Learn to play Starcraft - Protoss Starter Guide #1 - Updated (2017)

[@WinterStarcraft]

This guide is now slightly outdated with Patch 4.0, here is a completely up to date guide! kzbin.info/www/bejne/rmS9nIaOZdl9nZY

[@xdownwindx7949]

"Pylons are something that you must always construct additional of" killed me lmfao. Keep up the good work Winter!

[@NukFur]

Heya Winter, it's me from the first game. I just wanted to say thank you for giving so much entertainment and knowledge to the people that have watched you. I know that I have watched a lot of your videos and even though I haven't improved that much I think that it definitely has helped me and will help me in the future. So thank you.

[@SodaGG]

hey great sportsmanship dude! cheers

[@GWRG21]

This is IMO the best protoss starter guide ever! Thank you so much!

[@JD867]

2:08 When you log into Bronze and end up fighting Winter's alt account.

[@terriblewillen1092]

This exact build, this exact mindset, took me from bottom silver to platinum in one week. No joke. The canvas is real=)

[@dkbutler0269]

That joke at 19:29 and da shades Kreygasm

[@-Samus-Aran-]

It's really incredible how you can decide your whole build after a quick glimpse at a fraction of the opponents base.

[@InDmand]

My games been thrown off lately tryna learn new things, this felt like a good refresher to help refocus on some things ive been neglecting. Cheers buddy.

[@zarryc1687]

Love your guides man. Started from watching the 2 hour learn to play all races guide from 2 years ago. Currently I'm silver 2 as Protoss and it helped me a lot. Now I mostly die to Protoss cannon rushes or strong early pressure, but I definitely win a lot more games than before. Even had a 3 win streak once lmao.

[@zaxtonhong3958]

Zar ryc When you build your first gateway, that same probe out to scout. If the enemy probe or scv arrives at your base before then, expect to get cannon rushed or something cheesy.

[@EmberDragonic]

You really deserve a lot more subs, you explain things so well!

[@sfukuda512]

That 17:50 moment when you realize that your opponent really is in Silver League.

[@mickeyromeo]

Heya Winter, it's me from the first game. IU just wanted to say thank you for giving so much entertainment and knowledge to the people that have wanted you. I know that I have watcyhed a lot of your videos and even though I haven't improved that much I think that it definitely has helped me and will help me in the future. So thank you.

[@Rexiled]

There was a legend that went to GM only Canon Rush... The thing is he did canon rush none did, with such control & space abuze. unfortunatly i don't remember his nickname, i hope someone will. "If you are good at 1000 of build order, you are a good player. If you master 1build order, you are a master player."

[@ARtanisPH]

I guess you are referring to printf? He is a GM cannon rusher

[@stamy4605]

There was this guy called Bubbles that went all the way to the competitive scene cannon rushing 90% of the time. He even beat coach park cannon rushing a couple of times (and doing a Stalker timing on one of them I think).

[@lukas9623]

Weedamins

[@frenchify7506]

Every game I watch from this guy is just him stomping on everyone lmao subbed

[@horner385]

"Super Pylons" are called "Warp Conduicts"

[@danpt2000]

wait, I've never actually used these Warp Conduits.

[@danpt2000]

where in the video did he show Warp Conduits?

[@horner385]

danpt2000 hover over the "super pylon" icon and look at the name it says "warp conduit"

[@mthlay15]

danpt2000 he mentioned them within the first minute of this video

[@ShadowofSun2012]

19:56 I love how you're so proud of yourself for that joke while deep down you know, everyone's going to be sitting in front of their screens dead silent with tumbleweed rolling through their room in the background.

[@originaldahha]

went on to roll through my next game after these tips despite doing it so poorly... good guide/ tips

[@minnevabuh3947]

I'm new to Starcraft, and at first I wanted to play all three races equally. I paid for this game, so I'm going to experience everything, gosh-dang-it. But sadly, I'm just not a fan of Protoss gameplay. A bit of a shame because I do love their unit designs. Playing 66% of races is still not too bad, though. :) Also, as a new player freaking out about "will I need to remember build orders", it is so relieving to hear that the big picture is more important than the small details. Thank you.

[@DustyFirefly]

Thank you for the guides, they're awesome. You motivated me to play ranked again! I'm currently in silver and dropping into bronze, and losing every game to air rushes/ worker harass. The multitasking is hard, but you make it seem so easy... ;^;

[@RyjinVee]

super engaging video. really funny, really fun. keep crushin' it, winter!

[@Mantorp86]

Ty for another entertaining video. Im just starting SC2, this videos helped me a lot!

