• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EDT 10:29
CEST 16:29
KST 23:29
  • Home
  • Forum
  • Calendar
  • Streams
  • Liquipedia
  • Features
  • Store
  • EPT
  • TL+
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Smash
  • Heroes
  • Counter-Strike
  • Overwatch
  • Liquibet
  • Fantasy StarCraft
  • TLPD
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Blogs
Forum Sidebar
Events/Features
News
Featured News
Code S Season 1 - RO8 Preview3[ASL21] Ro8 Preview Pt2: Progenitors8Code S Season 1 - RO12 Group A: Rogue, Percival, Solar, Zoun13[ASL21] Ro8 Preview Pt1: Inheritors16[ASL21] Ro16 Preview Pt2: All Star10
Community News
Maestros of The Game 2 announcement and schedule !7Weekly Cups (April 27-May 4): Clem takes triple0RSL Revival: Season 5 - Qualifiers and Main Event12Code S Season 1 (2026) - RO12 Results12026 GSL Season 1 Qualifiers25
StarCraft 2
General
Code S Season 1 - RO8 Preview Behind the Blue - Team Liquid History Book Weekly Cups (April 27-May 4): Clem takes triple Blizzard Classic Cup @ BlizzCon 2026 - $100k prize pool Code S Season 1 (2026) - RO12 Results
Tourneys
Maestros of The Game 2 announcement and schedule ! GSL Code S Season 1 (2026) Sea Duckling Open (Global, Bronze-Diamond) RSL Revival: Season 5 - Qualifiers and Main Event Sparkling Tuna Cup - Weekly Open Tournament
Strategy
Custom Maps
[D]RTS in all its shapes and glory <3 [A] Nemrods 1/4 players
External Content
Mutation # 524 Death and Taxes The PondCast: SC2 News & Results Mutation # 523 Firewall Mutation # 522 Flip My Base
Brood War
General
Do we have a pimpest plays list? Why there arent any 256x256 pro maps? BGH Auto Balance -> http://bghmmr.eu/ (Spoiler) Asl ro8 D winner interview BW General Discussion
Tourneys
Escore Tournament StarCraft Season 2 [ASL21] Ro8 Day 4 Small VOD Thread 2.0 [BSL22] RO16 Group Stage - 02 - 10 May
Strategy
Simple Questions, Simple Answers Fighting Spirit mining rates What's the deal with APM & what's its true value Any training maps people recommend?
Other Games
General Games
Stormgate/Frost Giant Megathread Path of Exile Nintendo Switch Thread OutLive 25 (RTS Game) Dawn of War IV
Dota 2
The Story of Wings Gaming
League of Legends
G2 just beat GenG in First stand
Heroes of the Storm
Simple Questions, Simple Answers Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Deck construction bug Heroes of StarCraft mini-set
TL Mafia
Vanilla Mini Mafia Mafia Game Mode Feedback/Ideas TL Mafia Community Thread Five o'clock TL Mafia
Community
General
European Politico-economics QA Mega-thread US Politics Mega-thread Canadian Politics Mega-thread The Letting Off Steam Thread Russo-Ukrainian War Thread
Fan Clubs
The IdrA Fan Club
Media & Entertainment
Anime Discussion Thread [Manga] One Piece [Req][Books] Good Fantasy/SciFi books
Sports
2024 - 2026 Football Thread McBoner: A hockey love story Formula 1 Discussion
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
streaming software Strange computer issues (software) [G] How to Block Livestream Ads
TL Community
The Automated Ban List
Blogs
How EEG Data Can Predict Gam…
TrAiDoS
ramps on octagon
StaticNine
Funny Nicknames
LUCKY_NOOB
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 1943 users

1-Hatch Queen over-reaction, protoss counter - Page 7

Forum Index > SC2 General
Post a Reply
Prev 1 5 6 7 8 Next All
citi.zen
Profile Joined April 2009
2509 Posts
September 09 2009 02:00 GMT
#121
On September 09 2009 10:36 Chill wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 09 2009 10:11 SWPIGWANG wrote:
maybe one could go for a spine crawler rush with creep drop for a timing attack before hydras.....

You guys are ridiculous. Yes I could do that, or I could just inject larvae and end up 50% ahead in supply. COME ON PEOPLE, I know this is the SC2 forum but please use your head.


