[D] YABOT Build Orders - Page 5

The main part of the opening is just 1 gate early pressure, then expand at around 29. It works against a greedy Z that tries to fast expand with minimal defense or who tries to 1 base tech without first getting roaches, or does both. For a slightly better variation, see the first 8 minutes of game #2. It's basically the same build, but with a late second gateway (at 32 in that case).

Ignore what Day9 said, the build is not very safe the way White-Ra played it in those games. You generally have two options with this P opening: attack with your first few zealots with constant reinforcements, or mass up 6-8 zealots and then attack.

Option 1, you push with your first 2-4 zealots: if your push does well, that's great, but you can't increase the pressure, so your push will die out. If your push fails, he will counter attack your probes and keep you busy for long enough to get roaches (see game 3). Regardless, you'll be playing blind, while he'll have full vision of your base. Your warpgate tech will be very very late and so he'll have a big timing window to exploit. You can't defend with only 1 production building and a forge at 32-36 if that's when his counter comes. All he has to do is feint with some threat and then back off and macro. So regardless of whether your push goes well or not, you need at least a second gate. Instead, you might want to try an early forge (forge fast expand build).

If you let him get his 6 lings inside your choke, you won't ever be able to kill them (you won't get your first stalker for about 9 minutes). And since you'll be playing blind, and he'll have his overlord (or two) chilling on top of your base. You won't see his roaches until they run over your base, so you'll have to prepare for them, but he'll see what you're doing and can choose to just tech, or pump roaches if you're spread too thin.

Option 2, you wait for 7-8 zealots: the Z will delay making his army until the last minute because his safe overlord can park on top of your army. In this case you might as well just play the 3 Warpgate FE build that is already in YABOT 1.8. The 3 Warpgate build gets you much faster tech so you can get rid of the overlord in your base and prepare for roaches / hydras / mutas. It gets you warpgate tech about 5 minutes sooner! Comparing the two builds, the 1 gate will get you 8 zealots within 10 seconds of when the 3 warpgate build gets you 2 zealots, 2 stalkers, and 1 sentry. By the next production cycle, the 3 warpgate build will be ahead and if your push is going well, you can cut probe production (you'll be well saturated anyway) and ramp up army production even more. That increase in pressure is not an option with 1 gate.

Conclusion:
Everything that can happen in your favor pretty much happened to White-Ra in the first 8 minutes of game #2. Sen expands at 20, loses his first 6 zerglings without killing any zealots, makes 24 more zerglings (!), 2 queens, and a spine crawler, all of which die to White-Ra's 8 zealots + 2 reinforcements. And after all that, how much was White-Ra up? They were even on mineral income, with White-Ra having 2-3 extra probes on gas, but with no Cyber Core to spend it. And that's pretty much the best you'll do if an opponent has all day to maphax your base with his overlords. Now imagine what will happen if the Z makes a roach den (like game 3), or doesn't lose his zerglings/queens to bad micro, or makes one extra spine crawler, etc. So the 1 gate build relies more than anything on your opponent screwing up by not adapting, not microing, or not checking his maphax vision.

9 pylon (outside your natural)
10 gate -> scout
11 chronoboost the nexus
13 pylon
14 zealot -> chronoboost constant zealot production until you tech
20 pylon
30 nexus
31 pylon
32 gateway (this is skipped in games 3 & 4)
34 forge
38 assimilator
39 assimilator
cyber core and photon cannon whenever wanted
stop zealot production and start chronoboosting probes
use your judgement and make things earlier or later depending on the situation