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Relearning Starcraft II, Part 1: The race?

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Mafab
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
Germany458 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-10-28 19:01:33
October 28 2013 18:59 GMT
#1
Hi there!

I'm Mafab, a former diamond Starcraft Terran player, and am currently working on my iGCSE. I've always been interested in gaming and have bought SC2 on release and have played it for a few months, lurking TL and watching Day[9].



Backstory:
+ Show Spoiler +

At some point in 2011 I have gone to the dark side. I started playing League of Legends. A game, which I thought I would play on and off, as my friend introduced me to it. It wasn't gonna take the place that Starcraft has kept hold on for the past few month as the main game I'm playing, was it? Well, it did. LoL has been a great enjoyment, and over the time I grew better and eventually managed to be part of the second highest league, diamond. But now that I have reached this, it feels as though there is little for me to play for. I had 2 options in LoL:

1) Competitive 5v5s, which are very stressful and organising the people to play with can be a pain in the ass. I tried this for a while, joining the LoL squad of the german clan "Sgeht", which is known more for it's Starcraft team. However, it was just way too difficult to manage people who evidently were unorganised and didn't aspire anything in the scene. I thus decided to discard this idea.

2) Going for challenger in solo queue. This was a viable option, but I never really enjoyed solo queue that much due to all the toxidity going on there, and it to me just seemed as though I hit a wall that I couldn't pass, going up to Diamond III, but dropping right back down to Diamond V.

After all of this I felt frustrated with the game and looked for something in my harddrive, when I realised that I would love to go back to Starcraft. So here I am, going back to the game that I once loved, but discarded when I found an alternative.


Now, I'm here to present you my progress in relearning my old skills, my journey of getting back to 200 APM from about the 100 that I came back with, and playing more crisp again in general.

To start off with however, I realised that I don't have a favourite race anymore. I used to love both Zerg and Terran equally, maining first Zerg and later Terran, as Marine micro inspired me. Protoss back then just didn't seem like a fun race. But now that I've come back, I noticed that I really hate TvT and would only get angry playing this boring slugfest of a matchup. It's awesome to watch, but it's awful to play for me. Additionally, I found out that my previous dislike for the Protoss race is pretty much gone, and with inspiring play from players like (P)Dear, (P)NaNiwa and (P)MC I opened up to the race, which I previously ignored.

This would make an easy choice, but the same applies to the other races. (T)Maru's game 1 against Dear in the Season 3 finals alone would be enough to win me over, not to mention many of (T)Polt's or (T)Mvp's games, which just amaze with strategic genius. If it wasn't for the aforementioned, this would be my choice.

And then there is Zerg, the race I started off playing the game. I absolutely love the Ling/Bling/Muta style, which was popular back in the day, but got driven into obscurity by the popular Broodlord/Infestor style, which I despised as both Terran and Zerg, as it was such a slow and boring style. But now that it came back, Zerg is also an option worth considering, and with players such as (Z)Soulkey or (Z)Life amazing me with great runbys and general fun play, I am also very fond of this race.

Now as you can see, this is a problem for me. I really enjoy fast games, multitasking and putting my opponent to the limit (basically, I try to play a game like the aforementioned Dear vs Maru game 1). This would again reduce the selection to Zerg and Terran, as Protoss is usually slightly slower. But I also enjoy the interesting strategic options of Protoss, and have come to realise that it too can be played with great speed, which has been demonstrated by Trap, Dear, MC or HerO, just to name a few. And thus I'm at a point where I don't know which race to pick, which is partially why I'm here:

I need to choose a race and have no idea which one to take (note that I do not want to play random, as I would prefer to focus on one race):

Poll: Which race should I play, after what you read about my playstyle?

Terran (10)
 
71%

Zerg (2)
 
14%

Protoss (2)
 
14%

14 total votes

Your vote: Which race should I play, after what you read about my playstyle?

(Vote): Terran
(Vote): Zerg
(Vote): Protoss





And now to the juicy bit, my progress. I have been set to silver after my huge break and am now still on my road of getting my skill back to what it used to be around a year and a half ago, and I'm making steady progress. While I'm not playing with any build orders, due to not having chosen a race yet, and getting my mechanics back up, I am improving steadily.

My stats so far are:

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As you can see, I play all the races a with great success, boosting my MMR back up to a gold-platinum level.

Now, I will keep this blog updated, posting about my progress, adding a few notable replays and general things, which I want to talk about.

If you have any suggestions or ideas to help me, I would like to hear them! I'm open to constructive criticism, and would love to discuss things with you in this thread.

EDIT: Trying to fix images.

Rodberd
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Germany531 Posts
October 28 2013 19:20 GMT
#2
why dont you play random?
since all 3 races have some pro and con.

hitting random will spare your time to pick a race for now.
later when you played some games with all 3 races you might have a feeling where these litttle details are that make you like or dislike a race.
Ooooh, look at it go
igay
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
Australia1178 Posts
October 28 2013 19:47 GMT
#3
On October 29 2013 04:20 Rodberd wrote:
why dont you play random?
since all 3 races have some pro and con.

hitting random will spare your time to pick a race for now.
later when you played some games with all 3 races you might have a feeling where these litttle details are that make you like or dislike a race.


makes a pretty good point!
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mizU
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States12125 Posts
October 28 2013 20:24 GMT
#4
just play whatever you do best with and whatever is the most fun

you don't have to pick and settle on a race
jump around, watch gsl, imitate. whatever
if happy ever afters did exist <3 @watamizu_
PineapplePizza
Profile Joined June 2010
United States749 Posts
October 29 2013 03:19 GMT
#5
Zerg.

Zerg is the ultimate race of StarCraft 2.

If you like winning, pick Zerg. They are solid in every matchup, and will only get stronger with the coming patch. My starsense tells me this will remain true for LotV.

If you like fun, pick Zerg. You can tear people apart with mutalisk micro, surprise them with drops and worms, and annihilate both bases and armies alike with the click of a button. They have more options for shenaniganry than the other races, without being completely binary like Protoss, or limp-dicked like Terran.

There is a reason the Jaedong plays this race.

if you end up hating ZvZ, you should probably just play Terran. At the very least, you will feel like a badass whenever you beat a Protoss of any skill level.
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Mafab
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
Germany458 Posts
October 29 2013 06:24 GMT
#6
On October 29 2013 04:47 igay wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 29 2013 04:20 Rodberd wrote:
why dont you play random?
since all 3 races have some pro and con.

hitting random will spare your time to pick a race for now.
later when you played some games with all 3 races you might have a feeling where these litttle details are that make you like or dislike a race.


makes a pretty good point!

I know, but I would really like to focus on one race as early as possible to speed up the process of getting back up the ladder, which is why I want to avoid random as much as possible.


M
On October 29 2013 12:19 PineapplePizza wrote:
Zerg.

Zerg is the ultimate race of StarCraft 2.

If you like winning, pick Zerg. They are solid in every matchup, and will only get stronger with the coming patch. My starsense tells me this will remain true for LotV.

If you like fun, pick Zerg. You can tear people apart with mutalisk micro, surprise them with drops and worms, and annihilate both bases and armies alike with the click of a button. They have more options for shenaniganry than the other races, without being completely binary like Protoss, or limp-dicked like Terran.

There is a reason the Jaedong plays this race.

if you end up hating ZvZ, you should probably just play Terran. At the very least, you will feel like a badass whenever you beat a Protoss of any skill level.


Lol, I actually really enjoy ZvZ due to it's fast nature, while hating TvT, as I said earlier. This is probably the biggest reason why I'm rethinking my race choice.
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