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PartinG's "Adios Amigo" Cannon Rush

This is a different take on a Cannon rush because it opens with a Gateway before getting a Forge, quickening the pace at which you're able to get tech onto the field after securing a Cannon contain. You're going to be using this to your advantage by following up with an extremely quick Immortal/Warp Prism attack.

The trade-off for having faster tech is that this particular Cannon rush is completely ineffective against a Zerg who opens Spawning Pool first, requiring a transition to a different opening if such a build is scouted.

This build can be characterised as a cheese as it's unlikely to work if the opponent knows that it's coming early enough and also knows the correct response.

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"Legacy of the Void" Builds

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1 Base Play & Cheese Macro Openings 3 Gate Pressure Midgame Playstyles and All-Ins	1 Base Play & Cheese Proxy Gateway into Proxy Tempest Macro Openings Midgame Playstyles and All-Ins	1 Base Play & Cheese PartinG's "Adios Amigo" Cannon Rush Macro Openings Midgame Playstyles and All-Ins Margaery's Immortal Chargelot All-In

"Heart of the Swarm" Builds

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1 Base Play & Cheese Photon Cannon Rush Proxy 2 Gate Zealot Rush Proxy 2 Gate Stalker Rush 10 Gate 3 Gate Macro Openings Dear's Dark Templar/Immortal Drop 2 Gate Fast Expand Midgame Playstyles and All-Ins Power Overwhelming: Immortal/Archon/Chargelot	1 Base Play & Cheese Photon Cannon Rush Macro Openings 1 Gate TAiLS' Dark Templar Drop FE FE into Blink PartinG's PvT: "The big boy build" Midgame Playstyles and All-Ins Two Base Templar Mass Oracle/Chargelot Duckdeok's Two Base Blink All-In Two Base Blink Macro Classic's Colossus Drop	1 Base Play & Cheese Photon Cannon Rush Proxy 2 Gate Zealot Rush San's Gate Train Macro Openings Midgame Playstyles and All-Ins Forge Fast Expansion (FFE) 2 Immortal 2 Colossus All-In Void Ray/Chargelot/Templar 1 Gate Arium's 2 Base Blink All-In

"Wings of Liberty" Builds

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1 Base Play & Cheese Tinman 11 Gate 3 Gate 4 Warpgate Rush Macro Openings 3 Stalker Rush MC's 2 Gate Pressure Into Blink/Observer NaNiwa's Blink/Observer Build HerO's 2 Gate Stargate Adel's Late Gas Bischu Anti 4 Gate Opening Geiko's Defensive 3 Gate SaSe's Aggressive 2 Gate Expand Rain's 3 Gate Phoenix Push Midgame Playstyles and All-Ins	1 Base Play & Cheese 3 Gate Void Ray/Stalker All-In 4 Warpgate Rush 4 Gate Blink/Observer All-In Macro Openings Nexus First Nexus First Oz's Nexus Forge 1 Gate SaSe's 1 Gate FE Into 3 Gate Pressure PartinG's Fast 3 Nexus 8 Gate Push MC's 1 Gate FE Gateway Pressure Into Fast Third Base 13 Gate 17 Nexus HuK's 1 Gate FE kcdc's 1 Gate FE 2 Gate 2 Gate FE 2 Gate Pressure Expand 2 Gate Robo 2 Gate Fast Obs 3 Gate 3 Gate Aggressive Expansion Midgame Playstyles and All-Ins 2 Gate Robo 2 Gate Fast Obs Into 3 Immortal Push NonY's 2 Base Colossus All-In Misc. Double Forge	1 Base Play & Cheese 4 Warpgate Rush 5 Gate Sentry All-In Macro Openings Forge Fast Expansion (FFE) 4 Gate +1 Zealot Pressure Noumena's Dual Warp Prism Harass YufFE +1 4 Gate/Stargate Timing Into Fast Third Base 1 Gate 1 Gate 1 Assim FE 1 Gate Gasless Expand (vs. Zerg) 2 Gate NonY's 2 Gate Sentry Expand 2 Gate FE 10-16 3 Gate 3 Gate Sentry Expand Dark Templar Expand Midgame Playstyles and All-Ins Forge Fast Expansion (FFE) MC's 7 Gate 1 Gas All-In 7 Gate +2 Blink Stalker All-In 4 Gate Pressure Into 7 Gate +2 Blink Stalker All-In 7 Gate Immortal All-In Mista's 2 Base Colossus All-In