EPTOn February 11 2013 05:35 Derez wrote:
Season 2 was essentially MVP vs Protoss, where he stopped Nani and Parting 3-1, where parting was essentially the hottest TvP-er out there, with Squirtle in the finals to top it off. There's also the s4 series against Rain.
Maybe not the prettiest series, although some are quite memorable and with plenty of mindgames, but all are examples of what made MVP MVP in the first place: Do whatever it takes to win, and I think winning a GSL title (and making it to another final) based on TvP alone can be considered as 'mastering a matchup'.
Season 2 was essentially MVP vs Protoss, where he stopped Nani and Parting 3-1, where parting was essentially the hottest TvP-er out there, with Squirtle in the finals to top it off. There's also the s4 series against Rain.
Maybe not the prettiest series, although some are quite memorable and with plenty of mindgames, but all are examples of what made MVP MVP in the first place: Do whatever it takes to win, and I think winning a GSL title (and making it to another final) based on TvP alone can be considered as 'mastering a matchup'.
Yeah, this is what I meant with his SCV pull killer-timings, you had some pretty recent examples there. That was like more than a year after he got known for his domination in other matchups, until he crushed PartinG he didn't seem remarkably good at TvP, there's a reason people always mentioned Bomber or MKP or Jjakji at some point as the goto TvP players.
And Polt, sorry Fionn.
TvP was Mvp's achilles heel for a long time (if he ever had one), remember when Tails beat him in GSTL after that uninspired 1/1/1? He was always very solid in TvP, but never really exceptional at it in his prime, unlike in other matchups.
