I played for several years as a top diamond toss (and temporarily a master), then took the last 5 years off. I’ve started up again and am now a mid diamond. It takes little time to see that Zerg is completely broken. Swarm hosts and nydus worms are ridiculous. Also, Zerg can grab a third while still massing enough units to put pressure on my natural. It’s imbalanced to say the least. As a toss, no matter what I do I can’t seem to get an edge or ever feel like I have the upper hand. I feel like I just started up again, but am quickly considering quitting due to the number of Zergs I face, and their ability to always be ahead.
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Yes zerg is overpowered, however consider this: Theres protoss players way above your rank, wich means if you improve you would win more and rise in ranks.
Also below pro level we make so many mistakes that impact our games far more than imballances.
What im trying to say is that imballance mathers, but it does not mather as mutch as our own mistakes so we should focus on improving and to some extenct ignore ballance since we cannot do anything with ballance but we can definetly do something about our own skill level.
If you are struggling with pvz i suggest finding a good build order and sticking with it, i think the standard now is stargate openers into 2-3 oracles.
Nono. You make one pheonix and then allin with robo.
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Fixed this one
En taro classic. You will always be one with the khala
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yup
5 years? I surprised you’re still a diamond
Zerg isnt broken, Zerg relies on an entire gimmick which is your entire strategy being based on out-macroing your opponent. The zerg unlike Terran or Protoss (moreso protoss) do not achieve victory through force multiplication (This is the polite way of saying using abilities)
The extent that Zerg micro is the bare minimum it takes to play terran or protoss. A terran stutterstepping or marine splitting is equivilent to splitting zerglings to avoid a baneling. But a marine has the ability to use stimpack wich adds a dynamic to it - or a stalker with blink.
A zerg does not have to start force multiplying until they get the infestor or viper which are their only two force multipliers that they are required to get - the other being roach burrow micro which is not required.
Terran have Marines, Ghosts, Hellions, Siege Tanks, Vikings, Liberators, Ravens, Banshees, and Battlecruisers
Protoss have Stalkers, Sentries, High Templar, Dark Templar, Immortals, Disruptors, Pheonix, Oracles, The Mothership Core, and the Mothership
This is why it feels unfair when you lose to a Zerg as Protoss as opposed to a Terran - or vice versa.
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There are players that is not focused or hardcore player. For example…I only play on weekends…and not always. Somedays I just “flood” 8 games and that’s enough for me. Imagine this happening in about two by two months.
So by now I already have 39 years and have a job, have a wife, and a son to share my time. Anyway…yeah…if I try hard (flooding games every single day all day long) for 1 week I can achieve master.
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I mean that in general the level of the players went up every year or at least before making the game f2p. There are many people who used to be master 2 in diamantes 2 now
Not necessarily, playing much does not make you play much better. Most people get stuck at some point. Then they come to the forum to cry 
Infestors
Swarm Host
Nydus
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tell me, oh mighty myohmind - how many of these three things will get fixed in the new patch?
infestors are getting meme’d on pretty hard.
Infestors and Nydus.
SH are still a terrible design
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sh is only too strong, if you combine it with nydus. nydus is getting nerfed, so the combination of sh and nydus is also getting nerfed.
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SH as a design is really bad. It’s boring to use as Zerg and bad to fight as the other races.
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I approve of this message. Thankfully people don’t actually use swarmhosts unless its some sort of allin with nydus. Those things just plain suck and free units should be rekt like the it.
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It takes a huge commitment for Zerg to deny a Protoss’ third and usually isn’t worth it. Instead of whining you should try to learn about the game because at your level you barely understand what’s going on.
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It’s not my case. Almost always I play unranked and you know we are matched with ppl that is choosing ranked. So…my MMR (not with this forum account) lets me play with high diamonds and even low masters in some cases and I win sometimes.
So this brings me confidence to know I can go masters if I really give it a hard try.
its based on outmacroing your opponent…which you accomplish by having the ability to expand easily all over the map,having the ability to have 80-90 drones and keep trading your armies because u can just remax,having the ability to replace 20+ drones you just lost(from late midgame),having the ability to goo all over the map for map control more than half of it
the whole is busted in lotv,if you defend perfectly until midgame,you are automatically ahead,how is that fair???
if you do nothing as zerg,just expand and macro,you are fcking allowed to be miles ahead than your opponent doing the same,how is that fcking allowed
lotv changes brought out the worst from zerg,along with broken spellcasters