EPTMarineKingPrime.WE interview at thisisgame.com - Page 8
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Glaven
Canada554 Posts
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Loophole
United States867 Posts
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Champi
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Phtes
United States370 Posts
Ending the game with SCVs and marines isnt a show of skill. Its what people do to hide their lack of skill. If you were a progamer who practiced the ins and outs of the game everyday and were actually good, why would you want to play like that? The point of playing standard macro games is that you are given more opportunities to outplay your opponent. Why do you think people would prefer to throw marines and scvs at Idra rather outplay and make better decisions than him? Because theyre worse than him and they know it. Jinro plays standard because Jinro doesnt need to rely on 5 minute gimmicks to beat Idra. Stop trying to justify this terrible way of playing. The fact that Foxer was almost crowned the best SC2 player in the world a few months ago is nothing short of a joke. If hes trying to branch out and actually play good games, then good for him. 1. 90% of MKP's games are 1-2rax FE, sometimes expoing before even a zerg player. 2. Jinro vs Idra go look at the unit comp 80% marine 15% tank 5% thor. MKP vs Zerg 80% Marine, 10% Marauder, and lately 70% marine 30% tank. Same core unit just different combinations, Jinro Prefers the slow turtle push composition, MKP prefers the expand on aggression comps and can support this with incredible micro. 3. Almost every game in GSL 3 / 4 from MKP have now involved higher tier units, be it medivacs, tanks, etc. In GSL 4 hes even been doing alot of tank, viking builds. 4. The original standard for TvZ was win fast or gg, MKP found a cost effective way to be on equal macro terms with a zerg and army trade cost effectively. Not the previously accepted build a 200/200 army into doom push and gg if you dont kill his main base. Or the just all in and end it fast. 5. MKP's Marine play turned into the standard for all TvZ's eventually evolving into tank/marine +late game thor, the now accepted playstyle. The play style every terran except for maybe a few all derived from MKP's cost effective form of fighting a zerg, the tanks were originally added in cause not everyone can split 50 marines in 10 different directions within 1game second like him. Calling his playstyle terrible is calling every pro terrans play style terrible. | ||
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CooDu
Australia899 Posts
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Xswordy
United Kingdom425 Posts
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Dubes
United States327 Posts
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cuppatea
United Kingdom1401 Posts
On January 17 2011 12:06 Dubes wrote: Before this interview I hated MKP just for taking my favorite players out of the GSL, but now I really like him! What a down to earth, kind, and generous member of the community. Giving his winnings to his parents says mountains about him. It doesn't really say anything about him, "I'm giving the money to my parents" is the standard Korean response to that question. | ||
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Turgid
United States1623 Posts
MVP also started splitting marines in GSL first(though it was also in GSL2). Nevertheless, MKP is an excellent Terran. I think you'd be crazy to look at his skills - respectable macro, respectable sense of timing, excellent micro - and think "yeah, there's no way this guy knows how to siege a tank" or something like that. I'd be shocked to learn that he couldn't competently execute the vast majority of the Terran strategies that are popular right now. | ||
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Kamais_Ookin
Canada4218 Posts
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Brett
Australia3822 Posts
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Entr0py
Germany11 Posts
What are your thoughts about rumors of a possible marine nerf? What? Am I the only one who noticed that? Does anyone know where that rumor came from? | ||
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Paradice
New Zealand431 Posts
On January 17 2011 14:52 Entr0py wrote: What? Am I the only one who noticed that? Does anyone know where that rumor came from? I'm guessing it's a reference to Blizzard repeatedly saying they're worried about stim marine DPS being too high, which IIRC dates way back to Blizzcon, where it was talked about primarily in relation to TvP early game. | ||
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Dakkas
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arnold(soTa)
Sweden352 Posts
I like him but he is wrong about foreigners only caring about quality of games, we care about sportsmanship and such also. atleast I do. what I like the most is when people can take a group of units no1 else could do shit with and then destroying worlds with them, like marineking does with marines. respect and good luck to him | ||
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frumpylumps
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iEchoic
United States1776 Posts
I personally believe that either Foxer or NaDa will be the first to win a GSL. MVP may as well, although I think it's a bit less likely. Good interview, humble responses, seems like a smart guy. | ||
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iDope
Saudi Arabia223 Posts
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PheNOM_
United States417 Posts
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CounteR
New Zealand103 Posts
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