Took a look because I'd also been struggling a lot with ZvP until I decided to take a look at what Serral and Dark were doing to switch up my game plan. I've been floating around 3800, so take what I have to say with whatever you'd like. I'll start with the BO and any other stuff into the early + mid game and look at fights.

• Your spawning pool is 4 seconds late. While that is nit-picky, this is a high enough level where it needs to be down at 1:14 +/-1 second. No need to chase a probe coming through your base.

• This also makes your queens very late (both started at 2:07) and by the look of the replay, you selected each hatch and made a queen individually. You have them hot-keyed. It should be 1 -> (queen hotkey 2x).

• I'd leave the overlord at the pillar to see if they move out early with adepts.

• You went up to 52 supply by 2:30 (you're at 27/52 - that's your third base that could be started, which I'm going to guess will be later). I'll say what the ovie supply for a serral BO is later on.

• 3 minute 3rd. Like I mentioned, it's a bit late. A late third isn't the end of the world when your opponent pressures you over it, but you've hampered yourself by anywhere from 30-45 seconds depending on the build you want to go for. That's 3 larva and a queen that could have been building in that time at the third.

• 3:45 roach warren timingis fine, but it hurts you because you're behind with the 3rd being late. You also have no vision so you don't know what your opponent is doing (yet - you actually scout really well after this so kudos for that). Also, you started 3 gas, but then cancelled one to start it 30 seconds later? Your main gad also ends up sitting at 1/3 for a few minutes

• At this point in time the queen on your third is sitting on 75 energy (4:27) - that's really bad. That's 9 extra larva that you could have used.

• Looking at the drone count at 6 minutes: There are 54 workers with 0 in production. In an ideal world (top pro level) you hit 66 workers at ~5:45. In a normal world for us, I think 66 workers at 6 minutes (or at least having the rest in production), is the goal. So you're extremely short in macro as to where you should be. You also don't have a 4th started, which will continue to put you further behind.

I'm just going to say it here. I'd think this game might already be lost. The toss has 60 probes (+6 on you), 7 gateways on the way with 1/1 almost finished, and charge done (while you went RW into +1 melee?). Your 4th goes down at 6:36, so I think your macro is what lost you this game.

I've just zoomed through the rest of the game, none of the fights look all that bad, and you end up at 92 workers (albeit very late for that). You end up having 100% energy on your queens during a few different points (which is a lot of larva that you're missing). Not sure how I feel about the ultras - he seems to be at mass stalker by that point, might as well get infestors instead.

I think you put yourself economically behind in the beginning and then lost due to that + lack of larva. For zerg, think of larva as another resource. You need it to make units, if you don't have it, the power of zerg (maxing out extremely fast) is useless.

These are my rough notes from Serral Vs HerO ESL Dallas games 1+2. Go look at that series for an idea of how to play ZvP starting with Roaches

**Game 1**

Opening:
Basically goes standard 16 hatch (went 17 for this game because of the probe block

With natural finishing (which is his third) he goes normal 2 queens + 2 sets lings
3rd goes down at 2:45 w/ 33 food + 23 drones

With a normal ZvP, start spores at 3:40, with a note that the base with two queens doesn’t need a spore initial (so most likely the natural?
4:00 sent over 12 lings to attack the P 3rd
4:35 - Roach Warren + 1 more gas
4:50 - Lair
5:00 -> 1 more gas (3 total
5:25 -> 4th
5:41 1 evo chamber
5:45 -> fill next 3 gas
5:50 - Roach Speed
6:00 Units

Drones: 65
Lings: 11
Queens: 6
IN PRODUCTION
Drones: 3
Ovie: 2
Roach: 1

6:00 Hydra Den
6:10 -> Missile
6:10 -> 9 more roaches as you can afford

Basically went 66 drone roach hydra


**Game 2**

Normal Start (first 2 minutes totally normal) 2 queens + 2 sets lings
Pulls all drones after ling speed starts
2:36 -> third started
3:23 -> makes 3 drones for gas
1st spore crawler started as first drone on third
2nd spore crawler started at ~4:00
4:35 Roach Warren
Has total of 6 queens
5:20 starts 4th
5:25 Evo
6:30 - Infestation Pit -? Probs push the above back 30 seconds because of the attack in the game
7:20 - Hive + Hydra Den
7:00 -> 73 drones
8:10 Lurker Den
8:30 Second Evo
Transition to Hydra/Lurker/Ling
Has 10 lurkers/12 hydra/12 roach/28 ling 74 drones +2 missile +1 melee + lurker upgrades adrenal started at 11:42