2023 Terran Bronze to GM #2: How to React & Scout in Silver League 1/2 (B2GM) - StarCraft 2

[@paralykeet-]

The more I learn about SC2, the more I appreciate that PiG's go-to for easy going Terran are 2 base all-in variants. Because Terrans can target 54-60 workers on 3-5 base production quite comfortably, but have to jump larger hurdles to secure 3 base; being able to get comfy with a 2 base all-in and then learn to transition out makes sense for getting the most of Terran's faction specific abilities to target 45 workers on 2 base. Thus, making the muscle memory for pushing into 60+ worker setups and large CC counts easier to wrap our heads around.

[@PiGCoaching]

Yeah I find when players jump straight to 3-base play they don't focus on their army much at all because they're drowning in macro tasks and even when their macro gets good their micro just lags sooo far behind. I think it's nice to focus a bit harder on those 2-base pushes to get comfy, then we add that 3rd CC, 2nd ebay + armoury transition a bit earlier on and it should feel really smooth

[@alexandermorganti7468]

@@PiGCoaching*looks nervously at my units lost tab*

[@pauliusdagys6363]

​@@PiGCoachingi remember when i first started playing starcraft competetive. Back when Byun was the champ. Got to platinum with marine drops. Yet still most wins came after i understood the importance of macro. Thank you, PiG. You are doing a great job for this community. I can't wait to start playing Sc2 again with your new guides.

[@deadskillz45]

Been waiting for this, thank you for teaching me SC2, been a blast playing this for the first time properly with some friends

[@PiGCoaching]

Glad to hear it! Welcome to starcraft :)

[@PiGCoaching]

Thanks for your support everyone! Reminder that replays are up in the Replay section of my discord for both Patreon and Twitch subs :) UPDATE: Episode 3 (Silver Part 2) video will be on KZbin end of next week. B2GM Gold Part 1 will be recorded live on Twitch on Tuesday 15 August (NA time) www.twitch.tv/x5_pig

[@aliasuk86]

Really great videos, I might have played you and played so bad !

[@kaiwalterfang5517]

Don't want to be annoying or anything but when is the third episode going to be uploaded?

[@PiGCoaching]

@@kaiwalterfang5517 up tomorrow! sorry for the wait

[@kaiwalterfang5517]

@@PiGCoaching No problem, just wanted to know. I just saw it!

[@d0dg3rloool]

Missed first comment. But thanks for doing this. I am firmly committed to being ass at Terran, and these videos reaffirm that. Now that I’m an old man of 32, I’m trying to finally get good at StarCraft.

[@TomDaDon83]

Danke!

[@TimboSlice11]

Phenomenal content amigo. Helps me survive the night shift and allows me to live vicariously through you and those who are still active in SC2. Dad life has me busy but those few precious moments when I do get to play , I’m practicing what I’ve learned here . Thanks Pig !

[@boorockt]

1 year old player here, and though I studied a few build orders and even changed races thinking I couldn't pull the Terran off, each time I watch your videos it reinforces the idea that my outlook is faulty most of the time, not my build order/macro/micro. I'm slowly but surely learning to keep my cool watching your B2GM series. Thanks for the good work.

[@RichyRich2607]

It's amazing that you can read and write at just one year old. Keep it up!

[@boorockt]

​@@RichyRich2607 Though I tend to go doodoo at random and like to chew inedible items at times, I learned to keep my cool, too.

[@maiaka_]

actually learning so much from these B2GM series. Been watching the zerg one, and also watched the streams of terran B2GM and won my first few terran games from that :) Amazing content to learn from

[@StereoHound]

Really appreciate your videos mate. Not sure if I should be spending this much time on games at my age (probably not lol) but your fundamentals and logic just clicked and really helped my gameplay. Putting your videos on playlist overnight to help increase watch time.

[@PiGCoaching]

cheers mate! and nothing wrong with learning new things even if it's in gaming :P

[@TheRealCowlick]

Why not? Games are fun for everybody and if within healthy amounts, gaming is a pretty cool hobby!

