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Originally Posted by Andross

Hey guys I really need help with my ZvP matchup, I keep losing and it's just getting ridiculous now I'm really starting to think protoss are OP and there's no point playing zerg. I denied his third for ages and had 50 more drones than him and HE STILL WINS. Any advice would be very appreciated, thanks.

Firstly, you never had 50 more drones than him. In fact, in the entire early/midgame, you were pretty much even on worker count, which means protoss is ahead.

In a normal game, a protoss would want to get a third base by 15 minutes, or risk having oversaturation for a while after the main base mines out. However, your opponent didn't make enough workers either. This blunder of his meant that he didn't even need the third base that quickly, because he wasn't mining out his first two bases faster enough.


Believe it or not, your opponent was winning for most of this game. Even though you were in pretty good shape after you killed his entire army, you lost your third, didn't have as many drones as you wanted and didn't have any answer to the colossus tech that he was making at home.


Tips.
Against a timing push, you want to wait for the last moment possible before you run in and attack his army. Your army is growing faster than his, and it's at your base, so you will be reinforcing much faster than him. Also, you have spines.
Everytime you threw your army into his prematurely, he came out ahead. You threw a series of small armies at him, instead of waiting and hurling one giant army at him.

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Setting up a flank is important, because forcefields become effectively useless. Notice how every time you attacked, you only attacked from one angle and got forcefielded, and lost all of your zerglings? This is how to stop that. Just wait for him to push in within range of spines, then send everything in from both sides. You can't lose.

You needed a similar thing against his second deathball at 22 mins. Try to get a concave, don't get forcefielded.

What should have happened in this game, was that you absolutely crushed his army, kept your third base and most of your units alive, droned up to 80, and then won.


Here is another important thing to consider. When to take gas? How much to mine? 6:00 is a good time to take gas, so leave that. But you took too many geysers. 4 is too many. Roach ling is very mineral heavy, and you also need minerals to make drones. You need minerals to beat these attacks. Rewatch the replay, while looking at the gas count. Now imagine if all of that gas was minerals, do the maths, and figure out how many zerglings you didn't have because you mined gas instead.


And lastly, but most importantly, focus on your injects, focus on making drones quicker. You've probably heard that a lot, but that's because it's important. As zerg, macroing better is the easiest way to improve.

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