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  • THIS IS THE WORST 4 GATES STRATEGY I HAVE EVER SEEN!! I CANT BELIEVE THAT SOMEONE MAKING VIDEO OUT OF THIS POOR BUILD ORDER POOR TIMING POOR CONTROL!! YOU BETTER DELETE IT,AND ONE THING I REALLY HATE ABOUT THIS ASIAN GUY THAT HE ALWAYS TRYING TO LOOK PROFISSIONAL AND MAKING FUN OUT OF THE PLAYERS HOW ARE NOT MASTERS BY SAYING FOR EG. WOODEN LEAGUE!! HD YOU ARE DISGUSTINGLY PATHETIC NOOB AND IGNORANT PERSON YOU ARE A SHAME ON STARCRAFT 2

  • 4 gates is slow for new patch in special for 1.4.3

  • could you go 4 gate 1 robo and focus on a little tech before pushing? or is this based only on early aggression? im still pretty new to sc2 and how i usually go is 4 gate 1 robo and scout with observer before i make any push to see their army comp. if i can use a warp prism to warp in units at their mineral line. and while im scouting im teching up my units but not really focusing on building up army. is this viable? if not what are the main weaknesses??? please help

  • @Seraphimaltair 4 gate is outdated due to patching. Blizz recognized it's effectiveness and slowed it down. The weakness to what you're going is, if you're push doesn't work, you're done. Most players are going to be expanded or expanding by the 6-7 minute mark and that's when he attacks here, but now that this build is slower, your opponent will have a 2 base economy, if not already, and will be able to outrun you in economy and suppply. Plus robo tech needs 2 bases for gas.

  • What are some good ways to stop your opponent from doing this successfully?

  • @tjv323 Don't let them build proxy (proximity) pylons near your base, early harrassment of workers or pylons near the 4-gates...

  • i always go like 4 warp gate and robo so you can warp in their base with warp prism (if they turtule hard)

  • @Multisnoopdawg I'm not sure but it loOks like this build is very weak to early rushes, maybe try that? IM still a noob at sc2 so I might be wrong, but thus send to be based of teching in 1 base without any defence...good luck :)

  • @ikbenolaf2 A lot of protoss like to wall off with 1 zealot filling a small gap. A lot of times the zealot is is "holding position" he will attack any enemies that get in range of it but will not chase them, so marines can shoot at it and kill it easilly, or zerglings can go to the other side of the wall and work on the building while the zealot sits there, if the zealot moves you can micro around it and get inside the base easilly.

  • In the  video description you sohuld do a writeup of the strategy as it's not too clear

  • The only reason i dont win toss that much is because this is so easy to win with! Normal toss players never expand in order to pump units. They ither get mass void ray and lose cause they turtle to much, or they do this and win. And you might say, "ahh you lost cause your a noob in gold legue" NO!!! i have 50-60 apm avrage and i lose a player at 25 D:

  • Four gate vs everything up to high diamond np.

  • Nerf stalker speed. Upgraded roaches are 0.05 faster

  • Roaches aren't a "counter" build, they're the "one thing that can stand up to you" build

  • this strat is total fail. when you 4gate your supose to proxy pylon so as soon as you get your first wave out your already attacking..

  • Hehehe, I found curious how these guys switch between buildings to show high APM, when they are only building 1 probe!!!

  • i prefer 3 gate robo with blink stalkers or go for this prism or smth(got diffrent language game) & warp few units on mineral lane or smth :D!

  • my 4gate hits at 5:27 exactly

  • THANKS HD!

    

  • @rikelf: it does... cause he cant scout in future ur base (if you decide to do something else) and he is maybe supply blocked like the caster here, after he lost is pylon.

  • u block the ramp, but what to do if the zerg scout u with overlords?

  • @rikelf use a stalker to kill it?

  • @MultiCrapz but then the enemy will know what im doing, doesnt matter if i kill or not the overlord...

  • People who think this video is a horrible reflection of the strategy PLEASE post a better one so we can see if you actually know what you're talking about because if you don't it's just trollin..

  • dude do you have fucking tourettes?? you select your nexus and probes like a fucking million times jesus you're gonna kill some ADD kids watching this. fuck

  • @iPhonePro23 its spamming apm.... like 90% of pro sc2 players do it...

