Hello and welcome to my website about Starcraft 2 strategies, build orders and guides!
On this site I review the most popular strategy guides on the market, go into detail on different strategies and build orders for all three races and giving you general tips and tricks on how to improve your game play.
The guide is divided into three sections: Guide reviews, a comparison chart of the best guides and a section chock full of strategies and build orders that I like to use.
If you want to get better at SC2 you have to balance learning new strategies and playing the game. Many people get sucked into forums, reading articles or watching tutorials on YouTube. Theorycraft is fun and necessary to deepen your understanding of the game. But too much of it and you lose touch of how a real battle flows if you don’t practice what you learn in-game.
I like to divide my training into three main components: APM (Action per minute), Micro and Macro. I train all three areas separately and then but it all together in sparring and real battles.
You might want to ask somebody to become your training buddy so you can test out new build orders on each other, or learn how to defend rushes and timing pushes.
Grab one of the guides I have reviewed here and then use it as a basis to put together a detailed and personalized training plan for yourself or your team.
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First of all, you need to up your APM. This is the foundation of your game play… Micro and Macro build on-top of your APM skill. If your APM is low, you can’t handle micromanagement and macromanagement. On the other hand, if your APM is high enough (around 150 APM is okay), you have enough capacity to handle your army and scouts and keep the production and economy going at the same time.
Next is micromanagement. Units cost time and resources and you want to use them effectively. Learning how to micromanage single units and groups of units will help you get more bang for your buck.
Practice with each unit by itself first, and then learn to use armies composed of different units.
Lastly, there is macromanagement. Once you have built a strong foundation of high APM and you learned how to handle your units effectively, you have to learn how to support your attacks with good macromanagement.
This means handling economy, gathering competitive intelligence and placing new expos all while handling your main force. This is a challenging part for many players because you constantly have to switch focus back and forth.
But there’s no way around it. You need to train this or you will lose focus and get tired very very quickly.
Luckily, there are great strategy guides on the market that will help you with all of this. If you learn how real pros play, you can model their style and quickly become a much better player just by imitating a bit what they do, and then developing your own style from there.