EPTAny fan of sc2 knows about the Korean terran domination, both at home and in the foreign community when we're lucky enough to see them play. Well, as a spectator I call it lucky but as a competitor I would say fuck my life I'm going home early since I get MVP round1. Cya guys next year.
I recently received a Korean account for sc2. The account was in gold league with a fairly static MMR (60ish games played). I easily won the first 20 or so games, going 20-3 in the process. Couple losses to rushes. No big deal.
Fast forward 30 games. The account is now diamond league. I am still winning 100% of PvZ. The zerg opponents do not play poorly but their macro slips up a bit and if their initial attack fails they crumble to dt harass at multiple bases.
PvP can be a bit more difficult than expected because the lag from NA => KOR while not terrible can be disadvantageous in blink wars. I feel forced into colossus or four gating. No big deal, four gate rolls over most opponents in diamond on the Korean ladder, even as most are four gating themselves.
PvT on the other hand. P vee mother fucking aggro I will not expand until you're fucking dead T.
My god. When I get the loading screen and the little terran icon laughing in my face I just try to think which one base attack my opponent will do this time. I've seen so many different strange attacks from typical 1/1/1 to marine/tank drop in the main with marauders hitting the front. Mind you this on one base. 3 rax into planetary at their natural as they're wiping my expansions off the map.
Drops, drops, drops. In high master's on NA I may see one or two drops a game. Here I'm seeing entire armies ferried into my main with an 8 marine drop at the natural to pick off stray workers. The constant harass puts me on edge and keeps me on my toes. Overall my game play is being elevated by playing these aggressive sons of bitches. Hopefully my PvT improves and I find consistent builds to hold off and come out ahead against all of this aggression.
I'll start saving some replays and upload them if anyone's interested. I'll be streaming a lot of the leveling up of the korean account, late evenings NA/afternoons EU.
Thanks for reading my first blog. Maybe I should have broken up this wall of text with some angry terran images.
). They do crazy things to come back sometimes that I don't face on NA/EU :D.
