Link: Replay
Opponents' Rank: Platinum 3 (Yay! I'm back to being matched against platinums after that horrific slide.)
MMR Change: +13 (1325)
Recap: Another bout of unexpected early pressure. Did someone shift the PvP metagame while I was away? This time was a zealot rush, which I scouted and threw down a second gate of my own. His micro was definitely better than mine and he killed more probes than he should have given that our forces were equal, but for now I'm willing to accept being out-microed if I keep up my macro, which I did.
He tried again with another wave which I held easily. Once I knew I wasn't under pressure, I expanded and got my robo. I pushed out with a few immortals but he held his ramp with FFs. (At this point I should have scouted better, because he took a ninja expansion shortly afterwards. That could have been nasty had I not expanded to a third myself.)
I got colossi, broke his ramp, stomped on his army, then hunted down his expansion.
Lessons: If I think I have a contain, scout the expos! (Unlike the other lessons, this falls well within the scope of things I want to be working on.)
I made a couple mistakes trying to break his ramp-- on the first try, I brought an observer, but let it get into range of a cannon. On the second, successful, try, I used my collosi to break the forcefields, but this accidentally sent them to the front of my army where they got killed.
Again, these are micro mistakes that I make up for with superior macro and game management, and that's well within my game plan. Just making a note of it.
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