[G] ZvP All-ins, The Guessing Game and Trickery - Page 6

On August 08 2009 01:39 iamho wrote:
do any other z players honestly think using all-in strats are fun? imo they're not interesting enough to ever use

On August 08 2009 03:51 Shikyo wrote:

It isn't really about fun, it's about winning.

On August 08 2009 03:58 w3jjjj wrote:


Winning is pretty fun to me.

On August 08 2009 05:36 tossinYoSalad wrote:
About 90% of zergs just play destination all day and cheese non-stop. Since destination is MOTW this week I've been playing it a lot, and all of my pvz games have been cheese except for ONE. It's always so uncreative too. 3hat speedling all-in, 2hat hydra, 3hat lurker, 2hat muta. You can tell all they do is cheese because when you fight it off they have NO idea what to do, or just gg on the spot. They're always gonna be stuck at d ranks, and are only hurting themselves so its w/e they want to do, but it gets really old fighting the same crap all day. What's the point of having standard play if no one ever plays it?

On August 08 2009 05:43 w3jjjj wrote:


It's the same when a zerg player complains about getting bunker rushed or proxy gated all the time. Defense is a necessary skill, regardless of which race you use, you need to know how to defend against everything.

On August 08 2009 05:44 tossinYoSalad wrote:


Well, I wasn't really complaining about it, rather just pointing out that they're only hurting themselves by cheesing all the time. I'm getting quite good at defending cheese (havent lost to a 5pool in like 2 weeks lol). Cheese is a part of the game and all, I'm just sick of playing against it ALL THE TIME. Every now and then its fun to have micro battles and stuff, but when cheese is encountered FAR more often than standard play it's really lame.

On August 08 2009 05:36 tossinYoSalad wrote:
About 90% of zergs just play destination all day and cheese non-stop. Since destination is MOTW this week I've been playing it a lot, and all of my pvz games have been cheese except for ONE. It's always so uncreative too. 3hat speedling all-in, 2hat hydra, 3hat lurker, 2hat muta. You can tell all they do is cheese because when you fight it off they have NO idea what to do, or just gg on the spot. They're always gonna be stuck at d ranks, and are only hurting themselves so its w/e they want to do, but it gets really old fighting the same crap all day. What's the point of having standard play if no one ever plays it?

On August 08 2009 05:56 Shikyo wrote:

What would you expect on iccup at the D ranks? 80% of the ZvTs I play are against Bunker Rushes. ZvZs are allin lings 95% of the time. If you want to learn how to play standard, I suggest playing with friends or getting a clan... iccup isn't the ideal place for that.

On August 07 2009 23:04 ccou wrote:


Where is this whining? The last couple pages have been a couple of P players saying it's legit to win with nonstandard Z builds while a couple of Z players saying it's better to play standard 5 hat macro. If anything, it's the protoss players defending zerg "cheese." And before that, it's been mostly praise for the OP from all races.

EDIT: To contribute, this guessing game is what makes PvZ a lot of fun for me. My two Z friends always keep me guessing and really make me work for intel. Neither of them go for hydra or ling all ins that much, but I get fast lurkers, slow drop lurkers, 3 base+hidden 4th for massive macro, 2 hat muta pretty often. I'm almost disappointed in how most pro games just end up so standard when both races have so many timing options.

On August 08 2009 06:54 Sixer wrote:
The whole argument that these builds should be saved for a BoX series is retarded. The possibility of non-standard play is one of the things that makes Starcraft so fun. Aggravating as hell, yes, but if everyone played 5hatch hydra vs FE stargate all day, the pro scene would surely die.

On August 08 2009 10:47 EricTakeOver wrote:
Wow, that was a great post there.

I really got into the strategies.

Thanks man, I'll definitely try the trickery out


Trickey-ish?: Scouting probe getting chased by a zergling, make the probe see spire (MAKE SURE TO PUT SPIRE AS SOON AS THE PROBE GETS NEAR IT SO THAT HE KNOWS YOU JUST STARTED SPIRE TECH), kill the scouting probe (block ramp is optional) cancel spire as soon as the probe is dead, switch to either fully upgraded hydras ( range and speed) or lurker tech if you can be fancy enough with it

That totally caught the person i vsed off guard and i won :D

On August 08 2009 05:56 Shikyo wrote:

What would you expect on iccup at the D ranks? 80% of the ZvTs I play are against Bunker Rushes. ZvZs are allin lings 95% of the time. If you want to learn how to play standard, I suggest playing with friends or getting a clan... iccup isn't the ideal place for that.