For a Protoss player, winning a game cannot be achieved any more easily than by a Dark Templar rush AKA the DT Rush.  This Starcraft 2 guide will help you accomplish this lethal rush with ease.

Dark Templars are high level units of the Protoss race and are permanently protected by a cloaking technology, so if your opponent wants to attack your Dark Templars, he will have to get detectors first and only then can he attack them.

The basic Starcraft 2 guide thought behind the Protoss Dark Templar rush is to tech up very quickly so as to be able to produce Dark Templars before your enemy can get detectors and attack them. When done quickly enough, your enemy will be crippled to a large extent or might even lose the entire game.

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The Starcraft 2 guide build order for the Protoss Dark Templar Rush is as follows:

• Get 9 Probes first. Scout your enemy to learn if he is gunning for an early rush on you.
• Start your first Pylon’s construction. Decide the location by keeping in mind the race of your enemy and the map you are playing in. Usually, it’s a good idea to build the Pylon very close to the heart of your base if you’re playing against Terrans. On the other hand, against Zergs, try to build the Pylon near the entrance of your base.
• Continue production of Probes till you get 12 or 19.
• Start building your first Gateway.
• Resume Chrono Boosting out of your Probes. While this is happening, build Assimilators.

• When your first Gateway is completed, begin construction of a Cybernetics Core. Then research Warp Gate technology ASAP.
• Scout your enemy again and if he’s ready for an attack, build two more Gateways straight off. However, if you think you have time, make a Twilight Council and then another Gateway.
• Now from here onwards, the steps you have to take depend on the race of your enemy. If you are playing against Protoss, just rush for a Dark Shrine, unless the opponent has Cannons near their entrance.
• Against Terran players, it is advisable to build a Robotics Facility first and get a Warp Prism if the Terran player has not expanded yet.
• By now, you should build a Dark Shrine if you haven’t already.
• After you have placed your Dark Shrine, send Probes out to the enemy base and begin construction of a Pylon near it.
• On some of the maps, if you build Pylons outside the base of your enemy, you can build units inside their base. These are the maps with destructible barriers and lead to a second entrance to the base.
• Now it is time to upgrade your Gateways to Warp Gates. Warp all your Dark Templars outside (or if possible, inside) the enemy’s base. Further action from here on depends on what your opponent is doing.

It is vitally important that you realize that the usage of your Dark Templars depends on the race of the enemy you’re up against.
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