On August 20 2010 18:53 ohN wrote: gg. JD wins Kinda feel bad for action, I feel he'd get far in this osl if he met ANYONE besides JD.
no please stop over hyping him. He isn't that good yet.
He really is, at least when it comes to late-game management. Watch his game vs Flash for example.
That's the thing - late game management. You can be the god of using battlecruisers but its not useful if you can't even get to that stage.
That's the thing - he would stand a much, much greater chance of reaching that if it wasn't fucking ZvZ vs JD.
No let's look at it this way: Free and Stork can probably kill him with reaver harassment or timing attacks. His ZvP is that bad, he has shown again and again he's horrible at the matchup and struggles even against the most mediocre of protoss players.
Flash, who got his groove back, would probably do so much damage to Action that no hive tech play would save him. He has poor lair tech play so keeping the terran contained would be impossible.
He's not good at ZvZ so he probably wouldn't beat Zero either.
As zerg, late game management only means something if you can get to it with all of your limbs intact. Action can't do this most of the time, he gets embarrassed during the early game.
Meh, I think you are underrating him. Did you see him curb-stomp Leta, shutting down his harassment with great defensive play, for example? He would stand a better chance vs anyone else, even Flash, because there is no proper late-game in ZvZ (except 1 game in a 100, and every game with Great).
Just throwing it out there, but there is a good reason why two port wraith in TvZ was buried into the ground. Because its really easy to block if you prepare for it properly, its resource intensive, and severely limits your army composition since you don't have enough gas to pump out tanks.
I know Effort lost to it, but Effort is a guy who can lose to anything. If I'm not wrong, Effort has lost to Stats three times in a row so far: to a 4 gate powergoon, to the Bisu build, and to the Bisu build again.