I mean, killing the ling =25 mins lost for opponent. Plus keeping the worker alive is worth something.

And really could have just left the pylon there unless they were ~75 short for a nexus or something.

10pooling Into Banes: Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love ZvZ

Baneling detonations should really count as units killed

DT openings by protoss are my new least favorite build to play against in TvP ever.

Thats pretty insane tbh. It took me like 700 games to get Diamond or something. Did you play BW or WC3?

What if he played more than 700 games?

Since HoTs came out? Maybe, is he related to Kas?

Zerg, actually.

Thank you sir.

Nope. No computer games at all before SC actually. Bought my first PC a few months ago and the first game I picked up was HOTS.

Awesome, you can coach me

Soo hydra-swarm host-ultra is really good. Used it to great effect in one of my WNF games tonight against a masters Toss. I stayed on 4 bases the whole way in a 30 minute game (I'm so bad ) but traded really well with it and pulled through.

i just lost to a proxy 5-rax after the most ridiculous hold ever.

i would have won if i had just kept making army and attacked the barracks they were streaming from.

I lost to a 4gate robo forge off 1 base yesterday. I assumed the guy was just terrible for having so many buildings without expanding and stopped making army, when in fact he was making loads of +1 zealots that were too much for spines and the lings I had to hold. NEVER AGAIN

Since I post lots of replays where I get owned, here's a hydra-swarm host-ultra replay on ladder: http://drop.sc/329906

This composition is seriously amazing. Against all the stuff I usually struggle with lategame - storm, colossi, archons - doesn't matter, just a-move, IT KILLS EVERYTHING. This guy has SO MANY STORMS in this game and the ultras are just like "LOL"

eta: resources lost after first big fight are toss 11k, me 3k LOL WHAT

lol free HT's!

So after not playing 1 year 1on1 I decided its time(Not really but I was just really ridiculously bored and couldn`t play poker).

First game Placementmatch:

I missed a widowminedrop by like 0.5 seconds ... gg.

Second Game:

Opponent is Random, I open Gate scout him go into his base don`t see a pool and tought I counted a lot of drones so I was greedy ... obviously he was on an early pool. Should`ve known literally every Random is awful and a cheeser.

Next 3 Games I win easily ---> Platin srsly?

Yeah whatever lets do this I can get back where I belong.

First Game I smash my opponent, second game I smash my opponent . Third game PvP:

I go a Stargateopening scout him properly and build my Nexus before him. I see he is on 2 Stargates and kill his first phoenix with my 2 and I`m feeling really good now as I thought I got a slight edge. So I try to outphoenix him.

Gotta say my third base was a bit to late but nothing big. Anyways I manage to outmacro him and win the first battle with phoenix convincingly so I got airdominance. I kill quite a lot of probes but it`s not to significant as we both had a lot of bases.

Anyways I build a lot of vrs I sack my phoenix and he instanly attacks afterwards with a maxed out stalker/Archon/Immortal. Somehow my army gets smashed(Apparently VRs aren`t as good as I tought). I saw he only had one obs and managed to snipe it and warped in a bunch of dts(that was 5 base vs 5base PvP). But I lost 3-4 minutes later as a result of that battle where I just lost too much.

I felt pretty dumb as I`m quite sure I would`ve won that game if I would`ve gone for like 2-3 collosi/more immortals/storm(How the **** did I not have storm) or would`ve enagaged 30 seconds later(5 Tempest were on the way).

Mabye I shouldn`t have gone to the desktop and put the winningsong on.

Next game, I use Naniwas PvZbuild, the poor Platinzerg didn`t even know what hit him.


Now lol, I literally have no Idea how I could lose that game. Literally, it was not possible to lose that game. Seriously it was impossible to lose.

So the game starts and the guy is like "Leave plz don`t waste my time", I`m flaming him and scout that he goes gasless. So I decide to blinkstalkerallin as the map is perfect for it. Anyways I got a pylon near his base near some bushes, I warpin 4 stalkers and suddenly out of the bushes:

"SUPRISE MOTHER****ER"


A lot of marines, one stalker goes down and I manage to save the other three. So I kite a bit and then from the side I see scvs, I`m getting cornered. No ****in problem I got blink.

I blink myself into an SCV surround. He didn`t surround me, no , I did blink myself into a surround. I lose 2 more stalkers. Now my mothershipcore with 150 energy is on the other side of the map and this guy is nearly in my base. So I have 150 gas, hey just enough for 3 stalkers --> Warp. I`m like ohh wait, sentry. ****. He gets in.

Then no idea what happened but I didn`t blink my stalkers away I always blinked them in front of his marines.

For goofy to laugh:

dont placements just use your w/l and calibre of opponent to judge?

i did placements on eu as toss a while ago, i literally had no idea how to play toss, hotkeys, opens, ideal comps, etc. went 5-0 on placement and got silver lol =x

my apm and crushing of opponents was pretty **** since i was looking at buildings for what i wanted about half the time, but i thought it was strictly w/l

Don`t think it`s w/l only. I used to be Masters, so might be that I had a high hidden mmr or something.

i mean i was pretty thrown off by 5-0 --> silver

if it actually were based on apm/scores/etc, then it would make a lot more sense. played eu v high so i wouldnt be mad at all when i lose. add in not knowing hotkeys, i was probably like 80-100 apm lolol. it was kinda nice til my mmr went up more and i end up playing high plat kids as a silver; then i just went back to na.

also, no offense, but that was prob the worst blink ive ever seen lol. kudos for giffing it for us all. even showed a friend who instantly just started laughing.

Yeah I laughed ingame after that blink, it threw me off my game so much that I just screwed up everything afterwards.

For the lulz of everyone, I would like to now post the game that got me promoted to Diamond.

This happened:





Thanks to lots of these:



And yet, despite that, it took this long:



Despite me obviously being like this:




And so, children, I would like you to sit back with a warm cup of tea, watch this game, and ponder that you live in a world where this Zerg player is somehow in Diamond league.

http://drop.sc/330174

That was beautiful.

Congrats.

My mmr has gone from mid master to mid diamond in the past week