  • yeah it's a bit outdated now, even a well practiced 5:40 4 gate push vs fast expand zerg probably won't work above gold league. Zergs just go mass spine crawlers now. In PvP it's kind of okay, if you can place a pylon on the ramp, provided your opponent hasn't gone any sentry heavy tech build. In PvT, it will probably lose vs a 3 rax and a 2 rax expo, but you might get lucky if he is teching, and it's a relatively small map. Regardless, it is a good build to know, but it will only get you so far

  • a little bit more harder hehe

  • this is horrible no chrono on the warpgate?? and u cut probe production on 20 for 4 gate timing push

  • And in term of time, when do you finish teching to warpgate and transforming your gates ? I usually am able to warp units in at 5:50~ but i've heard it's possible to do much faster, how come ?

  • I just tried this strategy, and it works very well. But I found that if I got pushed with an early aggressive player that I couldn't get my warp gates and the pylons to make this effective. So I changed out some things by pumping out zelots right off the bat to help with that. But once I had my 4 gate warp in, it was all over. They can not produce faster then this.

  • new players watching this, this is indeed a very good tutorial video, but its play style of the 4 gate is definitely outdated to where protoss is standing now.

    The build is slightly off, you must be able to pump your warpgate upgrade as soon as you get your cybernetics, and also the attacking timeframe is a lot slower, so for all you new protoss players, please be introduced of the play by this video, but not to copy it, there are newer tutorials for 4 gates out there, if not i'll make one.

  • @Jelysniper there are tons of different versions of 4gate dude he is just showing standard *12gate* 4gate..... its eco friendly and thats why he explains the ease of transitioning. SO to all the new players yes copy this build as it will be more helpful to know standard build order times first over cheesy 4gate timing pushes.

  • @Jelysniper Can you make one please?

  • Now you got to fear me, gonna practice until I beat you all! :-)

  • I'm not hating on you or anything man, but i felt as thought you used the 4 gate as a defensive mechanism. You also said that you should be hitting your opponent at the 7 or 8 min mark, it think thats completely wrong. Whenever i go 4gate i try to aim to hit him anywhere between the 5:50 to 6:00 min mark( that is 6 stalkers and 1 zealot know on his door at that timing) if you watch an MC 4gate you will usually never see anything later than at the 5:50 min mark.

  • I use dark Templars, but I'm unranked right now. I've used 4 gate and destroyed with dark Templars. It takes longer, so should I not be using them? I'm not sure.

  • @AnilMorisetti 4 gate DTs won't work well mostly. There are DT based builds, but DTs are not an end all strat.

  • what does ASAP mean?

  • @2Great4Me as soon as possible

  • APM 0 x)

  • 4gate is a good start, and, if used correctly and macroed correctly, is an awesome opener with which to tech up to midgame (IE unless ur micro is bad, u can use stalkers to do a number on their economy as much as they hurt yours). I almost always use 4gate unless I'm against a T; in that case, I use my (poorly refined, but ypically succesful) colosi rush.

  • 4 gate is nowhere near as good anymore, :(

  • A couple of my friends managed to 4-gate their way straight into Platinum and now they just get destroyed lol.

  • ya i like when people film when they are playing not use a recording of the game on starcraft II it might just be me but good job :D

  • Good to just double check if my own build was standard.

  • the problem is im new and i dont know the hotkeys so Im not that fast.

  • @UvsBC All you have to do is go to your controls and add keybind grid, if I properly remember...

  • @UvsBC thats ok, it takes time. eventually you will get used to it :P

  • Do more strategy tutorials. :D

  • i actually just used this tech BEFORE i found out that its used with other people xP

  • lol the views graph looks like a stress/strain diagram

  • why dose he klick like a retard? 1000 times for no purpose ?

  • @ICEInterphace Clicking a lot is generally a good habit. When moving a unit to a location it's good to first issue a quick move order in the general direction, then reposition your camera and give a second more precise order. This way your unit starts moving a little sooner and gets to its location a little faster than had you first moved your camera and clicked the final destination. Constantly clicking isn't "necessary" but it will keep your fingers warm in case you need to react quickly.