[@dovescryspringseternal]

Pig you are hilarious I love your coaching channel. I’ve invested so many hours watching this BTGM and your old one. Cheers.

[@alexpotter2317]

I started playing about a month and a half ago and my coworkers that got me into the game reccomended your b2g for zerg since that was the race I wanted to learn first, in a month of playing I've already reached plat! Starting to learn terran based off of this guide and i'm having a blast!

[@bradwick7683]

Thanks for all the great content! Its pretty cool to go from learning the game in your last B2GM, to being able to hit you with a (albeit poorly executed) 5 roach pressure in your current B2GM! 🍻🍻🍻

[@montyyardley]

I've been putting off watching this series for half a year but I've been trying to teach a 111 build to myself with trial and error and I realized just watching these videos would probably be faster! I really hate being stuck on only being able to do 1 base all-ins so I think this will be a good bridge for me to learn how to eventually reach a 5 base setup.

[@Salammaleicu]

im new 2 starcraft. i am a fan of the game for more than 10 years but only recently started playing it. i started doing this build only and perfecting it for the past 2 weeks or 1 week or so. im 2.8k mmr now and i just started. im happy and wanted to share. i got 300 mmr or so only today

[@proudpatriot3491]

I watched the first video to this guide and i some how place in Plat. I'm going thru and finishing the rest of these, you are a great coach.

[@PiGCoaching]

eyy great start mate gl hf out there!

[@rogelioyanez2157]

this content is gold , i 've always wanted to play starcraft and the process is tough. thank you for the dedication and

[@warmachine5835]

I'm just coming back to the game after 10 years away and watching your series to "shake the dust off." Enjoying it so far--things are a lot different from when I played WoL ladder. But enough is the same too. The tunneling roaches in game 1 was a highlight because I had no idea there was a visual indicator. And the opponent's reaction message had me laughing.

[@dubzNA]

I'm all about the learning mindset but it's wild to me that I queue up my first unranked to get a feel and I'm against a 2v2 masters barcode account crap talking me. Has to be the most insecure thing I've ever seen in my life... Anyway... Thank you for this series haven't played SC in 20 years and this helps loads.

[@PiGCoaching]

There are definitely some absolutely mental people out there lol. Just keep in mind unranked and ranked is the same pool of players, it just hides your MMR to take the pressure off. Gl on the ladder mate!

[@danielp8433]

the anxiety is normal - just play for fun / get better- not for rank

[@danielp8433]

your guides are really top notch. had to learn the hard way (2500 games in beta copper 99) to reach diamond at release back in the day. thx especially for the zerg guides

[@SimplyDingo]

@PiGCoaching I recently started playing and learning SC2 and I love your guides! In last year's B2GM you had a sudden jump from 3-1-1 in to 1-1-1. I really hope you can explain 1-1-1 in a bit more detail. Like where does the gas go if you build a reaper aswell and variations where you add a cyclone, but delay the star port. I learned a lot of your videos. I really thank you for your work!

[@PiGCoaching]

As we progress I'll definitely show a bunch more variations and you can see the small adjustments, good suggestion

[@R1po]

I managed to get to Gold the last time I played two years ago. Yesterday I had my evaluation matches. One left, lost the others, got put into Gold again. Now I'm getting destroyed every match ^^ But I'm getting there. Thx for the lessons.

[@PiGCoaching]

Keep in mind it won't demote you but your MMR will adjust really quickly so even if it says you're in a certain league you'll still be matched with players of a suitable rank very quickly. Gl continuing your ladder journey mate!

[@Jessica-sd6qf]

Competitive at silver right out the bat. Haven't played since Brood War. Excellent videos.

[@kostyantynhoncharov493]

Thnx PiG !!! Nice build ^^ btw terran APM in silver 1- gold3 is between 65 and 110 on EU server .... its been a year that i'm in between the two ... Have a great day !

[@RichyRich2607]

01:44:44 - kinda triggerd me even as a noob that you didn't close the depot and also never mentioned it, that this could also prevent alot of damage in the first place.

