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Where did I go wrong here? I copy DRG's build for maps like shattered temple with rocks at a gold 3rd that he used at MLG Prov, and my timings are close to the same as his.
I don't seem to have anywhere near enough time for infestor tech.
What did I do wrong? A few minutes after his attack he's lost like 5 stalkers to my 30+ roaches. I never seem to get enough roaches to stop him from just backing off and restoring his shields.
Edit: Towards the beginning, he loses 2 stalkers, and I have lost about 15 roaches.
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Anyone? 
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pure un-upgraded roach is not a good way to hold off blink stalkers, you need to mix speedlings in
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you had plenty of time for infestor tech since you had the money for an earlier lair. once your lair pops up, build the pit. if this helps, you oversaturated your gold and you forgot to get the 2nd gas on your main. i don't know if that macro hatch was a good idea since you were running low on minerals with a whole batch of eggs ready to pop pop pop.
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you need two units to beat blink stalkers
ling roach
roach hydra
infestors and anything
generally you only have time for ling roach unless your build is odd
rush to speed on roaches and +1 attack
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Whoops, I thought I had +1 attack. That would have helped. Not taking my 6th gas was on purpose because DRG sat on 5 for a while in the game I watched, not sure if that was on purpose though. I wasn't low on gas at all since I was just making roaches. Same with the macro hatch (similar timing to his), except I think he was able to drone a lot more because he has 6 roaches deflect a bunch of zealots and then drones hard for a lot longer. In this case the macro hatch was probably unnecessary once I saw all of the stalkers.
Looks like the oversaturation of gold/undersaturation of nat + forgetting to build upgrade killed me. I could have gone earlier lair but I -really- don't think infestor energy + infestors would have been out in time, especially cause it would've killed my roach count. Adding in lings sounds like a good idea.
Should I be rushing +1 range attack or +1 armor? In the game I watched, DRG opts for armor, but he scouts multiple zealots first.
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When you mimic builds from players on certain maps, you need to understand why their build is executed in the way they wanted it. For example, staying on 5 gases seems reasonable, but if you had planned for infestor/roaches, then 6 gases is probably better than 5. I haven't watched many of DRG's games so I wouldn't understand the concept of 5 gases well enough, but it seems logical that ling/infestor is good for a 5 gas plan.
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How should you be microing speed roaches off creep versus blink stalkers? Should you be trying to focus fire as many stalkers as possible while moving forward, or something else? (that's what i generally try to do)
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The pros micro roaches in the sense that they just try to get so close as possible and then a move - Thats basically the micro they do however I have come to the sad conclusion trough painful games meeting gm's that have good blink micro that roaches and lings are just so terrible off creep vs blinkstalkers that you cannot engage til you have overwhelming as 2+ on stalkers makes them shoot lings in one less shot, so its hard to do good trades.
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[B]What did I do wrong? A few minutes after his attack he's lost like 5 stalkers to my 30+ roaches. I never seem to get enough roaches to stop him from just backing off and restoring his shields.
Edit: Towards the beginning, he loses 2 stalkers, and I have lost about 15 roaches.
Stalker do 4 extra damage to armored units. I believe roaches are armored. Roaches are good against zealot and with support decent against stalkers. Spread creep, make a hydra/ling combination, or roaches with infestors.
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