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Strudel has proven that P is harder than Z

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XenOsky
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Chile2358 Posts
Last Edited: 2024-12-25 15:14:58
December 25 2024 15:09 GMT
#1
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same player, piloting both races, z is 300 mmr higher, even tho protoss is supposed to be similar to terran :p
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SCRVN
Profile Joined June 2024
227 Posts
December 25 2024 16:32 GMT
#2
I spent about 10.000 hours at D-C rank, 99% my opponents were P, T. Because any Zerg players who know to use 9 pool would get B rank freely
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Soulforged
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Latvia983 Posts
Last Edited: 2024-12-25 17:21:39
December 25 2024 17:21 GMT
#3
The B/A range is less about your race and more about your chosen strategies.
Any race can roll a set of easier-to-execute-than-to-stop strategies to S...they just are likely to fall off soon after.
Nirli
Profile Joined February 2023
Bulgaria387 Posts
December 25 2024 18:46 GMT
#4
Call me when Pudding proves it.
M3t4PhYzX
Profile Joined March 2019
Poland4290 Posts
December 25 2024 20:00 GMT
#5
Tasty.
XenOsky
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Chile2358 Posts
Last Edited: 2024-12-26 00:31:54
December 26 2024 00:23 GMT
#6
On December 26 2024 02:21 Soulforged wrote:
The B/A range is less about your race and more about your chosen strategies.
Any race can roll a set of easier-to-execute-than-to-stop strategies to S...they just are likely to fall off soon after.



i do not agree, i think that mechanics and game sense is the key factor between 1800 and 2100 mmr.

if the player has the exact same skill and same game sense, zerg is going to perform better than p in most cases if not all cases... (im tlaking amateurs, dont get here with 'soulkey bla bla bla', 'snow bla bla bla' shit pls...)

for years ive discused with conan and zety that z is 300 mmr higher in ladder than p with same skill, strudel unintentionnally proved me right...









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Soulforged
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Latvia983 Posts
Last Edited: 2024-12-26 00:34:19
December 26 2024 00:33 GMT
#7
Or maybe their style chosen playstyle just fit that race more, there's a lot of factors.
But when the difference is good 300 MMR, I'm just going to assume that either the player has vastly more experience with one race than the other, or that they play one of them aggressively, while the other defensively-reactively.

Do you know how much effort Strudel put into playing both P and Z?
Because 200-300 MMR difference is standard for players who rarely offrace.
XenOsky
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Chile2358 Posts
Last Edited: 2024-12-26 00:38:10
December 26 2024 00:36 GMT
#8
On December 26 2024 09:33 Soulforged wrote:
Or maybe their style chosen playstyle just fit that race more, there's a lot of factors.
But when the difference is good 300 MMR, I'm just going to assume that either the player has vastly more experience with one race than the other, or that they play one of them aggressively, while the other defensively-reactively.

Do you know how much effort Strudel put into playing both P and Z?
Because 200-300 MMR difference is standard for players who rarely offrace.


or mb... making hidra and 3 minutes coinflip of a match up, is kind of easier than battling 2-1 or up terran, and hidra bust and zergling all ins...

dunno , just a guess...
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XenOsky
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Chile2358 Posts
December 26 2024 00:41 GMT
#9
On December 26 2024 09:33 Soulforged wrote:


Do you know how much effort Strudel put into playing both P and Z?
Because 200-300 MMR difference is standard for players who rarely offrace.



all i know is that he got 100 dls for getting A rank with z.

and he is to get arround 500 if he does the same with P.

dunno about him but for me in terms of effort 500>100 any day...
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Soulforged
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Latvia983 Posts
Last Edited: 2024-12-26 00:47:34
December 26 2024 00:45 GMT
#10
That is exactly what I'm saying, though. All races have their share of abusive builds.
If a player is getting 2k mmr making hydra, and 1.8k stopping allins as P, well, they could e.g. center gate their way to 2k mmr and get stuck at 1.8k defending allins going for lategame plays as Z.

If center gate is a bad example, I'm sure there's a bunch of speedlot or mass goon sair skip cheesy stuff that works up to
2k...

I guess I'll TLDR my viewpoint and leave this thread:
A player can maximize their MMR by going for aggressive plays at the limit of what their mechanics can comfortable handle.
And a lot of people trying different races start with those type of strategies, because they're simpler and the player is more familiar with them than with something that requires proactive scouting and adaptation. Then they go on and say that race X is easy, when that isn't a fair comparison.


all i know is that he got 100 dls for getting A rank with z.

and he is to get arround 500 if he does the same with P.

dunno about him but for me in terms of effort 500>100 any day...

