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Dangermousecatdog
Profile Joined December 2010
United Kingdom7084 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-05-24 13:17:11
May 24 2019 13:16 GMT
#81
It's a strange thing for any caster to say. Tastosis prequently mocks and insults fans and the common bw player, it really strange to hear. It's such a turnoff.

Well, those were a nice pair of recalls. it didn't seem to do much though.
Terra1
Profile Joined June 2018
Philippines312 Posts
May 24 2019 13:18 GMT
#82
On May 24 2019 22:16 Dangermousecatdog wrote:
It's a strange thing for any caster to say. Tastosis prequently mocks and insults fans and the common bw player, it really strange to hear. It's such a turnoff.

Well, those were a nice pair of recalls. it didn't seem to do much though.

Agreed with that. It did more damage to Rain's units but Rain's got a whole lot of bases and army production buildings.
Turbovolver
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Australia2396 Posts
May 24 2019 13:21 GMT
#83
Sharp's weaknesses in full display unfortunately. Lacking in macro, trying a bit too hard so focus isn't always where it should be.
The original Bogus fan.
Turbovolver
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Australia2396 Posts
May 24 2019 13:23 GMT
#84
I'm just happy two games have consisted of Rain having to destroy his own Gateway.
The original Bogus fan.
Terra1
Profile Joined June 2018
Philippines312 Posts
May 24 2019 13:23 GMT
#85
Yay 3-1 Rain win. PvP fest till finals. Thank you Rain!
razorsuKe
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Canada2000 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-05-24 13:29:36
May 24 2019 13:24 GMT
#86
THIS IS GAME 3 POLL (The match on FS)

Poll: Recommend Game 3 Sharp vs Rain?

Yes (5)
 
83%

No (0)
 
0%

If you have time (1)
 
17%

6 total votes

Your vote: Recommend Game 3 Sharp vs Rain?

(Vote): Yes
(Vote): No
(Vote): If you have time

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razorsuKe
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Canada2000 Posts
May 24 2019 13:24 GMT
#87
^^^ Note that's for game 3, I missed it earlier
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razorsuKe
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Canada2000 Posts
May 24 2019 13:25 GMT
#88
Poll: Recommend Game 4 Sharp vs Rain?

Yes (8)
 
100%

No (0)
 
0%

If you have time (0)
 
0%

8 total votes

Your vote: Recommend Game 4 Sharp vs Rain?

(Vote): Yes
(Vote): No
(Vote): If you have time

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TornadoSteve
Profile Joined March 2018
1109 Posts
May 24 2019 13:26 GMT
#89
The only good thing about the RO4 to me is that any of those 4 guys have a shot to win the whole thing.
Wonk
Profile Joined March 2017
546 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-05-24 13:30:16
May 24 2019 13:28 GMT
#90
On May 24 2019 21:57 ggsimida wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 24 2019 21:55 Wonk wrote:
On May 24 2019 21:47 ggsimida wrote:
On May 24 2019 21:40 Wonk wrote:
I'll never respect Rain like i respected Bisu. I hope Sharp punishes him for his dishonesty.

On May 24 2019 21:39 ggsimida wrote:
maybe rain is cheesy but feels like overconfidence strikes sharp again


was he overconfident? The only way I could have seen him ending that was sending most of his SCVs to ensure the proxy gate couldn't get up. He scouted it perfectly, and he still lost.


he can pull a bunch ofscv to help kill the zeal/s when the going gets tough, even flash does that if i recall old games of his against proxy gate pressure. like i feel sharp still has this ladder mentality where he could solely rely on rine micro to stall the zeal until fact, except hes not playing against an amateur this time round. i feel this sort of notion in many of other sharps game as well (where he got cocky and just end up killing himself instead, like example 1 game vs modesty where he pushed too early and give up marines cheaply to mutas, when staying to the turrets would be better to build up army and force errors out of modesty before guardian push instead)


And while he's doing that, he's losing SCVs and missing mining while Rain is mining to his hearts content back at his base and going fine. Whatever he does, he's crippling his economy to stay alive. He's honestly better off praying for good marine macro in the hope he can barely hold and get into a normal game.


holding out with maybe minor loss (toss is wasting mineral cranking out zeal, its not free) vs the outcome u see where he just straight up died? flash took the former and he won.


They're not free, but they're not actively hurting your economy like having to defend with SCVs just to stay alive is. Saying "flash could come back from that position" does not mean it's balanced or fair.

Yuck. 3 PvPs in a row. I know people say "if you like starcraft you should enjoy every matchup" but PvP is the only one that puts me to sleep on a fundamental level. ZvZ feels similar but is at least exciting.

repomaniak
Profile Joined January 2009
Poland324 Posts
May 24 2019 13:30 GMT
#91
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ggsimida
Profile Joined August 2015
1148 Posts
May 24 2019 13:35 GMT
#92
On May 24 2019 22:28 Wonk wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 24 2019 21:57 ggsimida wrote:
On May 24 2019 21:55 Wonk wrote:
On May 24 2019 21:47 ggsimida wrote:
On May 24 2019 21:40 Wonk wrote:
I'll never respect Rain like i respected Bisu. I hope Sharp punishes him for his dishonesty.

