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[G] Stephano-Style ZvP – The 12 Minute Max-Out

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 TangSC   Canada. March 30 2012 03:23. Posts 1609
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Stephano-Style ZvP - The 12 Minute Max-Out

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Hello Ladies and Gentlemen of Team Liquid, it is a great pleasure to present my newest strategy guide on Zerg vs Protoss and I'd like to thank you all for viewing!

It is with great caution and respect that I approach writing a strategy guide focusing on the style Stephano uses against Protoss who FFE. I approach this topic with caution because it is in no way new: it has been covered numerous times in detailed guides, team liquid discussions, and even Day9 Daily #388 . I approach with respect because Stephano is one of the most successful and creative professional Zerg players to date, and I do not assert that I know everything about his style or thought-processes. However, in studying Stephano's stream, using his builds in ladder, and teaching his style to students, I have developed insights into learning and improving with this style – and that's what I aim to share with you today.

Simply put, you must mark your progress if you want to improve the efficiency of your practice! Therefore, I will only be briefly analyzing Stephanos games and will instead focus on a step-by-step process of setting detailed timings and macro benchmarks to help players grasp the key components of this style, improving their timings, speed, and execution along the way. I define a macro benchmark as an interval in the game where you count any macro-related elements (Workers, Bases, Queens, Tumors, Upgrades, etc.) The primary goal of this guide is to help you max out at the 12 Minute Mark by securing an optimal 3 base economy by the 8 Minute Benchmark:

8:00 Satisfactory Benchmark: 3 Bases, 60 Drones, 4 Queens

60 Drones (16 Mineral Drones x 3 Bases = 48, 3 Gas Drones x 4 Gas = 12. 12 + 48 = 60)


This economy is sufficient to not only max-out with decent upgrades by the 12 minute mark, but also continuously trade armies and reinforce to ensure protoss never gets that critical third base.

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Step 1 - Basic Timings:

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Step 2 - Basic Food-Relative Build Order:

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Step 3 - Macro Benchmarks:

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Economic Considerations:

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12 Min Max Stephano Examples:

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Discussion Questions:

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MouzMorrow's Tips for Protoss Players:

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- Tang

Courtesy of www.TangStarcraft.com
Last edit: 2012-05-25 00:13:48
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 daredpanda   United States. March 30 2012 03:39. Posts 55
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What can toss do to prevent this?
Terran sandwich with Archon bread. GG all day long!
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 kirdie   Germany. March 30 2012 03:40. Posts 213
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I love you Tang! I wrote you a PM asking for 3 base Roach ZvP and by chance you were working on exactly this :-)

I have a problem against 2 gate zealot +1 pressure however, how can I scout this and how should I change the build order? And what about 2 base immortal pushes?
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 gingerfluffmuff   Austria. March 30 2012 03:42. Posts 598
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Nice, but your are a little late... like 2 months or so...
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 Sakray   France. March 30 2012 03:45. Posts 612
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On March 30 2012 03:39 daredpanda wrote:
What can toss do to prevent this?


Actually almost nothing
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 LazinCajun   United States. March 30 2012 03:47. Posts 294
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Nice detailed guide! I especially like the macro benchmarks for people learning this style.

Just a minor quibble -- in your timing section, it currently reads to me like your lair should be started at around 8:00, when of course that's when the lair finishes more or less.
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 TangSC   Canada. March 30 2012 03:51. Posts 1609
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On March 30 2012 03:47 LazinCajun wrote:
Nice detailed guide! I especially like the macro benchmarks for people learning this style.

Just a minor quibble -- in your timing section, it currently reads to me like your lair should be started at around 8:00, when of course that's when the lair finishes more or less.

Updated to 7:20, which more accurately reflects the lair and 3rd gas timings. Remember, it's your first 100 gas after you start gas 2 geysers at 6min.

Thanks for the suggestions, LazinCajun.
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  Wombat_NI   Northern Ireland. March 30 2012 03:52. Posts 5145Profile # 

On March 30 2012 03:45 Sakray wrote:

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Actually almost nothing

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=320894

Plenty of suggestions here at the very least
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 snexwang   Australia. March 30 2012 03:54. Posts 188
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@Discussion questions 3 and 5: Day[9] Daily #429 - Stephano’s ZvP Late Game Style!
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 Drowsy   United States. March 30 2012 03:55. Posts 4825
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On March 30 2012 03:39 daredpanda wrote:
What can toss do to prevent this?



Roll the 2 base dice. Or pray you're on a map you can easily wall off everything including a third and take a fast third and don't engage until you have a doom army. This style works well against Stephano style on maps like cloud where you can full walloff your third and then have 2 easy to defend chokes where you can proceed to turtle and go crush when you max at 15:30 and pray he doesn't already have a ton of broodlords. But yeah lots of praying and dice rollling.
Our Protoss, Who art in Aiur HongUn be Thy name; Thy stalker come, Thy will be blunk, on ladder as it is in Micro Tourny. Give us this win in our daily ladder, and forgive us our cheeses, As we forgive those who play zerg against us.
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 AirbladeOrange   United States. March 30 2012 03:57. Posts 2066
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I'm pretty upset you're posting this. I already see it and lose to it too much on the ladder. Please delete this thread.
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 ScythedBlade   March 30 2012 04:28. Posts 307
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I mean ... we all know Protoss is underpowered. I mean ... theSTC loses to MC playing Zerg as his offrace 50%. That's pretty crazy ...

