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I use to use this style ALL the time way back when aquanda featured it on 12 weeks. Morrow's version seems much more refined but I would definitely prefer the 6 min third (or take your third when he takes his nat) over the 8-9 min third that Morrow seems to favor. I slowly stopped doing this build when after watching sheth play his similar style except with slower upgrades but roaches to deal with 6 gates. Basically he went for the really fast 3rd makes ridiculous amounts of drones with just enough roaches out in time to defend. Meanwhile hes getting roach speed/burrow and/+1 ranged.

This leads to a ling bane drop style only with a much stronger 6 gate defense and an army that in general has more hp and deals with things like archons and storms a bit better. That's the style I've been using alot currently but after reading this and watching some of MorroW's zvp reps from MLG, I wanted to try ling/bane out again.

After a couple of games I have a couple of questions.

If the hatch gets blocked would a build like 14gas/14pool or 11 pool/18 hatch have a stronger economy due to the inability to get pylon blocked?

If your opponent is 6 gating the response is to rush out the baneling drops and just force him to waste ff's using your banes until they come up?

And finally could adding roaches for a stronger backbone to the army (albeit less offensive potential) a stronger choice for the midgame? (Ultras take over once you reach hive)


Thanks for the great writeup!!