TY's Double Raven 3CC Macro TvT (TvT Economic)
Description
The best players in the world often love to sit back and rely on the advantages of defensive play, growing their economy and upgrades whilst goading their opponents into unfavourable attacks. They know if they execute their defence properly they will always win over aggression, and they demand that very perfection from themselves every game.
This is a super macro-focused build used a huge amount recently by the two best Terrans in the world, TY and Innovation. It’s especially powerful in our current map pool with maps like Proxima Station and Honorgrounds featuring protected natural expansions. The build usually shuns scouting or aggression in favour of generic play that can block the majority of things the opponent can throw at you, whilst powering economy, production and tech at a staggering rate. Of course you are defending with an elite group of high-tech units and so your micro and positioning needs to be on point. There’s a few different adjustments and variations based on map and preference which I’ll discuss in the show. I wouldn’t recommend this opening to low or even mid-tier players unless they really love their defensive macro play.
Build:
- Gas first
- Rax
- CC
- Factory
- Reactor
- 2nd gas
- Depot
- @100% Factory Cyclone
- @100 gas Starport
- Tech lab on factory (Sometimes 1 tank + 1 viking THEN swap)
- Swap port/factory
- 2xraven
- Factory builds tech lab
- 3rd CC (might be a bit delayed if you constantly build marines)
- Tank production starts
- 3rd-4th gas
- @2-ravens - swap starport and barracks
- Start stim + viking production
- 86/6:10 - 2x ebay (EBAY/RAX timings can be swapped)
- 4-rax all around the same time
- @1-1 60% completed - Start armoury
VOD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgqz0wQJESQReplay - aLive v TYTY: Game 4 - Honorgrounds LE
Build Order
| 12 | 0:00 | | |
| 13 | 0:12 | | |
| 14 | 0:17 | | |
| 14 | 0:24 | | |
| 15 | 0:29 | | |
| 15 | 0:38 | | |
| 16 | 0:45 | | |
| 16 | 0:51 | | |
| 17 | 1:03 | | |
| 18 | 1:15 | | |
| 19 | 1:32 | | |
| 21 | 1:33 | | |
| 20 | 1:43 | | |
| 20 | 1:54 | | |
| 20 | 1:58 | | |
| 21 | 2:06 | | |
| 21 | 2:07 | | |
| 21 | 2:11 | | |
| 22 | 2:16 | | |
| 22 | 2:23 | | |
| 24 | 2:37 | | |
| 24 | 2:43 | | |
| 29 | 2:55 | | |
| 29 | 3:01 | | |
| 32 | 3:06 | | |
| 31 | 3:19 | | |
| 34 | 3:27 | | |
| 34 | 3:30 | | |
| 39 | 3:38 | | |
| 41 | 3:45 | | |
| 43 | 3:56 | | |
| 45 | 4:10 | | |
| 51 | 4:17 | | |
| 51 | 4:20 | | |
| 52 | 4:31 | | |
| 53 | 4:41 | | |
| 58 | 4:48 | | |
| 58 | 4:49 | | |
| 60 | 5:04 | | |
| 62 | 5:11 | | |
| 65 | 5:23 | | |
| 70 | 5:34 | | |
| 72 | 5:44 | | |
| 72 | 5:45 | | |
| 77 | 5:59 | | |
| 77 | 6:02 | | |
| 82 | 6:17 | | |
| 90 | 6:27 | | |
| 90 | 6:29 | | |
| 86 | 6:37 | | |
| 86 | 6:39 | | |
| 91 | 6:40 | | |
| 94 | 6:54 | | |
| 94 | 6:56 | | |
| 98 | 7:10 | | |
| 97 | 7:19 | | |
| 97 | 7:20 | | |
| 96 | 7:51 | | |
| 100 | 8:00 | | |
| 100 | 8:01 | | |
| 100 | 8:04 | | |
| 113 | 8:23 | | |
| 117 | 8:38 | | |
| 125 | 8:46 | | |
| 126 | 8:48 | | |
| 126 | 8:51 | | |
| 126 | 8:55 | | |
| 128 | 8:57 | | |
| 128 | 8:58 | | |
| 136 | 9:10 | | |
| 139 | 9:19 | | |
| 139 | 9:23 | | |
| 155 | 9:39 | | |
| 149 | 9:59 | |
Analysis
Notes:
Only build cyclone vs more aggressive openers:
- 2 reaper cyclone etc - abyssal reef vs Alive
- Sometimes doesn’t even bother with that and just goes 1 helion
- TY usually goes tank before factory/starport swap if he skips the cyclone - starport sits idle for a bit when he does this
Proxima adjustment: - No helion/cyclone - just defend ramp with marines/reaper because inbase natural is easy to defend
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Details
- Created by: PiG
- Published on: Mar 13, 2017
- Modified on: Mar 13, 2017
- Patch: 3.8.0