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[G][L][D] The Super Dave and so can you

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AtlasHugged
Profile Joined March 2011
United States8 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-16 15:10:16
August 16 2011 02:18 GMT
#1
This is the Super Dave.

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Named after our team’s star bronze Zerg player (Dave; aka dukeFast), who is carried by our gold Terran (sypsixcahs) and our platinum Protoss (AtlasHugged).

We have a new strategy now: he carries us.

This is a 3v3 strat that works best with one representative from each race. I bet other matchups would work as well, but we have little experience to prove that. We set out to abuse 2 game mechanics and 1 underused unit.
  1. Larva
  2. Resource Transferring
  3. Ultralisks

We aren't fantastic players (or even good, some would say); but, we've managed to produce 10 Ultralisks @ 10:55 while holding off most early game pressure.

Unlike other races, the larva mechanic allows Zerg to produce effectively as many units as they can afford with only 1 production facility (assuming that unit is an Ultralisk…). This trait, when combined with the ability to flood 3 economies into a single player’s unit production cycle, yields some novel results.

This build is usable as is, and we have several examples below. However, we believe it can be made incredible, and as such are requesting the assistance of the Starcraft community. Can you make this build even better?

The Super Dave works like this:
Zerg
  • Tech to ultra as fast as you can.
  • Get early speed and roughly 20 zerglings to hold off any pressure.
  • Expand or get a macro hatch
  • Get double evo
  • Get overseers
  • Don't get supply capped when you should be building ultras.


Our best Zerg execution looked like this:
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10 Extractor Trick
16 Hatch
16 Gas
16 Pool
19 Queen
19 Lair
*some zerglings
28 gas x 3
32 Queen
31 Infestation Pit
36 Hive
35 Double Evo -> upgrades at 100%
43 Ultra Cavern
43 Ultralisk x10
43 Chitinous Plating
MOAR ULTRALISKS


Protoss
  • 3 gate expo into 6 gate or 4-gate
    4-gate is actually an incredibly reasonable option if there isn't an easy natural for you to take. you don't actually need a good follow up, you just need a shit ton of units to keep the Zerg alive until 11:30. I've attempted this with blink stalkers, but results in simply not enough units.
  • Get gas, lots of gas.
  • When the Ultra Cavern goes down, stop spending money. the only exception to that is to
    • Stay alive or
    • Saturate 4 gas geysers

  • When the Ultra Cavern is done, send ALL YOUR MONEY to the Zerg player

Terran
  • Just like single player: Marine Medi(vac)
  • Zerg needs all your gas, don't build any medivacs until the Ultras are out.
  • When the Ultra Cavern goes down, stop spending money. The only exception to that is to
    • stay alive or
    • saturate 4 gas geysers

  • When the Ultra Cavern is done, send ALL YOUR MONEY to the zerg player


Replays
Flagship
Our best performance
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@10:55
10 Ultras
10 zerglings
1 zelot
6 stalkers
17 marines



Held off DT Harass
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Ultra Cavern done at 9:10
6 ultras at 10:30

@11:37
41 zerglings
9 ultras
4 marines
8 stalkers
1 zealot
4 sentries


Early Zerg Pressure
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@11:37
11 zerglings
8 ultras
1 zealot
9 stalkers
25 marines


Loss - proxy marines, 3 base banes
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@11:35
11 ultras
5 marines...
Notes: must scout (duh). Need to protect Zerg player at all costs.


left alone - Close Game
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@11:40
9 ultras
16 zerglings
9 stalkers
3 sentries
22 marines
Lol Mutas


Lost One Player
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This replay is to demonstrate that the Super Dave can be successful even if one player is lost.


BM
Opposing team wouldn’t let us pause to fix a sound issue, BM ensues. Just for fun.
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@11:40
6 ultras
24 zerglings
1 zelot
11 stalkers
7 sentries
39 marines!


Just Another Super Dave
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11:24
7 ultras
32 zerglings
2 zelots
12 stalkers
1 sentry
23 marines


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whoopingchow
Profile Joined June 2011
United States293 Posts
August 16 2011 03:34 GMT
#2
AWESOME. THIS NEEDS TO BE IMPLEMENTED MORE.