All I can say is... you're a patient guy :-)
Aut viam inveniam, aut faciam.
Duckvillelol
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Australia1259 Posts
September 09 2009 02:57 GMT
#122
On September 07 2009 19:01 Shiladie wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 07 2009 18:54 FortuneSyn wrote:
Nice read! Do you have an idea of the highest iccup rank that lost to karune?

Karune says he's at about 200 APM in SC2 and that he only really loses to David Kim


Nerf David Kim!

Nice post though, good info to think about.
Former SC2 commentator. youtube.com/duckvillelol
Archerofaiur
Profile Joined August 2008
United States4101 Posts
September 09 2009 03:00 GMT
#123
Chill, Queen aside were there different build options you could do early game? Like we know 2 hatch didnt work but are there options like Spawning pool then Queen then X or Spawning pool then Queen then Y or spawning pool then Z then Queen.
http://sclegacy.com/news/28-scl/250-starcraftlegacy-macro-theorycrafting-contest-winners
TanGeng
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Sanya12364 Posts
September 09 2009 03:11 GMT
#124
Pretty much it sounded like SpawnPool -> Queen -> whatever. Was it 13 Queen or something like that? The lack of variety in Zerg opening was to suggest there is only one viable opening which is to drone to a Queen as early as possible. After that, the Zerg's options are open.
Moderator我们是个踏实的赞助商模式俱乐部
Archerofaiur
Profile Joined August 2008
United States4101 Posts
September 09 2009 03:26 GMT
#125
On September 09 2009 12:11 TanGeng wrote:
Pretty much it sounded like SpawnPool -> Queen -> whatever. Was it 13 Queen or something like that? The lack of variety in Zerg opening was to suggest there is only one viable opening which is to drone to a Queen as early as possible. After that, the Zerg's options are open.


Yah but what do you get after Queen? Is there still variety in the early game?
http://sclegacy.com/news/28-scl/250-starcraftlegacy-macro-theorycrafting-contest-winners
randombum
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
United States2378 Posts
September 09 2009 03:37 GMT
#126
The whole point is with that queen you get such a large production boost you can go all-in lings (if he didn't wall and turtle like crazy), massssssss drones without fear of getting run over. (with lord scouting when he moves out, and the large production boost allowing you to mass lings before he arrives at your base) A hydra all in (if he went for a FE or some variation,), or anything in between.

The best part is that your opponent cannot scout this efficiently at all because of improved AI, and queen's ability to kill the first one.
Archerofaiur
Profile Joined August 2008
United States4101 Posts
September 09 2009 03:42 GMT
#127
On September 09 2009 12:37 randombum wrote:
The whole point is with that queen you get such a large production boost you can go all-in lings (if he didn't wall and turtle like crazy), massssssss drones without fear of getting run over. (with lord scouting when he moves out, and the large production boost allowing you to mass lings before he arrives at your base) A hydra all in (if he went for a FE or some variation,), or anything in between.

The best part is that your opponent cannot scout this efficiently at all because of improved AI, and queen's ability to kill the first one.



So actually the queen does open up lots of different early game builds. Your losing the 2 hatch build but your gaining a whole bunch of other ones.
http://sclegacy.com/news/28-scl/250-starcraftlegacy-macro-theorycrafting-contest-winners
randombum
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
United States2378 Posts
September 09 2009 04:02 GMT
#128
Pretty much. Think of it this way, for less minerals and build time you get the production of over 2 hatches early game (before you even need to mine from a second base) at far less cost.

The 2 hatch build in SC1 is popular because you need it to produce larvae, not because the second base makes you mine faster. It does make you mine faster, but its Larvae first, extra base second.
Chill
Profile Blog Joined January 2005
Calgary25998 Posts
September 09 2009 04:42 GMT
#129
Yea, because we don't know what does what there was huge variety, haha. Zatic really liked Roach Muta, I really liked Muta harass and Hydras, Hot_Bid usually stuck on one base and massed Zerglings or Hydras and then went straight to Ultras.

