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Complete Build Order

  13  0:13  Overlord  First overlord send to opponent's natural (2nd base), this overlord send to your own natural
  17  0:55  Hatchery  Send drone when you have 200 minerals so it arrives when you have 300
  18  1:05  Extractor  
  18  1:21  Spawning Pool  
  19  1:39  Overlord  Stop making drones
  19  2:06  Queen x2  Take 2 drones off of the gas geyser
  23  2:08  Zergling x2  
  25  2:13  Metabolic Boost  Resume making non stop drones
  31  2:43  Queen  From main, first Queen injects and then walks to edge of creep (will be future Queen for 3rd base)
  34  3:00  Hatchery  Only make this if your opponent takes a 2nd base (if they do not, drone to 1.5 base saturation and spam units to defend 1 base allin)
  33  3:04  Overlord  
  36  3:14  Overlord  Refill the gas in your main base
  36  3:19  Creep Tumor  Initial Queen makes tumor to connect main and natural, then walk Queen to natural
  41  3:36  Roach Warren  
  44  3:51  Overlord  
  44  3:53  Creep Tumor x2  Initial Queen makes tumor to connect natural to 3rd and then becomes Inject Queen for 3rd base
  44  4:00  Extractor x2  Once 2 bases have 16/16 drones on minerals, add 2nd and 3rd gas
  50  4:08  Spore Crawler x3  Make 1 Spore Crawler/mineral line around 4:00 (helps vs DTs, Oracles and Phoenix play)
  50  4:25  Lair  Once 2 bases at 16/16 drones on minerals and 3 gases filled with 3/3 drones, make a Lair
  49  4:27  Roach x8  These Roaches will help against most P builds where they pressure off 2 bases then take a 3rd
  63  4:44  Overlord x3  
  74  5:15  Evolution Chamber x2  When lair is 75% done make 2 Evolution Chambers
  78  5:28  Hydralisk Den  As soon as Lair is done
  77  5:30  Overseer  As soon as Lair is done
  77  5:33  Overlord x2  
  80  5:38  Extractor x2  Once at 16/16 drones in main and natural and 8/16 on 3rd base, add 4th and 5th gas (once those gases are filled droning is done)
  79  5:47  Zerg Missile Weapons Level 1  When evo's are done get +1 missile, +1 carapace
  79  5:48  Zerg Ground Armor Level 1  
  79  5:58  Muscular Augments  Get Hydra upgrade when Hydra Den finishes
  79  6:00  Glial Reconstitution  Get Roach Speed when Hydra Den finishes
  79  6:01  Hydralisk  Mass Roach/Hydra at a 2:1 ratio until the 4 upgrades finish, just before they finish attack
  79  6:02  Roach  Try to make 1 overlord per inject, so inject 3 bases, make 3 overlords, then spam roach/hydra