EPTBefore you read on any further, this isn't a balance whine or anything of the like. I watch other people play TvP and know that its fairly balanced, its just that I personally suck at it.
To give you a little bit of context, here are my current winrates....
EU server:
TvX - 52% 108W-97L
TvT - 72% 40W-15L
TvZ - 46% 37W-43L
TvP - 44% 31W-39L
US server:
TvX 56% 14W-11L
TvT 77% 7W-2L
TvZ 66% 4W-2L
TvP 30% 3W-7L
I'm currently sitting at around 1650MMR (note how I didn't say I'm X-tier Diamond) on both severs, but as you can see I;ve been playing much more on my Eu account, mainly because until a week ago I was playing on mobile wifi and my latency on US was not playable. Now I've got a hardline, I'm going to push for Master on US. To achieve this goal I clearly have 1 obstacle in my way.... TvP.
If I actually combine my accounts, my TvP winrate is at around 41% and my TvZ around 47%
You will see that my TvT is pretty stellar. I use a proxy cloaked banshee build of my own design that rips apart Master players on a regular basis. Even when I can't get my preferred build off, I have a mean TvT. This match-up obviously makes the most sense to me, for obvious reasons.... I play terran, always have and always will. My backup builds come in a few forms:
Proxy banshee, no cloak (if i scout early ebays or turrets up as i come in with first banshee) immediately expand and fly my startport back home to start medivac production.
Standard 1 rax gasless expand. Some maps just dont suit my proxy banshee build and so I dont use it and instead go for a heavily upgraded bio force backed up with tanks and medivacs.
3cc, 3rax in to 3 fact tank/bio.
I rarely lose a TvT. When I do its because of either a bad engagement that, even at the time, I know I shouldn't be taking or... simply being out played. The former being far more often the case than the latter. TvT makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
If you ever want tips of TvT, feel free to drop me a PM. Bronze or Master makes no difference, my builds are solid and of my own design, based upon my playstyle but easily adapted to others.
Now moving on to TvZ
This match-up is well my most fun in many ways (don't get me wrong, wrecking most of my TvT opponents in 10 mins or less is fun for a while, but it gets old quick). I'm close to 50% winrate and will always be somewhere around 50% +-3 depending on the kind of day I have and how good my reads are. My TvZ is based heavily around CC first openings, such as below...
14 CC, 2 rax before OC. 3rd rax after both OC's are converting. Bunker right by my natural CC. from here I transition based on scouting. If i scout a fast zerg 3rd, I get another CC and pump SCV;s and marines. If no 3rd, double gas on both bases and get up to tanks, stim and medivacs asap. I even sometimes thrown in marauders if I scout banes (lots of them) or roaches. My main play for TvZ is to expand agressively, get more rax than a clothes store and simply over run them with tank bio play. If all goes well I have 3/3 on bio, 1/1 on tanks and then 2/0 on Vikings.
I have many variations on this but its all scouting based and so too hard to describe them all without making th reader, or myself, die from boredom.
And Now.... TvP
So my overall winrate across all servers is 42.5% now you might not think that sounds too bad, but its worse than it seems. Many of those wins came against toss players who were low to mid plat when i levelled my EU account back to Diamond, after tanking my rating by losing on purpose... well not on purpose, I was just doing such stupidly wacky things, I lost nearly every game. On US server, I hadn't played for 2 seasons, got placed in plat and it took me about 20 games to get back in to diamond.
Against 1600(+-100)MMR Toss players my winrate drops dramatically. To somewhere in the mid 30's. No joke, I suck as hard at TvP as I rock at TvT.
When leveling back to Diamond my go to build was a simple 1/1/1 in to 3 rax Bio/Medivac all-in. Where both my superior macro/micro and multitasking got me a lot of free wins with a silly build that simply doesn't work against someone of equal skill.
Since playing people of my own skill and even many who aren't I just dont seem to be able to "find the win" so to speak.
I've tried all-ins (not really my style, but if it works...) but feel that coinflipping isn't helping me improve my TvP just my ladder points.
So now I'm back to macro macro macro. Doing 14CC builds and 1rax FE. usually with a 3rd OC added on really fast. Now the builds I use are of my own design, to fit my style but based on what the pro's do and are fairly solid.When I win, I win convincingly, when I lose..... I lose miserably lol.
I had noticed that my scouting often let me down in TvP and so focused a little more on that, I'm sending out more random SCV's to see army comps and spending scans way more often. I'm expanding aggressively and getting out the army comps I need to deal with the protoss. I win fights with calm poise and (for my level at least) some top notch micro but I keep bloody losing.
So here is my plea.... for many seasons now TvP has been keeping me in Diamond. Anytime I push my MMR up towards that magic 2000 MMR line, I hit 5-6 toss in a row and boom im back down to 1700 or worse lol.
I don't want people to point me to build orders, I want people who can directly help me improve in this matchup. If you are a Master Terran with a skill for TvP who would be willing to spend a few hours going thru replays with me and talking over skype, coaching me directly in game etc then I would love to hear from you. Conversely if you are a Master Protoss with a skill for PvT then I would love to practice against you and then break down the games so you can explain to me, from the Protoss prospective what I am doing well and what it is I should be looking for.
I have many skills and am sure that my respect and friendship would come in handy for you someday if you help me out. I'm a full time musician, a fairly accomplished sound technician, a very accomplished singer and vocal coach and a really nice guy (don't believe anything my gf might say while we are talking on skype.... she hates gamers lol) and I would be eternally grateful If I could find a few people to help me out of my TvP hole.
Emy signing out. Thanks for reading.
