I feel much less pressure as the aggressor, but it just so happens as Zerg that it takes awhile to get to that point. When I'm flying around with a flock of mutas It feels great because I have some control over the game. When I'm sitting there waiting to be attacked it's nothing but stressful.

scarper65

1560 Posts

March 12 2012 03:50 GMT

#23

Zerg

CrazyF1r3f0x

United States2120 Posts

March 12 2012 03:51 GMT

#24

That's highly situational and changes on a person to person basis, i don't think there is and easy answer.

K3Nyy

United States1961 Posts

March 12 2012 03:53 GMT

#25

Depends on the matchup and the time in the matchup in my opinion.

Like for example, I feel extremely comfortable in TvP for the early/mid game but when it comes down to late game, it can be pretty stressful. Whereas in PvT, I'll feel stressed out trying to get the tech and upgrades out while not dying and then lategame feel extremely comfortable with mass gateways and the deathball.

Roope

United States5 Posts

March 12 2012 03:53 GMT

#26

I honestly can't believe you made this statement: "IMHO it's because Protoss focuses a bit more on "single" unit micro and you know if you mess up once (any mistake, such as mis-micro in a battle, miss forcefields etc) you simply lose. Whereas if you're playing Zerg or Terran you can lose battles, trade armies etc, as well as having the superior scouting with Z/T will obviously decrease stress."

FrostedMiniWheats

United States30730 Posts

March 12 2012 03:53 GMT

#27

Zerg ofc, other races are supposed to pressure us and our mirror has to be the most stressful thing in the game xD

It may sound like I'm complaining, but honestly, it's one of the main appeals about playing the race. There's a lot of excitement with zerg imho

Drowsy

United States4876 Posts

March 12 2012 03:55 GMT

#28

Definitely zerg.... there's just more of an "omgomgomg he could move out and kill me, I need to change my gameplan" feeling. Protoss in the middle, and terran can do whatever the fuck they want and never have to worry about anything.

idonthinksobro

3138 Posts

March 12 2012 03:56 GMT

#29

zerg of course, all you do as a zerg on a "diamond - low master level" is defending cheese and allins every single game. You get a macro game like every 20 games.

jhlee820

149 Posts

March 12 2012 03:56 GMT

#30

I play both toss and zerg and I have to say I feel a lot more pressure as zerg. Always felt more vulnerable and prone to all-ins as zerg but then again, it doesn't help that I played extremely passively and just defended until my opponent dried out.

bokchoi

Korea (South)9498 Posts

March 12 2012 03:57 GMT

#31

External or Internal?

External? Zerg
Internal? As Jinro said your better race or your "serious" race

DeLoReAn

United States81 Posts

March 12 2012 03:58 GMT

#32

yea. Jinro is right, whatever race you are best at!

Berailfor

441 Posts

March 12 2012 04:05 GMT

#33

I feel like Zerg experiences the most anxiety. Not because of any particular thing in game. I just get the most rage from them haha.

SeventhPride

712 Posts

March 12 2012 04:10 GMT

#34

On March 12 2012 13:05 Berailfor wrote:
I feel like Zerg experiences the most anxiety. Not because of any particular thing in game. I just get the most rage from them haha.

its because when you are zerg, when you get cheesed by cheese which you couldn't scout you feel so helpless. Its pretty rage inducing, been training myself to say GG with a

everytime but I can't stop myself from saying rude stuff after that lol.

Playguuu

United States926 Posts

March 12 2012 04:11 GMT

#35

Zerg because you never really feel as though you have a solid control of the game unless you live past 15 minutes and anytime before that you feel like you could die at any moment. At least that's my feeling, because the other races have to kill you quickly.

MementoMori

Canada419 Posts

March 12 2012 04:14 GMT

#36

Even if the game was 100% balanced in terms of win rate I still feel the answer has to be zerg. Terran I also think has a cause to be nervous if the game starts to head towards late game territory against zerg. The pressure's felt in different ways though. For zerg it's that it can sometimes be hard to know what's coming at you and if you make drones at the wrong time it can be an instant loss. Can be stressful! But for terran, they have to do dmg to zerg now in the early-mid game or it can start to be extremely difficult. So they feel pressure to do enough damage before the game drags on too much. Just my opinion! Could even include Toss vs 1-1-1 haha

Outrageouss

United States15 Posts

March 12 2012 04:15 GMT

#37

While I voted zerg, i really dont think any race really is more stressful than any other- it all depends on the person playing. If you are in a comfortable position as zerg, youre playing less stressfully than say, a protoss who needs to forcefield his ramp at the precise time to avoid losing to an all-in.

zEnVy

United States446 Posts

March 12 2012 04:17 GMT

#38

I play all three races at relatively the same level.

For me it's zerg. You just get endlessly cheesed on the ladder, so it's constant worrying about which cheese is happening. The ability of terran and protoss to easily wall in and deny scouting so so god damned annoying. If I make one building and not the other or one unit and not the other I auto lose.

Not to mention mid game ZvP is god damned impossible. Until you get to Broodlords the best you can do is go mass muta and hope for the base trade.

-Exalt-

United States972 Posts

March 12 2012 04:18 GMT

#39

On March 12 2012 12:38 Liquid`Jinro wrote:
Whatever race you are better at.....

well as I said it's not about ladder rank ;p. so yeah I may be on a smurf or whatever when I'm off racing but merely based off of how the game works was how I based my opinion in the OP.

I'm confident if I was as good as I was with Terran or Zerg as I am with P, I would be a bit more relaxed. If you just look at the T/Z matchups compared to Protoss matchups, a lot it is about "trading armies" for T/Z, whereas Protoss can't trade armies 90% of the time and it makes every game much more fragile. (ie, terran moves out vs zerg and knows that he may lose his army, but if he does damage it's ok. in PvZ though, you move out and lose your whole army, even if you kill a hatch or two, it's GG.)

xlava

United States676 Posts

March 12 2012 04:19 GMT

#40

Zerg honestly. One wrong interpretation or mis-scout and you basically auto lose.

I play Protoss btw.