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FacetiousQ
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States34 Posts
June 16 2011 20:34 GMT
#1
The title purposefully doesn't make sense xD
The idea of this is: How does one make a leap from high-platinum to diamond?

My win loss in Platinum this far is pretty good, but nothing worth praising.
Recently I did, however, go on a 5-win streak. Most of the players were zerg however and I created on-the-spot a super homo ZvZ strategy that won me 3 zvz's in a row and got me flamed twice.

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Obviously making a sudden jump in ladder points(~890 to 1007 I believe), and presumably a decent jump in MMR, I am now afraid to ladder.
I know I can probably compete with the people I'd play, but I'd like to continue my win streak and sore into Diamond with flying colors. I know I might be close to playing diamond players... maybe. I'd really like to encounter my first one on the ladder.


These shenanigans aside, I'm struggling with a major idea.
How to get better.

I know it sounds silly, but I really just don't know. I feel like my mechanics are really inconsistent. Some days I wake up and I play and I feel like "Holy shit I should be high diamond if I played like that all the time" and other days I wake up and feel like a silver player took over the controls, missing injects, mis-hotkeying units, throwing units around letting them needlessly die.

I don't think my mechanics are at all my strong point, but I don't think they are necessarily BAD either. I don't know how I'd go about improving them though.
My strong point is definitely "abnormal" play. I've been known amongst my friends as the one to do silly stuff like:
Double roach warren for burrow roach+speed rush(After two attempts I threw that idea away...)
Double gas for extremely fast +1/speedlings(A little too "all in" on the early ling aggression)
Early pool while doing purposefully doing NO aggression and droning to leave them in a very defensive mode the first few minutes of the game(still fun to do ^_^)
Heavy meta game(e.g. dropping roach warren obviously and letting it get scouted quick then making the counter to roaches counter) (This working is directly dependent on whether the opponent "sticks to his guns" or tries to adapt to players strategies)
Lots of nydus and drops. (Lots of nydus and drops... lots... banelings... banelings everywhere).

Doing stuff like this on ladder generally secures me easy wins, or I get caught off guard by a huge flaw in my silly strategy and I get facerolled by some early push I had no forseeable way of stopping from the position I put myself in.

It's super fun... and I love the way I play and I don't want to change it... but I don't know how to get better doing it, and that's really what I want to do.





Also if any low/mid diamond players want to play with me... I'd much appreciate any advice you could give me :p
FacetiousQ.787
http://sc2ranks.com/team/7088959



Demonace34
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States2493 Posts
June 16 2011 20:44 GMT
#2
Don't play mind games at your level. It seems fun and interesting, but half the time they scout it and don't even care about the strategy you are doing. Put your effort into solid macro oriented/timing based play, you'll improve a ton more by just trying to hit every inject and not getting supply blocked. Those days you wake up and play bad or inconsistent are due to you not playing a steady stream of games. It all comes down to muscle memory and not having to think about macro to get better. So keep doing it til it becomes second nature.

I've been like this too, I get on a huge winning streak and then stop laddering. You know what that actually does to you in the long run. Every time you get this confidence boost from actually winning and instead of putting it to good use and keep playing and becoming more passionate, you wait 2-4 days until you start laddering again. You haven't played games in the past couple days so you begin to get rusty, and then you start to lose. Eventually you take more steps backward then forward and it is the most frustrating ladder experience you'll ever have.

4 wins in a row is good for your MMR and points, but it isn't going to have huge consequences. You aren't going to face off against IdrA or Select or anyone that is much harder then those players you just beat. So just fucking play and get better.
NaNiwa|IdrA|HuK|iNcontroL|Jinro|NonY|Day[9]|PuMa|HerO|MMA|NesTea|NaDa|Boxer|Ryung|
FacetiousQ
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States34 Posts
June 16 2011 20:58 GMT
#3
On June 17 2011 05:44 Demonace34 wrote:
4 wins in a row is good for your MMR and points, but it isn't going to have huge consequences. You aren't going to face off against IdrA or Select or anyone that is much harder then those players you just beat. So just fucking play and get better.


I like this part :p

Especially the last sentence... it's just so hard to force myself to do :o
But I shall try
DIjim
Profile Joined March 2011
England17 Posts
June 16 2011 21:09 GMT
#4
If you are scared to ladder on 1v1, you could always refine your builds in some 4v4 and 3v3 games.
That way you won't lose your skill because you haven't been playing as much, and you still get to do your fun builds and make them better.
FacetiousQ
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States34 Posts
June 16 2011 21:14 GMT
#5
I actually just did a ladder game and beat a high plat player(didn't check rank or points but was top 8). Protoss. Relatively difficult game I feel. Recorded it. Gotta render it for like 30 mins and upload it but I'll post it if you want to judge O.O
-swordguy
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States560 Posts
June 16 2011 21:20 GMT
#6
I'm a low diamond toss, I added you.
I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once - William Shakespeare, ‘’Julius Caesar’’
SpoR
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States1542 Posts
June 16 2011 22:02 GMT
#7
get a timer that beeps every time your queen needs to inject or you need to make an overlord or something
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