Over here, not that that means much to you :X

Well, the 3v3 ranking is bullcrap. I'm stuck in bronze league because during the qualifiers i was either paired with quitters or complete n00bs. I just played my first bronze league game against some "favoured players". Damn, the quality was low. All three of us didn't lose any forces practically. They had no scouting, no scanning, no defences, just mass economy and a few tier three units.

VOID RAY SPAM IS TOO EFFECTIVE. God damn. I've won with it about as many times as I've lost to it. Is there any Protoss strategy that is at all as viable as Void Ray spam?

I kind of laughed when I heard "rush to Void Rays" was viable until a few of us played with it over the weekend. I can deal with it, but it's really annoying.

Ghosts have this special ability called emp. That works amazingly well against protoss. It cuts out the shields. Marines and vikings can take care of the rest. I've also won a few times using blink stalkers against void rays. Not sure what zergs could use but i'm sure that infested terrans and corruptors will work fine. maybe even mutalisks because they do splash damage.

The biggest difference between noobs and good players are the scouting. You absolutely need to find out what your opponent is getting so that you can counter it.

edit: Games like evolves and tug are good for figuring out which units counter which. There is also a challenge which requires some good micro to do well with as well.

marines are really good against void rays when the vrs are small numbers. generally it takes them a while to get an economy going before they can mass it.

I just got out of a 3v3 where the other team massed void rays. I did a massive ammount of damage to the armies with my ghosts and vikings but the rest of my team were idiots. I couldn't even mine because they built structures near the bloody patches. what a bunch of arseholes. bronze league sucks and i don't have fait that i'll be able to win my way out like this.

How many void rays can 3 queens take on?

Don't worry, if your skills are beyond your league you'll win more than 50% of the time. That means <50% you'll experience this.

Edit: I did pretty awful, landing myself in silver. I was platinum during the beta.

For the curious, here are the rankings:

Pro League  This league would only be accessible through invitation[4] using the same techniques as promotion into other leagues. There will be a set number of participants, and they will not be divided into divisions.[6]
Diamond  Not available through placement matches; players must earn enough points to enter this league.[1]
Platinum  Standard league.[1]
Gold  Standard league.[1]
Silver  Standard league.[1]
Bronze  Standard league.[1]
Practice  Features slower-speed games with novice anti-rush maps for newer players. Players can play 50 practice matches, and only upon creating an account. Once a player leaves (voluntarily or otherwise), they may not return.[1] Blizzard Entertainment is trying to prevent "smurfing" of this area.[7][8]

As far as the basics are concerned, for terrans the main strategy is MMM -- marines, marauders, and medivacs. Just make sure your marines have stimpacks, of course.
To counter tanks, just use banshees. If your opponent is heavily turtled in their base, then just expand so you have enough economy to send wave after wave of units to eventually break through.

Here's my current favorite Starcraft II video. It doesn't really prove anything, just funny to watch.

Two options:

1. You tech hard and get air fast as well. Void Rays need a Pylon, Gateway, Cybernetics Core and a Stargate. As Protoss, you can simply match this and send a Phoenix to scout (Phoenixes hard counter Void Rays, are cheaper and build faster). As Terran, you need a Barracks, Factory and Starport. From the Starport get a Viking and send it to scout (again: hard counter, cheaper, faster to make). Zerg is the easiest. Tech to Mutalisks. I say they're the easiest because unlike the Viking and the Phoenix, Mutas attack fairly well against ground too.

2. You don't scout and build to defend air. Not turrets and the like necessarily (though those can't hurt for detection). But having a group of Stim-researched Marines, Hydralisks or Stalkers doesn't generally hurt. Like the Mutalisks, they can serve as defense or offense so if your enemy doesn't end up going Void Rays, you'll still be ok as long as you have other units to counter whatever he's sending.

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3 (the less standard options). With Protoss, you can also research and use Hallucination with a Sentry to create an air unit or two to fly around. With Terran, you can fly a Barracks - I kid you not. I've seen this done in pro games and someone used this very efficiently against me to scout my cliff and take out the buildings at the edge of my base (using the Barrack's air vision).

I stopped playing novice maps because they prevented any scouting or early/mid-game. It basically was all about massing a units in a single wave. I think we'll see blizzard try and nerf them but in a way that doesn't affect the perfectly balanced high-level pro-games that make them the money in korea.

Also, zerg is hard to play. You really need good scouting and map control. Not something you can do at all in novice. Notice how majority of players are protoss. Those are easy to micro and manage while terran takes a little more unit mixing and micro. Zerg requires a lot of precise control and I almost see no one using them.

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what i'm finding now is that every protoss play basically walls themselves off with a million cannons. Terrans almost have no base defences/detection and zerg players have a queen which is usually easy to take out. Protoss base defence is easy since the cannons can do ground defence and air defence and detection.

Yeah I'd love practice too. What's your name and character code?

If you've got a few Infestors, feel free to vomit a small army of Infested Terrans to deal with Void Rays. They hit slightly harder and have more life than normal Marines IIRC, and the Infestors can also control the Void Rays if you've researched Neural Parasite.