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DoubleRainbow
Canada85 Posts
usually it ends up like mid-late game and i just can't keep up. If anyone has any tips on how i can step up my game so i can start winning and get in the diamond league? 'Cause right now i can't seem to beat any of the players i face. http://www.mediafire.com/?5anfa123wm9z8e3 http://www.mediafire.com/?c7on1bnbbcyxyj5 http://www.mediafire.com/?7j9r1xw9tndjchs | ||
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Nub4ever
Canada1981 Posts
let the streak get to you. Watch the reps see what you did wrong(which I guess you've done already) and just play some, if it oersists take a bit of a break from SC. I've been on much worse loosing streaks =/ | ||
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hiddencamper
49 Posts
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DoubleRainbow
Canada85 Posts
On August 06 2010 08:30 hiddencamper wrote: If you've been winning the game will put you up against better players that's why i am posting the replays. Its cause i can't beat these better players that they put me against. | ||
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knyttym
United States5797 Posts
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DoubleRainbow
Canada85 Posts
On August 06 2010 08:34 kNyTTyM wrote: It's good that you posted a replay but 1 more step is needed in a strategy OP. You should analyze your own replay and post what you think you did wrong. It's ok if it is wrong but it will allow us to help you more thoroughly then just a simple what can I do better? well i think a lot of is was fail micro, and not getting the right tech. I couldn't get any expansions, i just didn't know what to do late game. I just tried to pump units out of what i had to try and do something. | ||
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Panoptic
United Kingdom515 Posts
In the first game, I think that if you had just made for certain that those void rays had been dealt with you would have been free to attack and I think you could have done so successfully because the starport/voidrays and the forge/photon cannons are an investment you could have countered. Stimming marines for void rays which can just fly away weakened them unnecessarily. In game 2 you were kind of unlucky, but again, your opponent teched to battlecruisers on 1 base so that investment should have put him behind of you if you had the right units. This was simply a matter of unit composition. You and your opponent went for pretty similar builds, but where you invested in a needless tank, whilst he got the vikings which complement the banshees so much better. If you were insistent on getting the tank and less vikings, I would have got way more rines to compensate and basically used them as base defence. In the last game you scouted the 1 base carriers and decided to double expand as a reaction. What I think this did, is gave your opponent time not to be punished for such a huge investment early on. Instead, my thoughts on seeing 1 base carriers would have been either: "Ok, I'll make a MM mix and just attack once I've got stim/a reasonably sized force with stim." or the more passive option of: "I'll make a buttload of marines with stim/shield and get a starport with vikings and slowly but steadily start expanding, and maybe even attack eventually." You almost did the second option, but without the right resolve, things like the siege tank in my opinion were a distraction from the units you needed to be building. Apart from these things, I'd say your play seems pretty good. I just think you need to remember to adapt your build to what your opponent is doing without compromises (unnecessary siege tanks for example) and always bear in mind that you opponent has inherent limits governed by his race and available resources. For example: If they go 1 base carriers/battlecruisers and you manage to fend them of, they're not gonna have jack shit units compared to you if you went something a little more standard. Oh yeah, and you should hotkey your buildings more but other than that keep it up, it seems you've got a pretty good grasp of things, you just need to not slack on things like adapting your build to your opponent imo. | ||
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DoubleRainbow
Canada85 Posts
On August 06 2010 09:08 Panoptic wrote: I watched your replays and noted a few things. I can understand what you mean by a 'slump'... it seems perhaps that your play lacks a certain confidence or decisievness. Game 1 and 2 you lost for the same reason, which was not building the right units despite scouting. In the first game, I think that if you had just made for certain that those void rays had been dealt with you would have been free to attack and I think you could have done so successfully because the starport/voidrays and the forge/photon cannons are an investment you could have countered. Stimming marines for void rays which can just fly away weakened them unnecessarily. In game 2 you were kind of unlucky, but again, your opponent teched to battlecruisers on 1 base so that investment should have put him behind of you if you had the right units. This was simply a matter of unit composition. You and your opponent went for pretty similar builds, but where you invested in a needless tank, whilst he got the vikings which complement the banshees so much better. If you were insistent on getting the tank and less vikings, I would have got way more rines to compensate and basically used them as base defence. In the last game you scouted the 1 base carriers and decided to double expand as a reaction. What I think this did, is gave your opponent time not to be punished for such a huge investment early on. Instead, my thoughts on seeing 1 base carriers would have been either: "Ok, I'll make a MM mix and just attack once I've got stim/a reasonably sized force with stim." or the more passive option of: "I'll make a buttload of marines with stim/shield and get a starport with vikings and slowly but steadily start expanding, and maybe even attack eventually." You almost did the second option, but without the right resolve, things like the siege tank in my opinion were a distraction from the units you needed to be building. Apart from these things, I'd say your play seems pretty good. I just think you need to remember to adapt your build to what your opponent is doing without compromises (unnecessary siege tanks for example) and always bear in mind that you opponent has inherent limits governed by his race and available resources. For example: If they go 1 base carriers/battlecruisers and you manage to fend them of, they're not gonna have jack shit units compared to you if you went something a little more standard. Oh yeah, and you should hotkey your buildings more but other than that keep it up, it seems you've got a pretty good grasp of things, you just need to not slack on things like adapting your build to your opponent imo. omg thanks a lot. The siege tanks i really just made them for a defense against ground. I thought i wouldn't have enough units to kill his stalkers so just got tanks to defend. Thanks a lot for your input, i really appreciate it and hopefully i can start getting betters. BTW i have been trying to use hotkeys but i just fail at remembering them and just decide to click. | ||
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Simberto
Germany11739 Posts
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Pyre
United States1940 Posts
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HotSoOP
United States39 Posts
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unit
United States2621 Posts
Bisu's 6 proleague game losing streak is a huge example he went from playing amazingly to just being TERRIBLE for a while edit: never forget CONFIDENCE is one of the most useful things in starcraft ^___^ when you lose your confidence in your abilities...you will lose more games! which is why there are streaky players like me...because our confidence comes from our ability to win and when we dont win...well we lose our confidence and must fight to restore it | ||
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badugib
United States80 Posts
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TriniMasta
United States1323 Posts
well for me at least anyways hoped that cheered you up! Just don't let it get to your metagame | ||
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kckkryptonite
1126 Posts
 There were a lot of things you could've done like scouting earlier, an early MM or a few reapers w/nitro would have steamrolled that dude. He literally played in the dark for a long time.Your unit composition was great because you knew exactly what he was doing, the biggest hole in the your game was unit control. In his initial attack, your tank got picked off for free and the vikings should've been pulled back, then you could've stiffled that attack; his one carrier granted him the uphill vision. In your counter attack I guess you forgot to pull back two vikings and you didn't have that uphill vision when your ground forces arrived so a ton of those got picked off and focus firing the carriers earlier w/the vikings would've helped. Your build was absolutely fine. In all of the big battles, your unit comp was superior every time, you just need to watch them. Especially the one where his DTs took all of your marauders while you had an orbital with 200 energy. Lack of unit control is the reason you lost that last game IMHO. | ||
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aaroB
Canada89 Posts
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sl0w
United States447 Posts
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sAfuRos
United States743 Posts
Phase 2 was my first time playing and at diamond level i was 71-45 Now i've gone from 17-4 to 86-76 Tell ME about losing streaks D: | ||
Jibba
United States22883 Posts
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