'll never be a pro, so a lower rank wouldn't really be a big deal. I just need to bite the bullet. But anyway, if you really enjoy laddering as zerg, just do it man.
TheAwesomeAll
Profile Joined January 2011
Netherlands1609 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-13 15:47:51
May 13 2011 15:47 GMT
#4
i switched from protoss as well for the same reason, but i switched to terran. I felt they had the initiative the whole game. Also that was in the terran op era, where everyone believed marauders were immortal and stuff.
I switched a bit back and forth between terran zerg and protoss for a long time but i really didnt like zerg. So i was down to terran and protoss. I finally quit protoss because i was clueless to pvz.
My tip: switch! toss are boring
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