[G] Bronze to Masters, Improving Mechanics - Page 51

hio

i am high silver/low gold on EU
hitting the benchmarks perfectly of the building groups video at gold level in EU is not enough to win more than 50-60% of your games if you dont have godlike micro (or i dont know what you should know or able to do that it would be enough)

you really need the platinum stuff, or at least a minimum of "scouting..."-video and interpreting the information
and all of the "adding a third..."-video informations, for crushing the low gold level
(i think for crushing all up to high gold on EU you really need all of the platinum content to do and to understand why and what you do)

and with this style of play i am not able to win against zerg often enaugh (TvP 80%, TvT 67%, TvZ 52% at all (including 25% of the games without filterscstyle)

-i die mostly to gold level "banelingbusts" (does not matter if 1 base or 2 base, but 2 base is even a lot harder) but maybe it is doable if i would have just a quite good splittingmicro (ofc much better than the micro, the zerg needs)
a lot of bunkers (3-4) and a wall of depots next to the bunkers just does not help too (only sometimes, and its very hard for me to scout it fast enough too)


i've seen in one PLATINUMreplay that filtersc died to a banelingbust too (so a banelingbust is maybe a conterstrat in TvZ against our 1rax-fe followed by 10min MMM timing push), so thats maybe not the best way to handle with zerg, or/but maybe we just have just to accept the fact that we lose a lot of games against zerg
up to he shows us other ways to play against zerg
(hope he is showing us a really good tvz style against the banelingbust and the massroaches in his adding build videos, that is not even much more microintense than the zerg both zergstyles)

-to "mass roaches only" (just when my army is going to attack opponent, he comes out with 100-150 supply 2base speedroaches, its just impossible to hold it if you cant get back to your ramp fast enough, if the zerg has a minimum of micro, its mostly impossible to hold it while still standing on ramp (even if i have 3 or 4 bunkers and a wall of depots, cause i scouted a lot of gas, but no lair) seems that the zerg just does not have to have as good unitcontrol and macro like i have to have to win against this style of play/bo

last but not least, if the terran makes fast thors-allin, i could easily write gg if i see them passing the watchtower too
so do you have any kind of idea what i make wrong, what i should have to do to hold such kind of a allin? dont even know what would be the best to do and did not found a replay of you when a terran made this

p.s. i've heard a lot of times that EU skilllevel is comparable with NA skilllevel but just one league lower in EU, dont know if thats correct, but maybe a few people, who tried both servers with a couple of games and different skills, could tell us if it is correct or not, would be very interested in

p.p.s. it would be so awful, if you filtersc would take you 2 minutes to read and quickly answer my post

p.p.p.s. i LOVE you and your videos, its really the best content i have seen for a computergame ever, and ive gone from mid-bronze-level to low-gold-level in just about 2 weeks and 50 games, the game makes so amazingly more fun to play now and im even MUCH more motivated to play ladder

p.p.p.p.s. but i still want to give you a tip: match making rating tool (sc2gears-plugin)
it is just terrible how you have to look for the ladderpoints and division rank of your opponents to estimate their skill

like shown here: ladder-explanation of excalibur theese two things doesn't fit to the real "skill" it is just how active you are, blizzard wants to flash us with good numbers for motivating us

mfg Namelless (i am sorry for my bad english, still trying to get better (i did a lot with trying to understand your videos too, thanks for this too )

You know, you don't have to follow the Build into MMM, if you think it doesn't work that well. As long as you keep to the Expo at 3:45, 50 SCVs and about 100 supply at 10:00 you should be quite fine. I've altered it quite a bit for myself, because my hands are too slow for MMM it seems.

For TvZ for example after the Expo CC at 3:45 i take double-gas, then build a bunker and then build 2 Faxes as soon as I have the gas going for Tanks and Hellions. A bit later I add the Starport for some Banshees. I still get the 3:45 Expansion, 50 SCVs and about 100 supply at 10:00 (or atleast I try to, but that's my bad mechanics not the build's fault ). Overall this variation is supposed to get me to mechplay (adding more Faxes later) with some Tanks, some Banshees/Ravens and a lot of Thors and Hellions.

For TvT, instead of getting early Stim/Combat Shield or Techlab on Rax at all, I rather rush for Siegetanks too. So after the 3:45 Expo I build a 2nd Rax, double gas and Bunker as normal. But then, when the gas is there, add a Fax with TL and a Starport. You get kind of a no-upgrade (except siege) Marine/Tank/Medivac mix first and just then start all the bio-upgrades.Reason behind this is that sieged Tanks deal so well with bio and you have a better chance of defending early Siegetank pushes/all-ins of the opponent (it may have the potential to hold that described Thor all-in even).

Just for TvP I'm rather clueless still (remember: MMM is too much micro for my slow hands).

So TL;DR: You don't have to play Filter's builds to the tee as long as you keep to the bronze benchmarks. Being creative and able to come up with new ideas and alter your builds as needed, while keeping up good mechanics, is actually the goal of this guide.