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Mythol
Sweden24 Posts
I do often watch my own replays, and i always look at day9's videos but i dont seem to get better. At the moment im around 350 wins / 350 losses with zerg as my main race. So i want to ask the forum, what makes a player diamond? Is it proper scouting, unit mixes? You tell me. What difference have you learned from the platinum to the diamond? sorry for the grammar/spelling. **UPDATE thanks to you guys im currently at 2700 diamond!**** | ||
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love.less
United Kingdom293 Posts
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Vertig0
United States196 Posts
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Rockondudes
Romania5 Posts
Even apm has it's purpose.. (if you're a zerg or a protoss, as terran you just mass marines and close your eyes most of your games).. My last advice is .. know the game, know every unit, every "counter"and all that. Basically it comes down to mechanics, the better you know them, the better you will be at this game | ||
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Mythol
Sweden24 Posts
On November 22 2010 02:57 Vertig0 wrote: If you haven't seen Day9 daily #208 (coaching DjWheat), I highly recommend it... It definitely taught me more things I could improve on. thank you! That daily actually helped alot, cheers | ||
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Antisocialmunky
United States5913 Posts
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Acritter
Syria7637 Posts
My guess is that your mechanics are just not quite at a Diamond level. Keep practicing, and focus on one thing to work on each game (Queens, supply block, low money for example) so that you don't get overwhelmed. | ||
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Vaporized
United States1471 Posts
also other things that will specifically help ur game improve: do not get supply blocked, ever. do not miss injections. no one is perfect, but try to be as on top of them as possible. spread creep asap. these are the things that got me to diamond. | ||
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Dysk
Singapore44 Posts
Another, to have a zergling at the bottom of your opponent's ramp, and to periodically scout. Overlord spreading around to make to alert you to drops mainly. And perhaps the biggest change to my play that got me to diamond is that I began to win games by starving the opponent out on his 2 bases to my 3/4 and crushing his final all-in push, rather than going in for the kill myself. It may be just personal preference, but I've felt like playing zerg passively is what plays to their strength. Spreading creep helps, of course, but to me it isn't essential to get into diamond. It may separate the 2000's from the 1000's, but ultimately it's just an extension of controlling the map as zerg, and knowing what's going on. | ||
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FrostedMiniWeet
United States636 Posts
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Endorsed
Netherlands1221 Posts
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Gnorme
Canada5 Posts
On November 22 2010 04:25 Dysk wrote: One main change that helped me into diamond was watching a video about making just enough units to fend off early pressure and nothing more. I think it was a day9 daily, and the main point it made was that every excess unit that you make to deal with pressure early means one less drone. and for Zerg, drones are everything. Another, to have a zergling at the bottom of your opponent's ramp, and to periodically scout. Overlord spreading around to make to alert you to drops mainly. And perhaps the biggest change to my play that got me to diamond is that I began to win games by starving the opponent out on his 2 bases to my 3/4 and crushing his final all-in push, rather than going in for the kill myself. It may be just personal preference, but I've felt like playing zerg passively is what plays to their strength. Spreading creep helps, of course, but to me it isn't essential to get into diamond. It may separate the 2000's from the 1000's, but ultimately it's just an extension of controlling the map as zerg, and knowing what's going on. This is what really made the difference for me. Learning to play the passive zerg style, and just out macro the opponent. Scouting is really important when playing passive. | ||
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DarkOmen
Canada72 Posts
In other words, I had a decent ability to macro, but I was doing it mindlessly on autopilot. After reading/hearing so much about when to build drones, I really started focusing on that and it improved my play a LOT. Every time you're about to spam out 10 drones, think about whether it's safe to do so. Are you going to need units in 30-40 seconds from now? If so, you better not make drones right now. The opposite is also true. As I'm sure you've heard many times, it's very bad to build a large standing army that just, sorta.. stands around. Especially as zerg, since that army COULD have been drones. I would say it took me a good 20 games of focusing on scout timing (which allows you to more accurately determine appropriate drone timing) before I really started to feel I had a decent grasp on it, but it's still a work in progress. For those who care, I'm approx. 1350-1400 diamond, with ~400 bonus pool. | ||
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DiZasteR
Netherlands84 Posts
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Mythol
Sweden24 Posts
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BlasiuS
United States2405 Posts
Generally if you are below diamond, even at high platinum, chances are good that you are lacking macro. Either you are not expanding enough, not making enough hatcheries, not spending your money, or most commonly, you are not making enough drones. | ||
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hello31
16 Posts
Another thing is always be mindful of your position relative to the terrain on the map. For the most part you dont want to engage in a choke, unless they are bottlenecked and you have a concave at the top of the ramp. You want to engage in wide area's where you can surround their army. Unlike protoss and terran when you make a building, you lose a drone. It might not seem like a lot but it easy to forget to replace the drone you used up and fall behind economically. Overlord positioning and ling spotting will let you know when the other army moves out and gives you time to react. Most likely though, its a macro issue thats holding you back. I'm pretty sure you can get into diamond if you mass well enough. Just watch one of your replays and note how many times you miss larva injections. And just make notes of your drone saturation and expansion timings. And make sure you are making units as you are fighting. Try to select your drones and actually count them when you play so you know if you have enough drones per base. | ||
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FuzzyLord
253 Posts
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TALegion
United States1187 Posts
On November 22 2010 04:01 Antisocialmunky wrote: You know you are a diamond zerg if you die because you build too many drones. I must be better than FruitDealer then. | ||
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Mythol
Sweden24 Posts
<3 / Mythol | ||
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