How do you counter 6-pool or 10-pool as Protoss?

justle

United States174 Posts

September 30 2010 02:43 GMT

Since the new patch I have lost every 1v1 map to a Zerg. Even with a late pool, they have 6 zerglings at my base by the time I have one Zealot out (chrono boosting). I pull workers to defend, put up another gateway, etc., but I lose workers and slow my econ too much to be able to defend later waves of zerglings (still chrono boosting Zealots out).

I'm hoping that this post isn't deleted and/or closed and that someone is having luck defending against this who can explain. I open 10-pylon + gateway against every Zerg because I'm so afraid of this, and I use all chrono boosts on zealots. Is there a better way?

Butigroove

Seychelles2061 Posts

September 30 2010 02:49 GMT

Block your choke with pylon/gate/zeal. The only map that the zealot might not be done is steppes, in which case you need to scout it and block with a building or probes until the zeal is done.

Slivered Skin

Canada347 Posts

September 30 2010 02:52 GMT

You do know that there is a search function on this website, right? Try it out. If you put "6 pool" in the search field, you get 23 results.

Here is the first one: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=155447

It's a guide called "How To Stop A 6 Pool ZvP". It has 200 replies, so I'm guessing that some kind of answer had to come out of it.

nitdkim

1264 Posts

September 30 2010 02:55 GMT

why aren't you able to scout a 6pool in 1v1? bring out probes to choke when lings are about to arrive

Xapti

Canada2473 Posts

September 30 2010 02:55 GMT

Open 10 gate, build another pylon in range of that gate, and when they attack, use your probes to defend the gateway or both pylons from being destroyed (do not blindly suicide the probes, but attack when lings aren't attacking back, and withdraw when lings are attacking-back/chasing).

You can also just completely wall-in with 2 gateways and a pylon to hold them off for long enough to demolish their army.

Lastly, you can semi-wall-in. Even though your zealot isn't done in time, you can have 3 probes organized at the END of the choke point, to which only 2 zerglings will be able to attack at a time. This is because they are in the choke while you are just outside of it. When some of the probes die, you can have another 3+ probes ready to defend/replace. At a 3:2 advantage, probes alone could probably COMPLETELY deal with a zergling rush.