Astrea’s Aggro Proxy To Mix Up Ladder Games (PvT Economic)
Description
This Proxy Gateway Build that Astrea played vs Uthermal at this Years IEM Katowice will make sure you are the one that sets the pace in the game! It’s not the Maxpax style proxy Zealot, however. Instead, we’re skipping that Zealot to get a Stalker that hits just before the Bunker finishes, while making it look to the untrained Terran eye like we’re just pulling off a normal Build at home.
VOD
https://youtu.be/c0edEbyNx7oReplay - Astrea v uThermal: Game 3 - [ESL] Glittering Ashes
Build Order
| 12 | 0:00 | | |
| 13 | 0:12 | | |
| 14 | 0:16 | | |
| 14 | 0:24 | | |
| 16 | 0:36 | | |
| 16 | 0:43 | | |
| 17 | 0:50 | | |
| 17 | 0:51 | | |
| 17 | 0:56 | | |
| 18 | 1:03 | | |
| 19 | 1:09 | | |
| 19 | 1:15 | | |
| 20 | 1:23 | | |
| 20 | 1:27 | | |
| 22 | 1:51 | | |
| 21 | 2:00 | | |
| 24 | 2:10 | | |
| 24 | 2:14 | | |
| 24 | 2:15 | | |
| 25 | 2:21 | | |
| 28 | 2:38 | | |
| 29 | 2:44 | | |
| 32 | 3:04 | | |
| 37 | 3:31 | | |
| 39 | 3:39 | | |
| 41 | 3:47 | | |
| 44 | 4:01 | | |
| 44 | 4:10 | | |
| 46 | 4:27 | | |
| 47 | 4:32 | | |
| 47 | 4:35 | | |
| 49 | 4:41 | | |
| 51 | 4:50 | | |
| 53 | 4:57 | | |
| 57 | 5:20 | | |
| 59 | 5:26 | | |
| 63 | 5:29 | | |
| 65 | 5:48 | | |
| 76 | 6:05 | | |
| 82 | 6:58 | | |
| 85 | 7:15 | | |
| 88 | 7:34 | | |
| 90 | 7:37 | | |
| 90 | 7:41 | | |
| 98 | 7:49 | | |
| 101 | 7:51 | | |
| 101 | 7:56 | | |
| 102 | 7:59 | | |
| 103 | 8:06 | | |
| 108 | 8:21 | | |
| 108 | 8:24 | | |
| 113 | 8:28 | | |
| 117 | 8:40 | | |
| 117 | 8:48 | |
Analysis
After the first proxied stalker comes a second proxied, chronoboosted stalker, followed by the second not chronobooster stalker at home. Now, depending on how the build is performing, we can invest into more Stalkers at the proxy, or transition out earlier for quicker Tech.
The Transition
Oftentimes, offense is the best defense, and the transition Astrea has decided on shows this off perfectly. After canceling the CC, Astrea transitions into a 4 Gate Blink Build order - Going for the Twilight, in this game at 3:40, a Robotics Facility 10 seconds later at 3:50, 3 additional gates since the forward gateway was unpowered and a Gas.
While the Third Base at around 5:30 makes sure we don’t accidentally turn this into too much of an Allin, with the Blink Upgrade being chronoboosted well, we’re hitting a brilliant attack at 6:00 Minutes with 12 Stalkers, easily Oneshotting tanks and trading out with the Terran with superb Micro.
From here, you can then transition into whatever Midgame tech you feel most comfortable with, be it Colossi, Storm or staying on the Mass Gateways. Astrea is showing us a Storm focused transition without Upgrades.
Since he got the Engineering Bay earlier, he doesn’t have to worry as much about keeping up with Upgrades, and with how much damage he has done with no Third base on the way for the Terran, Astrea just has to make sure that he can defend the attack. Remember children - If you do a lot of damage, that doesn’t mean they can’t still allin you!
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Details
- Created by: ESChamp
- Published on: Jun 08, 2022
- Modified on: Jul 02, 2022
- Patch: 4.11.0
- Difficulty: Medium
Comments (2)
On July 2, 2022, 11:50 a.m., ESChamp said:
There was a mistake in BO where it had the second stalker as Chrono boosted when it wasn't supposed which threw off all the supply timings. This has been fixed
On July 2, 2022, 11:18 a.m., protossy said:
I've tried this, as written you hit a supply block at 30/31 when you try to build the third stalker. Also, one of those first 3 should be the one in the main and not chrono'd, but it's written that all 3 are chrono'd.