How do I teach a new player
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sikyon
Canada1045 Posts
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English
United States475 Posts
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echO [W]
United States1495 Posts
It's too much of a challenge to address everything at once. | ||
SagaZ
France3460 Posts
Jumped my friend from bronze to plat | ||
fabiano
Brazil4644 Posts
- Constantly build workers because it raises your income and eventually you will have to expand - Why to build depot at 10 supply and why you should never be supply capped - Why build marauders when you see opponent army stalker heavy - Why its important to always scout etc this kind of very basic might be useful when teaching someone with 0 RTS experience | ||
Elanshin
Australia216 Posts
Teach him to hotkey his CC to something he likes to press, and have him for a few games just focus on building lots of scvs, from there have him keep building marines + marauders while building scvs. That should help quite a bit to understand the basics behind macro. usually that should result in wins once you have a bigger army in bronze. | ||
zak
Korea (South)1009 Posts
On August 25 2010 10:33 sikyon wrote: My friend is trying in SC2 to get better but he's not getting much better. He's pretty much below bronze - his reaction time is slow, bad at macro, bad at hotkeys, bad at everything. How should I teach him? We do do 2v2's and basically it ends up being 2v1 against me most of the time (though we typically win anytime they don't rush very well). one thing at a time. but instead of jumping into boring chores like remember hotkeys and BO's, the most important thing to do is to make it so he ENJOYS the game. Even though he sucks you gotta cheer him up and help him have FUN. Once you get this down he will take in everything much better and actually WANT to improve. | ||
wizard944
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Onlinejaguar
Australia2823 Posts
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Mikilatov
United States3897 Posts
I trained my friend to play protoss REALLY fast by doing that... Although he got a bit annoyed because I kept telling him to 'spend his money' over and over. He thanks me for it now, though. =P | ||
Karliath
United States2214 Posts
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IKenshinI
United States132 Posts
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Terrakin
United States1440 Posts
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sikyon
Canada1045 Posts
I don't think he wants to do 1v1 right now after 15 losses in a row - do you think I should just let him play 2v2 with me or focus him more on specific strategies to defend against? | ||
terr0r
United States90 Posts
Typically, if it's possible, I play them once and review the replay. This allows you to get a better look at their overall game. After that, you might have them ladder some and review replays with them to help them understand mistakes and holes in their game. Usually, the tips you're going to give someone starting are pretty much the same as listed above -Proper saturation of workers -Building supply, without overbuilding them (new players tend to build 2-3 depots, pylons, ovies ahead for some odd reason) -A friend I recently gave some tips to tried to go for DTs against a 4 rax push, I explained that he should have scouted me to see that I was doing something aggressive which means he cannot waste too much time teching -Scout! Learn to see things like how fast are they getting gas, are they teching or just building mass tier 1? -Repetition is key. Play a lot and you should improve. | ||
Chesner
Iceland817 Posts
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DeltruS
Canada2214 Posts
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Sentient
United States437 Posts
1. Have them watch a game of you playing vs the very hard AI, but don't use hotkeys while you do it so that he can follow what you do. This gives him an idea of the tempo it's possible to play the game at. 2. Tell him to build more stuff. Be as vague as possible. Just build more stuff. 3. Have him never stop building workers, even if it means having 5 in queue. But #2 is most important. Build more stuff. High minerals are bad, low is good. Build more stuff. Building more stuff got my friends out of bronze league, so I count that as a victory. | ||
Kigari
Bahrain134 Posts
That or they'll just spend their time replicating stuff that's already been done with zero creativity/adaptation. | ||
chakk
England43 Posts
i watched day[9]'s back to basics video. then i did 2v2 with a freind and he gave me a strat to do (build 4 warpgates and make a proxy pylon near their base) we obviously lost a few games but i kinda had fun teleporting a ton of zealots right into their base :D and as day[9] says, mental checklist (1) am i making workers? (2) am i supply capped? (3) is my money low? (4) am i making units? so i went from rank 82 [4-22] to rank 2 [47-45] :D hope this helps | ||
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