We don't know what works to be honest, there simply wasn't enough time to try out everything.
Moderator
Aegraen
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States1225 Posts
September 09 2009 05:02 GMT
#130
On September 09 2009 13:42 Chill wrote:
Yea, because we don't know what does what there was huge variety, haha. Zatic really liked Roach Muta, I really liked Muta harass and Hydras, Hot_Bid usually stuck on one base and massed Zerglings or Hydras and then went straight to Ultras.

We don't know what works to be honest, there simply wasn't enough time to try out everything.


On that note. Still no Terran or Protoss report? It's been nearly 3 weeks since Blizzcon. Starting to remind me a bit of Blizzard ;/
"It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost." -- Murray N. Rothbard -- Rand Paul 2010 -- Ron Paul 2012
Klockan3
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
Sweden2866 Posts
September 09 2009 05:21 GMT
#131
On September 09 2009 14:02 Aegraen wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 09 2009 13:42 Chill wrote:
Yea, because we don't know what does what there was huge variety, haha. Zatic really liked Roach Muta, I really liked Muta harass and Hydras, Hot_Bid usually stuck on one base and massed Zerglings or Hydras and then went straight to Ultras.

We don't know what works to be honest, there simply wasn't enough time to try out everything.


On that note. Still no Terran or Protoss report? It's been nearly 3 weeks since Blizzcon. Starting to remind me a bit of Blizzard ;/

Protoss report: Mauled by zerg.
Terran report: Mauled by zerg.

NastyMarine
Profile Blog Joined May 2006
United States1252 Posts
September 09 2009 05:23 GMT
#132
this debate is getting out of control. It seems everyone is forgetting that a lot of things are still going to change. AND if you really doubt that Blizzard has thought about these concepts already, you are crazy. Never-the-less I'm sure some Blizzard employees are sitting at the HQ saying - "hey, there are some people making pretty good points, though"
Treatin' fools since '87
Shadeye
Profile Joined March 2009
Australia75 Posts
September 09 2009 05:37 GMT
#133
I recon the queen looks so good, I herd something strange, apparently its good to bio against a toss and mech against Z in sc2
Go Hyuk, Luxury and F91
Lumi
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States1616 Posts
September 09 2009 10:05 GMT
#134
Whoops, meant the colossus, not the immortal.
twitter.com/lumigaming - DongRaeGu is the One True Dong - /r/onetruedong
Kaniol
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Poland5551 Posts
September 09 2009 11:06 GMT
#135
I'm wondering - wouldn't simply attacking gates with lings from front make it problem for P? Just like you attack forge/gate in front of P's FE with hydras if cannon is too far from them. Since P has only 1 zealot whose task is to protect choke he won't even try to move it. But dunno, i didn't play this game and don't know timings, but I'd like to see somebody trying this on next opportunity
Shiladie
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Canada1631 Posts
September 09 2009 12:18 GMT
#136
On September 09 2009 20:06 Kaniol wrote:
I'm wondering - wouldn't simply attacking gates with lings from front make it problem for P? Just like you attack forge/gate in front of P's FE with hydras if cannon is too far from them. Since P has only 1 zealot whose task is to protect choke he won't even try to move it. But dunno, i didn't play this game and don't know timings, but I'd like to see somebody trying this on next opportunity



the 2nd and 3rd zealot pops out before the shields of the gate go down if I remember correctly

Most people have been making good points, and I do think that the 1-hatch queen gives a large level of flexibility to zerg early game, but I don't see this as something that needs to be fixed on the zerg side.

The one thing I think is truly too powerful right now is the queen's ability to stop scouts early game. An easy fix for this is to reduce the queen's range vs ground from 3 to 0-2 If this is done a worker can dance around the edge of the creep better avoiding the queen who essentially can't leave the creep (moves reaver level of slow off creep)

The reason the devs believed Zerg to be the weaker race is because they are having a hard time defending mid-game pushes from other races with the zerg mid-game tech.

