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Blogs \ Diamond at last! My trip!

PsychoBaBas @ 28th August 2010 13:53 (Read 1004 times).

Finaaaaallyyyyy after a lot of blood, sweat and tears (and nerdrage) I finally got into mid diamond league.

Here's my view on how people play the races throughout the leagues. Keep in mind that I started in bronze and slowly and painfully clawed myself up.

Zerg:

Bronze/Silver leagues: Mainly 1 base play into all-ins. A bit of defence in the beginning and they simply cant keep up in macro.

Gold/Platinum: Zerg start to pick up very sharply. Finally see the use of banelings. Still, very easy to beat with MMM + eco drops.

Diamond: Holy shit, Zerg are monsters. Overlords all over the place. Creep is literally everywhere. Baneling/Muta combo is devastating (with a bit of hydra support). Forced to change strategy from pure Marine, Marauder, Medivac to Mech or Bio/Mech combo. Thors are a must.

Protoss:

My bane. I hate these bastards.
Bronze/Silver: I admit. I lost A SHITLOAD to Protoss even on Bronze and Silver, when I just couldnt figure out the counter to Void Ray rush or 4 gate all-ins with Sentries or Immortals. My first 10 games were something like 2 wins 8 losses.

Gold/Platinum: Finally realised that TvP Brood War style doesnt work (at least not like before :D). Marine, Marauder, Medivac and Ghost is the way to go. See a pattern here?

Diamond: Hmmmm. Why are they cheesing so much? A third of my games seem to be some kind of proxy rush, especially on 2 player maps. Finally have managed to raise my win ratio to the 50% mark.

Terran:

Now this the only MU where I can say: yes, this relates to brood war. Bio opening are only slightly effective in the beginning. The obvious deal is mech as in bw. This is the only mu where i am confident with fast expanding quite quickly actually.

Bronze/Silver: really no contest. Bio just doesnt cut it.

Gold/Platinum: I must admit, it really wasnt a contest again. All I did was fast exp and just keep taking the map, barely attacking. After a few struggles they would normally starve and gg. Sometimes I see 2 port Banshee but its so easy to scout it or "see it coming". I just go Tank/Viking with Raven support with upgrades from 2 or 3 armories and keep taking expansions non stop.

Diamond: Essentially a Viking war. Quite fun actually. Extremely strategic.

comments

4289 1 year ago

sool btory cro

matthe 1 year ago

cool story bro !
What now? Is there anything better than diamond?

ShadoW- 1 year ago

#2 No, but it works on points. It's a bit more complicated(MMR) but if you have 800 points you will be playing people with 600 - 900 points, if you have 400 you'll be playing people around 400, if you have 1400 you will be playing the best. That means that every big difference in points is a league of its own.