Learn Starcraft - Protoss Beginner Guide #1 (Updated Patch 4.0 FREE TO PLAY)

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  • How to command the incredibly strong forces of the protoss and cover weaknesses against the other inferior races. Updated for patch 4.0!
    This guide is not intended for COMPLETELY new players, but those who have played several games/campaign missions and grasp the very basics.
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Komentáře • 436

  • @scari_3656
    @scari_3656 Před 5 lety +139

    "Starcraft is not about losing or winning, it is about beating yourself"- Winter2017
    Wisest words that you have ever said.

    • @SUPRspyctaco
      @SUPRspyctaco Před 4 lety +1

      as soon as he said that, i saw your comment and i COMPLETELY agree!

    • @h_lapp
      @h_lapp Před 3 lety +2

      I beat myself every night

    • @donkeyface4452
      @donkeyface4452 Před 3 lety +1

      That’s not saying much

  • @creepinwhileyousleepin
    @creepinwhileyousleepin Před 6 lety +194

    tried SC2 for the first time yesterday. It blows my mind how much shit you have to pay attention to. I played co-op with a friend and after 3 hours my brain was fried.

    • @hoang2312
      @hoang2312 Před 5 lety +9

      If you played sc1 before things would be much easier. I also played some other rts game like aoe, warcraft 3, and those old games didn't have that much macro assistant like sc2

    • @canobenitez
      @canobenitez Před 5 lety +30

      i mean, you harass for a couple of minutes and buum! 1200 minerals, workers inactive, and your enemy already is destroying your supply at your natural!

    • @potatodude5327
      @potatodude5327 Před 5 lety +5

      try command and conquer red alert 3

    • @firestarter000001
      @firestarter000001 Před 4 lety +2

      It will get better:). At osme point when you learn shortcuts/use control groups it gets much better because you do much stuff nearly simultanously.

    • @catalyzt9
      @catalyzt9 Před 4 lety +2

      MarathonInfinityHalo spend your money while you fight!!! I tell all my friends when they first start playing the game “the first 100 games you play, don’t even look at the fight, just send your army in and continue to build more workers/army.” There’s no reason to micro all the way up to diamond

  • @mrj7297
    @mrj7297 Před 6 lety +145

    - The warp prism is essentially a flying pylon. -
    SUPER pylon my friend ;)

    • @sirbubblegum9224
      @sirbubblegum9224 Před 6 lety +4

      Oh, are warp priss like super pylons? Didn't know, quite new to SC2 that's quite useful to know if that's the case ^^

    • @mrj7297
      @mrj7297 Před 6 lety +3

      it is , thankfully :)
      their warp in speed is the same as a pylon next to a nexus/warp gate

    • @dissolution9843
      @dissolution9843 Před 6 lety +13

      Warp Prisms also regenerate Protoss shields while they're inside of it, can pick up units from a distance, and can power buildings. Overall an incredibly useful unit that has only relatively recently been receiving a lot of pro play. In particular, the double Archon drop, because Archons have a massive shield pool and little health, they're great for hit-and-run attacks on enemy mineral lines. They're also exceptionally powerful against light units and even have a small area of effect attack.
      Hope this helps! Always happy to see new people picking up this wonderfully deep game.

    • @hoang2312
      @hoang2312 Před 5 lety

      AceofBlades X what is the exact shield regen we are talking about here? I'm a newbie as well

    • @sigma013r
      @sigma013r Před 5 lety +1

      @@hoang2312 all protoss units have a shield but and its important because protoss lack health any kind of health regeneration
      so ideally your units only take shield damage and the health is just in the case you take a bad fight

  • @SUPRspyctaco
    @SUPRspyctaco Před 4 lety +6

    this video taught me so much and i've been playing(/struggling) for years. thank you!!! so many videos teach basics but move camera and units at an APM of 100+ and i can't begin to follow or understand how and why. so thank you!!!

  • @nicholastracy-sumners4535

    Watching your content for a good six months and finally decided to try and play the game. Guides like this are unbelievably helpful. Cheers Boss

  • @SneezyHound
    @SneezyHound Před 6 lety +31

    Winter you truly are a great person! You mean more to a lot of people than you think you do!

