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Why is Protoss often considered to be the easiest race to play? As most Protosses have (or rather as every player), I have often after a win been the subject of the losing opponents rage and balance whining. Some of these "discussions" have been about how easy Protoss is to play. After one of these discussions I actually searched for it and it turned out most people on the many SC2 forums in fact do think that it is the easiest race! I cannot, for my life, understand what is so much harder with the other races. I mean, tech switching and almost never having to look at your base as Zerg? Teching as Terran with all of their turtle units and structures? In my opinion, every race has its harder and its aspects of play. To me, the Protoss has always been the micro race as it has a lot of spell casters, that's probably the main reason I play it. Microing blink stalkers, phoenixes and so on. Having to tech quite fast to deal with opponents tier 1 units and microing while macroing is not what I call “easy”. Of the harder things a Zerg has to deal with we have the decision making, whether to make drones or units and such, and Terran has... ummm... umm....... drop… play? no that EZ... banshees? nah, that too… (jk, jk, I bet there are hard things for a Terran as well).
Can anyone please try to get me to understand what is so easy about Protoss? Or is this discussion as pointless and should be as ignored as IdrA’s balance complaints? Am I right in what I’m saying?
With risk of being totally ignored in any SC2 related discussion if someone remembers me, I feel obligated to tell you that I play in Silver league. I’m not a total retard just because of it, though.
This whole thread post is probably a little bit biased as I have mostly played Protoss, not as much Zerg and little-to-none Terran. Please correct me if you think you know better. I’m hardly the most knowing player. ^^ These are just my thoughts.
Hope I haven't messed the whole texted up so you can't understand it  . I'm so eager to post it, lol.
EDIT: Actually, I think I missed out on the part where I was supposed to say what was easy with the Protoss race. This was not supposed to be "WHINE WHINE PEOPLE DON'T THINK MY RACE IS HARD!"
As many of you say, yes the macro might be easier as a protoss with the less diversity in tech and unit compositions. But as I said, the micro is harder, depending on playstyle, of course.
And about Zerg having to be at one more base at all times I think can be fairly discussed. I don't think that it is necessary to be all of the time, but yes, it might be necessary to expand at least a little bit before your opponent. And I'd also like to add from my slightly biased perspective that expanding as zerg isn't quite as risky as with the other races. A zerg can almost instantly after the base is up increase their production. A protoss on 3 bases within 10 mins practically get raped by a zerg on 3 bases at 10 mins. Just saw it on WhiteRa's stream. It's not until later that a protoss or terran get use of their expansion.
And just to make a point concerning the lack of multitasking requirements and map control, I think I can fairly effectively at least in Silver league take map control with phoenixes and which as a harrass unit requires a bit of multi tasking if you're going to macro at the same time, same as with blink stalker micro. As I stated in my original post.
This thread didn't quite turn out as I wanted. :/
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in my opinion, it's because they don't have the ability to move out of their base with small amounts of units to harass very well. we can see much more multi-tasking from terran and zerg players while protoss tend to sit in their base more and just focus on macro.
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Just look at the hotkeys for protoss thats what I would say
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On August 11 2011 05:07 BushidoSnipr wrote:
Just look at the hotkeys for protoss thats what I would say
The hotkeys for all races are incredibly easy in sc2...
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On August 11 2011 05:05 Nible wrote:
Or is this discussion as pointless and should be as ignored as IdrA’s balance complaints?
These discussions devolve into unfruitful flaming where posters beat their chests and talk about how their respective race is the hardest to master, weakest in balance, and most frustrating.
So to answer this question, yes.
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dunno I have a friend who plays zerg who cant spend money for shit and hes been playing zerg since release, he like has only 55 apm
but when he plays Protoss he NEVER floats money and this is him off racing
one of the important aspects of low level (Bronze-Diamond) play is spending money regardless on what it is on usually
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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
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Everybody thinks their race is the hardest/worst, and the race they have the worst winrate against is easiest/best. Move along, nothing to see here.
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Protoss macro is a bit easier, and yes I do play protoss.
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On August 11 2011 05:07 BushidoSnipr wrote:
Just look at the hotkeys for protoss thats what I would say
W? E?
I'm aware you're referring to army hotkeys, but the problem is, no race's top players use hotkeys as much as they could or should. Controlling with the mouse is a pretty race-blind phenomenon.
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Protoss macro is really easy and simple. Yes i play protoss. And units need semiless babysitting. They wont instantly die like zergs and terran. Thats about it
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Yeah... these discussions never get anywhere past balance, claiming players are terrible, and other such things. It would be best to simply look at the mechanics and mixture of each race and determine which you believe to be the easiest to play.
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People will always complain when they lose. That's the only reason.
However, I think you might be underestimating the difficulty of the other races (personally I wouldn't say that there is an "easiest" race, they're just... different).
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it's not the easiest to play... it's easiest to learn. at the low level, chrono boosting after you used it all on warpgate isn't that big of a deal. also, macroing by massing gateways is very viable. looking at zerg, u gotta constantly inject and stay 1 base ahead of opponent. Terran macro is pretty tough too as you just can't mass barracks, group them all and press a. Doesn't work. pressing "w" and massing stalkers does though. From bronze to diamond.
in terms of balance, i think it game is pretty balanced at the moment. nothing is broken to the point a certain race can do nothing against a certain strategy.
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I play random and I also think Protoss is the easiest race to learn and also the "most relaxing" race to play. You don't need as much multitasking to play Protoss.
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Macro is obviously the easiest, there's less ways to flat out die, A-moving is far more successful compared to other races.
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I feel it's that Protoss can field the most effective 200/200 compositions. Thus if neither player makes any strategic decisions, no harass, no map positioning, nothing crazy, the Protoss will most likely win the game. Obviously a game will almost never play out in this way, but people love to exaggerate.
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Pretty much cause of Idra's comments on the matter. Remember when Idra was still relevant to cutting edge play? In all seriousness though it's been around since BW, 1a2a3a and whatnot...
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that's why i play protoss, zerg is way too hard and u can't 1a seige tanks
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