I don't know if this is the right place for coaching, but anything I could have done differently?

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Hello everyone! Im the one who posted about requesting help and tips for a new player like me. So I just played my first three 1v1 games (as Zerg) earlier and I havent won a single one. Its totally fine with me but I would like to ask on how to deal with "rushes"? Or how can I do the same thing in my future games (to experience even a single quick win) ? I didn't expected it to happen on my first games tbh because it didnt happen to Vibe's first game in his bronze to master series.

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To give context: here's what happened in my three games:

1st game (vs Protoss)

- at around 30 secs after the game started, he had a probe in my base and started building pylons and cannons, i expanded to my 2nd base already but he just did the same thing there. The game didnt last for 5 minutes because i had to surender since i really dont know what to do in that scenario.

2nd game (vs Protoss)

- game went well and i had expanded around 3 bases. then i tried attacking his base bc i was at max units. then after a while i got attacked by a very huge ship (its the mothership iirc) and my hydralisks just get blown up XD soon after, my expansions was teared down too.

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3rd game (vs Terran)

- it was much like the 2nd game where i had expanded to 3 bases too but i got attacked earlier, where i had only around 100 unit capacity. i hadnt even had a hydralisk den right there so i couldnt defend the attacks (he had small flying ships that idk the name), he targeted my overlords so i couldnt spawn any units.

I was wondering if you guys could give me any tips regarding these? I had been following Vibe's first video on his bronze to master series and i think im starting to get the hang of learning macro. But I dont really know what to do if at 30 secs of the game there's a probe building pylons and cannons at my base or a VERY LARGE SHIP THAT HAS SHIPS INSIDE that i cant defend :(

I know I sound so stupid in this but pls know that these 3 games are the very first SC2 games I have played (i havent even played campaign). Your help and tips would be very much appreciated!

Hello everyone! I am a new player to StarCraft 2 (the game is downloading as i type atm). I played Brood war but that was way back early 2000s. I'm planning to quit a game I have been playing due to its very toxic community and go back to my childhood game. I haven't played a single game of SC2 in my life and when I watched videos of it, I couldnt understand a thing.

In line with that, do you have any tips to give to a very very newbie player like me? Anything that may help as long as you think an ex brood war player could understand would be very much of a help. Also, if you have, can you guys recommend someone to watch that has guides or is educational? Thank you very much!

My best friend and I play co op missions together he plays abathur since that's his main in Heroes of the Storm and I play Swann and I know I play a more of a defensive character but I feel like I'm not pulling my own wait during missions so any tips for my swann play? I think I'm level 10 so I have all the buildings unlocked

Hello.

My name is Tom, I'm 26 years old and been a competitive gamer for the past ten years.
I've been struggling with dysthymia and PTSD and have recently had to quit my job and my studies, so I'm looking for a way to make a little 'pocket money' online and I figured I would try to combine my interest with my needs.

I've been seriously playing SC2 since sometime in January and I have so far managed to get to the upper end of Diamond twice on NA and EU respectively, both as Zerg and Random.
Though I am fairly new to StarCraft, I have thrown myself into the universe with the extra time I've had on my hands recently, and this combined with my leadership and coaching experience from other games, I will deliver high-quality coaching sessions.

Given the circumstances, I will of course offer extensive coaching sessions at a low price with payment after the fact; If you don't learn, I don't earn.

If you are a Terran or Protoss player, I would be happy to coach you, but please note that Zerg is my main race and Protoss is my off-race. There is a lot of things to teach that are not race-specific, but please do keep this fact in mind.

Before we set up a session (or sessions), I would like to have a short talk with you, so we can make a clear plan on areas you would like to talk about/work on during the session itself, get an idea of the number of sessions and discuss a price.

Due to corona and my health, my schedule is fairly flexible, so I will make the session(s) work around your schedule.

So in short, if you're new to StarCraft, Platinum or below and you want some extensive coaching for a cheap price and at the same time help out a guy in need, please contact me and we can make a deal; if our first session doesn't meet your expectations, you can walk away without paying me a dime.

I only coach in English or Danish. Your timezone doesn't matter; if you're e.g American, I will make it work on your schedule.

You can DM me here, add me to discord, battle-net or send me an e-mail.

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E-Mail: tomtgsc@gmail.com

Regards,

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Been a longtime since I played. So I want to review what I learn before to see if I can get back into it.

