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Requizen
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States33802 Posts
March 28 2013 15:24 GMT
#321
On March 29 2013 00:22 Insoleet wrote:
Small question

How to deal with lings hellbat medivac ?

This pure mineralz compositions looks soo imba... Cant find any way to deal with it.

Static defenses and queens should be enough to fend off the Hellbat Drops, and also only cost minerals. If the harass and build continues later on, Mutas are the direct counter.
It's your boy Guzma!
Insoleet
Profile Joined May 2012
France1806 Posts
March 28 2013 15:41 GMT
#322
On March 29 2013 00:24 Requizen wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 29 2013 00:22 Insoleet wrote:
Small question

How to deal with lings hellbat medivac ?

This pure mineralz compositions looks soo imba... Cant find any way to deal with it.

Static defenses and queens should be enough to fend off the Hellbat Drops, and also only cost minerals. If the harass and build continues later on, Mutas are the direct counter.


Sorry, didnt mean lings hellbat medivacs, i meant marines hellbat medivacs... So probably muta are not the answer :|
MstrJinbo
Profile Joined March 2011
United States1251 Posts
March 28 2013 15:52 GMT
#323
On March 29 2013 00:41 Insoleet wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 29 2013 00:24 Requizen wrote:
On March 29 2013 00:22 Insoleet wrote:
Small question

How to deal with lings hellbat medivac ?

This pure mineralz compositions looks soo imba... Cant find any way to deal with it.

Static defenses and queens should be enough to fend off the Hellbat Drops, and also only cost minerals. If the harass and build continues later on, Mutas are the direct counter.


Sorry, didnt mean lings hellbat medivacs, i meant marines hellbat medivacs... So probably muta are not the answer :|


Mutas are still good in this situation. The mutalisks kill off any drop attempt, Muta ling bane crushes this comp in big engagements. Before you know it, ultralisks are out and you are ready to go for the kill.
Insoleet
Profile Joined May 2012
France1806 Posts
March 28 2013 16:10 GMT
#324
On March 29 2013 00:52 MstrJinbo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 29 2013 00:41 Insoleet wrote:
On March 29 2013 00:24 Requizen wrote:
On March 29 2013 00:22 Insoleet wrote:
Small question

How to deal with lings hellbat medivac ?

This pure mineralz compositions looks soo imba... Cant find any way to deal with it.

Static defenses and queens should be enough to fend off the Hellbat Drops, and also only cost minerals. If the harass and build continues later on, Mutas are the direct counter.


Sorry, didnt mean lings hellbat medivacs, i meant marines hellbat medivacs... So probably muta are not the answer :|


Mutas are still good in this situation. The mutalisks kill off any drop attempt, Muta ling bane crushes this comp in big engagements. Before you know it, ultralisks are out and you are ready to go for the kill.


So far, from my experiences, hellbats are able to tank pretty well the banelings, (one hellbat can take 3 banes hits ?) and lings just got crushed... as do mutalisks

Requizen
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States33802 Posts
March 28 2013 16:14 GMT
#325
On March 29 2013 01:10 Insoleet wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 29 2013 00:52 MstrJinbo wrote:
On March 29 2013 00:41 Insoleet wrote:
On March 29 2013 00:24 Requizen wrote:
On March 29 2013 00:22 Insoleet wrote:
Small question

How to deal with lings hellbat medivac ?

This pure mineralz compositions looks soo imba... Cant find any way to deal with it.

Static defenses and queens should be enough to fend off the Hellbat Drops, and also only cost minerals. If the harass and build continues later on, Mutas are the direct counter.


Sorry, didnt mean lings hellbat medivacs, i meant marines hellbat medivacs... So probably muta are not the answer :|


Mutas are still good in this situation. The mutalisks kill off any drop attempt, Muta ling bane crushes this comp in big engagements. Before you know it, ultralisks are out and you are ready to go for the kill.


So far, from my experiences, hellbats are able to tank pretty well the banelings, (one hellbat can take 3 banes hits ?) and lings just got crushed... as do mutalisks


You have to micro it a bit, getting the Banes to hit the Marines and the Mutas to focus on the Hellbats/Medivacs.

Alternatively, a Roach heavy style with Armor upgrades should be fine against that type of comp, with some Ling and/or Hydra support moving into the midgame.
It's your boy Guzma!
Psychonian
Profile Joined March 2012
United States2322 Posts
March 28 2013 16:47 GMT
#326
Hey guys I need a simple build to kill shit in silver league XD
Trans Rights
Mrvoodoochild1
Profile Joined June 2011
United States1439 Posts
March 28 2013 17:04 GMT
#327
On March 29 2013 00:22 Insoleet wrote:
Small question

How to deal with lings marines hellbat medivac ?

This pure mineralz compositions looks soo imba... Cant find any way to deal with it.

I'm master on eu server .

If you're asking whether you can deal with a hellbat composition with just pure zerglings, you can't. If you scout hellbats you should try to mix roaches and perhaps banelings into your composition.
"let your freak flag fly"
Mrvoodoochild1
Profile Joined June 2011
United States1439 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-03-28 17:08:24
March 28 2013 17:07 GMT
#328
On March 28 2013 18:12 tzim wrote:
Hi guys,

I want to change something in my gameplay - I figure out that playing very aggressive might be it. Can you suggest me some good BO for that ?

