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It depends on your build. A lot of builds you will do blindly without drone scouting (be pretty into the build) before you scout anything, but drone scouting helps a lot like this:

Hatch First - if you 14~ drone scout, you will look to see if he expanded himself (speed first), speedling expand/no drones in gas (less roach/bane/crawler deterrence and eventually a faster speed), or baneling (roach/bane/crawler+queen)

if you 9 drone scout (and you dont scout him last) you can choose to do your build based off of it (if he 10 or 6 pools, throw down a pool (and or gas, whatevers comfortable)). It is a fairly significant loss for me to 9 drone scout, and i prefer to go into a game with a build in mind (i've beaten 10 pool with hatch first, so it's possible. A 14~ drone scout gives you time to mentally prepare and plan.)

14/14 don't drone scout. Your lings will be out in time to defend 10 pool, drones are used to defend 6 pool so scouting it won't change the reaction, and your lings will scout if he:

A - Expanded first
B - Speedling expanded
C - No expand (meaning bane, roach, or a retarded 1 base build)

the drone will lose you some money which you do not need to lose because playing 'blindly' with a 14/14 works fine, and the extra drone/mining will ofcourse help defend the early lings and or crawler

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