In this session we dive into why tight build orders matter, how to spot and defend early cheese, and ways to build smarter unit counters for your bot. @chad shared challenges around Terran builds and rush defense, while @mindme walked us through his counter logic system
Key Takeaways from this session:
Build orders are everything — clean, explicit builds (with supply counts) carry bots much farther than patchy logic.
Cheese detection saves games — simple checks like “no natural expansion spotted = likely rush” let you pivot to a defensive build.- 🗹 Expansion logic needs pathing, not air distance — querying pathing distances avoids bots misidentifying naturals.
Counters work best per unit, not per composition — assign weights to counters for each enemy unit type and let them add up to a natural response.
Negative weights are powerful — use them to suppress building units that are being hard-countered.
Support units need special handling — observers, sentries, medivacs, etc. don’t fit neatly into weight tables.
Start simple and grow — even champion bots like NegativeZero improved massively by just nailing build orders before layering on complexity.