  • @sae7561
    @sae7561 Před 6 lety

    Love how you comments while playing, the jokes, how you play and great of a player you are. These videos are amazing, please keep up the good work.

  • @aidanweiand859
    @aidanweiand859 Před 6 lety +2

    Last year I bought starcraft II and for almost an entire season I got my ass kicked by silver 2's as a Bronze 1 Terran. Thanks to your tutorials, I'm now a Plat 3 Random. This is really some of the best stuff on your channel and I thank you for them greatly. You inspire me to keep getting better. Keep being awesome man :D

  • @Flappieeeee
    @Flappieeeee Před 6 lety +1

    Great video! Really love these tutorials! Keep up the good work, cant wait for part #2

  • @KideMirror
    @KideMirror Před 6 lety +3

    Hi winter! I like your videos really a lot, this is the reason I started playing sc2, and you inspired me to actually start doing youtube videos! thank you for your effort!

  • @bearhalla
    @bearhalla Před 6 lety +1

    Thank you so much for your guides! My friend recommended me to watch them and they are really great! Gonna watch more videos after this one. Thank you so much again.

  • @midnightfury4584
    @midnightfury4584 Před 6 lety

    Dude, that’s just impressive how your mind works. I’ll be using these tips for sure.

  • @ADTRisAMAZING12
    @ADTRisAMAZING12 Před 5 lety

    Have had it downloaded for awhile cause my friends wanted me to try it. Got into it for the first time tonight with them and I chose the protoss. Just watching this has helped already can't wait to apply it.

  • @andrewnelsen1004
    @andrewnelsen1004 Před 6 lety +75

    Thanks Winter for making it easy for newbies!! :)

    • @diegoramirez1020
      @diegoramirez1020 Před 6 lety +3

      I'm still not ready to play vs another person... I get too nervous and it seems everyone's better than me (specially when playing co-op) :(

    • @guisasse
      @guisasse Před 6 lety +5

      I feel the same... I can understand most of what Winter does, but when I try to do it... It's hard to keep everything on tracks

    • @raviencrafttv4375
      @raviencrafttv4375 Před 6 lety +6

      Giving up is not gonna make things easier for you. Keep going, and aim to improve, not to climb the ladder

  • @fiscaltax2122
    @fiscaltax2122 Před 6 lety +177

    I LOVE THIS TYPE OF VIDEOS :)

  • @darkstarcrashes9956
    @darkstarcrashes9956 Před 6 lety +2

    Great guide! Just what I was looking for, thanks my dude.

  • @sammccahon4762
    @sammccahon4762 Před 6 lety

    Thanks so much Winter, this gave me the structure to switch from AI to the ladder. Has made SC2 way more fun!

  • @YisThereNoFreeName
    @YisThereNoFreeName Před 6 lety +1

    Thank you for the tutorial videos, they were really helpful and got me started into 1vs1 games. After placement matches yesterday, and 16 more games i just got promoted into platinum 3 :)

    • @theemperorofman7777
      @theemperorofman7777 Před 4 lety

      Congrats, I've played over 200 and have not gotten further than silver 1

  • @arifacduman5866
    @arifacduman5866 Před 6 lety +29

    Dude ive been watching you for 3 weeks and enjoying really much thank you keep it up

    • @NZStarlight
      @NZStarlight Před 6 lety

      Winter streams live for about 8-10 hours a day at twitch.tv/wintergaming so you can go there if you want to watch more (and interact with him in chat as he plays). Only a small proportion of the content made there gets uploaded to youtube by him. The video archives there have many years worth of videos of him playing starcraft.

