2023 Zerg Bronze to GM #6: Diamond 1 - Learn More Efficient Opening (B2GM) | StarCraft 2

I loved your comment 20:11 "so we can maybe chase him... but... I dont have the APM, so we're gonna pull back"---- You are so aware of your situation, what you can and cant do in any given moment. Most people dont consider their APM as a resource but it really is. Sometimes I need to pull back because I dont have the APM, thanks for the lesson

My bronze to gm series has been going on for about 10 years.

Piggyboy M2 Z here and I dropped to M3. Been stuck here for 5 months, wondering why I'm floating 1k like a complete noob at 6 minutes. Your vids woke me up. I've forgotten the importance of macro hatches. Got me back to M2 in a week. Thank you!!!!!!!

This is great. Love the content. I wish there were even more diamond games!

Recently broke diamond finally because of this series love it thanks PiG Love from across the ditch!

Never clicked so fast. Thank you!!!

Been waiting for the next episode! Lets goooo!

I think the biggest takeaway I have from this series is this is where people actually start playing starcraft. Like it's not just trick A, B, or C then either it worked or it didn't, and GG. This is where people are actually doing stuff, being able to take a hit, hitting you back, reforming the army, and, in general, one side isn't just being steamrolled (ok that last part may not be true lol)

Game 8 wow GG!

Hello Pig ! Let me say thank you for the videos you've been doing, because it helps me as an ex-master zerg player (been master since WoL in fact). I took a 2 year hiatus because this game drove me mad when I couldn't get to GM. Now I'm Diamond 2 simply because I can't macro the eff out of me. I've noticed that there's a big difference between what you're doing and what I'm doing : you are focusing a lot into your macro part while I'm mostly microing and tunnel visionning my units. As a result, I always end up all my games (almost) with 3k minerals no matter how much hatcheries I'm putting down. That's why I liked when you said "inject inject inject" because it tells me that I should stop focusing too much on my units and macro behind. But I'm still having a lot of troubles and it's even worse when there's some harass going on (reaper, hellions, drops, liberators, hell even drop mines). When the harass is taking place, all my attention is focusing on that harass and nothing else, and I just can't get my mind to do something like macro behind. It's like there's a huge OCD and my brain stops working until I can get rid of it. How do you usually respond to that effectively ? This is something that's been on my mind a lot when I tried to get to GM, and there was something that helped me a lot which was an old thing of Brood War, but it was kind of a third party software like apm live except it showed you a message to macro whenever you were above a certain minerals count threshold. Sadly it doesn't work in sc2 and I don't really want some 3rd party software to ban my account... :/ How do you usually think about macroing when you know there are some units that will be doing stupid thing if you don't pay attention to them ? ie queen chasing phoenix / oracles / VR out of the spore's range, lings/bane going outside the "comfort" zone and get killed by tanks / mines / whatever, 3 drones into 1 patch of mineral while there's another patch of mineral with only 1 drone in it, etc etc... Having too much OCDs don't help at all for sc2 as I can see now... :D

Some of these diamond 1 terrans look strongman contest strong. Great plays by these opponents. <3

Hi pig! Can u make a guide on how to deal with the new hellion cyclone build as Zerg. It’s been destroying me on ladder😢

So you mention how the backstab group can be quite big, as long as you can defend their actual push. I notice some people putting bunkers with one unit in or cannons etc. How exactly would someone deal with that? I often find myself unable to actually do the backstab over and over, as well as things like PFs. Even if their army isnt there it's so hard to get units in. Is it then time to go to the extreme like lurker nydus to get damage done to enemies that have armies I cant straight off engage?

2:19:48 Kerrigan letting the medivacs escape in the HotS campaign.

Thanks for this guide, I'm almost in diamond because of it

How do you deal with stargate protoss?? It’s a headache for me these days. Mass zerglings would work too?

brian may is queens guitarist not the bassist. he is also an astrophysicist and a sir. lol

Game 7: why he gg. He could just continue attacking or expand?

Piatch