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Xtreme94
Profile Joined June 2011
Malaysia282 Posts
February 01 2012 13:31 GMT
#21
Lolx ur name let me thought of RGNInori.......
Deleted User 61629
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
1664 Posts
February 01 2012 13:39 GMT
#22
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turdburgler
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
England6749 Posts
February 01 2012 13:44 GMT
#23
On February 01 2012 22:10 Inori wrote:
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On February 01 2012 21:57 achristes wrote:
Just a BTW, your MMR doesn't reset every season (it never does as far as I know). The only thing that resets is your wins (and losses if you're masters+), your ladder rank and league.

Correct me if I'm wrong ^^

You're wrong.
If a player doesn't play a single game for a full season (so he's not even assigned to a league when ladder resets), then he gets full MMR wipe (5 placement matches instead of 1 and against bronze opponents instead of previous level).


i havent played my placement yet this season in 1v1 D:

time to bring out the masters team league bronze 1v1 status. bnet hero for life
Deleted User 61629
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
1664 Posts
February 01 2012 13:46 GMT
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Flanagan
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States166 Posts
February 01 2012 13:47 GMT
#25
I think you're TvT is really vague, as per what a previous post mentioned. Some things to think about when you choose a build (111 isn't actually that bad, you get to use your marine tank ball as an early strategic punisher) are starport openings and barracks timings. Other than that, you can pretty much do anything you want. I have a few.

TvT: 111 cloak banshee, cancel cloak if I see engineering bay or starport with the banshee.
TvT: Protoss-style 2rax into delayed combat shield, fast +1 (2 reactor rax, 1 engineering bay, just build fact when stim is at 120)
TvT: 1 rax fe into 4 rax marine combat shield timing, take 3rd during push
TvT: Defensive 111 ( I like to call it), take guys off gas when factory is started, throw down cc, get gas again, starport for vikings, then while you were spaming hellions, make 2 more facts with extra gas. Either go 2 reactor fact, 1 tech lab and armory upgrades, or 2 tank fact, 1 reactor.
Bwall
Profile Joined July 2011
Sweden145 Posts
February 01 2012 13:50 GMT
#26
On February 01 2012 20:08 Tobberoth wrote:
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On February 01 2012 19:45 Bwall wrote:
Advancing to masters will be much harder as a random player than for a specific race, because the matchups are so different. The effort needed is probably more than 3 times that of playing one race.

Not really. While knowing matchups etc is important, the most important aspect of SC is mechanics and macro. Pro players are top masters with all races even if they more or less never use them because their mechanics are so good. I'm platinum zerg and got to gold immediately on a terran smurf account even though I had never used T on ladder and I lost 2 placement matches on purpose.

It's probably true for most people from plat and up that their offraces are about the same league or one league lower. It's harder for masters since macro makes a smaller difference the higher you go, but saying it's more than 3 times the effort... nah.


You don't have to believe me, but the fact that you're in plat should give you a hint that you might not have enough insight in what's needed at that level.
Complete
Profile Joined October 2009
United States1864 Posts
February 01 2012 14:13 GMT
#27
On February 01 2012 22:10 Inori wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 01 2012 21:57 achristes wrote:
Just a BTW, your MMR doesn't reset every season (it never does as far as I know). The only thing that resets is your wins (and losses if you're masters+), your ladder rank and league.

Correct me if I'm wrong ^^

You're wrong.
If a player doesn't play a single game for a full season (so he's not even assigned to a league when ladder resets), then he gets full MMR wipe (5 placement matches instead of 1 and against bronze opponents instead of previous level).


Pretty sure it's 2 seasons homeslice.
Melchior
Profile Joined January 2011
United States112 Posts
February 01 2012 15:23 GMT
#28
On February 01 2012 23:13 Complete wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 01 2012 22:10 Inori wrote:
On February 01 2012 21:57 achristes wrote:
Just a BTW, your MMR doesn't reset every season (it never does as far as I know). The only thing that resets is your wins (and losses if you're masters+), your ladder rank and league.

Correct me if I'm wrong ^^

You're wrong.
If a player doesn't play a single game for a full season (so he's not even assigned to a league when ladder resets), then he gets full MMR wipe (5 placement matches instead of 1 and against bronze opponents instead of previous level).


Pretty sure it's 2 seasons homeslice.


Yeah, I think it's 2 seasons. I didn't play Season 4, but only have 1 placement match in Season 5... Also a fellow P --> R, just Gold-level :-P
Deleted User 61629
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
1664 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-02-01 15:34:22
February 01 2012 15:28 GMT
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liberal
Profile Joined November 2011
1116 Posts
February 01 2012 15:36 GMT
#30
I feel I win a decent percentage of my random games just because people don't know my race and they don't do their pet builds, and because I can get away with things like 16 hatch vs. protoss. I feel it's a good trade for the fact that I need to know 3 times as many matchups.

Anyway, switching to random wasn't hard for me at all. I went from high masters to mid masters, not much change really. As long as you know how to macro and you know a basic opening for each matchup, it's pretty simple.

Most of your openings are just right... But I would say lean more toward 1rax fe in TvP instead of 2rax. You can still apply a little pressure if you decide to go fast conc shells, it allows you to pick off a few units here and there. In TvT, I say learn the popular bio builds that have been going around, I been learning from a high master who goes 1rax FE in TvT and it's really pretty good if you learn how to stop 1-1-1. Also I still don't like going muta in ZvP, I know it's really popular right now but I crush every zerg who tries it against me, I'm actually loving the PvZ matchup because every single zerg goes mutas and it's a free win to a fast 2base push. Good luck!
Complete
Profile Joined October 2009
United States1864 Posts
February 15 2012 14:22 GMT
#31
so did your mmr reset? :O
Deleted User 61629
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
1664 Posts
February 15 2012 14:44 GMT
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