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Puosu
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
6992 Posts
November 15 2025 19:45 GMT
#161
On November 16 2025 04:42 TMNT wrote:
waste of time

just stop posting
Kraekkling
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
554 Posts
November 15 2025 20:51 GMT
#162
TMNT could have become the greatest battle rapper of all time

instead he spends his time here
(*^^)(^*)
NoobSkills
Profile Joined August 2009
United States1601 Posts
November 16 2025 01:43 GMT
#163
Love the balance talk as if balance were the issue in this last ASL, not snow just being pretty bad at PvZ. Meanwhile "balance" has very little to do with even individual singular losses nor event losses like this one. Not to mention just mistakes alone the big ones in any game make the result null on the balance discussion, however people talk in stats as if those types of mistakes aren't common.
SCRVN
Profile Joined June 2024
110 Posts
November 16 2025 03:34 GMT
#164
^ why does only Protoss make mistake in 25 years but not Terran or Zerg?

PvZ is unbalanced at every thing.

Gameplay: It doesn't matter win or lose, Z always active and easier to play than P.

Units: Z is flexible, mobile than P. Hydras can be useful in all situation and all stage game.

Duration: At early, Z is the king of StarCraft land. At mid, Z will use Hydras + O last forever if Z wants. At late, Z has some units that can burn so much resource if necessary.

Strategy: "all in" whenever or switch to macro game without high risk. When Protoss chooses a build order they can't switch to another one. And there are always some points of weakness for Z abuses.

We can watch some P win games randomly or even all of P's winning games. We will see that winnable of P is almost impossible for P to win. Example: some nice stormru, sneaky DT then kill 50 Drones, micro at Bisu's level, timing push. Whatelse? Are they easy to do?
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iopq
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States1006 Posts
November 16 2025 08:42 GMT
#165
On November 16 2025 12:34 SCRVN wrote:
^ why does only Protoss make mistake in 25 years but not Terran or Zerg?


Bisu exploited the common Zerg builds to win a star league much less than 25 years ago. Going hatch first every game is most definitely a mistake (ez 13 nex every game) and ZvP didn't get a change since 1.16.1 so it's basically same patch and shitty maps for Protoss (Kick back and such are better for Protoss these days)

Also, sample size. We have 3 ASLs a year, and people whine about 6 or 7 games in a final match. Guess what, 100 games would be a SHITTY sample size for a matchup that's like ~53% overall recently.
[sc1f]eonzerg
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Belgium6761 Posts
November 16 2025 09:33 GMT
#166
2 ASLs x year
Soft_General_5023
Profile Joined December 2023
91 Posts
23 hours ago
#167
@bonyth

if you advocate/claim zvp imbalance, can you maybe publish and comment video/replays of you losing to zerg because of you think it was an imbalance? surely you have lot of plain hydra bust loses replays of yours

i am happy to pay/make some donation to you stream for such a content

spice up your life!
Bonyth
Profile Joined August 2010
Poland588 Posts
18 hours ago
#168
Unfortunately, if we assume that u get better and better with time, there is no way to know if the zerg user who beat me simply didn't spend more time mastering the game, and as such, was simply better.
True imba exists only at the highest level, where the gains from spending more time to get better at this game become smaller and smaller.
In foreign scene (or below pro level), the imbalance exists only in the time u need to spend to get better. For example, for protoss player it would take the least time to start adventure with the game and get to B rank.
Of course, mastering the game is not just about the time but also other factors, like intelligence (how fast u can learn the game / progress at it compared to other players). Either way, it's near impossible to say if player A won vs player B because of imba, or because he mastered the game better.
RJBTVYOUTUBE
Profile Joined December 2023
Netherlands1026 Posts
18 hours ago
#169
quantity of time =/= quantity of improvement.
Quality of Quantity of time spent + talent = quantity and quality of improvement.
JDON MY SOUL!
ruhtraeel
Profile Joined July 2010
Canada124 Posts
10 hours ago
#170
I said it a bunch but I'll say it again, Snow is amazing in PvP and PvT but he's probably the weakest P out of the top 5 against Z, which will always hold him back in becoming a champion

