9 Pylon 13 Gateway

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9 Pylon 13 Gateway

9 Pylon 13 Gate is the most economic of the Gate-first openings.

Matchups:	PvP, PvT, PvZ
Type:	Opening

Overview

This opening provides the strongest economy possible. The only time probe production is stopped is when the 9th probe is in production and the first Pylon is placed. This provides a very strong economy but army production and tech are delayed. Creating a Pylon, Gateway, Cybernetics Core wall at your entrance with a Zealot, Sentry and Stalker as your first 3 units will provide the early protection you will need. Given this is just an opening build order it can transition into any non-cheese build or fast expand build.

Build Order

Basic Build
9 Pylon 10 Chrono Boost Nexus 13 Gateway, send Probe to scout 15 Assimilator 16 Pylon

Times and Mining

	2:30	4:00
Minerals gathered	965	1825
Gas gathered	0	156
Workers made	16	21

• Gateway finished at 2:50

Notes

• The first two Chrono Boosts are normally used on the Nexus to produce probes faster as soon as the Nexus has 25 energy.
• You will produce 30 probes around 6 minutes.
• A Cybernetics Core is usually built as soon as the Gateway is finished. If you opt to build a cybernetics core as soon as the gateway is completed you will want to consider making an early Pylon, Gateway, Cybernetics Core wall followed by a Zealot, Sentry and a Stalker to serve as your early base defense.
• It is common with this opening to scout with the Probe that builds the Pylon at 9 supply. The timing of the Gateway at 13 allows uninterrupted Probe creation throughout the opening.

Transitions

All Protoss midgame transitions are possible from this opening.