Learn Starcraft! Easy Beginner Zerg Build Order Guide & Training (Updated 2020)
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I’m glad I’m there in the marine suit for moral support.
You’ve been there since the begining of time, standing menacing in the background with the suit.
That vid is cool. But what if few battlecruisers appears at my hatch? Hydras are so bad against it. And one spore crawler is deleted in few seconds. So it doesnt helps at all.
that’s where the queens come in for early anti-air, while you scramble for corruptors.
@@StaglyMusic send in the Brendas
This Serral's ,,You suck''proof armor
"it`s better to have no money and plenty of larva than plenty of larva and no money" - my system crashed on that one :)
I like rewinded like 5 times cause I didn't think I heard that right
@@johnlucas463 same :)
Literally was questioning myself like I'm not missing something here right?
Came here to comment the same thing. Thank you, Sir.
Laughed so hard when i heared this
Notes
*End goal:* 4 base (or 4+ Macro if injects go poorly) Roach/Hydra evenly maxed out +2/+1 62 Drones
ZvZ is more of an aggressive match-up and will change from this
Camera locations set up for queen injects
Benchmark: 9m to 9m30s for diamond, 10m to 10m30s Plat
*Build*
1st Overlord goes to safely view exit of opposing natural (further in vs zerg)
2nd Overlord goes to their 3rd base
17 Hatchery
17 Extractor
17 Spawning Pool
Rally army production to defend natural
Overlord goes to front of defensive natural
Mine up until 100 gas/pull 2 drones outta gas/ Metabolic Boost (speed)
4 Lings
2 Queens
If no expo, build +4 lings/spine/queens
3min 3rd Hatchery
Dedicate one queen to creep
After speed is done, return to saturate first gas
4 min evo/roach warren to wall off nat
Spore in each mineral line
4m15s Lair
30 drones take 2nd/3rd gas gases
40 drones take 4th gas and 2nd Evo
+1 Attack
Roach Speed
Hydra Den
5th and 6th gas
+2 attack +1 Carapace
*Later game*
If they dont have a 3rd or 4th, deny bases
Build spire and hive simultaneously
Greater Spire → broodlords
Great summary, thanks a bunch. Learning Zerg here after seeing Serral dominate. :D
you don't have to use evolution chamber and roach warren to wall of your natural. I have actually never done that and my highest win rate is with zerg. Usually my natural is defended with a couple of spines and spores, 1 queen, and a portion of my early game army.
Thank you for this. I am so slow compared to this though! It is because I just don't really understand what is going on, or why I am doing things, never mind why I am doing them in this order. This then means I cannot learn the order properly. It has taken me 10 minutes to get to 30 supply...
Io it’s fine to be overwhelmed, this game is really hard.
The section on end goal is important to see why you’re doing all of this: winter is trying to get you to a specific 200 supply army, while also being safe along the way.
If you’re struggling with hotkeys, overlords, drones and larva injects, search for content on Zerg mechanics. I like the old day 9 newbie Tuesday videos for that. glhf!
@@thomazalexandrecoelho7094 Thank you for the recommendation friend. Have a nice night)))))
AS someone in Bronse 3 i can can definitely say that after watching this my W/L ratio went from 1/16 to 5/52
LMAO
High IQ joke
Who said i was joking
@@masumasumasu high iq joke? He went from 1/16 to 1/10.4, wheres the joke?
@@masumasumasu or 5/80 to 5/52 how u wanna look at it
“I’m here to teach you Zerg. Today, we’re gonna play with ourselves”
Best quote ever.
ye... double edge wooden sword...
me: yay ima learn to play
me: wait when did he make that unit
lmao same
Lol fking yes!
i think i watched this video more than 30 times. also sometimes i let it play while im playing and i start his game 10 seconds earlier, so its like hes telling me what to do in my game. i love this video, keep up the great work.
This build works super great, I played three games, and I won 3 out of 3. Thank you!
9.05, "It's better to have plenty of larvae and no money, rather than have no money and plenty of larvae." lol good one winter.
good guide, I started playing yesterday and I'm already maxing out between the 9 to 10 minute mark... now, I just need to figure out what all those other buildings do beside the spawn pool, hydra nest and roach warren lmao
Wondering what universe this is a beginner's guide lmao wtf is he talking about what are these units
Same here. I'm a beginner as well, and with this strategy I can beat "Elite" Terran, Protoss and Zerg every time. I tried playing on the ladder but I am in Australia which means I have to play on the Asian server, and I keep getting hammered by South Korean players who somehow seem to produce adepts or reapers within the fist minute.
