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[SC2B] Why so zerg?

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Raelcun
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States3747 Posts
March 22 2010 04:06 GMT
#1
Okay over the last two days I've been playing around 60-70% ZvZ games up from roughly even against all 3. 10 in a row and counting in the Ladder today and what I want to know is WHY? Many of these zerg players when I add them and check their profile show Terran as the race with the most wins. Did someone just suddenly decide that Zerg is the new 1a2a3a race? The worst part of this is that most of them are pretty terrible I mean they 10 pool zergling rush or creep crawler rush and when I go to counterattack with roaches they have NOTHING. They frequently lose their queen multiple times then waste my time by refusing to GG and massing creep crawlers so it takes a good 10 minutes longer to kill them.

I mean you guys have relatively high ELO most of them I've noticed are actually high rank Gold players so they shouldn't be that bad but seriously go back to Terran.

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Ideas
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
United States8173 Posts
March 22 2010 04:15 GMT
#2
everyone knows that zerg in sc2 is the protoss of sc1
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nitdkim
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
1264 Posts
March 22 2010 04:19 GMT
#3
zerg is so easy to play in sc2 compared to SC1. just mass 1 unit. get expo. mass another type of unit. expo. ultra/broodlord pwnage with 8gas
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lu_cid
Profile Joined April 2008
United States428 Posts
March 22 2010 04:20 GMT
#4
Well I can't imagine why somebody would choose a race other than zerg at this point
Foreplay
Profile Joined May 2008
United States1154 Posts
March 22 2010 04:23 GMT
#5
it's a shame since i acutally started playing zerg in bw because it was the harder race to learn.
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eMbrace
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States1300 Posts
March 22 2010 04:28 GMT
#6
haven't touched my beta in a couple of weeks, what's the least popular race right now? because i'm a zerg right now as well but i'm thinking of switching -- but i like to play as the underdog =D, would that currently be Terran?
OmgIRok
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Taiwan2699 Posts
March 22 2010 04:33 GMT
#7
On March 22 2010 13:28 eMbrace wrote:
haven't touched my beta in a couple of weeks, what's the least popular race right now? because i'm a zerg right now as well but i'm thinking of switching -- but i like to play as the underdog =D, would that currently be Terran?


surprisingly, its protoss
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TheAntZ
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Israel6248 Posts
March 22 2010 04:58 GMT
#8
Why so zerg? Because the only way you can go into a game without being at a disadvantage against a zerg player of your skill level (or even somewhat less) is by being zerg yourself.
Otherwise you're hoping (as terran) that you can somehow hold out till HSM, or (as protoss) that you can end the game before muta
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Ftrunkz
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
Australia2474 Posts
March 22 2010 05:15 GMT
#9
Wait... zerg is the protoss of sc2? How does that work haha...

but yeah, I only got beta friday night but i've definitely played most PvZ's....
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deathgod6
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United States5064 Posts
March 22 2010 05:35 GMT
#10
So I ask you... why so serious?
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520
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States2822 Posts
March 22 2010 05:41 GMT
#11
Zerg is the Protoss of SC2. - Make a lot of units, attack move and stuff.
Protoss is the Terran of SC2. - Proper spellcasting is essential and will make or break a game.
Terran is the Zerg of SC2. - Make a lot of units, cast a few support spells.
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bongjwa
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States199 Posts
March 22 2010 06:01 GMT
#12
i dont think theres enough time to decide who is the who in starcraft 2 at all.

by not player wise by any means zerg is the most popular conventional race in starcraft. its like the staple race almost. all the wow noobs and wc3 players are like oh hey zerg is coolest.
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Apexplayer
Profile Joined September 2009
United States406 Posts
March 22 2010 06:04 GMT
#13
On March 22 2010 14:41 scintilliaSD wrote:
Zerg is the Protoss of SC2. - Make a lot of units, attack move and stuff.
Protoss is the Terran of SC2. - Proper spellcasting is essential and will make or break a game.
Terran is the Zerg of SC2. - Make a lot of units, cast a few support spells.


