Terran: Interview with ALEEEEEEEESA on TvT against Reapers

I've noticed by going around the net that TvT does have some reaper play so I asked ALEEEEEEEESA from SC2Armory.com what he thought about it.

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So there are quite a few players who after watching MorroW at the Intel Extreme Masters have started to train up their reaper rushes and basically end up rising up the Ladder with this opener. What are your thoughts on the reaper rush?

Reaper rush is very race specific, morrow's reaper opening isn't really considered a rush rather than a transitory opener for a fast expansion specifically against zerg. Against protoss however, the speed of the stalkers greatly deters reapers. This is why morrow never does it against huk in the GosuCoaching ShowMatch series on husky's channel.

In addition patch 1.1 is going to affect 5RR greatly as well and it only works on specific maps (IE not SoW) and doesn't work too well against 1 base muta if unscouted.

So what do you do to counter it when you face a reaper rush?

I play T and reaper rush isn't very common because of marauders and marines which are both fairly good against reapers in reasonable number. Reapers are generally only good against melee units who cannot attack back.

So do you have any words for the lower ranking players who face problems against early game rushes?

Scout with your 9/10th worker. If T, build a marauder, or else a bunker and a marine. If P, get a zealot, when that zealot dies pull off 5 probes and stall till stalkers. If, Z get 2 queens asap and get roaches if more reapers are coming while transitioning into mutas. Infestor ling, I've heard, works alright as well.


Thanks for your words ALEEEEEEEESA.

ALEEEEEEEESA is a diamond level player from the NA Server in SC2 who specializes in Terran play. He also has a youtube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/AleesaSC which shows many different 1v1 and 2v2 techniques.

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Well it seems that in top level play there is little reaper play since basic barracks units are good enough to deal with reapers.

I hope this was good for all of you who play Terran and face Terran players who use reapers in the early game for rushes.

This is Fireport here with another article for thebronzeleagueplayer.blogspot.com Signing Off.