[GSL] Code S - Week Two Begins - Page 6

Personally I think throwing the proxy hatch down at the natural is less useful than throwing it up at say the top right of the main in cloud kingdom.

The main perks to this are the possible surprise factor, and the more powerful attack to end the game immediately. While it's unlikely that a pro would not scout around their base, proxy hatches in general aren't super common. You also place the hatch somewhere that requires money spent on either units to attack and attempt to kill the hatch, or on cannons that would be placed somewhere that would more than likely not be very useful in later engagements. By sneaking the hatch in, you're also allowing the protoss to put down their natural nexus, and (if all goes well) have it finish, losing 400 minerals of possible defending units.

What I personally do behind this (Diamond Z, so take it for what you will) is tech to roach back at home to make my "scouting" units a more powerful roach instead of ling. This allows me to harass the protoss bases, possibly picking off probes or cannons, and still placing tumors in the base to scout/hinder building placement. In more extreme cases, adding a drone in at the proxy allows for spine crawlers to be morphed, solidifying your position. The final nail in the coffin is the additional push from the front with roaches. While you're making roaches/lings/whatever at the proxy, you've cut drone production low (honestly I don't have the knowledge to say what my drone count is, but it's certainly cut when I feel I can support some roaches/lings from both hatcheries. Probably ends up maxing mineral drones and one extractor, I want to say) and you're just mass producing as many units as possible to keep the protoss from making a unified stand. Your push from your main can usually take out cannons if the toss walled off completely, and if not, you can usually take out some of their production/pylons at that wall.

I'm sure the pro scene knows more about how to handle something like this, and I get the feeling that I get away with the strategy longer than I should be able to, so maybe the last half or so of the strategy isn't really viable at top level play.

I had zenio winning and mma but I also picked zenio to advance even though I was coinflipping on the decision between him and gumiho...bah, so close to a perfect bet set!