Starcraft 2 - Zerg Build Orders

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Zerg has a number of different options at the start of a game depending on what you want to do. First though I want to talk for a second about rushing because it is a favorite of the Zerg player for good reason. A good Zerg player can do a very effective late rush but I would recommend staying away from the very early rushes that we are seeing all over battlenet right now. A diamond level player will not fall to an early rush and in fact, in most cases it will leave you in a worse position after the failed rush then your opponent.

I would recommend a late rush though and the build order for that goes like this. When you hit 10 drones build an overlord and then pump out 3 more drones when the overlord finishes. Build a spawning pool after the 3 drones and then make 1 extractor and throw 3 drones on it. Continue to build drones until the pool finishes then make a queen. At this point you should have around 15 drones so I would build 3 or 4 more drones. As soon as you get 100 gas start the speed upgrade in the spawning pool. Now all you need to do is make zerglings and overlords when you need to. Make sure you always have "spawn larva" on the hatchery. When the speed upgrade finishes take all your zerglings and head for your opponent's expansion, take out the workers and then head straight into his main base and also take out as many workers as you can. I would ignore their army and simply run right by them to the workers. By doing this you cripple his economy and your second attack will end the game because he will focus on getting his workers back while you can focus on building up your army to end the game. This is a much more effective strategy then the early rush with only 6 or 8 zerglings.

You may not be a huge fan of rushing like that, in which case you would build a mixture or drones and zerglings/roaches until you hit 30 drones instead of only building zerglings after the first 18 or so drones. Then focus on hydralisks or what ever is needed to counter your opponent. But always remember to expand pretty early because out expanding our opponent is the only way we stay ahead of Terran and Protoss in the end game.

Becoming an advanced Starcraft 2 player is very challenging and confusing. I purchased the Starcraft 2 Advanced Strategy Guide from Star2Pros.com and I have been very impressed with the strategies they teach. I would highly recommend it to any Starcraft 2 player who wants to get to the top of the Diamond Ladders, I think this guide might be the only one of its kind.

Anyways, good luck to all of you and I hope to see you on BattleNet!

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