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ABCSFirebird
Profile Joined December 2010
Germany90 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-04 13:22:36
July 04 2011 13:21 GMT
#21
It is nice how the build squeezes units in during warpgate research. However it is worth mentioning that in the "perfect masters 4gate" replay your opponent actually transforms his gates 15s after his research finished and his proxy pylons were not timed towards the end of the research either. So vs a 4gate which is really perfect you would have to FF your ramp earlier, but you probably will still be able to win it.
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Geiko
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
France1939 Posts
July 04 2011 13:30 GMT
#22
On July 04 2011 22:11 NB wrote:
good build but you have a wrong aproach to how to counter 4 gate. when you have 1 stalker 1 sentry 1 zealot up and you 2nd and 3rd stalkers are coming. There will be a probes spamming 2 pylon at your ramp with 2 stalkers 1 zealot protecting it. What would happen is that the zealot poke up the ramp, see the dps is much much less than what he has and you will have to use your 1st FF there. When the pylons complete and you still have FF, instead of wraping in stalkers, those will be zealot contesting ur defends (they wrap in on your ramp which FF cant block what so ever). From there the 3 gate will slowly be out produced by 4 gate under the condition that you cant make sentry to counter zealot in that case.

a better variation of the build could be placing your 2nd pylon at the ramp and have your 2nd and 3rd gate there. But it will be scouted and the other player could just tech switch seeing such a wall of with probe scout early.

your build is designed to kill a delayed 4 gate where you hope you could win the early micro 1 stalker 1 zealot battle to get out ahead. Its not a complete safe build and got countered the same way day9/tyler immo rush build except in the immo build you have the DPS to kill the pylons.

TLDR: you have no DPS to deny proxy pylon what so ever.


Yes I addressed this point as well. First of all, the micro battle at the bottom of your ramp will be 1 zealot + 1 stalker + 1 sentry for you, and 1 zealot + 1 stalker + 1 probe for him (the second stalker cannot be there while you are putting your pylons and only arrives at 5:45 - 5:50. If it does get to a point where he places his first 2 pylons at the bottom of your ramp you will have to use your first FF only when he warps in his 4 stalkers. Your two stalkers should finish before his and start shooting at the warping in stuff.
You warp in 2 stalkers and 1 sentry, kill off what is in your base and FF 2 or 3 units if he tries to go up the ramp.

Against zealots, sentry have almost the same DPS as a stalker, keep in mind that you have a one unit advatage and well placed FF will extend that adavantage.
geiko.813 (EU)
MooLen
Profile Joined May 2011
Germany501 Posts
July 04 2011 14:25 GMT
#23
Hi,

i dont like that you say it "destroys" every counter 4 gate. The Naniwa style ( 18 gateway b4 cyber core finishes) handle this pretty good because you can poke in with 3 stalkers and snipe the sentry or atleast pull of the energy and then this "counter build" looks pretty old...
Jumbled
Profile Joined September 2010
1543 Posts
July 04 2011 15:10 GMT
#24
On July 04 2011 22:30 Geiko wrote:
Yes I addressed this point as well. First of all, the micro battle at the bottom of your ramp will be 1 zealot + 1 stalker + 1 sentry for you, and 1 zealot + 1 stalker + 1 probe for him (the second stalker cannot be there while you are putting your pylons and only arrives at 5:45 - 5:50.

It is possible to start the 2nd stalker before the extra gateways in an aggressive 4-gate, and it would only delay the push by a second or two at most.
Whias_k
Profile Joined June 2011
36 Posts
July 04 2011 15:48 GMT
#25
If you could upload a few more replays of how you deal with a 4gate it would be great. I feel like the replays doesn't really show me how to play it out if he 4gate since the only guy who 4gates make a few big errors.

very interesting build though
sjschmidt93
Profile Joined April 2010
United States2518 Posts
July 04 2011 16:02 GMT
#26
There is no safe PvP to be honest. Yeah this may hold a 4gate but if your opponent goes 1 gate robo or 1 gate council you're very very far behind. Their blink will finish much quicker than yours, and if they go robo they can easily expo no problem after colossus production kicks in.

If you expand, then they just 2 colossus no range push or 3 colossus w/ range push and your dead, unless you managed to squeeze in a robo and wanna go for the blink stalker/colossus base trade, but even then that game almost never works.
My grandpa could've proxied better, and not only does he have arthritis, he's also dead. -Sean "Day[9]" Plott
Geiko
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
France1939 Posts
July 04 2011 16:11 GMT
#27
On July 05 2011 01:02 sjschmidt93 wrote:
There is no safe PvP to be honest. Yeah this may hold a 4gate but if your opponent goes 1 gate robo or 1 gate council you're very very far behind. Their blink will finish much quicker than yours, and if they go robo they can easily expo no problem after colossus production kicks in.

