The entirety of this guide can be credited to Iamke and is only provided for convenience and informational purposes

Summary: 4 gate pressure, fast third base, only to be used against gasless FE. Hard to execute.

Due to early scouting issues, passive play in PvT can be very weak in the current metagame. The standard 1 gate FE that builds a nexus on 30 supply was designed to be used against Terran’s gas openers. In order to win against gasless FE builds, you need to either play greedier, or be so much better than your opponent that 30 supply deficits are completely manageable. The fast triple orbital opening in particular, especially when Terrans throw caution to the wind and follow it up with double ebay, destroys passive Protoss who don’t know how to play a proper attacking game. Sure you could play guessing games and randomly decide to build your nexus earlier than 30, or get lucky and scout your opponent on the first try, or 7 gate all-in every game, but none of these are reliable. This guide details a strategy, which when executed properly, allows you to combat these gasless FE builds while going for the 30 nexus opening (the safest FE build). Upon confirming the Terran did indeed go for a gasless FE, you will pressure their front with gateway units to slow down their midgame attacks while taking a fast third base to compensate for your relatively late natural. This build is extremely difficult to play so it’s not for low apm players, but when mastered allows you to avoid those situations where you’re down by 30 supply solely due to build order poker. If you can macro on 3 bases while kiting a bio ball across the map with blink stalkers, you’re ready to use this build! This guide can be very good for ladder as I assume the worst case scenario: you scout the Terran last on a 4 player map and don’t see anything with the probe, and then there’s a low ground bunker by the time you try to scout next with the first stalker.

The guide will be arranged in an unconventional layout, but I think it will make the strategy easier to understand. It will be less of a strict build order and more of a decision making tree on how to pull ahead vs Terran players who open with the fast low ground CC.

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