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Hakker
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States1360 Posts
July 28 2011 19:34 GMT
#21
As a longtime protoss that switched to terran, terran is by far the most demanding race
Turo
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada333 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-29 01:41:25
July 29 2011 01:37 GMT
#22
On July 29 2011 02:04 T.O.P. wrote:
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On July 29 2011 00:41 Turo wrote:
Yes I would also like to know why you think toss is the easiest.

I think they are all roughly the same difficulty, with terran being the hardest.

Looking away from what is happening really sucks sometimes.

I'm saying protoss macro is the easiest. You could warp in units right into battle. With terran, you actually have to work to reinforce your army.

I have a protoss friend who finished top 70 in grandmasters. He uses 1 hotkey all game. He uses 1 for nexus and never hotkeys anything else afterward.


O_O

Think of how good your friend could be if he hotkeyed!

Honestly though you don't expect to take one instance of your friend being good at this game and say generally toss has easier macro are you? That just doesn't make sense.

I think it's really too hard to say definitively whose race has the hardest macro because it's so subjective!

Oh well. The quest for balance continues.

EDIT: Reread your post, and it seems that what you're saying is that going 4dddaaaa5ss6dd is much more difficult that going Wsccczcccecc5c. And then looking back at your buildings to chrono them. (where the c's are clicks )
critique
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States135 Posts
July 29 2011 07:18 GMT
#23
I kept a close eye on the Korean ladder for the last two weeks of season three. 40% of GM were terran, which, considering there are a few randoms, is surprisingly high. At the end of the season the terrans had completely taken over the ladder; I mean domination to ridiculous proportions (I will resist saying a word that rhymes with "im-valenced"). For the last week terrans occupied between 24 and 22 of the top 25 spots on the korean GM ladder. Ya, you read that last sentence right; 22 to 24 of the top 25 were terran. And then we get a ZvZ final...this game makes me insane sometimes.
Ilikestarcraft
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
Korea (South)17743 Posts
July 29 2011 07:39 GMT
#24
On July 28 2011 22:21 Disquiet wrote:
2.) Zerg was/is perceived as the hardest race, the underdog, while terran was seen as the easy cheese race that took no skill. People love the underdog, and a lot of sc2 players are competitive which means they want to showcase their skill. Who wants to play terran when everyone nobody will respect you for your hard earned wins? What better way to show of your skill than winning with the "hard" race, so many chose zerg. Protoss was somewhat neutral, people just picked it because they liked it. Over time these competitive players who were specifically looking for a challenge by playing the hardest race played more and improved, because they are more motivated by their image/rank. While the more casual players did not play so often. Thus zergs tended to rank up and improve compared to terrans, resulting in the current state of having mostly zergs in the higher leagues. This was very obvious to me last season, the top 8 of my division consisted of 7 zergs and a protoss, zergs tend to play way more games than the other races.

I agree with this so much lol. It was never my main reason but when I played terran in bw I always had this self pride inside since terran was always considered the hardest to play in bw. And its also why protoss has always turned me off alittle because of the whole protoss is the easiest race idea.
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