So to answer your question you dont have to be ANY level to be able to beat very hard ai. i can barely keep my win/loss at 50% and rarely win against other platinum players. but the missing game sense and experience is very hard to deal with for me. Now after some more than 100 games i can deal with most cheeses quite okayish. now i had to learn all the 'how to hold off cheese' and game sense in general in platinum league and that of course costed me a lot of games. every time a protoss proxygated or just plainly zealot rushed i died immidiately. i had never encountered any form of cheese and my game sense was (obviously) poor. then i decided to start to ladder.Īfter my placement matches i got into platinum due to okay macro. then i started to be able to beat the ai.
after some training i was able to survive the first push and lose later on. i just thought to myself that i will start to leader when i am able to beat the 3 races on very hard. with very hard i had some serious problems. for a pretty long time i only played against the computer to learn the tech tree and learn to macro and using hotkeys. before sc2 i didnt play any rts seriously (none competitively).
