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What's the best PvP Cheese? Or just unconvential?

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Ndugu
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States1078 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-03 20:07:19
August 03 2010 20:06 GMT
#1
I am sick of playing PvP. I hate it. It is miserable. I love Starcraft II, but when I say that I mean doing things other than 4gating against a 4gate. It was okay in beta when people were still dumb enough to play Zerg, but now that 50% of my games are PvP.... it makes me rage, win or lose.

I want a cheese that will quickly win or lose Diamond level games. Essentially, I want the closest thing I can do to alt+f4ing but with a chance of winning.

I'm also interested in unconventional strategies that have a chance of actually winning. There seem to be plenty of nifty ideas, and they all seem to lose to a+moved mass stalkers.

Might just have to get a hang of the korean warp-gate in-base strat =/
blabber
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States4448 Posts
August 03 2010 20:09 GMT
#2
proxy 2gate?
blabberrrrr
fatduck
Profile Joined April 2010
United States148 Posts
August 03 2010 20:11 GMT
#3
Proxy 2gate in base or cannon rush, basically. Proxy gates is probably more effective but sometimes you might want to mix it up.
good sir, you appear to be somewhat lacking in intelligence. please refrain from posting until this is remedied, since it renders your opinions slightly less than correct and has a tendency to irritate more informed forum-goers
GenocideRun
Profile Joined July 2010
United States262 Posts
August 03 2010 20:11 GMT
#4
^This, it seems to be the easiest thing to do verse 4 gate cheese and it has a fairly even chance of win/lose.
Genocide.run, Dota2 player and sc2 fan!
Chairman Ray
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States11903 Posts
August 03 2010 20:12 GMT
#5
Proxy 3 gate. It counters warpgates and tech builds pretty well. It gets countered by 3-4 gate in base without warp though, but those are not very commonly seen.
MICHELLE
Profile Joined June 2010
Korea (South)199 Posts
August 03 2010 20:13 GMT
#6
FF your ramp and tech to mass archon IMO
Artosis, he's like that moss that grows on a tree that lets you know where the sun is
Ndugu
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States1078 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-03 20:14:28
August 03 2010 20:14 GMT
#7
As much as I've lawled/raged at proxy-gaters since the start of beta, I guess it's that time.

Thank you guys for understanding my rage and trying to help rather than laughing and flaming XD
Hakker
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States1360 Posts
August 03 2010 20:14 GMT
#8
proxy 3 gate zealot rush

Try and put your pylon where you can block it off with gateways (so he cant easily kill it with probes).

If its a 4 player map send 1 of your first probes to the other side of the map, and send your first probe from your nexus to the base across from you. If hes at the base across from you you dont need to proxy, otherwise build with the first probe you sent out.

I usually do
10 pylon
10 gateway
14 gateway
15 pylon
16 zealot, cut probe production after you have 16 probes (optimal mining level)
18 gateway

once you have all 3 gateways making zealots and around 4 zealots out head to his base. If he went stalkers send 2-3 to attack the stalkers and use the rest to drop his pylons. Once his pylons are down you win.

I do it in almost every pvp, its my least favorite matchup

Coincidentally, i probably have my highest winrate in pvp.
Kpyolysis32
Profile Joined April 2010
553 Posts
August 03 2010 20:16 GMT
#9
Try more sentries and teching? You can stay a gate behind if you have enough Forcefield
Man, do I not keep this up to date, or what?
cive
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Canada370 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-03 20:19:37
August 03 2010 20:17 GMT
#10
start out normal. 13 gate, 14 gas, 15 pylon then cyber. Mine gas till 50. Save Chrono boost. Keep your scout alive. If dies, send another one. Start chorno boosting warpgate research. Make three more gateways. start building pylon everywhere in his base. as soon as you are done your research, start warping zealots in his base.

Tester Versus Huk in The King of the Beta

ro16 Day 1 Game 4 WTA Takedown http://ch.gomtv.com/4006
You need a gomplayer for this. And a friend that can read korean.
Play Terran
Ndugu
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States1078 Posts
August 03 2010 20:20 GMT
#11
On August 04 2010 05:16 Kpyolysis32 wrote:
Try more sentries and teching? You can stay a gate behind if you have enough Forcefield


Can only force-fields for so long. And a Collosi popping in PvP does not have the same shock and awe affect as it does in other matchups =/

Gonna try some of this out and report back :D
Ajax413
Profile Joined April 2010
United States18 Posts
August 03 2010 20:27 GMT
#12
Haha we played each other twice the past couple of days, and I believe both were 4 gate vs 4 gate. As for PvP cheese, proxy two gates work the best against me. If you can get them in their base it's very tough to deal with.
Melt
Profile Joined May 2010
Switzerland281 Posts
August 03 2010 20:30 GMT
#13
Zealot-warp-allin from 4 to 5 Gates.