If you expand, then they just 2 colossus no range push or 3 colossus w/ range push and your dead, unless you managed to squeeze in a robo and wanna go for the blink stalker/colossus base trade, but even then that game almost never works.


Opponents going 1 gate council doesn't put me behind. Like I said, their blink will finish 1 minute earlier than mine, so what ? They still can't bust up my ramp if I am playing defensively.

Against 1 gate robo, and colo timing pushes, they are still leaving their base open to a base trade situation. If I have taken a far away expansion I will come out ahead of the base trade. If they wait too long for their push, then my zealot archon + mass blink stalkers can win against 3,4 colo army.
geiko.813 (EU)
CCalms
Profile Joined November 2010
United States341 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-04 16:24:28
July 04 2011 16:20 GMT
#28
On July 04 2011 20:34 blah_blah wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 04 2011 20:19 CCalms wrote:
safe vs 4gate, sure, but you are at a gross disadvantage against anyone who goes the equally safe 3stalker into tech. Your build uses three chronoboosts on probes, it doesnt even look like a 4gate :s


I don't understand this post at all. If someone does the 3 stalker opening, it diverges from a 4gate opening quite early (double chrono on probes and early second gateway) at which point (upon scouting) you are no longer obligated to follow this build order at all. Someone doing a 3 stalker opening is much better for you than someone doing a 1gate tech build.

OP: great post, thanks a lot.


9 pylon
13 gate
14 gas
16 pylon
17 core
19 gate
20 stalker, warpgate
22 two stalkers
26 two gates
26 proxy pylon
5:42 warp in 3 stalker 1 zealot

Same exact outcome as conventional 4gate despite opening 3stalker

I don't know why people try and act like they know something that I don't LOL

I brought up 3 stalker instead of a 1gate tech build because 3 stalker is 100% safe vs 4gate, as this build claims to be, but has a much better economy and allows for much more early game flexibility (3stalker can stop 10gate 4gates by following up the 3 stalkers with 2 stalkers instead of 2 sentries)

and geiko, you obviously don't know how to 3 stalker properly. I absolutely do not need to kill the proxy, simply zone it away from my ramp. 10 starcraft meters away is absolutely fine with me. I can also use the early unit advantage to pick off units, which is helpful.

try doing the 3 stalker opening, only chrono the first stalker and rest on warpgate. after the two stalkers are done (three total) start two sentries. warpgate will be done right when those are finished, warp in one stalker and one sentry. No warpgate rush can break you and you are free to tech. If you think I'm wrong or naive or don't have gm level pvp then feel free to pm me about it or play me at CCalms.951

On July 05 2011 01:11 Geiko wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 05 2011 01:02 sjschmidt93 wrote:
There is no safe PvP to be honest. Yeah this may hold a 4gate but if your opponent goes 1 gate robo or 1 gate council you're very very far behind. Their blink will finish much quicker than yours, and if they go robo they can easily expo no problem after colossus production kicks in.

If you expand, then they just 2 colossus no range push or 3 colossus w/ range push and your dead, unless you managed to squeeze in a robo and wanna go for the blink stalker/colossus base trade, but even then that game almost never works.


Opponents going 1 gate council doesn't put me behind. Like I said, their blink will finish 1 minute earlier than mine, so what ? They still can't bust up my ramp if I am playing defensively.

Against 1 gate robo, and colo timing pushes, they are still leaving their base open to a base trade situation. If I have taken a far away expansion I will come out ahead of the base trade. If they wait too long for their push, then my zealot archon + mass blink stalkers can win against 3,4 colo army.


