ZvP nydus vs starport (ZvP All-In)

Description

The Pink-Eye Build - ZvP Nydus

Great counter to one of the most common Protoss builds.

As show by PiG: The Pink-Eye Build

This is a 'repost' with a complete build order and some Analysis. Reposting seemed to be the only way for me to use it with the build adviser app, I'm unsure if others can view this hope I'm not breaking any repost rules, I have included my analysis to appease the moderators.

Replay - Hurricane v Rogue: Game 2 - Neon Violet Square LE

Build Order

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Analysis

As show by PiG: The Pink-Eye Build

Here's some pointers, I've not played in a while so excuse me if any of my tips are off.

@ 100 gas pull one drone off gas @ 40 gas pull the second drone off gas @ 44/44 put them back on gas

This is what rouge does, it gives him a perfect min/gas ratio while massing roaches. That said reproducing lost units/extra lings makes this an inexact science, Rouge took no damage from the 2 adepts, loses 1 drone + a minimal drone pull from the oracle, and lost the scouting overlord, so if you can pull that off you'll be in good standing.

Overloads: Rouge spreads his overlords just past the edge of his creep, good for scouting but will be left vulnerable once the queens move to the nydus.

Lings: The robo will probably be near the wall off, scout it beforehand with the lings and use their vision to drop the nydus exit (an overseer is backup option). keep the lings active, checking the wall and looking for adepts crossing the map. Remember that you need to keep them alive for nydus vision later on.

Execution: You want the nydus worm to exit next to the robo, concentrate your queen transfuse on the nydus as well as any low health queens with high energy, how well you transfuse makes a huge difference.

After you have killed off his local units stop the robo from producing, the nydus dies build another.

If Protoss is going for an archon drop he will be forced to defend with it.

Follow up: from 76 supply you'll be spamming roaches and should quickly win as long as the robo is taken offline. If the robo stays up fighting the immortals can be tricky due to the tight building placement and the lack of roach speed which allows immortals to safely pull back and recharge once off creep allowing them to continually poke at/bait the roaches. So ovoid engaging them and instead attack infrastructure that he cant defend without coming deep into your creep. He can target the nydus to bait the roaches and then simply back off and repeat thus forcing the roaches become passive, so instead drop a new exit somewhere he wont be able to poke at.

If the nydus fails: If things go bad ovoid over-committing and losing units needlessly, you can instead build another nydus exit outside his base allowing you to pressure his wall and deny expansion. spread creep and lings for vision to spot the warp prism. send queens home to spawn larvae and start upgrades such as roach speed and +1. Dont over produce roaches, scout him and tech accordingly. As you should be one base up a macro hatch might be safer than taking a 4th. Ovoid engaging his army, if he pushes out you can jump back in the nydus and plant a new one in his main forcing him to defend, if he goes for a base trade you'll probably be best off keeping your main army at home, if you have brought enough time hopefully you'll have lurkers or banes up

GL HF!

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• Created by: Deith
• Published on: Jul 08, 2018
• Modified on: Jul 09, 2018
• Patch: 4.0.0

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