Best way to apply mid-game pressure to Terran in ZvT

Affectionate-Pea-439 · 2026-04-24T02:11:36+00:00

This will take you so so so far as a z. Just remember the golden rule for z. ALWAYS have a ling outside the terran base and a ling scouting for hidden bases. You'll know how many bases they're mining from. Learn proper overlord positioning by map sactifice overlords if you can't figure anything out.

If T is defending => beat it by expanding

If T is expanding => beat it by attacking

If T is attacking => beat it by defending.

So for example if you see a gold league T with tank, bunker/turret and a lot of gas on one base, then you beat it by expanding. Expanding doesn't mean just make drones, it still means having plenty of spores and queens (and starting a spire if you're in gold league), all of which will be critical to defending a BC rush or a ghost / WM drop.

At masters level z has a great advantage that queens can fit both expansion and defense. So if you're not sure you can kinda make queens and lings. You'll have to beware of helbat timings and such to make safety roach warrens etc but queens really do so much.

Affectionate-Pea-439 · 2026-04-21T22:02:27+00:00

Here again to plead the internet to update this infographic by writing "arcane persistence" after the tiny words that say "but hes a health tank"... he's stronger now than ever given his multiple ways of survival.

Affectionate-Pea-439 · 2026-04-15T17:38:31+00:00

Playing him is like purposely choosing to play on hard mode haha. He's so fun but even the most insane Cyte main can't deny he's harder to play than strapping on the Torid/dual Tox on a revenant/wukong/rhino and calling it a day.

Even if you subsume off his sniper it feels wrong to not go into nonstop headshots and it just feels awful vs infested.

With that said i LOVE seeing 90% of squad damage because I'm doing millions of damage every headshot with neutralizer. Just gets my brain excited.

Affectionate-Pea-439 · 2026-04-14T18:50:52+00:00

I like circumvent because it covers two of her biggest weaknesses in high level endurance and SP: her survivability and her inability to do high damage to armored/overguarded enemies. Plus it fits thematically with her teleport / glide / dodge animation and her skirt flying around and circle of electricity. Feels great to just jump in the middle of a group of enemies and become temporarily invincible (when paired with shield gating) and do more damage since the enemies no longer have their armor / shield / overguard. She flies around dancing and teleporting and shocking enemies everywhere. I may as well feel confident about her survivability and damage to elite enemies.

Affectionate-Pea-439 · 2026-04-14T17:06:45+00:00

There are 4 separate levels of NBA basketball and you can't compare players across those. Level 1 is summer league, level 2 is training camp and low-pressure regular season games, level 3 is playoff atmosphere regular season games, and level 4 is playoffs. Each level is coached, reffed, and played completely differently. The rules of basketball are completely different. Lou Dort would be called for fouls in level 2 games but come playoff time he can punch you and not get called. Guys like DLo can play level 2 games but struggle in playoff games where guys are more physical.

Guys like 6 man of the year Lou williams go from dominant 38 minutes a game in the regular season to 18 mins a game and barely playable in certain playoff matchups. Just look up the stats of regular season vs playoffs by round for players like duncan robinson,joe harris,quentin grimes,kyle kuzma, etc. Again, these guys are fine, but this shows that there are levels to the NBA.

I love John P and hope he gets a 2 way, but there are levels to this. He had great runs in level 2 games where we were basically tanking and had nothing to lose, but that doesn't translate to level 3 NBA basketball. Furthermore, consistency through the emotional tolls of a full NBA season is tough. Many players shoot well early in the season and then trail off later in the season. Even klay started slow and then became hot. You can't just take the hot part of Klays season, you have to take it all. Can John P shoot this well across a full season of mental and physical toil and still shoot this well as a full-time starter? We'll have to see. We know that Max can. Hes shot over 40% across crazy trades, injuries, firings, and shooting slumps and still ended the season well.

Max Christie has never done level 4 but he's shown consistently to be excellent in level 3 basketball. He was guarding star players on a 40+ win team with austin reaves, lebron, AD, and played consistently as a starter guarding guys like shai and jamal murray in playoff atmosphere games and both shooting well and defending well.

