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Fivo
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Denmark25 Posts
August 26 2011 14:40 GMT
#1
Greetings! This is a blog of my progress and things I come across. I will try to update this daily

So, after many days of winning streaks up to 6, losing very few games, it had to end. Today was pretty shit tbh. As a zerg player, it seems like we have to know so much more (just my thoughts). And I'm getting sick of some dumb Protoss noob doing some sort of weird 1 gate stargate expand, which I scout and get additional queens to protect. No problem. I proceed to taking my 3rd and 4th (whilst he is still on 2). I make a pretty standard Roach Hydra Corrupter army, have a good hang of my upgrades. And still, when we engage, his stupid Stalker Sentry Colossus army obliterates me. I'm getting sick and tired of having to do so much research on timings and what not, when Protoss can just do some silly opening and then wing it from there.

And yes, Terran. It seems like whatever I do, I can't defeat 3 rax marine all-in. For me it seems like I have 2 options. 1) Banelings. 2) Speedlings. But it still doesn't work. Even though I am fully aware of what is going to happen, I can no way get enough lings out. And even if I go banelings he can just kite the shit out of them and split and what not. Today just seems hopeless, and I feel that Toss and Terran can do some senceless crap without any thought, and win anyway.

I am trying to keep as cool as possible, but it is sometimes hard when faced with bullshit every time I play. I will just try to keep as cool as possible and hope tomorrow is better =)

As far as my progress of getting into diamond, I think I'm there soon. Today was just a little set-back, nothing more.

- FiveO

"Just go kill that muthafucka!"
acgFork
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
Canada397 Posts
August 26 2011 14:59 GMT
#2
Sounds tough bro! I got from rank 50 Silver to rank 4 Gold in the past few weeks and it felt really good, but I don't know where to go from here, I've had a lot of losses and not many wins.
What do you think is the difference between a Gold lvl player and a plat?
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Malyce
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Switzerland112 Posts
August 26 2011 15:13 GMT
#3
Your mindset is definitely gonna slow you down.

You shouldn't be sitting there thinking "oh this is BS he can be lazy and I have to be gosu or else I'll lose". Not only is it not true, but also you see problems in the wrong places. You don't need to study timings against a big deathball push, you need to study scouting, econ and unit composition. Either you get your own deathball (with infestors) or you get so much econ that you can replenish your army faster. And more bases doesn't mean you're ahead. What they are doing is by no means more "sensless crap" than what you're doing, which is basically taking lots of bases and getting maxed on low-tier units.

For the 3-rax marins all-in banelings are great, but you need creep spread. Check some Idra streaming, you'll see how he spreads creep and then waits for terran to overcommit to engage on creep. If he waits too long you will end up with just more stuff, since he's all-in and you're not.

And again, change you're mindset, you're just slowing yourself down this way.
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