[ASL8] Semifinal A - Snow vs Action

On August 20 2019 11:16 BLinD-RawR wrote:
as always rooting for action even though some believe it will be the weaker finals....

On August 20 2019 19:55 prosatan wrote:
I wish my zerg opponents throw hydras at me like Action! No dodge at all....maybe he was busy macroing idk

On August 21 2019 00:01 Ideas wrote:
Snow played great. Can't help but wonder if action was handicapped because of his surgery though.

On August 21 2019 00:03 BisuDagger wrote:
Sick games! I'm not cheering for Rain to lose tomorrow, but it seems like if he makes the finals then he may as well be handed the trophy.

On August 21 2019 07:58 BigBalls wrote:
I don't want to bash Action as he's one of the best zergs in the world and a stalwart in the final 16 of ASL/KSL past few seasons, but he just seems to be at such a lower level than Larva/Zero/Sacsri despite consistently making deeper runs than them.

Going the ling all in game 1 was brilliant given the current meta of Protoss expecting 9734 with a possibility of facing 3 hatch muta which forces Protoss to peek out to see if he needs more cannons or not. The hidden expo with lair+spire and then fake lair in main was also brilliant. But then he follows it up with not going lurkers with 5 bases on Sylphid, or suiciding hydras down a choke point, refusing to expand on Overwatch and letting Snow turtle up on the top right, or going mass muta and willingly playing an island ZvP on tripod.

At least the games were fun and exciting, but I can't help but think Zero would be at worst 2-2 after game 4 there vs Snow, and the same with Larva. I'd usually say the same for Sacsri, but Rain beat him like a red headed stepchild.

On August 21 2019 08:21 Ideas wrote:


My impression of Action is that mechanically he's not on par with other top zergs (zero/larva/soma? and previously also soulkey/effort), but he's a great strategic player and does better in tournaments than he "should" by being a tricky player and having great builds. He's basically like Calm but his skill isn't nearly as degraded (IE he's not totally dead if the game goes on past 8 minutes and he's not already massively ahead).

On August 21 2019 10:58 BigBalls wrote:

edit/addendum: the opposite is true for larva: while he has pristine mechanics, his strategy is much weaker because he stubbornly refuses to play builds other people do and insists on making his own work. He continues to play 3 hatch muta in ZvT despite nearly everyone else agreeing 2 hatch muta is superior, and there's just about no way he'll use the 9734 build in ZvP when he can continue taking another natural and then turtling everywhere into lurker ling defiler to try and drag out late game 4 gas wins.

On August 21 2019 13:12 TonDan wrote:
Action seems to lack battle tactics. he can clearly macro and has good builds, but he doesn't know how to force advantageous positions.