    • @toaonua523
      @toaonua523 Před 6 lety +2

      Love seeing new players get into starcraft and winter! :D

    • @arifacduman5866
      @arifacduman5866 Před 6 lety

      i know but when he streams its about 3 in the night around here so im sleeping D:

    • @AustiuNoMatterWho
      @AustiuNoMatterWho Před 6 lety

      welcome to the winter fam :) and the Protoss fam :))

  • @connersonnevil3801
    @connersonnevil3801 Před 6 lety

    Winter I want to say thank you. I saw you stream for the first time last week and Ive slowly been getting better. Just wanted to let you know that before I watched this guide I was winning roughly 40% of my matches. Since I saw this a day or so ago and been following it like a bible and adapting to situations my win rate has gone up to roughly 70%. Thank you!

    • @connersonnevil3801
      @connersonnevil3801 Před 6 lety

      P.S you dont get into late game options very often and i understand why. Because you simply kill them before late game. Im having some problem with late game terran and the big mech bots. any suggestions?

  • @MrB0nez
    @MrB0nez Před 6 lety

    Dude I like ur tips and guides, your Zerg guide helped me alot I use to be a sloppy Zerg player. But after ur guides on true Zerg power I have a blast playing Zergs rather I lose or win I still feel like I at lease gave it a better go this time so thank a bunch bro and keep up the awesome work.

  • @smilerjohnson4125
    @smilerjohnson4125 Před 4 lety

    Thanks a lot for the clear, easy to understand as well as amusing guide.
    Was having trouble with my build order so this should help.

  • @captorofsin86
    @captorofsin86 Před 6 lety

    Plat zerg reporting who has not once played protoss outside of campaign here to thank you for getting right to the point and explaining some of the more nuanced things I was looking for like building placement, chrono boost, super pylons, etc rather than explaining all the basics of the game.

  • @UMosNyu
    @UMosNyu Před 3 lety

    This is the stuff I was looking for. Many information like "how many workers" and "how to add stuff to your hot key groups" etc

  • @JuanHerrera-dl7dp
    @JuanHerrera-dl7dp Před 6 lety +1

    Your videos are really useful! Thanks for make them!

  • @hempzityshizzle
    @hempzityshizzle Před 6 lety

    I've been playing SC since 5th-ish grade (almost 30, phew), this may be the best video I've seen Starcraft-wise.

  • @imblizxard8554
    @imblizxard8554 Před 6 lety

    Wow perfect timing on this video I have only been playing for 3 days and just started watching your vids yesterday and so far the only thing I've really played is protoss

  • @jdperdomo
    @jdperdomo Před 6 lety

    You have a natural talent to teach SC2. Gonna watch all your videos.

  • @rezneps
    @rezneps Před 6 lety

    Thanks Winter got into SC2 after seeing it was free 2 play randomly a week ago and have really been enjoying it, used to watch you and Husky alot wayyyy back because I thought the game was sick when I didn't have a pc to play it on.

  • @NevNiv
    @NevNiv Před 5 lety

    Thanks for doing this.
    I had no idea about super pylons or ctrl F1!

  • @Liverator
    @Liverator Před 5 lety +8

    3:30
    *Fun fact:* Pylons still have a kill counter even though they can kill anything any more.

  • @Durrtyboy
    @Durrtyboy Před 4 lety +1

    A lot of good info here helped me alot but so many ppl just rush some of them are actually pretty interesting

  • @MadPsyko
    @MadPsyko Před 6 lety

    Love this. Absolutely. Watched the vid 3x times to get into it more deeply ^^

  • @lucasschauer501
    @lucasschauer501 Před 6 lety +1

    Thank you, Keep up the great work!

  • @xXzennerXx
    @xXzennerXx Před 6 lety

    Keep doing more like this. Awesome!

  • @flantan9399
    @flantan9399 Před 6 lety +307

    beginer guide "they're cheap as your mom" lol

    • @3one84
      @3one84 Před 5 lety +1

      hehehe dumb kid coaching with those texts... ofc i make report of this video XD

    • @derek9218
      @derek9218 Před 4 lety

      Hmm “3one84”
      Talks like a robot... ^thats gotta be a bot

    • @filipeamaral216
      @filipeamaral216 Před 3 lety

      @@kriegscommissarmccraw4205 Fine, free. Whatever.

    • @kriegscommissarmccraw4205
      @kriegscommissarmccraw4205 Před 3 lety

      @@filipeamaral216 I honestly can't believe I wrote that.

