Starcraft 2 Coop: Zagara | Growing threat

[@Jedrex899]

Great job squaring up to S-tier P2 Tychus as F-tier P1 Zagara with equal kills!

[@kage-rts]

Squaring lol. Barely managed to do a 40% haha

[@Jedrex899]

@@kage-rts at the end it says 50%/50%...

[@kage-rts]

Ok then i don't remember the correct game. Gg for. me I guess? :D

[@TwoTuuu]

you're supposed to fight hybrids with zerglings to save gas. banelings are for everything else.

[@kage-rts]

I was, wasn't I? Hehe It's hard when your a master at amoving and you have a ptsd from this stupid mutstion like i have :D

[@TwoTuuu]

@@kage-rts I noticed you weren't doing that in the early game when you said you were short on gas. Zagara is definitely one of the worst commanders for this mutation because of the splitter banes (they feed a lot and don't do much damage)

[@kage-rts]

I would tend to disagree here. in this replay i was doing a really bad job, but i don't remember if i talked about this here that i should be using lings to kill hybrids. I definitely mentioned this on stream at one point, but i was just really tunnel visioning. Do as I say, not what I do, I guess :) As for the banelings, ideally i would have killed every unit except hybrids and if only ground hybrid remains just use lings to kill. But i tend to panic a lot, and on this particular mutation when i initially played it i had a really rough time. now the question is, is she for everyone? No. She definitely won't be a fit for everyone. If you engage poorly, you just keep on feeding. The reason i only used banelings is to try and not feed as much as i could, and as you said splitters, are not ideal. Even I wouldn't put her in top5, but zagara is the only commander i actually managed to win relatively with ease, back in the days and now as well. First try as they say. Now if I where to take into consideration average players, they would need a lot more hatcheries, since they don't use queen inject at all, and even so by late game, she tends to run out of juice, and has to rely on ally for support. She can become a really bad feeder if you initiate a bad engagement. With all this in mind I would still not place her dead last, simply because she can recover really fast. If you have the apm and not using p1, you can do bile launchers to soften up the enemy, potentialy leaving only the hybrids that as we have discussed should be dealing with the hybrids. We can't just simply ignore her insane burst damage. Both banes and scourge. Though scourge are even worse at feeding.

[@TwoTuuu]

@@kage-rts in the early game, you created hybrids every time you tried to attack. you only got out of the jam because your ally was tychus, who is really strong. i dont think that's a sign of a good commander. the splitter banes kept feeding. and you can use bile launchers even if you're p1.

[@kage-rts]

I mean that's honestly why i play coop. To have an ally in case i mess up. You may know, solo ain't my thing. Average player won't be soloing, same as me. It's impressive what you do, but i'm not really able to pull of your strats. About bile launchers, on p1 i usuallt tend to be really aggressive and as a result mineral starved more so then gas starved, because i spam lings and don't have resources for bile launchers