I'd take Best, Bisu, Rain, and Mini all over him against a Z
TornadoSteve
Profile Joined March 2018
1089 Posts
9 hours ago
#171
not related: i miss sylphid and gladiator
CicadaSC
Profile Joined January 2018
United States1826 Posts
4 hours ago
#172
hard agree with flash. Snow's micro is really good but when it comes to macro, timings and build orders he is not that good... i can see it as i watch asl he is lacking.
Remember that we all come from a place of passion!!
Ikirouta
Profile Blog Joined November 2017
Finland736 Posts
4 hours ago
#173
Im sipping a cup of coffee and reading through this on a monday morning, humanity is very cool!
Pusan fan #1, bad sair/reaver enthuisiast. twitch.tv/ikirouta
RJBTVYOUTUBE
Profile Joined December 2023
Netherlands1026 Posts
Last Edited: 2025-11-17 10:39:30
1 hour ago
#174
On November 17 2025 10:40 ruhtraeel wrote:
I said it a bunch but I'll say it again, Snow is amazing in PvP and PvT but he's probably the weakest P out of the top 5 against Z, which will always hold him back in becoming a champion

I'd take Best, Bisu, Rain, and Mini all over him against a Z

the stats online imply otherwise. SnOw fumbled against SoMa in the finals. Online SnOw is 2nd only to Bisu in PvZ. his PvZ being weak is not reflected in the data.

SnOw has 53%-56%+ winrate vs all zergs except Soulkey (45%) and SoMa (39%).

SoMa and Soulkey respectively are UP on all protoss.
Soma 1,134 wins, 721 losses 61%.
Soulkey 874 wins, 549 losses 61%.

SnOw has 1,582 wins, 1,240 losses vs Zerg. that is 56%.
This is second only to Bisu's 996 wins, 746 losses, which is 57%.
Rain is the 3rd best with 330-302.
Best with 1,102 wins, 1,101 losses
Mini with 1,416 wins, 1,420 losses

The stats imply SnOw is really good at PvZ, second only to Bisu.

Snow is so unreasonably good at Pvt and Pvp that his statistically good Pvz looks weak. But it isnt.
JDON MY SOUL!
Soft_General_5023
Profile Joined December 2023
91 Posts
1 hour ago
#175
On November 17 2025 19:21 RJBTVYOUTUBE wrote:
The stats imply SnOw is really good at PvZ, second only to Bisu.


Online, yes. He was unbeatable online about 2 years ago, i remember him having like like 30 consecutive wins in eloboard.

Now he is bit worse online and better in offline/asl for some reason.

But in ASL i prefer Bisu and Mini PvZ. Current ASL results are about right IMO ( Bisu equal or better to top zergs, Snow is not).
RJBTVYOUTUBE
Profile Joined December 2023
Netherlands1026 Posts
53 minutes ago
#176
On November 17 2025 19:43 Soft_General_5023 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 17 2025 19:21 RJBTVYOUTUBE wrote:
The stats imply SnOw is really good at PvZ, second only to Bisu.


Online, yes. He was unbeatable online about 2 years ago, i remember him having like like 30 consecutive wins in eloboard.

Now he is bit worse online and better in offline/asl for some reason.

But in ASL i prefer Bisu and Mini PvZ. Current ASL results are about right IMO ( Bisu equal or better to top zergs, Snow is not).

SnOw went like 75-8 at one point which got him to the highest ELO rating in online BW history.(since 2016)
JDON MY SOUL!
TMNT
Profile Joined January 2021
3065 Posts
Last Edited: 2025-11-17 11:09:51
49 minutes ago
#177
That reason is simply the sample size.

Mini's consecutive 4-1 wins over Queen many seasons ago skew people's perception of his PvZ so much. His overall PvZ record is in fact just barely better than Best and far behind Snow and Bisu.

Bisu also hasn't done well against top Zergs in recent seasons in ASL, having lost all his Bo3, 5, 7 against Hero, Soulkey, Soma. Last season he even got KO'd 0-2 by Action. In fact his win over Larva this season was the first time he won a Bo series against a 'top' Zerg since ASL13 so not sure where the 'equal or better to top Zergs' shout comes from.

(Larva, Action and Effort are not top tier Zerg mind)
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