{"id":851,"date":"2015-07-19T13:35:31","date_gmt":"2015-07-19T20:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/?p=851"},"modified":"2015-07-20T12:49:32","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T19:49:32","slug":"featured-replay-of-the-week-snutes-zvp-zergling-hydralisk-contain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/?p=851","title":{"rendered":"Featured Replay of the Week: Snute&#8217;s ZvP Zergling Hydralisk Contain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spawningtool.com\/28106\/\">View this replay on Spawning Tool<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MkCvbeXR1lM?start=420\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.teamliquid.net\/starcraft2\/IEM_Season_X_-_Shenzhen#Stage_2\">Group D<\/a> was the group of death: the reigning SSL Champion (Classic), the reigning GSL Champion (Rain), MVP&#8217;s top Protoss player (YongHwa). And Snute came out on top with an aggressive heavy Hydralisk style in ZvP.<\/p>\n<p>Snute opens with a safe 15 Pool, 16 Hatch to avoid a cannon rush and transitions into a relatively normal 3rd base timing around 4:00 and Zergling speed soon after. Around 7 minutes, he goes up to 30 Zerglings to deny Rain&#8217;s 3rd base and immediately goes into Hydralisk production. He uses those to destroy the 3rd base again and create a soft contain. The safe opening allows Snute to apply pressure before typically 2 base timings come in from Protoss.<\/p>\n<p>From here, Zerg will typically transition into either Infestors to lock down the Stalkers or more Vipers for the Blinding Cloud, but Snute gets away with building only 2 Vipers. Most of us don&#8217;t have army control like Snute, but he pulls it off with smart positioning and baiting forcefields. Keeping the Viper and Infestor count low leaves more gas for Hydralisks.<\/p>\n<p>There are a few caveats to this style. First, this build is likely a response to the prevalence of Blink Stalkers in the current meta. Against a more traditional Colossi army, the mid-game pressure timing is much tighter. This seems like the biggest potential risk to this style<\/p>\n<p>Second, there are different ways to transition. In his other games, Snute also opted for Roach Zergling pressure early on, so there are options for staying aggressive.<\/p>\n<p>Third, Snute delays upgrades for a long time. His first attack\/armor upgrade is +1 missiles at 12:00. This might be a risk against a double Forge style with more armor upgrades to buffer against the Hydralisks. To sustain the attack, you probably will need to go up to 4 bases. Snute gets it very late in this game, but you can see other timings in his games against Classic<\/p>\n<p>Fourth, the late-game composition is presumably more flexible for how the Protoss responds. Against High Templar, Snute opted for more Roaches. If he had seen more Colossi, I would guess you would get more Vipers for the Abducts.<\/p>\n<p>So in summary, safe opening + big Speedling attack + mid-game Hydralisk contain = devastated GSL\/SSL champions<\/p>\n<p>Check out the rest of this series and Snute&#8217;s series against Classic for more games like this <a href=\"http:\/\/spawningtool.com\/28108\/\">http:\/\/spawningtool.com\/28108\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>-StoicLoofah<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/spawningtool.com\/28106\/\">Snute&#8217;s ZvP Zergling Hydralisk Contain<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>9 Overlord<\/li>\n<li>15 Spawning Pool<\/li>\n<li>16 Hatchery<\/li>\n<li>15 Overlord<\/li>\n<li>15 Queen<\/li>\n<li>17 Zergling x4<\/li>\n<li>21 Extractor, Hatchery, Overlord<\/li>\n<li>29 Overlord, Metabolic Boost<\/li>\n<li>~5:40 Queen x2<\/li>\n<li>~7:00 Lair, Zergling x20\/30 (attack the 3rd)<\/li>\n<li>8:00 Extractor x4<\/li>\n<li>8:40 Hydralisk Den<\/li>\n<li>9:20 Grooved Spines, flood Hydralisks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View this replay on Spawning Tool Group D was the group of death: the reigning SSL Champion (Classic), the reigning GSL Champion (Rain), MVP&#8217;s top Protoss player (YongHwa). And Snute came out on top with an aggressive heavy Hydralisk style &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/?p=851\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,75,20],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-build-orders","category-replay-of-the-week","category-zerg","tag-snute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":858,"href":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions\/858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}