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Nice Game! It's was survivable though, unfortunately U forgot to spam army production Tip: 1. "Pre spam before engage" Always put Army Production on Full before doing any engagement. It helps replenishing your army while Your busy microing really hard 2. "Numbers vs Power" Lower Race wins with Numbers against the Higher. Such Terrans "Mass Bio" vs Protoss & Zergs "Swarm" against both. That's why U need to keep that numbers Up & keep it maxed On the other hand, Higher Race leans more to "More Power" against the Lower. Such as Terran "Cost Efficiency" vs Zerg & Protoss "Splashes" against Terran

Congrats for your city of Salopia! Hopefully you could have a better city, i had really bad traffic.

Yo ollie good stuff love to see it but you were floating 1400 minerals at like 4 minutes throw down a cc at home a second gas whatever you can do to spend your money

Ollie turning to the dark side of Sc2:). The cheese monster has been born....

All Hail the Micro-King!

Not sure if you knew this or not, If you double click your hotkey for a control group your camera will snap to them. I have seen you moving to the mini map to click and get vision on a control group.

Nice cheese. Helped much they never produced any queens, aswell as probably missed the mineralpatch when transfering all the workers. 😊 Now for improvements: 3:25 this would have been a perfect time to start your 2nd CC, while the Reapers rest. Start it inside the main, just to make sure you can complete it. Also make a few more supply depots. At some point around here, maybe 30 seconds later, you want to stop Reaper production so you can get enough gas to make a Factory. Then more Depots, more SCV's, and just start transitioning back over on the normal build. Even if they had built queens here, like a normal person 😝 ...... you still would have done a ton of eco damage, denying resource gathering, taking out some drones, forcing Ling production instead of Drone production and then just swatting them, probably taken out the first Queen before the next 2 pops out maybe. All the while you're getting your economy up and running. 😊 You already have your production up (3 Rax).

This was a fantastic cheese! very well done ollie. Quick tool tip to practice for harassing and trying to macro at the same time: Every 2 or 3 seconds, count it out loud, quickly jump back to your base and macro, also counting 2 or 3 seconds, and then jump back to your micro. You can use any time interval you want really, but the main idea is like playing an instrument, we are building in habbits and muscle memory. Do it over and over, and eventually it will be second nature, and it will not tie up your mental resources. Remember, jump back from macro to micro in intervals. ideally, jump back when you have move commanded your forces back so that there is a lesser chance of them being sniped when your attention is away. Think of it like waves, or a bob and weave of a boxer. Move in, Move out.

try the arcade game "Marine control", that will not only make you feel like an infant, but if you stick with it will improve your marine micro over time. Not really any reaper micro in the challenge, but it did occur to me. Admittedly it's more of a tool for post diamond players to get a bit more finesse, but you may enjoy the challenge.

TBH reapers is the easier way to get started in practicing Micro due to its Speed (basically zerglings). But its called the weakest Unit for a Reason so best Not to forget about that Macro (1.5k+ minerals floating looks very bad). If the Opponent actually responded properly its basically GG for U. 😊 Hold up . . . where were the Queens?😅 Note: Micro "Byun" Jackson was also On-Point with his MACRO even with that much MICRO on the otherside😊

Nice cheese, mate! You got pretty lucky he had no queens and forgot to mine with his drones...that pretty much did him in. As someone else stated, you maxed out your supply which would have limited you if he would have had queens to tank your assault. But that is all nit-picking. You got the job done, keep it up!

IMO it's hard to straight up kill a zerg with reaper cheese, so it's always good to plan for your transition and assume it's going to happen. Keep in mind, your opponent didn't get ling speed until waaaay too late, which kept them vulnerable to reapers for longer than you normally would expect. Fighting his queen with your first two reapers was a mistake. Had you just held the bottom of his ramp, kept his ling count down, and continued massing reapers, you could've been in a position to flat out kill him. It takes around 6 reapers to comfortably kill a queen. In case you haven't seen this before, here is a video that does a great job explaining the 2rax reaper TvZ style (no proxy): th-cam.com/video/1QDW0LYds6s/w-d-xo.html Note that he doesn't commit into the base until he has a sizable reaper count, and his focus is on killing lings while he's building up, which at this stage of the game is just as good as killing drones (forcing Z to spend larva on more lings). He's not diving for the drones and putting his reapers at risk until he has enough. Also note how he transitions. Expo at 2:20ish, and factory starts before 3 minutes. Ofc this is without proxy, but something to think about.

Cool, but don't forget your base. You were on 31/31 supply until he gg'd. If that reaper cheese hadn't worked, its gg for you

Damn, reaper microing like uThermal

The reaper grenade do spell damage, so you can kill the larvae with them.

