[MSL] Lost Saga Quarterfinal B - Page 38

On March 01 2009 14:00 mog87 wrote:
Yea hes 8-2 in his last zvp, but 8 of them were played over a month ago. Beating Stork...isnt exactly the most telling of his zvp skills, and 5 pooling Bisu..meh. His ZvP still isnt great and that fact remains...compounding those other issues makes Jangbi the favorite, no one is saying luxury has 0% chance.


And please enlighten me, because I suck at this game, how this godly player luxury was able to 5 pool an obviously early mech build...because zerg starts his pool at 5, at which point terran hasnt even a barracks. I dunno sounds like you are giving him too credit..especially for a 5 pool. And I dont see how gimmicky builds make one more deserving to advance then a straight up player. Personally, I think if you fool someone, then clearly they can lose, but if you can dictate the game regardless of the opponents awareness then you are more likely to win, as you cant fool the opponent every time. Therefore solid play is more important in the long run.

On March 06 2009 01:00 koreasilver wrote:

Mech builds are very popular on Destination, and are arguably more powerful on Destination than bio builds due to characteristics of the map. Leta has also beaten down Luxury on Destination twice before, both times using tricky wraith builds. He's also used tricky builds vs. different zerg players on Destination as well, so it isn't really a far stretch to say that Luxury was expecting Leta to use some kind of fast tech build in the form of mech or wraiths.

Leta is arguably the more "gimmicky" player when it comes to TvZ than Luxury in ZvT anyway.