Alive's 1 tank POKE OF DOOM! TvP - PiG Daily #122 (TvP Timing Attack)

Description

This is a very fast pressure off what looks like a normal expand, but can spiral out of control very fast if Protoss doesn't defend perfectly. You hit at 4:20 with 8 marines, a medivac and a tank and immediately start building a bunker outside the Protoss natural. You bring another tank and rally marines across the map looking for big damage, but still have an expansion and go up to 3-rax behind it for your transition into standard play.

Thanks to Basetrade and the Olimoleague who cast this match, you can see Alive killing Billowy with it in this VoD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ztlt0a1_2wg

Note on How I write Terran builds: I will always write what each tech structure (factory, starport) has to do directly underneath it rather than in chronological order. This way you learn to remember each structures place in the build and how the addons swap. The order of what it does will be indented, for example:

• Barracks
  • 3xmarines
  • Tech Lab
  • Stim
  • Marauder production

Build Order:

• No SCV scout
• Gas-first
• Rax
  • Reaper
  • Reactor
  • Nonstop marine production
• 19 orbital + reaper
• 20 CC
• 20 Factory
  • Tech Lab
  • Tank
  • Slight pause
  • Tank
  • Swap + build reactor
• 21 2nd gas + reactor
• @100% factory - Starport
  • Medivac
  • Small pause
  • Liberator
  • Build Reactor
• @300 minerals (4:30) 2x rax
  • One on the factories tech lab
• @150 minerals 3rd-4th gas

From here you can add an ebay and 3rd CC whilst pumping off your 3-rax, factory and starport production

VOD

Replay - Alive's 1 tank POKE OF DOOM! (TvP) - The PiG Daily #122

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Analysis

* What’s a good tell for high level players to do this?*

When you go in with reaper at 2:50 if you see robo AND twilight AND MSC - there’s a good chance Protoss’ gates will be delayed or they won’t have money to warp quickly when you hit.

Best on short rush distance maps

Side-spawns cactus or Paladino are the shortest rush distances in the current pool so they’re the best, though with good execution you can make this work consistently up to a very high level

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• Created by: PiG      
• Published on: Feb 16, 2017
• Modified on: Mar 21, 2017
• Patch: 3.8.0

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