The left has laughed at our warnings for decades , but here we find ourselves in the midst of a cultural rot that nobody could have imagined in the 50 ' s . <| sep |> Smooth like chunky peanut butter . <| sep |> I ' m going to say that ' s not as much a strategy as much as it ' s a general composition . I don ' t think it breaks down to oh just build X if they build Y . Looking at the game in a vacuum like that is worthless . Massing ultras is a general end game plan for most zergs . However obviously a strong protoss is not going to let you go straight to a million mutas or ultras . The current somewhat standard DT drop into archon drop opening around 45 min and take a third is still very strong against ling openings . I think it takes a pretty strong zerg to not take very much damage from the archon drops or not to over react and build just the exact amount of roaches you need to hold it off . There are a few key responses the protoss can have off that build that crush a lot of common zerg responses . My main follow ups are to take the third and not really probe it up much . Then drop 4 more gates 8 total while chronoing blink for a blink stalker archon all in while the archons hurass . This is a build I ' ve seen zest use quite a few times and I like to go into it when I think the zerg is going to try and macro out of the hurass by holding with mainly queens and lings . Blink stalker archon just murders ling bane unless they have huge numbers which they probably won ' t if they are trying to drone up their 3 rd and get double upgrades . Secondly I do the archon drop and secure my 3 rd and start chronoing out immortals and researching charge . I do this if I think they are going to take minimal damage and are showing lots of roaches and probably eventually roachhydralurker . If I see a ton of units I ' ll do some combination of defencive units to try and hold my natural and maybe my third if I think I can . Normally you will be chronoing out immortals and maybe building adept sentry to hold walls better . I might get glaves here if I see high ling counts but won ' t get charge because it ' s not that useful on the defence . This strat hit ' s before mutas hit the field and has a clear ability to punish spire strats by forcing gas units to be made before the zerg normally wants to . It ' s mainly a strong build against the popular ling openings so I think it might go away if every zerg starts playing roach raveger into hydra lurker but it doesn ' t sound like your friend is using an opening like that . LMK if you have specific questions . I would be happy to play him sometime if you want me to beat his strat . I consider my PvZ to be probably my best matchup these days .