  • are stalkers good against brood lords?

  • @Cosmo123123c3 If your blink micro is good, you can kill them instantly

  • dont use this if your feeling your opponent will use an early rush

  • no joke i'm such a fucking noob, i've been playing for about a week but somehow I won against a zerg player using the 4 gate build! win?

  • @AceKilla2u Winning against zerg is ezpz, try winning against an Terran.

  • i didnt know u could "morph" in units

  • @buttayhahahaahahah Warp in.

  • and when it comes to roaches z's are better, if you micro correcly you can block roach wall with z's while a lesser number or stalkers are micro'd to snipe, just stalkers it comes to a battle of who can micro better z's give yo uthe advantage.

  • The 4 gate works better if you drop gateway at 11 if you time it right you drop the assim at 13 then by the time the cyber comes up you have enough to chrono warp tech as well as chrono out 2 stalkers consecutively with no lag time, puts you ahead for first strike, as well you have the minerals to push 3 z's out by 2nd pylon and into third, gives you a 45 second advantage or so

  • Does this guy have a mod or something?

  • 1. Speed tech to ghost while pumping out marines and/or marauders

    2. Emp toss attack

    4. Profit

  • @BFGfreak wheres 3??

  • @Beprot 3. ???

  • a little zerg rush can fuck this up so easy

  • @smurftaco69

    A wall in with a zealot blocks that.

  • @smurftaco69 Except that he is walled off, so no.

  • My friend literally did JUST this up to platinum.

    Yeah. Protoss definitely has some of the more annoying stuff in the game.

    I'm a Z, and I absolutely hate: Colossi, VRs, Zealots, DTs, Cannons, and 4 Gates.

    Almost as bad as Terran: Hellions, Banshees, Vikings, Bunker rushes.

    Tempted to switch races >:O

    *note how I didn't say OP. I said annoying,*

  • @TheAngerPowered Yea, do you fucking realise how annoying zerg rushes and muta harassments are for protoss?

  • The protoss seem like a very cheap race between the pylons and their lack of having to wait for a probe to actually physically build structures is insane.

    @yui4me I'm very new to SC2 but I'm going to guess that your mid/late game is weak because your macro isn't the greatest. Just my experience from most RTS games. Try looking at your expansions, build orders, and upgrades a little more. Again just a guess...

  • I am using this strategy but I have Problems in Middle/Late Game... =(

    Any Advises??

  • @yui4me After 3-4 waves of units that you've snt you'll want to expand and then (for zerg) go into collusi (for terran) or trans into tonnes of DT's after that Mothership and void rays

  • @yui4me

    Hmm? This build puts you into a rather good position for the lategame.

  • @gino14 My problem is that I store too many minerals. =/

    Im still a noob ^^

  • @yui4me, make drones/scv/probe's or supply, never a bad choise.

  • More harder xD

  • what map is this?

  • every protoss player and their mothers do this strategy. It's annoying not because of it's effectiveness, but because i seldom see anything different

  • I 3 gate and trick the opponent into a 5 gate and his forces get overwhelmed by mines.

  • how do i stop this? just got in to gold an every f*** p is using this. I butt up bunkers but dont seem to hold... i usally go 3rax.. wrong build?

  • @fridtjofbda If you're doing the 3 rax vs 4 gates you should be crushing them...you can hold of a 4 gate with 2 rax FE with 1 bunker. If you're losing doing 3 rax you're doing it wrong.

  • @Promatheos thx for answer, but i think the main problem is 3 gate robo (1 colossus).. got any good answer for this too? :)

  • Korean 4 gate would lose to 1 base roach but would beat a normal 4 gate.

  • oO Even my 4Gate is mutch faster.

    HDs 4Gate would hit at 6:30. Don right,

    you start crushing your enemy from 5:30 on.

    4:50 when doing it without Stalker or Sentries.

  • what's the build order bro?

