ZvT 6 roach (2 ravager) by 3:30 opener (ZvT Cheese)
Description
You can use this in ZvP as well. The roaches/ravagers arrive at enemy natural by ~3:30 depending on the map.
Similar to Railgan's 3-roach and Lambo's 5-roach openers.
This is different from those builds because it starts with hatch first and has more roach/ravagers at the cost of less zerglings and arriving ~15s later than Lambo's build.
Disclosure: I'm diamond, but I started using this build and climbed a bunch of mmr. I was able to win macro follow-up matches that didn't just end when the roaches arrived.
Build Order
| 13 | 0:13 | | |
| 17 | 0:53 | | |
| 17 | 1:11 | | |
| 16 | 1:15 | | Put 3 drones on gas when extractor finishes |
| 20 | 1:51 | | Stop droning at 20 supply until you've built your roaches |
| 20 | 2:00 | | Put it behind your main mineral line to hide |
| 19 | 2:02 | | |
| 21 | 2:04 | | Pool your larva so you have 6 (3 from each hatchery) when your roach warren finishes |
| 22 | 2:06 | | |
| 24 | 2:41 | | Send all your roaches to outside enemy natural as soon as they spawn, morph front-most 2 roaches into ravager, as gas comes |
| 36 | 2:54 | | Resume droning heavily (6 drones before morphing 2nd ravager) |
| 36 | 3:18 | | |
| 42 | 3:30 | |
Analysis
When your roaches arrive, the goal is to break the wall and kill workers (even if they have liberator/banshee/void-ray).
If you can't break the wall, you can try to destroy production buildings and/or contain them out of their natural as you macro up.
You can follow up pretty normally after this opener: after you send your roaches across the map, drone up heavily and get 3rd, banelings, lair->hydras/mutas, 2-4 gasses, upgrades, etc.
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Details
- Created by: ModernShoe
- Published on: May 13, 2021
- Modified on: May 17, 2021
- Patch: 4.11.0
- Difficulty: Easy
Comments (2)
On March 15, 2022, 7:05 p.m., Metal_Monkey said:
Thanks for sharing! So far very effective!
On Feb. 26, 2022, 9:55 p.m., epikSVK said:
Started a few days ago and already carried me up to plat 2, effective even against early aggression in ZvZ (since roaches eat through lings like butter) and many a Protoss wall has fallen this way also xD