@@thenayancat8802 This is definitely a beginners guide. However, like he said in the video, you shouldve played at least a few AI matches, and preferably the campaign as well, before trying to jump into this guide or playing multiplayer. This game is not easy and you cant just jump right in even with a guide like this and expect to understand whats going on
@@Darkrender I've played a handful of campaign missions and skirmishes, but I still have no idea what half the techs and units are, and the fact that 90% of the content on SC2 assumes you already understand the game makes me not bother trying to get into it.
This is also not the 1st "beginners" guide I've watched over the years, because I'd like to be able to play a few games and actually understand it enough to watch but I still have no idea
"The unenthusiastic handjob of army compositions" I shot my redbull out of my nose lol
A minor hint for beginners - instead of playing against no opponent, play against a "very easy" AI opponent.
It's effectively the same (you will get a trivial attack at around 6-8 mins) but the benefit is that you can practice scouting, overlord placement during the game and you will get APM and other charts/stats at the end.
I have always been afraid/overwhelmed with zerg, I have always avoided it, I always chose toss. Finally came back after many years and I am going to learn it. Thanks for taking the time to make this, I am studying these videos while at work and challenge myself to know every unit, macro/micro strategy, every strategy for every race, I am shooting for grandmaster. I am definitely not even bronze right now. I appreciate any/all tips and advice for this journey. Cheers.
Wow! I’m Zerg platinum in one night in my first night playing Zerg!!! Best tutorial ever! Thank you so much Winter! You made StarCraft fun for me again!
9:15 "It's better to have no money and plenty of larva, then plenty of larva and no money!" Now THAT is some Big Brain stuff right here!
Anyway, thanks for the upload. I've been getting back to it a couple of days ago and this is very helpful!
Hey man. Wanted to thank you for this video. I've done this a few times now and already improved a lot (not hard to do when it was taking 18+ min to max out lol). I'm down to 11 min and It's worked really well in vs. so far. Hopefully can get down to 9 soon. Thanks again!
Love the educational content, Winter. I can't wait for the Low APM challenge to continue.
Thank you for the guide! I finally managed to win my first match using the tips in this video. Now, I just have to do it all over again for the other races, and then learn more than one build order...
Amazing how it just feels right when u play the race u enjoy most
I always played as Zerg and came to the conclusion that they were the worst race in the game until this video. Made a huge difference. Thank you
OH MAN, i just used this build, not even like exactly the way u did it but just by creating my second base right away and then third i destroyed my opponent, i thought that by building something else then spawing pool would decrease my army value and make it hard to defend myself but even after he sent his reapers i was able to fully destroy him! my understanding of the game has simply expanded! Thanks!
Wahooooooo a new guide. Love the vids :)
Good guide, and I expect to try to do exactly what you teach here. I'm stuck on gold and hope this helps me. I'd like to point out, however, that it would be helpful to be able to see the production tab. So, I believe it would be better to comment on a replay instead of doing it live.
9:07 "it's better to have no money and plenty of larva than plenty of larva and no money"
Winter's eternal wisdom
Im late, but that doesnt matter. Im glad the zerg one was posted finally. Time to start grinding again.
I really (re) learned from this and enjoyed the way you talk..
I love this content, it's fun and helpful. Plenty of informations and tips to know.
Ty winter for the guide,I started playeing sc2 around when WoL came out but never played much ranked because I didn't know what to do/I was very bad at micro(still am),but now I see that doesen'T matter and all you really need to know is "Less shit counters moar shet",and Im not sayng that sarcasticly I've found that this rule holds up for about 90% of the matches,and now after I watched this vid I can say that Im finally haveing fun :D
A useful trick I discovered for timing when to expand to your natural is to rally your 15th drone egg to you natural. By the time it gets there you will usually have between 300 - 350 minerals depending on the map.
9:08 "it's better to have no money and plenty of larvae, then plenty of larvae and no money" couldn't have said it better myself
Thanks for helping me get my first legitimate victory!
Really enjoyed the video :D
"You mighta heard that brood lords got a nervous. They did! But guess what? THEY'RE STILL BROOD LORDS!"