[@OlovMetal]

Liked because of that come on using SC 2 references. Clean Clean Thermal Lance has extended

[@diegod1177]

25:17 35.000 games !!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT'S 1 YEAR OF YOUR LIFE PLAYING STARCRAFT WITH NO BREAKS OMFG. Thats AMAZING (i think or a bit of a waste) Thats up to you do what you like ;)

[@curtiskay-lassels1633]

it was up to winter... he said no

[@Lokipoli.]

At last!!!! XD I will learn how to properly use protoss without cheesing my way to diamond XD

[@sooooooooooomebody]

beware of the mass void ray into carrier thing in gold PvP :D

[@Lokipoli.]

as long as there is scout I think all good XD

[@sooooooooooomebody]

yeeh today i learned that enough stalkers can actually kill a bunch of void rip me

Thank you for your time doing this guide, man!

[@nicholaslonnon7509]

16:16 it is ,john snow and the redhead. the glaive adept is that kid with the bow

[@The1stKing]

WinterStarcraft a.k.a. Glad You Still Enjoy. :-D I think that sentence should be your trademark. :-D PS Really nice videos, keep up the great work.

[@ferrahount]

Great winter. You make it look so easy

[@davejayne2076]

Hey man love your vids very helpful. How do you feel about protoss air? What do you typically change in 3v3 mode if anything? Thanks

[@ellipsis...1986]

That last terran must have watched Winters videos as well, or at least the ones about walloffs

[@lorissirol2684]

Thumbs up for that "robotic bae" joke and also for the video ofc

[@SonnyKnutson]

+WinterStarcraft I learned from seeing Terran and playing Terran in CO-OP that stutterstepping is easier to do with rightclick move then pressing S to Stop the units. It's 1 less key to press and you don't accidentally A click your own units in intense situations :) Just an idea that you might want to push on new players since it is easier to do.

[@zaxtonhong3958]

Sonny Knutson Agreed, but when you have a big army, and you hit S, the entire army stops moving, and only the army on the front line moves in to attack.

[@fletchthebirb]

With the rise of StarCraft Remastered, I feel the video title should specify that it's about Starcraft II. I was expecting a brood war tutorial. I'm gonna watch this anyway because I play both games, but it's something to think about.

[@chrishaugh1655]

I did the math...after watching you play this game, there's no way in hell I can ever be competitive in this game lol.

[@Anthrax6989]

Thx for guid I've just started playing the game and I choose protos as my spirital animal! But get humilate in pvp most of the time actually I was thinking about uninstallign the game cause people here playing like for years and I'm newbie which doesn't know a thing!

[@PromptedHawk]

I only started playing a couple days ago as well, also Protoss, I recommend you get a more experienced friend (or try to find someone on whatever) and get them to play against you, point out your mistakes, and basically coach you. It's worked for me, and considering I didn't even buy the game yet, it's my only option. Seriously, though, it helps. I basically only knew how to move units 2 days ago and now I know just about enough to get by when playing with some more skilled friends.

[@Nymiru]

Amalur Alure persistence can often be the key to success

[@CarlosJuarez-dl3nn]

I love when you try to make a joke and you fail. I laugh even more than when you succeed :D

[@konineptuneborn1467]

I actually laughed at the robotcis bay thermo lancer extension joke

[@a735Alexis]

Hey winter I just discovered your channel, it's awesome! quick question, i really enjoy the music you listen to, how can I check your playlist? I see there is one hovering above the map but i don't know how to find specific songs thanks!

[@terriblewillen1092]

This was actually really good.

[@SoMuchNoise1]

Thanks for the video, Winter, very helpful! But, important part that I'm hung up on in my own ladder journey: How do I adapt to 1 base/proxy? I can often scout and understand when I'm being all in'd, but I don't know what to do!

[@MrDgf97]

SoMuchNoise1 If you know you're gonna get rushed, you're most of the time a step ahead Use your defenders advantage at its full potential, use defensive structures but not too many so you can keep macroing Oh and building and unit positioning, it can make the difference between a succesful defence or a failed one

[@OneShotMan222]

Hey winter thanks for the guides! Btw, is it better to use standart hotkeys instead of grid ? My hands are really used to using grid now that i can be fast with it but i also noticed that a lot of master level player are using standart hotkeys instead. Does that make too much of a difference?

[@AiurMedia]

winter's pun jokes never gets old

[@marcoantonioarmentaarmenta1350]

I loved your robotics bay joke!!!