    • @filipeamaral216
      @filipeamaral216 Před 3 lety

      @@kriegscommissarmccraw4205 I'm as surprised as you are.

  • @sparkledfish9483
    @sparkledfish9483 Před 6 lety

    Thanks for this guide, love your videos!

  • @dzarosthedorito4393
    @dzarosthedorito4393 Před 5 lety +2

    Thank you, this helped me lots! :)

  • @ZMB-on5ub
    @ZMB-on5ub Před 5 lety +6

    Thank you. I miss being in HS and playing SC (1). I still hate your music but I love your content.

  • @danielhares3069
    @danielhares3069 Před 5 lety

    love the day 9

  • @shelobthegreat4374
    @shelobthegreat4374 Před 6 lety

    managed to defeat very hard A.I. thanks to you, keep it up bro!

  • @ForeverRin
    @ForeverRin Před 6 lety +10

    Started playing SC2 when I was 10, found Winter about a month ago watching videos, absorbing his knowledge. Hoped back on SC2 for the first time a week ago. Ranked Silver. Improved in a 5 year absence to the game

    • @JuanRodriguez-gg2qz
      @JuanRodriguez-gg2qz Před 6 lety +1

      Me too, went from bronze to low diamond

    • @RicaumDelas
      @RicaumDelas Před 6 lety +2

      started playing yesterday, am gold cus i watched winter for 2 days straight
      lol

    • @pisic9022
      @pisic9022 Před 6 lety +4

      I went from grandmaster to immortal

    • @dissolution9843
      @dissolution9843 Před 6 lety

      Nice man! The jump from Silver to Gold really isn't all that steep! Here's hoping your climb goes well!

    • @valpanig
      @valpanig Před 6 lety

      yes winter helped me jump bronze to silver3 in a week

  • @kebman
    @kebman Před 6 lety +1

    Superduper! Thanks for this! Really helps and motivates! :D

  • @willft520
    @willft520 Před 6 lety

    I love your gameboy + pokemon yellow analogy. It doesn't work 100%, like you said, but that just makes it better somehow, man.

  • @lensar9677
    @lensar9677 Před 6 lety

    Thank you very much Kappa Ross - thx to you i definitly understood how i should start treating the Protoss

  • @kovachattack
    @kovachattack Před 6 lety

    Thanks for the great guide

  • @Dyne191
    @Dyne191 Před 6 lety

    Winter....my God, you are just awesome. So I tried a similar build against a terran as a protoss. It wasn't even fair. I didn't scout cause I'm not at that lvl yet but I completely destroyed him. Stepped my game up a lot. I learned to send workers from multiple nexi instead of mass producing at one.

  • @calebwatanabe9897
    @calebwatanabe9897 Před 5 lety +4

    I played Broodwar growing up and loved starcraft. I haven't played SC2 at all. Don't even have a PC that can run it these days but... I really enjoy these videos! Thanks for the content, Sir!

  • @alexanderlane7863
    @alexanderlane7863 Před 6 lety +1

    thanks for the video just got into starcraft and this was really helpful

  • @emie8139
    @emie8139 Před 6 lety

    You are a god, thank you so much for these videos.

  • @rhazzarn2199
    @rhazzarn2199 Před 6 lety

    Hey, I'm about to jump into starcraft after this video and it's my last year of high school, what a coincidence :D

  • @John.M
    @John.M Před 6 lety

    thanks man great Video hope to see more in Future

  • @teakodo
    @teakodo Před 6 lety

    just picked up sc2 since its free. keep up the good videos

  • @nolongerinuse1083
    @nolongerinuse1083 Před 6 lety

    Placed Plat2 after 2weeks, still battleing with the hardest vs of AI Thx Winter!