The blink harass style of play has nothing to do with your build, it only serves as the only real viable follow up (too much gas spent on stalkers to go into other tech efficiently). If someone else does a more intelligible blink build then you just die. All it takes is one less stalker early game (or two-four, in your build's case) to have the fight snowball into a one-sided blinkfest. If the other guy goes robo, it has absolutely nothing to do with your build but rather his ability to know how to deal with blink harass and set up an expansion and sim city.
NB
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Netherlands12045 Posts
July 04 2011 16:37 GMT
#29
On July 04 2011 22:30 Geiko wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 04 2011 22:11 NB wrote:
good build but you have a wrong aproach to how to counter 4 gate. when you have 1 stalker 1 sentry 1 zealot up and you 2nd and 3rd stalkers are coming. There will be a probes spamming 2 pylon at your ramp with 2 stalkers 1 zealot protecting it. What would happen is that the zealot poke up the ramp, see the dps is much much less than what he has and you will have to use your 1st FF there. When the pylons complete and you still have FF, instead of wraping in stalkers, those will be zealot contesting ur defends (they wrap in on your ramp which FF cant block what so ever). From there the 3 gate will slowly be out produced by 4 gate under the condition that you cant make sentry to counter zealot in that case.

a better variation of the build could be placing your 2nd pylon at the ramp and have your 2nd and 3rd gate there. But it will be scouted and the other player could just tech switch seeing such a wall of with probe scout early.

your build is designed to kill a delayed 4 gate where you hope you could win the early micro 1 stalker 1 zealot battle to get out ahead. Its not a complete safe build and got countered the same way day9/tyler immo rush build except in the immo build you have the DPS to kill the pylons.

TLDR: you have no DPS to deny proxy pylon what so ever.


Yes I addressed this point as well. First of all, the micro battle at the bottom of your ramp will be 1 zealot + 1 stalker + 1 sentry for you, and 1 zealot + 1 stalker + 1 probe for him (the second stalker cannot be there while you are putting your pylons and only arrives at 5:45 - 5:50. If it does get to a point where he places his first 2 pylons at the bottom of your ramp you will have to use your first FF only when he warps in his 4 stalkers. Your two stalkers should finish before his and start shooting at the warping in stuff.
You warp in 2 stalkers and 1 sentry, kill off what is in your base and FF 2 or 3 units if he tries to go up the ramp.

Against zealots, sentry have almost the same DPS as a stalker, keep in mind that you have a one unit advatage and well placed FF will extend that adavantage.

first of all about 1 stalker 1 zealot vs 1 stalker 1 zealot 1 sentry:
the 4 gate player could easily target your sentry if you dont use your FF properly. the situation will come down to you trading a sentry for his zealot while his stalker getaway....

lets ignore the 4 stalkers wrap in possibility and talk about 4 zealot wrap in which make (2 stalkers +1zealot) + (4 zealots). these will be on top of the ramp vs you 3 stalkers 1 zealot 1 sentry which has no FF (plus 3 wrapgate wraping in). Assuming army trade happen here, the next wave of wrap in will be earlyier from his side and its 4 units instead of 3.

Sentry might do almost the same as stalker vs zealot but they dont have the ability to kite zealot as well as they have no HP to do so. Against player who can execute a perfect 4 gate (which could be easily practice by playing vs AI) these cant held off. Watch Hwangsin stream, the only thing he does in PvP is 4 gate and every time the other guy must response with a 4 gates of his own or he is dead 1 way or another.
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Splendour
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Bulgaria129 Posts
July 04 2011 16:42 GMT
#30
Checked the timings, they are very crisp and give that polished feeling to the guide.
I prefer this build to a 3 stalker opening. While it is true that both are good against 4 gate, skipping the zealot leaves you open to any proxy gates/hidden pylon in your base/gas steal.
As pointed out, getting the sentry as your 3rd unit may be dangerous if the distance between the bases is short.
Geiko
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
France1939 Posts
July 04 2011 16:50 GMT
#31
On July 05 2011 01:20 CCalms wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 04 2011 20:34 blah_blah wrote:
On July 04 2011 20:19 CCalms wrote:
safe vs 4gate, sure, but you are at a gross disadvantage against anyone who goes the equally safe 3stalker into tech. Your build uses three chronoboosts on probes, it doesnt even look like a 4gate :s


I don't understand this post at all. If someone does the 3 stalker opening, it diverges from a 4gate opening quite early (double chrono on probes and early second gateway) at which point (upon scouting) you are no longer obligated to follow this build order at all. Someone doing a 3 stalker opening is much better for you than someone doing a 1gate tech build.

OP: great post, thanks a lot.