Thank you so much, this very interesting. And if you know it by any chance, do you know how are those builds developed? I would like to play around with that myself. Just for fun of course.
Tip: you can hotkey your larva queens and then inject larva on the minimap pointing the hatchery
I have never played sc2 before but I have been watching for a long time. I am now going to learn the very basics and optimize maxing out on roach hydra as fast as possible, then following your advice of just a-clicking the map then letting it go. I will post my results
3 months after, what's up?
ty for the tip on not sacrificing army into the BL tech. I always thought that was a given
For anyone like me who needs supply marks:
Gas rule : If number of drone
The Brick is back.
Can I ask why you get the ling speed? In your recent series 100 APM to master I believe you mention at least a couple of times, that you are mostly getting 6 zerglings for safety at the beginning and there's no need for speed upgrade?
Can't imagine a situation where you would never get ling speed....honestly i think as zerg you should always get it -.-
I like the music alot! im terrible at this game compared to warcraft 3 but definitely learned some good tricks for being more speedy in game. Thanks! Whats the music playlist on this video? im looking to get more feel good music. dig the tracks...
Thanks dude. Very helpful. I'm a noob player and this helps me a lot.
Good guide Kevin Spacey. Thumbs up!
Yknow, i think your breakdown kinda helps. I might still be stupid slow, because im not the best at the game, but this might help with my struggles in unranked 2v2s lol
Hey @
WinterStarcraft could u provide this replay? Im trying to get this exact build order and the replay would help me get some details.
A player from the game suggested me this channel, will watch more videos too, this game is pretty rough in pvp
Is winter a school teacher or something? Jesus, i loved that didactical 17 hatch, 17 gas, 17 pool
my brain stops working when I get to hive tech in 1vs1 😓
I was legit so scared to go back into PVP in this game, then I got into three games where the enemy took six minutes to take his natural. One of these guys was platinum.
And no, they did not take a base somewhere else. One of these guys went directly into battlecruisers and tried to just into my main with a single battlecruiser at eight minutes.
Do I always have to 3rd hatch by that time? Or can I wait for some minutes?
I havent played since 2016 and im thinking about coming back for a bit. How much has the meta changed? Is there any tutorial for like maybe top 3 builds per match up? Also has overlord always at 13? I always thought it was 14
Always 13. Only way to keep building drones constantly with out waiting for an ovi.
I've noticed that, down here in Bronze, if I'm not dead to 100 Marines by 5 minutes, something is up and I'm gonna be dead by 10 minutes to 100 tanks.
Struggled my first couple games but now pogging out, defo need an adaption for zvz tho
Did you ever pick winners for the voice pack? The anticipation of my loss is killing me.
Ah the good ol' goldfish test from MTG, I remember this.
I love that flex cam for your keyboard xd
What do I do to counter Protoss colossus with this build? I’ve tried corrupters but they just blink into them
Pls teach how to beat Terran, patch 3.11.3 T_T
I'm watching so many pro zerg consistently get steam rolled (and I can't find enough Serral)
What apm do people get when doing practice runs like this? I seem to get about 75
"the only real race the race of serral" big facts
thx winter!
Wait which is it? Do I need to have no money or no larvae?
This guy is passionate about lifting people out of the zerg ghetto I really respect that
i love you. i started playing this game liek 2 days ago and watched this guide and the protos guide and im already kicking my friends ass lmaooooo
7-1 in Silver after having played Starcraft for a week. This shit works, eventually I might have to find out what the enemy units are, but only when there are enough of them (:
works for me too :), so much so that I just survived my first protoss cheese. they killed lots of drones but i had a big enough economy that I eventually pulled through
Are those the simulant skins, or the cerberus?
I was using your Easy Terran build and I was beaten by a guy who was using your Easy Zerg build. He maxed out at 9 minutes and came to me when I needed 2 more minutes to max out. I'm Silver and he was Platinum. Is it possible to max out on Terran on 9 minutes as well? Or I just shouldn't wait and begin pushing as soon as I have Stim&Medivacks? I mean... it looks like, on Platinum, you can't turtle on your 2-3 bases until you maxed out at 10-11 minutes any more.
Nice Keyboard animation ! Can you give me the name of the animation on G hub man ?
