Throwing Lambs To The Slaughter!- StarCraft 2 - Getting Good - Platinum League 1v1 TvP

[@superflypheelign]

Ollie, Scout. Get a unit mid map at 5 minutes game time (you might have seen his proxy when sending a unit midfield). Scan main at 5:30 game time. You would have seen his tech and been able to abort the drop. You saw the tempest at 5:40 gametime but did not drop a reactor on your starport or build a viking until 5:57. That 17 seconds cost you 1 viking or 1 reactor. Good job as always. I can see your confidence growing.

[@Voidspacealpha]

Thanks man. invaluable advice as always

[@drulad43]

Awesome game that was near perfect response.😊 I guess the only improvement needed is better army control. Tip: There is Technique that can be used for Vikings called "Kiting" where you "shoot and back-off" to get damage done while keeping them alive. And as U keep pumping more Vikings their numbers would just get higher by keeping the previous once alive. Hope U can handle it😊 Note: I believe 8-10 Vikings can 1-shot a Tempest which that "Kiting Technique" becomes really useful 😊

[@Voidspacealpha]

I will try kiting. cheers

[@proape6052]

Tempests are a reaction unit. A Protoss should make carriers because they're better generally but tempests are good if a Terran is making battlecruisers or a lot of liberators, though in the second case carriers are still usually preferred. They have high damage but it's wasted on cheap masses of bio units. Stim marines counter them because they can get under them and shoot them all down. The biggest problem for your enemy was the lack of splash. Unless the Protoss has a huge numbers advantage, a even Protoss army loses to a bio army. As for your build, you keep in mind that you can only support 3 barracks, 1 factory, and 1 starport off 2 bases. For the amount of starports you made, you would need 4-5 bases for constant viking medivac production. In fact, you should always get 5 barracks at least. For a skytoss rusher, I suggest 5 barracks and 2 starports off 3 bases, if you cut tanks. You should feel free to be greedy if you make a shit ton of marines because low number of skytoss can't beat you. They can't even field enough splash because of the price of air units. (If they do field some colossi or templar, they usually won't be able to afford other ground units which means you can just charge in marauders).

[@Voidspacealpha]

very good advice. thanks man. I will use this! Are you around for the live stream tonight? 8-11 British time. xoxo

[@thestoryteller9431]

Two things. 1. You really really dislike siegeing your tanks. I'm not sure why. 2. Try to get a bit more focus. Quite a few tempests got away with red health because you attack moved rather than focus them down. Keep up the good work.

[@Voidspacealpha]

1. i dont know why either. I've noticed it too and i hate myself. 2. yeah i really should have focused them down

[@JanGaarni]

Ballsy push and win. 😅 Being this late with the scout, you may want to take alittle tour around in the opponents base including behind the mineral line, you may have spotted the Stargate, unless they deliberately waited to put it down till you were out of their main. 😊 Nevertheless, GG. 😊

[@Voidspacealpha]

oh totally. ah yeah, it seems all it takes it interupt my scouting is to send literally anything towards my base. throws me off my game. i will work on that

[@JanGaarni]

@@Voidspacealpha it was fine, all that was really lost was early scouting and a few minerals when you eventually took out the probe. It would have cost more if you sent the scout AND took an SCV off minerals or gas to deal with the probe. The way it went down here, you're still getting the same mineral and gas income as if you went to scout without a harrasing probe in your base. It was just a tip, since you were delayed with the scouting, you might aswell stick around alittle, since it's basically already around the same time as the second recon timing. 😊

[@Voidspacealpha]

Yeah very fair point. I’ll bear this in mind

[@erikhaynes5506]

Nice win.

[@Voidspacealpha]

Thanks Dude

[@jan7256]

Off topic but. Not trying to be a dick or anything just legit curious. Is the EU server easier or something? At plat in American servers where I play every TvP matchup is the typical meta matchup of Collosus vs MMM, then counter with vikings. Then High Templar and you counter with Ghosts etc. Just wondering because I still see people doing really random things like this guy doing tempests??? 😭and Zerg doing like Zerglings and then just throw Hydralisks at Siege tanks. BTW this is not to discredit ANY win from Ollie or anything like that. I'm just curious lol

[@Voidspacealpha]

oh no, listen, don't worry. no offence taken. I cant really speak to whether its easier, as I have had like 5 games on US ladder maybe more than a month ago. all I will say is I did the ranking matches, and back then it put me in diamond. so my experience (however limited) would be that getting ranks on US is easier. On the flip side, I also ranked on Asia, and I got obliterated and I don't want to talk about it

[@jan7256]

@@Voidspacealpha Oh yeah Asia is something else lol

[@Voidspacealpha]

Asia hurt me