[VNSL] Semifinals #2: ZerO vs EffOrt - Page 12

On January 18 2016 20:46 MapleLeafSirup wrote:
Tastosis really brought a LOT of viewers to today's games. So glad to see > 40k viewers for a BW event. BW will never die.

On January 18 2016 20:43 B-royal wrote:


Nah, I responded to him with the same insolent tone that he conveyed in his post.

On January 18 2016 20:40 EatingBomber wrote:
Why is the +1 Carapace emphasised? Is it to neutralise the bounce effect? Wouldn't a +1 Attack be better since it affects all Mutalisk, rather than +1 Carapace which affects only the Mutalisk being attacked and 2 others?

Upgrades are a difficult part of Zerg play. First off, in Mutalisk versus Mutalisk battles, Carapace is always the best upgrade to get. If you can afford it, three carapace upgrades before any attack upgrades is preferred. When a Mutalisk fires, its damage is divided by 3 every bounce. So the first hit would do 9 damage, then bounce to another target and do 3 damage to that target, bounce and do 1, etc.. When you upgrade attack, this becomes 10, 3.33, 1.11, essentially an increase of 1.44 damage; however, when fighting an opponent who instead upgraded carapace, each of those hits gets reduced by 1, meaning it would become 9, 2.33, 0.11. The carapace-upgrade Mutalisks are taking 1.56 less damage per attack. If you don't understand, upgrade carapace. Additionally, Scourge benefit from the carapace upgrade, allowing them to avoid dying from bounce damage while closing in. It should be mentioned that because damage is counted as either an integer or a half, the numbers won't work out exactly as mentioned above, but it was just to give an example.

On January 18 2016 20:44 GTR wrote:
Hopefully Bisu has patched the flaws that allowed hero to roll over him in the SSL finals.

On January 18 2016 20:49 Tiaraju9 wrote:


I have to concede that my post was not innocent. But its hard to appreciate the intricacies of the game without having played it.

On January 18 2016 20:48 BisuDagger wrote:

This ^. I wonder who will be his practice partners.

On January 18 2016 20:50 coolprogrammingstuff wrote:
Man, I was such a BW hard-out in 2011 after coming to it from SC2, and then I quit. I thought LOTV actually made the other game decent now, but even ZvZ is fucking sick compared to some SC2 shit.

If only my modem wasn't fucking shit here, otherwise I'd be all over iccup. Can't host :<<. And I'm too shit for Fish now.

On January 18 2016 20:54 BLinD-RawR wrote:


your peak was 46 today.

On January 18 2016 20:54 amazingxkcd wrote:


\o/