[IEM] Day 3 - Page 35

On March 03 2011 19:25 kNyTTyM wrote:

Let me try to really simplify why making a comeback is too hard for zerg.
To comeback you really have three chances. First is winning a major turning battle, second is overexpanding, third is winning several small skirmishes. In brood war that third option was more prevalent and you even had a forth option of rushing a game changing tech (defiler, carrier, etc). So option 1 really doesn't work too well in sc2 anymore.

Getting 7 bases up as zerg doesn't really do much because saturating 3 bases with minerals already puts you at the maximum number of drones you want. Also with that protoss position at 12, any hint of low unit count from idra scouted via obs will result in an instant attack into the main. 5 second attack distance gives no time to play greedy. In this case protoss is going to play defensive until 200/200 unless he sees no units from zerg.

Another option is winning a key battle by overinvesting in units and hoping protoss makes a bad attack. Protoss can prevent this loss by turtling to 200/200.

Lastly is using small cost effective skirmishes until you make up your disadvantage. Zerg really doesn't have this option except for drop and countering. Protoss defend this by playing defensive and turtling.

So now what option does zerg have outside of these ways? Banking on better mechanics like in brood war just doesn't work. I know this is extremely simplified but I can't really think of any other way.