But anyways, nice guide =D. I finally get to utilize his ZvP build instead of just his ZvT build.
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 SuperYo1000   United States. March 30 2012 04:28. Posts 717
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On March 30 2012 03:55 Drowsy wrote:

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Roll the 2 base dice. Or pray you're on a map you can easily wall off everything including a third and take a fast third and don't engage until you have a doom army. This style works well against Stephano style on maps like cloud where you can full walloff your third and then have 2 easy to defend chokes where you can proceed to turtle and go crush when you max at 15:30 and pray he doesn't already have a ton of broodlords. But yeah lots of praying and dice rollling.


I actually saw this exact scenario with stephano a half a week or week or so ago. I was excited cuz I thought "yes, a protoss player is going to beat stephano at this finally" Then stephano musters up like 15 to 20 broodlords and 10 or so corrupters(as well as other various ground units) as protection verse a mothership archon doom army. Broodlords spread out really well and mothership went down almost instantly...It did vortex a large chunk of broodlords and archons did pop the ones in the vortex but both stephano and protoss player(cant remember his name) lost there armies.....unfortuneatly stephano just reinforced with a butt load of roaches and steam rolled him
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 sgtjimmy   Canada. March 30 2012 04:33. Posts 105
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Love the guides tang, keep it up!
What do I do if protoss goes stargate, double or single? I tried this build and my 3rd died to 3 void rays around the 10 minute mark.
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 HelloSon   United States. March 30 2012 04:52. Posts 384
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On March 30 2012 03:55 Drowsy wrote:

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Roll the 2 base dice. Or pray you're on a map you can easily wall off everything including a third and take a fast third and don't engage until you have a doom army. This style works well against Stephano style on maps like cloud where you can full walloff your third and then have 2 easy to defend chokes where you can proceed to turtle and go crush when you max at 15:30 and pray he doesn't already have a ton of broodlords. But yeah lots of praying and dice rollling.

yeah, if you manager to sneak a probe + pylon around his third, you can do a good deal of damage but it really depends on the zerg making a mistake by overdroning, not scouting, etc.
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 YosHGo   Czech Republic. March 30 2012 04:52. Posts 297
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Oh boi thanks alot for guide i wanted to figure out myself from vods and replays today and then i look on TL and BAM its there :D finally is my switch to zerg complete
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 TangSC   Canada. March 30 2012 04:57. Posts 1609
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On March 30 2012 04:33 sgtjimmy wrote:
Love the guides tang, keep it up!
What do I do if protoss goes stargate, double or single? I tried this build and my 3rd died to 3 void rays around the 10 minute mark.

Scouting your opponent's gas timing at their expansion is probably the biggest indication (aside from overlord scouting and actually seeing the Stargate(s) building). If protoss takes both gas at the expansion early, he's going a tech-heavy build which means 2-stargate is a definite possibility, so you can afford to get a spore in the main and 3rd to be safe.

The response relies on Queens and Spores. I'm a fan of using 4 queens on 3 bases in ZvP so I can spread creep and defend against air easier, so I can easily produce extra queens as soon as I have indication of a stargate push (ideally meaning 3-4 queens ready to defend the 3rd with a spore). Remember when your lair is done, you can always morph an overseer and get a quick scout off immediately. Also, if you're getting an evo chamber at roughly 7min, you have a lot of time to place spore crawlers if you're unsure of your opponent's build.

If you're ever caught off-guard, you should SPAM spore crawlers. I've seen a game of Stephano's where protoss opened 2Stargate 3voidray/phoenix in close air spawns. Stephano proceeded to build a hydra den and about 8 spores in his main as well as 2-3 spores at his natural and 3rd. He lost almost no drones, cancelled some of the spores when a few had completed, and proceeded to max out off 3 bases.
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 robaq   Poland. March 30 2012 04:59. Posts 45
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Honestly, this is the first really useful guide written by you and... I love it! You always were writing nicely composed, fun to read guides, but it is the first time a guide that actually teaches how to become a better player.
Keep up the good macro-oriented style, ditch the old all-innish stuff. :D
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 blade55555   United States. March 30 2012 04:59. Posts 14076
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On March 30 2012 03:45 Sakray wrote:

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Actually almost nothing


The koreans know how to beat it
When I think of something else, something will go here
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 Crookie   United States. March 30 2012 05:00. Posts 31
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Very interesting! One quick question:

What happens when the protoss opens stargate? Does he just defend with spores and queens or does he get out hydras as well? And how does the zerg transition from this? Do you still attack around 12 mins? Or do you wait untill hydras?

Thanks!
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