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Introduction
hello everyone. a couple of days ago i started fooling around with zerg and now - as u may already know, ive decided to practicing zerg on a daily basis.
if u missed out on the original thread u can check that out if u want. to cut that part short there seemed to be quite a bit of people who wanted to know how im doing with the swarm and thats where i got this idea to daily update you guys on my zerg
Tournaments/Events
i just wanna make this clear to everyone. i will keep play terran in all the events and i will prepare for events by pracitcing with terran. the zerg project is just something on the side that i wont dedicate all my time to
Goal
- become one of the top zerg gamers within a short period of time, if not - i want to become a very decent zerg user
- learn the basic fundamentals (tnx for that word day9) of the race but i also want to dig deeper to learn things more in detail such as build orders and complex timings
- get a better understanding of zergs current state in balance, gameplay and simple the fun-factor of playing zerg. also see which race is harder than the other
- get an idea if which race i want to play in the future
- understanding the tvz match ups from other perspectives. to learn the weaknesses and build orders of the zerg race will give me alot of ability to exploit them as a terran user
Idea
its quite simple, i will post replay packs and maybe input some things ive learned every day or what players have helped me with
i hope u guys can enjoy this as much as u gave me that impression the last few days
Facts
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- i played zerg for some hours the first day i got sc2 to check out what the race was capable of.
- i played zerg for fun about 5 games max before this project, which means im a total newb and these games u see of me as zerg from day1 is actually all from scratch, a very lame player who tries hard to improve.
- most of the games u will see will be totally one-sided rapes, i do not hesitate and will not stay in a game after making a huge blunder. in my practice games i want to learn, not win.
- my original terran stats were somewhere on diamond 2000pt 200W - 60L before starting with zerg.
- i think zerg is underpowered on majority of the maps but also a bit overpowered on a few maps, in overall id guess zerg is the weakest race but im not very certain of it, thats another reason im doing this.
- i find zerg to be a harder race in mechanics, apm and i also believe zerg takes more hours each day to practice to not get rusty.
- what got me interested into changing race is because i want to challenge myself apm and mechanically wise and get back into my defensive-macro roots of sc1.
- defensive-macro style is the way i used to play alot as terran in beta but i find it to be a worse playstyle than economy-harassment-pressure based playstyle which other terrans were using at this point. ever since phase 2 of beta ive been using economy-harassment-pressure style more succesfully than my older playstyle.
- i am not choosing to do this exact thing with protoss because i find protoss to be just as lacking as terran from an e-sport point of view.
- i wish blizzard worked on making zerg micro more indeph at same time making protoss and terran more apm and mechanics demanding in the macro.
- i played zerg for fun about 5 games max before this project, which means im a total newb and these games u see of me as zerg from day1 is actually all from scratch, a very lame player who tries hard to improve.
- most of the games u will see will be totally one-sided rapes, i do not hesitate and will not stay in a game after making a huge blunder. in my practice games i want to learn, not win.
- my original terran stats were somewhere on diamond 2000pt 200W - 60L before starting with zerg.
- i think zerg is underpowered on majority of the maps but also a bit overpowered on a few maps, in overall id guess zerg is the weakest race but im not very certain of it, thats another reason im doing this.
- i find zerg to be a harder race in mechanics, apm and i also believe zerg takes more hours each day to practice to not get rusty.
- what got me interested into changing race is because i want to challenge myself apm and mechanically wise and get back into my defensive-macro roots of sc1.
- defensive-macro style is the way i used to play alot as terran in beta but i find it to be a worse playstyle than economy-harassment-pressure based playstyle which other terrans were using at this point. ever since phase 2 of beta ive been using economy-harassment-pressure style more succesfully than my older playstyle.
- i am not choosing to do this exact thing with protoss because i find protoss to be just as lacking as terran from an e-sport point of view.
- i wish blizzard worked on making zerg micro more indeph at same time making protoss and terran more apm and mechanics demanding in the macro.
How i will spend my Zerg-hours
1: Practicing on the ladder
2: Custom games
3: Analyzing my own replays but also some replays of top gamers
4: Watching zerg content on the web such as reading about zerg on liquipedia or watching some day9 daily on how to become a better gamer
5: And i wont forget to keep this thread updated on a daily basis
Downloading replay packs
to download the replay packs enter the link. if necessary write in the code it asks and wait for the timer to go down to 0 and then it will give u a download
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September
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28th September
Rating: Diamond 1700~
Replay pack: [url blocked]
hard struggle went on about 20 losses i believe, finally at the end i won my first game as zerg. it was against Flayer (1.8k diamond)
29th September
Rating: Diamond 1571
Replay pack: [url blocked]
ive been having a hard time to not trying to creep tumor my hatcheries all the time. the mechanics of the queen is gonna be quite a problem in the start but i think i will get a hang of it in time and learn it well by routine.
