EPT[H] 12 drone rush - Page 3
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Dementophobia
Austria64 Posts
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michaelhasanalias
Korea (South)1231 Posts
On December 20 2010 03:41 heyyouyesyou wrote: Ok im gonna make a list for you to follow 1- cancel your gateway 2- engage the army but then back off so they cant freely attack the pylon 3- build probes until 14-16 4- have half your workers hotkeyed to 2 and the other to 3 5- surround and destroy the drones 6- start mining again until you can start your gateway 7- chrono boost a zealot 8- and destroy the zerg 9- if hes knows what he is doing he will have a good count of drones to fight off your zealot but he wont be able to do it 2-4 times  that's my favorite step. you assume that you can mine and not get surrounded yourself, but then you can surround his drones no problem. I'd like you to show me a replay of this working. Anyone who 12 drone rushes isn't going for the pylon that isn't powering anything while you mine freely. He's going to a move and kill your probes while he has a +1 advantage. You also seem to think he's going to have them all on 1 hotkey when he only has 12 units in the game that are all on the same screen. | ||
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Dwar3xwar
39 Posts
first impression was ROFL. | ||
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BuuGhost
Netherlands340 Posts
Sometimes Amove is just better P: | ||
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tarath
United States377 Posts
On December 20 2010 07:16 Dementophobia wrote: At which skill-level does this happen usually? I played over 400 games on the 1v1 ladder, from gold up to diamond and this happened exactly once when I was in platinum (TvZ). How often does this happen on average to other players? Am I just lucky? This happens at the higher levels mostly I think. Lately its been showing up in pro level tourneys which is why it is getting a lot of discussion now (slush did it a few times in eg masters and went 2-1 I think, someone won with it in the semis of the TL open, there's probably a few other examples, i think catz does this maybe). | ||
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Chairman Ray
United States11903 Posts
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Mukden
Australia44 Posts
1. + Show Spoiler + Morrow v Strelok 2. + Show Spoiler + SLush v PainUser The actual game is not uploaded into VOD. The start of this video is right after that game with djWHEAT and Day9 recapping it. http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11517078 3. + Show Spoiler + IdrA v AlLaboUtyOu http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11590025 4. + Show Spoiler + IdrA v NaYeBo http://own3d.tv/v/49736 5. + Show Spoiler + Psy v Hei | ||
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Antisocialmunky
United States5912 Posts
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Silmakuoppaanikinko
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nam nam
Sweden4672 Posts
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majestouch
United States395 Posts
clue number one: think of maka rax | ||
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Dental Floss
United States1015 Posts
The only way to beat a drone rush on steppes TvZ is to get a better concave and repair SCVs inside your CC as discovered by QXC on his stream an hour ago. | ||
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sas911
Canada113 Posts
Honestly, just move your workers a little out into the open, and a-move. Faced this about a million times. Everytime, I just say "thanks for the win", at which my probes just own his workers, and I get a free win. I mean if you actually faced someone who bothers microing, it could be a problem, if you don't know how. But I mean in bronze and silver which is where this happens a million times, they don't really bother. If it's a large map, just run around while your first basic unit (rine, ling, lot) comes out, and u insta-win. ---- EDIT: Right in pro matches... LOL. Well I mean it's mainly just for the lulz. In every replay I've seen, the one getting rofl pwned always does something stupid to lose like 4 scvs.. | ||
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Dental Floss
United States1015 Posts
The build is really cool because you end up with about 100 minerals left over. After you lose 3 drones you can start rebuilding your economy and have the option to retreat back to your base to play a standard game. What surprised me was that even if you are behind on econ you can be ahead in other ways: 1) If you can snipe their depot + rax it doesn't matter if you're behind on worker count because their barracks is going to be very delayed and you can try for an early pool to punish the late rax. 2)If you cause them to rebuild without a wall-off you can punish that pretty well with an early pool as well 3)Some players will overreact to the aggression and if they see lings can build bunkers, extra rax they don't need. In general I think its a good idea to follow up with a fast pool if you're behind on workers, or to plant a FE if you're ahead in workers. Consider sniping their rax and depo and then just harassing without commiting while you make an overlord/more drones. If they don't have a depot they can't make any more units | ||
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Zerokaiser
Canada885 Posts
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Moriarity
United States91 Posts
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