  • also...mann baut beim 4gate KEINE zwei assimilatoren,und mann baut den assimilator bei 13,dann habt ihr genug gas für warp wen core steht.

    mfg ravenakaendo

  • 4:24 "more harder" T_T

  • when i play against protoss and they block off ramps i just assume they are 4gating lol

  • CAn someone tell me how to stop this 4 gate as PROTOSS ? :OOO

  • @whitecow13 make a faster 4 gate lol

  • @whitecow13 3 gate robo with immorts focusing the stalkers or when opponent pushes out u can sneak zealots into his/her base (from a proxy pylon dropped by ur scouting probe) and take out the probe line while opponent tries to get up ur ramp

  • @Darkserpentes

    :D , oké THX :)

  • For those ZERG players struggling defending this, their is a great tutorial in my channel! Check it out and subscribe!!!

  • howd u do that? when u were fighting with roaches? shoot and back up??how?

  • using this is useless in 2v2+ cuz of the teammate

  • @llamazunited 3 rax+4 gate is one of the most powerful rushes in the game.

  • @llamazunited It's not useless if both of you do it. That's ALOT of units, and it will take alot from your enemies to hold it off.

  • the zerg is pretty bad lol

  • i like husky better

  • @ErrorHardcore then you're not even silver ;) xD

  • how do you get 4 warp gate in around 5 minutes??? The best i can get is at around 5:45 mins.

  • @Ble3D then you do it faster than he did. timer should show about 7 minutes (faster game speed)

  • @Ble3D game time is different than real time i.e youtube time

  • they are all ready abusing it

  • I realize this is really old, but man, watching HD execute the 4gate now... lmao that was like the worst 4gate execution I've ever seen ^^ too bad in game timer wasn't on, he probably hit at like the 7min mark or something.

  • bronze league, 95% of protoss do this crap

  • @TheFearlessbro sadly true =(

  • @TheFearlessbro Than get out of the bronze league.

  • @TheFearlessbro so do 90% of korean professional players in protoss vs protoss, get over it

  • @TheFearlessbro bronze is more mass marines then anything

  • Now, if you'll excuse me, ive got a strategy to abuse ^^ lol thx

  • @hayatesasaki thats strategy sucks now i can beat it easy

  • i took you out yesterday!

  • Well to be honest, if ur enemy is more skilled then you en you are doing a 4gate play,he ussually knows a stronger or a counter for it, at least i do

  • its good until they mass air...

  • @tyty861 You've killed them off with the 4 gate before they manage to mass air units. Even if they manage to fend it off, your robotics/stargate should already be on the way as well, which means that you got an observer/phoenix for scouting, which means that you can get the units to counter him.

  • Husky are you from Nebraska?

  • it is good on a 2 vs 2 ?? and what do id o like first units ???

  • @TheBillyBobGuy Depends if your teammate is going for a similar strategy. The 4 gate is not a rush, but you'll be crushed hard if you're playing against two decent opponents and you're attacking alone.

  • it is good on a 2 vs 2 ??

  • Is this a cheese build?? Everytime I do this I get something like "Go to hell son of a...."

  • @hellbard I'd say no. I am a zerg player and i encountered this build a lot in the silvers leagues right now. This does not involve any proxy position other then pylons (which you can assume if they are playing gateway units). This is a strong and overused (IMO) build in the lower leagues, but you don't deserve the insults for using it.

  • @hellbard It's not a cheese build, it's just hard to stop, what makes people bitch with you while it's theri foult, Just say; You should scout more, noob." - And then he ragequits and u win and ur op and diamond ;p No but that's what u gotta do, it's not a cheese build.

  • Perfect 4 Gate is done at exactly 6 minutes, mark, right? And you are 26/26 after placing the fourth gate.

  • @An2quamaraN Something like that. Just make sure that you scout your opponent before moving out, so that you can get an idea of the units he has. The whole point is that you can mass out units in the early/mid parts of the game faster than your opponent. As long as your opponent is not 4 gating as well. Keep in mind that if you fail, you'll be miiiiiles behind your opponent in tech. Example: If you fail to 4 gate a zerg which goes for a 14 hatch or something like that, you're screwed...

  • @Zeachrome I keep that in mind...that's why the only 4 gate i failed was againts toss (moving up the ramp issue) : ) But i asked cause i felt that 4gate in this video was kinda late...

  • Why does he keep drag selecting his probes at the beginning?

  • @EquInoX123 to count them so he knows when to stop producing them. only 16 (2 rows in the game bar) is needed for FULL saturation.