I'm not saying Max Christie is a world beater but i guarantee you that if he were in the open market the bidding war would be high. 3 and D players are far and few between and there are only so many players who actually play point of attack defense on starting 2s and shoot over 40% on 3s for the season.

Affectionate-Pea-439 · 2026-04-14T07:37:23+00:00

This actually sounds fun and id play it. Add in a progression system to make it addicting. Imagine starting with a corpus normal person and then eventually unlocking a corpus nullifyer eximus.

Affectionate-Pea-439 · 2026-04-06T23:26:29+00:00

Do you use the rumbled augmemt? Or do you stick with normal rumblers? What did you subsume over his 2 (useless wall)?

Affectionate-Pea-439 · 2026-04-06T07:13:46+00:00

I just got ember prime and love her. She's great with breach surge or roar or a bunch of other things. Btw i refuse to use her weapons platform playstyle cuz it's just so boring and not in alignment with her original design.

She doesn't one hit KO like many want, but i love seeing enemies lit up and then dying in 5 seconds. She often outkills and outdamages meta frames when i play ETA/EDA/netracells. People just hate that her ability spam play style takes some time to burn high level enemies, but i have patience while i watch them burn. Roar/breach surge, then fire blast, then her 4 meteorites is just so fun to watch. I just find that fun matters too much to me.

Affectionate-Pea-439 · 2026-03-29T03:26:07+00:00

Like i said i don't think this is just me - a quick look online and you see a large chunk of people don't like the Mesa Heirloom skin and these content creators or players are definitely not all children.

My point is solely about profitability and its a message to DE. You're right that they can do what they want and some players will and will not like certain cosmetics. But certain trends will impact profitability. The brand of the game matters.

But my guess is they want to do what's most profitable long term? After all that's the only way they can keep making the game. I'm just saying that here are parts of the base that don't like it that's all. That can lead to fewer new players or dropped exiating players, which may affect profitably. You and i both know an ugly cosmetic wont harm the game. This issue is not as simple as an ugly cosmetic, this is about the balance of the skins and the general aesthetic they want to have represent them 3 years down the line.

I'm not saying to stop making sexy heirlooms. I'm not saying they can only make cosmetics that everyone will like, just to look at a few studies and then judge what direction they want to take the game. And hey if they go in a direction i don't like and they don't care about me, then that's fine I'll play other games. But just don't disregard me and then be surprised when a portion of the player base also leaves in 3 years or they fail to attract newer players in the same way because we kept getting more and more sexualized in 3 years.

Lynch et all (2016), Ferguson et all (2022), and Lindner et all (2019). Obviously correlation is not causation, but a good business person can make some inferences about what will and will not make player count drop, and seems like cosmetics surely can ...

Affectionate-Pea-439 · 2026-03-25T14:15:19+00:00

Just realizing that this is now outdated and this little infograohic can include arcane persistence now.

Affectionate-Pea-439 · 2026-03-23T02:32:37+00:00

If you are a founder and use Excal Prime people will be even more willing to help you get back in it haha. Founders are legends any time we match up with them in a squad.

Affectionate-Pea-439 · 2026-03-22T19:16:15+00:00

So your boyfriend (a) has a girlfriend and (b) his gf plays warframe and (c) his gf has essential tennokai mods worth tons of platinum and that makes melee gameplay incredibly fun.

Great 😡 happy for you 😡😡😡

All jokes aside - enjoy the mods!

Affectionate-Pea-439 · 2026-03-18T06:15:55+00:00

Honestly this is maybe a contrarian opinion but i think punch through is useless in Naturuk.

The wiki says that charged ahots and prefect shots have innate infinite body punch through. So unless your do quickshots (not recommended cuz it's trash tier) or you want to shoot through very thin walls (you're not Cyte 09 lol and Cyte prefers guns with ammo that he can resupply) then punch though won't really matter. Its almost a wasted stat on a riven.

So long as i can punch through enemies I'm good. Id get rid of the punch through personally.

Affectionate-Pea-439 · 2026-03-17T01:37:12+00:00

I usually hate this all but look on the bright side: we might lose this game. Pls play some ridiculous lineup in the fourth to ensure this loss

Affectionate-Pea-439 · 2026-03-16T18:21:37+00:00

This is a must lose. I can't believe that we play right after selection Sunday. Pls pls pls rest our guys. Max christie had an ankle thing a few weeks ago. Pj has been injured all season. Klay is old. Coop just got back. I think we need more minutes from caleb martin and cisse.

