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SC2 Strategies Thread

For every rock, there is a paper. For every paper, there is a scissor. For every scissor, there is a rock. Learn what counters what and prosper.

The key to winning is scouting. Know what your opponent is doing at all times and have a counter in the works for it.

Carriers get the shit wrecked out of them by hydralisks. Plus, Hydras make good units against others and require less tech than corruptors.

If someone is going carriers, you should have seen it coming, because you would have seen the stargates and damn well should have seen the fleet beacon.

If you're not seeing it, you need to scout better.
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zergling russsshhhh! wait that was sc.

Zergling rush is still very strong if used properly.

I forget what the map is called, but it was absolutely the best training map for learning the rock/paper/scissor situation. You had income and you could send units to an enemy and they would counter and send units and you would counter/etc until you caught someone off guard and won. It can advance a person's gameplay by probably 50-100 games worth of experience.

Battlecraft Armageddon is what I think it was called. Simple map to understand.

I found that zerglings are extremely dangerous against a lot of opponents and are great to blend in as fodder with stronger opponents.
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reply to r1y23

To counter a canon rush, build a spin crawler or bunker with a reaper inside, before the canons reach your main.

Always be willing to switch tech.

Scouting is a must, always.

Cannon rushes are seen by scouting. Scout early and scout often. If you see NO buildings at an enemy base, you better be watching out for some remote cannons and/or some near-your-base pylon/gateways.
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reply to r1y23
I was playing a R 2v2 last night and I had a bad bad player as my team mate. He got cannon rushed.

I was able to hold this off with him building a new command at my main and I built cannons around my base.

Got about 6 void rays and took out both of the other teams
bases. They were not happy.

So if you know what to do, you can make it work! They are spending all their money on cannons, they didnt have anything to kill my voids.

I love void rays.

reply to r1y23
A good way to counter Void Rays when your T is to make a ton of marines, with stem pack and the health upgrade!

Edit: This is for an early Void Ray rush!

Marines will still get owned hard by mass void rays in the end.

Thors will handle a cluster of void rays like that.

reply to r1y23
Sounds to me like you are overwhelmed. Basically, you have X amount of options available to you, your thinking about what you want to do, and you end up doing nothing =D. Im currently ranked 9th in Platinum league, and I play random every time. Im good with Protoss and Terran, but with Zerg I often find myself in your exact situation around the mid game. What do I do now?

Well, here are some basic guidelines that can help you stay focused.

1) There are a total of ten resource nodes in your starting base. 8 mineral fields and 2 vespene geysers. It takes 3 workers per resource node to optimally mine it. Therefore, you need 30 workers mining in your base to reach maximum income efficiency. Obviously, you're not going to build 30 workers before you start working on your military force, but that is your end goal.

2) Money in the bank = bad. If your being attacked and you have 500+ minerals piled up, your doing it wrong. Already building units? Research upgrades. Fully upgraded? Build some supply depots/pylons/overlords. Maxed out supplies? What are you waiting for? Attack!!!

3) Watchtowers are KEY! Fight for control of these. A lot of times your opponent will send out a force from his base to just outside yours, consolidate, and then attack. This causes a train effect, where the faster units get their first, and the slower ones trudge behind, or fliers end up there long before the ground troops. You can see all this happening when you control a tower and take advantage of it. Move in and take out half the enemy force before the big guns can get there!

4) Tech, but pace yourself. Teching quickly has its advantages, but if your opponent figures it out, they can easily counter your tech or come in and wipe your measily 2 marines defense. Build units while also teching. For example, as protoss, I make two gateways, then a cybernetics core, start researching warp gates, then depending on what my opponent is doing, make my next building, and so on and so forth. Which brings me to my last and final piece of advice....

5) SCOUT. If your Zerg, find sneaky spots to place your overlords where they are safe from marine/stalker fire. Send a zergling charging in to see what your opponent has massed at the front door.

Hope this helps!

Against carriers, never let your units pick their targets, they will attack the interceptors and get smoked. Focus fire on one carrier at a time until it drops, then move on to the next.

reply to r1y23
From beta to now. This is my experience.

I play with my bro so 2v2.

Build guys fast at first. You will need them to either rush or combat a rush.

There are 2 ways to play at that point.

You either rush and hope you knock your opponent out or down a great deal. (If you fail you will get crushed at this point.)

Or you play defense and try to block the rush and then go for a long build strat.

Either way building fast is the key.

Fell free to pm me if you want to join me and my brother in play.

Do you ever scout?

reply to r1y23
no....

I ussually build guys then switch to air, while my bro uses my guys added to his to wreak havok in there bases.

Works good unless you go against tarrens and they get there base blocked before you can get there. Then they counter with those jump jet guys and tear me up while im tring to get air up. lol.

This game is pretty cool cause there is a counter to almost everything out there.

Either way its good fun. Like I said pm me and I will get you our info and our team speak info. your welcome to join us.

No scouting may work in the practice leagues against other new players or in the lower brackets, but if your opponent scouts and you don't, you will get wrecked.
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reply to r1y23
not true......

Ussually we are attacking right after there scout gets to us. at that point its over with most the time.

And if you play with a tarren they can scout from there base if you live that long.

Like I said there is a counter to every attack. The hope is to catch them off guard. Weather thats build cannons in there base while there scouting yours, or building guys fast and rushing so by the time they get a scout to you its almost over anyways.

As far as practice league... you should be able to win 4 out of 5 of those with any strat cause most other wont have any at that point. Now once you get to the top of silver and abover you will have to change some things up.

reply to r1y23
you can try playing the challenges from the single player menu,it gives you a good idea of what units are strong against others.

reply to r1y23
Just video.google.com starcraft 2 strategies.

Nothing is a guaranteed win.

The best piece of advice is constantly be doing something, if your minerals are really high, you're doing something wrong.
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