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Clbull
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United Kingdom1439 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-02 21:00:50
July 02 2011 20:50 GMT
#1
OVER THE LAST FEW DAYS, I HAVE:
  • Made a switch from Terran to Protoss. For many obvious reasons, I am finding the mechanics for Protoss much easier to learn and began to learn how much army positioning can change fights for you.
  • Did some (very brief) replay analysis where I identified a few times where I could have built things earlier.
  • Slowly but surely improved. I haven't reached the Gold League yet (Still Rank 1 Silver) but I have been taking down highly ranked (top 8) Gold opponents on ladder.

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My (recent) winrate on ladder, mostly playing as Protoss.

LESSONS I HAVE LEARNED
  • Army positioning makes a lot of difference, you will almost never want your Stalkers at the front of your army, else they will be sniped, probably by Roaches, Marauders, Immortals, Colossus or other Stalkers. Hence, I have made some pretty big changes to my play and both researched Blink first instead of Charge and kept Stalkers on a separate control group and behind the rest of my army (Reason being that it would be much easier to Blink any Stalkers into some Vikings or Corruptors and because I need Zealots and Sentries at the front for forcefields and tanking damage with Zealot numbers.
  • New control group hotkeys are really hard to get used to. I used to have my entire Protoss deathball on one hotkey until I began thinking about army positioning. It has been very worthwhile to me though.
  • My improvement process was going to take a very, very long time.

REPLAYS:

I have three of them this time, a PvP, a PvZ and a PvT, all victories.

Replay 1: PvT Xel'Naga Caverns
Replay 2: PvP Scrap Station
Replay 3: PvZ Backwater Gulch

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DuckS
Profile Joined September 2010
United States845 Posts
July 02 2011 21:04 GMT
#2
congrats
don't go too crazy though, mmr could be just toying with you. next thing you know there will be a new thread by you talking about your losing streak and the frustration it provides
"You foiled us this time Americans, but your liberty will not protect your Marilyn Monroe forever - our Queen must FEED!" - Deleuze
Clbull
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United Kingdom1439 Posts
July 02 2011 21:20 GMT
#3
On July 03 2011 06:04 DuckS wrote:
congrats
don't go too crazy though, mmr could be just toying with you. next thing you know there will be a new thread by you talking about your losing streak and the frustration it provides


Thanks, and my play has been a lot like this sadly. I sometimes get large winstreaks and sometimes get some pretty bad losing streaks. There was one point over a month ago where I had a 9 game losing streak.
dartoo
Profile Joined May 2010
India2889 Posts
July 02 2011 23:58 GMT
#4
Awesome, gratz! I actually found it a lot tougher to play as protoss when I switched from terran, because I totally did not know about the sentry (A-move z's and stalkers, into mmm, and wonder why it didnt work :p).
Losing streaks are common, even top players go on large losing streaks during certain periods of time. Just dont get frustrated.
venage
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Sweden65 Posts
July 03 2011 00:08 GMT
#5
I recently just switched to toss to learn it so I can random on ladder (high plat) if you ever wanna chat about strategies or stuff just give me a pm I'd gladly help out
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