Description

Solar won TB's Sandisk ShoutCraft Invitational II, with this build. He was playing against TY in the grand finals match. He used a 5 Ravager version. I know this build from HotS, which used 12 slow roaches and then speedling flood. Both versions can be done in LotV. I provide my own replay demo for both, as ShoutCraft didn't release any replays.

Demo Replay - 5Ravager/SpeedLing Allin

Demo Replay - 12 Slow Roach SpeedLing Allin

Added another variation. If you add a second gas, you have enough gas to morph all your Ravagers right away.

Demo Replay - added 2nd Gas, fast 5Ravager Morph

If vod doesn't start correctly, scroll to 1hour 57sec. Or click the link and watch directly on youtube. Time stamp works fine on youtube.

VOD

Build Order

Why is there no SALT encoding or Overwolf build?

13 Overlord 17 Hatchery 18 Extractor 17 Spawning Pool 19 Overlord 19 Queen x2 @100 gas -Ling Speed 23 Zergling x3 Safety Lings (3 sets) 31 Roach Warren 34 Overlord x3 34 Roach x5 44 Ravager x2 Morph more ravagers with each 75 gas 46 Zergling Flood SpeedLings

Analysis

The build is pretty simple. Any speeding opening should do. I provide the opening from the vod. Only 1 gas. Only 2 queens. First 100 gas goes to ling speed. Roach warren at 31 supply. Stop droning at 34 supply and then get a bunch of overlords. Then flood speedlings.

For 12 roach version, make 4 overlords. For 5 ravager version, you only need 3 overlords.

Ravager are very gas heavy (75 gas), so you can only morph 2 of the 5 at your base. You can morph the 3rd about half way to their base. And the 4th right before you attack. The 5th, when you are fighting in his base.

The econ is 1.5 base, but gas is more the limiting factor. So if you need to make units to defend and can't drone up the natural, you can still probably do the build on 1 base econ. I've tested it out by making lings until 34 supply and still seems doable.

You do have alot of minerals, while attacking. And still mining gas. So while attacking, you could expand or get lair or get burrow.

I added a 3rd replay in the description section. Basically, if you add a 2nd gas you can have enough gas to morph all 5 ravager at once. I started the 2nd gas when the expo finished and it was almost enough gas (4.5 ravager worth). Also, now you have alot of gas and decent minerals, so that opens up more possible followups.

Note to new SC2 players: I'm hotkeying my eggs and you should too. Check out Lowko's youtube video, if you don't know how.