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great thread made by someone, never actually thought of this until not.
original topic: http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/791239597
EDIT: some of you people think i made it! i didnt! i am simply informing you of a new micro trick.
i person credited with this is Thorn, praise him!
If you liked the magic box, you will like this even more.
There is a micro technique you can use to wipe out early Thor + SCV rushes with equal ammounts of resources, and with considerably less losses.
Test: 40 zerglings vs 1 Thor + 10 scvs
1000m vs 800m/200g
I have tried this a few times now and it has worked every time.
Sometimes the zerglings actually force the SCVs away from the thor and do tons of damage to the thor, other times they hit the scvs and kill them. Either way it causes you to win.
http://www.xfire.com/video/375d62/
In the video all SCVs are set to auto move to thor to repair it (Instead of repairing eachother first), also works if SCVs are set to auto repair.
To execute this maneuver, right click the thor, then hit hold position, right click again, hold position, etc.
When the zerglings circle the thor, they are in very close proximity to the scvs. When you hit hold position, the zerglings circling will attack the scvs, because the ai will not let them move to try to engage the thor. The zerglings who were already attacking, will not be affected, and infact prevent scvs from shoving them out of the way.
You have now learned the speedling slipknot.
If you like this, be sure to comment and hit the like button on the side.
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nice find! I am loving these neat little mico tricks as zerg
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very nice find. thank you.
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Excellent, this will surely help early TvZ. My only fear is blizzard will see this as a bug and nerf it D: Great find though in seriousness, hope this gets spotlighted.
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Wow... I never thought of that. Definitely going to use that with my zealots as P. Thanks!
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Hmm... This should also work against a planetary fortress to some degree as well. Thanks man, awesome find, we shall call this... muppeting.
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I think he already named it slipknotting..
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Kind of interesting how all these anti terran zerg tricks are anti-thor
you probably should have named the thread How to deal with Thor repair. Zergling Slipnot is a little confusing
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I love seeing these cool new tricks, even if they are going to be used against me in the long run :p
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I've seen the hold position to kill repairing SCVs here before, although without a video and special name.
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Well 40 Zerglings for a Thor is a bit much <_> What do you need vs say... 5 Thors? 200 Zerglings?
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I've seen people suggest holding position in other threads and have it dismissed out of hand as impractical -- so maybe calling it the "Zergling Slipknot" is a good way to get people to use it.
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Blizzard should just fix the AI priorities. Priorities are really messed up right now.
Back in BW weren't workers high priority?
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It shouldn't be called muppeting, because a fellow posting it on the Bnet forums. That's why he started off by saying "great thread made by someone". It could be called Slipknotting, but that Thorn guy didn't invent the technique either. It's been around for a short while, I'll try to find a VOD where a pro uses it.
One thing to note is that although this works well against small numbers of thors, it quickly becomes useless once the Terran gets 3 or more. The SCVs end up snuggling in nicely between the multiple thors and the surface area that the zerglings can attack becomes much smaller.
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Interesting find. Might try with zealots but... I don't see it working out very well.
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Interesting technique. Looks useful for stopping those 1-base allin Thor SCV pushes.
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Nice find, you could also use this on Terrans repairing there bunker
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On September 30 2010 13:14 Raiden X wrote:
Blizzard should just fix the AI priorities. Priorities are really messed up right now.
Back in BW weren't workers high priority?
No back in BW we didn't have auto repair and the only large unit that can be repaired (so manual repairing is actually useful) is battlecruiser which get owned by swarmed hydra.
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EPT
