Solo Mutation: #78 Endless Infection - Abathur P1 (Reuploaded: 8/10/2024)

Mutation Description: Unavailable
Mutators:
Alien Incubation - All enemy units spawn Broodlings upon death.
Black Death - Some enemy units carry a plague that deals damage over time and spreads to other nearby units. The plague spreads to your units when the enemy unit is killed.
Walking Infested - Every enemy unit that commanders destroy will spawn infested terrans. The more life a unit has, the more infested will rise from its corpse.
Special Notes: P1
Commander: Abathur
Prestige: Essence Hoarder (P1)
Advantages:
-Combat units can hold an additional 25 Biomass and have an additional 50% chance to drop their Biomass upon death.
Disadvantages:
-Ultimate Evolutions are unavailable.
Masteries: 22 Toxic Nest Damage, 8 Mend Healing Duration, 30 Double Biomass Chance, 15 Toxic Nests Maximum Charges and Cooldown, 15 Structure Morph and Evolution Rate
Enemy Composition: Masters and Machines
Kimmo's Notes: This run in particular was a mighty struggle for me to solve. Without the enhancements of P2, Swarm Hosts are nearly not as good especially without the quality I covet the most - faster locust spawn.
When looking at other runs, I knew what had to work: Ravagers. But it wasn't working out. And the enemy A.I is extremely inconsistent on this map. Part of my strategy involves planning around how enemies are going to move. But if they move nearly every single time, it won't work. I've had several runs stall which included a number of heartbreaking ends.
After I became discouraged, I vented to my friend Catsicle. He got curious after hearing my frustrations and decided to try this out for himself. He managed to get a success in a couple of tries with Abathur P1 and he showed me how in the replay and his advice. He also gave me a lot of encouragement as well.
I picked up on a strategy to delay my expansion in favor of more early-game units since expanding fast doesn't allow you your army right away. This allowed me to be more aggressive on the map and put nests at the spawn points to heavily enemies that spawn before I engage them.
After watching Catsicle's replay, this run was my very first time trying it. Thank you so much, Cat. You saved me from pulling more hair out over this.