9 pylon
13 gate
14 gas
16 pylon
17 core
19 gate
20 stalker, warpgate
22 two stalkers
26 two gates
26 proxy pylon
5:42 warp in 3 stalker 1 zealot

Same exact outcome as conventional 4gate despite opening 3stalker

I don't know why people try and act like they know something that I don't LOL

I brought up 3 stalker instead of a 1gate tech build because 3 stalker is 100% safe vs 4gate, as this build claims to be, but has a much better economy and allows for much more early game flexibility (3stalker can stop 10gate 4gates by following up the 3 stalkers with 2 stalkers instead of 2 sentries)

and geiko, you obviously don't know how to 3 stalker properly. I absolutely do not need to kill the proxy, simply zone it away from my ramp. 10 starcraft meters away is absolutely fine with me. I can also use the early unit advantage to pick off units, which is helpful.

try doing the 3 stalker opening, only chrono the first stalker and rest on warpgate. after the two stalkers are done (three total) start two sentries. warpgate will be done right when those are finished, warp in one stalker and one sentry. No warpgate rush can break you and you are free to tech. If you think I'm wrong or naive or don't have gm level pvp then feel free to pm me about it or play me at CCalms.951

Show nested quote +
On July 05 2011 01:11 Geiko wrote:
On July 05 2011 01:02 sjschmidt93 wrote:
There is no safe PvP to be honest. Yeah this may hold a 4gate but if your opponent goes 1 gate robo or 1 gate council you're very very far behind. Their blink will finish much quicker than yours, and if they go robo they can easily expo no problem after colossus production kicks in.

If you expand, then they just 2 colossus no range push or 3 colossus w/ range push and your dead, unless you managed to squeeze in a robo and wanna go for the blink stalker/colossus base trade, but even then that game almost never works.


Opponents going 1 gate council doesn't put me behind. Like I said, their blink will finish 1 minute earlier than mine, so what ? They still can't bust up my ramp if I am playing defensively.

Against 1 gate robo, and colo timing pushes, they are still leaving their base open to a base trade situation. If I have taken a far away expansion I will come out ahead of the base trade. If they wait too long for their push, then my zealot archon + mass blink stalkers can win against 3,4 colo army.


The blink harass style of play has nothing to do with your build, it only serves as the only real viable follow up (too much gas spent on stalkers to go into other tech efficiently). If someone else does a more intelligible blink build then you just die. All it takes is one less stalker early game (or two-four, in your build's case) to have the fight snowball into a one-sided blinkfest. If the other guy goes robo, it has absolutely nothing to do with your build but rather his ability to know how to deal with blink harass and set up an expansion and sim city.


You're really mixing up two builds which are quite clearly reconizable. I believe the 3 stalker rush spends a lot of chronoboost on the stalkers while the build you are giving here that is supposed to hit a 5:42 timing obviously has all the chronoboost spent on warpgate. If you can't tell that a 3 stalker "rush" is late by 20 seconds, then clearly we are not playing at the same level.

Also I would need you to explain to me why my build is 4 stalkers late ? That doesn't make any sense to me.
geiko.813 (EU)
Geiko
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
France1939 Posts
July 04 2011 17:05 GMT
#32
On July 05 2011 01:37 NB wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 04 2011 22:30 Geiko wrote:
On July 04 2011 22:11 NB wrote:
good build but you have a wrong aproach to how to counter 4 gate. when you have 1 stalker 1 sentry 1 zealot up and you 2nd and 3rd stalkers are coming. There will be a probes spamming 2 pylon at your ramp with 2 stalkers 1 zealot protecting it. What would happen is that the zealot poke up the ramp, see the dps is much much less than what he has and you will have to use your 1st FF there. When the pylons complete and you still have FF, instead of wraping in stalkers, those will be zealot contesting ur defends (they wrap in on your ramp which FF cant block what so ever). From there the 3 gate will slowly be out produced by 4 gate under the condition that you cant make sentry to counter zealot in that case.

a better variation of the build could be placing your 2nd pylon at the ramp and have your 2nd and 3rd gate there. But it will be scouted and the other player could just tech switch seeing such a wall of with probe scout early.

your build is designed to kill a delayed 4 gate where you hope you could win the early micro 1 stalker 1 zealot battle to get out ahead. Its not a complete safe build and got countered the same way day9/tyler immo rush build except in the immo build you have the DPS to kill the pylons.

TLDR: you have no DPS to deny proxy pylon what so ever.


Yes I addressed this point as well. First of all, the micro battle at the bottom of your ramp will be 1 zealot + 1 stalker + 1 sentry for you, and 1 zealot + 1 stalker + 1 probe for him (the second stalker cannot be there while you are putting your pylons and only arrives at 5:45 - 5:50. If it does get to a point where he places his first 2 pylons at the bottom of your ramp you will have to use your first FF only when he warps in his 4 stalkers. Your two stalkers should finish before his and start shooting at the warping in stuff.
You warp in 2 stalkers and 1 sentry, kill off what is in your base and FF 2 or 3 units if he tries to go up the ramp.

