• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EST 01:00
CET 07:00
KST 15:00
  • Home
  • Forum
  • Calendar
  • Streams
  • Liquipedia
  • Features
  • Store
  • EPT
  • TL+
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Smash
  • Heroes
  • Counter-Strike
  • Overwatch
  • Liquibet
  • Fantasy StarCraft
  • TLPD
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Blogs
Forum Sidebar
Events/Features
News
Featured News
ByuL: The Forgotten Master of ZvT28Behind the Blue - Team Liquid History Book19Clem wins HomeStory Cup 289HomeStory Cup 28 - Info & Preview13Rongyi Cup S3 - Preview & Info8
Community News
Weekly Cups (Feb 16-22): MaxPax doubles0Weekly Cups (Feb 9-15): herO doubles up2ACS replaced by "ASL Season Open" - Starts 21/0258LiuLi Cup: 2025 Grand Finals (Feb 10-16)46Weekly Cups (Feb 2-8): Classic, Solar, MaxPax win2
StarCraft 2
General
Terran AddOns placement How do you think the 5.0.15 balance patch (Oct 2025) for StarCraft II has affected the game? Nexon's StarCraft game could be FPS, led by UMS maker ByuL: The Forgotten Master of ZvT Oliveira Would Have Returned If EWC Continued
Tourneys
PIG STY FESTIVAL 7.0! (19 Feb - 1 Mar) Sparkling Tuna Cup - Weekly Open Tournament SEL Doubles (SC Evo Bimonthly) WardiTV Team League Season 10 RSL Season 4 announced for March-April
Strategy
Custom Maps
Publishing has been re-enabled! [Feb 24th 2026] Map Editor closed ?
External Content
The PondCast: SC2 News & Results Mutation # 515 Together Forever Mutation # 514 Ulnar New Year Mutation # 513 Attrition Warfare
Brood War
General
Soma Explains: JD's Unrelenting Aggro vs FlaSh Recent recommended BW games TvZ is the most complete match up BGH Auto Balance -> http://bghmmr.eu/ ACS replaced by "ASL Season Open" - Starts 21/02
Tourneys
BWCL Season 64 Announcement The Casual Games of the Week Thread [Megathread] Daily Proleagues [LIVE] [S:21] ASL Season Open Day 1
Strategy
Soma's 9 hatch build from ASL Game 2 Fighting Spirit mining rates Simple Questions, Simple Answers Zealot bombing is no longer popular?
Other Games
General Games
Nintendo Switch Thread Online Quake Live Config Editor Tool Battle Aces/David Kim RTS Megathread Diablo 2 thread Path of Exile
Dota 2
The Story of Wings Gaming Official 'what is Dota anymore' discussion
League of Legends
Heroes of the Storm
Simple Questions, Simple Answers Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Deck construction bug Heroes of StarCraft mini-set
TL Mafia
Vanilla Mini Mafia Mafia Game Mode Feedback/Ideas TL Mafia Community Thread
Community
General
US Politics Mega-thread NASA and the Private Sector Things Aren’t Peaceful in Palestine UK Politics Mega-thread YouTube Thread
Fan Clubs
The IdrA Fan Club The herO Fan Club!
Media & Entertainment
[Manga] One Piece [Req][Books] Good Fantasy/SciFi books Anime Discussion Thread
Sports
2024 - 2026 Football Thread Formula 1 Discussion TL MMA Pick'em Pool 2013
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
Laptop capable of using Photoshop Lightroom?
TL Community
The Automated Ban List
Blogs
Unintentional protectionism…
Uldridge
ASL S21 English Commentary…
namkraft
Inside the Communication of …
TrAiDoS
Life Update and thoughts.
FuDDx
How do archons sleep?
8882
James Bond movies ranking - pa…
Topin
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 2072 users

[D] PvZ Beating Stephano Style Roaches - Page 78

Forum Index > StarCraft 2 Strategy
Post a Reply
Prev 1 76 77 78
Please have some semblance of an idea of what you're talking about.
TheFlexN
Profile Joined March 2012
Israel472 Posts
July 08 2012 20:12 GMT
#1541
I think this build is getting outdated, Mana has the 8 gate immortal push that has great potential to win the roach build.
Guide: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=346737

I now use it every PvZ and it works well even if I miss some of the timings (I'm plat).

