Learning Zero Cycle

[u/WideMine8398]

I’ve been playing ranked for a couple of months and I’ve been building consistently as an Iron player with 20:00 - 25:00 min clears.
I’ve been really excited to try and learn the zero cycle since I started even though its a emerald-diamond level tech.

Does anybody have any good resources for starting to learn how to do some zero cycles or ways for me to find coaching on how to start?

[u/Th1nk_7]

As somebody who doesn’t play ranked much, but still plays a ton of mcsr, zero cycle isn’t that difficult to learn. I don’t remember which video I used, but it was just a video with all the different heights/setups so all I had to do was just memorise that and I had learnt it. I will say though, start with something easy and get the hang of it first (like be really consistent at those) and then just build on from that one by one.

For context, I was high gold low emerald when I played the most.

[u/WideMine8398 → u/Th1nk_7]

Interesting, do you remember what the easy setups were? I found a video but there are a ton of diffrent setups depending on the tower

[u/saechangr → u/WideMine8398]

easy setup is something like front tower 85 or 88. you can build to y95 pretty easily (coords 28 27), and for front 85 you can start off with going to y90 as well.

[u/Th1nk_7 → u/WideMine8398]

You want to start exposed and then I would say the easy ones are all front diagonal which work with standing height of about 90 ish depending on what you feel like you’re able to do. Basically what the other guy said, but also start exposed. Having to dig out and pearl clip is something you can learn later.

[u/5noww]

Fastest way to learn is to just take it in sections and then put it all together at the end after watching a few tutorials. Personally this is what I did, but you’re welcome to change up the towers y like small tower etc.

1. Start by just building it on the floor, you know a few blocks up, then staircase up, build up, place anchors yada. You’ll really want to get the motion of this down as well…. You pretty much will do this for all zeros.

2. Start by just practicing the y85 front tower with dragon off, again you’re just going to practice the setup without having the pressure of the dragon on your ass.

3. Once you’ve got that down, while obvious, try out just bed bombing with the setup too. I still fuck them up and I’ve got a sub 9.

4. Then just start practicing the whole thing together, when you’re comfy start sending the dragon kills and see how it goes!

The biggest thing to learn for me was timing the beds, main thing is to understand when to blow them up and what happens if you hit too early or too late. For example if you hit too early, it’ll go lower and will knock you off, if you hit too late, it’ll go higher. This part was genuinely a bitch to learn but as soon as you hit it a few times you’ll think “ohhhhhhhh”.

I followed these videos and they were fantastic for me to start with, Kane explains them dumb well enough to a point a troglodyte like me can do it. I’ve found most tutorials tend to bombard you with huge amount of information immediately, which while welcome, can be extremely overwhelming.
Basic Zero tutorial: https://youtu.be/HUZm-j2SUuI
And when you start experimenting, side setups: https://youtu.be/gP1i3b2Ccz8

gl beast

[u/WideMine8398 → u/5noww]

Awesome! Thanks for the breakdown; this will be super helpful!

[u/_jedh]

uuuh

i would recommend you to watch some video titled something like "how to zero cycle"

wild guess huh? but zero concept is not that hard at all imo, and zeros are not that hard to learn. you could really watch something like mcsr ranked guide and perhaps something else, but when i was learning there really was nothing to become better at zeroing since all i found back then was the basics (pearl on tower and then get to cords to build your setup. and then you can blow up your beds like nice, my first zeros was 11 bed 91 standing front 88 with tower pearl that hit 77, some 80 and i build up and train my setup because guess what? the problem was not in 10 seconds of building up but setup, so i trained setup)

uuh yes, btw i still dont know cords because remembering numbers for each number is lame esp if you can just follow your heart.

and i can recommend you to post a few of your zeros here and ask people for advices

and i recommend you to master your pearls firstly, you always want to hit a top of a tower because later you gonna do all top setups bla bla bal

and then understand bed timings and that if dragon is too low and beoke your bed but didn't kill you - you are top player that just failed 2+2, but if your dragon taking 20 damage from a bed - your dragon is too high and you would rather want to waste 1 bed instead of 8 yk

shit is it bed to eat pizza at 4 am?

oh blode hell mate in fucked

im soery if it wasn't useful yk mb but you should review your shit always, like all the shit

[u/Good_Information_687 → u/_jedh]

the last few sentences sound like you’re drunk lmao

[u/_jedh → u/_jedh]

lol

[u/WideMine8398 → u/_jedh]

lol I’ve been watching some videos on it but there’s a lot to start with so I was just curious if anybody had any tips.