EPTBasically I think Alicia is so sexy that I want to write down everything in his play that I find sexy. I'll keep it in blog since it's a bit informal for a guide xD
You can check out my guides here if you'd like:
Learning from a bad game #1:
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=227550
3gate stalker/sentry expand on x'nc:
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=196957
HuK!20food 1gate fe:
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=223726
Game 1: crevasse
15 nexus his probe gets into position at exactly 400 minerals. sexy!
Looks like this is his build:
9 pylon
15 nex
17 gate
18pylon
18 gas
20 core
20 gate, zealot
Goes up to 7 gates on 2 bases
This is on Crevasse so the expo is pretty much free. There's no maps like this on ladder, but it still would be a nice thing to stick in your pocket.
He goes for a 2 base all in with 7 gateways. Right now it's 9:11 and he's at 91 food against the 70 of byun. If he doesn't kill byun right now he's pretty much dead. Byun has 3 bunkers and is completely walled off with bunkers + depots. Unpausing!
Damn he smashed that fool. Byun felt comfortable pulling his scvs away from the bunkers perhaps because alicia kept on showing 1-2 units to poke, feigning he didn't in fact have 20+ sentry/zealot waiting to pounce.
Not the sexiest play, but a win is a win! Game 2 starting now.
Game 2: x'nf
Alicia going for a 2 gas build. Could be indicative of a sentry expand like I've seen adel do post patch, or something a bit techy.
Extremely standard build:
9 pylon
13 gate
14 or 15 gas
16 pylon
17 core
18 2nd gas
Meanwhile, byun is opting to expand gaslessly
4:20 twilight council ooo I smell shenanaignignaninss
5:35 dark shrine up ooo
~6:30 alicia starts a robo because thus far he has only seen marines + bunker and didn't get in early enough with his initial scout to count 1 or 2 gases. He cancels it once he scouts tech lab barrack unit because he was only going to get it for observers in case of cloaked banshees. SEXY
Alicia trying to get inside with DTs. First 2 picked off before they get to the wall. This play is good because he's forcing scans, obviously. But he is also assuring that he gets his expansion up 100% safe as long as he's not against some kind of 1;1;1 build with a raven. Also, if byun doesn't have those scans saved up, dt expand can nearly kill a terran or at least put him all in. All the while Alicia has the ability to warp in dt's to ward off drops and to force scans for the entire game, as well as a foothold into ht/charge tech for later! quite sexy, don't you think?
3rd dt runs to wall, no scans left but wall is up + repaired, so little/no damage done. But guess what! Alicia is mining from his natural meanwhile terran can't move down until he can get a turret up.
Byun moving out for a ghost + bio push. Has a couple scans saved up. This is tense! Alicia keeps sending in a dt after the last scan wears off but byun has saved a lot of them. byun into nat, looks like alicia is going to have to sac it, unfortunately because charge is not done.
Charge finishes and alicia moves down the ramp. Somehow he can make only zealots and a couple sentries and fight this small bio army. byun is forced to run back! Alicia is picking off units for free, essentially.
Alicia got a quick charge as well as + armor which transforms zealots from meat shields into dps machines against bio. Also uses his proxy pylon to surround the retreating units, +1 sexy. Let's see if alicia is going to commit here or get his nat set up again.
Alicia sees 3 bunkers, so obviously trying to all in at this point would be silly. Throws down his natural once again. I wouldn't be surprised to see a double expand out of him. Let's find out!
No double expansion, going up to ht tech now. His natural being killed and having re-established it so late is really starting to hurt him. He is down 20 supply despite having killed a lot of byun's inital push and forcing a lot of scans. Really have to give credit to byun for that ghost push. Really, it shouldn't be cost effective, as he has to walk across the entire map and scan every time a dt engages him. But he mananged to get the natural nexus down and so is enjoying a nice lead at the moment.
15:38 alicia starts his 3rd! Byun favoring heavier 2 base play. At this moment, byun starts his 2-2;
alicia is sitting on 1-2 I believe, with 2-2, blink on the way and storm about to complete.
17:10 big bio + ghost ball moves out. Alicia is down 30 food but he has storm done and +1 armor upgrade advantage. Terran should still win in a straight up fight, though.
Gah. No obs to spot for HT's to feed back means no storms or feedbacks get off in time. Alicia gets cleaned up convincingly.
g3: Crossfire
Alicia opens with the same 2-gas opening from last game. Good choice for this map. Phoenix wouldnt surprise me on this map. One can only hope!
OMG STARGATE!! Too bad byun is going for a 2rax opener, though. Looks like void ray, 3 gates going up. Smells like an all-in to me ^^
byun expanding. teching up with only 2 rax. Alicia should have no problem taking this game unless byun makes a bunch of bunkers + turrets; byun retreats after scouting the front with a marine without seeing anything too telling.
8:15 ALICIA WARPS IN A SENTRY TO A PROXY PYLON TO FF THE 2ND RAMP ABOVE BYUN'S NATURAL AND PICKS OFF 5+ BIO UNITS. +2 SEXYYYY
alicia runs to byun's rocks after seeing the bunker at the front. He's charging up on rocks but quickly pulls back because his void rays lost the charge. byun has pulled all scvs + bio to the back ramp
OH MY SHI ALICIA FORCEFIELDS THE BOTTOM OF THE RAMP WITH A SENTRY WARPED IN AT THE FRONT TO STOP HIM FROM REINFORCING THE NATURAL
SO
DAMN
SEXY
Alicia cleans up the natural but byun has a lot of marines. He manages to cancel combat shield which is a huge plus, before backing out. Alicia has started his gold expansion ^_^ !!@@~~SEXY
Alicia is in a fantastic spot right now he just can't over commit and get stuck. Every time he pushes he can pick off marines if they don't stim, and if they do stim, byun is doing the work FOR alicia! At least until medivacs come out -.-
I love how alicia is so aggressive with this force. Reminds me of alicia vs mkp last season on x'nc where alicia was just dancing all over the natural of mkp, as if taunting him. Alicia is very confident against bio with a small number of units, which is something you don't see often in high level pvt.
As alicia finishes his gold base, he swings around to the back door. this is brilliant because it essentially covers himself from an attack along the back attack route. He'll know and have enough time to react if byun pushes the front, but he is safe from a sneak attack along the back. BRILLIANT!
13:00 Alicia pushes up the back to force a stim but it looks like he went a bit too far than I would have liked, losing 3 stalkers or so. He should poke until byun stims and then prance back like the prancer he is.
WOW at 13:40 we finally see the result of all the stims alicia forced! Every single marine has like 15-20 hit points!! Alicia delivers the CRUSHING BLOW OH SO SEXY
Well, I went in to this thinking it was going to be mostly analysis but watching alicia I just can't help but drool. He is so damn good. Best protoss in the world. I'll prob do another one of these next time he plays even if you don't like this :D
ty for reading
EDIT: no I didn't mean to have it show as alicia: sex in the sidebar.. :/
really used the maps to his advantage.
