On May 03 2025 01:30 ruhtraeel wrote:
JD and Soulkey are the most decisive players in ASL
Soulkey commits when he sees an opening
JD commits when he feels like it
It used to work for JD 15 years ago, now it doesn't
Idk why he commits to random stuff like not building an extra sunken, not blocking a bunker rush with drones, and bad attacks that wipe his army
There was nothing random about not building an extra sunken, he trained that opening a couple of days before. He has always played like this, maximizing his eco by using the minimum defense possible and almost solely relying on his micro and game sense. EffOrt used to play like this as well, because if you manage to defend the push while building minimum to no defense, the advantage you get is so huge that it's almost GG. But that requires perfect execution and timing which you acquire with constant massive training. It's kind of incredible he managed to be dominant so long with that type of gameplay during kespa era btw, way too extreme. Nowadays the workload is too small to be consistent and successful this way and it doesn't age well. JD is just like an old Mike Tyson. So I don't have much hope unless he radically changes his ways, at least vs terran coze his z v p is back to decent level.