All the whining from Z/T has led up to this point: one macro strategy per race and that’s it. This is the only ideal follow up solution, especially at the lower level. Playa basically gives the best answer - turtle macro and skytoss. There are a lot of whiners on here that complain about the stargate opener, but honestly, what else can you do as Protoss? Stargate openers are the only optimal strategy in the game (except for maybe DTs, but that becomes obvious when your second gateway unit is a stalker to deny the scouting overlord). This will not only keep you safe from any of their immediate follow ups, but it also allows you to macro back into the game. This leaves you with only one option: to go stargate and macro it out. I have tried 4 gate follow ups, 2 base zealot/immortal allins, adepts. There is literally nothing you can do as an immediate follow up to genuinely punish your opponent. They have the overlord in your natural to scout your transition. If they don’t lose it, they probably have like 6 lings to scout around the map. In general, the early lings are designed to pressure you. Forget the fact that whenever I try to do a counter proxy, people always send a ling/overlord straight to it for a second and instantly deny it. I’ve tried it at the low M1 level (~4800-5k mmr). If someone were wild enough to go 12 pool and then only make drones? Let’s please not think about such a horror. At the least, I’m not losing any games due to falling behind early. With the way described, I now win nearly 100% of games vs said build. Success appears to merely be not falling behind. Nothing feels like it “punishes pool first,” which is why it became the meta. Then I just go stargate -> adept and go into my regular sky toss + disruptors. I just completely wall off with a pylon in the gap, make a cannon and a cyber. So, upon scouting the pool first (12-13 pool), I’m able to make a forge ASAP (after having a gateway). Since then, I’ve learned the necessity of pylon scouting vs Zerg. When I came back from a break, I lost every game vs Zerg, because… apparently 12 pooling became the meta, and apparently my play was too sub optimal vs it to not get behind. So, I can only give an anecdotal for vs 12 pool. 100% of the time I end up with way too much chrono energy, just because I’m like I dislike playing vs pool first builds at weird times, just because… you get so little practice vs them that you don’t even know what kinda timings you need or order of things.
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