Bane Bust Ling Rush (ZvP Cheese)
Description
This isn't 100% a cheese but definitely can be an all-in. I got tired of letting opposing Terran and Protoss have all of the early game harassment fun and started using this build order to a decent degree of success against diamond players. I don't know if it will work at higher levels as well, but if anyone tries it out at D1 or higher and has success with it, let me know.
Pros: 1) Very good defensively against opponent cheese attempts. 2) Even if bust is unsuccessful, you have a good deal of units to prevent the player from taking their natural for a good deal of time while you macro up. 3) At about 3:20 you'll have 300 minerals and no larvae so you might as well build the second hatch so you have a fall back option, and you'll have a good deal of creep spread to go with it if you've been on top of your tumors to help prevent counter attacks. 4) 4 minutes is a great time to scout, and if the game doesn't end right away, you get a lot of information from your lings being in their base at that time
Replay - Bane Bust Ling Rush
Build Order
| 12 | 0:18 | | |
| 11 | 0:22 | | |
| 13 | 0:30 | | |
| 14 | 0:36 | | |
| 14 | 0:38 | | |
| 14 | 0:46 | | |
| 14 | 1:05 | | inject |
| 14 | 1:06 | | use to scout |
| 14 | 1:08 | | |
| 18 | 1:16 | | |
| 19 | 1:26 | | |
| 20 | 1:37 | | |
| 20 | 1:42 | | @100 gas, research boost and move one drone from gas to minerals |
| 20 | 1:49 | | |
| 21 | 2:00 | | |
| 22 | 2:06 | | |
| 24 | 2:09 | | |
| 24 | 2:17 | | |
| 27 | 2:28 | | |
| 28 | 2:38 | | |
| 28 | 2:39 | | |
| 28 | 2:45 | | |
| 33 | 3:20 | | |
| 36 | 3:31 | | Morph as soon as nest finishes outside opponents wall |
Analysis
First overlord goes to enemy wall location
Use your first 2-4 lings to scout for cheese and then the the wall-off. If they have no depots or pylons in the wall, the bane bust will be a lot more expensive and much more of an all-in, so make your decision now. If you're lucky against a protoss, they'll have a lone adept or zealot on hold position and you won't need 6 banelings (although it doesn't hurt to have the extra ones anyway)
@100 gas, research ling speed and move one drone to gas. 2 drones on gas will be enough to build your baneling nest and have 150 gas in the bank as soon as it pops to build 6 banelings, which is enough to blow either a depot or a pylon at the wall-in
Bust should hit around 3:40 (in this replay I was distracted and my nest was up for a good deal of time before I morphed my banes) and you should have a good 20-30 lings to play around with in your opponents worker lines, which is often enough to end the game outright if they didn't see this coming
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Details
- Created by: 4ndrew_Vee
- Published on: Jun 29, 2019
- Modified on: Jun 29, 2019
- Patch: 4.7.1