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On March 08 2013 06:59 TeamLiquid ESPORTS wrote:

Kingdom Come

Rumors of LG-IM_Mvp's demise have been greatly exaggerated. The King of Wings may have ended his WoL career with an ignominious banishment to Code B, but he started his HotS career strong by going 5 - 0 in his group at the IEM World Championship. Mvp's early elimination from the GSL may actually have been a boon heading into the new era of HotS, as he looked well versed in the new strategies and tactics. Afterburner medivacs only served to make Mvp's harassment favoring style more powerful, while he deployed widow mines effectively to both control space and win straight up battles.


As Mvp's 10 - 2 map score demonstrates, he was rarely troubled in the group. The player who put up the best fight against him was Dream, the talented young Terran from Team MVP who ended up finishing in second place. Like Mvp, Dream had a relatively long amount of time to prepare for HotS, and was also able to effectively utilize the new units and abilities to make short work of the other players in the group.

The first game in their series (VOD) was a great example of how HotS TvT might play out between two skilled players, as widow mines added a new dimension to the early game harassment wars. Eventually the game stabilized into a macro battle, and Mvp didn't hesitate to go for his trademark mech play, now bolstered by battle hellions and widow mines. While Dream was able to stay even with Mvp's mech using a bio-tank composition, he found himself caught off guard by another signature Mvp tactic. Mvp transitioned into battlecruisers without tipping Dream off, and abused his opponent's lack of anti-air to take an impressive victory.

Mvp fell in game two when Dream simply out-microed and out-multitasked him in the early game, but hit back in the deciding game with early aggression of his own. Mvp's proxy starport, marine-hellion drop build was a classic from the WoL days, but the afterburner ability meant that no silly vikings were going to deny the constant ferrying of units into his opponent's main. Mvp took a game deciding lead, and safely rolled it into a victory in the mid-game.

Against Mvp, Stephano found himself getting cut apart by widow mines and drops, and was unable to make sufficient adjustments before losing 0 - 2.

HotS Notes

Another day, another set of reflections on HotS.

• Mvp played some TvZ games where he almost entirely replaced tanks with widow mines, while Dream played more old school, maintaining tanks as an important part of his composition.
  

On March 08 2013 06:59 TeamLiquid ESPORTS wrote:

Ro12 Bracket Preview


LG-IM_Mvp vs. Acer.Nerchio or mouz.MaNa

In the end, MaNa vs. Nerchio might end up being just a formality, as the winner faces Mvp. Mvp looked barely concerned as he destroyed his Ro24 group, and it would be a surprise if Nerchio or MaNa became the first players to give him any real trouble. For what it's worth, MaNa and Nerchio did manage to defeat their Terran opponents in the Ro24, so they can't be too easily overlooked.

On March 08 2013 08:52 Luepert wrote:
Holy God Entirety, I know you are like the biggest Mvp fan but how did you get his freaking blood type? lol

On March 08 2013 09:36 blackone wrote:
No, not really. In Korea (and Japan) it's a very common belief that your blood type heavily influences your character and personality. It's basically just a part of someones personal information, it`s shown on facebook and other social media (dating websites etc.) and the blood types of celebrities are known and talked about.

On March 08 2013 13:36 Popkiller wrote:
does any one have any information on his wrists/treatment? I don't have any hard facts, but based on his performance and the chatter I heard, I'm theorizing that sometime around the very end of 2012 he had surgery and spent time recovering and slowly transitioning to HotS.

He's looking pretty good now, I have a feeling he will keep it up.

On March 08 2013 13:36 Popkiller wrote:
does any one have any information on his wrists/treatment? I don't have any hard facts, but based on his performance and the chatter I heard, I'm theorizing that sometime around the very end of 2012 he had surgery and spent time recovering and slowly transitioning to HotS.

He's looking pretty good now, I have a feeling he will keep it up.