I suck at SC2 multiplayer

[xie323]

Ok whenever I play SC2 multiplayer I FAIL HARD!!!:angry:

Either of this these things happens:

-Enemy harasses me when I'm not prepared

-Enemy player gets void rays and pwns me

-I miscalculate when to attack enemy base, and get pwned by a large force

So what should I do to improve my multiplayer skills?

[Lon-ami]

1-your race?

2-your league?

3-how long do your matches take?

:P

[Nozdormu]

Formula for owning anyone in bronze/silver:

1.Choose zerg
2.Start by making one drone
3.Make spawning pool(place it behind the mineral line)
4.One more drone
5.One overlord
6.Spam zerglings and rush
7.By now they usually ragequit. If not, get a queen, drone up and rush mutalisks. Note that you need atleast one overseer, cause most people not ragequitting at this moment will panic and make either banshee or dark templars.

[xie323]

1-your race?

2-your league?

3-how long do your matches take?

:P

1-Protoss, am trying to do void ray rush

2-1v1 bronze

3-Don't know

[Nozdormu]

1-Protoss, am trying to do void ray rush

2-1v1 bronze

3-Don't know

Try zealot rushing instead. Much more effective.
Also, some questions.
1. Do you scout?
2. How do you do the rush?

[Reyson]

Try zealot rushing instead. Much more effective.
Also, some questions.
1. Do you scout?
2. How do you do the rush?

wrong, do a 4gate stalkers rush/ mixed gateway rush, it's far more effective. Any terran that can micro will slaughter zealot rush and zerg will outrush you or equally micro.
It's something like this (http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/4gate)

[Nozdormu]

wrong, do a 4gate stalkers rush/ mixed gateway rush, it's far more effective. Any terran that can micro will slaughter zealot rush and zerg will outrush you or equally micro.
It's something like this (http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/4gate)

We are talking about bronze league here. Trust me, this works.

Place your buildings at ramp so you can defend against any counter. Remember to scout, if they are rushing themselves you should rethink.
Only use one chrono, and save the rest for the zealots.

Nine workers - Build pylon
Thirteen workers - gate
Fourteen workers - gate
Pump zealots hardcore and rush.


To be honest though, when you play bronze/silver you can usually just cannonrush = win.

Another good tactic(against zerg) is mass phoenix, though that ain't really a rush. Wall in, put up some cannons and tech phoenix. Kill all overlords = win.


I re-read Xie's initial post and to me it seems like every single one of his problems can be easily fixed by just scouting....

[Malygos]

This is what I did when I started SC2.

Play Terran.
Wall-off ramp.
MMMmaly (or without the medivacs).
Kite.
Win/Lose depending on how well your opponents react.

Things in general: never idle, hotkey your buildings to keep queueing your troops (even if you win a battle, a fresh army will eat you which is why you'll need to constantly get reinforcements), expand.

edit: You should practice your build order against computers first.

[Reyson]

This is what I did when I started SC2.

Play Terran.
Wall-off ramp.
MMMmaly (or without the medivacs).
Kite.
Win/Lose depending on how well your opponents react.

Things in general: never idle, hotkey your buildings to keep queueing your troops (even if you win a battle, a fresh army will eat you which is why you'll need to constantly get reinforcements), expand.

edit: You should practice your build order against computers first.
most terran go marine/siegetank, M&M will get slaughtered

[Malygos]

most terran go marine/siegetank, M&M will get slaughtered

Banshee rush!

Basically, there's no static build you go every single game.

[Lon-ami]

1-Protoss, am trying to do void ray rush

2-1v1 bronze

3-Don't know

1-Ok; don't use void rays, they were nice some time ago, but they were overnerferd, and going directly to them is death unless you're playing 3v3 or 4v4.

Use 4 gate instead. Search at youtube/teamliquid how to do it. You can do 3 gate robo, too.

2-You should be fine at that league with the above tactic ^^.

3-With this one you shouldn't take more than 20 minutes, though I usually win in 10 lol.

most terran go marine/siegetank, M&M will get slaughtered

Stimmed marines with some medivac support are imba as hell, an slaughter pretty much everything in resource-equal costs.

[Timolas]

1-how much time your matches take?
2-league?
3-race?

Not sure if bot...