makes total sense, thanks for that. i am very inexperienced so its great to have it broken down for me by people who know better

Ahhh so that’s the benefit of doing that. Okay gotcha

Hey Tacco, thanks for the kind words, im really glad my build process in improving, i am loving getting slicker at it, and who knows, maybe soon ill be able to actually do my build and talk at the same time :p yeah, i know i need medivacs, i dont know why i always end up prefering Vikings in the moment, i think ive had a few games where im worreid about being pushed by air and i had no defence, regardless, one thing im going to try and do better is once i start researching STIM, start building a few medivacs.

@@Voidspacealpha vs. zerg, vikings won't help you. They are "better" than mutas 1-for-1, but at the speed zerg can produce mutas, the vikings don't really amount to much more than a speed bump. Your time, money, and resources can be better spent in other things than Vikings until the Zerg is on Brood Lords. 1 Viking is good to clean up Overlords, but after that either get some liberators to seige the mineral lines with or get right into your medivac production for your main army. Obviously we aren't talking about this game, but you seem to have some trauma over them Obviously we aren't talking about this game, but you seem to have some trauma over Mutas, so here are some hints: stim helps a lot against mutas. Without it, you can't chase them away fast enough and they'll just stay right ahead of your dudes while wrecking whatever they can get their snakes on. Otherwise, a big key is to see them coming-usually this looks like a reaper scout or a scan around 4:30 or 5:00, you're looking for the spire. Other tells are a complete Lair (upgraded hatchery) and lots of gases, although this can be other sorts of aggression as well. When zerg aren't building a tech army, they take 1 gas to get ling speed and lair, and don't take more gasses for several minutes. The quickest I seem to be able to hit with a reasonable force of mutas is ~7 minutes. If you see them in your base earlier, it's a huge commitment by the Zerg and literally your only task is to survive the wave. By 7 minutes, once you work out the kinks in your build, you will have stim and 3-5 barracks pumping out marines. This is enough to defend the first punch, the most important thing is to split some marines off to the next base the mutas are going to bounce to. Then, a couple of missile turrets and keep macroing toward your goal. If Zerg leans into the Mutas, you respond hard. A trick I like to play with Terrans is to make it feel like I'm going hard with Mutas as I prepare a tech switch in the background. As soon as I see 3-10 turrets, Thors, Liberators, Vikings, etc. I max on Roach Hydra and go win the game. If they don't respond hard, I keep pressing with Mutas until they crumble, counterattack or do react hard enough. At your level you're probably just safe to make a hard reaction to the Mutas then get back to your gameplan. Mutas are 100 minerals and 100 gas each and almost 0 hit points. They are an arctypical glass cannon. They literally evaporate under almost any amount of damage and they cost more than 4 marines worth of units (on the theory that gas is more valuable than minerals). They can't go toe-to-toe with hardly anything of even close to equal supply that can shoot air. Finally, keep in mind that it is perfectly fine and expected to lose some games. You might just want to say to yourself "for now, I am just going to do my best if someone opens Mutas but I am perfectly ok with the fact that my build is not well suited to handling them. There are so many varieties of games that you will encounter, if you try to prepare for all possibilities, you end up with a plan that doesn't have any sharp edges, sure you're "safe" but you don't have any ability to get out there and impact your opponent until much later than you otherwise might. If you are getting whipped by Mutas repeatedly, maybe a turret in each mineral line at 5:00 as a safety precaution, just don't rearrange your whole gameplan against a strategy you encounter 1 in 3, 1 in 10, or 1 in 100 games.

Okay. That all makes sense, I’ll try to put that advice to good use ❤️👍

Thank skipp Yeah, maybe when I get a few more games in I’ll start realising what my scout is seeing and how to work against it

Yeah, you know I just learnt about Holland queuing yesterday 😂 I didn’t know you could do it with tanks and stuff

Makes total sense, thanks

Thanks man! I’m proud of me too 😂❤️

Unranked players with kachinsky on avatar - the most disgusting people on the ladder

I don’t know what this means. Did I do something wrong?

@@Voidspacealpha no, i mean NecronIsGood's avatar P.S. hello from Ukraine :)

Hello Ukraine! I hope you are safe! Slava Ukraine!!!

Yeah totally get this. Scouting is vital, but if I’m honest, this is the first time I’ve noticed an all in attack, I didn’t know it was a thing, so I’ll be looking for it now moving forward

@@Voidspacealpha :) when you climb up the ranks, starting i think with Platinum, players tend to all in/cheese most of the time. You seem to be more inclined to macro play (like me :)), so you will need to become good at spotting them and defending

Yeah totally. Just lost a barracks proxy, wasn’t even worth publishing

Hey dude, so basically I played a little bit in WOL many many years ago, so I threw up a game I recorded of this a few weeks ago, and I’ve been using the feedback I’ve got to fine tune my build ever since. It’s all community feedback baby

@@Voidspacealpha What a fun idea. Keep it up!

Thanks Dustin ❤️

It’s so stressful in the moment right 😂

Thanks dude, I’m glad I’m improving in some areas, and cheers for the tips in other areas. I feel like I got lucky with defending the roach attacks, and yeah you’re probably right, he quit because he knew I had advantage from there

@@Voidspacealpha Nah, it wasn't luck.

I dunno, i felt pretty slick on the builder order, but the rest was a roll of the dice I think

okay, noted, got it. Hopefully the next episode (which is already recorded) you will see i did a little better at this

@@Voidspacealpha You get better every episode, that isn't an exaggeration, you been putting in the work fr.

Thanks man. Are you on the discord? I’m terrible at putting names together on who’s on the discord. I’d love for you to jump into an FFA some Times with us ❤️👍

@@Voidspacealpha I don't have a discord lul what is the group name?

I don’t know what the group name would be, it’s just the voidspace alpha discord, but it’s cool bro, no bother

This makes total sense. I’ll start working on medivavs too

Roaches are good early against Terran but they drop off as the Terran gets up around 160 supply because they are supply expensive. Roach can become Roach Hydra which keeps up with Terran until they have 4 bases and transitions well into lurkers which are very viable mid-late. Also, they tech switch nicely with Mutas. They succeed against everything that are good against mutas and mutas are good against everything that are good against roaches.

I need to have a counter poster on my wall 😂

@@Voidspacealpha good job mate. the comment/advice above is the best one so far hands down.

@@MrDenniy Yeah that's true. I mostly play mech TVZ so my bio knowledge is lacking. I think the main weakness of roach hydra is that they're slower than ling bane so more vulnerable to multiprong. Also bio tank should be better against them too because tanks splatter roach hydra and counter lurkers. Here, mutas are a threat because they can jump the tanks while the bio is distracted by roach hydra though the tanks would get a few hits off here and thors would be good here because they have a higher target priority to air units.

Hey buddy, Thanks for the comment. I’m just learning, only been playing this game for a couple of weeks. I am incorporating more scouting into my builds / games. Hopefully I get better at it. Thanks for the comment ❤️