Against zealots, sentry have almost the same DPS as a stalker, keep in mind that you have a one unit advatage and well placed FF will extend that adavantage.

first of all about 1 stalker 1 zealot vs 1 stalker 1 zealot 1 sentry:
the 4 gate player could easily target your sentry if you dont use your FF properly. the situation will come down to you trading a sentry for his zealot while his stalker getaway....

lets ignore the 4 stalkers wrap in possibility and talk about 4 zealot wrap in which make (2 stalkers +1zealot) + (4 zealots). these will be on top of the ramp vs you 3 stalkers 1 zealot 1 sentry which has no FF (plus 3 wrapgate wraping in). Assuming army trade happen here, the next wave of wrap in will be earlyier from his side and its 4 units instead of 3.

Sentry might do almost the same as stalker vs zealot but they dont have the ability to kite zealot as well as they have no HP to do so. Against player who can execute a perfect 4 gate (which could be easily practice by playing vs AI) these cant held off. Watch Hwangsin stream, the only thing he does in PvP is 4 gate and every time the other guy must response with a 4 gates of his own or he is dead 1 way or another.


Like I said, if the opponent gets that close, you warp in a second sentry and that's that. I'm not saying there is 0 micro to be done with my build... I would gladly test what you are saying with someone on the EU server (if you can get an account there, or have an extra NA server for me)
geiko.813 (EU)
ZeromuS
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada13389 Posts
July 04 2011 17:21 GMT
#33
Hmm I may try this out but look forward to a weigh in from a really high level player on whether this is better than my current 3 stalker into blink/3rd gate attack. At my level of diamond/low masters I can out micro robo play as long as I keep their immortal count down to one.
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CecilSunkure
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States2829 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-04 18:08:21
July 04 2011 17:51 GMT
#34
On July 04 2011 20:25 Geiko wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 04 2011 20:19 CCalms wrote:
safe vs 4gate, sure, but you are at a gross disadvantage against anyone who goes the equally safe 3stalker into tech. Your build uses three chronoboosts on probes, it doesnt even look like a 4gate :s


3 Stalkers is nothing safe. If you don't find the proxy pylons, if he has send a hidden probe you don't scout, you are dead.

This is just plain false. For example on White-Ra's stream yesterday he held a 4 gate with the 3 Stalker opening into 4 gate. You use your three Stalker advantage to kill off the enemy two Stalkers. Then you produce more and have 5-6 Stalkers as they are warping in units. You continually warp in Stalkers and keep the enemy Stalker count low, and you'll just win. White-Ra did this even with a nearby proxy pylon and two on his low ground. The caveat is that you need to be competent in order to keep your Stalkers alive (even White-Ra blundered a couple times and lost a few unnecessarily).

This build would will give you no map presence, and if I see a sentry that early I won't be thinking "I need to hurry up and attack him before he gets his defensive position". I'm thinking "Lets lay down a free Twilight Council and keep total reign over the middle of the map", or something to that effect. You have no offensive potential, and an opponent can lay down an earlier tech structure than you and get an advantage. For example what if I open with an early second assimilator and I see you got a sentry so early, and a later assimilator? I'm definitely going to be controlling the middle of the map looking for proxy pylons everywhere while taking very early tech.

What would happen vs the common 3 Stalker opening? They'd have map presence, free reign around the map, an earlier second gas and thusly better economy, more Stalkers, and earlier Blink (or tech of choice).

My conclusion is that this build can be good in a single situation (where the enemy ram's their face into you with early offense), but that's it. It doesn't have a solid game plan, doesn't have any deviations depending on information revealed, and doesn't have a way to keep the opponent in check early game.

Edit:
On July 04 2011 18:41 Geiko wrote:
Double FF the choke, warp in 3 stalkers, and kill off the units. But is this still true with perfect micro in GM league ?

GM league players have faaaaar from perfect micro.
Geiko
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
France1939 Posts
July 04 2011 18:14 GMT
#35
On July 05 2011 02:51 CecilSunkure wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 04 2011 20:25 Geiko wrote:
On July 04 2011 20:19 CCalms wrote:
safe vs 4gate, sure, but you are at a gross disadvantage against anyone who goes the equally safe 3stalker into tech. Your build uses three chronoboosts on probes, it doesnt even look like a 4gate :s


3 Stalkers is nothing safe. If you don't find the proxy pylons, if he has send a hidden probe you don't scout, you are dead.