[@VengeanceSinX]

I'm a D2/D3 Mech Player and I still come back to your B2GM to review my fundamentals and reasonings. Thanks to you, I'm improving a lot and fighting for D1/M3 as a Mech lmao!

[@CaptainBrash]

Does anyone else sing Gary and Bruce while playing? 😊

[@thestudentofdhandho5302]

Thank you PiG! I’m a new player and your guide has helped me so much. Very grateful. One question though: Why doesn’t this build include an armoury? Doesn’t it make sense to upgrade tanks as well?

[@177silas]

This is funny how you and Winter have totaly different approach macro vs micro on B2GM series, specially on this low levels :D Anyway, great work, thank you for it. Even my 34 yo fingers can follow those tutorials ;) OMW to watch rest of the series and can't wait for protoss. GL!

[@Eaglelord21]

Nice series! Loved it!

[@plunderersparadise]

I got to plat 2, 3000mmr. I still never seen the burrowed roaches on the map like there is said in 10:34. Furtherfome, I was playing zerg, including burrowed roaches strat that I played.

[@PiGCoaching]

It's pretty rare! Fun strat though

[@NetworkGeek280]

This is awesome, you could easily be a very good school teacher. Last series you used ~ to dump a unit instead spacebar. I find the space a useful key to toggle to last alert. But you use the minimap. why? 🤔

[@Girthology]

Newb question, when spreading bio do you use stop or hold?

[@PiGCoaching]

neither, you just box your units and then right click them where you want them to go

[@over6429]

Hey, do you know any websites with updatedl builds for terran zerg and protoss? i cant find it anywhere :(

[@PiGCoaching]

hop in my discord server discord.gg/SkhbzCM

[@kyuugetsu3387]

So I started playing a few days ago and had some wins with the build (thanks) but what's the deal with mmr? I think it's going up way too fast: in my profile summary it says gold tier 1 (my league/division) and beneath it it says plat 1 (with a progress bar) and beneath it my mmr says 2999. Is this supposed to be gold mmr or plat? Cuz I got a few games against plat and even diamond players and I got beat around like nothing, so I'm guessing my mmr is screwed up or something. I'm 11-7 win to loss so I don't know why it's so high. Also can you go over a few basic next steps after the marine attack fails, like should I switch to starports and battlecruisers or thors and rush 3/4 bases? (am especially getting my ass kicked by air units and lurkers... bannelings too but I'm still trying to work on that spread units you showed I just can't get a lot of practice at it)

[@PiGCoaching]

This has pretty accurate on where the boundaries are: burnysc2.github.io/MMR-Ranges/ For your first 25 games it has a weird flexible algorithm where each win/loss will give you a massive MMR change as it quickly tries to find where you belong on the ladder. Don't stress too much over it as it'll find you the correct level opponents once you've played 10+ games. 11-7 is an awesome start so you probably belong somewhere around gold or maybe even plat already. Just benchmark your push in the lower leagues and keep working on executing your earlygame and first push better, but over the next few videos I'll start showing a lot more of what you can do to extend your position in the game. Most importantly 2 more bases and 2nd ebay + armoury will give you some longevity by extending your income and keeping your upgrades up.

[@mattstroja5564]

Been watching these like the simpsons so good

[@Discobot123]

Love the content

[@bardslee]

I am have real trouble shift clicking to make the tank siege but the keep sieging where they are not where i click. any advice?

[@NoRyoKu1]

Very good video, I watched carefully the first two video and found them very interesting and useful. But sadly, the 3rd videos that you posted yesterday (silver part two) appears hidden and private on the channel and in the playlist, is there a reason for that?? Is this a bug with youtube? I really wanna watch the 3rd episode Good job PiG

[@PiGCoaching]

The video appears hidden when they're added to the playlist but not yet live. It will be out tomorrow :) Replays are up as well!

[@NoRyoKu1]

It's working thank you! I'll be patient for the next ones :) haha but these are so good :)@@PiGCoaching

[@Procione07]

Ehi pig thanks a lot for your B2GM. They are very helpfull and entrataining to watch. I got a question. How i know wich units to build for counter enemy army? Ex when build Viking or cyclone or ghosts and go on. Ty.

