Complete beginner here with no RTS background. I watched a few guides on how to learn the game as a complete beginner/bronze player. Some of the videos are BeastyqtSC2 Bronze to Master guide series (I've watched only for bronze and silver), Altercate SC beginner series and some of WintergamingTV gameplay in bronze. My concern is that I feel I'm advancing leagues way too fast, and I'm afraid I'll be stuck playing against way way way better players, where the skill difference is so big, I won't even learn anything. I did my promo games 3 wins 2 loses and got placed in Bronze 3. Won 5 games and got promoted to Silver 3. Then I had 2 more consecutive wins and got places respectively first in Gold 3 and now I'm in Plat 3. All I'm doing is creating SCVs, Marines, Tanks and a few air unites with no purpose in my mind. I'm just blindly spamming troops and I have no idea what I'm doing. Is this normal and should I go practice and study units/buildings/strats in unranked or should I just continue playing and once I hit wall just continue focusing on polishing my macro (I'm still garbage, every game I'm supply blocked for at least a minute and my APM is 55 at best)?

Huge losing streak.. Seems i can only win if i get lucky, and i watch my replays but honestly i'm not sure what i could have done, even in retrospect. Can definitely improve on everything, and my macro needs a lot of work. I'm way better at reading Terran and that's probably my best match up. I try and open with a RFE, or Barracks factory expand star port and build a diverse army and hope for the best.

https://drop.sc/replay/26004433
https://drop.sc/replay/26004435
https://drop.sc/replay/26004437
https://drop.sc/replay/26004439

It's a normal game matchup. The top player rushes just those 3 units and nothing else for the whole game.

Returning SC player here, I’ve been watching some YT tutorials on Terran build orders and they all have 12 scvs to start, but when I start a new custom game with no opponent to practice, I only have 6, so I can’t match any timings. What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance!

What is a good unit comp vs hydra lurker viper?

https://sc2replaystats.com/replay/25940284

https://sc2replaystats.com/replay/25940283

D3 here. Scouted a guy and saw him chrono-ing his gateway for his first unit. Not sure if this alone was a red flag, but I didn't think anything of it at the time.

Next my reaper comes in and see a stalker heading my way. I pull my reaper back home and around 23ish supply started a bunker (standard for me). By then, his zealot starts walking up and going for my SCV building a command center. I only had a marine at home so lost the SCV and then next thing I know there are two stalkers in my natural, delaying my CC and killing some of the workers I sent out. Game was kind of decided at that point.

I definitely did a lot wrong here, but frankly even if I did things much more polished, I've always felt a little uneasy about just 2-3 gateway units attacking me when I only have a reaper and maybe 2 marines out.

Is this kind of pressure pretty standard and should I expect it? How should I respond? Doesn't seem like most Protoss I play do this so not sure if that's just D3 stuff or if this kind of pressure needs to do damage to pay off for them, but the ones that do it's kind of taxing to me.

I work remote so have some time to hop on sometimes. Somehow I managed to beat this kid while on a teams call.

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Hey there!

Having some trouble with my TvT build on Plat. I am looking for better ways to open and kill my opponent before late game. (Late game TVT is boring AF)

Can you share some feedback and ways to improve my game?

https://drop.sc/replay/25896965

https://drop.sc/replay/25896966

Regards!!

Had some guy sending 1 or 2 DTs to each of my expansions and at worst it was wrecking my mineral line, at best it was quite distracting. Do y'all just keep some units in a bunker and missile turrets around expansions? Or turrets and planetaries? Should I just keep a few units nearby each?

I just got to Diamond 3 for context, but I think that's solely from macro and my micro (i.e. splitting off units in the heat of the moment) leaves something to be desired.

In game 1 here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmWcN51NpKU

Serral completely destroyed Spirit (who was playing battlecruiser-mech) using nydus swarm hosts. I was wondering what spirit could have done? Should he have made more BCs and camped/TPed them at potential nydus spots? Perhaps more sensor towers? What if Serral built more corruptors as a response and accompanied his nydus with corrputors? Could you just A-move the zerg if they have too many swarm host? Or is this just a hard counter to mech? And if so how would you deal with it if playing bio?

https://preview.redd.it/yr0he2d5418e1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=76770890f280044432ada33c67cfc1cb34f16600

Im a master terran 4k7-5k and i play against proxy gate in almost half of my tvps and I have no clue how to defend this properly. 1st stalker does reach my natural at 2'30 and even with 2 gas opening i get destroyed so I was wondering what is the proper answer for reaper expand or 2 gas expand.

I feel like robo first and making immortal/colossus defensively is by default good against the standard 3-1-1 +1/stim/combat push. What do people like to play in reaction to this? Is going tank+raven with inteference matrix push better? Make 3rd CC before 3-1-1?

I'm using a 1-1-1 double gas start, pretty standard. I'm losing to these same exact builds that are just 1 -base all-ins. I think I'm not scouting well enough early to set up a good defense. I will definitely start watching for the 2nd expand earlier. But other than that how else can I improve? I'm still working on improving at my build order, it's not perfect and I'm still trying to practice getting better at it. Currently floating between plat 3 and plat 2.

I have 2 replays of me experiencing this in the same game session. I would say it's my weakness.

https://sc2replaystats.com/replay/25846734
https://sc2replaystats.com/replay/25846609

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

I was scared away from making ghosts much because everyone said they were too hard to use unless you were super skilled and they’re not worth making because the micro is so intense. I’m annoyed I didn’t start practicing a long time ago. I’m mid plat and just started making them consistently vs Zerg and Protoss. They’re so damn good. Pretty much crucial vs Protoss. They absolutely shred and I can finally deal with storm. They’re not as hard to use as I was lead to believe.

Replay: https://drop.sc/replay/25835023

My SCV scout usually just checks that the hatchery is most of the way done, but in this case it looks like he skips building drones in order to get the spawning pool and hatchery both down, so it looks like he went hatch first...?

First time back in 2 years, never dealt with this before. I can push into an army and beat it, EMP the templar the have with the army. But then I lose my pre-split attacking the expo, where as far as I can tell they're warping in a pile of HTs and instantly refilling their energy and storming me to pieces.

What's the counterplay? Just get good? Currently diamond 3 MMRish after placements, historically diamond 1 with a couple masters seasons.

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Hi guys I've recently started playing terran and have been playing 2CC 2-1-1. I remember seeing Clem play a game of 3CC 2-1-1 from 6 hellions and his followup looked much stronger, so I was wondering if anyone had an example replay of it or SALT that I could follow the build from ?

Or just the correct order of the buildings/ add-ons so I can figure it out.

Thanks :D

Also if anyone wants to practice I'm a D2 terran so happy to practice Vs Z or P

how to counter a early reaper attack, like 2:30 minutes in?