I'm using the select base hotkey to inject
i often see a 16-Hatch, what are the benefits of a 16 vs. a 17-Hatch?
Is there a build order I can throw into SALT?
You had one Job Winter.
I only start with 4 drones! How do you manage to start with so many more?!
How do I change my zerg units to have that color??? I know he has skin but how do I make them white??
9:08 "It's better to have no money and plenty of larva, than plenty of larva and no money"?... what. Thats just exactly the same situation
anyone has the text version of this build order?
i watched the video in slow motion but even then, I do not see when he built his queen
at 20/30 as the overlord finishes he builds the first queen there... I think it was muscle memory as he didn't discuss it.
U use custom hotkey?
I started to play Unranked as Zerg. People go one base rush. I got a Cloaked Banshee harass, BC rush and Hellion rush. All attacks around minute 5+. One toss used a Prism and warped Zealots into my main. Almost everybody is rushing me using various tricks.
Hello pls , can somebody write em here i can i do , Camera lock on base pls ? GOLD 1 / 130 APM i just use my mouse to change base and use larva from Queen . THX
Ok so when place evo then? You said put down evo and roach at 4 minutes, but also 4 minutes spore crawler....
When Im playing 1v1 with zerg, if I stay in one spot and build army/defence they have time to build enough to destroy me. If I try to branch out like you do here I end up being destroyed because I have not an army at all, or not enough. Either way zerg seems to be too slow. Yes ima noob to anything but campaign.
I only bought this game because it's my brother's favorite game... I don't think I even like playing it but damn it feels good to beat him only because I watch your guides lol
What do you mean by "bought"? This game's multiplayer mode is free.
Or maybe you wanted to try out the campaigns? (they are pretty good btw)
Have started StarCraft 3 days now and i cand understand my shit of how zerg works
Holy shit this works!
Winter what the frick it isn’t 2020 yet this is way too ealry
I wish I could meet Winter in person
I don't believe I've been this early to anything ever.
Where does one come from when one pronounces "supply" as "soop-lie"?
but luke et dee soup lie!!!
Sick
I'm the guy who told winter to try the play again button in direct strike. I'm so proud he's all grown up.
what keyboard is that?
I m plat/diamond zerg and managed to maxed out (198 supply) 7.36. I played against very hard AI but it didnt disturb me.
I played SC original for years. Just now starting 2 after a break from gaming. Nervous and anxious. Used to be very, very good. Now I'm a newbie its intimidating as fuck.
why’d you post the best race last
Because it's alphabetically last
Because we dont want to flood the ladder with zerg tryhards. Hehe
I usually get attacked or cheesed before 6 min mark, and I'm gold level. I have about a 50% win/loose ratio. I wish I could take the time and max out, but it isn't happening.
What keyboard isvthat
yes, i want to get max supply and just f2 move it to the other map. ive heard it can get you to maybe even gold. i can max out at 13 mins XD, but eh, 4000 1000 banked up somehow
Sounds like your Queens aren't injecting larva often enough.
@@dude6935 that is a good tip, i will keep this in mind.
what does the 17 mean?
I think I can learn zvp and zvt but the zvz dance, that's daunting.
The good thing is that every other zerg at your level is just as bad at it as you
You gotta be one with Kraft and become the cheesiest
Why do you get Zergling speed? seems like a waste to get early if you don't use any zerglings really
Jake Thomas its mainly used for scouting making it hard to chase down and it allows lings to be able to chase down hellions and reapers
Speed zerglings are essential to defend early aggression from all races. You absolutely need speed against reapers, hellions, blink stalkers and enemy zerglings.
You can skip it and sometimes not be punished, but that's like not walling off as terran: An instant loss in any game where you would have needed it and didn't have it from the start.
It's both for scouting and security, if you suddenly see a massive attack coming at you you need to just jam down the zergling key sometimes. And if you dont have speed, good luck defending.
Due to the way zerg production works you can normally build defensive lings when you scout an attack coming and have them ready before the attack hits. If they don't attack early on, you don't build them. You can do without speed but it lets you get surrounds against hellions, reapers, stim-marines, adepts,etc... Units that are too fast to chase down without speed. Queens are good, but can't chase down that 1 hit point hellion off creep.
As others have said they are also excellent for scouting as well as denying greedy early 3rds. In ZvZ particularly lingspeed is great for backstabs.