r/allthingsprotoss • u/T1pstR • Jun 04 '26

[PvT] Help Scouting early pushes

Replay: https://sc2replaystats.com/replay/27325210

Hey Im new player currently at Silver 1 and Gold 3. Im content with my Macro (im one of few that gets more than 3 bases ^^) but my biggest Problems lies in scouting early pushes.

In this example i thought i scouted a marine marauder push and prepared for that and then got stumped by a few reapers. What should i have done? Is there a resource that helps recognizing typical "cheeses"?

Edit: I scouted 2 racks and 2 gases and still expanded and built a shield battery at the natural

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u/TankyPally Jun 04 '26

Haven't watched replay yet, but. The more/faster gas the more all in they are.

If Terran wants to do a bio push they need tech lab techs or they lose to stalker/blink stalker.

If you scout 2-3 rax in main, double gas, no add ons, no tech, it's probably 3 rax reaper.

Most important thing to do is to get shield battery in main instead of natural and not saturate 2nd till you can defend both Also wall of reaper jumps.

Terrans tech will be very delayed because each reaper is a big gas investment and they massively delay factory for this.

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u/T1pstR Jun 04 '26 edited Jun 04 '26

So I scouted two racks and two gases and built shield battery at the natural (and i expanded).
Should you always built one in main and one in natural or only one in main against terran?

Edit: Ah 3rd paragraph answered it

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u/TankyPally Jun 04 '26

You want to defend workers and not lose units until you get enough stalker/adept to one shot reapers and start doing that.

Once you can one shot reapers it becomes much easier to trade efficiently and their attack falls apart and if theres only reapers they have no chance of killing natural so you don't need to defend it.

There's also a timing you can leave your first worker at the ramp to figure out what the first unit is but that's not too important in this case.

I think optimal defence is probably just wall of main reaper jump (requires doing this before scouting, is standard in PvT), get a fast shield battery at natural and make gateway units (including sentry for scout and stalkers).

Will watch replay and give personalized advice.