This is just plain false. For example on White-Ra's stream yesterday he held a 4 gate with the 3 Stalker opening into 4 gate. You use your three Stalker advantage to kill off the enemy two Stalkers. Then you produce more and have 5-6 Stalkers as they are warping in units. You continually warp in Stalkers and keep the enemy Stalker count low, and you'll just win. White-Ra did this even with a nearby proxy pylon and two on his low ground. The caveat is that you need to be competent in order to keep your Stalkers alive (even White-Ra blundered a couple times and lost a few unnecessarily).

Edit:
Show nested quote +
On July 04 2011 18:41 Geiko wrote:
Double FF the choke, warp in 3 stalkers, and kill off the units. But is this still true with perfect micro in GM league ?

GM league players have faaaaar from perfect micro.


Let me rephrase : 3 stalkers is heavily micro dependant in case of a 4 gate. I feel my build allows for an easier time dealing with the 4gate (thus "safer")

geiko.813 (EU)
Arcanefrost
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Belgium1257 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-04 18:46:19
July 04 2011 18:45 GMT
#36
I've been doing a defensive 3gate wtih gassteal, and I feel like you really need to gassteal if you do something like this. Your opening is obviously better vs 4gate than mine, but if he doesn't 4gate and just fast techs colossus or blink you're behind.
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freetgy
Profile Joined November 2010
1720 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-04 19:18:56
July 04 2011 19:18 GMT
#37
while i have no doubt that that 3 gate can hold or even beat 4 gates
non tech, defensive builds sucks vs. contains really hard.
tuestresfat
Profile Joined December 2010
2555 Posts
July 04 2011 19:23 GMT
#38
I'm convinced this will stop super aggressive 4gates, but that's about all it'll do.

Off topic but sadly this is no solution to maps like Taldarim or Scrap =[ still gonna be 4gate 4gate fest on those maps
Fierco
Profile Joined February 2011
United States31 Posts
July 04 2011 22:45 GMT
#39
I've tested this against a couple masters league players(I'm diamond so my micro was waaaay worse then theirs) and I held it off so easily on Xel'naga. Even with Zealot warp ins on my ramp.

I also got really close to holding it off on Tal'darim, but I move commanded into his zealots
iChau
Profile Joined December 2010
United States1210 Posts
July 04 2011 22:57 GMT
#40
On July 05 2011 02:51 CecilSunkure wrote:
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On July 04 2011 20:25 Geiko wrote:
On July 04 2011 20:19 CCalms wrote:
safe vs 4gate, sure, but you are at a gross disadvantage against anyone who goes the equally safe 3stalker into tech. Your build uses three chronoboosts on probes, it doesnt even look like a 4gate :s


3 Stalkers is nothing safe. If you don't find the proxy pylons, if he has send a hidden probe you don't scout, you are dead.

This is just plain false. For example on White-Ra's stream yesterday he held a 4 gate with the 3 Stalker opening into 4 gate. You use your three Stalker advantage to kill off the enemy two Stalkers. Then you produce more and have 5-6 Stalkers as they are warping in units. You continually warp in Stalkers and keep the enemy Stalker count low, and you'll just win. White-Ra did this even with a nearby proxy pylon and two on his low ground. The caveat is that you need to be competent in order to keep your Stalkers alive (even White-Ra blundered a couple times and lost a few unnecessarily).

This build would will give you no map presence, and if I see a sentry that early I won't be thinking "I need to hurry up and attack him before he gets his defensive position". I'm thinking "Lets lay down a free Twilight Council and keep total reign over the middle of the map", or something to that effect. You have no offensive potential, and an opponent can lay down an earlier tech structure than you and get an advantage. For example what if I open with an early second assimilator and I see you got a sentry so early, and a later assimilator? I'm definitely going to be controlling the middle of the map looking for proxy pylons everywhere while taking very early tech.

What would happen vs the common 3 Stalker opening? They'd have map presence, free reign around the map, an earlier second gas and thusly better economy, more Stalkers, and earlier Blink (or tech of choice).

My conclusion is that this build can be good in a single situation (where the enemy ram's their face into you with early offense), but that's it. It doesn't have a solid game plan, doesn't have any deviations depending on information revealed, and doesn't have a way to keep the opponent in check early game.

Edit:
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On July 04 2011 18:41 Geiko wrote:
Double FF the choke, warp in 3 stalkers, and kill off the units. But is this still true with perfect micro in GM league ?

GM league players have faaaaar from perfect micro.


I don't think you have to still follow this build after seeing fast tech/non-4gate.
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