[OSL] Great Desires - Page 4

On August 04 2009 09:38 EvoChamber wrote:


Jaedong 12 hatched, Zero went for an overgaspool build with ling speed. Standard overgaspool depends on walling off a ramp with zerglings while grabbing a fast second hatchery inbase; the earlier gas allows 6 mutas to be hatched off of one geyser once the spire completes. Zero's getting ling speed delayed his hatchery and put him way way behind in larva than Jaedong, who abused that advantage once his own ling speed finished to break Zero's ramp, kill some drones, and force a sunken colony. Even though he got to spire, Zero's economy was stuck and there was no way he could build a second hatchery. All he could do was pump mutas off of one gas, which Jaedong safely countered with two spores at each of his bases, even building a sunken at his natural to be extra safe against zergling runbys. Once Jaedong's own spire completed and his two gas geysers were operational, Zero was dead.

So yes it was a build order/positional win. Zero chose an awful build, got cross positions which made it even worse, and Jaedong exploited his advantage perfectly.

On August 04 2009 14:21 Plexa wrote:
]I wouldn't go so far as to say that build orders dont matter in ZvZ, but when Jaedong is playing you can't get any more than an slight advantage from a build (unless you're Jaedong with the good build)

On August 04 2009 22:43 ghostWriter wrote:

Oh, now that I think about it, you're totally right, it was an overgaspool. Thanks for the clarification! I was wondering why the pool/lings were so late. If he went standard 9pool, he would have gotten there in time to threaten the hatchery and force Jaedong's lings to guard at the ramp, correct?

On August 05 2009 05:33 EvoChamber wrote:


I think (not too certain) that if Zero had gone 9poolspeed, he would have had to guess correctly which base Jaedong was at. Zero opened at SW and sent his ov to NW, Jaedong at NE sending to SE, so Zero had a 50-50 chance of guessing Jaedong's location as his lings hatched. I think most progamers send their lings across the map in those situations, though, so his lings would have reached Jaedong's base in time to probably kill any or all of Jaedong's natural hatchery, initial lings, and some drones and put Jaedong way behind. Though with Jaedong you never really know

Yeah, ZvZ is probably the matchup with the most interesting metagame right now.