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The Practicing Factor

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Chiyosuke
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States51 Posts
February 23 2013 05:22 GMT
#1
As previously mentioned in one of my other posts, I want to try my hardest in my last year of college to try and become a pro-gamer, although this is probably not going to happen. I know that a lot of people have stated this, and a lot have tried and failed, but regardless I'm going to take that path as well.

In order to do that, I know that I'm going to practice relentlessly, and my game plan is playing a minimum of 20 games daily except for around two days a week because of school. Watching replays of pro-players, analyzing my own replays need to be integrated in this as well.

So today I really sat down and got to play quite a bit of ladder and in my mindless 20 games I started to really think about what I should be doing to improve my play. Focusing on a few specific things in my play while keeping my mechanics up is my main priority right now. In the games that I was playing I just kind of messed around constantly varying my build over and over dependent on how I was feeling and what I wanted to test out. I think that the quickest and best way to improve is to have a build or two that you stick with in a certain match-up and practice it over and over until you feel comfortable with it. Strats that I believe that I should be sticking with to get better at is:

TvT:
1 rax FE into mech /
1 rax expand into biomech;
TvP:
2Rax pressure into expand
1 rax FE Pressure @ 10 minute mark
TvZ:
1 rax FE into bio play
1 rax FE into Mech

As Day[9] once said, a player who's decent at 100 strats is a decent player, somebody who is good at 2 strats is a good player (or something like that haha).

My problem is that I like very micro intensive openings because I feel that it is very rewarding, so playing standard and not rushing for that banshee or things like that is going to be hard, but I think it is going to be worth it in the long run.

ItanoCircus
Profile Joined January 2013
United States67 Posts
February 23 2013 12:44 GMT
#2
If that is your focus, that's excellent. Be prepared to optimize, not according to standard (since HotS will be an entirely new game), but to what creates the best personal results. You'll be facing a lot of cheese and rushes with this style of play in the next year or so... remember when SC:BW came out and we had 1 Base Lurker as the threat to beat? Or when WoL went through nearly a year of 1-Base all-ins?

Perfect the defense. Ask people that beat you with rushes to do the same rush against you, over and over and over and over... then go back to the ladder. Whenever you lose, watch the replay and ask the victor to do the same thing to you over and over.

If you can't find any practice partners of sufficient quality, take at least two looks at the replay. The first would be "What is the failing that allowed this cheese to work?" The second, vastly more important one in the new HotS era, would be "How can I change my build based on my macro-based style to defend against this more easily?"

Keep it up, and best of luck.
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