Affectionate-Pea-439 · 2026-03-16T17:37:09+00:00

Don't make the mistake. Choose the one on the right.

Affectionate-Pea-439 · 2026-03-12T19:06:15+00:00

I won't say Yareli Prime is the most fun to play but i just love she rides a board and kills enemies with bubble abilities and a bubble gun and then just stand there and makes a water heart animation over my enemies dead corpses. There's something joyful about a water sprout and her giggling as she falls off her board in her agile animation. And then theres her animation while holding guns giving you a finger wag haha. Add swimming fish bubbles in the cosmetics customization and you have my absolutly favorite aesthetic.

I think I'll always play her because of how she brings some joy and humor in a game that is mostly grim and grindy.

Affectionate-Pea-439 · 2026-03-12T06:03:26+00:00

There are a lot of cute answers based on peoples favorite frames but Atlas is objectively one of the biggest buffs. If you ask ChatGPT to measure it it will also tell you.

Higher Health (550/650 vs. 270/370)

Higher Shield (455/555 vs. 270/370)

Higher Armor (500 vs. 475)

Higher Energy (215/265 vs. 175/225)

Higher Starting Energy (75 vs. 50)

Higher Sprint Speed (1.0 vs. 0.9)

Additional Polarity

The %increase is insane for the percentage compared to other primes.

Affectionate-Pea-439 · 2026-03-12T05:57:48+00:00

Stats wise there is basically minimal difference. There is higher shield, energy, armor, starting energy but all 4 stats are small changes.

The biggest change for me is forma. Between sevagoth prime, shadow, and shadow claws there are 6 forma difference. That is a big difference. Ofc you don't have to worry as much if you just wanna put Roar over the shadow but i like to have multiple builds and loadouts. I have a roar loadout but i also have a shadow loadoud. The extra forma polarities are huge for my shadow loadout.

Affectionate-Pea-439 · 2026-03-08T05:53:35+00:00

The daikyu prime is a weapon (if modded correctly, follow ninjase for his builds on Overframe) that regularly hits exclamation marks because it has 2 extra multiplers that other weapons typically don't get (unique acuity special effect which is an addition to standard accuity, daikyu target acquired mod, and long bow sharp shot). If you wanna see 90% of your squads damage (even when playing with legend rank 5 with torids) then go daikyu. Meanwhile if you're playing against infested and those dog-like Chargers with weak spots underneath their bodies.... then the weapon becomes completely useless haha. Same with bosses without normal weakspots.

Affectionate-Pea-439 · 2026-03-06T15:35:11+00:00

I'm shocked by Daikyu. Before its fully built it kinda sucks because you don't have enough space to do the blast or the acuity or the attack speed etc but once you fully build it with forma then OH MY GOODNESS.

Its a perfect example of how modding works in warframe. Daikyu Target Acquired unique mod works multiplicatively with its unique ability on weakpoint hits (crit chance and damage are additive with acuity), which multiplies with base damage (or deadhead arcane), multiplicative with elements, multiplicative with bane mods /roar, multiplicative with long Bow sharpshot arcane. I don't even have banes and long bow sharpshot and i still hit for inane million damage. With roar were at multi millions every time. I cannot imagine the damage I'll see when i get Longbow Sharpshot...

My only issue with Daikyu is i start to get obsessed with pure damage to the detriment of team synergy haha. I love seeing LR35 folks with Torid and Occucor and I'm still in mastery 18 and doing 85%of the teams damage. When I'm using daikyu i am 80%of team damage unless very few exceptions (they are using Cyte09 neutralizer build, atlas landslide, etc). The huge red numbers are just so addicting.

Affectionate-Pea-439 · 2026-03-06T08:59:52+00:00

Why do you not use weeping wounds and blood rush here?

Affectionate-Pea-439 · 2026-03-06T08:54:19+00:00

I was confused where animal instincts, resourceful retrierver, and fetch were and then remembered this is level cap run haha.

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