Pffft there are counters for every strategy out there. If you're struggling with Silver then the problem isn't that the game is imba - it's that you suck. You need to learn about the basic mechanics and macro before you can move on to the higher leagues where micro is actually a factor. If you don't have the right number of drones out or too many/few per base then you're gonna find it hard to win because you can't even got the economic side right. Starcraft is essentially a real time game of Chess. You gotta react to the opponents moves which is why scouting is vital. If you don't scout and learn about what he's doing (or rather not doing) then you're gonna lose every single time unless your skill level is much higher than theirs. I remember this asshat in Gold League who did a two gate zealot rush and I would have lost because I didn't scout the location properly thinking I had time to tech up because he didn't have the right shit in his base, and not realizing he was proxying his damn gateways, so he destroyed my pylons while I had only one stalker out. I won the game through sheer micro since stalkers > zealots even though I was initially outnumbered 4:1 until I got more and more stalkers out while playing around with my probe making mass pylons to avoid him being able to destroy them all again. After killing his 10+ zealots through flawless micro I moved on to destroy his proxy gateways and then mopped up his defenseless and underbuilt base.

1. Fix your macro
2. Learn to scout
3. Once the basics are done, learn some basic timings for your race so you can stay as efficient as possible and then branch out into whatever strat you need to counter the opponent's (which you learn through scouting).

Or you could just 4 gate like a noob into Platinum League with Protoss because it just works

This post has been edited by red streak: Jun 11 2014, 08:18 PM