many zergs and players have been giving me a huge support on my experimenting with the zerg race so far. high level zergs are happy that im testing out their race and many of them dont mind giving me a push. madfrog gave me some great advises in zvz, the basics of early game and how the matchup evolves to midgame
30th September
Rating: Diamond 1537
Replay pack: http://www.duckload.com/download/898936/day3.rar
took my time posting this :p and im off to get some bashing done on the ladder (for the most part on myself).
played some games, decemvre showed me a nice opening on steppes on zvt
my queen mechanics has improved alot lately, im still struggling to survive terran early game because im always eager to make drones instead of units^^
not much time to play today, ideally i want to play more than this. gotta play viking cup monthly finals! :>
i feel like my zvz has improved alot during these first days. pvz is going quite well but tvz im still trying to establish when its ok to drone and when its ok to make units in early game. i believe i will be stuck in zvt early game for at least another few days before i become decent at it
1st October
Rating: Diamond 1455
Replay pack: http://www.duckload.com/download/902555/day3.rar
realizing my mouse speed is too high for zvz control, will lower it down tomorrow. also started to using hp bars always on since it helps me with transfusion in zvz but also larva inject mechanics.
getting better at creep spreading, started to make an additional queen only for that purpose against toss users
im learning alot about zvp late game and how lacking in upgrades ive been against them for air and melee attacks2nd October
Rating: Diamond 1507
Replay pack: http://www.mediafire.com/?by1fh340lb1n2en
yep, your seeing right, i just went up 50 pts
talked to darkforce and he told me about the reasoning behind cannon rushing and decemvre were also there to tell me some nice pointers of how to stop it. darkforce talked abit about zvp midgame play how backstabbing a toss can sometimes be more effective than attacking it directly.
if u sit on 3base and taking 4th/5th while toss push out he said u can backstab him with mass muta ling and he is forced to retreat, else its a basetrade. if toss backs then u will have time to build a greater army because your 3base (the mutas can fly away ofcourse) or even get drones to ur new bases. if toss attacks u then its a basetrade that zerg often wins he says.
sounds kind of like a desperate style to me but then again he knows lots and lots more than me, i will start try this in some future games and sees how things turn out. so far ive been ok with just hydra roach corrupter fighting into late game.
sry about the "technical errors" about the rep packs, still searching for a stable uploading site :p
3rd October
Rating: Diamond 1494
Replay pack: http://www.mediafire.com/?5ezb9kv5mrmwixm
ok i dont die to the initial 2 hellions from the reactor anymore, so thats good news. i stop it with my queen on my natural, a spine crawler and about 6 speedlings up my ramp ready to surprise the hellions of the decide to get greedy. once get gets more hellions i get some roaches out or simply just more zerglings, either one is fine which i like alot.
been loving the neutral parasite to counter thor so far, i dont know why zergs thing its useless, i think they were just spoiled with it holding forever. 12 seconds is more than enough to finish a tvz battle imo.
5rax reaper is really simple to stop just playing like dimaga, mass zerglings and low gas income. im starting to understand zvz a bit more now and managed to win some high diamond zerg gamers, my baneling micro is far from perfect still^^
6th October
Rating: Diamond 1390
Replay pack: none
gonna play terran fulltime for 1-3 weeks to wrap up my last going tournaments with hopefully nice results. i have decided to switch to zerg so i will stop sign up for new tournaments until i am at least 2k rating with zerg.
once i finish these ongoing tournaments i will start practice zerg with all my practice time
sry for no replay pack. will start updating this thread once im back on track with z
there is a possibility that i decide to switch back to terran once again in the future but as it is right now im pretty convinced that i want to be a zerg user
16th October
Rating: irrelevant
seeing the patch notes today made me pretty happy about tvt. alot of luck invloving in this mu were just around the bunker rushes and stuff that was really strong. overall pretty happy with the patch notes.
im very excited to start play zerg now, not a long time left now^^
i think tvz is gonna favor zerg on some maps now, and maps like scrap that already favored-ish z it will be very difficult to win i think. imo the biggest things that made t>z is because of all early game stuff but blizzard just eliminated about half of the stuff a t can do early on plus roaches will be much stronger and better at stopping harass. and by having a stronger early game where a zerg can play more economical and still survive is gonna make his mid and late game that much stronger. the m250 cannon buff might compensate alot for the later games now which i think is great, definitely ownage vs ultras since their high armor removes so much dmg from thors normal attacks :p
27th October
Rating: 2078
Replay pack (part 1): http://www.mediafire.com/?6s6t6ym1n7j83n6
Replay pack (part 2): http://www.mediafire.com/?j8gj8bbgfjul2tj
back to the zergland
going very well since last time i was here. been winning many games vs high level players and my mechanics is starting to become quite good.i think u will enjoy some of these replays here since im not getting totally raped anymore xd
there are a few tournament replays in there aswell, cba to filter them out tbh :p
