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Originally Posted by goofyballer
What the heck happened from 650 to 840? Like, you take a good trade against mech (unpossible) but then keep losing army while he's making more?
What was the 940 remax?
650 to 840 was pure (+2attack)Muta/(2/2)Ling vs a Tank/Thor/Hellbat/Banshee/Viking mix. I had a small sprinking of Banelings in there, but they didn't do much. I think he had way too many banshees, which is why his Army value took such a dive and mine didn't. Magic Box the mutas over the 4ish Thors and it was just all over for him. This engagement was on creep, so the ling surround was swift and deadly. He had 0 widow mines, which helped.
I continued to pump Zerglings. The reason I'm losing army is because those follow-up lings ****ed up his natural and third pretty badly. I focused on SCV kills, and I got a LOT of them.
The remax was Brood Lord/Corruptor/Crackling/Viper. I forgot my Ultralisk Cavern, so I didn't make any.
That entire army was utterly CRUSHED, but since I had contained him for the entire game, he was running on empty. I had 9(?) bases around the map. 4 of which were totally mined out, and had my 70 drones spread around the rest.
I lost a lot of drones that game to Hellions because of how spread out I was and the lack of Spines.
I think I stated this earlier in the thread, but with how quickly the bases mine out in LOTV, I expand very aggressively, and favor large balls of mutalisks and roaming zerglings to keep my opponent hiding in his base while I build a massive bank and ultimately starve them out. Especially on that map in particular, it's not uncommon for me to have 10+ hatcheries by the time the game ends.
A better player would've ended the game long before that point because of how far ahead I was, but that's why I'm still in Plat. Though I assume the Diamond bump will be coming soon on the beta.