On May 24 2019 21:39 ggsimida wrote:
maybe rain is cheesy but feels like overconfidence strikes sharp again


was he overconfident? The only way I could have seen him ending that was sending most of his SCVs to ensure the proxy gate couldn't get up. He scouted it perfectly, and he still lost.


he can pull a bunch ofscv to help kill the zeal/s when the going gets tough, even flash does that if i recall old games of his against proxy gate pressure. like i feel sharp still has this ladder mentality where he could solely rely on rine micro to stall the zeal until fact, except hes not playing against an amateur this time round. i feel this sort of notion in many of other sharps game as well (where he got cocky and just end up killing himself instead, like example 1 game vs modesty where he pushed too early and give up marines cheaply to mutas, when staying to the turrets would be better to build up army and force errors out of modesty before guardian push instead)


And while he's doing that, he's losing SCVs and missing mining while Rain is mining to his hearts content back at his base and going fine. Whatever he does, he's crippling his economy to stay alive. He's honestly better off praying for good marine macro in the hope he can barely hold and get into a normal game.


holding out with maybe minor loss (toss is wasting mineral cranking out zeal, its not free) vs the outcome u see where he just straight up died? flash took the former and he won.


They're not free, but they're not actively hurting your economy like having to defend with SCVs just to stay alive is. Saying "flash could come back from that position" does not mean it's balanced or fair.



its not a direct loss but its still an economic loss in the form of an opportunity cost, where you could get nexus up faster with classic goon expand instead. proxy gate pressure is bit of semicheese if you dont do damage you are behind than if you took the safe opening. i only used flash because i sorta recalled one of his games where he held it easily that way, i mean where else else could i take it from.
Xain0n
Profile Joined November 2018
Italy3963 Posts
May 24 2019 13:37 GMT
#93
The real question now is: can anyone stop Rain's PvP? Maybe Mini could, I unfortunately don't see Snow doing that.
Wonk
Profile Joined March 2017
546 Posts
May 24 2019 13:41 GMT
#94
On May 24 2019 22:35 ggsimida wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 24 2019 22:28 Wonk wrote:
On May 24 2019 21:57 ggsimida wrote:
On May 24 2019 21:55 Wonk wrote:
On May 24 2019 21:47 ggsimida wrote:
On May 24 2019 21:40 Wonk wrote:
I'll never respect Rain like i respected Bisu. I hope Sharp punishes him for his dishonesty.

On May 24 2019 21:39 ggsimida wrote:
maybe rain is cheesy but feels like overconfidence strikes sharp again


was he overconfident? The only way I could have seen him ending that was sending most of his SCVs to ensure the proxy gate couldn't get up. He scouted it perfectly, and he still lost.


he can pull a bunch ofscv to help kill the zeal/s when the going gets tough, even flash does that if i recall old games of his against proxy gate pressure. like i feel sharp still has this ladder mentality where he could solely rely on rine micro to stall the zeal until fact, except hes not playing against an amateur this time round. i feel this sort of notion in many of other sharps game as well (where he got cocky and just end up killing himself instead, like example 1 game vs modesty where he pushed too early and give up marines cheaply to mutas, when staying to the turrets would be better to build up army and force errors out of modesty before guardian push instead)


And while he's doing that, he's losing SCVs and missing mining while Rain is mining to his hearts content back at his base and going fine. Whatever he does, he's crippling his economy to stay alive. He's honestly better off praying for good marine macro in the hope he can barely hold and get into a normal game.


holding out with maybe minor loss (toss is wasting mineral cranking out zeal, its not free) vs the outcome u see where he just straight up died? flash took the former and he won.


They're not free, but they're not actively hurting your economy like having to defend with SCVs just to stay alive is. Saying "flash could come back from that position" does not mean it's balanced or fair.



its not a direct loss but its still an economic loss in the form of an opportunity cost, where you could get nexus up faster with classic goon expand instead. proxy gate pressure is bit of semicheese if you dont do damage you are behind than if you took the safe opening. i only used flash because i sorta recalled one of his games where he held it easily that way, i mean where else else could i take it from.


I'd hardly call it a semicheese in the sense of a bunker rush because of how little resources you have to devote to getting it done. 1 probe, and 3 if you want to make sure it goes off. It just doesn't really hurt the protoss' economy in the same way sending 5-6 SCVs across the map to build a bunker and body block for the marines so they can actually fight zealots does. These units are never going to be equal and i accept that, but god damn it hurts sometimes.
Dazed.
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Canada3301 Posts
May 24 2019 13:42 GMT
#95
On May 24 2019 22:35 ggsimida wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 24 2019 22:28 Wonk wrote:
On May 24 2019 21:57 ggsimida wrote:
On May 24 2019 21:55 Wonk wrote:
On May 24 2019 21:47 ggsimida wrote:
On May 24 2019 21:40 Wonk wrote:
I'll never respect Rain like i respected Bisu. I hope Sharp punishes him for his dishonesty.

