Learn StarCraft 2 - Easy Build For Ranking Up (Bronze to Diamond)

Please give me feedback and ask questions! Since this is aimed at the lower leagues I'll be trying to answer as many questions as possible (even if you think they're silly :D)

#uThermal #sc2 #starcraft2 #rts

00:00 - Intro
00:27 - Basic Build Order
09:43 - Adaptations

[uThermal]

Hey guys! This is my first guide for beginners so I wasn't quite sure how to make it, please let me know whether you thought it was too in-depth or not in-depth enough so I can make it better next time :) Make sure to ask all your silly goose questions below, after I wake up I'll try to answer as many as I can <3 Good luck everyone!

[drackse]

Build:
- First scv -> depot
- 16 barracks and gas (at 16 supply)
- saturate gas as soon as it finishes (3/3 workers)
- as soon as barracks finishes make orbital and reactor (start producing marines)
- Build a second command center and your second depot (u should have around 26 workers, when the cc finishes)
- Build 2 barracks one with techlab (research stim)
- make second techlab (research combat shield)
- make sure to constantly add depots!
- get a factory and an engineering bay
- around 5min (or 5:30) f2 attack with around 20 marines
- get 2 more barracks (or another command center if ur comfortable with macro)
- as soon as factory finishes get 3 more refineries
- put reactor on factory and build starport
- switch starport and factory to make 2 medavacs at a time
- go for another attack with 4 medavacs

Very important:
- hotkeys for production buildings, try to constantly produce!
- get comfortable with your production before adding more macro and micro tasks
- rewind is helpful!

[RD-rmqm]

Thanks to UThermal I went from 3.8k mmr to 3.6k!

[ktotonoviy]

It don’t matter how many tutorials are online, it’s crucial to keep adding new ones, even repeating the same thing, especially every player provides his own hints and trick and lure new players in, and I love such content as well 💪

[DasVerteidiger]

I think a good addition to any type of tutorial like this is to have a keyboard widget on screen (something that shows what keys are being pressed).

[blakedurrant]

Now I'm going to do my placement matches as Terran. It's time boys, my pool first days are over. THE AGE OF THE 3 RAX IS UPON US

[DrYmath]

I haven't played SC2 in years, and I don't intend on playing any time soon, but I still found this really enjoyable to watch.

[riccardopilu]

The thoroughness of your job in teaching us freeloaders here is kinda proportional to how much what i'll say now is correct.
-the priority order is: having a constant production, then following your main army, then build new structures.
-always use hotkeys, not negotiable.
-the initial order is: depo, racks, gas, orbital, reactor, cc, depo; then +2 rac-lab-stim-lab-shields, orb whenever cc finishes, at least 1 SCV constantly making depos, f2-a-move whenever stim is about to finish, then factory-ebay-+3 gas-+2racks-starport-reactor-switch-lab, then medivacs and tanks.
-go trial and error on this up until you close up to hitting the first stimpacked attack in 5 and the medivac/tank reinforced one in 8 mins with 160 supplies (units lost considered).

Then, a little insight by my humble self being a maths teacher which fell in love with the game and now wants to challenge himself on it:
The actual bunch of possible variations you can make may be confusing in the first episode, and the brain here already has a lot to process since these are the first steps, the ones that will become instinctive and automatic in the future: save the "when you feel confident enough" for the actual guide ment for the ones who feel actually confident enough, and end the lesson on a "when you feel confident enough that you notice falling off vs terran, or you see that you first hit at 5m and get 160 supplies at 8m, check the next episode where we will see how to scout and how to adapt the builds on the opponent's race". You already have the interest of the people who watched until the end, we dont need to see how this can evolve, we need to be sure of what the key points are, so a quick recap of those would be great instead.
Thank you for your hard work, this is already better than many of my colleagues effort! And forgive my english, still improvable. Hope you have a great day.

- An italian random nerd maths teacher

[loganmyall]

I just came back to sc2 after years away. This is very digestable and nice.

[azerkahn]

After watching a bunch of your challenge videos, I decided to install the game again for the first time many years. When I open my match history it said my last game was more than 12 years ago! It was fun to play again after all this time :)

[misledfortune]

This video is an absolute gem! This helped me realize a bunch of mistakes i've been making in my build orders. Also, covering information about hotkeys is immensely helpful. I feel like I struggle a lot with my APM because I'm rubbish with hotkeys. Thanks a bunch for this video Marc!

[FrDDy]

oh man, you've fuckin done it.
I just reinstalled sc and made 5 game in a row w the 5.00 3rax.
Jesus, it was about time (10 years)!

[austindemarco]

I haven't played SC2 since Wings of Liberty and usually main Protoss, but it was awesome watching this guide and an in-depth look at how the 3 rax build works. Love the content!

[marcospat]

Raise your hand if you do fewer SCVs than you should 🙋‍♂

[charlesratcliffe]

Never played StarCraft but I’m a big fan of RTS. Guide makes me feel like I could learn it fairly easily enough to get into it. Thanks for that even if I never decide to try! 😅

[MentalBoom]

Uthermal really made the game 50x harder for Protoss and Zerg now

[pio]

Old time RTS player returning to SC2 after many years, placed me in Masters 3 after this, nice and very easy to follow, thanks!

[begg]

lets go! Finally I can beat my father in law at sc2

[LCInfantry]

Been watching StarCraft 2 videos for about 7 years now.
I just learned what the 16 thing means.

Haven’t played StarCraft 2 since 2015(custom games and campaign). I think I first started playing StarCraft in 2001.

I played a lot of Warcraft 1, 2, and 3. I still wish for a day when they come out with a “Universe of StarCraft” game.

[gavinashun]

Love this type of content - thanks! I was a plat/diamond in WoL but haven't played since then ... but have been watching your videos for the last year or so. And I've been wanting to get back into it but didn't know how to start. So this is perfect for me!