I personaly see this as the solution to this build and that in hots every stargate opener will completely get this build trashed, and we could get our win rate vs zerg back to 90%++

GLHF!
An Esports fan, playing SC2 and LoL because they are fun. Huge fan of mapmaking, Cloud Kingdom = best map ever made EVER.
Arcanefrost
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Belgium1257 Posts
July 08 2012 21:39 GMT
#1542
Immo/sentry 2base has been around for months. It's nothing revolutionary, just a refined timing to add to your arsenal.
Valor is a poor substitute for numbers.
AirbladeOrange
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States2574 Posts
July 09 2012 05:19 GMT
#1543
On July 09 2012 03:31 draemn wrote:
I have been tending to skip sentries... maybe one or two sentires if I can wall off the ramp to my natural with 2 FF or less just to defend home base when they split their roaches.

Part of the problem with going any kind of non-forge fast expand is they build a pool first and can easily kill you if you don't make a forge and they scout it. The other problem is if you don't FEE expand, it just takes the game back to what it was 6 months ago and zerg found lots of ways to survive 1 base pressure. I have little experince in what will work as I haven't been able to win vs players who PROPERLY follow this build (many gold/plats mess up the build slightly).


Where do you get the idea that you can't gateway expand? Just because you may not be able to do it or it may be difficult does not mean that you will die if you don't have a forge against pool first. It sounds like uninformed generalizations to me.
kcdc
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States2311 Posts
July 10 2012 15:20 GMT
#1544
It seems to me that pros are settling back into the 2-base timing set of strategies, to the extent that they'd ever left. Most of the Zerg losses I see are to 2-base timings that they weren't prepared for, and most of the rest of the Zerg losses I see are to big vortexes. But the general trend seems to be to use a mixture of 2-base timings and sprinkle in some 3-base builds in as a change up to keeps Zergs honest so they don't over-defend the 8 to 11 minute timing window.

Of course, some 2-base timings are more all-in than others. Sometimes, you'll see a good aggressive attack with an expansion starting as the push winds down. Those still have to do damage to stay even, but the bar to stay in the game is lower with that third base building behind the push.
monk
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States8476 Posts
July 10 2012 16:54 GMT
#1545
On July 11 2012 00:20 kcdc wrote:
It seems to me that pros are settling back into the 2-base timing set of strategies, to the extent that they'd ever left. Most of the Zerg losses I see are to 2-base timings that they weren't prepared for, and most of the rest of the Zerg losses I see are to big vortexes. But the general trend seems to be to use a mixture of 2-base timings and sprinkle in some 3-base builds in as a change up to keeps Zergs honest so they don't over-defend the 8 to 11 minute timing window.

Of course, some 2-base timings are more all-in than others. Sometimes, you'll see a good aggressive attack with an expansion starting as the push winds down. Those still have to do damage to stay even, but the bar to stay in the game is lower with that third base building behind the push.

Iono, 3 base plays are way way more common than they were half a year ago. I think you're just watching MC and new-age Mana too much.
Moderator
Jasiwel
Profile Joined June 2012
United States146 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-09-03 20:57:44
September 03 2012 20:53 GMT
#1546
When I played a recent Roach Speed/Max build, I decided to go Stargate to see if there was a way to pull a win. Earlier that day I lost against a Zerg that transitioned to a Ling/Roach/Muta build that was impossible to win against (playing bad doesn't really help). I think I held off 3-4 waves of Roaches with Stargate/Gateway before Hydras tackled my air and there was really no way for me to expand. In short, even going Gateway/Stargate is too risky because it either requires some expert timing with Stargate placement (so you're having Phoenixes out just in time to combat Mutas and before he notices you have a Stargate so he doesn't go Hydra) or rely on some serious luck since going Robo/Gateway/Stargate is almost impossible until lategame when you have 3 to 4+ bases. NEVER ENOUGH VESPENE GAS.

Also, FFE never really inspired me, mainly because I've played a lot of customs or Monobattles with Roach timings that devestate wall-offs like it. Sure it gives you more time to react and fight off the first few waves, but like we saw with Elfi vs. Stephano, it really does little good once that pendulum starts gaining momentum. It was easy to see the problems with it.

