[PantlessPete]

I'm really struggling with my TvZ at the moment (gold on NA, plat on SEA), its just an insta loss for me unless I do some cheesy 2rax all in build (did it once, felt dirty, never again). I've been going blue flame hellion expand into MMM + tanks, and I just lose. I've been talking to the zergs after I GG about what I could have done, and other than the one or two who just spam "lol noob" have said "you need to pressure the zerg constantly".

Sounds fine in theory, but how do you actually do it? I thought my blue flame hellion opening would be a good start, but even if I kill a good amount of drones I lose anyway. Often its to ling/bling/muta. I'm putting my marauders at the front, my marines on a seperate hotkey and slowpushing with my tanks. But I just seem to get crushed by a huge margin.

Replay 1: I tried a blueflame hellion expand into MM + Tank, and kept up macrowise with the zerg until his 3rd and extra hatchery kicked in. He literally jumped to almost max when he saw me push out...god knows why he didn't use all that larva before hand.

The zerg responded to seeing my techlabbed factory instantly, throwing up some spines. Perhaps I need to surprise him? Oh, and ignore where all my workers run away from the mineral line for 2 seconds at the start of the game, my kitten really wanted to play starcraft.

Replay 2: A practice match vs my mate (yes he ALWAYS plays as pink). I made some silly mistakes, like forgetting to turret up my main, and the biggest was loosing my tanks to the mutas whilst my marines were all "LOL FREE OVERLORDS". But to be honest, that's the best I've ever done vs muta harass. I had trouble getting my expo up, and that initial big loss at my main, but it was much better than usual.

Now in both games my hellions weren't that effective, should I be trying a different strategy? How do I stop him from getting to ball of death status? Drops? Banshees? Reactor hellions instead of blue flam(tried reactor hellions as my last game today, but turns out the dude was going 7RR so I just lost)? Is MMT a good unit comp vs zerg or not?