Link: Replay
Opponents' Rank: Plat 26
MMR Change: +15 (286)
Overall Record: 29-21
Recap:
An interesting opening. He tried putting a bunker down right next to my nexus, and I pulled probes to kill it, but in retrospect it was probably an over-reaction, since he wouldn't have marines to put in it.
I also pushed out 2 zealots early, which I used to pressure his ramp, but that he chased off with marines. Again, a bit of a waste, but I wanted to do something with them.
From there it went a little more standard. He hit with barracks pressure against my 2-gate robo, and I held the ramp. It was touch and go until I got out my second immortal, at which point I killed the push and expanded.
I was guessing we were basically even at this point, or that I was maybe a little ahead from killing the push. That's when I scouted him trying to expand to the gold with an orbital command. I pushed out immediately and was able to kill it off, along with some defending forces, a factory, a starport, and a lot of SCVs, but my forces were whittled down to just the immortals and a couple of other units, so I pulled back.
Colossi were out at this point, so I expanded and pushed his natural, where he'd expanded again. He had some tanks but not enough, and I killed it. Again, the main force got small enough that I didn't want to make that final push, but after a wave of reinforcements I got the GG.
Lessons:
If someone tries to freak me out with a bunker again, I shouldn't react quite so hard. That put me unnecessarily behind.
On the other hand, I feel like I did a good job against that barracks pressure this time, but the real deciding factor was his move to take the middle when he couldn't hold it. I just punished him for that.
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