Hi everyone

So I returned to sc2 after playing during wings of liberty. I'm watching quite alot of streams but still have some questions about the - for me - new units:

Liberator: When should they be used - or what are they good for?
Cyclone: Same question - is there some basic understanding when they should be built?
Hellbat/Hellion: Is infernal pre-ignter not a thing anymore? When should I use hellbats?

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Hope, you guys can clear that up for me! :)

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I just started playing SC2 as Terran a week or two ago, and have really enjoyed learning this new strategy game. I’ve watched videos of pro tournaments in the past, kept a close eye as a software developer on reinforcement learning advances in the past few years, and also played a lot of chess, but I never played any Starcraft because I always thought my dexterity would prohibit me from having fun with the game.

Thankfully that has 100% not turned out to be true. I’ve had an enormous amount of fun with the game and I just graduated to silver. This is not exactly a real accomplishment, but still, I had a fun idea for a post.

I’ve realized a little original thinking helped me more than anything else. There are a couple rules I’ve discovered that are fairly strategically sound, and easy for low-skill players like myself to execute, but no one talks about them because they wouldn’t work at a higher level. The thing is I feel like most of the advice out there doesn’t target low-skill players.

So here’s my bullet list of easy-to-follow rules that I think would reliably get you out of bronze league. It’s mostly meant for fun and based on personal experience but I would appreciate a similar list for other leagues if anyone feels motivated to come up with one.

1.) Forget the standard hotkeys. Customize your hotkeys so that you can lay your left hand across QWER and have at least 7 control groups available without moving your hand. I use 1,2,3,4,5,T,and Space.

2.) Build workers at every base, basically constantly and for the entire game. You’ll lose plenty anyway, and if you over saturate then you’ll have extras to transfer when you expand.

3.) Always expand as soon as every base you have is fully saturated. Don’t worry about expanding sooner or later than that, just let your income grow at a steady level.

4.) When you expand, make it a habit of bringing all those extra workers you have down to the expo and wall off with supply depots. It’s inefficient but you’ll never be supply blocked.

5.) Don’t think about build orders. Just spend your first surplus minerals to wall off your main with supply depots, to deter super early aggression. Then just build enough of each production facility to spend all your resources.

6.) Build basically any mix of units and upgrade them whenever you have extra resources. Having a specific composition doesn’t really matter. Just make sure you can target both ground and air, and have some detection. If you see your opponent go with a narrow composition, only then change to build units that counter it.

7.) Use all your units all the time, only micro specific groups for harassment when you have spare time. Don’t be afraid of the Select Army key. It gets made fun of a lot but at this level it’s very convenient.

8.) If you have a mid-game battle that’s neither super favorable nor devastating, and you’re not sure where you stand, don’t dive in or take any unfavorable engagements. Instead follow the step below.

Preserve your army, try to protect your core bases, and (this is the very unconventional part, but it’s a clincher!) send a worker to literally every unoccupied expansion area. I mean it. Every single one.

Your opponents at this level won’t be scouting well and usually won’t be overly aggressive until they are confident they’ve rebuilt their army.

And for some reason they usually won’t try to expand or will do so timidly, maybe for fear of being attacked, or doing something stupid , or deviating from what they usually see pro gamers do.

So basically, if you can stay alive till mid-game and still be in decent shape, all you have to do is do is perform this explosive mid-game expansion and you’ll end up out-macroing every single low-level player, even if you’re only breaking even on the battles you engage in.

You’re basically just exploiting the fact that everyone at Bronze league either stops expanding at mid-game, or mimics the expansion tempo they see from high level players, which means it would never occur to them to do something so silly as what I just described. And that seems to be why it works.

To help deal with dark swarm in BW, could you irradiate some science vessels and paint over the dark swarm? The risk of scourge is there but thats expected.

Also in SC2 i feel like it is a worthy endeavor to put a turret AND bunker to protect your mineral line. At higher levels maybe it doesnt apply, but for the majority of players the ability to devote less attention to defending harassment would help them win games as theyre focusing on macro and attacking. Plus if theyre able to stay out of range of both you can still pop the marines out and provoke. Given the fact that late in the game when bases mine out you can just put the marines back in your army and salvage the bunker. Whole thing costs 25 minerals per base.

I ask because at the highest levels you dont see these things but i feel like theyre cool tactics. Thanks

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