Works most of the Time even if it gets scouted.
mufin
Profile Joined May 2010
United States616 Posts
August 03 2010 20:30 GMT
#14
fml, 3 gate proxies are the exact reason I wall off my ramp with a forge in PvP.. if you don't scout it immediately, its usually too late.
I only make 5 actions per minute. But since I use all my time deliberating and planning, my 5 actions are so brutally devastating that children cry out and grown men weep.
LSB
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States5171 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-03 20:34:28
August 03 2010 20:32 GMT
#15
DT rush

After you make your dts, expand, and then switch to mass army, switch back to dts, switch to expand, switch to mass army. Rinse and repeat.

Remember! When in doubt press k... I mean d.

EDIT: okay, didn't see the title that well, dt rush works great against zerg/terran. Well... considering current PvP is decided within the first 6 minutes, proxy 2gate! Punish those 4gates!
Once is an accident. Twice is coincidence. Three times is an enemy action. Bus Driver can never target themselves I'm sorry
Wolf
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Korea (South)3290 Posts
August 03 2010 20:38 GMT
#16
I feel like these kinds of threads belong in the strategy forum...

At any rate, yeah, PvP is so annoying, and I always want to cheese, but I avoid it simply because I don't feel like it'll make me a better player. Feels like 80% of people play P in high-level ladder, though, because I mostly get PvP in the matchup.

That aside, when I cheese, it's cannon rushing 90% of the time.
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Ndugu
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States1078 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-03 20:56:29
August 03 2010 20:55 GMT
#17
On August 04 2010 05:38 Wolf wrote:
I feel like these kinds of threads belong in the strategy forum...

At any rate, yeah, PvP is so annoying, and I always want to cheese, but I avoid it simply because I don't feel like it'll make me a better player. Feels like 80% of people play P in high-level ladder, though, because I mostly get PvP in the matchup.

That aside, when I cheese, it's cannon rushing 90% of the time.


Yeah sorry. Since it was more of a whining/rage/QQ thread than anything too serous (although I am serious) I figured general was fine =/

On August 04 2010 05:27 Ajax413 wrote:
Haha we played each other twice the past couple of days, and I believe both were 4 gate vs 4 gate. As for PvP cheese, proxy two gates work the best against me. If you can get them in their base it's very tough to deal with.


Yup. Your Zeratul icon makes it okay though. Seeing a cool portrait is the best part of any PvP.

Better hope people dont see this thread and recognize my name on ladder and expect cheese XD
Naib
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
Hungary4843 Posts
August 03 2010 21:01 GMT
#18
On August 04 2010 05:17 cive wrote:
start out normal. 13 gate, 14 gas, 15 pylon then cyber. Mine gas till 50. Save Chrono boost. Keep your scout alive. If dies, send another one. Start chorno boosting warpgate research. Make three more gateways. start building pylon everywhere in his base. as soon as you are done your research, start warping zealots in his base.

Tester Versus Huk in The King of the Beta

ro16 Day 1 Game 4 WTA Takedown http://ch.gomtv.com/4006
You need a gomplayer for this. And a friend that can read korean.


Everyone and their mother does this annoying build nowadays.

Me too.
Complete the cycle!
Reborn8u
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States1761 Posts
August 03 2010 21:09 GMT
#19
I always seem to get into really fun prism wars. Immortals are sweet in PvP as well. Once in a while I'll go with zeolots and some cannons on my ramp/choke and that frees me to tech however I want. I like PvP, but I didn't at first either.
:)
brain_
Profile Joined June 2010
United States812 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-03 21:45:53
August 03 2010 21:45 GMT
#20
Pylon
Gate
Assimilator
Gate (when the first gate is 80%)
Cybernetics Core
Pylon


Chrono out two Stalkers simultenously, the second gate and the cyber should finish at the same time. Follow up with more Chrono'd Stalkers.


The result is an extremely fun, really micro-intensive early game. I generally only lose with it if he skips Zealot and gets a Sentry out really quickly to FF his ramp. It can even beat 2gate openings if you manage your workers correctly and position your buildings to protect your Pylons - once you get 4 Stalkers you can kill an infinite number of Zealots.

Classy cheese.
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