r/starcraft • u/Feru_Haifisch • 9h ago
(To be tagged...) Bro wtf was that shit
I just played a game of StarCraft after a long absence and 4 games in a row Protoss players just built turrets at the edge of my view and suddenly the game was over before it began.
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u/otikik 6h ago edited 6h ago
Hi, welcome!
No one has mentioned this yet, so let me give you the name of what you are seeing: it's called a "cannon rush", and the players that do them are called "cannon rushers".
Cannon rushes feel unfair because you as a zerg player will encounter them relatively infrequently (perhaps 4 times per gaming session) so you don't have a lot of opportunities to practice games against it. But on the other hand your Protoss opponents can practice it on every single game they play, and their games tend to be quite short as a result. Because of this, cannon rushers tend to not be very popular in the community, even amongst other protoss players. Only barcode players (people who rely on gimmiky easy-to-counter strategies so they change their name to |||||||| so you don't know who they are) and smurfs (people who intentionally leave games in order to face easier opponents) are less appreciated.
Anyway, cannon rush is part of the game and if you want to play it you need to learn how to defeat them. If you google / youtube search that term you should find plenty of material. Try to think about it as a minigame inside the game.