Recently I had an ally playing Abby P1, leveling like me. We couldn’t get to 2/3 bonus, so he said “the bonus is impossible right?” To which I replied, “not really, just the way we are it’s not possible.”
This is typical of SoA if you don’t plan well (or if you ally just really lack behind). To give some context:
- As Alarak P2, I destroyed both small bases between main and exp.
- Solo’d Expansion Sliver to secure a fast exp for both of us.
- Half killed main sliver as ally rolled in with 3 Swarm Hosts, 2 of which died to the circle of death.
- Losing bonus one while defending his expansion.
I’m sure at this point you know generally the idea here. My ally in this case just isn’t going about it properly. We still won but here’s some things:
- Don’t open with Swarm Host on SoA, you’ll put yourself behind for sure.
- If you are then you gotta macro properly (in this case, there was delay both on initial expansion despite cleared AND not defending it properly with nests and losing expansion while I come back slowly…)
- Rotation and understanding. It was clear he didn’t quite understand how the rotations worked. After we cleared 4th (top left sliver), he proceeded to siege the base defending it east of it, in order to get to the North sliver. Don’t kill things, with slow sieging units (that he didn’t have many of to begin with) to push areas unnecessarily, especially on a map with tight timings.