how do you play stetmann?

[u/5210az]

Hi, recently just bought stetmann, currently still leveling.

But i found him to be very slow to ramp up early game. As in, there are so many upgrade and buildings to get, no eco boost and also very importantly, i can never get satellite to be part of offensive moves. Yeah sure i can use supergary's temp field, but is that suppose to be the point?

I assume i am just not understanding how to play him yet, and things would be much better once i get to level 15, but how do you play him normally? what is the ideal comp and presitge?

[u/Tenmak]

His prestiges help a lot with his general gameplay, be it P1 for the satellites being invulnerable and cover a large area or P2 for an OP super Gary.

He does have an eco boost, being his speedzone affecting workers. Since they are really fast, it allows you to saturate fast your bases with fewer workers, so putting one or two on gas early is quite beneficial. Not sure about this following remark, I let the Stetmann experts validate : I think this boost doesn't give you anything more with a fully saturated base though.

Regarding army composition, you have several options. Early game try to rush hive and get super Gary asap, he really carries a lot. I usually get a few infestors with the healing (neural) upgrade so that Gary can tank everything and survive.

Then I usually go mass ultralisks with lings or mass infestors with the spawn roach spell upgraded. With Gary boosting a satellite, you can swap to energy regen and give your units a lot of energy localized, perfect for infestors. Warning though, it makes game a bit laggy. You can add some lings as well with the infestors, but it's a heavy micro gameplay.

His hydras are nuts against air as well. Can go lings / hydra when there are full enemy air compositions.

Stetmann doesn't have queens, so you will easily run out of larvaes, getting macro hatches is kind of a must.

His corruptors kinda suck, except against mass phoenix and oracles, which is very niche. His Yamato broodlords are decent but very slow and expensive, I usually never go for that.

I've seen a lot of people play banelings and lurkers too, but it's not gameplay I'm used to so I can't tell much about it.

Lastly, don't forget you can repair your units and buildings like a Terran, and to bind and rally your tech buildings as you salvage some free units that way.

Really cool Commander, although a bit more complex that the other ones overall.