Most of my recent losses weren't terribly educational. A Korean 4-gate, a 10-pool, a weird thing where he chrono boosted three zealots out of 1 gate and hit when I just had 1 zealot and 1 stalker and I didn't micro well enough, and one game where my macro was so terribly sloppy that all I can say is "fail less".

That only leaves a couple, both unorthodox PvPs. My PvP needs work, bad.

Link: Replay
Opponents' Rank:
MMR Change: -7
Recap: He started with 3-gate pressure with a forward pylon. I'd seen enough to suspect a 4-gate and went defensive 4-gate. I had some awkward supply blocks in this period, but was still able to hold the first push and stay even in supply.

Once I figured the 4-gate wasn't coming, I put down a robo, got an immortal, and started dedicating all my gas to teching to colossus. This worked pretty well-- I had the immortal out for his next push, and a colossus out for the third. Once that was done, I pushed him back, destroyed the forward pylon, and expanded as I pushed.

He has already expanded, which was smart. I did a lot of damage with my push but he ended up keeping the nexus and killing almost everything. I didn't macro well during this battle. Our supplies were even but I was floating 900 minerals.

Still, I felt good. I had an expo up and a tech lead. He stayed with immortals and got blink while I kept making colossus. He got a third up a little faster than I did, but I don't think the game lasted long enough for that to matter.

I pushed in with two colossus, range, and +1 weapons. He had a bunch of stalkers and immortals, which wrapped around my colossi, killed them, and then crushed the rest.

Lessons:

• Some early supply blocks turned what should have been easy early battles into close calls, and my macro slipped during my main push. My mechanics slipped during my break, and they're my main focus for improvement. I could stand to spend a few games going back to watching the supply counter.
• My colossus lead made me over confident. It's a little odd to be fighting a PvP where the opponent doesn't have any, so I was a little thrown. Immortals are pretty good against them, and if I don't take advantage of the big range plus force fields to keep them safe, they'll die.
• I think I played this more-or-less correctly. Teching to colossus and pushing against his expo was the right move. If my macro and mechanics were better, it would have worked.