  • @michakaszuba1526
    @michakaszuba1526 Před 6 lety

    Hello @WinterStarcraft
    Thanks a lot for this guide! I was practicing your suggested "begining build", and yesterday i've decided to play my 1st ranked game 1v1. To be honest - i have no idea what happened there. It was PvP - 1st enemy tring to make tower rush - luckly defended before 1st canon appeared. Then 2 oracles attacking my probes - thank's to your suggestion about shield generatiors in bases, my losses were very small. And then, we want "all-in", but we missed eachother armies (his went from south to my base, mine from north + summoning 9 zelots on back of his main). I was able to clear his probes faster, and came back to base, leaving summoned zelots to "finish the base" - fight was pretty balanced, but in the end i've won :) But what suprised me while watching replay - his army was slighty stronger than mine, so i have no idea how i've won. It was like 3sentres+ 3 beams+3immortals+19 spiders (0upgrades) vs 13 spiders+3 immortals+3-4archonts + 3 sentries(+1 weapon). When i was watching replay (and noticed 2 of my archons were on the back of army -.-) i was VERY suprised that my army won the duel. Could you advise me, where to upload replay? As this would be an honor for me, if you would take a short look on the replay one day and suggest, what should i change/ improve and why the hell my army won :D

  • @_carik
    @_carik Před 6 lety

    Holy crap! The tab hotkey changes everything!

  • @tenebras
    @tenebras Před 6 lety +1

    Ive never played StarCraft but this game looks like fun

  • @xcoponent
    @xcoponent Před 4 lety

    Thanks for Video, you're the Best!

  • @ThePatryn0
    @ThePatryn0 Před 6 lety

    Dude, the tip about hovering over your supply to see workers blew my fucking mind. This was worth watching just for that.

  • @alexkristall1575
    @alexkristall1575 Před 6 lety +83

    Liked before watching :).
    I would like to see another guide for players in platinum-low diamond as well.

  • @NexusGuru
    @NexusGuru Před 5 lety

    this type of videos explaining the mechanics and how you should be thinking is what can actually make you better then once you master this you can concentrate on different build orders but you need all the basics down

  • @barteksalamendra6217
    @barteksalamendra6217 Před 5 lety +49

    Drinking game : Take a shot everytime he says Pylon

  • @kiwifruit3113
    @kiwifruit3113 Před 3 lety +1

    This helped me so much, thx

  • @jeffreycooper9567
    @jeffreycooper9567 Před 6 lety

    Very well done. 👍

  • @pumpkinvision7710
    @pumpkinvision7710 Před 6 lety +4

    I believe that the missing drone at 36:30 was picked up by an overlord. The overlord can be seen at 35:22.

    • @tieaclancy7181
      @tieaclancy7181 Před 3 lety

      That must have been the slickest getaway vehicle ever holy shit

  • @Karaitsu
    @Karaitsu Před 6 lety

    Thanks Winter. This video got me to gold league!!!

  • @filippozar8424
    @filippozar8424 Před 6 lety +8

    Now this is what I call good helpful content

  • @BenMojo.
    @BenMojo. Před rokem +1

    Can someone please list the songs ?
    The music from your videos is extremely good. Your eloquance, humour, masterclass teaching skills, passion and generosity are much appreciated. You're an artist.

  • @hhattonaom9729
    @hhattonaom9729 Před 6 lety

    now with this free to play i am learning starcraft

  • @TheLegacyOfKaizer
    @TheLegacyOfKaizer Před 6 lety

    You remind me of Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory a lot. Awesome video, awesome channel, awesome guy. Subscribed and liked.

  • @TheOriginalVersatile
    @TheOriginalVersatile Před 6 lety

    Please make more guides like this

  • @Jessire1008
    @Jessire1008 Před 6 lety

    you are the best teacher!!!

  • @AD-cc7bj
    @AD-cc7bj Před 6 lety

    Definitely better than your early guides

  • @davidames793
    @davidames793 Před 4 lety

    If you want some more linkin park. "waiting for the end" and "burning in the skies" both are a little bit softer than their earlier music but lyrically are pretty deep

  • @Pisty4040
    @Pisty4040 Před 6 lety +1

    "and focus on upgrades" 0-0-0 :'D anyway nice to watch these videos bcas i can learn a lot. i just started to play as a protoss some days ago but playing SC2 since a year as zerg.

