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Profile Blog Joined April 2007
Korea (South)693 Posts
July 13 2007 14:27 GMT
#1
Well I was looking at the thread from BlueIris and the blog from tazdio and it looks like their training was paying off. Before I say what happened, I will introduce myself -_-. I play Protoss and my APM is constantly in the 160-170's. My winning percentage is around 50-60% in pubs and my best matchup is PvP. However, my macro/micro level is only decent so i tried this

Game 1: I played a PvP and I saw the computer massed zealots and I made 4 zealots and rest dragoons. The reason I did this was I needed to practice micro After I stopped his wave, I waited to max out and finished it off by the 15th minute. My APM was 254 so I was surprised but probably because of all the hotkey I used for units (Which I barely did, but for some reason I did it because thats the point of excercise

Game 2: I played PvT and the computer went m&m -_- so I stopped first wave, and smae thing happened as game 1: i waited it out and won at 19th minute because the computer was smart enough to expand apm i got was 245.

i don't know if playing like this would work against a human =/ but i can tell you that my macro in both games were so much better than i would usually play. it didnt break 1000 at all (like i did sometimes during pub). the highest it went to was maybe like 700-800 ish but other than that it was at a very low level.

and i wonder if my hotkeys are ok. i have had the habit of making 1 and 2 my nexuses. 3-7 would be mainly for my units. f2 is for my 3rd expansion, f3 is for the location of rally of units, and f4 is the location of where most gateways are. is that a bad way of playing? i feel if i changed 1-4 for units then i feel uncomfortable>.<

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Profile Blog Joined January 2006
39489 Posts
July 13 2007 14:33 GMT
#2
hm usually 8-0 are nexuses, but whatever works for you. I think nony uses like 4 for nexus and uses his mouse to make units (instead of P). You can look at knicknack's (fuck i know i misspelled that) site, it has a few paragraphs on various hotkey schemes of very good players and the reasoning behind each.
vstar
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
Korea (South)693 Posts
July 13 2007 14:36 GMT
#3
where can i find that? ;D
infinity21 *
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
Canada6683 Posts
July 13 2007 14:40 GMT
#4
On July 13 2007 23:36 vstar wrote:
where can i find that? ;D

http://www.artofprotoss.vze.com/
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Tadzio
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
3340 Posts
July 13 2007 15:14 GMT
#5
good luck!
xM(Z
Profile Joined November 2006
Romania5286 Posts
July 13 2007 17:34 GMT
#6
i tried that apm training (which Blueiris wrote) but i can't sit in my base and spam. i just cant. i need to atack, to scout, to cheese or to do anything fight related. i find myself harassing with lings, messing with pc workers..etc .

gl man. i hope you get something out of it
And my fury stands ready. I bring all your plans to nought. My bleak heart beats steady. 'Tis you whom I have sought.
SayaSP
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Laos5494 Posts
July 14 2007 00:01 GMT
#7
On July 14 2007 02:34 xM(Z wrote:
i tried that apm training (which Blueiris wrote) but i can't sit in my base and spam. i just cant. i need to atack, to scout, to cheese or to do anything fight related. i find myself harassing with lings, messing with pc workers..etc .

gl man. i hope you get something out of it


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vstar
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
Korea (South)693 Posts
September 16 2007 03:15 GMT
#8
Anyways, I should tell you that I can break 250+ like it's my job.

PvP is greater than ever.
In PvZ, I can finally just dominate (around 70%) of the time.

PvT is still complete garbage though. I need to work on that.
Sigrun
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
United States1655 Posts
September 17 2007 06:54 GMT
#9
On September 16 2007 12:15 vstar wrote:
Anyways, I should tell you that I can break 250+ like it's my job.

PvP is greater than ever.
In PvZ, I can finally just dominate (around 70%) of the time.

PvT is still complete garbage though. I need to work on that.


Is this due to the training? :O
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