Reapers are the best cheese opening against Zerg. Hellions are an opener for a standard timing attack. With a cheese, just remember to macro a bit at home. You can pull back and let your reapers regen while doing some quick macro at home. When he was trying to kill you with drones, you should hold the high ground. With reapers, you gotta be aware of high grounds and use that to torture melee units. You can use a cliff to escape Zerglings and force them to go the long way then jump back up. There's also a lot of fancy micro you can do with the reaper grenade but IDK how to do it at all.

Great games.

Hey Ollie, enjoying your videos You gotta be mindful of oversaturating your bases - you could've easily had more resources even by long distance mining if you pulled those extra SCVs from the mineral line Then you could've re-maxxed faster and finished the match even faster than you actually did Also, don't be afraid to use your scans to preview the map, you ran into a meat grinder a couple times that could've been avoided Keep it up tho, I'm jealous of your progress

Nice sustained pressure on the zerg all game for the win.

Ollie, your first depot was 7 seconds late, which makes everything subsequent 7 seconds late. Did you accidentally queue 2 SCVs at the time causing a mineral shortage. Also, you are not ready to cheese. Keep practicing the standard game. At the engagement at 14:24 game time, think about where to siege your tanks. If you sieged a tank in the SE corner of the high ground it would have been devastaing.

Is this the first cheese you've ever done? If so, it's not bad. I have no idea what to say because I only know 1 cheese and it's for TVP. In general, you want to contain the Zerg on two bases with the reapers. At home you want to build the second CC in your main to protect it. Keep the reapers alive and you can snowball up to the point you start killing queens. You need quite a few reapers for this but the thing is you can easily keep the Zerg from expanding. Lings without speed can't catch reapers. Once they do get speed, you should have a pretty big group. You can beat lings here by kiting them backwards. Just shoot run shoot run and repeat that rhythm. The Zerg shouldn't be able to move queens out because they're extremely vulnerable off creep due to speed and lack of transfusion. You can whittle down a queen by hitting it and running if they do go off creep. The Zerg eventually has to make a ton of lings or start roaches to beat you back. Don't worry too much about drone kills. Zerg's shouldn't build a lot of units early because it seriously hurts their eco. Early on, they only have 2 hatcheries and they'll struggle if they use all the larva on lings.

YEAH Uhhhh OK . . . the Thing about openning with lots of reapers U need a lot of APM U need to practice that Splitting-1st, Switching between the Macroing Ur Base and Microing those Reapers can be a bit difficult. The Idea is Slowing down Opponent by "ONLY SLIGHTLY" delaying yourself but U still have to keep up with that Macro as close as possible. LUCKILY!!! Ur opponent was really really bad. He went for 13pool to Bane & Roach at the same Time to Hydras before 3rd Base. His making it worse for himself LOL. Ur Opponent saying "Oh Your behind ... good lets make myself 3x more behind" LOL

Almost had him that first game.

I killed the whole guard in front of the gate 🫡

Love this game.

When a random player says a race, it'd usually them being polite and revealing their race.

Nice try.

I thought something was wrong and I was going crazy, but I realized that you finally put the music on LOL, after watching your games kinda forgot there was music

give in and open 4 or 6 hellions Ollie, you'll have scouting and put pressure on the zerg. Also turrets in the mineral line, easier to repair em quickly

Ur Opponent played LingBaneMuta which is really hard to play, because you can just die to marine tank pushes (mutas cost a lot of gas = not that many banes = your army wont die instantly)

The main issue here are the mutas. They're probably one of the strongest units in the lower leagues but one of the worst units in the higher leagues. They're extremely expensive at 100/100, (same as medivac) but they're also terrible in fights. This means a Zerg has to keep you at home with the muta harass while they build up their actual army because you'd crush them in a head on fight. The main strength of them is that they're fast and they fly, meaning that it's hard for defenders to multitask against them. You usually counter mutas by scouting them. Always count a Zerg's gases and expansions. A Zerg usually gets 3-4 bases before they actually make more gases. Zerglings, drones, queens, almost everything uses only minerals before lair. If you see more than 1 gas, you can scout the tech. See if they have a roach warren, baneling nest, or lair. A lair means that they've teched up for likely mutas, maybe nydus. To actually counter mutas, you can make a turret in each base. I recommend 1 in the mineral line. The key here is to select all the SCVs and right click the turret repeatedly. This makes them repair and they should be able to keep the turret alive. You can even make a 1-2 more turrets next to the command center. If you want to get fancy, you can use mines. Mines are cheap and they can kill a lot of mutas quickly. The best counter is really just having a small marine reaction force at home. It's really hard to multitask against mutas but you can force a fight by counter attacking. The muta player likely doesn't have much at home so you can go pick off their side bases with your main army. This can force them to retreat the mutas. If they keep harassing, you can pull the SCVs to 1 base after the turrets are dead to defend them. This will hamper your economy but it's better than nothing. Thors are good for fighting mutas but they're not too important. It's good to have for late game because the spire means a likely brood lord transition and they can act as marauders to tank banelings.