On May 24 2019 21:39 ggsimida wrote:
maybe rain is cheesy but feels like overconfidence strikes sharp again


was he overconfident? The only way I could have seen him ending that was sending most of his SCVs to ensure the proxy gate couldn't get up. He scouted it perfectly, and he still lost.


he can pull a bunch ofscv to help kill the zeal/s when the going gets tough, even flash does that if i recall old games of his against proxy gate pressure. like i feel sharp still has this ladder mentality where he could solely rely on rine micro to stall the zeal until fact, except hes not playing against an amateur this time round. i feel this sort of notion in many of other sharps game as well (where he got cocky and just end up killing himself instead, like example 1 game vs modesty where he pushed too early and give up marines cheaply to mutas, when staying to the turrets would be better to build up army and force errors out of modesty before guardian push instead)


And while he's doing that, he's losing SCVs and missing mining while Rain is mining to his hearts content back at his base and going fine. Whatever he does, he's crippling his economy to stay alive. He's honestly better off praying for good marine macro in the hope he can barely hold and get into a normal game.


holding out with maybe minor loss (toss is wasting mineral cranking out zeal, its not free) vs the outcome u see where he just straight up died? flash took the former and he won.


They're not free, but they're not actively hurting your economy like having to defend with SCVs just to stay alive is. Saying "flash could come back from that position" does not mean it's balanced or fair.



its not a direct loss but its still an economic loss in the form of an opportunity cost, where you could get nexus up faster with classic goon expand instead. proxy gate pressure is bit of semicheese if you dont do damage you are behind than if you took the safe opening. i only used flash because i sorta recalled one of his games where he held it easily that way, i mean where else else could i take it from.
'if you dont do damage you are behind'

dude literally ALL pressure builds of any kind meet that criteria. Hell, all economic builds meet this criteria 'if your economic opener doesnt put you ahead economically, you are behind'

its like when the goal of the build isnt met, bad things happen. That doesnt make the build cheese or semi cheese. We cant keep moving the goal post of cheese as a community to the point where pressuring with a fucking zealot is cheese.
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Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Canada2040 Posts
May 24 2019 13:47 GMT
#96
I have the feeling that Best will be eargerly sollicited as a practice partner in the next few days...
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ggsimida
Profile Joined August 2015
1148 Posts
May 24 2019 13:54 GMT
#97
On May 24 2019 22:42 Dazed. wrote:
'if you dont do damage you are behind'

dude literally ALL pressure builds of any kind meet that criteria. Hell, all economic builds meet this criteria 'if your economic opener doesnt put you ahead economically, you are behind'

its like when the goal of the build isnt met, bad things happen. That doesnt make the build cheese or semi cheese. We cant keep moving the goal post of cheese as a community to the point where pressuring with a fucking zealot is cheese.


ok maybe the word "cheese" triggered you so badly? maybe i shouldnt use the word semicheese so lightly with such negative connotation to you..early game pressure fine?
ggsimida
Profile Joined August 2015
1148 Posts
May 24 2019 14:00 GMT
#98
On May 24 2019 22:41 Wonk wrote:
I'd hardly call it a semicheese in the sense of a bunker rush because of how little resources you have to devote to getting it done. 1 probe, and 3 if you want to make sure it goes off. It just doesn't really hurt the protoss' economy in the same way sending 5-6 SCVs across the map to build a bunker and body block for the marines so they can actually fight zealots does. These units are never going to be equal and i accept that, but god damn it hurts sometimes.


eh its not about sending 5 scvs across the map, they are only pulled when the zeals are in the base and the going gets tough like if you fumble your rine micro.
Geo.Rion
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
7377 Posts
May 24 2019 14:54 GMT
#99
and they say BW and SC2 are soo different, here s the is the proof it isnt
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Wonk
Profile Joined March 2017
546 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-05-24 15:09:24
May 24 2019 15:08 GMT
#100
On May 24 2019 23:00 ggsimida wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 24 2019 22:41 Wonk wrote:
I'd hardly call it a semicheese in the sense of a bunker rush because of how little resources you have to devote to getting it done. 1 probe, and 3 if you want to make sure it goes off. It just doesn't really hurt the protoss' economy in the same way sending 5-6 SCVs across the map to build a bunker and body block for the marines so they can actually fight zealots does. These units are never going to be equal and i accept that, but god damn it hurts sometimes.


eh its not about sending 5 scvs across the map, they are only pulled when the zeals are in the base and the going gets tough like if you fumble your rine micro.


I was describing an equivalent cheese, i.e bunker rush.
But in every situation in PvT early game the onus is on the terran to perfectly micro the marines in order to trade equally with the protoss. This isn't really problem, and I'm not complaining about this in particular The units are all different and have their weaknesses and tradeoffs in the grand scheme of the game.

We could get into units microing units and who is more favoured with the same amount of micro, but the fact of the matter is protoss will do and get away with more of these kinds of openings compared to terran and sometimes even zerg on these maps because their commitment versus success and potential to continue to a normal game is much higher, as we have seen in recent pro games.
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