
What a weekend of Starcraft! I have been paying close attention to any new improvisation of the Hellbat transformation. TaeJa did a new Hellbat build which took out both JaeDong and Scarlett in the Home Story Cup.

What a weekend of Starcraft! I have been paying close attention to any new improvisation of the Hellbat transformation. TaeJa did a new Hellbat build which took out both JaeDong and Scarlett in the Home Story Cup.

There has been a slow shift in metagame for the TvZ match up. Perhaps, a more accurate way to express it is that Terran is trying to break the current metagame.
Recently, I have been doing research to improve my TvP. TaeJa’s unique gas first build caught my attention.
Mass Reaper opening was the go-to-build when Heart of the Swarm was just released, until other builds got more popular. Now, two barracks Reaper have become a “10 pool build”, and I will explain why.
12/12 Reaper opening is the current metagame build in TvZ. Despite that the build gives the Terran player decent map control in the early game, especially with Reactor Hellion follow up, it is vulnerable to early aggression timings. This post is about how a minor build order change could help against such timings.
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