Sunday, May 8, 2011

Punishing Others for Taking a Risk

Today I have been laddering a lot. Well, what amounts to a lot for me, as the total number of games were just 14. I lost the vast majority of the games, which of course annoys me a lot. I don’t think I should lose this much when I am not even in Diamond yet.

I’m still learning Terran and there are certain things that I just don’t seem to be able to get right. Today my pet annoyance have been people who have done risky things and when I tried to punish them for taking those risks, I got rolled. Examples includes a protoss that fast expanded on Delta Quadrant and so on. I’m of the firm belief that that should just not be possible to get away with and yet he did.

I have also tried to loosen up my Terran vs Zerg game play which has a tendency to become a little passive while I max out on two bases. But apparently moving out early is something I haven’t mastered yet.

I streamed a lot of the games I played to, but I don’t think my loses are especially interesting to watch as they are not even close games.

Here are a couple of the good games:

Terran vs Terran on Shakuras Plateau

And another which was also kinda okay:

Terran vs Protoss on Scrap Station

If I have to mention anything positive from today, it should be that my Terran vs Terran is still my best matchup and the games I won against Protoss were all due to good use of EMP.

EMP is currently the corner stone of my mid to laIte game vs. Protoss and I wonder why I didn’t see it more back when I played Protoss?

5 comments:

  1. thanks for sharing bro

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  2. Hello Fafner,

    It is easy to punish a protoss that fast expand, just upgrade steampack as fast as possible.

    I like to be aggressive vs zerg in the early stages of a game, build two barracks and build a ton of marines.

    Hope this helps.

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  3. Nice games but now it is very hard to pressure protoss now that stim takes so long. Liquid Huk fighting

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  4. Very interesting games. Good luck on becoming the best Starcraft 2 player!

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  5. I think the starcraft2apm guy means "steampack"

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