ICCup report 7

9pool Lair

-9pool
-drone, gas, drone, overlord,
-6 lings, lair,
-ling pumping
-spire, drone,
-make overlord when spire half done, then save larva

::Forgoing ling speed for an extremely fast lair means
you'll be pressuring a bit with your 9pool lings, but
shortly after, playing defense with lings and pressuring
with tech. Best on ramped maps to help defending with
slow lings. Be sure to keep an eye out for his ling
numbers, because you'll have about a dozen. If he gets
like 18 or more, you may want to build a sunk

General Overpool

-overpool, gas
-drone x 3,
-6 lings,
-ling speed,
-lair***,
-lings until 16 supply (12 lings),
-overlord @16 supply, then drone,
-spire, more lings,
-overlord @ spire half done,
-hot muta action,

***IMPORTANT: Do NOT make more lings after the first 6
until you start lair, else you'll have <150mins @100gas.

::This is like the general ZvZ build. You get decent ling
pressure, decently fast tech, and a decent economy. You're
also safe against 4pool and 5pool sunk rush. Can also be
easily adapted to get fast lair instead of ling speed if
certain builds are scouted.

5pool sunk rush

-5pool,
-drone,
-as soon as drone hatches, send him out to scout if on
a 4-player map, otherwise send him to hide and wait
-6lings, rally to base
-drone or 2 lings,
-coordinate sunk placement and timing with the lings
running in, so that he can't surround and kill it
before your lings get there. Also, so that your lings
can hopefully block his natural response of placing
his own sunk.
-overlord, drone-whore, honestly the game is probably
over by now


::Timings::
0:45 pool starts
1:37 pool finishes, 6lings start
2:25 to 2:40 sunk starts and lings arrive

::Basically this beats any 12hatch open,
and may beat 12pool opens depending on distance and
his micro and yours. Loses to everything else though.
This build really depends on surprise, so if you scout
a player with your drone, try not to let him see it.
You could, for example, sneak up with the drone, and
if you see creep, you know he's there without him
knowing you know. Also, make sure to send the lings
on a path where his overlord won't see them if
possible.

4pool sunk rush

-4pool
-drone
-6lings
-scout as soon as lings start
-(drone or 2 lings)x2
-overlord, drone-whore, honestly the game is probably
over by now

::Timings::
0:39 pool starts
1:29 pool finishes, six lings start, scout
1:45 lings hatch
2:20 to 2:35 sunk starts, lings arrive

12hatch@main

-9overlord,
-12hatch@main,
-11pool,
-10gas,
-drone x4,
-creep colony when pool 75% done (3rd drone hatches).
-(sunk, 2 lings, lair) OR (4 lings, lair), depending
how aggressive opponent was
-whore out 3 more drones if safe, and the rest lings
until 18/18 supply, so you should have 6lings and
sunk to defend with for a bit
-at 18/18, overlord, then ling speed.
-when overlord finishes, DON'T spam lings, get ready
to make spire, then spam lings
-overlord @23/26, then lings until 26
-save larva/min/gas for 4 mutas and another overlord
as soon as spire finishes

::Timings::
1:42 hatch start
2:00 pool start
2:05 extractor start
2:35 extractor finish
2:53 pool finish
3:00 hatch finish AND lair start
4:04 lair finish AND spire start
4:40 ling speed finish
5:20 spire finish - 4 mutas

::Honestly I'm not sure if this build is any good,
but basically what it does is this: it risks an
econo-whore opening, in exchange for the ability to
mass ling AND get a really fast lair at good timing.
Also the econo-whore opening is a "safish" one, with
preplanned sunk. Still, on small maps I think this
build gets owned, and on bigger maps I think there
are probably better builds.