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Railgan
Profile Joined August 2010
Switzerland1510 Posts
April 22 2016 23:00 GMT
#21
On April 22 2016 10:36 JohnnyDavids13 wrote:
Very nice build, and guide. Won a few games trying this out


On April 21 2016 15:50 sc2chronic wrote:
nice guide. as someone currently still trying to figure the best strat out for zvt, this looks very viable and... well researched/tried and tested many times. i will be trying this out on ladder.



Thank you guys! If you have any questions feel free to ask them
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Digitalz1
Profile Joined February 2011
Canada72 Posts
April 25 2016 13:44 GMT
#22
I havnt logged into TL in awhile, but i did just to tell you i have tried this build and it has worked with GREAT success, infact i have yet to lose a game with it. I would HIGHLY recommend this to any Zerg player, currently sitting top diamond and taking down mid / low masters players with ease and amazingly this works well in zvz as the roaches come out in time to block the ramp holding any early pool aggression and FORCING a roach ravager centric zvz game as oppose to mutas.

I also subbed to your youtube channel and look forward to future builds / guides, particularily interested in this prominant ling hydra bane timing for zvp
masturbinho
Profile Joined April 2016
2 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-04-26 09:40:06
April 26 2016 09:37 GMT
#23
this is really, really great!
tried it a few times and it was always successful - ok, in gold league most of the time the terran was already done after the mutas hit!

Edit: I just subscribed your channel - nice to see a swiss SC2-channel!
Aelendis
Profile Joined February 2011
Belgium892 Posts
April 26 2016 10:12 GMT
#24
Well, I guess that after seeing all these comments I have to try this build.
Railgan
Profile Joined August 2010
Switzerland1510 Posts
April 26 2016 22:32 GMT
#25
On April 25 2016 22:44 Digitalz1 wrote:
I havnt logged into TL in awhile, but i did just to tell you i have tried this build and it has worked with GREAT success, infact i have yet to lose a game with it. I would HIGHLY recommend this to any Zerg player, currently sitting top diamond and taking down mid / low masters players with ease and amazingly this works well in zvz as the roaches come out in time to block the ramp holding any early pool aggression and FORCING a roach ravager centric zvz game as oppose to mutas.

I also subbed to your youtube channel and look forward to future builds / guides, particularily interested in this prominant ling hydra bane timing for zvp

Thanks for the feedback!

The build originally started out as a ZvZ build for me where I just blocked my ramp with 3 roaches and went straight muta! So for me it forced a muta centric ZvZ

I will try to make a guide on the ling hydra baneling ZvP style! Thanks for subbing
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RaiZ
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
2813 Posts
April 27 2016 16:03 GMT
#26
Why is everyone talking about banes and not lurkers ? I feel like they're more reliable especially at low levels because of many players that don't put the banes on a separate hotkey. It's even worse when they play against sentries and now they have to wait for for the drops for better use.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. Oscar Wilde
RaiZ
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
2813 Posts
April 27 2016 16:07 GMT
#27
I know it's off topic but still I'm really curious. I just don't understand why they finally decided to add some banes on a zerg's composition against protoss all of a sudden.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. Oscar Wilde
WeenMalkov
Profile Joined April 2016
4 Posts
April 27 2016 16:27 GMT
#28
So I have a question for you Railgan- I've been doing this as like my standard zvt regardless. Vs Fast Expand it works great but every now and then I run into an old school T who opens up with some sort of 2 rax opening or a cheese/ all in. If your roaches don't really do any damage and you scout some heavy all in or tier 1 pressure, is it better to keep going with the roach production? Or should you drop a bane nest and go more ling bane until you have the 1-1 ups on roach? I'm talking like pre-spire, early game all in or heavy pressure.
Railgan
Profile Joined August 2010
Switzerland1510 Posts
April 27 2016 17:18 GMT
#29
On April 28 2016 01:27 WeenMalkov wrote:
So I have a question for you Railgan- I've been doing this as like my standard zvt regardless. Vs Fast Expand it works great but every now and then I run into an old school T who opens up with some sort of 2 rax opening or a cheese/ all in. If your roaches don't really do any damage and you scout some heavy all in or tier 1 pressure, is it better to keep going with the roach production? Or should you drop a bane nest and go more ling bane until you have the 1-1 ups on roach? I'm talking like pre-spire, early game all in or heavy pressure.

If they go 3 rax allin, which you can scout by seeing no factory and multiple rax, you should go for a roach ling or ling baneling composition as it is a very allinny build.