Could also be used for carriers/battlecruisers right?
Archybaldie
Profile Joined June 2011
United Kingdom818 Posts
August 16 2011 03:40 GMT
#3
I like everything about this ... but mainly the name!
I'm in the bubblewrap league ... i just keep getting popped
Oboeman
Profile Joined January 2011
Canada3980 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-16 03:50:27
August 16 2011 03:50 GMT
#4
The most success I have had with this kind of money dumping was having one guy mass archons. Tried it with ultras once and died too early, but I'm sure it is deadly.

the cutest money dump I have had success with was giving a 6-raxing player 250 gas for stim and shields.
Hattori_Hanzo
Profile Joined October 2010
Singapore1229 Posts
August 16 2011 04:58 GMT
#5
@Chow, it is great for BC and Carrier but it will be roflstomped by any decent team unless using them to backstab off terrain.

The advantage of Ultras is that their AoE frontal attack and massive is brutual against tier 1 & 2 enemy units and that they block enemies from going into range of the quisher team member's tier 1 & 2 ranged units namely marine/stalkers.
Cauterize the area
Fishgle
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
United States2174 Posts
August 16 2011 05:18 GMT
#6
On August 16 2011 12:34 whoopingchow wrote:
AWESOME. THIS NEEDS TO BE IMPLEMENTED MORE.

Could also be used for carriers/battlecruisers right?


No this wouldn't work as well for BCs or Carriers, since youd need 6 stargates to build 6 at a time. With a zerg economy, and the afct that you can bank 17 larva per hatchery, i can see this build, if executed well, create 17 ultralisks at once off only 1 hatchery. i repeat: you only need one hatchery as opposed to 10 stargates or 10 starports or 10 robos or 10 factories.
aka ChillyGonzalo / GnozL
tok
Profile Joined April 2010
United States691 Posts
August 16 2011 05:18 GMT
#7
I wonder if the same thing can be done resource feeding to bcs/carriers
Fugue
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Australia253 Posts
August 16 2011 06:16 GMT
#8
Ultras are probably the best unit for this, but you're fast teching to hive and you could also get adrenal glands for cracklings. Quite a bit more larva intensive, but throwing down a 3rd queen/hatch might work. What resource is your real limiting factor in the build? If it's just gas then it sounds viable to me!
LtLolburger
Profile Joined August 2010
New Zealand365 Posts
August 16 2011 06:39 GMT
#9
On August 16 2011 14:18 tok wrote:
I wonder if the same thing can be done resource feeding to bcs/carriers


It wouldn't be as effective as you need multiple production buildings to get the units so fast, its zerg's larvae that makes this so powerful. 10 ultralisks at once, boom.
It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane. -Philip K. Dick
spbelky
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States623 Posts
August 16 2011 07:09 GMT
#10
The Super Dave, lol.

I've seen that tactic before in 2s with a protoss teammate, you do a standard 1base timing push except the protoss gets like 8 gates instead of 4, and after the initial push, the teammate doesnt build more units, they just feed the protoss resources to continue the push.
johanngrunt
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Hong Kong1555 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-16 07:23:30
August 16 2011 07:22 GMT
#11
There, you've ruined team games forever lol.

