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Zerg Vs Terran - Breaking the Tank Push

The tank push is being using more and more in Zerg vs Terran games on bnet right now. This guide will show you how to easily beat a Terran tank push. So what does a Zerg player do to beat the tanks?
Infestors are simply amazing against large units like the tank and thor. Use the infestor's neural parasite ability on the tanks to take control of them and turn them around to attack the Terran's own units. This strategy will work great as long as you can use the zerglings to protect the infestors from attacks. Also you will need to make sure the Terran player doesn't have and air units because neither the zerglings or infestors can attack air. If you use this strategy it can be very effective even against a good Terran player.

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Zerg's Nydus Network Guide

In this guide I will show you how to effectively use the Zerg's nydus network. The nydus network is an attack tool but I recommend using it to harass our opponent and not for a full out attack. It only costs 150 minerals and is quick to build. The key to deploying the network is the overlord's ability to generate creep. In short you will get a group of speed upgraded zerglings and/or banelings and then send an overlord to drop some creep in the enemy's base. As soon as the creep is down build the worm and send all your zerglings and banelings through. Go straight for the workers and ignore any attack units they have. Third, I would not recommend using this against Zerg players as it would be just as easy and cheaper to run the zerglings right in the front door of the base.

Zerg Vs Protoss - Winning by Starving Strategy

It can be a real challenge to win a Zerg vs Protoss game because of the Protoss ability to make the perfect counter units to whatever we might throw at them. If we make zerglings they make zealots and colossus. If we make roaches they make the perfect counter which is immortals. If we make hydralisks they make stalkers and colossus. This guide will show you how to beat a good Protoss player by using a starve strategy. The key to this is expanding early and keeping the Protoss player from expanding. Instead of upgrading to a lair use the minerals to expand. Keep the Protoss player from expanding and just wait him out, don't attack his main base. sc2 guide

Terran Harassment Strategy

In Starcraft 2 harassment is the name of the game. If you can keep yourself one step ahead of your opponent by using harassment techniques, chances are you'll pull out a win in the end. This is especially true when playing as Terran. In this guide I will show you the basics of effective Terran harassment. Vikings are possibly my favorite Terran unit. A lot of newer players will easily dismiss them as "useless" since they don't attack ground units unless in assault mode. One of the best maps for viking harassment is kulas ravine. A 1v1 map that has of lot of high ground overlooking mineral expansion points. If the Zerg player expands early get a starport and build a few vikings. You can drop them on the high ground right overlooking the expansion. Tactics like this are also useful when playing against a Protoss player as well.

Protoss Guide - The Power of Immortals

The second is the immortal's huge bonus damage to armored units. However the immortal will die quickly to groups of smaller units such as marines or zerglings. So when you playing against a Terran player you would use immortals if you see a lot of thors or tanks. But don't make any immortals if the Terran player is using a lot of marines and marauders. Now when you are playing Zerg there is something that most Zerg players don't realize but roaches are an armored unit and they do a slow attack of 16 damage, which means they take massive damage from immortals and 6 points of their attacks on immortals will be deflected. So to sum it up, immortals will simply dominate roaches and do very well against hydralisks as well as ultralisks. However, zerglings take immortals out pretty fast so watch out for that and use colossus to handle the zerglings instead of immortals.
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