protoss can all go ****ing die in a hole

Hey...

but did you have time to gg?

For anyone who's ever wondered if that Zerg building is upgrading:

http://imgur.com/a/n1EXR

Was this stephano vs forgg?

Yes.

so playing a protoss on waystation close spawns. he opens nexus first into zealot stalker mothership core pressure (one each). I lose a queen, a drone, but nothing else. I poke at his natural with a few roaches and lings, and see very little, so I get a hydra den and make some safety hydras. sure enough, he's pooled like 9 phoenix, which i manage to hold off quite nicely due to the hydras. i also cancel his third twice.

after i have clearly won, he asks me if i 'blindly went hydras' and then chastised me for 'clearly not understanding anything about the game' when i danced my units.

LOL protoss

My LOL protoss of the day:

I 15 pool (he didn't scout the pool but he did see hatch timing and he must be terrible to not know it meant pool first), I have an overlord over my hatch and see the probe go behind mineral line, I send a drone back and see the pylon go down, he sees that I saw the pylon go down. He lets it finish and puts down 3 cannons, I have 6 lings on the way before it even begins, with 3 drones and 8 lings I kill all the cannons and pylon with no losses.

I see I lazily left my scouting drone in his base so I decide to proxy hatch since he hadn't started his nexus yet. He hasn't started a cannon yet either so I send my 8 lings over. The proxy hatch makes him start his cannon super far from his wall and the cannon doesn't cover a lot of it, so my lings kill a core and a gateway. LOLOL. I make some lings from the proxy hatch before his cannon kills it and send them into his main and kill 4 workers and a pylon and delay some mining.

He finally starts his natural at 9:20, around the same time I start my 3rd. It's 43 drones to 31 probes.

He finishes up a twilight and starts a dark shrine and a robo (ALL OF THE TECHS, still technically on 1 base). True story, I never ever knew he had a dark shrine in this game. Looking at the replay he warps in 3 at home and flies them in a warp prism toward my natural. He flew directly over creep and I had like 3 queens and a few hydras ready. The warp prism died without unloading any of them.

He goes up to 74 probes. Still has only two bases.

Long story short, I get close to maxing on mostly roaches with a few hydras and corruptors (scouted robo bay), he's on 2 bases the whole time and I know better than to try attacking a Protoss up a ramp, I finish off my supply with 7 swarm hosts and let them start sieging to starve him out. He tries to take a 3rd, I kill the nexus with a runby and retreat.

He finally comes after my army, we engage with 200 vs 140 supply. He drops 12 storms, and well, you could see how well they did:



Mother of god. After the storms it's 180 supply versus 96. He leaves.

I naturally msg him "cute cannon rush bro, LOLOLOLOL" and insta-block.

LOL PROTOSS

Does he know storms don't stack?

massive lol @ those storms

Gitarcheese V Incontrol right now.

http://drop.sc/381074

LOL protoss

cliffs: he goes 13 forge, puts down a pylon and two cannons at my natural before i send anything down. he then tries to cannon my new natural after the lings are out. i just take two other bases on MGR. at the 11 minute mark, he has 1200 gas (lol?) and does the worst immortal zealot all in i've ever seen.

oh, forgot to mention his "macro" to spend his minerals was to throw down 11 gateways.

LOL PROTOSS

Thank god I beat this without too much trouble or I might have had to quit SC2 forever. He put the fusion core within sight range of his starport ffs. At least hide it in the corner of the map, it's Waystation close spawns, it'll never get scouted.

eta: literally the next game, Protoss ggs out at 4 minutes because he misplaced his pylon at his natural and couldn't build a nexus. He's top 8 plat and has 138 Protoss games played this season.

Apparently Blizzard is pretty convinced I really do deserve diamond:



This is on my smurf. No ZvZ cheesing required! Just got promoted against a failed cannon rush, lolz.

https://twitter.com/NaNiwaSC2/status/468768478007418881

he aint ever coming back is he

I've lost to this before. Didn't MVP do this in a WCS game last year or something? How'd you beat it? Seems spores>queens, but spores are useless vs anything on the ground. Spore/banelings for the masses of SCVs and marines likelt to be under?

Played a guy who went nexus first into double pylon block into two cannons at natural before gate, into a proxied 8 gate with two cannons to protect it. Because, you know, minerals aren't important for that build or anything

It was, like, 2 BCs and 10 hellions. I had 6 queens or so, let him kill my 3rd while I got more out, then defended at my natural wall where there was a spine. He couldn't break it with transfuses, so he withdrew for a moment and then my spire finished and I laughed as 10 mutas started chasing his army down.

Did he not bing SCVs? Seems like a truly terrible build without them.

He did not.

Another game I played last night reminded me of a rule I constantly forget: ZvP on Overgrowth, I always leave an overlord over my natural to see what their probe is doing when my hatch goes down (don't understand why more people don't do this, pros never do, I would think that scouting cannon rushes is more important than getting it wherever it's going a bit faster), I see their probe go up the ramp to my natural, I wait for it to appear on creep shortly after but it doesn't. I send a drone to see what's up, there's a pylon building at the top of my ramp. I pull more drones, he sees the pull and cancels. Meanwhile my overlord gets to his natural and sees forge first.

At this point: IF A PROTOSS GOES FORGE FIRST AND SHOWS A WILLINGNESS TO PULL SOME ****, HE'S GONNA PULL SOME ****.

But I'm like "oh I can see his probe, it's chilling on my ramp, as long as he doesn't start throwing down pylons I'm good."

Then my hatch finishes and there are two cannons building from a second probe which snuck around to the opposite side of where I had vision, since I moved my overlord towards the ramp a little.

Oh Protoss, never change.

I don't go hatch first anymore. I send my first two overlords out because scouting information is just too important, but I send down a drone to my natural just to see what's going on. I've also started drone scouting just so I have a drone out that I can use to build another hatch if he does decide to cannon my natural. Usually I just cancel it when I see the cannons (toss never cancels the cannons), build a spine and a second queen, and kill the 400 mineral investment and then take my third. Usually these protosses have no idea how to play the longer macro game, so you can take this slightly disadvantageous situation because their macro and game sense doesn't go past "oh damn he didn't leave when i killed his hatch"

If they send the super early "I probably went forge first" probe, I'll usually pool first. If not, hatch first.

I kinda want to get cannon rushed because I want to practice getting better at stopping it. And I did have the promotion game where the moran toss tried to cannon rush vs my 15 pool so it seems like it's working (cause I've definitely lost to cannon rushes with pool first before).