  • @simengrs No, He is accumulating APM. And it's not 16 to fully saturate you need 22 incl gas, 16 for mineral line.

  • @Luburium 3 per mineral, 24 for an 8 mineral line.

  • @winsause No you get 2 per mineral patch you dumbo

  • @Luburium lol, explain why its 2 per patch. you should have 30 per base. 24 on mins 6 on gas.

  • @winsause obviously the 3rd miner will automatically go to the next available mineral patch if there's two queued already. therefor it's 2 per patch cause there can't be as you can see in this fucking video aswell that they are only two miners on a patch, if there are 3 forced miners on one patch the third will sit and wait for the second one to be ready and then it will always end up in that the 3rd miner will have to wait for the second one.

  • @Luburium I don't want to argue with you..

    go to team liquid

  • @Luburium not sure how this started but u need 3 per mineral and 3 per gas for full stauration of a base. in the 4 gate u have to cut probes so its usually 2 probes at this time but thats not full saturation. Always try to get 3 workers o each mineral patch and gas

  • @CovanantSC2 Actually, you only need about 2.5 per mineral patch, maybe even a little less, for full saturation. Any more than that barely helps at all.

  • @EquInoX123 Have you ever wonder why all the high level players have 150-200 apm from the beggining?

  • @EquInoX123 to virtually boost his APM (or so i belive)

  • @EquInoX123 Not necessary. Some players spam in the beginning to stay warm since there really isn't anything to do. All he is really doing is selecting his probes then pushing 5 to select his nexus then repeating. I recommended just making sure you consistently build your probes perfectly without queuing.

  • @EquInoX123 for his apm ;)

  • @EquInoX123 to waarm up his fingers!

  • @EquInoX123 in order to up his apm in the beginning

  • How do you make your probe automatically go back to gathering after you build something without having to point and click it back to minerals?

  • @Evological Hold shift, place a building down and right click on a mineral patch.

  • @Evological hold sift and click

  • @bhar84

    Thanks, my goodness that makes life easier!

  • @Evological While controlling your worker, hold shift while giving commands. Example:

    I'm controlling an SCV. I want him to build a supply depot, then automatically get him to gather minerals after hes done building the Supply depot. While shift is down, I start building the supply depot, then I right click the mineral patch. Make sure that your worker is always targeted.

  • OMG milk and oreos are delicious!

  • Proximity doesn't have the same meaning as proxy... a completly diff word. :/

  • He found your pylons because you put them too close to the watch tower... also you use useless forcefields when you could have used a clutch guardian shield. Also, you should get your first gateway at 12, not 13 or 14.

  • um, im super bad/new at starcraft, when he refers to, get your gateway at 13 or 14, what does that mean, is it like, probe count? or what, sorry about the super noobish question

  • @ProjectD13X He's talking about your supply count.

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  • @ProjectD13X he means the supply, which is the number at the topright of your screen. Since you dont have military yet, it will just be the probes making the supply.

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  • Ja sounds like a troll, 'mon

  • not a good 4 gate, not a good player

  • not necessarily saying this is good but i made a change to my basic 4 gate and instead of 5stalkers 4 zealots i can get an immortal out with that in the same amount of time.

    really easy, then just pop a few sentries

  • a little bit more harder -.- facepalm

  • HD sucks ballz

  • @eddylovesutube HD's on Diamond League.

  • @GuitarZero300

    no he's in Masters, His alt account "Pinkbunny" is in Diamond.

  • hd this isn't the best 4gate i've seen, but ur zerg so no probs.

  • @MTran0708 The video is posted 5 days after the offical release. I'd say that he was in gold/plat by then. The level of the players in those leagues at that time were of course much lower than it currently is. Nooone is perfect 5 days after the release of a game. Except Athene.. :D

  • BTW - 4gate strat DOES NOT work in ranked matches. This is the worst possible strat to ever use, especially if your opponent does nothing but stay on defense. This is a strat made only for supporting purposes. This is one of the most useless, and overrated strats I had ever tried. Thanks for the 8 loses in a row. For this to ever work, your opponent must suck, as demonstrated here

  • @Bodywrecker your retarded.

  • @Bodywrecker lol, go back to playing my little pony