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kawaiiryuko
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States368 Posts
December 06 2011 17:15 GMT
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I've been pretty much mainlining Skyrim since it was released and have basically only played enough SC2 games to use up my bonus pool. I decided this weekend, after NASL, that I was going to have to dedicate at least 1-2 nights a week where I play SC2 instead of Skyrim so Monday night, I decide to sit down and just burn up my bonus pool and try to make Diamond.

Seven games later, I'm just about ready to punch both of my monitors and throw my keyboard out the window. Good god, how could I have gotten so bad so quickly?! I just don't understand. I still read the forums, I try to stay up to date on strategies, but man.

Although, for some reason, out of my seven games, I played 5 ZvPs and 2 ZvZs. I used to run into ZvTs all the time and now, not so much!

A quick breakdown would be:

1) ZvZs:
a) I won my first ZvZ with a pretty straightforward attack. I put down a hatch, saw no expo, scouted his base with a second ovie and saw a roach warren. I went sling/roach and only showed lings where his ovie could see and hid my roaches in a corner of my base. When I saw him move out with an all roach army, I made roaches, waited, crushed his pure roach army with sling/roaches and then finished him off with a counter attack.
b) I lost my second ZvZ because I was dumb. I went hatch first, saw him go hatch first and decided to put on some early ling/roach pressure. He scouts my army as they pop out so he starts on ling/roach production. I manage to take out his smaller army and reinforce with my hatch before his hatch finishes and forces a cancel. I should have just waited for reinforcements to arrive instead of just streaming them in a few at a time but I figured I was ahead so I backed off after taking out his expo and started to macro up. I kept an ovie near his expo and saw that he didn't put one down. I sent some lings to scout the other expos and mains just in case he expanded elsewhere but didn't see anything. In the meantime, I was droning. By the time I figured out he didn't have a second expo, I started to crank out roaches again while I sacced an ovie into his base. Saw he went lair and mass roaches but couldn't get enough roaches out in time to counter him as he went for fast lair + roach speed. Even though I was ahead in drone count, I had to pull drones to help defend. Ended up losing both of my queens + a chunk of drones. His second wave of roaches killed more of my drones and I just ended up losing from there. I should have just started some spines instead of droning so hard when I didn't see him go for an expo. I should have sacced the ovie earlier to see what he was doing and I should have expected a roach all-in. Probably should have transitioned into mutas faster too.

2) ZvPs: Basically, I lost almost of my ZvPs because I was dumb and just macro'd too hard. I would be on 5 base to a Protoss' 3 base, have a maxed army, attack, trade armies (but wouldn't be able to snipe his colossi) and then lose because I couldn't remax before his army swept through my base. I noticed my three biggest errors: a) not enough scouting - sometimes, they would go 1-star for 3 phoenixes and a VR to force me to go hydras and then they switch to colossi; b) maxing on t1/t1.5 army - I make the mistake of maxing out with lings/roaches (and probably /way/ too many drones) even though I have a spire and infestor pit. I trade my ling/roach army and it just wouldn't do enough damage vs. a chargelot/stalker/colossi army; c) poor muta harass - when I'd get about 8-10 mutas out, I wasn't actively harassing with them, and so, that was gas probably better spent on corrupters or infestors intead. I did win a ZvP when I managed to go broodlord/roach/ling on 4 base vs. a 3-base protoss, so that was kinda nice. And the Protoss was even all 'ggwp!' so I felt pretty good about that.

Still, I was pretty sad over the state of affairs - clearly, I need to put in at least an hour or two of SC2 daily to keep my skills up before I go to play anything else if I don't want to end up being demoted.

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HackBenjamin
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Canada1094 Posts
December 06 2011 18:06 GMT
#2
Honestly, I get this. If I miss 2 days of SC2, my game goes to utter shit. You gotta stick with it - OR ELSE!
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