Question of questions, what's the best way to get 'better' at the game? I'm currently in Bronze, and use my own 'build' which is basically pretty standard, build probes, gateways, robo early for observers scouting, then either get a robo bay for giraffes or go air for carriers. I watch day9s vids to try and absorb useful things, and its working to an extent, especially the Daily #252?
But often when I play I've got this list of things I need to do, build probes, chronoboost, watch over there, build pylons (The 18 pylon is the bane of my life!)
I know what I need to be doing, but its just doing all the macro that I can't quite keep up with. I know most of its just a case of learning through repetition, the more I do the better I'll be at it, but are there any general tips that would help?
its not all about the mechanics though, to get better you need to be able to read your opponent - think about what he could be going for and countering. thats how you really get better - you can have the best macro in the world but if you build totally the wrong units to your OPs build you will always lose.
An example of a game i played yesterday (me P, he T):
Went 13 gateway, 14 gas, 16 pylon then into a 3 gate - pushed his ramp on 3 stalkers saw he had a bunker and backed off,
warped in 3 more stalkers and felt like a little push - didnt work lost 3 stalkers and retreated.
Saw he was coming after me so got 2 sentries and FF'd my ramp twice each time letting in 3 units of his to kill - he retreated after the second time, saw his army was mostly maruders.
Got a probe and scouted his nat - saw he was expanding so i did to.
built 6 voids out of 2 stargates, then teched to blink, armour1 and got templars with storm.
Probe also then went to the other side of the map and stayed there - why? so i could scout his medidrop when it happened (bc it was inevitable)
Medi drop was inc as scouted by random probe, got voids there and killed 5 fully loaded medis and the last one dropped with only 2 units - easy clear up.
(if my probe wasnt in that position to scout , i would have lost my base and probably a lot of strucutres and it would have been GG there. so that 50mineral probe effectively turned into a worth of over 1500 and a lot of gas
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After that the game was over for my OP, i got a few more templars and pushed, scouted with a zealot first - again he was mass maurder, so stormed 5 times and 1A'd everything else
Easy win........bc i knew exactly what he was doing 99% of the time and essentially could see into the games future.
Needless to say doesnt always go my way, but you get the idea.
Losing a lot helps, as long as you learn from it. I dont tend to watch videos any more bc i generally find them more fluff then content, they dont teach you to think independantly just how to do build order X which 80% of people laddering do or doesnt work in lower leagues bc its a rush game, Streams are ok though.
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