[@themirlabs]

'hey girl, are you a robotics bay. because you make my thermal lance extend' XD omg im dead!

[@travishurst2242]

Did anyone else notice that -Winter- played his first game against -Spring- ?

[@ggrimreaper3816]

Hey Winter thanks for the video, got back into SC2 after a couple years and it's good to have some information to help catch up. Where did everyone go lol? Servers take a lot longer now.

[@-Samus-Aran-]

This is a quality guide video

[@Aliuzha17]

You are great winter hahaha.... I am a F2P new player, this is very good.

[@Flavius-Tech]

How can you make multiple constructions with a protos worker at the same time? I know you can create the second building only after it starts the first one. But i see you can instruct worker to start automatically multiple buildings.

[@chrisbingley]

"Build more shit than the other guy." has been a staple of RTS games since Westwood released Dune 2.

[@SodaGG]

I fucking loved the robotic´s bae joke and I´m not even ashamed...

[@bensongiang2903]

I'm very new to starcraft 2, I purchased wings of liberty but I have no idea what the difference wings of liberty and legacy of the void is... since I play on wings of liberty am I still able to stuff shown in this video?

[@DmytroB-m9g]

19:28 LMAO

[@zaxtonhong3958]

First quality joke I've heard all year lmao

[@johnc503]

Dmitry Baltak what joke did he make? I cannot get it

[@РусланГринько-и8г]

9:54 also XD 17:46 this facepalm and exhale. "aggressive terran"

[@YangusDangus]

Love the content and the streams, thanks. =)

[@clevoro]

"'I'm in the bronze league, I'm in the silver league. I don't play players this bad' Yes you do, you're one of them." I KNOW WINTER!!! I KNOW!!! That's why my username is "ASittingDuck". Still play though. I love Starcraft 2 because I find it fun.

[@yanyue0]

great guide, thanks winter

[@CodeDashie]

lmao in that first game, as a plat player myself, the silver leagues base looking more well organized than the way I do it. It's good to get some outsider perspective to compare to my own notes.

[@Twas-RightHere]

24:00 How did you manage to select just that small group of stalkers!? You can't have ctrl clicked them because that would've selected all of your stalkers, right?

[@cariyaputta]

Thanks you. This video help me a lot!

[@toontownlegomaster]

I wonder why he's so good at starcraft. It must be that gaming chair. Yep now I know what I'm going to do. Buy that exact gaming chair!

[@zaxtonhong3958]

toontownlegomaster Goes to winter's house* Steals gaming chair*

[@gannontubbs2393]

Im new to starcraft, and i would like to play protoss, but i cant find where you build the mothership core, it seems that you use the nexus, but mine isn't there...

[@OneOxone]

Are there any things to use chrono boost for other than making drones? Any upgrades that are must have and/or high priority to get as fast as possible?

[@tobiashmm2322]

OneOxone after you have 2 bases with probes you should focus your chrono on any upgrade or high value unit from the stargate or the robotics

[@niichan5649]

you're funny have a cool accent, and I learned a lot. appreciate it.

[@robertcalver3527]

Would you recommend a newish player to learn protoss atm or wait till msc gets removed

[@SonnyKnutson]

I feel like a great way to learn to micro your macro is to keep building while you move your camera back to the unit you so badly want to micro and just ignore it. Learn to watch it die a horrible death without doing anything about it xD

[@8nykspree]

Takes a sip of his drink after the smackdown 🤣🤣🤣

[@Popkorn28]

What is a good option when I know my enemy goes for Air units? With this build I'm kind of lost against air, but that aside it works great :D

[@zaxtonhong3958]

Vs Zerg? Archons and stalkers are pretty good Vs Toss? Phoenix vs voids, stalkers vs Phoenix or carriers. Vs Terran? Stalkers vs basically everything. Voids vs carriers

[@ivantenev1288]

Nice video keep up the good work

[@nikae09]

So, its all about who shuffles their deck the fastest?

