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On January 12 2015 01:08 Gwavajuice wrote:


I'm gonna help you

- his scout his decent, a better player would have sacrificed an OV, but for a silver league his scout is enough.
- the spores seems to be in his general plan, to counter banshees, he just blindly build them just as he blindly built 2 spine crawlers that ended up useless.
- his zergling moves out to check/attack your third, then he realise you have no third, so he goes to the natural and sees your still on 1 base, he goes back cause he's scared, he knows you're all in, he s on 3 base, all he has to do is to defend. Moreover it's just a part of his army everything else is in his natural. Again, it makes sense. If he had spoted your drop with maphack you wouldn't have been able to burrow your mine. His reaction is late actually.
- the spire comes naturally when he finishes his lair (although he's late cause he s bad) zergling muta is his game plan, nothing wierd about that. if he had scouted your mass helions he should have made a roach warren which is a much better counter.
- he moves his muta because it's what muta are meant to be, plus you just lost all your helions, he know you can't have many units at home. he hopes he can harass your B2, and he s very surprised by the amount of turrets. if he had maphacked his move would have been different.

So as said above, no silver league his maphacking, and even that it seems to have a problem in GM NA ladder, I never seen a maphacker in plat/diamond in 2 years.

the fact you think your opponent is hacking shows that you're not in the proper state of mind : your concern must not be the possible cheats of your opponent but you own mistakes.

To say it simple, you have plenty of things to work on. Go to the terran help me thread, ask for advice, people will gladly help.

Good luck and have fun

On January 15 2015 01:30 NarAliya wrote:
Generally, how do people get better?

When I played WC3, I played Undead (UD) and I was bad at the beginning. Then I learnt the Cryptlord/Fiends/Merc push and started winning all my games. Basically I would creep a green and yellow camp (which was usually a merc camp) and then push. Vs Orcs, this would be at the time when he had only 2/3 Grunts and salving. Vs NE, it would be when he was healing his 2 archers at the moonwells (and not at night).

Then my play expanded and I learnt Fast Fiends, TeD fiends, Altar first, Ghouls etc.. This expanded into the Destro push vs Hu, getting 1 disease Abom vs NE, 1 Wyrm vs Orcs and my knowledge of the game really exploded. I ended up creating a favoured strat combo of Fast Fiends and Altar first where I got my Necro Rod immediately when I spawned and harassed with my Death Knight. I would tech and build my first fiend at first nightime and creep - whether or not my harass was successful. With 3 ghouls on wood, I would always have enough lumber to transition into any strat necessary. It was advised against (because Tier 1 UD is considered very vulnerable) but I got alot of success especially with my micro and knowledge of when and where to hit.

That aside, I got better by learning a specific timing and then expanding on the aggressive play.

How do I translate that to SC2? Every replay, VOD and stream is a boring (in my opinion) macro game where a builder order is droned out and the game is usually decided on 1 battle. How do people improve if they want to play really aggressively.