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captainobvious
Profile Joined April 2011
Canada21 Posts
August 10 2011 21:32 GMT
#221
On August 11 2011 06:28 jstar wrote:
Zerg: Hard to learn, easy to master.
Protoss: Easy to learn, hard to master.
Terran: Middle

/thread

Zerg easy to master.. LOLOLOLOL
Chicane
Profile Joined November 2010
United States7875 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-10 21:33:27
August 10 2011 21:33 GMT
#222
Well I play random all the time and I personally find zerg to be the easiest, protoss to be in the middle, and terran to be the hardest. Building a single building per unit I want and just keeping up with injects is very easy. I don't really see why at around a middle level that zerg is said to be difficult because of the macro... you just need to inject and know when to make an army.

Either way, people saying protoss is easy doesn't matter. We have already seen over the past year that zergs just complain about other races because they think their race is the hardest to play. All that really matters is how they play at a higher level, and right now they seem to be relatively close to balanced.

On August 11 2011 06:32 captainobvious wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 11 2011 06:28 jstar wrote:
Zerg: Hard to learn, easy to master.
Protoss: Easy to learn, hard to master.
Terran: Middle

/thread

Zerg easy to master.. LOLOLOLOL


Ya I think saying that any of the races are easy to master is completely false.
Bonham
Profile Joined November 2010
Canada655 Posts
August 10 2011 21:33 GMT
#223
On August 11 2011 06:14 meadbert wrote:
1) Toss requires less APM because you build fewer units.


What? Have you ever played Starcraft 2 before? There's no limit to the size of control groups.
hewley
Profile Joined February 2011
Germany1063 Posts
August 10 2011 21:33 GMT
#224
First off, I am T. I think that every race is equally hard to play at the very high level. The point why so many people think Toss is easy comes from the lower level. Reasons are the relative to other races low required apm, strong cheeses (4gate, but a lot of people also say T is easy because of their various all-ins etc.), warp in mechanic, lack of harass unit, deathball.
At higher level, Protoss is quite hard to play as it is very fragile and doesn't really have some strong macro mechanic (except CB and late game 20gate instant warp-in).
Esports bubble pop, bubble pop
meadbert
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States681 Posts
August 10 2011 21:34 GMT
#225
On August 11 2011 06:19 tsarnicky wrote:

IMO the bottomline is with toss you can learn 1 cheesy strat and perfect it and probably get to masters:
\
Where are these threads? I know of no cheesy strats that Toss can abuse to Masters.
I have seen the 6/7 pool threads.
I have seen the Marine/SCV all in thread.

I have seen no threads describing master's level protoss cheese that works against T/Z? The only way to cheese at master's level is against other toss where you can either Korean 4 Gate or Cannon rush.

JamesJohansen
Profile Joined September 2010
United States213 Posts
August 10 2011 21:35 GMT
#226
What? In SC1 it was definitely infuriating that the protoss were so fucking easy especially if you were terran and had to click your ass off to be on par. Or were zerg and fuck up once to see your expensice critters turn to blood from one godamn reaver/storm.

But in SC2 I think there is far less of a gap between the races. FAR LESS. The only easier part in my humble Gold Level opinion is spending. When I'm protoss its far easier to not float on minerals (I main zerg). And this is made up for by the many other difficulties that accompany the race
DannyJ
Profile Joined March 2010
United States5110 Posts
August 10 2011 21:35 GMT
#227
On August 11 2011 06:32 captainobvious wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 11 2011 06:28 jstar wrote:
Zerg: Hard to learn, easy to master.
Protoss: Easy to learn, hard to master.
Terran: Middle

/thread

Zerg easy to master.. LOLOLOLOL


Anyone can be nestea once they just get over the learning curve!!!
Sc1pio
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States823 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-10 21:37:19
August 10 2011 21:36 GMT
#228
On August 11 2011 06:34 meadbert wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 11 2011 06:19 tsarnicky wrote:

IMO the bottomline is with toss you can learn 1 cheesy strat and perfect it and probably get to masters:
\
Where are these threads? I know of no cheesy strats that Toss can abuse to Masters.
I have seen the 6/7 pool threads.
I have seen the Marine/SCV all in thread.

I have seen no threads describing master's level protoss cheese that works against T/Z? The only way to cheese at master's level is against other toss where you can either Korean 4 Gate or Cannon rush.



4gate vs. P and 6gate vs. T/Z?