[@stephenhood970]

do another one with more details on each unit's abilities, and the smart way-efficient way to use them

[@natepearson9804]

Notice how they say "Starter Guide #1"

[@zaxtonhong3958]

If you want a brief overview of spells: Gateway: Charge increases base move speed, which lets zlots keep up with stalkers. Very good vs ranged units, not great if they get surrounded by lings Blink is self-explanatory. Blink back injured stalkers, blink away from psi storms and purification novas, pick off dropships, etc Guardian shield reduces each incoming hit by 2. Very effective against high attack speed (like marines, hydras, or stalkers) Force field is impassible, even by your own units. Use them to cut an enemy army in half, deny retreats, block lings and zlots, etc massive units will destroy force field on touch (archons, colossi, thors, and ultras) Hallucinations spawn units that deal 0 damage and take double damage. It's impractical, other than early Phoenix scouts (even then, meh) fake units glow blue if the enemy has detectors, and the unit AI will not attack them Shades are controllable units which are invulnerable. They can walk through units, but not buildings. Good for slipping through chokes or escaping. If canceled early, the adept does not teleport. Feedback removes all energy from a unit, and deals 1 damage per energy drained. Use on ghosts, infesters, other HTs, ravens, medivacs, anything that has energy and scary abilities Robo: Barrier absorbs 100 dmg, and expires after a few seconds. It triggers after the immortal loses its shields. Basically impossible to micro. Phase mode: becomes a super pylon but loses the ability to move. Crucial for reinforcements ASAP. keep it about a half- screen behind your army so it doesn't get killed easily Purification nova: shoots out a controllable, invulnerable bomb. Moves through units and structures. Deal (I think) 200 damage plus a small bonus to shields. It does friendly fire, so don't hit yourself Stargate: Graviton beam stuns a unit and makes it float, turning it into an air unit. The Phoenix is also stunned while casting this ability. Use it to pick up workers for other Phoenix to kill. Cheese beam (oracle laser) can 2-shot workers very fast, dealing bonus dmg vs light. It only targets ground. Use to snipe workers, plus scouting. Keep in mind it uses energy, even when it's not firing. Revelation shows where the targeted units are for a short time. Pretty impractical, considering an observer is much more reliable Stasis ward makes a mine that can be killed if the enemy has detection. When activated, the ward places enemies in stasis. They can't do anything, including TAKE damage. If one gets activated, and grabs large parts of the army, move in. Also impractical The void ray beam (prismatic alignment?) gives bonus damage to ARMORED units. Use against anything armored really (just not mutas, hydras or marines) Tempests might have an ability, not sure. I never use em

[@stephenhood970]

Thank you, very helpful and insightful

[@stephenhood970]

So, I should look forward to #2??

[@taintofshadow]

The "oh shit" at the start was because he knew he was playing against winter. May have been even watching the match as it was happening on Twitch.

[@eric97909]

29:15 I like that reference

[@OneOxone]

is double forge or a 2nd cyber core a thing? kinda like zerg do double evo chamber or terran build two engi bay to get your double upgrades

[@yannabsar2642]

Not qualified to tell you but in my opinion double cyber is usually not a thing unless you go skytoss. Double forge is more common.

[@m.kommentar714]

In a game that looks like it's definitely gonna go to the late tech its actually okay to do it, but often you don't do it because you rather build colossi, disruptor or templar

[@nebi75]

just started sc thanks for the guide

[@MrVasilisg74ever]

@winterStarcraft how are you doin that build with probe with shift? is there any hotkey?

[@zaxtonhong3958]

Vasilis simeonof An example would help... At the beginning of most games he makes a heart using A-move and shift commands

[@drmattconrad77]

I had to show the probe and scv love story to my daughter. Gripping drama :)

[@shavais33]

Yeah I'm as bad or worse than these guys. I wouldn't do the awful stuff they did, but I would do different even worse things and get killed quicker. The machine-like macro and steel-vice focus of actual SC lifers is beyond ridiculous. I don't think it's possible to match it without playing thousands of games. Is there or has there ever been a master leaguer who hasn't played at least 20,000 games? Unless you can play SC for a crap ton of hours, platinum is a high freaking rank. I feel like there's a sort of skilled sword play that goes on. Get vision, lead with a widow mine sacrifice (but not too far of a lead, make sure the mines either hit your sacrifice or are killed by your forces), split their forces with force fields (near from far), fire up guardian shields, stay out of range of the far ones but in range of the near ones, focus down those vikings before they kill your colosi.. but don't chase! Don't let your anti air get drawn through the center of their army by their defensive micro! Quick! Split away from the raven missile targets! It's all stuff you know very well that you need to somehow do until the moment comes and it doesn't really happen very well because it just isn't in your fingertips because gosh, you haven't even played 10,000 games, let alone 20k or 30k. I would love to try an arcade practice tool that gives you a 3 second look at the army you're going to face in x:y minutes and seconds, after which point all your structures and static defenses vanish, that army appears on the field, and its whatever you've got by then against that. Beat it 3 times in a row, and you move on to the next one. Make it so that by the time you're beating, say, the 10th army, you have to have used better macro, at least in the practice game, than most silver players can muster. An evolution of that practice tool could be one that gives you glimpses of the opponent's buildings at 1:24 and at 3:17 (or something like that), and makes you guess at the comp you're going to fight. Another option on it might be to have it put you under specific amounts of specific types of pressure while trying to macro up. And make the AI actually try to kill as many of your workers as it can and not be distracted by buildings and units, unless it can kills those units and keep killing workers. Another tool that would be nice is one that lets you examine parts of a replay in slow motion, and shows you the selected player's mouse and their keystrokes near the mouse, so you can be watching their mouse carefully and still notice each and every keystroke, and shows the left clicks and right clicks they made, at the time and place where they clicked. So you can clearly see exactly how in the hell that guy managed to do all the stuff they did when they did it.

