Starcraft 2 Reaper Rush

The Reaper rush is one of the easiest yet effective ways to win games of Starcraft 2. In particular, it seems to be most effective versus bad players (seriously)!

What I mean by this is that in the Platinum league, most players have seen the Reaper rush and know how to counter it so the person you are playing will really have to get surprised in order to not see this coming.

At any rate, the reason this is worth talking about is because 1) it is really fun to do and 2) it can result in a win in 5 minutes. So if you somehow got stuck into the Bronze league, you can perform the Starcraft 2 Reaper rush repetitively and quickly rank up to at least the Gold league before it stops working. Here is what you will end up doing:

• Get a Barracks at 7/11 supplies
• Build a Refinery
• Harvest Vespene Gas
• Get a Tech Lab on the Barracks as soon as it is done
• Start training a Reaper as soon as the tech lab is done
• Build an Orbital Command and use that for MULEs (big resource bonus)

Send in your Reaper right away as soon as it is finished and start killing enemy units. Meanwhile, build up your base (very important) by getting more harvesters, teching up, and walling in.

Keep producing Reapers and sending them to the enemy's base. You will find that versus low-ranked Protoss players, this is nearly an instant win every time. The only thing you need to do at this point is to control your Reaper:

• Do not allow your Reaper to get hit with melee attacks from workers, Zealots, or Zerglings.
• Rather, run away, and when you have enough distance, stop by hitting the "H" key, and then right click to move right away
• In that brief second you are stopped, your Reaper will attack

Keep repeating this process of getting distance, stopping to attack, and getting more distance (this is known as kiting). You can pick off an unlimited number of workers and Zealots with a single Reaper this way.

Since you will only have 1 Reaper at the start, it is important to kite so you do not get killed by SCVs or Probes.

By following his simple Starcraft 2 Reaper Rush, you can win a lot of fast, easy games and get out of the Bronze league in record speed.