The herO Fan Club! - Page 9

herO played against YongHwa on King Sejong Station. He did proxy 2-gate in YongHwa's natural but the response was pretty good and eventually herO failed.
CJ Entus still won with a 3:2 score.

herO beat TaeJa 2:0, then lost 0:2 to Terminator in the Winner's Match. Next he played Curious and defeated him in pretty clean style 2:0 eventually advancing from his group on the 2nd place.

herO started with a pretty cool mindgame faking a canon rush in Rogue's natural. He followed it with a Stalker drop harass on the 3rd which did a decent job. Final army was Stalkers and few Sentries with +2 but a big group of Hydras with some Roaches and Zerglings from Rogue was enough to stop it. herO tried to add some Colossus but it was too late and Rogue was already crashing his base.
CJ Entus lost to Jin Air 1:3. It was their first defeat this season and with SKT winning their match, CJ dropped to 2nd place.

herO vs Life [ VoD: 1, 2 ]
herO played very good games versus Life. He had control of the game attacking on the front and constantly dropping Zealots on the back. The fact that Life isn't too good at playing Swarm Host style definitely helped too.
In second game Life kept destroying herO's third base over and over again but Blink Stalkers with some Sentries, Immortal and a Colossus with a +3 were able to eventually destroy the Roach Hydra army. herO took it 2:0 in quite convincing way.

herO vs Stats [ VoD: 1, 2, 3 ]
After that he went into Winner's Match against Stats. In the first game he managed to set up a proxy Pylon in Stats' natural and went for pretty effective Stalker harass. Eventually, he won first set with a Stalker heavy Protoss deathball.
Second game started pretty good but at some point herO started to lose too many Stalkers due to being overaggressive - blinking forward and not getting much of it, blinking into the base right before a Colossus or Immortal pops out and not escaping etc. In the end Stats' deathball was stronger than herO's and he was left with only 3 Colossus.
Third game started well, herO's harass was quite successful, first with some Stalkers, later with beautiful Storm drops, keeping Stats on 2 bases. herO was looking pretty strong and he decided to attack with his Zealot/Immortal/Archon army but Stats' Archon heavy army was well prepared for the attack. The next big battle happened between natural and third of herO, both armies got destroyed but herO barely managed to hold it. He lost many Probes, so with Stats catching up in economy, the only way was attack. Unfortunately, the reinforcements were enough to hold it and eventually herO lost 1:2.

herO vs Life 2 [ VoD: 1, 2 ]
The loss against Stats upset him quite a lot. Going into another match against Life he looked not only nervous but just sad. In the first game on King Sejong Station Life went for a 9-pool while herO opened with Forge. The main entrance to herO's natural was already protected by a cannon by the time Zerglings arrived, so Life decided to attack the ramp with rocks. herO took too long to prepare defence and with only 1 Zealot and Mothership Core, Zerglings broke into natural doing some damage and unpowering all the buildings. herO tried to defend with Probes but every time he cleared the lings, new wave was coming in. Eventually, he lost main nexus and tried to go for 4-gate of 1 base. He did his best with Zealot/Sentry attack but eventually he went too far and Roaches cleaned it up.
In the second game Life went for economical opening with Hatch first and speed lings, while herO started with a fake cannon rush followed by fast Blink. But before the research was done, Life broke into herO's natural with a big group of lings doing a lot of damage and destroying the Artosis Pylon powering all herO's tech and almost all of his gates. Since then the flood just never stopped. When all herO had left was a Stalker and Mothership Core, he took hands of keyboard and just watched the destruction.

herO lost to Life 0:2 and is out of NSSL. I don't think I've ever seen the Smiling Assassin so sad.

Flash went for CC first, while herO opened with Gateway. The Protoss put on some pressure with Blink Stalkers keeping Flash busy, while warping a Dark Shrine and preparing for Dark Templar drop. The mineral lines were already protected with Turrets, so instead herO targeted the Tech Lab, delaying Combat Shield research, and Depots. While DTs kept harassing in Flash' main base, Stalkers delayed the 3rd. In the same time herO could safely take a 3rd of his own and get his usual deathball composition. Eventually, Flash decided move out with his bio/Viking army pulling the SCVs. The Terran attacked herO's 3rd but Storm was already done and herO was able to push it back keeping his Colossus and a decent sized army alive. He chased the remaining Medivacs and Marines ambushing them with a Zealot warp-in and Flash gave up.
Unfortunately, CJ Entus lost to KT Rolster 1:3.