StarCraft improvement

iopq

United States904 Posts

June 06 2025 06:42 GMT

I want to record some of my thoughts here since I basically forget and have the same thoughts over and over again. Since improvement is a long term goal, it would be good to use proven memory techniques to learn and recall information that is important to how the game is played.

Broadly, I want to record several different things:

1. Lessons I've learned from practice so I don't have to lose many times to learn them again.

2. Lessons I've learned from watching pros so I don't have to make the same mistakes or wonder how to beat a given build.

3. Some untested strategies that I've been wondering about that nobody ever does. Why not just try them?

An example of a lesson from practice is I never do the big drop strategy when facing a late Terran mech switch so my drops are always weak zergling bombs and that never really stops a meching Terran completely. So I need to either take out a base with a huge drop or the factories. I do prefer the hydra/queen switch vs. mech late in the game, but maybe it's because my drop game sucks.

An example of a lesson I've learned from watching Soulkey is he tried to kill a bunker with one marine in it with just drones and lost too much. If he just went past the bunker with the drones and waited ~15s for lings he would have lost much less, maybe a couple of lings only instead of a couple of drones

An example of an untested strategy is to just put defilers into overlords. For 200 gas you can keep them safe from irradiate. Wonder why nobody has ever tried it defensively and keeps losing defilers. Pays for itself after stopping 2 irradiates.

FlaShFTW

United States10122 Posts

June 06 2025 14:11 GMT

There's actually been some players who do the overlord drop with defilers to avoid irradiate. As a Terran, it's the most annoying thing in the world. But usually the first few vessels will kill the defilers no matter what, all your gas is being used for upgrades, defilers, and lurkers, so it's hard to justify the 200 gas spend on it for those first few moments when Terran has vessels with irradiate as you scramble to set up and transition into the late game. After that though, I think it's a legitimate play and should be utilized more, and also gives you the option to do doom drops into their main later on.

iopq

United States904 Posts

June 08 2025 07:45 GMT

losing a defiler is 150 gas already, hard to justify constantly making new ones

my idea is not to doom drop, but just to walk into their base and instead of just fighting, popping out and dropping swarms everywhere

like take an overlord and just put two defilers in it, cast swarm and just pop them back into the overlord

I've never seen this done

iopq

United States904 Posts

June 08 2025 18:19 GMT

I forgot to mention, I've been working on my mouse accuracy and speed. I settled on 1200 DPI which might be a little high for accuracy (maybe 1000 DPI is optimal for 1080p) but it's better for scrolling around like when you're trying to catch fleeing zealots with mutalisks or trying to run away from scourge doing backshots

My splits are noticeably better vs. 1600 DPI so I'm definitely closer to optimal

XenOsky

Chile2257 Posts

June 09 2025 19:00 GMT

On June 09 2025 03:19 iopq wrote:
I forgot to mention, I've been working on my mouse accuracy and speed. I settled on 1200 DPI which might be a little high for accuracy (maybe 1000 DPI is optimal for 1080p) but it's better for scrolling around like when you're trying to catch fleeing zealots with mutalisks or trying to run away from scourge doing backshots

My splits are noticeably better vs. 1600 DPI so I'm definitely closer to optimal

why not 800 like 90%+++ of pros?

iopq

United States904 Posts

June 10 2025 09:02 GMT

On June 10 2025 04:00 XenOsky wrote:

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why not 800 like 90%+++ of pros?

Because I want to decrease wrist strain. Many of pros experience wrist pain because they all do the same thing

EDIT: besides, I'm already at a decent level

https://mission-red.com/reflexte/

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Are those pros getting significantly higher scores than me?

iopq

United States904 Posts

5 hours ago

this is where I am in grid shot on aimlabs

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