1 Gate Expand
PvP standard 1-gate expand: exactly 1 Gateway finished before the natural Nexus (which goes down before 5:00) and the first warp-in is a Stalker / Adept / Zealot.
33.3% win rate over 42 ladder games since patch 5.0.16
n = 42 games from 5 players · Stats updated Sep 28, 2026
Since patch 5.0.16, 5 players logged 42 PvP ladder games with 1 Gate Expand, winning 33.3% of the decided ones. The likely range for its true win rate is 21.0–48.4%, so it loses more often than it wins. It appears in 18.2% of the 231 PvP games in the guide sample. This guide is newly published, so there is no weekly trend yet. This is still a small sample (n = 42), so treat it as a directional read.
Key timings
These timings come from 37 recorded build orders by 5 players. Buildings are timed when construction starts, upgrades and morphs when they finish, exactly as the replay records them. The median player finishes Warpgate at 4:15, with the middle half between 3:57 and 4:43. Timing data is still thin (n = 37 replays), so expect these medians to move.
| Milestone | Early (p25) | Median | Late (p75) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pylon startedin 37 games | 0:29 | 0:33 | 0:35 |
| Gateway startedin 37 games | 0:56 | 0:58 | 1:00 |
| Assimilator startedin 37 games | 1:08 | 1:10 | 1:15 |
| 2nd Nexus startedin 37 games | 1:44 | 1:51 | 2:01 |
| Cybernetics Core startedin 37 games | 1:47 | 1:54 | 1:58 |
| Warpgate donein 34 games | 3:57 | 4:15 | 4:43 |
Common macro leaks
Average macro score 75.5 over 42 games from 5 players.
- Supply Blockedin 95.2% of games40 of 42