On May 15 2013 19:05 Fenneth wrote:
Trap vs Effort Game 1 - Akilon Wastes

0:00-5:00

Trap with 9 pylon at front, probe scouts
Effort 14pools

Trap pylon blocks, Effort places his expansion hatch at his 3rd base
Trap with standard FFE, no corners cut

Effort places third hatch at his natural, kills scout probe
Trap makes a zealot

5:00-10:00

Trap makes a quick stargate
Effort adds two gas

Trap adds both natural gases
An overlord scouts the stargate just as it finishes warping in

+1 weapons starts for Trap
Trap manages to sneak a probe out undetected

Effort adds 6 spores, ling speed, lair
Trap adds 3 gates, then a robo

Effort begins roach production and roach speed, begins first evo chamber
Trap doing good work with his phoenixes despite the spores

Effort starts a spire
Trap starts a robotics bay and +1 armour

Effort pokes up the ramp and manages to get lings into Trap's base, scouts everything
Trap knocks down the rocks to take his 3rd base, adds a twilight council, then blink

Effort adds some corruptors, an infestation pit, then enduring locusts
Trap grabs a second stargate and warp prism speed, making immortals instead of colossi

Phoenixes continue to do pretty good damage, Trap begins double void ray production
Effort making mostly swarmhosts, takes a 4th base

Effort starts pathogen glands
Trap takes his 4th base, harasses a little with a warp prism (which Effort kills). He's hiding his voidrays

Effort starts making infestors
Trap starts colossus production, adds templar archives and begins storm

Effort starts hive, manages to pick off another warp prism
Trap shows his voidrays, Effort mistakenly flies his corruptors over Trap's army and loses 5-6

Trap making more colossi, he has a diverse army of stalkers, zealots, immortals, archons, templar, colossi, voidrays. He also takes a 5th
Effort starts +3 air attack, has swarmhost + corruptor + infestor

Trap starts a fleet beacon, dark shrine, charge; he's fully teched. Sacrifices stalkers to free up supply
Effort is behind on bases, contained to 4 bases while trap takes his 6th

Fight begins; several feedbacks kill infestors but some fungals hit
Trap must retreat, and suddenly gets caught in a bad position and loses a lot of colossus+voidray to corruptors

Effort starts greater spire
Both players harass each other but nothing of real consequence
Trap makes two oracles

Effort has 3/3 started for most of his units, Trap is a bit behind on upgrades

Trap continues to harass with warp prisms and does some damage
Effort is quite mineral poor and has no real bank

Locusts continue to pick at Trap's 6th base
Trap has added tempests and is making 4 at a time, continues harassing with DTs and roughly breaking even

Effort begins viper production, Trap makes a mothership

30:00-35:00

The game has slowed down, locusts continue to prod at Trap's base but nothing expensive dies
Neural parasite starts for Effort
Effort manages to pick off the mothership
Locusts and abducts are draining Trap's bank, Effort hasn't lost a unit that costs money for a long time
5 stargates started for Trap

Insoleet

France1806 Posts

May 15 2013 10:26 GMT

#703

I think trap needs a lot of carriers to have enough DPS against the locusts.

29 fps

United States5720 Posts

May 15 2013 10:26 GMT

#704

swarm hosts are so good...

ZenithM

France15952 Posts

May 15 2013 10:26 GMT

#705

Revelation is keeping Effort in check so much :D

Nebuchad

Switzerland11907 Posts

May 15 2013 10:26 GMT

#706

On May 15 2013 19:25 Morphage wrote:

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Well maybe it's just the novelty effect, just as people loved the archon toilet in the beginning, and then people hated the dynamic.

Or maybe you just can't see anything, just like you thought PartinG a-moved into Soulkey in game 4 yesterday.

Qikz

United Kingdom12022 Posts

May 15 2013 10:26 GMT

#707

I still think carriers are better in this situation.

gingerfluffmuff

Austria4570 Posts

May 15 2013 10:26 GMT

#708

On May 15 2013 19:26 Looms wrote:
9 stargates total O_O

mass tempest lol

Yello

Germany7411 Posts

May 15 2013 10:26 GMT

#709

goddamnit, why does nobody build Carriers instead of Tempest? They are so much better against mass corruptor-viper

dainbramage

Australia1442 Posts

May 15 2013 10:26 GMT

#710

On May 15 2013 19:25 Die4Ever wrote:

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super massive

It's already heroic, couldn't they just use that attribute?

Purpose88

Germany137 Posts

May 15 2013 10:27 GMT

#711

I want to see Flash. What are they doing. KILLKILLKILL!

Blaec

Australia4289 Posts

May 15 2013 10:27 GMT

#712

Unless Trap puts cannons friggin everywhere then 11 tempests are going to be a liability.

Ryps

Romania2740 Posts

May 15 2013 10:27 GMT

#713

On May 15 2013 19:25 Die4Ever wrote:

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super massive

It should be called yo momma so fat it cant be abducted mothership.

[OGN]Remmy

United States1206 Posts

May 15 2013 10:27 GMT

#714

Corruptors just fleed facing so many tempests. LOL

ThePowerHour

United States834 Posts

May 15 2013 10:27 GMT

#715

GO TRAP! woooooooooo

[OGN]Remmy

United States1206 Posts

May 15 2013 10:28 GMT

#716

Late toss units are way too stronk

Insoleet

France1806 Posts

May 15 2013 10:28 GMT

#717

Against corruptor/swarmhosts, wouldnt triple SG / triple robo on 3 bases totally destroy this comp ?

Leporello

United States2845 Posts

May 15 2013 10:28 GMT

#718

Great fungals

Oddball28

Denmark2121 Posts

May 15 2013 10:29 GMT

#719

Why is Carriers never made in this matchup this late in the game? I mean, Tempests doesn't really do anything against that massive corrupter force. They only function as a snipe against spores, vurnable infestors. And it's not like he didn't have the time to build Carriers nor ressources..