MYM.Artosis Replay Pack + Discussion - Page 7

On October 03 2010 22:01 SovSov wrote:
Wow I didn't know you were this good. It's nice to get some replays of the "new Zerg" style of play that I can study myself. I thought I'd have to wait until Cool's replays from GSL were available.

Also, it seems like Overlord drops are just.. straight up counter to tank/mech based armies because of lack of mobility. Do you think this will be the new norm? A counter not by units but by a tactic.

edit: I mean sneaky Overlord drops into the enemy's base

On October 04 2010 01:07 HatchetWound wrote:
hey artosis i skimmed through the whole thread i didn't see any questions about ZVZ, I am around 1000pt diamond and i feel it is the one match up that has been holding me back a little lately, plus i am not really sure what strat to use. I watched your 3 zvz games and the one that interested me the most was the zvz on delta quad. I usually open with ling bling and transition into muta but i have been interested in trying the roach hold position opening. I really liked in that game how you went hydra infestor, the fungal growth totally raped the other zerg it is a real beat down once u got that going well played. I guess my questions are

1. Give me your opinion on that build the roach ramp hold into hydra/roach infestor would that work well on other maps or just delta quad cause u can take the back expansion and hold the ramp cause i would imagine if you took a regular natural u could have been over run with lings and it seemed like u really need an exp to make that build work?

2. what zvz builds do you feel work best right now? That is if u can't use that hydra/roach infestor play on other maps?
is opening pure roaches worthless? i have seen it destroyed by just mass ling but i seem to fail every time i try to mass ling a pack of roaches early on.

Thanks and will you be at MLG DC?

On October 04 2010 01:26 dahornnn wrote:
to someone who has a very dense rts background and never played BW who has made it to around 1300 Diamond with P, what advice would you give to them for little things ingame if they want to start playing zerg? cuz im awful at it and i get so confused with the hole queen mechanicsblablashit!

On October 04 2010 05:33 FunkyFresh wrote:
None of your games (I think) show a zvp game where the protoss opens open w/ 2 gate zealot pressure, and transitions into 3 gate w/ a robo. I am having a real hard time defending this push, regardless if i FE or not. This is like the most common build im running into at a 1200 diamond league, and wanted to see if you had a counter for the stalker/colossus/sentry push. I noticed alot of games you get fairly quick mutas to control the map, and i typically transition into hydras as quick as a I can.
Do you think that your mutas are making so the opponent does not want to get those colossus? And in general, what is your favorite counter to this protoss build?
From my experience i think ling/hydra/infestor seems to work the most efficient, but I am still losing nearly all my games to a protoss that does this build.

On October 04 2010 07:20 Eazypeezy wrote:
Artosis. Im curious to here your opinion on cools style of ZvT. Maybe im analyzing wrong, but it seemed that he would get lingspeed and then go to mutas. However, he only got a handfull of mutas to keep up pressure/harass when possible/stop drops and then foucused on a roach/bling/infestor/ling to stall until ultras.

Q1- what are your thoughts of that strategy ?
Q2- I notice in some of your replays vs T you got out Hydras. Did you prefer that over cools style, or were your replays made before the final game where he displayed that strategy.
Q3- What are your thoughts on Cools double expand timing Where he gets the 2 expos + alot of upgrades ( its strengths and weakness)

On October 04 2010 07:54 ryanAnger wrote:



Nice, I'm at Ellsworth, are there a lot of people in your shop who play? We had a bunch of bandwagon people here, that jumped the SC2 ship as soon as Halo Reach came out, so now I have no one to play with from work lol.

Also, Artosis, do you follow a specific build order in your ZvT's or do you just kinda go with it?

On October 04 2010 07:55 haflo wrote:
first of all thank you for wonderfull casts at the GSL , i enjoyed it tremendsly .

my first big eSport event and you and tastless got me hooked hard , much kodus (my boss however might try to hire a hitman - sorry ! )

i am a silver protoss so no deep strategic questions , i just was wondering has seeing FD in action inspired you in anyway ?

thanks again ! and you better get at least one step higher on GSL2 !