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neptunusfisk
Profile Blog Joined July 2012
2286 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-05-18 11:56:37
May 17 2014 11:18 GMT
#1
This is my power rank. It's highly subjective. Pics from TLPD.


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1. Zest

Zest is so damn solid. He never seems to mess up and more often than not he wins games from disadvantages. His only weakness seems to be his preference for unnecessarily wacky builds in bo1 games, which has cost him some rank in Proleague. He has ridiculous winrates in bo3+ though. (eg a 100% win rate in bo5+ this year)


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2. Maru

When Maru is on fire, and he usually is, he can beat anybody through raw micro. At the same time, his macro and gamesense are superb. What he's lacking the most is easy foreign tournaments to pwn noobs in, I think.


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3. soO

soO is really scary. He seems to be a bit nonchalant as well, almost to the point of throwing games against weaker players (watch his GSL group) just because he doesn't care. Similar to Soulkey, he plays almost every style in the book flawlessly. Reaching two GSL finals in a row, and then reaching the GSL GC ro4, he is really consistent. But not yet winning.


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4. Rain

Rain is very consistent. He has been in the middle of every power rank since 2012, I think, and with good reason. He also suffers from the "not winning anything" syndrome, atleast until he won the Hot6 cup in the end of last year.


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5. Soulkey

Coming in as a GSL champion and soon to be Nestea award winner, Soulkey is very similar to Rain, except that he placed second in the Hot6 cup.


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6. herO

Very strong player. His only weakness seems to be stress and emotion during tense situations. Plays really well most of the time.


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7. Parting

Somehow Parting has managed to never look stellar but beat almost anybody anyhow, and with the recent Nestea award it would be a bit rude to not include him in this list.


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8. Life

Once a blazing royal roader and now just a good player, Life seems to be on his way back to form. Let's hope he does, at least.


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9. Innovation

He knows how to macro better than anybody. Recent foreign adventures (ATC, DH etc) has taught him about how to hold cheese. And now he is back in Code S to pwn everybody. I hope.




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Honorable mentions:

byul - Has looked like a future superstar several times in PL but then falling back to being merely okay

jjakji - He is playing better than ever and showing he was no one hit wonder when he won his GSL.

mma - Slowly climbing his way back to the top and invoking nostalgic fanboy feelings, similarly to DRG, jjakji and Innovation.

sos - Famously 'casual', he is a very good player, but only seems to win things when he feels like it. (id est when there are 100k USD prizes to be had)

rogue - Showing moments of sheer talent and brilliance but never performing. Perhaps it's the Artosis curse?

DRG - He is back and better than ever, but the same is true for the scene in general so he isn't a top contender yet.

bbyong - Yet another player with huge potential that hasn't really had his big breakthrough

roro - Consistent and ever evolving, but always a bit under the radar.

dark - He could be the next big zerg, if his SKT teammates Soulkey and soO don't take all the glory for themselves.

hyun - Still clinging on and playing a lot of tournaments and having a fair amount of gosu moments while also losing to the top players on a regular basis.

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Honorable 'oldskoolers doing well' mentions:
jaedong, mc, bomber, mvp, stork, flash

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maru G5L pls
BungaBunga
Profile Joined May 2014
Italy23 Posts
May 17 2014 15:57 GMT
#2
Who is on 10th?
User15937
Profile Blog Joined January 2013
68 Posts
May 17 2014 21:46 GMT
#3
No HyuN?
Shellshock
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States97276 Posts
May 17 2014 22:36 GMT
#4
I am glad you gave soO a good ranking. I think he is a player that is really underrated by the community just because of how many top players are on SKT
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TameNaken
Profile Blog Joined June 2012
Australia361 Posts
May 18 2014 11:51 GMT
#5
I'm very happy you put Dark in there, especially since he's been ranked 1 in inhouse ranking recently. Also I think stork should be in there, probably not as top 10 but as one of the mentions. He recently won a relatively unknown korean tournament 'ESTV cup season 2' and just today qualified for HSC. Of course this is your power rank I just wanted to give my own opinion.
neptunusfisk
Profile Blog Joined July 2012
2286 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-05-18 11:58:38
May 18 2014 11:54 GMT
#6
On May 18 2014 00:57 BungaBunga wrote:
Who is on 10th?


I don't need to do lists with ten people :p

Jokes aside, that's very hard. (The first nine were also very hard but I'm kinda happy with it!) Clearly one of the honorable mentions and probably sOs/$o$ or DRG?


On May 18 2014 07:36 Shellshock wrote:
I am glad you gave soO a good ranking. I think he is a player that is really underrated by the community just because of how many top players are on SKT


He may be outshined by his teammates in PL, but his GSL runs are super impressive!

On May 18 2014 20:51 TameNaken wrote:
I'm very happy you put Dark in there, especially since he's been ranked 1 in inhouse ranking recently. Also I think stork should be in there, probably not as top 10 but as one of the mentions. He recently won a relatively unknown korean tournament 'ESTV cup season 2' and just today qualified for HSC. Of course this is your power rank I just wanted to give my own opinion.


I too think that Stork is getting better. I put him in the 'oldskoolers doing well' part
maru G5L pls
neptunusfisk
Profile Blog Joined July 2012
2286 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-06-13 00:28:57
June 13 2014 00:26 GMT
#7
Update on how the players are doing:

Life won DH:Bucharest and disappointed in everything else.

herO won Sandisk invitational by stomping Flash.

Innovation won two Dragon invitationals + Show Spoiler +
and went 37-9 in matches including two consecutive allkills in ATC and got #1 on Aligulac, almost made GSL ro8 with 1 game margin etc...


Zest, soO, Soulkey and Maru went to the GSL Ro8 (where Maru beat SK).

This covers pretty much every tournament played in the time, excluding TaejaStory Cup, so I think the list was pretty good! Let's just see what happens in the GSL tomorrow, when soO and Zest plays.

Disappointments:
Rain and Parting kinda disappeared, being beat by fellow SKT protosses in GSL.

Possible newcomers to the list if I had to renew it:
+ Show Spoiler +
Bbyong - super solid nowadays it seems.
Solar - really dangerous!
Classic - the anonymous killer on SKT
Flash - the play in Sandisk Shoutcraft Invitaional was stellar. He will probably have some 'mainstream' success soon.
maru G5L pls
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