Also, it wasn't in this build I don't think, but they had said there is a build back at blizzard where roaches get the same move while burrowed ability infesters get currently.
zatic
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
Zurich15365 Posts
September 09 2009 13:16 GMT
#137
On September 09 2009 21:18 Shiladie wrote:
The one thing I think is truly too powerful right now is the queen's ability to stop scouts early game. An easy fix for this is to reduce the queen's range vs ground from 3 to 0-2 If this is done a worker can dance around the edge of the creep better avoiding the queen who essentially can't leave the creep (moves reaver level of slow off creep)

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=101510&currentpage=All#18

ModeratorI know Teamliquid is known as a massive building
Postaljester
Profile Joined December 2002
United States128 Posts
September 10 2009 03:31 GMT
#138
On September 08 2009 04:39 dcttr66 wrote:
the issue people are having with this whole thing is that the zerg can easily accelerate larva production to compensate for this. i think mostly the protoss players are fearing playing the zerg on even playing field...

in fact, for me, zerg was always my number one race....


lol what a surprise a player who wants to play an imbalanced game if its in his favor. Balance is key, on your side as well my friend.
If you cant do something well, learn to enjoy doing it poorly
dcttr66
Profile Joined October 2003
United States555 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-09-10 04:20:30
September 10 2009 04:07 GMT
#139
On September 10 2009 12:31 Postaljester wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 08 2009 04:39 dcttr66 wrote:
the issue people are having with this whole thing is that the zerg can easily accelerate larva production to compensate for this. i think mostly the protoss players are fearing playing the zerg on even playing field...

in fact, for me, zerg was always my number one race....


lol what a surprise a player who wants to play an imbalanced game if its in his favor. Balance is key, on your side as well my friend.

you're talking nonsense.

zerg had the problem of needing far more larva than they were getting. protoss could always build probes, zealots, and pylons simultaneously...if you max out mineral gathering rates at your bases you'll be getting your troops faster as a protoss player. as a zerg player you have to rely on your battle wits to win out. usually this means using mutalisks and/or lurkers with great skill. and sometimes it means rushing with zerglings with great skill...if you can't outright win the games by these methods then you usually jump to take the map and overrun the protoss with whatever...usually hydralisks or ultralisks. without the larva acceleration, it's very hard to get enough larva for drones, zerglings, sunken colonies, overlords...all the while finding the cash to expand and tech up without falling behind on anything. you see protoss can build only what he needs to defend, and tech up and/or rush whatever he needs to do as he sees with his scouting probe.

part of the problem is the ramps. protoss are very strong on ramps. you take away the ramps, and suddenly zerg has a huge edge! but guess what? all the latest maps in sc2 are going to be ramp maps!! that means protoss will have that awesome ramp edge. so what does zerg have to compensate? the larva production.

On September 09 2009 00:42 Tsagacity wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 08 2009 21:34 dcttr66 wrote:
ok, i just wanted to say...the announcement for blizzard that sc2 would be at pax happened on the first, right? and yet looking at the pax website they were already out of tickets on the 31st. and the annoying thing is that this is where i live! hah...i just noticed all that. that's rather weird. i would've loved to get to play the game on friday. also, apparently pax is short for penny arcade expo. i guess i should figure out where that is if it's nearby...
There were a thousand extra tickets available for sat/sun. You could have gone if you wanted

oh...well regardless this whole thing was very short notice i think... :D anyway i was already at bumbershoot saturday...and doing something else on sunday... :/ but yeah if i'd known ahead of time i totally would've gone friday...i think the event was held on that day looking at the website...i'll just have to keep my eyes a bit more peeled i guess from now on.
Krikkitone
Profile Joined April 2009
United States1451 Posts
September 10 2009 05:06 GMT
#140
Well the issue is simple if 1 hatch queen is overpowered... nerf the queen's Spawn Larva

if FE 2 hatch is underpowered, then increase the Larva rate of Hatcheries.