But some more specific questions, on the 3v3 maps that have u all at different bases, how do u def the zerg? especially since he's going hatch first.
Aterons_toss
Profile Joined February 2011
Romania1275 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-16 07:44:50
August 16 2011 07:30 GMT
#12
Iv one 2v2's after trolling my opponent by gas stealing him and putting gw's so he can't mine minerals ( and this is in diamond 2v2 ) so i say... meh its cool but honestly everything can win a team game imo...
Also, are ultras even cost efficient ? I know they are suply efficient but if i remember well they aren't even that good in a non maxed situation w/o queen suport.
Edit: Tested with a friend just for fun :D, the equivalent of 10 ultras worth of stalker archon ( 4 archons 20 stalkers ) actually kill 10 utrals w/o micro with 17 stalkers left, with micro from both all the stalker left and with micro from zerg 5 stalkers left. ( Yes the ultras have 1/1 and +2 armor up )
Edit: Some more test for fun and the equivalent of 1/1 + plate ultralisk res in 2/0 combat shield and stim rines also beats the ultras w.o any target firing, marauders also beat them by far even if you spend about 1/3 less res on them
So yeah... you might JUST might want to try another unit to dump money into... just sain.
A good strategy means leaving your opponent room to make mistakes
pwn_masta
Profile Joined April 2011
Australia9 Posts
August 16 2011 07:39 GMT
#13
My friends and I probably do this better. The easiest way to do this is as tripple Z or 2 Z and a P. THe two zergs do a 10 pool for early pressure while the third person double or even triple expands and techs to mutas or stalkers and just rolls the opponent. Pretty damn easy.
Diderick
Profile Joined November 2010
Netherlands298 Posts
August 16 2011 07:41 GMT
#14
On August 16 2011 16:30 Aterons_toss wrote:
Iv one 2v2's after trolling my opponent by gas stealing him and putting gw's so he can't mine minerals ( and this is in diamond 2v2 ) so i say... meh its cool but honestly everything can win a team game imo...
Also, are ultras even cost efficient ? I know they are suply efficient but if i remember well they aren't even that good in a non maxed situation w/o queen suport.


you realize were talking about 12 minutes in the game? Then they are costeffective.
Aterons_toss
Profile Joined February 2011
Romania1275 Posts
August 16 2011 07:46 GMT
#15
On August 16 2011 16:41 Diderick wrote:
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On August 16 2011 16:30 Aterons_toss wrote:
Iv one 2v2's after trolling my opponent by gas stealing him and putting gw's so he can't mine minerals ( and this is in diamond 2v2 ) so i say... meh its cool but honestly everything can win a team game imo...
Also, are ultras even cost efficient ? I know they are suply efficient but if i remember well they aren't even that good in a non maxed situation w/o queen suport.


you realize were talking about 12 minutes in the game? Then they are costeffective.


No they are not read what i wrote above and also consider that they are the only unit + few other scraped units at 12 minutes in the game.
A good strategy means leaving your opponent room to make mistakes
RubiksCube
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Germany259 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-16 08:01:22
August 16 2011 08:00 GMT
#16
I like this.

Team Games haven't been figured out nearly as much as 1on1s and this is a clear indicator for that (despite you not being all that serious about it).

With shared unit control and ressource trading there's so much that can be done in 2on2, I really wish there would be a more competitive scene around it.

Also of course, making the Bronze Zerg player in your team, who must've been feeling guilty for all your losses the superstar, by giving him a clear objective and sort of the main role in this strat is awesome.
Giwoon
Profile Joined December 2010
Korea (South)431 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-16 08:52:02
August 16 2011 08:49 GMT
#17
lol...
im kinda high
but shittttttttt.........

EDIT:
on topic thoughhh
like how do you stop VR heavy comps from trip toss?
BUTTHURT?
fezvez
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
France3021 Posts
August 16 2011 09:36 GMT
#18
Yeahhhhh!!!

I really like what you did, especially the way you star Bronze player is carried by the two others!

Thought out well (only works with ultra...) and a middle game plan to survive that is very nice!
habermas
Profile Joined June 2010
United Kingdom304 Posts
August 16 2011 09:57 GMT
#19
I'm thinking medivacs healing the ultras would make it even better.
Kornholi0
Profile Joined November 2010
Canada634 Posts
August 16 2011 10:23 GMT
#20
Cute... People like you guys piss me and my 2's partner off just because everything to it is an anti-timing, you cannot scout transfered money really. I see this strategy working much better with the zerg in question spending all his money on macro hatches and getting a fast spire and then getting 50 mutalisk instantly instead of ultralisk. I guess it completely depends, as I see going against terrans mutalisk not make sense, but going against protoss or zerg it seems way more viable to go mutalisk :|
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