Excellent kiting against the banelings once you saw them coming in. He just had too much.

Thors are great for moo-tah lisks. They do splash damage in one of their two firing modes. But that’s a lotta mutalisks…

I think you do a fairly decent job in your analysis post game, as usual. You typically identify the areas you went wrong. The problem is that you don't fix that in your next games. You correctly assess that at around 7:30 you had an army just sitting in your base and should have pushed out and then sent your medivac back in when your opponent is distracted with your push. I argue you could have pushed even earlier and did the 2 prong attack when you initially dropped your marines the first time. Next time, really try to get your drop in place while moving your army out. draw out his forces, then BAM! hit him in the eco line and wipe out his ability to macro behind your push. I understand that it is difficult in the moment to do these things. We tend to default to what is comfortable. For you, that is turtling and macroing. Ollie, you really need to start to focus on timing attacks. Hit right as soon as your upgrades go. Hit on multiple fronts. Try to set a time goal for your first push. Time is a resource, arguably one of the most important in the game. You squander that time when you leave your army sitting idle. It is just like having minerals and gas building in your bank.

Playing ping pong with mutas is alwys a loosing proposition. The best thing imho yuo can do is create 1-2 pockets safe against mutas to save some economy and production, and go kill him with your main army. The mutas are amazing harrasing unit, but bad fighting unit. If you just sit on your side and allow him to slowly chip away at your economy, sonner or later you will die.

Mutas can scary when you have lower apm but they can't be everywhere at once... If you'd stuck to your game plan and attacked at 09:50 when you were parked outside his natural ramp you'd probably have killed him. Instead you ran all the way home and he still gutted most of your eco! More marines, add in some mines and you were there or there abouts!

Having 2 gases is weird for Zergs. It usually means bane bust or roaches. Either way, you should start a bunker pretty early. Usually I get mine soon after starting the factory. They're pretty cheap and really hard to beat. Roaches have terrible DPS so you can easily out repair them. Your opponent played a weird style. Usually having banes with roach hydra is questionable vs Terran. It's very weak to marauder heavy armies and even more so to marauder armies with tanks. The way you micro ling bane is you crash the banes into the marines with move command so they avoid the marauders and tanks. Then the lings can beat marauders. Roaches and hydras both kinda suck against marauders. Marauders counter roaches by design and hydras cost 25 more gas than the marauders, have higher DPS but lower health. Marauders with stim and medivacs do pretty well vs them. Not only that, tanks are good vs all of those units. Banes get blown up easily and they're suicide units so even if they did hit the tank they're not resource efficient. Roaches and hydras are also weak to tank fire. The big problem here were the lurkers. In TVZ, the lurkers should run into you, not the other way around. You can send small squads around because the lurkers can't be everywhere. To fight them, you should use tanks to siege them down. Lurkers have less range so you can scan to kill them with tanks and force a fight that way. If the lurkers charge, you gotta stim, scan, and pray. Usually it ends well for you. The last issue is that many lurker players use vipers. The vipers abduct your tanks into the lurkers for easy kills. You can use vikings to shoot down vipers or you can use ghosts for EMP. The vipers can also blind you so you should avoid clumping tanks. When vipers come, there's no easy counter and most of it comes down to micro.

Don't build 2 depots when your supply is 33/54. Build units/structures. And again at 47/78. And at 87/94. Build a third CC instead. 7 minutes in and you have no idea the zerg's army composition. SCAN. Macro cost you that game. How many marines were not build because of the cost of the extra supply depots and building the 3rd and 4th at the same time?

Perfect Game! . . . for Ur Opponent LOL. NOT a SINGLE PROPER COUNTER like "Thors" or "WidowMines" or "5Rax-Marines" atleast. That 4th CC was the Blunder it could have been 5Rax NON-STOP marines instead AND Stop the Tanks start Pumping Widow Mines THEN start Armory to add a couple of Thors when done (DONT GO TOO MUCH THORS THOUGH) That strategy is Called "LingBaneMuta" which more of a macro build than the aggressive "2BaseMuta". Its one of those Compositions that U really need to Counter Composition Wise, So Tanks Becomes Less Viable More Marines can Handle at 1st but once that Banes Starts Coming U are easily Crushed, thats why WidowMines is the Better Choice. Tip: "Base Counting" 8:18 - "I felt like I'm far behind I don't know why or How?" Its because U have No Clear Scout On what's Opponent doing, However one Way of Scouting without Scouting the Enemy itself is Called "BaseCounting". By Comparing Opponents and Your Own Number of Bases U can determine whose being Greedy or Aggressive by checking all Mines in the map (especially Secret Bases). Usually that 1st Reaper's 2nd Purpose is just to do that , U can Make another one though after losing it or send 2marines walk around to scour the map. Asssuming U checked All other Possible Bases: - If U have 3Bases Already and Enemy still at one, well thats a Huge Aggression so start Pumping Units to defend and Use that scan on Enemys main for Army Composition instead of mules - If Opponent has 2x more Bases that yours, well just your usual Timing Pushes and Harasses