[@PiGCoaching]

As you play the game, watch it and learn about how the units operate you'll know what does good in specific situations. The great thing about learning solid playstyles like marine-tank-medivac, is it works vs just about anything. It's more important to focus on how you use a specific toolset and getting good with that than it is to worry about countering the enemy units. Make sure you join my discord community and chat to the ppl in there and learn more about the game: discord.gg/SkhbzCM

[@Dawindell]

1:09:20 80 kill siege tank. I refuse to believe that this Zerg wasn't TRYING to throw the game. Literally could have A moved on the minimap at your main base and won but instead he threw 12 zerglings here, 20 zerglings there, move commanded them into a tank with 8 hp, got into melee, and then ran away... I haven't seen yet who wins the match but at this rate it's going to be Pig because the Zerg wants him to win, no other reason. Edit: Maybe in retrospect he knew he was so far ahead he couldn't lose so he wanted Pig to have more opportunity to teach. I had to remind myself of that while watching the game.. so many moments of "WHY!?!?" turn into "oh, just throwing units away for fun, cool".

[@PiGCoaching]

Wouldn't be the first time a Starcraft player makes imperfect decisions, especially in silver league. That being said you never know how someone will react to being on stream, sometimes they get nervous/excited and play different. And in this case may have been screwing around a little bit, or 100% sweatily trying to finish the game and fumbling really hard. Difficult to say

[@Dawindell]

@@PiGCoaching thanks for the reply Pig 🙂. I was honestly stressed out watching that game so I apologize for my intensity :/

[@blaskbulwark2881]

This tank push is too good.

[@issyw]

I’m a plat 2/1 Terran. Watched your vids years ago to get into the game. Hopefully see ya on the NA ladder when u get this past gold.

[@PiGCoaching]

im playing against volunteers actually! you can play vs me on my stream when I do those leagues

[@issyw]

@@PiGCoaching 🤟 just dropped ya a follow on twitch. Hopefully I catch the stream

[@egoryfilenkov6550]

Idk if you reply to KZbin comments anymore but how do u have hot keys for each building assigned to a hot key?

[@egoryfilenkov6550]

Specifically 7:00 u can see his factory is t and the space ship thing is p

[@jackel1994]

Ah yes, good. Theres my hit of Terran B2GM I needed. *Crack Elmo meme*

[@soufianejanah8953]

I have a bug on the first map you played i had random walls in the natural area that is blocking my view

[@davideloi9176]

Hi Pig, thanks for these vids. Very informative. A bit of advice/request (if I'm not the only one thinking this): the in-game music is very loud and after watching the video for a while, listening to the in-game sounds and also you explaining stuff the music is a little bit too much... it gives me headache after a bit and i need to take breaks from watching these videos. I don't know if i am the only one thinking this this, but maybe, for the educational videos, the music should be off or at a lower volume? Just a thought, love your content. P.s. i wanna get out of gold, aaargh!!!

[@PiGCoaching]

100% the balance was a bit off in this one, sorry about that

[@Procione07]

I will watch all terran B2GM and i will wait the protoss one couse im very bad with them.😂

[@CaptainBrash]

Man, i am rusty! Me: ok ready to attack! Stim + combat shields: not started Engineering bay: not built Minerals: 4k Me: oh no

[@PiGCoaching]

GOAL for next game. Stim started and Under 3500 minerals wheen going to attack :D :D

[@CaptainBrash]

​@@PiGCoachingI did it! About 7:40 stim + army. I lost because I didn't scout and I got my army massacred outside my base against a plat zerg. Lesson learned, scout and leave some tanks sieged until I know where their army is 😅

[@glaive1578]

Instead of getting +1 weapon with 1 ebay. Is it not better to get 2 ebays with 11?

[@PiGCoaching]

Bigger investment, more payoff if you're playing a macro game and plan on going 4+ bases, 2-2 and then 3-3. But for a simple 2-base push it's not worth the investment

[@Secre.SwallowtailYT]

in the zerg b2gm you were building 2 evos, to get 1-1, is that not good here?

