Understand and mastering your own race; whether you are a Protoss, Terran or the Zerg Swarm is one of the top priority for every gamers. Having the necessary required knowledge will provide you in choosing optimal and the best strategy against your opponents. Starcraft 2 in general can often be regarded as a game of strategy war and decision making. Players employ their own personal strategy and is put up against his opponent. Through scouting, information is gathered for further decision making process. A general 1v1 match involves one or more strategies utilized and numerous decision making process.
Lets take an example here. You are up against a Zerg opponent on Steppes of War. Your overall strategy here will be setting up for a normal 3 gate expansion into a 6 gate push. However, upon scouting your Zerg opponent, you notice that he is putting up a very very early pool at probably 6 or 7 food. Thus, your immediate response will be building a second Gateway or a Forge and doing a full wall in. This is often the case when you have the knowledge of strategies employed by your opponent. However, if you continue to proceed with your starting strategy without taking into consideration of your opponent's, you will end out dead most likely in this case.
The knowledge of when and what to do at certain situation and or facing against a specific strategy requires tremendous understanding in the strengths and weaknesses of your own race. This will determine the long term outcome of your games results. Understanding and mastering your own race involves every aspect from your race's point of view, different build orders to unit composition mixes. Mastering a specific race comes down to practice and the learning process.
Thus, knowing the inside out and every aspect of your own race will serve as an invaluable strength and opportunity in improving your Starcraft 2.
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