Widow mines destroy mutas

I got a couple pointers here. #1 When going against a ling bain, you have to work on spreading your bio out when you see the bainlings coming cos they'll just blow up everything if you don't. #2 I think you had like 10 racks down and when you went to produce units you was only able to queue up a couple marines in each building and a lot of the time they were left idle with nothing queued up which means you don't need the extra 5 racks. And finally #3, I watch all of your sc2 videos I really like them, however, 99% of all your games you only play marine, marauder, medivac, tank ( plus a couple vikings when needed ) and I think that's killing you off a bit. You gotta learn to transition better into late game. I suck at transitioning too so I get it lol but you need to work on that 💯. Tltr : less racks, transition late game, spread bio into bainlings

If you don't start learning to use ghost snipe progression will slow down...

17:10 It wasn't terrible movement. There was no movement at all, that was the problem. 😊 You need to start splitting up your bio army in squad sized units and spread them out. Same with tanks, don't siege them up in a clump. Spread them out aswell. 😊

Nice try Ollie.

GG well played! everything was good except for the COMPOSITION. Although actually the composition is fine if U have the "Splitting Micro"😊 So much Tankers (Not Tanks) as in Maurauders but Less Critical Damage Output (DPS) which is what Terran really needs. More Tanks though would change everything especially with that much Maurauders to absorb Damage & Using the Tanks for that DPS. Its also the reason Ur opponent went for more LingBane & Less Lurkers. Maurauder is only good against TOO MANY Mech or Armored units such as Roach, Ultras, Lurkers and Robo (thats why their best on TvP) Well Obviously U change Ur playstyle entirely to Defensive BioMech. U also need to change Ur Macro as Well. Tip: "BioTank" 1. BioTank-Macro: "5-3-1" After 5-1-1 (5Rax-1Factory-1Starport), add 1 to 2 More Factory (5-3-1) for more Tank Production (Only go 8Rax after having 4-Bases running). 2. BioTank-Micro: "Timing Pushes" Timing Pushes are critical due to the fact that U can only do Less Harass on Your Opponent due to having only Less Bio (Less Marine DPS). That 1st Timing Push must have decent Damage on Opponents Army or atleast destroy a Hatchery to get that momemtum

There’s a path finding “glitch” that makes it so if you try to move units somewhere and the ramp leading to it is blocked off, even if they haven’t seen it, their units will take the longer clear path. So on Alcyone if you block that big ramp leading to your third base, they path around to the side where it’s much harder for Zerg to move in.

nice try

I probably would've hit the scan before the drop. No use in doing it right after. If you see them super turtled like that you can try to contain them on 2 base. I personally veto this map just cause it allows 2 base with minimal risk. The pocket gold base on Dynasty LE has more interesting counter play imo. Theres a couple things you could maybe clean up. Doing 4 depots before 5 mins is pretty inefficient. That could've been a couple more barracks and allowed your 2 base production to come online faster. Dont be afraid to burn energy on a supply drop either, if you need it, you need it.

gg. just add the 3rd on the 6 minutes or just before, and then it seems fine.

GGs Ollie. So many good things to talk about. -Overall macro was smooth with a max out under 11 min and a timely move out once you max'd. -You did a great job keeping supply and production flowing with the dedicated depot builders. -Working on attack 3 when you moved out was a good sign of upgrade management. -Starting the 4th base when your 3rd finished was HUGE and meant you had much better income and SCV efficiency going into the mid and late game. -Building the 2 command centers as you moved out was great. Had that push stalled, you would be ready to add Orbitals or expand further. -In the first engagement your tanks were staggered and sieged very early in the fight, much improved. -Great macro during the fight. You kept your supply up and finished with 185/200 as you kept replacing army at home. This is also HUGE. Tons of great stuff there. Small improvement suggestions: -Once you won that first fight, start leapfrogging tanks, keeping them within each other's siege range. The full unsiege meant you lost more of them in the second fight than you needed to. -When you built command center 5 and 6 upon moving out, that is the time to drop 4 rax as well. If you had done that, you would have your 8 rax of production ready for the next fight. -If you keep up that 4th base timing, you should be able to pull SCVs off the first 2 bases to saturate quickly. You SCV production is excellent and the addition of quicker bases is going to do wonders for your income. Great game!