EPTSaving Your Workers From Hellions - Page 14
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Deleted User 101379
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CherubDown
United States171 Posts
On December 03 2010 06:55 Morfildur wrote: CatZ just lost all his banelings without killing almost anything because of your technique. I hate it, i wanted to see a lot of workers turned to green goo :-/ Got a replay? | ||
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Deleted User 101379
4849 Posts
Was on his live Stream, so i don't have a replay. | ||
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Xylocaine
France56 Posts
On December 02 2010 06:56 Clamps wrote:He worried that you might pull a worker holding a xel'naga tower open. This actually wont happen, the game considers the act of holding a xel'naga open a valid and continuing action Nice to know, but another little tip: sometimes I have drones scattered around (for ex. hidden in a corner of the enemy base or something) and what I do so that they don't come up on my "idle workers" list (so that if I actually do have an idle worker, I don't miss it...) is just make them patrol over half a millimiter. Counts as a continuous action too, and keeps them off the list ;p (Sorry if this has been posted yet, couldn't bother read anything but the first 2 and last 2 pages) | ||
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Reasonable
Ukraine1432 Posts
On November 27 2010 22:55 Skeyser wrote: Sounds great for pros, but way too apm heavy for us mere mortals ^^ What are you talking about? I used to single click spread all of my workers in like 6 seconds with 120 apm. It's about precision, not click speed. | ||
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TriniMasta
United States1323 Posts
On December 03 2010 15:39 Reasonable wrote: What are you talking about? I used to single click spread all of my workers in like 6 seconds with 120 apm. It's about precision, not click speed. Yes! Even though precision improves as APM does, this is somewhat true. The box and split is a more natural reaction to helion dropping, and this may take some time for the community to adapt to. I guess this would be best against helions once you get used to it, but again it's going to be hard to adapt to such a weird tactic. Nonetheless, good find and keep it up! | ||
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Jedimonky
United States56 Posts
On December 03 2010 06:13 Phantasy wrote: I tried this the other day and with there being 30+ drones its VERY time consuming and it is insanely hard to get back on track or do anything beside spamming drone movement. You will lose all macro and any chance of even trying to micro vs hellions or banes. 2500~ diamond zerg - you are better off manually selecting to try to get around splash damage units. Not to be rude but i don't think you are doing it correctly then. A guy posted early that if you click ctrl + F1 it selects all the idle workers that you just spread out. Also you dont necessarily have to spread them across the map. Just spread them out in your base the key is moving them away from the hellion without lining them up so that the hellion can get a large multi-kill on the hellions. Although I am ashamed of how I played later in the game(kept having distractions), I used this technique to great effect in a game without ever having tried it before. The OP actually added to the rep to the OP. btw in the rep i didn't know about the ctrl+F1 trick and my econ took minimal damage... It is better to lose mining time rather than the miner. | ||
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Jedimonky
United States56 Posts
On December 03 2010 15:49 TriniMasta wrote: Yes! Even though precision improves as APM does, this is somewhat true. The box and split is a more natural reaction to helion dropping, and this may take some time for the community to adapt to. I guess this would be best against helions once you get used to it, but again it's going to be hard to adapt to such a weird tactic. Nonetheless, good find and keep it up! I would argue that "effective APM" improves as precision improves... just a side note to the actual discussion.  | ||
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Valestrum
United States246 Posts
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coko
United Kingdom570 Posts
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Almania
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Severian
Australia2052 Posts
On December 05 2010 13:10 Almania wrote: If patch 1.2.0 goes live as is, you won't be able to hold down F1 to do this trick. This does seem to be the case. Rats. Oh well, it's not too difficult to alternate the buttons. edit: Nevermind, the change was reverted. Rejoice! | ||
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terranghost
United States980 Posts
My hellions are less useful while banelings on my scvs are less effective. Sorry I play with a zerg practice partner a lot. Our workers did have a very high life expectancy. | ||
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threehundred
Canada911 Posts
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GreatestThreat
United States631 Posts
 Severian splits, guys. Before you start calling blueflame hellions OP in the live report threads. | ||
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Bro_Stone
United States510 Posts
SlayerS Fighting! | ||
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xza
Singapore1600 Posts
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Xation
Canada147 Posts
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Ldooder
United States28 Posts
I tried this technique before though I lacked in having the correct spread to the hellions | ||
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SafeAsCheese
United States4924 Posts
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