[@PiGCoaching]

We're doing a much more committed 2-base attack. One engineering bay is enough. You only start a second engineering bay and armoury along with extra bases when going to 3 base and ahead. For a 2-base play often just +1 weapons, MAYBE 1-1 off a single ebay is plenty

[@TheRealCowlick]

How do you get these star icons on your buildings as terran?

[@PiGCoaching]

go to collections in game (in between Custom and replays) --> Augments --> Decals

[@TheRealCowlick]

@@PiGCoaching Damn, thanks mate!

[@MedianSatyr]

I highly doubt that you will ever see this, but why not get upgrades faster are they just not worth it? Are they too expensive? I’m fairly new to StarCraft, and your vids are very helpful to me ty and GLHF!!

[@PiGCoaching]

Just not as high priority as getting down these other fundamentals. A lot of these lower level guides there's things that are excluded purely for simplicity so we can focus on doing what we do WELL, then add that other stuff later. That being said since it is a 2-base push, even though it's a slower one, we'd at most only get a single attack upgrade doing a build like this at GM level. In general the longer a game goes the more upgrades give value

[@JanneMarjomaa]

The initial ladder placement in SCII is kinda bonkers. Im just starting learning how to play the damn game, and there was 5 placement matches. I won one game by just doing this build very slowly and very unoptimized and then attack move my army to their base. I mean im bad at this game. Just started learning. It placed me in master rank 3. 2500mmr. I mean ok, i guess. How long i now have to play against much better players, until i drop to bronze/silver or so. Would like to try to climb up from there.

[@PiGCoaching]

There's a common ranking bug some players get that displays the wrong league. 2500MMR puts you in gold 2? I believe, check this site for the actual league ranges: burnysc2.github.io/MMR-Ranges/ - even with the bug you'll still play players near your MMR which should be actual good matches

[@JanneMarjomaa]

Ok. Thanks for answering. And yeah. The games have been all right. And once more, thanks for all the bronze to GM series. They are very helpfull. @@PiGCoaching

[@thepedalsadvocate7389]

Game 4. I was rooting for you. To quote Wolfman in Top Gun.... "Greatest thing I've ever seen man...."...

[@ClassicalRenaissance]

I'm a plat terran and I do all the dumb stuff that Pig here warns about...had me laughing

[@markosmarine5138]

nica chanel i love sc2

[@Gredddfe]

2:42:51 SC2 is a strange game. The only way to win every time is not to play.

[@Gredddfe]

How about a nice game of co-op?

[@Explosive-tl2iw]

Lol, I've tested this build and it works until plat-diamond league 😂

[@PiGCoaching]

LUL

[@GwEClanGaming]

I keep running into guys turteling with siege tanks and then attack with bcs

[@LitMan-yg1mv]

same... annoying strat -.- but if you macro well, prevent them from taking hidden expansions and get a ton of production, it's free wins for you after a while. glhf

[@claudiac8067]

Next video please 😊

[@PiGCoaching]

Just got back from an event overseas, next ones coming up ASAP :)

[@pedroventurini367]

Hola, Can you do new videos about Protoss? im watching your videos and the NEWEST video about Protoss is from 1 year ago xD !! Saludos From Madrid Spain

[@PiGCoaching]

If you check out my Protoss b2GM playlist from 2 years ago it's still super solid!

[@nion11814]

😄😃

[@claudiac8067]

When other video 😅?

[@PiGCoaching]

tomorrow!

[@CongCaStarCraft]

solo

[@AaronBrownStudios]

Every single B2GM streamer thinks “all you need to do to get out of bronze is X. All you need to do to get out of silver is X.” Etc etc. when I reality the only thing separating the leagues is the persons ability to move their mouse and click with accuracy. Speed and apm is what wins games. Not cloning, shift de-selecting, not build orders. None of it. Being someone who can move their mouse faster than you will always be ahead of you

[@PiGCoaching]

All of those good mechanics allow you to get more done with less clicks and less mouse movement