If they go for a standard tank marine push you can easily hold it with additionally queens until your mutas are out at which point his marines should be clearable with mutalisks.
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Beelzebub1
Profile Joined May 2015
1005 Posts
April 27 2016 17:46 GMT
#30
What are you doing vs mech at the moment railgan? Seems like suiciding hellions is super strong in master league so I want to open gasless roaches because zergling speed is utterly useless vs. mech but if I don't blind prepare I feel like the hellions can just do whatever they want (including suicide themselves to kill an entire drone line) but if I blind prepare and they just take more planetaries I fall behind.

Also, Banshees denying outlying bases, that hurts, they are really really fast, I didn't even know they had a speed upgrade until I realized my Mutalisks could barely keep up.
WeenMalkov
Profile Joined April 2016
4 Posts
April 27 2016 18:37 GMT
#31
On April 28 2016 02:18 Railgan wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 28 2016 01:27 WeenMalkov wrote:
So I have a question for you Railgan- I've been doing this as like my standard zvt regardless. Vs Fast Expand it works great but every now and then I run into an old school T who opens up with some sort of 2 rax opening or a cheese/ all in. If your roaches don't really do any damage and you scout some heavy all in or tier 1 pressure, is it better to keep going with the roach production? Or should you drop a bane nest and go more ling bane until you have the 1-1 ups on roach? I'm talking like pre-spire, early game all in or heavy pressure.

If they go 3 rax allin, which you can scout by seeing no factory and multiple rax, you should go for a roach ling or ling baneling composition as it is a very allinny build.

If they go for a standard tank marine push you can easily hold it with additionally queens until your mutas are out at which point his marines should be clearable with mutalisks.


Thanks. What is your recommended transition late game if they make it past the first timing attack? I've had some issues with mass MM widow mine with 3-3 ups
Kestnuts
Profile Joined January 2012
United States29 Posts
April 27 2016 19:17 GMT
#32
I've been looking for a build like this, thanks!

Does this opener transition well into Ling Bane Muta, or is Roach Ravager the only way to transition into the midgame with this opener?
Railgan
Profile Joined August 2010
Switzerland1510 Posts
April 27 2016 21:12 GMT
#33
On April 28 2016 04:17 Kestnuts wrote:
I've been looking for a build like this, thanks!

Does this opener transition well into Ling Bane Muta, or is Roach Ravager the only way to transition into the midgame with this opener?

transitions both ways! but I prefer roach ravager and believe it's stronger
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Railgan
Profile Joined August 2010
Switzerland1510 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-04-27 21:18:29
April 27 2016 21:14 GMT
#34
On April 28 2016 03:37 WeenMalkov wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 28 2016 02:18 Railgan wrote:
On April 28 2016 01:27 WeenMalkov wrote:
So I have a question for you Railgan- I've been doing this as like my standard zvt regardless. Vs Fast Expand it works great but every now and then I run into an old school T who opens up with some sort of 2 rax opening or a cheese/ all in. If your roaches don't really do any damage and you scout some heavy all in or tier 1 pressure, is it better to keep going with the roach production? Or should you drop a bane nest and go more ling bane until you have the 1-1 ups on roach? I'm talking like pre-spire, early game all in or heavy pressure.

If they go 3 rax allin, which you can scout by seeing no factory and multiple rax, you should go for a roach ling or ling baneling composition as it is a very allinny build.

If they go for a standard tank marine push you can easily hold it with additionally queens until your mutas are out at which point his marines should be clearable with mutalisks.


Thanks. What is your recommended transition late game if they make it past the first timing attack? I've had some issues with mass MM widow mine with 3-3 ups

Depends on the map. I usually go roach ravager -> infestor -> broodlord.
It's a hard question to answer as it doesn't really have anything to do with the opener but the way you play the matchup generally. If the terran stays MMMM you should go infestor. If he goes Tanks you get broodlords if he goes liberators I stay Roach Ravager.


On April 28 2016 02:46 Beelzebub1 wrote:
What are you doing vs mech at the moment railgan? Seems like suiciding hellions is super strong in master league so I want to open gasless roaches because zergling speed is utterly useless vs. mech but if I don't blind prepare I feel like the hellions can just do whatever they want (including suicide themselves to kill an entire drone line) but if I blind prepare and they just take more planetaries I fall behind.

