I'm pretty bad at sc2 regardless, I'm always mid-plat, but lately I seem to lose to every single terran I come across. Early marine/marauder molests me every time.

I'm tired of having to resort to cannon rushing for wins, so what's an easier way to hold off early timings? I'm pumping units the moment I get gateways up, but it always seems like they're able to mass around the 7 minute mark and I'm done for.

You will be able to produce more then they can at this point if you can just hold them off for a few minutes. In all my pvt matchups i've found that if you can use your sentries properly and wipe his army you can proxy a pylon and counter attack for a insta win if they rush hard with rine/raud.

It's always an uphill battle, I try to chain FF's on my ramp to keep them at bay, but it's retarded how quickly my shit melts to 0/0 barracks units. Sometimes I don't think I should even build a single zealot, they're fucking useless.

sentries and nexus cannon good stuff... even dt openings with low risk high reward are a good idea

colossus good unit toooo...

guardian shield + zealots to fend off marines, with mothership core

if the guy has heavy marauders youll need decent forcefields

Zealots being useless. Oh my sidesn. Have you tried making more than two against twelve marines?

Of course they're not useless, it just feels like it when I get kited to death when I'm already lower army value.

blink stalkers? charge lots?

stalkers kite marines for days

Something is wrong with this statement... oh I know its the low risk part ^^

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