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Originally Posted by scar
You'd probably be at least gold or platinum if you spent your time watching your replays or watching Day9's show instead of whining here. I'm not trying to be mean I am completely serious. Or you could do both if you have the time.
There really is no reason to still be in bronze after 20-30 games. I'm sure a lot of people on here would be willing to help you out if you really wanted. My tag is MotherGoose + 208, hit me up if you want me to watch you play against a computer. I guarantee I could give you some tips that would at least get you to silver league in a week and most likely you could get to gold within 2-3 weeks if you learned the 4gate build order.
Also, it doesn't matter how fast you are until you start getting into high diamond. My APM is incredibly slow (usually around 45 according to replay APM counter) and I am a mid level diamond. A lot of newbs always blame their micro or APM for losing when it is always macro macro macro that causes them to lose.
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Also, back in the beta days I watched only HuskyStarcraft / HDstarcraft for a solid like 2-3 weeks (I still watch them to pass the time and w/e).
Had a background in SC1 (and by background I mean I just played a lot of those newbie 3v3 shared map games) and insta-put me on plat. Played like 20 games and put me on diamond.
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Originally Posted by ItalianFX
I have watched Day9, but I got tired of watching them consistently when all he was doing was talking about the best players in the world. I know he has some newbie videos, but they are never geared towards Protoss.
I'm really not whining as much as it probably sounds like it. It's just talking in a normal tone.
I do watch replays, but sometimes I am just too frustrated to watch them right then. Why would I want to watch a replay that I just lost! haha (just sayin') I usually go back later and watch them after I took a break. Most of the time what I look for is if I was ever ahead and if that is when I should have attacked.
If you want to watch me play against the AI, that would be cool.
Also, I'm just Bronze in the PTR. I'm Gold in my live account, but I got Gold shortly after the game came out and then didn't play a competitive MP game in about 4 months, so I'm kind of back starting from scratch, or playing against people who have many more games played.
Honestly I don't know what my biggest problem is. I know APM doesn't really have anything to do with it. When I say I need to play faster, I don't mean I need to click more buttons. What I mean is that I probably just need to be on top of things and not slip behind by missing out on creating units when warpgates are ready, putting down another gateway at a certain time, etc.
So yeah...I'll add you. My live account is IronMan +208.
PS I feel the same way about watching replays...I tend to watch only games that I won and critique what I could've done better, rather than watching games I lost.
There are certain games you really should watch however.
This includes games where you lost to an early tech (like DTs).
If you are consistently losing a certain match-up, you need to watch those too.
If you won a game but have a gut feeling there could've been something different, I'd watch those as well.
Recently I kept losing to the 4gate zlot warp rush (I play P) and watched a lot of those replays to combat it.
PS I'm in the help-y mood so feel free to add me.
I'm always up for practice matches, and I kinda wanna dabble into other races too so
I'm Ksight +276