Also, Banshees denying outlying bases, that hurts, they are really really fast, I didn't even know they had a speed upgrade until I realized my Mutalisks could barely keep up.


vs Air


vs Ground


This is how I play versus Mech. Basically pure Roach Ravager -> add corruptors / hydras to deal with banshees -> get Infestors to make sure you can fungal his liberators / banshees so they can't simply fly over your army and kill you. Eventually get a Broodlord / Ultra / Queen / Ravager / Viper / Infestor army.
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RandomAccount#216215
Profile Joined September 2011
76 Posts
May 20 2016 16:01 GMT
#35
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Railgan
Profile Joined August 2010
Switzerland1510 Posts
May 20 2016 16:15 GMT
#36
On May 21 2016 01:01 isrtor2 wrote:
hi railgun nice post, i feel like if terran goes reaper expand, scouts your roach warren, and builds a bunker in his natural he will be safe against the 3 roaches and all they did was force a bunker = 100 minerals into the terran build. Roaches are obviously more expensive.

1 bunker with 4 marines is not enough. You can simply walk past the bunker and attack his scvs. Eventually he will have a tank to clean up your Roaches but you will be able to delay his mining for some time.
Alternativly you can keep your Roaches at home to deal with his drops / attacks.

The goal of the 3 roachs is to allow a save Mutalisk transition, not to kill the Terran
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bulya
Profile Joined February 2016
Israel386 Posts
May 30 2016 21:03 GMT
#37
Hello Railgan,

Thank you for the build, I use it a lot with great results. My ZvT was strong, but it even got stronger (I'm a plat and I got to beat a masters with it).

It seems that lately the terrans started adjusting to the possibility of lings coming by, followed by roaches. For example, I just played a game where my opponent scv scouted, saw my early pool, and didn't make the CC that early (also used a bunker to secure his natural).

I skipped the muta harras and went for a roach ravager baneling attack (he had a lot of marines) with the roach, bane speeed and +1 carapace which was probably a bad idea as it didn't work out that good.

How do you react if the build is scouted early on, or you don't get to do the harass you planned?

It still denies him mining time, which make the early pool pay for itself, but in those cases they are quite prepared for the roach ravager push (sieged tanks, liberators, ect). I tried the muta harras several times at these cases, but either I didn't use them correctly, or may be I should have just taken my third and get to even higher tech units.
What are your suggestions?
Railgan
Profile Joined August 2010
Switzerland1510 Posts
June 02 2016 13:09 GMT
#38
On May 31 2016 06:03 bulya wrote:
Hello Railgan,

Thank you for the build, I use it a lot with great results. My ZvT was strong, but it even got stronger (I'm a plat and I got to beat a masters with it).

It seems that lately the terrans started adjusting to the possibility of lings coming by, followed by roaches. For example, I just played a game where my opponent scv scouted, saw my early pool, and didn't make the CC that early (also used a bunker to secure his natural).

I skipped the muta harras and went for a roach ravager baneling attack (he had a lot of marines) with the roach, bane speeed and +1 carapace which was probably a bad idea as it didn't work out that good.

How do you react if the build is scouted early on, or you don't get to do the harass you planned?

It still denies him mining time, which make the early pool pay for itself, but in those cases they are quite prepared for the roach ravager push (sieged tanks, liberators, ect). I tried the muta harras several times at these cases, but either I didn't use them correctly, or may be I should have just taken my third and get to even higher tech units.
What are your suggestions?


If a Terran knows my build I sometimes go for Lingspeed -> 8 Roaches and just kill him with it.

Basically this with only 1 queen and without pulling the Queens.

That is just 1 form of mixup that the build offers. You can also skip the roaches and go straight muta, drop Queens and Roaches, go Straight Nydus and many other things. However, I think going for the 3 roaches into mutas is the safest play and it's what I usually do. Mutalisks are great at dealing with all forms of terran threat and you should always build them to get your 3rd economy safely.

As for the Roach Ravager follow up you can also mix up that one. Sometimes I go Swarmhost
example here
sometimes I go Roach Hydra sometimes I go Ling Bane Lurker Corruptor. You are free to play as you like
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IcemanAsi
Profile Joined March 2011
Israel681 Posts
June 04 2016 11:20 GMT
#39
Been trying it out in zvz, sending the first three roaches knowing they aren't coming back but forcing a positive trade against lings using mineral patches and denying mining time, meanwhile I can get real greedy behind it and set up for either +1/+1 roach speed attack or muta transition. So far it's been working out. I wonder why you abandoned this build in zvz?
Railgan
Profile Joined August 2010
Switzerland1510 Posts
June 04 2016 22:00 GMT
#40
On June 04 2016 20:20 IcemanAsi wrote:
Been trying it out in zvz, sending the first three roaches knowing they aren't coming back but forcing a positive trade against lings using mineral patches and denying mining time, meanwhile I can get real greedy behind it and set up for either +1/+1 roach speed attack or muta transition. So far it's been working out. I wonder why you abandoned this build in zvz?

I can't quite remember. I think I usually got overwhelmed by ling / ling bane attacks and just gave it up
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