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A noob’s guide to getting out of bronze league

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I just started playing SC2 as Terran a week or two ago, and have really enjoyed learning this new strategy game. I’ve watched videos of pro tournaments in the past, kept a close eye as a software developer on reinforcement learning advances in the past few years, and also played a lot of chess, but I never played any Starcraft because I always thought my dexterity would prohibit me from having fun with the game.

Thankfully that has 100% not turned out to be true. I’ve had an enormous amount of fun with the game and I just graduated to silver. This is not exactly a real accomplishment, but still, I had a fun idea for a post.

I’ve realized a little original thinking helped me more than anything else. There are a couple rules I’ve discovered that are fairly strategically sound, and easy for low-skill players like myself to execute, but no one talks about them because they wouldn’t work at a higher level. The thing is I feel like most of the advice out there doesn’t target low-skill players.

So here’s my bullet list of easy-to-follow rules that I think would reliably get you out of bronze league. It’s mostly meant for fun and based on personal experience but I would appreciate a similar list for other leagues if anyone feels motivated to come up with one.

1.) Forget the standard hotkeys. Customize your hotkeys so that you can lay your left hand across QWER and have at least 7 control groups available without moving your hand. I use 1,2,3,4,5,T,and Space.

2.) Build workers at every base, basically constantly and for the entire game. You’ll lose plenty anyway, and if you over saturate then you’ll have extras to transfer when you expand.

3.) Always expand as soon as every base you have is fully saturated. Don’t worry about expanding sooner or later than that, just let your income grow at a steady level.

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4.) When you expand, make it a habit of bringing all those extra workers you have down to the expo and wall off with supply depots. It’s inefficient but you’ll never be supply blocked.

5.) Don’t think about build orders. Just spend your first surplus minerals to wall off your main with supply depots, to deter super early aggression. Then just build enough of each production facility to spend all your resources.

6.) Build basically any mix of units and upgrade them whenever you have extra resources. Having a specific composition doesn’t really matter. Just make sure you can target both ground and air, and have some detection. If you see your opponent go with a narrow composition, only then change to build units that counter it.

7.) Use all your units all the time, only micro specific groups for harassment when you have spare time. Don’t be afraid of the Select Army key. It gets made fun of a lot but at this level it’s very convenient.

8.) If you have a mid-game battle that’s neither super favorable nor devastating, and you’re not sure where you stand, don’t dive in or take any unfavorable engagements. Instead follow the step below.

Preserve your army, try to protect your core bases, and (this is the very unconventional part, but it’s a clincher!) send a worker to literally every unoccupied expansion area. I mean it. Every single one.

Your opponents at this level won’t be scouting well and usually won’t be overly aggressive until they are confident they’ve rebuilt their army.

And for some reason they usually won’t try to expand or will do so timidly, maybe for fear of being attacked, or doing something stupid , or deviating from what they usually see pro gamers do.

So basically, if you can stay alive till mid-game and still be in decent shape, all you have to do is do is perform this explosive mid-game expansion and you’ll end up out-macroing every single low-level player, even if you’re only breaking even on the battles you engage in.

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You’re basically just exploiting the fact that everyone at Bronze league either stops expanding at mid-game, or mimics the expansion tempo they see from high level players, which means it would never occur to them to do something so silly as what I just described. And that seems to be why it works.

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