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A History of Terran vs. Zerg - Page 7

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NET
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States703 Posts
June 01 2009 10:53 GMT
#121
Brings back memories. Good read though.
"Dark Templar are the saviors of the Protoss Race." -Artosis
ytech.MorroW
Profile Joined June 2009
9 Posts
June 01 2009 12:52 GMT
#122
this is great :p

tho i still like bio the most
dont expect buildings in tosses main in tvp vs c ranks
Letmelose
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
Korea (South)3227 Posts
June 01 2009 15:16 GMT
#123
On June 01 2009 19:23 Zzoram wrote:
What is the oldest VOD available with muta micro? Anyone know? I'd like to watch it. Even if it isn't the first instance of it, I'd still like to see how it was handled in it's infancy.


July versus Doggi, group stages of Gillette OSL, was the first game on air that had mutalisk stack micro. July used minerals to keep the mutalisk stacked instead of grouping them with overlords though. He was the only zerg player who was capable of doing such tricks with mutalisks until Shark figured out how to keep them permanently stacked.

Can't seem to find any VODs, but this highlight video has some of the mutalisk stack micro July first showcased in his debut stage. Micro that we take for granted these days were nonexistent back when July was around, and his level of micro really was years ahead of his time. I remember watching all his moves in absolute awe. Those were the days.

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MutaDoom
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Canada1163 Posts
June 01 2009 16:58 GMT
#124
Thanks for the awesome translation :D

On May 29 2009 22:03 Harem wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 29 2009 13:46 Chef wrote:
Very cool but I'm confused.

2. December 2006 to March 2007 - Longinus and Reverse Temple, the 1rax cc


Perhaps I'm ignorant, but weren't Terran doing 1rax CC on Rush Hour 3? Maybe Rush Hour 3 was during this time and I'm just getting my chronology screwed up.

On May 29 2009 12:40 SilverSkyLark wrote:Jaedong did Queens, but he was the only one good enought during his time to actually win with that build.

In due time, someone will immortalize Queens.

Ah common. I love Jaedong too, but he only did it once. It's hard to call it a foray into Queen usage when he hasn't tried it again since.

JD didn't use queens just once.

He used them on Fantasy, Hwasin, Firebathero, and Skyhigh.


Holy shit, I don't remember 4 times. Which leagues were these in?
Piste
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
6183 Posts
June 01 2009 17:35 GMT
#125
Imho valks are kinda must-do becouse of the mutaharrass, pure m&m+turrets cann't fight against it. I see zergs whining about mech but what if terrans had also stackable air that would do "splash"-damage to both air and ground. I'm sure they wouldn't want to fight with shitty shit-units against it -_-
parkin
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
1088 Posts
June 01 2009 18:03 GMT
#126
Cool article. ty for translation.
mostly harmless
MrWinkles
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
United States200 Posts
June 02 2009 07:36 GMT
#127
Could someone please link a VOD of Crazy Zerg play? I think it was before my time that I started watching BW, it seems pretty ballsy and I love ultraz!
What does the knight do?
Letmelose
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
Korea (South)3227 Posts
June 02 2009 08:04 GMT
#128
On June 02 2009 16:36 MrWinkles wrote:
Could someone please link a VOD of Crazy Zerg play? I think it was before my time that I started watching BW, it seems pretty ballsy and I love ultraz!




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Harem
Profile Joined November 2007
United States11393 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-06-02 16:08:28
June 02 2009 16:07 GMT
#129
On June 02 2009 01:58 MutaDoom wrote:
Thanks for the awesome translation :D

Show nested quote +
On May 29 2009 22:03 Harem wrote:
On May 29 2009 13:46 Chef wrote:
Very cool but I'm confused.

2. December 2006 to March 2007 - Longinus and Reverse Temple, the 1rax cc


Perhaps I'm ignorant, but weren't Terran doing 1rax CC on Rush Hour 3? Maybe Rush Hour 3 was during this time and I'm just getting my chronology screwed up.

On May 29 2009 12:40 SilverSkyLark wrote:Jaedong did Queens, but he was the only one good enought during his time to actually win with that build.

In due time, someone will immortalize Queens.

Ah common. I love Jaedong too, but he only did it once. It's hard to call it a foray into Queen usage when he hasn't tried it again since.

JD didn't use queens just once.

He used them on Fantasy, Hwasin, Firebathero, and Skyhigh.


Holy shit, I don't remember 4 times. Which leagues were these in?


http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/games/10749_fantasy_vs_Jaedong
http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/games/10833_Hwasin_vs_Jaedong
http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/games/10840_Jaedong_vs_sKyHigh
http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/games/11154_firebathero_vs_Jaedong
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ModusOperandi
Profile Joined September 2007
Canada3 Posts
June 02 2009 18:34 GMT
#130
This article reminds me of one things I love about the balance in Starcraft: it is highly dependent on map features. Even at the competitive amateur level on ICCUP, statistics clearly show that some maps favor one race over another. SC's racial balance is very close, but as strategies and tactics evolve to an ever more refined level, we see how delicate that balance can be. A map feature that would be seemingly minor in SC's early days -- impassable ground directly behind a mineral line -- has a huge impact on balance.