[@williamzhou7847]

Shavais Zarathu s

[@doomcaptain9478]

Sadly this isn't after the removal of MSC :(((

[@zudukaiKilo44]

can you expand on that, any suggestions on carrying on the build with tweaks or the like?

[@doomcaptain9478]

Scott Talasko idk man, I'm a Zerg main that wanted to learn Protoss

[@zudukaiKilo44]

can overcharge be built still? 36:14

[@SquirrilahFish]

Cause you make my thermal lance extend *puts on shades. LMAO

[@Kevin-wo7vs]

what are good late game troops against terran?

[@25ciskey25]

I WANNA SEE WINTER PLAY LOWKO @WinterStarcraft

[@gwenstizzy]

this boy must've been a preacher man in a past life

[@tug8193]

Tysm learned to play alot better

[@mehdatnarethis5381]

i never saw your setup... video plz?

[@fishlobs]

with all tech, available as toss, how do you deal with void rays?

[@zaxtonhong3958]

Liam Van Den Berge In cost efficiency, an army of voids will die to an army of Phoenix. The void rays deal no extra damage vs light, and Phoenix can harass probes and slow down void ray production. The best way to stop voids is to get more stuff. Stalkers are fine, just keep track of your enemy unit comp

[@ascendant2172]

what do you do against a cannon rush in PvP?

[@Lokipoli.]

always scout and kill the pylon(if near your base) with 3 probes it was use against me he's so very calm that's why I know now the counter for my attack xD well if it's not near your mineral line just expand after his cannon maybe at that time your second nexus will be completed transfer all your probes there and mine until you make units that kill the pylon before the cannon

[@adaptone9777]

I killed a cannon rush recently. I just pulled 4 drones to kill each pylon or cannon protoss was making, then killed the probe he sent, made a spawning pool asap, made as many zerglings as I could (like 6 or 10), then killed his 2nd probe and cannon rush outside my base he was trying to make, then scouted around to make sure he wasn't making proxy stuff anywhere, then sent 20 zerglings to his base since he wasted so much money on the cannons I knew he wouldn't have any units at home, killed 35 workers, his main nexus, and cyber core, then took 4 bases, droned up like crazy, made 3 evo chambers, got +1 everything, made a lair, made a hydra den, got hydra upgrade, built like 80 drones and maxed out on hydras, then a moved across the map. Got slowed down a bit at the gauntlet of cannons at the front of his base, targeted the pylons to depower the cannons, then killed the rest of his stuff with hydras and zerglings and a few roaches.

[@MrSanfrinsisco]

Void Rays.. Lots and lots of Void Rays

[@clawsofursoc8122]

Lmao "you gotta micro your macro" is the nerdiest thing you could ever say, I feel if I said it to my gf she'd leave Same with 19:28 LOL

[@krasimirmaslarov3228]

When you hear 10-15 games isn’t enough and you play 3 games a day

[@idontloveket7720]

what was the first song used ?

[@jflexfit]

Song at 15:08?

[@TheLAJohanson]

What league do you usually play?

[@krumbanov1457]

[@michaelseanchang]

rip mothership core, halp. i am very new. hopin for another vid

[@ReketePony]

LOL i was about to ask him how do I build a mothership core XD so its no longer available :I

[@rozo_sp5150]

what do pylons do

[@iliketosuckdick1232]

they give you supply. Without pylons you would not be able to train troops or anything

[@SteampunkTV]

19:28 Made me Subscribe :)

[@scull3208]

Thanks!

[@casualcrusader1547]

Till what league can this build work?

[@zaxtonhong3958]

Pyr0manc3y This game isn't "this build will get you this far" Winter has beaten grandmaster with pure zlots. If you 100% perfect this, you will get to diamond. If you know what to do in response to your enemy.

[@radfort935]

Must create additional memes.