BW General Discussion - Page 275

On March 16 2019 00:20 ppp87 wrote:
Watching Zero stream atm and I notice his play is extremely clean. I think is eapm is very close to his apm, compared with players like larva or effort who are a bit on the erratic side. Do you know any other zerg pros who have a very clean way of playing ?

On March 17 2019 22:00 Letmelose wrote:
I think Soulkey probably has the most efficient screen switching (as in he knows exactly when and where to look, and in which order) out of the current crop of zerg players, which allows him to play faster than what his modest APM figures tends to suggest.

This is what he has in common with Flash and Rain, players with a flow-charty playstyle, who are known for their efficient screen switching. Flash once said that the most important thing in Starcraft is to think of what to do for the upcoming display screen, while carrying out what you should do on the monitor screen currently. I think this sort of philosophy is best represented by Soulkey for the zerg race as of today.

herO does not have a particularly high eAPM, but he does have high APM numbers. I don't think he is in possession of great multi-tasking, but within the zerg-versus-protoss match-up, he does use his high APM figures to produce non-stop while using his massive numbers of hydralisks in unison to beat down the protoss force on the given screen. herO knows how to optimize his drone count and build order, and abuses certain timings while focusing on a single screen to perfect his hydralisk movement and formation.

On March 21 2019 10:17 Berby wrote:
This is probably a super dumb question but what happened to Sonic? Is ASL like the spiritual successor to SSL or did Sonic stop hosting broodwar events for some other reason.

Randomly thought of this as I was watching ASL and remembered I used to really enjoy SSL too but haven't heard of it in a while.

On March 21 2019 13:25 Dante08 wrote:
Is it me or are there tons of smurfs on US West? I'm E mmr and the opponents I've faced recently are at least C+ level on iccup.

Or maybe I'm just bad??

On March 17 2019 22:00 Letmelose wrote:
I think Soulkey probably has the most efficient screen switching (as in he knows exactly when and where to look, and in which order) out of the current crop of zerg players, which allows him to play faster than what his modest APM figures tends to suggest.

This is what he has in common with Flash and Rain, players with a flow-charty playstyle, who are known for their efficient screen switching. Flash once said that the most important thing in Starcraft is to think of what to do for the upcoming display screen, while carrying out what you should do on the monitor screen currently. I think this sort of philosophy is best represented by Soulkey for the zerg race as of today.

herO does not have a particularly high eAPM, but he does have high APM numbers. I don't think he is in possession of great multi-tasking, but within the zerg-versus-protoss match-up, he does use his high APM figures to produce non-stop while using his massive numbers of hydralisks in unison to beat down the protoss force on the given screen. herO knows how to optimize his drone count and build order, and abuses certain timings while focusing on a single screen to perfect his hydralisk movement and formation.