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Phalanx's Daily #63: Blink vs FE

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Sir.Phalanx
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Japan195 Posts
July 15 2013 11:09 GMT
#1
Hello guys, Phalanx again! Today was another slow day for myself on laddering... I keep telling myself that I'll ladder more but I end up dicking around with old friends and such. I suppose it's a good thing to actually keep relationships with friends, but I really want to be able to get my ass up to masters by the end of this month (that's my current goal anyways).

As for my laddering; PvP has still been a bitch to deal with. Everybody seems to be going for 1 or 2 gate fast expands, and this was what has been killing me for a while. DTs can't punish them in time due to observers, and blink seems to be very thin on whether or not it can actually defeat all of the immortals. I've only faced 3 or so protosses on ranked with the current build of choice, and I beat 1 because he went for a 4gate, 1 because I caught some units of his out on the map, and lost to 1 because he went for the fe.

When I first found the build, I expected it to be a very strong build against fast expands due to the fact that it's basically an all-in. However, in practice, it's been extremely hard to be able to bust down the nexus, especially with immortals. One possibility of my losses is that my blink micro is shit; often times I blink up onto the high ground after the enemy uses his photon overcharge, and maybe I just need to wait. I have been getting better at blinking back individual stalkers, but still could use practice in that aspect too.

No other sort of material for today, just a bit of a status update, mostly for myself :3. I'll be working on either playing my all-in better or to find a build that would suit the current meta better, and in the mean time hope that I can stomp some noobs and get up in that ranking!

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Paljas
Profile Joined October 2011
Germany6926 Posts
July 15 2013 22:48 GMT
#2
imo, stargate is the way to go in todays PvP.
also, nice little blog
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CecilSunkure
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States2829 Posts
July 16 2013 00:17 GMT
#3
On July 16 2013 07:48 Paljas wrote:
imo, stargate is the way to go in todays PvP.
also, nice little blog

Currently SG is strongest due to ability to detect DT, and Blink isn't quite as scary with Voidray + armor charge and Photon Cannon.
FoxShine
Profile Joined January 2012
United States156 Posts
July 16 2013 00:32 GMT
#4
On July 16 2013 09:17 CecilSunkure wrote:
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On July 16 2013 07:48 Paljas wrote:
imo, stargate is the way to go in todays PvP.
also, nice little blog

Currently SG is strongest due to ability to detect DT, and Blink isn't quite as scary with Voidray + armor charge and Photon Cannon.


I'll have to try this.. I used to be the kinda of player who goes DT expand, or blink stalker all ins. I've just recently been going robo as a safer alternative and it's been pretty stable.. I do lose sometimes to a good stargate player or in general macro play.

I like Robo because you can defend pretty much anything, DT's/Blink/immortal/ while expanding pretty easily, plus it sets you up nicely for collosus. Still losing to air a bit with it though, voids or mass phoenix into voids.. Maybe trying out air is a good idea.
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aZealot
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
New Zealand5447 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-07-16 02:31:24
July 16 2013 02:30 GMT
#5
Wait, what's happened to the adventures of probe Johnson? To hardworking Mike and freewheeling Emily? Not to mention the cunning and unseen Snowden?
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Sir.Phalanx
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Japan195 Posts
July 16 2013 02:42 GMT
#6
On July 16 2013 11:30 aZealot wrote:
Wait, what's happened to the adventures of probe Johnson? To hardworking Mike and freewheeling Emily? Not to mention the cunning and unseen Snowden?


I had been a lil busy and got too lazy to make a good write up for today I'll be getting back to it soon! I think i've decided that I like to do battle reports more than videos as well.
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