so that 2 hatchery Fast Expand is not necessarily worse than 1 Hatchery+Queen
(one is just a Fast Expand the other is more military focused)
Prev 1 5 6 7 8 Next All
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
Escore
10:00
Week 6
escodisco2020
LiquipediaDiscussion
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft 2
Serral 3292
RotterdaM 164
TKL 142
Ryung 110
StarCraft: Brood War
Britney 44953
Bisu 1970
Horang2 899
firebathero 624
Mini 562
Light 507
EffOrt 479
Stork 378
ggaemo 370
actioN 270
[ Show more ]
Killer 263
BeSt 248
Hyuk 245
Larva 208
Soma 180
ZerO 146
Soulkey 133
Rush 114
Pusan 88
Hyun 87
Dewaltoss 86
Zeus 85
hero 74
Sharp 55
Backho 46
ToSsGirL 43
Barracks 33
HiyA 30
soO 28
sorry 24
Bale 24
Shine 22
scan(afreeca) 17
Sacsri 13
Rock 13
IntoTheRainbow 12
Terrorterran 11
ajuk12(nOOB) 11
GoRush 9
Noble 8
Dota 2
Gorgc6186
qojqva1409
syndereN448
monkeys_forever129
League of Legends
Reynor54
Other Games
singsing2170
B2W.Neo1109
hiko1005
DeMusliM460
Lowko354
ArmadaUGS156
KnowMe146
Mew2King97
ZerO(Twitch)13
fpsfer 1
Organizations
Other Games
gamesdonequick1449
StarCraft: Brood War
lovetv 15
StarCraft 2
Blizzard YouTube
StarCraft: Brood War
BSLTrovo
[ Show 15 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• poizon28 17
• Adnapsc2 12
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• intothetv
• Kozan
• IndyKCrew
• LaughNgamezSOOP
• Migwel
• sooper7s
StarCraft: Brood War
• HerbMon 6
• BSLYoutube
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
League of Legends
• Nemesis3160
• TFBlade860
Upcoming Events
Big Brain Bouts
1h 31m
Fjant vs Bly
Serral vs Shameless
OSC
7h 31m
The PiG Daily
8h 31m
Maru vs Rogue
TBD vs Classic
herO vs Solar
ByuN vs Solar
Replay Cast
9h 31m
CranKy Ducklings
19h 31m
RSL Revival
19h 31m
SHIN vs Bunny
ByuN vs Shameless
WardiTV Invitational
20h 31m
Krystianer vs TriGGeR
Cure vs Rogue
SC Evo League
22h 31m
uThermal 2v2 Circuit
1d
BSL
1d 4h
Artosis vs TerrOr
spx vs StRyKeR
[ Show More ]
Replay Cast
1d 9h
Sparkling Tuna Cup
1d 19h
RSL Revival
1d 19h
Cure vs Zoun
Clem vs Lambo
WardiTV Invitational
1d 20h
BSL
2 days
Dewalt vs DragOn
Aether vs Jimin
GSL
2 days
Afreeca Starleague
2 days
Soma vs Leta
Wardi Open
2 days
Monday Night Weeklies
3 days
OSC
3 days
CranKy Ducklings
3 days
Afreeca Starleague
3 days
Light vs Flash
Replay Cast
4 days
Replay Cast
5 days
The PondCast
5 days
Replay Cast
6 days
RSL Revival
6 days
Liquipedia Results

Completed

Proleague 2026-05-05
WardiTV TLMC #16
Nations Cup 2026

Ongoing

BSL Season 22
ASL Season 21
CSL 2026 SPRING (S20)
IPSL Spring 2026
KCM Race Survival 2026 Season 2
Acropolis #4
Escore Tournament S2: W6
SCTL 2026 Spring
RSL Revival: Season 5
2026 GSL S1
BLAST Rivals Spring 2026
IEM Rio 2026
PGL Bucharest 2026
Stake Ranked Episode 1
BLAST Open Spring 2026
ESL Pro League S23 Finals
ESL Pro League S23 Stage 1&2

Upcoming

KK 2v2 League Season 1
BSL 22 Non-Korean Championship
YSL S3
Escore Tournament S2: W7
Escore Tournament S2: W8
CSLAN 4
Kung Fu Cup 2026 Grand Finals
HSC XXIX
uThermal 2v2 2026 Main Event
Maestros of the Game 2
2026 GSL S2
BLAST Bounty Summer 2026: Closed Qualifier
Stake Ranked Episode 3
XSE Pro League 2026
IEM Cologne Major 2026
Stake Ranked Episode 2
CS Asia Championships 2026
IEM Atlanta 2026
Asian Champions League 2026
PGL Astana 2026
TLPD

1. ByuN
2. TY
3. Dark
4. Solar
5. Stats
6. Nerchio
7. sOs
8. soO
9. INnoVation
10. Elazer
1. Rain
2. Flash
3. EffOrt
4. Last
5. Bisu
6. Soulkey
7. Mini
8. Sharp
Sidebar Settings...

Advertising | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use | Contact Us

Original banner artwork: Jim Warren
The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2026 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.