The IdrA Fan Club - Page 1859

On March 14 2012 06:59 zodde wrote:
He could just wait until the transition to HotS with switching race. There should be plenty of time to learn a new race at least decently while the other pros are still learning all the new tactics.

Or he could switch now and aim to be on par with the others for the release of HotS.

Both works I guess.

On March 14 2012 08:04 Forikorder wrote:

no learning teh strategys doesnt take a long time you jsut have to check some replays and copy them until you get a feel for it

the real thing he would be behind on is stuff like scanning, knowing when to mule, stutterstep, siege tank positioning, dropping e.t.c all the stuff tha tpros spend all there time trying to master

basically he doesnt want to switch because it would take too long to master the mechanics more then the strategy

On March 14 2012 09:06 zodde wrote:


The game will be totally different when HotS is out, you can't just copy builds and strategies when no one has figured out the best way to play the new game yet.

People (other pros) having to figure out all the new things gives IdrA some time to learn the mechanics of a new race.

On March 14 2012 09:30 Forikorder wrote:

right there will be new startegys to learn but theres no difference between learning mechanics now and learning the mechanics later it would still take the same amount of master the mechanics if he started right now then if he started when HoTS comes out and learning the strats would take longer when HoTS comes out since there will be so MANY strategys popping out and so many iterations of them

On March 14 2012 10:14 zodde wrote:


Missing my point there. I'm thinking that if he switched to terran just before/just after HotS is released, he wouldn't be the only one not playing to his full potential. The other pros are trying out strats and builds, he's learning a new race. He will still be behind the others, but there will be a window where no one can really be expected to do that well because they're simply playing a new game. Why not use that oppurtunity to switch race as well?

Also, people have switched races before with atleast some success, for example Morrow.

I think he should go for it. If he really wants to play terran rather than zerg, just switch asap instead of waiting a few more years to when it definitely won't be possible.

On March 14 2012 09:13 AgentChaos wrote:
i really think he should switch back to terran

On March 14 2012 10:19 Forikorder wrote:

its funny you use Morrow as an example since he doesnt paly ZvZ, he didnt really switch races he jsut started playing ZvP instead of TvP and stopped playing TvT

there is no safe spot for IdrA to switch races and noone really notice, theres so many events going on that hed have to skip tournaments for awhile in order to actually get his terran to a level that would matter tournys arent gonna stop jsut becuase HoTS is comming out theres gonna be tournys ight up will the release date and right after and probably some during

even if he switchs when HoTS comes out, hell be way far behind everyone else, becuase theyll look at the top Terrans and say "well this strat isnt the best but then noone has the best strat yet but his mechanics are solid" then therell be IdrA who itll be "well his strat isnt the best but noone has the best yet but its his mechanics that are killing him"

On March 14 2012 14:09 ThePlayer33 wrote:
but...but.... he has self respect!

On March 14 2012 16:23 idonthinksobro wrote:
isn't zerg doing really well in korea nowadays?
i wonder if he still considers a switch, his reasoning always was he doesn't want to play zerg because protoss is op but the latest figures show ~60/40 wlr in ZvP in favor of zerg in korea. And two of the best zerg players seem unstopable nowadays (stephano and drg), i am pretty sure idra could be up there too. I don't really know why he isn't really, his mechanics and game knowledge seems to be really good, he is also aware of the current metagame and knows many of his opponents really well(his casts at iem were amazing).