When to start to do different builds?

Hello, I am a High gold player (going into plat sometime soon) and everyone who has told me how to play has told me to do one build and just grind it out.........Now I have on godly 4-gate and I am getting somewhat bored from doing the exact same thing for over 300-400 games. I want to do other things but I don't know if I should keep on grinding this build or find other ones for my PvT and PvZ. Just a question that have been bothering me and I would appreciate you if you could help me with this. Thanks!

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FluffyBinLaden United States. June 01 2012 16:16. Posts 267

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The best thing to do at the moment is to get something better than the 4 gate. Not the best build around.

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xHadoken United States. June 01 2012 16:18. Posts 161

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On June 01 2012 16:16 FluffyBinLaden wrote:
The best thing to do at the moment is to get something better than the 4 gate. Not the best build around.

Lol. Its been working for me (got me into gold and now beating plats ;D)

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Lyter United Kingdom. June 01 2012 16:23. Posts 1926

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But how many times do you turn on GSL/MLG etc and see a 4gate?
I'd say get a standard opening or 2 for each matchup, and then do whatever you like.

Lets say:
PvP: Blink Observer/Stargate
PvT: 1-gate expand ->3gate robo->colossus
PvZ: forge expand->4gate robo->3rd base

MysteryMeat1 United States. June 01 2012 17:25. Posts 1214

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I would kind of do what Lyter is saying however I definitely wouldn't change all your builds at once. I would say look up a standard build for all 3 matchups and choose one match up and substitute that in for a fourgate. Run through each build order for like an hour each or until the point that you can hit most/all of the timings. At that point start laddering and substituting your new standard builds in.

The whole point of spamming 4gates is to learn how to follow a build order completlely and working around with basic protoss units. Also helps with learning a new build as you can follow a build order.

Hope it helps.

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Morfildur Germany. June 01 2012 19:40. Posts 3488

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Do 1 build _per matchup_ until you are high diamond (which means your execution of that build will actually be good), then start to branch out. Sure, a 4gate can get you to diamond (i've tried it just a month ago) but then you will be stuck with a build that doesn't really work anymore and you get completely crushed every time you try a macro strategy.

If you go 1 opening per matchup you will be able to learn all the different adaptions to different strategies and maps and learn a lot more, which means once you reached the level where your execution is not totally horrible you have a basic knowledge which then helps you to branch out.

Think like Naniwa: "FFE or die trying" (unless the opponent is not Zerg). He ist mastering one opening with a ton of tiny variations that gives him a very solid base from which he can then branch into lots of different things.

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Kazahk United States. June 02 2012 01:05. Posts 214

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When you feel confident enough in your macro and think you could hold up with a normal build. (which are much harder than all-ins) You may lose a few games but you will get the hang of it.

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