Defending Archon Drop into Blink-Archon Attack (ZvP Economic)
Description
Serral vs Zest Newkirk
Identifying archon drop First overlord sees first 2 pylons at wall - he knows tech has to go down here Lings see twilight at normal timing - still not sure if it’s 2 more gates immediately as we saw in previous game 3:30 - overlord checks sees robo and delayed gates = archon drop - hits at 5:00 P gives up chance for early pressure with this super efficient rush to prism/dt/archon Serral responds with nothing but unit production!
Here we see Serral defending with a ridiculous drone count - you’re not really supposed to survive here, but his defence of the archon drop is so crisp and his macro is perfect
Checkout Daily #123 - Defending Archon Drops for more details on how to do this so well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsNU1hLj5mg Overlords spotting but not exposed to archons picking them off Roaches and overseers out RIGHT on time Great drone count
Ravager + lings are the key focus to any early defence - however there are exceptions If lots of chargelots/glaive-adepts then often it’s better to have a lot more roaches and queens, only using lings to flank on any stalker/sentry/immortal or to counterattack However vs stalkers, immortals, sentries and small adept/zealot counts - lings are great because the way they mesh with ravagers Reason 1: Minerals only + heaps of gas on ravagers Reason 2: Lings are incredible - weakness is they can’t get surface area cos opponent balls up (BILE) and FF (BILE) Add their ability to surround and lock opponents in so they can’t dodge bile and you have the perfect early-game combo!
Replay - Serral v Zest: Game 2 - Newkirk Precinct TE (Void)
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- Created by: PiG
- Published on: Mar 26, 2017
- Modified on: Mar 26, 2017
- Patch: 3.8.0