[TASlowHands]

Originally Posted by SQLTt.HuT

Everybody does it, they wake up, ready for a day packed of 1v1's and the idea that they'll add a few hundred points onto their ladder score. But, after you lose 3 in a row, all the while using strategies that you have utilised that have been successful in the past all seem worthless now.

As a question to the general populace of these forums, when you hit a barrier, whether it be psychological or skill based that negatively impacts your gameplan and ability to win games you have won in the same manner before, how do you work to overcome it? Do you stick to the same strategy and try to refine it, or do you decide that a build or tactic is obsolete and forget it all together?

Share your views!

I always try and stick with my strats, i had a roach hydra corruptor build in ZvP which had me at more than 70% at one point around the mid diamond level. I only drops strats when they are outright unviable, i dropped roach hydra corruptor as masters toss for the most part tear it up.

I believe so long as you are a decent player mechanically you can do any strategy, thats why I am very harsh on myself even when i win at times, for example i decide to 2 base all in but have 3 missed injects at the end of the game, I scold myself. The only barrier I hit are mechanically not strategically because im pretty flexible and good at altering my builds. I only really feel happy with a win when i play a bit better than my average, apm soaring, creep everywhere and the like. But really it all comes down to mechanics and good old fashioned practise

Op I think you would benefit from having practise partners that are better than you. I often play with TAsolid who has crazy good TvZ and it always pushes me apm and mechanic wise playing him and I can actually feel myself getting better, even if I lose. Try and find someone that is just that little bit better than you and get them to give you a real challenge. The problem with just ladder is you play the same level of opponents struggling with the same issues as you.