Bloodcount
Starcraft II Moderator
- Reaction score
- 297
Style Type: Game Control
Skill level: Hard
Style pro’s: You can get different windows of opportunity, you control the game, your army is strong.
Style countered by: This skill requires very good macro, so any build that harms your economy and any drop that the player has missed is a hard counter to this build
Most powerful in: Late Game
Mach up: Any
Basic thought process and tips:
• The basic idea is that you get 2 robos and a bunch of gateways (4-6) and mass produce collosi above all.
• Your goal is to gate 4-8 collosi as fast as possible and hit in a timing window when your opponent’s anti air army, if any at all will be very hard or he will sacrifice some ground army/expo/economy in order to get it in good numbers.
• You push out see what you can do.
• If you see an opening after the initial clash continue to reinforce from the gateways and attempt to lay a killing strike- kill his expo or economy.
•After the first push you can safely transition into immortals + gateway units it is a very potent unit combination.
• The anti air of your opponent will be useless now, if he lands his Vikings, the immortals will tear through them, if they are corruptors they can’t do too much
• Once your opponent’s anti air is gone you can go for collosi again, or just continue with the gateway immortal.
• The gateway immortal build is extreamly good against a lot of unit compositions. It does however require a decent amount of micro (the immortals against the armor units) in order to be as effective as possible.
• Consider adding psystorm to the mix
• Double robo Is double collosi, but DO NOT forget the observer. You never know when you will regret a cloacked banshee, some burrowed roaches or a set of DT’s killing your collosi.
Finalword: A very good build, It is more or less a build which gives you timing windows for you to use. It might leave you vounerable for a moment or so, if your macro isn’t on a top level (transitioning while you are making the push) it is riskier than a mass gateway robo support style of play.
Screenshots:
Double robo, all the way, all…the…waayyy…
Do scout with the observer. It helps. A lot.
You have tons of collosi, but don’t neglect the forcefields
Ok, sure, his AA might clean up your collosi. At what cost though ?
When your left over army is that big, you might want to go in for the kill if it is smaller, you shloud just back and defend your third
This is the killing blow- drones are off the line, they will die, you will be OMGWTFBBQ ahead. It will take serious skill to loose from this position
Skill level: Hard
Style pro’s: You can get different windows of opportunity, you control the game, your army is strong.
Style countered by: This skill requires very good macro, so any build that harms your economy and any drop that the player has missed is a hard counter to this build
Most powerful in: Late Game
Mach up: Any
Basic thought process and tips:
• The basic idea is that you get 2 robos and a bunch of gateways (4-6) and mass produce collosi above all.
• Your goal is to gate 4-8 collosi as fast as possible and hit in a timing window when your opponent’s anti air army, if any at all will be very hard or he will sacrifice some ground army/expo/economy in order to get it in good numbers.
• You push out see what you can do.
• If you see an opening after the initial clash continue to reinforce from the gateways and attempt to lay a killing strike- kill his expo or economy.
•After the first push you can safely transition into immortals + gateway units it is a very potent unit combination.
• The anti air of your opponent will be useless now, if he lands his Vikings, the immortals will tear through them, if they are corruptors they can’t do too much
• Once your opponent’s anti air is gone you can go for collosi again, or just continue with the gateway immortal.
• The gateway immortal build is extreamly good against a lot of unit compositions. It does however require a decent amount of micro (the immortals against the armor units) in order to be as effective as possible.
• Consider adding psystorm to the mix
• Double robo Is double collosi, but DO NOT forget the observer. You never know when you will regret a cloacked banshee, some burrowed roaches or a set of DT’s killing your collosi.
Finalword: A very good build, It is more or less a build which gives you timing windows for you to use. It might leave you vounerable for a moment or so, if your macro isn’t on a top level (transitioning while you are making the push) it is riskier than a mass gateway robo support style of play.
Screenshots:
Double robo, all the way, all…the…waayyy…
Do scout with the observer. It helps. A lot.
You have tons of collosi, but don’t neglect the forcefields
Ok, sure, his AA might clean up your collosi. At what cost though ?
When your left over army is that big, you might want to go in for the kill if it is smaller, you shloud just back and defend your third
This is the killing blow- drones are off the line, they will die, you will be OMGWTFBBQ ahead. It will take serious skill to loose from this position
