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PandaCore
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Germany553 Posts
March 22 2011 15:01 GMT
#1
So here I sit, pondering about my SC2 carreer, if you want to call it that.

When the game came out and I started to play on ladder I started out with playing Protoss and despite not knowing how to 4gate and never using Colossi or Void Rays somehow got into Platinum. For me the Stalker was the best unit ever and so I usually massed those with Blink.

A short while later the game started to feel a bit stale as Protoss and started playing Zerg. Starting from that day I kind of took the game and the strategies/builds more serious and have progressed to Diamond in the meantime.

Now I think ZvP is easily my best matchup because I had prior experience with Protoss, but ZvT is really my worst one. In ZvT I'm prone to dying to Marine/SCV, Blue Flame Hellion, 2-Port Banshee and all that shenanigans. I only start to feel comfortable when I start to enter mid-/late game vs. Terran.

Because of that I thought, maybe it would help to play Terran myself and get a feel for the builds and timings... needless to say... with mediocre results so far.

So all in all I'm starting to think: "to hell with your ladder rating, it's not really a benchmark of skill if you haven't even used up your bonus pool" and ponder about going Random.

So do you think it would help my game sense and overall understanding to just ignore getting to top with one race and going Random instead or am I just wasting my time?

It'll be funny though, getting demoted to Gold while playing Zerg on Diamond level, Toss at Platinum and Terran at Bronze/Silver (with occassionaly beating Diamond/Master with 3rax).

Sorry if this stuff is a bit hard to read, just ranting and writing down my thoughts as it comes.

I has a flavor
MiniRoman
Profile Blog Joined September 2003
Canada3953 Posts
March 22 2011 15:30 GMT
#2
It's a game. Play for fun. Fuck even if you don't feel like going random tomorrow, try it for today. Games get un-fun really quickly when you are in "training" mode to become a "progamer~"

Basically do what you want
Nak Allstar.
chaokel
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Australia535 Posts
March 22 2011 15:42 GMT
#3
I've played random pretty much from launch and i can say although you'll probably come to dislike one or two matchups overall you'll be having alot of fun. Eventually your relative races should even out to your 'true skill level', and from that point you only have fun games to look forwards to.

Give it a try even if only for a few days, it really is a blast.
sutureself
Profile Blog Joined September 2005
United States192 Posts
March 22 2011 16:55 GMT
#4
I had been playing terran almost exclusively for a decade (first BW then SC2), and it just started to get... dull. I realized I was never going to be able to put in the time to compete at anything resembling a high level, so I thought to myself, gee, I will never master terran, but I could probably play every race competently.

Switching to random renewed my interest in the game and improved my overall gameplay. Sure, it was pretty painful at first, and I'm still not that good with zerg (improper droning loses me many, many, many games), but I have more fun overall.
Im tired of following my dreams, man. Im just going to ask them where theyre going and hook up with them later. -mh
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