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Piste
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Liquid`Drone
Norway28800 Posts
vs mech however, you should almost never see guardian hydra, because guardians are bad against goliaths, and they're not particularly mobile. | ||
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Piste
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superovermind
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MeSaber
Sweden1235 Posts
https://play.afreecatv.com/jh3697 | ||
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kogeT
Poland2042 Posts
On May 09 2011 09:36 YejinYejin wrote: How do the professionals micro their wraiths in different situations (e.g. sniping drones when there's a spore nearby, running away from scourge/muta, and chasing mutas with cloak on)? | ||
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iopq
United States1085 Posts
On August 25 2021 16:12 Magic Powers wrote: Happens, yes. But "a lot"? I have to strongly disagree. Happened to me twice this ladder season, and I've been in a similar situation at least a dozen times (having played thousands of games, mind you) | ||
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Anc13nt
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iopq
United States1085 Posts
The guy only had FOUR bases, but I can't really mine from other ones because he can storm my workers and he just sits there harassing me basically prevent a guy from getting JUST FOUR bases? http://bwreplays.com/pujij even if I drop or attack with cracklings he can just storm, he has like infinity storms and starting to build up dark archons I was thinking of getting queens, but scouts are so good at sniping them, I guess if I got a big ensnare it might be worth | ||
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MeSaber
Sweden1235 Posts
The game would have ended by 4 min mark if you played your lings correctly. You even had 10-ish lings chasing a single zel to your base instead of using it to kill him with your 10-ish lings already attacking vs 3 zels defending with open wall. | ||
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Immaterial
Canada510 Posts
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iopq
United States1085 Posts
On September 07 2021 18:41 MeSaber wrote: Jesus what a weird game. You need to seriously analyse that replay in detail what you did wrong, in many occasions you could have just stomped him but didnt. Instead it becomes a 1:30 hour long game. The game would have ended by 4 min mark if you played your lings correctly. You even had 10-ish lings chasing a single zel to your base instead of using it to kill him with your 10-ish lings already attacking vs 3 zels defending with open wall. Yeah, obviously, I have a ton of replays where the guy just dies, but I'm not going to post those to ask questions about them I'm trying to figure out how to improve the parts that are not obvious, maybe I'm missing something | ||
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iopq
United States1085 Posts
On September 07 2021 20:35 Immaterial wrote: This is kind of a general question more so than a BW-specific question, but does anyone else ever get pain in their mouse hand when they try to play? I know I’m a bit older than I was when I used to play often but this is ridiculous lol. Wondering if there are any steps I can take to mitigate this, any advice would be greatly appreciated. 1. Wear a wrist brace. Not only when you play, but also when you're going to be doing things that involve your wrist (almost anything applies here, like cooking, etc.) At this point you need to reduce the inflammation in the wrist to the minimum. Also adjust your chair and position to a more correct one. There's tutorials online on how to do this. 2. Use wrist curls with dumb bells and reverse wrist curls. You need your forearms to look like biceps. This will be a lot more helpful than you think. | ||
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Anc13nt
1557 Posts
On September 07 2021 16:41 iopq wrote: LIke this game, I don't know what strategy to go for. The guy only had FOUR bases, but I can't really mine from other ones because he can storm my workers and he just sits there harassing me basically prevent a guy from getting JUST FOUR bases? http://bwreplays.com/pujij even if I drop or attack with cracklings he can just storm, he has like infinity storms and starting to build up dark archons I was thinking of getting queens, but scouts are so good at sniping them, I guess if I got a big ensnare it might be worth honestly the main issue was that your hive, ground upgrades and expansions were too late. By 29 minutes you only have 0-2-1 upgrades but you can have 3-3-3 at this time. At the 10-20 minute area, P was only on 6 gates for a long time so in this situation, it is very safe to get a quick hive and quick 4th (probably should get queen's nest and 4th at around 12 minutes or even earlier in this particular game). Also at around this time of the game, even though P does have d-web, they have mostly zealot sair, so a lurker contain while expanding and teching up would have been game ending for P. If you get faster hive, more bases and better upgrades, you could have flooded protoss with dark swarm ling (can be dropped or run up a ramp or both) and ht + cannon is not good enough defense against that. Protoss was playing so passive that it is safe to just keep rapidly expanding. Another thing is that the protoss natural and main had so little defense it can be destroyed without much trouble. | ||
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iopq
United States1085 Posts
On September 08 2021 05:32 Anc13nt wrote: honestly the main issue was that your hive, ground upgrades and expansions were too late. By 29 minutes you only have 0-2-1 upgrades but you can have 3-3-3 at this time. At the 10-20 minute area, P was only on 6 gates for a long time so in this situation, it is very safe to get a quick hive and quick 4th (probably should get queen's nest and 4th at around 12 minutes or even earlier in this particular game). Also at around this time of the game, even though P does have d-web, they have mostly zealot sair, so a lurker contain while expanding and teching up would have been game ending for P. If you get faster hive, more bases and better upgrades, you could have flooded protoss with dark swarm ling (can be dropped or run up a ramp or both) and ht + cannon is not good enough defense against that. Protoss was playing so passive that it is safe to just keep rapidly expanding. Another thing is that the protoss natural and main had so little defense it can be destroyed without much trouble. Makes a lot of sense, I often prioritize other things than getting Hive or upgrades, but it's sometimes over just making more troops | ||
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Optimate
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Cryoc
Germany912 Posts
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Counc1l
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I like to attack zerg with a zealot archon attack producing out of 6 gates when I reach this amount of corsairs, but zerg sim city + them teching to lurkers pretty fast afterward is usually enough for them to hold off an attack like that (which comes late because I am sitting back for a while getting what I think is a safe amount of corsairs). I lose a lot to this build. I am wondering how other players deal with this style of play in general, for the next time I play BW. I suppose I could try to take a faster 3rd base and play defensively, but then I feel like I'd have to take it to late game where I have issues beating zerg with mass lurkers and upcoming hive tech. Things felt easier when zerg played builds like 5 hatch hydra or 6 hatch hydra to be honest. | ||
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evilfatsh1t
Australia8866 Posts
if he doesnt come to harrass then you only need 5 corsairs with +1 to move out. if you control your corsairs well (ie. dont lose them stupidly to scourges), 5 corsairs will kill scourges before they hit and then you have easy air superiority. even if you lose a few corsairs you should have 1 or 2 more in production before you stop building corsairs so you get to maintain at least 5 | ||
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Ballnazor
Sweden22 Posts
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