  • @alejandroyava
    @alejandroyava Před 6 lety

    It's always good to go back to the basics. After a good rate of winning, you can lose them quite easily.

  • @sparken90
    @sparken90 Před 6 lety

    You made me want to go back to play Starcraft :3

  • @Gozne
    @Gozne Před 6 lety

    Those videos are great. The best tutorials for bewginners since apollo´s. one thing im missing in your tutorial is actually finishing the wall in the main ramp, and facing a proper zerg rush. It might sound esay but im kinda noob with protoss.

  • @littomanser
    @littomanser Před 5 lety

    Gracias amigo!

  • @brannanvitek1035
    @brannanvitek1035 Před 5 lety +2

    I had no clue you could use a warp prism to spawn units with the gateway upgrade.
    My jaw hit the damn floor when he pulled that zealot move ;-;

  • @Shinysebify
    @Shinysebify Před 6 lety

    You are the man!

  • @drdiscostu
    @drdiscostu Před 6 lety

    Such a great video. So helpful.
    I have to say it really points out everything I hate about SC2 though - that it's a 'battle of macros', a mining game instead of a wargame.
    Or maybe I'm just bitter because I suck.

  • @johnyi3120
    @johnyi3120 Před 6 lety

    Thank you

  • @iiMAGINExThis
    @iiMAGINExThis Před 6 lety +3

    Tip for quickly spreading/splitting your army right b4 a battle?

  • @LuckyFoxes789
    @LuckyFoxes789 Před 6 lety

    winter daddy at it again making plebs like me GM like him.

  • @Matthiouhouhou
    @Matthiouhouhou Před 6 lety

    Verry nice vid !

  • @floppyflop007
    @floppyflop007 Před 6 lety

    i'm new on this chain does he do live on twitch or smthing ? Because those videos are rly good and i'd like to see more :D

  • @callumbrowns
    @callumbrowns Před 5 lety

    The most fun race to play with but the hardest!

  • @Kanabizu
    @Kanabizu Před 3 lety

    This guy can be a HighEnd teacher if StarCraft is a subject

  • @TheJackOfFools
    @TheJackOfFools Před 6 lety +1

    Does the warp prism warp in like a super pylon or a regular pylon? Love your Twitch and your YT videos Winter, keep it up!

  • @NertoFurity
    @NertoFurity Před 23 dny

    I liked the tip of holding my breath when watching the replay each time i´m supply blocked or not building probes but I think I would just die.

  • @Cherry11BuK
    @Cherry11BuK Před 6 lety +1

    Pls, update terran guide! Love your vids btw

  • @vinicius7892
    @vinicius7892 Před 6 lety

    Ur awesome! Hello from Brazil :D

  • @Bradley202
    @Bradley202 Před 6 lety

    My oldest brother is in the Gold League. He is best with the Terran. His name is SwoleMarine. That would be cool if you and him played a game and you made a video of it. He introduced me to your channel by the way so I could get tips. Because him and I tried playing a 2v2 online and I was beat within 4 minutes.. lol. I play as the Protoss and I'm not good at all. Your videos are very helpful. Subscribed.

  • @BarronKane
    @BarronKane Před 5 lety +4

    8:00 those Artosis pilons make me nervous

  • @fedeli96
    @fedeli96 Před 6 lety +1

    very usefull

  • @jamesfreeman7954
    @jamesfreeman7954 Před 6 lety

    Love the video. I have a question though. The triangulation of the pylons around the nexus is it necessary now that MC have been removed? Only thing i can think of is expanding build radius while maintaining super pylon radius.

  • @VernonForrester-mv5zi
    @VernonForrester-mv5zi Před 11 měsíci

    Thanks!

    • @WinterStarcraft
      @WinterStarcraft  Před 11 měsíci

      Thank you! Hopefully you enjoy the low APM challenge as well!

  • @user-he6vu1xo2o
    @user-he6vu1xo2o Před rokem

    THIS IS GREAT!!!!!!!

  • @faustopf-.
    @faustopf-. Před 6 lety

    Thats ultra graphs look nice. I almost believe it that my zealot was a new raze