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Elektrobear
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
108 Posts
April 03 2012 22:16 GMT
#1
Wednesday, 23:54 March 28 2012

My mind is at the point of melting. I’ve been spending the last hours in thinking limbo, playing the game to end all games. I am of course speaking about League of Legends. That bastarded child of the multiplayer online battle arena genre, aka moba, aka dota. You all know it, you’ve all played it and you’re all ever so slightly ashamed. These are the things we have to live with. It’s a pretty good game though.

Currently playing: Left hand suzuki method – Gorillaz

Starcraft remains my one true love although I can’t seem to work up enough of a boner to get online and ladder like it’s 1999. All my friends have given up on it, but I am the lone soul stumbling around in the wasteland. I used to be brimming with a fiery passion to improve at the game, working tirelessly every day and night to improve my game.

Of course, then I hit platinum.

Now it seems like everyone’s better than me and the only way I seem to be able to win is to establish a base in their base. It’s a pretty solid strategy overall. I still remember the day I switched from Terran to Protoss. I immediately launched into the ladder and started by stumbling my way through a 4gate. After losing that game in spectacular fashion I channeled my inner TLO and decided it was time to get creative.

So naturally I cannon-rushed.

Currently playing: Dare(Junior Sanchez Remix) – Gorillaz

If that failed to do the trick I would get even more creative and follow it up with a 4gate with +1 upgrades. It was super effective every time. Those were simpler times. Still, I quickly got to grips with my new race, and quickly started thrashing every race except zerg. The lower leagues are really weird when it comes to zerg. It seems like their insistent no-cheese attitude has made them into incredibly strong macro players that are completely oblivious to everything around them, instead choosing to make 60 drones before pool or something silly like that. Well, except for those few times where I actually decided to attack. Those times it seemed like they always had just enough.

So naturally I cannon-rushed some more.

Now my PvZ is flawless.

www.thedigitaljourney.com

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DKR
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom622 Posts
April 04 2012 00:30 GMT
#2
Is the creative to cannon rush thing meant to be ironic? Not sure I really understand what this blog is trying to get at or to
"1 base. Cheese man." - MKP. "[MVP] is not stylistic, his style is winning, which is the style you want to have." - Artosis
Th1rdEye
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States1074 Posts
April 04 2012 02:59 GMT
#3
Ended up reading your post on dubstep, hahahaaaaaha
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Elektrobear
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
108 Posts
April 04 2012 08:33 GMT
#4
When I first switched to protoss I kind of crushed the ladder with the most retarded builds for a week or two. I'd cannon rush and fail spectacularly and follow it up with a really badly executed 4gate that was super late. If that failed I would like triple expand behind it or whatever. Sometimes in PvP I would go mass void ray zealot into pulling all my probes and winning by killing his stalkers before he killed my voids.

I guess being absolutely clueless worked almost as well for me as trying to play standard did.
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