For now I am trying
10 pool,
12 overlord, (1x extractor trick)
14 - 3xlings,
17 - queen (1x extractor trick)

and later on 2 base - muta/swarm hosts...

Any suggestions, comments, better BO's ?

It depends what matchup you are doing this build on. 10pools against terran and protoss are generally shit as there is a high potential that they will scout you before lings can come out and will be able to wall off. 10pools are really only good in zvz when the zerg goes hatch first and you're able to force a cancel on the hatchery. 10pools are pretty gimmicky, it is better to play more macro oriented and mix in a 10 pool now and again but 10 pooling should not be your standard opener.
"let your freak flag fly"
Mrvoodoochild1
Profile Joined June 2011
United States1439 Posts
March 28 2013 17:12 GMT
#329
On March 28 2013 14:31 luck_star21 wrote:
I'm also having issues versus 10pools that target my natural, wondering what the proper response is.

If you go hatch first against a 10 pool, you want to pull around 8-10 drones and kite the zerglings until you're able to get your own lings out. It is VERY important that you minimize drone losses so you must concentrate on microing. Even if you're able to save the hatchery, if you lose more than 4-5 drones you will probably be behind as most zergs that 10 pool follow up with speed ling bane all ins and you won't have enough eco to defend.
"let your freak flag fly"
Mrvoodoochild1
Profile Joined June 2011
United States1439 Posts
March 28 2013 17:15 GMT
#330
On March 29 2013 01:47 Psychonian wrote:
Hey guys I need a simple build to kill shit in silver league XD

people in silver league usually don't know how to defend cheese so if you're just trying to win games without actually developing any skill, I would recommend cannon rushing if your protoss, double proxy raxing if you're terran and 6 pooling if your zerg.
"let your freak flag fly"
Requizen
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States33802 Posts
March 28 2013 17:19 GMT
#331
On March 29 2013 02:15 Mrvoodoochild1 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 29 2013 01:47 Psychonian wrote:
Hey guys I need a simple build to kill shit in silver league XD

people in silver league usually don't know how to defend cheese so if you're just trying to win games without actually developing any skill, I would recommend cannon rushing if your protoss, double proxy raxing if you're terran and 6 pooling if your zerg.

Alternatively, learn to macro and defend early game, as most low league players can't late game worth shit.
It's your boy Guzma!
Mrvoodoochild1
Profile Joined June 2011
United States1439 Posts
March 28 2013 17:28 GMT
#332
On March 28 2013 15:11 RoMeRuffles wrote:
How can I win vs a Terran Proxy Reaper build? Tried it all so far, I just dont see a chance.

I tend to just 9 scout all proxy locations. This helps to give you the edge in defense. if you scout the proxy rax, you should try to put down your pool as soon as possible and get your gas at 17 supply and get zergling speed. The reaper will get to your base before your lings and queens are out so you need to micro your drones as best as possible which means you want to get around 4-5 drones and attack the reaper once it arrives to your main. Micro back the wounded drones by using the mineral walk trick. If one of your drones is about to die and you feel like you don't have the time to mirco it away, you can just make a spine or another extractor then cancel these once the reaper target fires another drone. Make around 8-10 lings and two queens to defend. Don't be worried if the terran is able to get a bunker up. Reapers cant kill buildings so it is not a problem. Just use all your lings and both queens to kill the bunker. Once the bunker is killed, you are free to drone and play a normal game.
"let your freak flag fly"
Eiskaffee
Profile Joined March 2013
Germany31 Posts
March 28 2013 17:34 GMT
#333
How can i win against hardcore turtle skytoss?
Mrvoodoochild1
Profile Joined June 2011
United States1439 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-03-28 17:43:26
March 28 2013 17:39 GMT
#334
On March 29 2013 02:34 Eiskaffee wrote:
How can i win against hardcore turtle skytoss?

It depends what race you are. If you're zerg, it is impossible to beat skytoss with templar support. You just have to do significant damage in the mid game so the protoss cannot generate a four base economy to get that army. If you're terran, just do what you would do against any protoss composition, mass drop play as skytoss is pretty immobile. If drop play doesn't work, you want to get a mass viking ghost medivac composition.
"let your freak flag fly"
Requizen
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States33802 Posts
March 28 2013 17:42 GMT
#335
On March 29 2013 02:34 Eiskaffee wrote:
How can i win against hardcore turtle skytoss?

A Corruptor/Muta ball can generally outtrade anything that Skytoss can throw at you, Muta heavy if they're focusing on Voids, Corruptor heavy if else. With that, Roach/Ling can clean up any ground force since they'll be skimping on Immortals or Collosi.

Alternatively, a standard Roach/Hydra/Corruptor army should make short work of it.

