EPTWhich race feels the most pressure while playing? - Page 3
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DannyJ
United States5110 Posts
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SafeAsCheese
United States4924 Posts
Terran doesn't have a deathball, they HAVE to get shit done in the first 20 minutes of the game. Late game TvX is hard even for professionals. You either hit EMPs on infestors and HT or your army melts in about 10 seconds. | ||
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Falconblade
United States1035 Posts
On March 12 2012 13:18 AegiS_ wrote: 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.) But the Protoss army is pretty damn strong, And while storm v Terran kills, our emp does dmg, but doesn't kill. And tbh, Protoss can lose an engagement and be fine since they can mass warp in. A terran loses his army near his main base, and its game over or near there versus a good player, same for zerg, as Toss just pushes through while we are still trying to rebuild. A toss loses an army? Warp in units, clean it up, stabilize. Sure army trading means you've wasted alot of resources as Toss, but you have one of the best safety nets in the game in the form of the warp in. I think that's more of a recognizing the playstyle of the race, as opposed to stress. | ||
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ZiegFeld
351 Posts
TvP, TvZ. You got 15 minutes to win, or be close to winning. If not, you flat out lose. GLHF! *edit On March 12 2012 13:23 SafeAsCheese wrote: As a Zerg, I would say terran. Terran doesn't have a deathball, they HAVE to get shit done in the first 20 minutes of the game. Late game TvX is hard even for professionals. You either hit EMPs on infestors and HT or your army melts in about 10 seconds. This guy has the right idea. TvZ is actually okay, because the micro isn't THAT outrageously demanding. TvP is crazy. | ||
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SeventhPride
712 Posts
On March 12 2012 13:18 AegiS_ wrote: 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.) The problem is, how can zerg EVER kill your whole army? The only composition I can think of is brood lord infestor and archon toilet roll over it. And if you kill 2 hatch, that's larvae gone, if a zerg is on 2 base, he will be down to 1 hatch if he threw down a macro hatch, if he is on 4 base, he will be down to 3 hatch. A zerg will never out produce a protoss if he is on equal bases. And I am confident if I was as good as I was with protoss as my zerg, I will be a pro gamer. just quoting what you said in the same context. | ||
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blade55555
United States17423 Posts
On March 12 2012 13:31 ZiegFeld wrote: Terran TvP, TvZ. You got 15 minutes to win, or be close to winning. If not, you flat out lose. GLHF! oh how wrong this statement is rofl | ||
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sc14s
United States5052 Posts
On March 12 2012 12:38 Liquid`Jinro wrote: Whatever race you are better at..... that doesn't even make any sense if you are better at it then you are more confident thus being less stressed. | ||
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PowerDes
United States520 Posts
On the most pressure to least pressure scale. (I play random) | ||
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TheButtonmen
Canada1403 Posts
 Not really sure there's really an answer to this as everyone is going to be biased towards the race they've spent the most time playing. | ||
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ZiegFeld
351 Posts
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mastergriggy
United States1312 Posts
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TigerKarl
1757 Posts
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NKexquisite
United States911 Posts
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Goibon
New Zealand8185 Posts
On March 12 2012 13:32 sc14s wrote: that doesn't even make any sense if you are better at it then you are more confident thus being less stressed. The idea is expectation should be higher. If you're playing a race you suck at there's no pressure since if you lose it's not a big deal. But when you're playing the race you're actually good at, and have put all the effort into, shit gets real. The confidence thing i think success breeds confidence, so you need to already be on the top of your game to actually be confident. Few can probably claim that especially in SC2 since its still volatile. Same idea with sportz when a team is playing a game but they're already out of contention for the finals (ignore draft picks for low finishes and relegations etc). In these kinds of games teams often perform really well since the pressure is off and they have more fun with less stress. It's a weird situation for sure. | ||
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Berailfor
441 Posts
On March 12 2012 13:32 sc14s wrote: that doesn't even make any sense if you are better at it then you are more confident thus being less stressed. Your statement is semi-correct. They will be more confident. But what if your extremely confident and then you lose? Don't you think that would be more stressful then if you half-expected to lose and then you lost? Don't bash someone else's post saying it doesn't make sense when if you think it through you will know that it does. The more confidence, the bigger the letdown due to mistakes | ||
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Sylailene
91 Posts
I guess to answer your question its protoss... because i play it, just like everyone else will say | ||
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Perseverance
Japan2800 Posts
Not a day goes by where I don't think about switching to protoss... le sigh | ||
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sc14s
United States5052 Posts
On March 12 2012 13:46 Berailfor wrote: Your statement is semi-correct. They will be more confident. But what if your extremely confident and then you lose? Don't you think that would be more stressful then if you half-expected to lose and then you lost? Don't bash someone else's post saying it doesn't make sense when if you think it through you will know that it does. The more confidence, the bigger the letdown due to mistakes i wasn't bashing, more to the point it should be explained more thoroughly imo (obviously his post not the ones where you explained it) | ||
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sc14s
United States5052 Posts
On March 12 2012 13:47 Perseverance wrote: Zerg...trust me, it sucks. Not a day goes by where I don't think about switching to protoss... le sigh way ahead of you on that front xD switched like 6 months ago ^.~ | ||
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idonthinksobro
3138 Posts
On March 12 2012 13:39 NKexquisite wrote: I fail to see how Protoss has the worst scouting abilities... Unless the person spends 2k minerals making 20 turrets or spores? # if you open up any standard build you will have observers early enough to see the whole army of your opponent if you don't have your observers on patrol or moving they also usually don't die. Zerg and Terran also usually never really get mobile detection unless they scout dt or expect dt. | ||
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