Learning to Zerg 3 (Image Heavy)

LeperKahn

Romania1850 Posts

September 06 2008 23:40 GMT

In the 2 months since the last update not much has changed in LeperKahn's camp. I've gotten a little better, raised APM a bit, and learned how to adapt a bit more. However, I don't review what I've done wrong enough, and what better way than to restart the blog?

So, let's kick this iCCup season off with a few well lost games and fun stories of my failure.

My first game is vs. a C- Terran. He actually played pretty badly. I bet he was alt-tabbed the whole game and still won. He starts out with a just plain BRILLIANT sbb and early refinery. I swear I think he made the build order up himself.

A Mistake of the Pros: Scouting and Understanding

He goes and kills my overlord like a jerk which is actually cool because it lets me see the rush ahead of time. I'd post a picture of it, but my defenses were awful and embarrassing. Sadly I didn't expect this:

SCVs are the super early game medic.

Again APM bites me in the ass and between morphing zerglings, cloning drones, and whatnot my sunkens are late like a noob.

Well, they have more health as morphing sunken colonies.

Through a stroke of awesome luck I survive the first attack and assume I'm safe. The terran didn't like that idea though.

Medics this time

That's no surprise. I knew I didn't have a chance.

PvZ comes next. I actually have a chance in this one! He's D+! In the game before this I got two gated and I expected it again. My plan was to 9 hatch, but I ended up 12 hatching. It's cool though because you can still defend from a lateish 2 gate with 12 hatch.

I'm starting to scout on 9 these days and I'm doing much better since then. I scouted this guy's satan build and did my best to react accordingly.

Frequenters of my blog know how I feel about two gate.

I was lucky and the zealot shows up after the pool had morphed. Then 2 more come and this time with probes. I'm ready with bad micro though!

Attack move should be called stupid move.

Then I countered with 4 lings and all of my drones. I always all-in counter 2 gate and I expected it to go well. Anyway, somewhere between D and D+ protosses learn how to build cannons after a failed 2 gate. I didn't know that.

Tim Allen says, "HOLD THE LINE!"

Well, we all know what happens when all in fails.

Finally ZvZ. I'm red.

You've gotta clarify colors. Yeah.

Everyone seems to hate this matchup, but I actually like it. I always seem to be able to tell what I'm doing wrong, but that doesn't stop me from doing it wrong in the first place.

I can haz 12 hatch too plox?

I had 12 pooled which put me behind less than I thought. I assumed I would need to end this game before he could get mutas which was a dumb mistake. He had reacted to me scouting his 12 hatch and made defenses... DEFENSES! In a ZvZ. The nerve!