Is he brand new to broodwar?
Cuz if not, I'm just gonna assume he played many thousands of games as Z, and less than 1k as P, and then a 300 mmr difference is exactly what you'd expect...
XenOsky
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Chile2358 Posts
December 26 2024 00:49 GMT
#11
im not following his stream but knowing his t playstyle and approach to the game, he is prolly playing very theorically, not many all ins or center gate stuff... and i assume he did the same with z.
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XenOsky
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Chile2358 Posts
Last Edited: 2024-12-26 00:58:51
December 26 2024 00:53 GMT
#12
brand new to bw? man he puts korean hours since like 3 years ago...

he does 8 - 10 hrs streams daily, not the cleaneast or fastest but very solid t user imo.

he almost never offraces, he is just doing this challenge for the bread and after 300 z games and 300 p games, those are his results...

everything else is speculation (is that a word?)
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Soulforged
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Latvia983 Posts
Last Edited: 2024-12-26 00:55:18
December 26 2024 00:53 GMT
#13
Ah, I didn't realize he was main T, that makes it more interesting. Sorry, just not familiar with the player.
I'd say it still depends on the strategies chosen, but if equivalent approach to the game, that is curious indeed.

From my personal experience(main P), both my Z and T are about 300 mmr lower, and at the same level relative to each other. With same playstyle, but context of "I hardly ever play offrace, and also watch much less pro games without a P"
So kinda weird seeing that much of a difference here Playstyles are probably a factor.

Actually usually see the reverse, with T/P players being better with P/T than with Z respectively, because of the entire larva economy differences.
XenOsky
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Chile2358 Posts
Last Edited: 2024-12-26 01:05:11
December 26 2024 01:01 GMT
#14
i like to think that my T offrace is kinda decent, but when it came to laddering t and z (freestyle build z) z was always much higher than my T, even tho i kind of oractice T builds from time to time in melee pub games and shit...

more t players should try and prove me right :d

arto mb¿
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Soulforged
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Latvia983 Posts
Last Edited: 2024-12-26 01:09:31
December 26 2024 01:08 GMT
#15
Yeah, this sounds like we need more sample size :D
Interesting nonetheless, thanks for sharing!
Piste
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
6184 Posts
December 26 2024 04:05 GMT
#16
Of course Z is easier. P is easier from D to B. Z onwards.
TMNT
Profile Joined January 2021
3382 Posts
December 26 2024 14:06 GMT
#17
Checked again his IDs today and now his P is almost 1900, so maybe not that big of a difference.

From my personal experience(main P), both my Z and T are about 300 mmr lower, and at the same level relative to each other. With same playstyle, but context of "I hardly ever play offrace, and also watch much less pro games without a P"
So kinda weird seeing that much of a difference here Playstyles are probably a factor.

The guy is low A Terran so his mechanics is likely "completed", which means his mechanics is good enough to transition to Zerg without any problems (and good enough for P without saying). On the other hand if you're a main P player, unless you're A/S rank, you're more likely to suffer from mechanics deficiency when playing as T and especially Z.

"P easiest race" is sometimes a misconception. It's only easiest in the sense that if you start playing the game for the first time, it's easiest for you to learn/gain mmr. But when you have mastered the mechanics side of BW and have a decent understanding of the strategic side, and you go back to learn another race, it's a different story.
PurE)Rabbit-SF
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States758 Posts
December 26 2024 14:42 GMT
#18
wait, we making a comparison of how race difficulty is based on a single player? nice
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[sc1f]eonzerg
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Belgium7176 Posts
December 26 2024 23:02 GMT
#19
On December 26 2024 00:09 XenOsky wrote:
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same player, piloting both races, z is 300 mmr higher, even tho protoss is supposed to be similar to terran :p

Your facts are funny as fck. HEY PROTOSS IS HARDER THAN ZERG.

Strudel highest matchup WR is pvz.

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PurE)Rabbit-SF
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States758 Posts
December 26 2024 23:55 GMT
#20
I feel like I am already very dumb, cause I give stupid reddit retard take on this forum, but somehow I feel like I can't even understand how dumb this take is :S, am i the only one to feel this way? :D
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