Lol wut
MiniRoman
Profile Blog Joined September 2003
Canada3953 Posts
March 22 2010 06:26 GMT
#14
I don't think a zerg user can complain about there being too many zerg uses. You are clearly part of your own problem.
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Flakes
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States3125 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-03-22 06:45:23
March 22 2010 06:44 GMT
#15
On March 22 2010 15:04 Apexplayer wrote:
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On March 22 2010 14:41 scintilliaSD wrote:
Zerg is the Protoss of SC2. - Make a lot of units, attack move and stuff.
Protoss is the Terran of SC2. - Proper spellcasting is essential and will make or break a game.
Terran is the Zerg of SC2. - Make a lot of units, cast a few support spells.


Lol wut

As in terrans in BW only have one(!) unit that does not have some sort of castable ability, and even it shines with micro. And toss in SC2 need storm or they lose : \
Slunk
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Germany768 Posts
March 22 2010 07:33 GMT
#16
Protoss isnthe new protoss, only stronger, cause now its Z<P>T
Exteray
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States1094 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-03-22 07:35:29
March 22 2010 07:35 GMT
#17
On March 22 2010 15:44 Flakes wrote:
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On March 22 2010 15:04 Apexplayer wrote:
On March 22 2010 14:41 scintilliaSD wrote:
Zerg is the Protoss of SC2. - Make a lot of units, attack move and stuff.
Protoss is the Terran of SC2. - Proper spellcasting is essential and will make or break a game.
Terran is the Zerg of SC2. - Make a lot of units, cast a few support spells.


Lol wut

As in terrans in BW only have one(!) unit that does not have some sort of castable ability, and even it shines with micro. And toss in SC2 need storm or they lose : \


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Bibbit
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Canada5377 Posts
March 22 2010 07:52 GMT
#18
On March 22 2010 16:35 Exteray wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 22 2010 15:44 Flakes wrote:
On March 22 2010 15:04 Apexplayer wrote:
On March 22 2010 14:41 scintilliaSD wrote:
Zerg is the Protoss of SC2. - Make a lot of units, attack move and stuff.
Protoss is the Terran of SC2. - Proper spellcasting is essential and will make or break a game.
Terran is the Zerg of SC2. - Make a lot of units, cast a few support spells.


Lol wut

As in terrans in BW only have one(!) unit that does not have some sort of castable ability, and even it shines with micro. And toss in SC2 need storm or they lose : \


I count SCV, and Goliath. 2.


I think our definition of a spell/"castable ability" is getting pretty loose here. Most zerg units can burrow. So for zerg I think we just have ultras/guardians/devourers for no castable abilities. But getting a bit off track here, my bad.
CharlieMurphy
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
United States22895 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-03-22 09:25:47
March 22 2010 09:15 GMT
#19
On March 22 2010 13:33 OmgIRok wrote:
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On March 22 2010 13:28 eMbrace wrote:
haven't touched my beta in a couple of weeks, what's the least popular race right now? because i'm a zerg right now as well but i'm thinking of switching -- but i like to play as the underdog =D, would that currently be Terran?


surprisingly, its protoss

actually, I'd say it's terran. They have topped the ladders with the most spots out of all the other races right now.

Zerg is not the easiest at all. It seems to require the most apm of all the races imo. I regularly have 50-100 more apm than other top Ps or Ts and I can still lose just as much as I win.
Early - Mid game zerg is really vulnerable and it's very difficult to get any recon done until lair.

Also, just to add to the OP. Most of my games in SC2 have been ZvZ since I began the beta. Next most would be Terrans, and lastly Protoss.
Lately (today) though, It seems I rarely play any zergs and I'm playing 55% T and 40% P. Up until then it was like 50% Z 35% T 15% P.

It's a shame too because I've gotten pretty good in ZvZ and T's have gotten really good vs Z (TvZ used to be my best mu).
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Foucault
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Sweden2826 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-03-22 09:55:08
March 22 2010 09:54 GMT
#20
On March 22 2010 13:15 Ideas wrote:
everyone knows that zerg in sc2 is the protoss of sc1


You mean the race that probably has the hardest (PvZ) matchup of all the races in SC1?

If it wasn't for PvT, protoss would suck in SC1.
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