Has anyone gone Stargate and held-off long enough to bring out a powerful Carrier/Phoenix/Chargelot/Stalker composition?
Supah
Profile Joined August 2010
708 Posts
September 17 2012 19:17 GMT
#1547
Are there any recent replays of pros holding this when the Zerg is just like "OK, I'm going to keep doing this until one of us dies."
InfusedTT.DaZe
Profile Joined August 2010
Romania693 Posts
September 17 2012 19:46 GMT
#1548
usually when zerg does that they drag the game out for a few more mins, but if you defense it well and get on 6+ gates and blink imortal or 6+gates and collosus imortal it's pretty much over so zergs have steered away from it for some more infestor play and 4th bases
"Echoes of past events nudge the tiller on my present course, I await its reflection in the future"
kcdc
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States2311 Posts
September 17 2012 21:11 GMT
#1549
I think the build is still really strong, but the newer maps take the edge off the attack. The maxed roach rush is still pretty close to auto-win against a Protoss fast third on Antiga. It's kind of crazy how much map design affects balance. The rush is borderline unstoppable unless the third is right next natural and has a choke that you can wall off. So now maps have that feature, and the rushes stop.

I don't really like the new metagame where the bases are so close together and easily defended that if P takes a third, there's no fighting until 20 minutes. I guess swarm hosts will fix that tho. Too bad P won't get a unit that makes it possible to take a third that's remotely exposed.
Prev 1 76 77 78
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
Next event in 3h
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft 2
WinterStarcraft490
NeuroSwarm 170
Livibee 88
Ketroc 49
StarCraft: Brood War
Sea 14930
GuemChi 3857
PianO 885
Leta 352
actioN 71
NaDa 48
Jaeyun 40
Icarus 10
League of Legends
JimRising 732
Counter-Strike
Stewie2K586
Other Games
summit1g10425
C9.Mang0312
RuFF_SC2124
Mew2King62
Organizations
Other Games
gamesdonequick779
Counter-Strike
PGL157
StarCraft 2
Blizzard YouTube
StarCraft: Brood War
BSLTrovo
sctven
[ Show 16 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• davetesta27
• Light_VIP 19
• Mapu1
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• intothetv
• Kozan
• IndyKCrew
• LaughNgamezSOOP
• Migwel
• sooper7s
StarCraft: Brood War
• Azhi_Dahaki12
• BSLYoutube
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
League of Legends
• Lourlo1782
• Rush1549
Upcoming Events
Replay Cast
3h
Wardi Open
6h
Monday Night Weeklies
11h
Replay Cast
18h
Replay Cast
2 days
Replay Cast
2 days
The PondCast
3 days
KCM Race Survival
3 days
Replay Cast
3 days
Ultimate Battle
4 days
Light vs ZerO
[ Show More ]
Replay Cast
4 days
CranKy Ducklings
5 days
Replay Cast
5 days
Sparkling Tuna Cup
6 days
Replay Cast
6 days
Liquipedia Results

Completed

Acropolis #4 - TS5
PiG Sty Festival 7.0
Underdog Cup #3

Ongoing

KCM Race Survival 2026 Season 1
Jeongseon Sooper Cup
Spring Cup 2026
WardiTV Winter 2026
Nations Cup 2026
ESL Pro League S23 Stage 1&2
PGL Cluj-Napoca 2026
IEM Kraków 2026
BLAST Bounty Winter 2026
BLAST Bounty Winter Qual
eXTREMESLAND 2025

Upcoming

ASL Season 21: Qualifier #1
ASL Season 21: Qualifier #2
ASL Season 21
Acropolis #4 - TS6
Acropolis #4
IPSL Spring 2026
CSLAN 4
HSC XXIX
uThermal 2v2 2026 Main Event
Bellum Gens Elite Stara Zagora 2026
RSL Revival: Season 4
NationLESS Cup
Asian Champions League 2026
IEM Atlanta 2026
PGL Astana 2026
BLAST Rivals Spring 2026
CCT Season 3 Global Finals
FISSURE Playground #3
IEM Rio 2026
PGL Bucharest 2026
Stake Ranked Episode 1
BLAST Open Spring 2026
ESL Pro League S23 Finals
TLPD

1. ByuN
2. TY
3. Dark
4. Solar
5. Stats
6. Nerchio
7. sOs
8. soO
9. INnoVation
10. Elazer
1. Rain
2. Flash
3. EffOrt
4. Last
5. Bisu
6. Soulkey
7. Mini
8. Sharp
Sidebar Settings...

Advertising | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use | Contact Us

Original banner artwork: Jim Warren
The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2026 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.