This gives me hope that SC2 will be as balanced as SC, if only because the community will step up and continually refine the map pool to make it so.
Ioannis
Profile Blog Joined February 2005
Greece62 Posts
June 04 2009 11:03 GMT
#131
ZvT is obviously imba from what we see in the Graph... it's alot harder for Zerg to win ... that's why when most zerg players face a zerg opponent instead of playing zvz pick terran and go for the easy kill....

TvZ sucks bigtime, it's only nice for terran players... and it's not balanced at all... GG ! :O
:)
Quasimoto3000
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States471 Posts
April 07 2010 16:25 GMT
#132
This is such a great article that i definitely believe deserves to get bumped again.

it ends with the implication that 1 rax into CC was getting stale, but looking at the current form of TvZ, this build seems to be dominating.
Once again, Jaedong managed to pull out an MSL win with a quick ultra build, but still, zergs are having a lot of trouble with Flash's brand of 1 rax into CC.

Id love to see this article continually updated, and if anyone has histories of the other matchups too (although tvz will always be my favorite) I would be very very interested in reading about them.
Every sunday a nun lays from my gunplay
Wings
Profile Joined January 2010
United States999 Posts
April 07 2010 16:31 GMT
#133
Though it's an old article I was glad for the bump. Hopefully this should stop the imba screamers. Can't believe that TvZ was almost 30% at one point, lol, I'm guessing that was led by JD and his mutas...
The probability of Kim Carrier getting all those predictions wrong is similar to the probability Flash loses a TvT. Kim Carrier MUST BE a genius. His only big mistake... STORK.
Elroi
Profile Joined August 2009
Sweden5599 Posts
April 07 2010 17:11 GMT
#134
On April 08 2010 01:31 Wings wrote:
Though it's an old article I was glad for the bump. Hopefully this should stop the imba screamers. Can't believe that TvZ was almost 30% at one point, lol, I'm guessing that was led by JD and his mutas...


What are you talking about? The graph clearly shows that TvZ - atleast statistically - is imba...
"To all eSports fans, I want to be remembered as a progamer who can make something out of nothing, and someone who always does his best. I think that is the right way of living, and I'm always doing my best to follow that." - Jaedong. /watch?v=jfghAzJqAp0
jalstar
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
United States8198 Posts
April 08 2010 07:37 GMT
#135
I think one of the biggest developments since this article is Flash's earlier second Rax in the 1 Rax CC build. He uses it to get more marines out than Terrans had with the later 2nd rax.

Against 2 hatch muta, these marines mean that you don't need as many turrets. This is risky, as seen by Flash's quick losses to Hyun, Zero, Calm, and Jaedong in late 2009 when his turret placement isn't perfect.

Against 3 hatch muta, Flash uses the bigger army to deny a 3rd gas. See his games against Jaedong and Savior on Fighting Spirit in late 2009.

2 hatch muta is more popular right now, but I think that's mostly due to the fact that nearly all the top zergs are aggressive to hyper-aggressive. 3 hatch is still used and can work quite well, as seen in Effort and Action's games against Mind in December and January.
saritenite
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Singapore1680 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-08 09:03:54
April 08 2010 09:02 GMT
#136
You are amazing, thank you so much!

Edit - Sweet bump! didn't know it was an old thread :D
flamewheel
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
FREEAGLELAND26782 Posts
April 08 2010 09:41 GMT
#137
Epic bump! I loved this thread.
Writerdamn, i was two days from retirement
Garada999
Profile Joined February 2010
United States1 Post
June 05 2010 21:37 GMT
#138
Nice Work! And a good read
MageKirby
Profile Joined July 2009
United States535 Posts
June 05 2010 22:24 GMT
#139
great read, thanks for the bump
koreasilver
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
9109 Posts
June 05 2010 22:36 GMT
#140
On April 08 2010 16:37 jalstar wrote:
I think one of the biggest developments since this article is Flash's earlier second Rax in the 1 Rax CC build. He uses it to get more marines out than Terrans had with the later 2nd rax.

Against 2 hatch muta, these marines mean that you don't need as many turrets. This is risky, as seen by Flash's quick losses to Hyun, Zero, Calm, and Jaedong in late 2009 when his turret placement isn't perfect.

Against 3 hatch muta, Flash uses the bigger army to deny a 3rd gas. See his games against Jaedong and Savior on Fighting Spirit in late 2009.

2 hatch muta is more popular right now, but I think that's mostly due to the fact that nearly all the top zergs are aggressive to hyper-aggressive. 3 hatch is still used and can work quite well, as seen in Effort and Action's games against Mind in December and January.

3hatch has had a huge resurgence after the first Jaedong vs Flash MSL, and nowadays 2hatch isn't seen all that much anymore, which is like a complete turnaround from not-too-long-ago where ZvT was 2hatch except for Effort games.
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