Flash Rain won't be as good as some people think. Rain's PvT is a lot weaker than most people give him credit for and he lost to Last and Sharp who are way behind Flash is TvP.

Flash vs Snow would be a much better matchup.

Frudgey

Canada3367 Posts

July 30 2019 13:46 GMT

#88

Flash got out first, no?

Either way looking forward to watching some Flash games. Sounds like he was in good form this time.

Terrorbladder

2750 Posts

July 30 2019 13:53 GMT

#89

Oh man Flash is giving insight on his stream now. Sad I don't know any KR

TornadoSteve

1117 Posts

July 30 2019 14:12 GMT

#90

Snow vs Action
Flash vs Rain

Thats a solid final 4 imo

lepape

Canada557 Posts

July 30 2019 14:39 GMT

#91

Snow vs Flash in ASL5 quarterfinals was one of the best series I've seen, let's hope we'll get a Snow vs Flash finals.

TvT finals would be a disapointment though, no player comes even close against Flash in that matchup.

FlopTurnReaver

Switzerland1980 Posts

July 30 2019 15:01 GMT

#92

On July 30 2019 22:00 RowdierBob wrote:
That Flash mech build vs Zerg is brutal. Not sure how you beat it but those muta openings are not a good idea it seems.

I'd still like to see a Zerg going for early Hydras vs this (apart from ZeLot's failed rush).

nikolaus8844

115 Posts

July 30 2019 16:09 GMT

#93

''EAT SCOURGE''

.. which would really be better suited for Horang2.
Jeeeeeeez.. is it really that hard to build a control group of +1 sairs and keep them together so you don't lose air-control and thus get wrecked pretty much in exactly the same way

At least SK got spanked rather well, that made up for some of the mundane nature of the games today.

BisuDagger

Bisutopia19371 Posts

July 30 2019 18:48 GMT

#94

On July 30 2019 23:39 lepape wrote:
Snow vs Flash in ASL5 quarterfinals was one of the best series I've seen, let's hope we'll get a Snow vs Flash finals.

TvT finals would be a disapointment though, no player comes even close against Flash in that matchup.

That'd be a great finals because I feel like ASL5 deserved to go to him. Rain is a god of PvP, but I don't think he was good enough at that time to beat Flash. Remember that was the first time in like 11 years that Flash lost a boX to a protoss player. Snow played a perfect series versus him in ASL5, but I'm not sure lighting will strike twice.

Ideas

United States8174 Posts

July 30 2019 18:51 GMT

#95

Damn really going to miss SK. He played well but flash was just too much, and Sacscri really upped his game from what I remember of him being a somewhat mediocre kespa player. Hopefully it's not a fluke and Sacscri can help fill the void of good zergs now that SK is gone.

I don't get why soulkey went for triple sunken instead of hydras for his defense against vultures vs flash. I guess it's more gas heavy... but hydras are so much better vs vulture drops and he gets a 3rd gas for free. He still played well but just got too far behind from that drop.

It seems like queens before hive vs mech is a lot more popular in the pro scene right now, but I think I've only seen it fail in this ASL haha.

This Ro8 is going to be sick! Can't wait for Action vs Light finals!

But seriously a snow/action and flash/rain semis with snow vs flash finals would make this an amazing ASL. Honestly any combination of these 8 moving forward would be fantastic.

BlackJack

United States10574 Posts

July 30 2019 18:52 GMT

#96

I wish Sacsri would have switched to an all-in speedling/muta attack when he killed all of Flash's speed vultures in game 2. Flash had literally nothing for defense and I think there's a good chance Sacsri could have outpaced his production of turrets/goliaths. Either way it would have been a better all-in than charging hydras into a sieged up mech army like he did both games.

QOGQOG

834 Posts

July 30 2019 19:21 GMT

#97

On July 30 2019 22:41 Dante08 wrote:

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Absolutely agree, I'm really hoping that we get Snow/Flash rematch for the final. I feel like people (including Tastosis) are forgetting that Rain's not nearly as good at matches that aren't PvP.

outscar

2832 Posts

July 30 2019 21:34 GMT

#98

On July 30 2019 21:15 ggsimida wrote:
thats the LoL player that somehow won the wild card seed wtf

JD was playing LoL lately and we saw what happened: 0-6 out from KSL, out on ro24 from ASL.

FlaSh showed his god performance 100% today, loved how he killed early game eco of zergs with such little vulture runbies. Aaaand he gets free win. vs. Light plus lower bracket seems easier for him so free ticket for finals.