EDIT: Most people are going to say purely 4gate against all races but 6gate is stronger and not that much more difficult to execute.
"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's there are few. " -Shunro Suzuki | fortuna fortes adiuvat
aderum
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Sweden1459 Posts
August 10 2011 21:37 GMT
#229
Unless someone has mastered all the races, in recent patches, its fucking worthless to have a discussion about which race is hardest to master right now. geeeez
Crazy people dont sit around and wonder if they are insane
wei2coolman
Profile Joined November 2010
United States60033 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-10 21:38:13
August 10 2011 21:38 GMT
#230
Press "w" "s" click, repeat, "s" click", until warpgates are on cooldown.

This is why.
liftlift > tsm
meadbert
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States681 Posts
August 10 2011 21:38 GMT
#231
On August 11 2011 06:36 Sc1pio wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 11 2011 06:34 meadbert wrote:
On August 11 2011 06:19 tsarnicky wrote:

IMO the bottomline is with toss you can learn 1 cheesy strat and perfect it and probably get to masters:
\
Where are these threads? I know of no cheesy strats that Toss can abuse to Masters.
I have seen the 6/7 pool threads.
I have seen the Marine/SCV all in thread.

I have seen no threads describing master's level protoss cheese that works against T/Z? The only way to cheese at master's level is against other toss where you can either Korean 4 Gate or Cannon rush.



4gate vs. P and 6gate vs. T/Z?

EDIT: Most people are going to say purely 4gate against all races but 6gate is stronger and not that much more difficult to execute.

So now 2 base timing attacks are cheese?
wei2coolman
Profile Joined November 2010
United States60033 Posts
August 10 2011 21:38 GMT
#232
On August 11 2011 06:38 meadbert wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 11 2011 06:36 Sc1pio wrote:
On August 11 2011 06:34 meadbert wrote:
On August 11 2011 06:19 tsarnicky wrote:

IMO the bottomline is with toss you can learn 1 cheesy strat and perfect it and probably get to masters:
\
Where are these threads? I know of no cheesy strats that Toss can abuse to Masters.
I have seen the 6/7 pool threads.
I have seen the Marine/SCV all in thread.

I have seen no threads describing master's level protoss cheese that works against T/Z? The only way to cheese at master's level is against other toss where you can either Korean 4 Gate or Cannon rush.



4gate vs. P and 6gate vs. T/Z?

EDIT: Most people are going to say purely 4gate against all races but 6gate is stronger and not that much more difficult to execute.

So now 2 base timing attacks are cheese?


Isn't 6gate considered all-in? Not just a timing attack...
liftlift > tsm
Sc1pio
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States823 Posts
August 10 2011 21:38 GMT
#233
On August 11 2011 06:38 meadbert wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 11 2011 06:36 Sc1pio wrote:
On August 11 2011 06:34 meadbert wrote:
On August 11 2011 06:19 tsarnicky wrote:

IMO the bottomline is with toss you can learn 1 cheesy strat and perfect it and probably get to masters:
\
Where are these threads? I know of no cheesy strats that Toss can abuse to Masters.
I have seen the 6/7 pool threads.
I have seen the Marine/SCV all in thread.

I have seen no threads describing master's level protoss cheese that works against T/Z? The only way to cheese at master's level is against other toss where you can either Korean 4 Gate or Cannon rush.



4gate vs. P and 6gate vs. T/Z?

EDIT: Most people are going to say purely 4gate against all races but 6gate is stronger and not that much more difficult to execute.

So now 2 base timing attacks are cheese?


I disagree that's it's cheese but it's slightly abusive and you can use it to get to masters rather easily.
"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's there are few. " -Shunro Suzuki | fortuna fortes adiuvat
aderum
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Sweden1459 Posts
August 10 2011 21:39 GMT
#234
On August 11 2011 06:36 Sc1pio wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 11 2011 06:34 meadbert wrote:
On August 11 2011 06:19 tsarnicky wrote:

IMO the bottomline is with toss you can learn 1 cheesy strat and perfect it and probably get to masters:
\
Where are these threads? I know of no cheesy strats that Toss can abuse to Masters.
I have seen the 6/7 pool threads.
I have seen the Marine/SCV all in thread.

I have seen no threads describing master's level protoss cheese that works against T/Z? The only way to cheese at master's level is against other toss where you can either Korean 4 Gate or Cannon rush.



4gate vs. P and 6gate vs. T/Z?

EDIT: Most people are going to say purely 4gate against all races but 6gate is stronger and not that much more difficult to execute.



4 gate wont win you a single game against a good zerg/terran. nor will a 6gate, both races have figured out a long time ago how to hold that.