Either way, if they're turtling hard and rushing towards air units, mass expanding with Queens and Spores should leave you in a better position late game.
It's your boy Guzma!
MstrJinbo
Profile Joined March 2011
United States1251 Posts
March 28 2013 17:44 GMT
#336
On March 29 2013 01:10 Insoleet wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 29 2013 00:52 MstrJinbo wrote:
On March 29 2013 00:41 Insoleet wrote:
On March 29 2013 00:24 Requizen wrote:
On March 29 2013 00:22 Insoleet wrote:
Small question

How to deal with lings hellbat medivac ?

This pure mineralz compositions looks soo imba... Cant find any way to deal with it.

Static defenses and queens should be enough to fend off the Hellbat Drops, and also only cost minerals. If the harass and build continues later on, Mutas are the direct counter.


Sorry, didnt mean lings hellbat medivacs, i meant marines hellbat medivacs... So probably muta are not the answer :|


Mutas are still good in this situation. The mutalisks kill off any drop attempt, Muta ling bane crushes this comp in big engagements. Before you know it, ultralisks are out and you are ready to go for the kill.


So far, from my experiences, hellbats are able to tank pretty well the banelings, (one hellbat can take 3 banes hits ?) and lings just got crushed... as do mutalisks



If you setup a flank and have a sufficiently large army, marine, hellbats, medivac can be beaten with muta/ling/bane. Its not particularly Cost efficient but Ultralisks come really shortly afterwards. So the Terran has the same army that just died the second time around and you have one a lot stronger. Regardless of your thoughts about marines vs muta and zergling vs hellbats, ultralisks will shred them.
AceStar
Profile Joined February 2012
Denmark16 Posts
March 28 2013 17:50 GMT
#337
Hello, I play Zerg on the High Plat EU ladder. I regularly get placed vs Diamonds.
Recently on my ladder I seem to only be matched up against other Zerg players. In pro games, most Zergs seem to be able to get away with a 15 hatch. Whenever I try to 15 hatch in ZvZ it seems that my fellow Zerg opponent will always be doing an 8/10/11 Pool, and I find it near impossible to defend. The same goes vice versa, when I 14/14 vs a 15 hatch he seems to be able to defend with relative ease.
I feel that part of the problem is the fact that I can never scout early enough with my overlords (drone scouting is out of the question, I would lose too much income). I can therefore never see such rush coming, or such greedy play being done.
I am looking for a build order that could help me deal with this. My 14/14 had never failed me at punishing fellow Zergs for their greedy builds in lower leagues, but it seems to fall way short in Plat/Dia.
Thanks in advance.
blade55555
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States17423 Posts
March 28 2013 17:52 GMT
#338
On March 29 2013 02:39 Mrvoodoochild1 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 29 2013 02:34 Eiskaffee wrote:
How can i win against hardcore turtle skytoss?

It depends what race you are. If you're zerg, it is impossible to beat skytoss with templar support. You just have to do significant damage in the mid game so the protoss cannot generate a four base economy to get that army. If you're terran, just do what you would do against any protoss composition, mass drop play as skytoss is pretty immobile. If drop play doesn't work, you want to get a mass viking ghost medivac composition.


No it's not. You can beat skytoss + templar support.

You need swarmhost/hydra/ultra/viper or you will never have a chance. The swarmhost/ultra tank the damage from splash and will kill colo/templar where the hydra/viper can abduct and kill the sky units or the colo then sky units. I have only lost to mass air + templar once, and I played like an idiot to lose it to.
When I think of something else, something will go here
Psychonian
Profile Joined March 2012
United States2322 Posts
March 28 2013 18:25 GMT
#339
On March 29 2013 02:19 Requizen wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 29 2013 02:15 Mrvoodoochild1 wrote:
On March 29 2013 01:47 Psychonian wrote:
Hey guys I need a simple build to kill shit in silver league XD

people in silver league usually don't know how to defend cheese so if you're just trying to win games without actually developing any skill, I would recommend cannon rushing if your protoss, double proxy raxing if you're terran and 6 pooling if your zerg.

Alternatively, learn to macro and defend early game, as most low league players can't late game worth shit.


Im being put up against mostly high silver/low golds right now. I keep getting killed by a hellbat/viking/tank push. I guess I should get muta right?
Trans Rights
Requizen
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States33802 Posts
March 28 2013 18:26 GMT
#340
On March 29 2013 03:25 Psychonian wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 29 2013 02:19 Requizen wrote:
On March 29 2013 02:15 Mrvoodoochild1 wrote:
On March 29 2013 01:47 Psychonian wrote:
Hey guys I need a simple build to kill shit in silver league XD

people in silver league usually don't know how to defend cheese so if you're just trying to win games without actually developing any skill, I would recommend cannon rushing if your protoss, double proxy raxing if you're terran and 6 pooling if your zerg.

Alternatively, learn to macro and defend early game, as most low league players can't late game worth shit.


Im being put up against mostly high silver/low golds right now. I keep getting killed by a hellbat/viking/tank push. I guess I should get muta right?

If it's pure mech like that, Swarm Hosts with Queen support can work well to wear it down as well, but Muta/Ling should work very well against that comp.
It's your boy Guzma!
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