The opinion on Widow Mine so far has been divided. On one camp, it’s too overpowered. Conversely, it’s just right.
This post is about how I feel toward Widow Mine after I have played approximately 20 to 30 1v1 games on Heart of the Swarm till this point. Additionally, it’s also based on the games played in IEM – World Championship.
One barrack expand in TvP is the most commonly used build now. Although there are different variations (e.g. Bomber’s delay refinery build), they still generally converge back to three barracks, one starport and one engineering bay by 9:30. By 10:00, Terran should be outside of the Protoss’s natural with marines, marauders and two medivacs. However, this timing is so typical that both Terran and Protoss know what to expect from each other. Then, what is the objective of Terran at this time frame?
Flash played his first broadcasted game in GSL yesterday against Killer, and won as many had expected. With no experience with BW, I have no idea what’s the style of Flash. Apparently, his style is usually command centre first according to the comments on Team Liquid forum. He indeed often opens up with command centre first in TvP, and he again showed off his style of TvP against Killer yesterday.
After a two months interval from the last Heart of the Swarm Battle Report, Terran vs Protoss was released today on Day[9]’s youtube channel. Despite Day[9]’s marketing value, I’m surprised that it is not on Blizzard’s Starcraft youtube channel, yet.
Bomber’s TvP has been the most talked about TvP build in June. His TvP build was showcased in Red Bull Battlegrounds last month, where he was the runner up of the tournament.
Other than summarising the key aspects of this build, this post also covers some of the overlooked strengths of this build.
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