+2wep 7 blinkstalkers is a much better "cheese" if we are talking cheeses, but thats mostly against zerg..
Crazy people dont sit around and wonder if they are insane
MenSol[ZerO]
Profile Joined January 2010
Canada1134 Posts
August 10 2011 21:40 GMT
#235
On August 11 2011 06:38 wei2coolman wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 11 2011 06:38 meadbert wrote:
On August 11 2011 06:36 Sc1pio wrote:
On August 11 2011 06:34 meadbert wrote:
On August 11 2011 06:19 tsarnicky wrote:

IMO the bottomline is with toss you can learn 1 cheesy strat and perfect it and probably get to masters:
\
Where are these threads? I know of no cheesy strats that Toss can abuse to Masters.
I have seen the 6/7 pool threads.
I have seen the Marine/SCV all in thread.

I have seen no threads describing master's level protoss cheese that works against T/Z? The only way to cheese at master's level is against other toss where you can either Korean 4 Gate or Cannon rush.



4gate vs. P and 6gate vs. T/Z?

EDIT: Most people are going to say purely 4gate against all races but 6gate is stronger and not that much more difficult to execute.

So now 2 base timing attacks are cheese?


Isn't 6gate considered all-in? Not just a timing attack...


almost no 2 base attacks are all in as long as you do damage, it is a timing attack

"all in" overused and has lost its meaning
Prime/MarineKing!!! www.twitter.com/DayTripperSC
Techno
Profile Joined June 2010
1900 Posts
August 10 2011 21:40 GMT
#236
On August 11 2011 05:10 Lewan72 wrote:
I hate it when people say Protoss is 1a move attack win. Protoss requires the MOST micro out of any race. If anything ZERG is a 1a move attack win race (not trying to diss on zerg, zerg is still hard and you have to macro very good). And then they say Protoss is then OP when we have the lowest winrate.
Yay

Storm vs EMP/Stim/Kiting.

I'd take storm any day.
Hell, its awesome to LOSE to nukes!
aderum
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Sweden1459 Posts
August 10 2011 21:41 GMT
#237
On August 11 2011 06:38 wei2coolman wrote:
Press "w" "s" click, repeat, "s" click", until warpgates are on cooldown.

This is why.


and this is harder than pressing "5" "s" "rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr" ?
Crazy people dont sit around and wonder if they are insane
lcl
Profile Joined December 2010
United Kingdom119 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-10 21:41:54
August 10 2011 21:41 GMT
#238
you cant 2 base cheese...if you had time to make a nexus and 6 gates then your opponent had time to scout it.

It has to be a timing attack - only idra talks about 2 base and 3 base all ins ^_^
The more I practise the more luck I seem to have
wei2coolman
Profile Joined November 2010
United States60033 Posts
August 10 2011 21:41 GMT
#239
On August 11 2011 06:40 MenSol[ZerO] wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 11 2011 06:38 wei2coolman wrote:
On August 11 2011 06:38 meadbert wrote:
On August 11 2011 06:36 Sc1pio wrote:
On August 11 2011 06:34 meadbert wrote:
On August 11 2011 06:19 tsarnicky wrote:

IMO the bottomline is with toss you can learn 1 cheesy strat and perfect it and probably get to masters:
\
Where are these threads? I know of no cheesy strats that Toss can abuse to Masters.
I have seen the 6/7 pool threads.
I have seen the Marine/SCV all in thread.

I have seen no threads describing master's level protoss cheese that works against T/Z? The only way to cheese at master's level is against other toss where you can either Korean 4 Gate or Cannon rush.



4gate vs. P and 6gate vs. T/Z?

EDIT: Most people are going to say purely 4gate against all races but 6gate is stronger and not that much more difficult to execute.

So now 2 base timing attacks are cheese?


Isn't 6gate considered all-in? Not just a timing attack...


almost no 2 base attacks are all in as long as you do damage, it is a timing attack

"all in" overused and has lost its meaning


That's like saying a 6 pool is a timing attack, because if you do enough damage you can work your way back into the game, despite not winning the fight.
liftlift > tsm
Fenrisulf
Profile Joined August 2010
United States325 Posts
August 10 2011 21:41 GMT
#240
So many people in this thread are commenting about a move deathball = no micro.....so since when do colossi start coming out of gateways? The a move death ball can't be made until late game and in early mid game Protoss is the most micro intensive race by far. Ever try a moving stalkers into mm? With FF and blink micro IMO Protoss needs the most micro to just stay alive in early mid game.

Also I find Protoss to be least forgiving in terms of losing the game from 1 mistake, if you lose map awareness for just a moment and let a drop happen or let an emp go off or miss a FF or let an enemy army run up into your face, it's GG right there and then. Seriously,without constant vigilance, any dropship that unloads in your base will almost always be more cost efficient than whatever you send to kill it and it often cripples you right there.
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