• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EDT 17:07
CEST 23:07
KST 06:07
  • Home
  • Forum
  • Calendar
  • Streams
  • Liquipedia
  • Features
  • Store
  • EPT
  • TL+
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Smash
  • Heroes
  • Counter-Strike
  • Overwatch
  • Liquibet
  • Fantasy StarCraft
  • TLPD
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Blogs
Forum Sidebar
Events/Features
News
Featured News
Serral wins HomeStory Cup 2914Serral wins Maestros of the Game 243ByuL, and the Limitations of Standard Play3Team Liquid Map Contest #22: Results and Winners7Code S Season 2 (2026): RO4 and Finals Preview12
Community News
ZeroSpace Early Access is Now Live!17Weekly Cups (July 13-19): Terran & Protoss rise; Zerg falters2Balance hotfix patch 5.0.16b (July 16)86Reynor: GSL Loss Wasn't About Preparation Format16[IPSL] Spring 2026 Grand Finals - This Weekend!18
StarCraft 2
General
How would you feel about frequent/monthly balance patches for SC2? Balance hotfix patch 5.0.16b (July 16) Clem: "I don't have that much hope in Blizzard" Weekly Cups (July 13-19): Terran & Protoss rise; Zerg falters [D] Wireframe Casting Removed
Tourneys
RSL Revival: Season 6 - Qualifiers and Main Event Master Swan Open (Global Bronze-Master 2) WardiTV Summer Cup 2026 GSL CK #5 Race War HomeStory Cup 29
Strategy
[G] Having the right mentality to improve
Custom Maps
[M] (2) Industrial Park New Map Maker - Looking for Advice - Love or Hate
External Content
Mutation # 535 Assembly of Vengeance The PondCast: SC2 News & Results Mutation # 534 Burning Evacuation Mutation # 533 Die Together
Brood War
General
BW General Discussion BGH Auto Balance -> http://bghmmr.eu/ Animated Gateway HORROR STARCRAFT MOVIE How Famous was FlaSh before his Debut?
Tourneys
[Megathread] Daily Proleagues [IPSL] Spring 2026 Grand Finals - This Weekend! Escore Tournament - Season 3 Small VOD Thread 2.0
Strategy
Simple Questions, Simple Answers PvT advise for noobs Fighting Spirit mining rates Creating a full chart of Zerg builds
Other Games
General Games
Path of Exile General RTS Discussion Thread Diablo IV ZeroSpace Early Access is Now Live! ZeroSpace at Steam NextFest - Last free demo
Dota 2
Looking for a Dota Mentor Official 'what is Dota anymore' discussion
League of Legends
TSM pausing esports and CLG Dead
Heroes of the Storm
Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Deck construction bug
TL Mafia
TL Mafia Power Rank NeO.D_StephenKing vs This Guy From 1 Million Dance TL Mafia Community Thread Vanilla Mini Mafia
Community
General
US Politics Mega-thread Artificial Intelligence Thread Russo-Ukrainian War Thread How to buy a book - shipping from Korea to Europe The Games Industry And ATVI
Fan Clubs
The IdrA Fan Club The HerO Fan Club!
Media & Entertainment
Anime Discussion Thread Series you have seen recently... Movie Discussion! [Req][Books] Good Fantasy/SciFi books
Sports
2024 - 2026 Football Thread TeamLiquid Health and Fitness Initiative For 2023 Formula 1 Discussion MLB/Baseball 2023 McBoner: A hockey love story
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
Computer Build, Upgrade & Buying Resource Thread Simple Questions Simple Answers FPS when play League Of Legend on laptop
TL Community
Northern Ireland Global Starcraft The Automated Ban List
Blogs
Hello guys!
LIN1s
Role of Gaming on Mental Hea…
TrAiDoS
ASL S22 English Commentary…
namkraft
Poker (part 2)
Nebuchad
An Exploration of th…
waywardstrategy
ramps on octagon
StaticNine
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 5445 users

Interview: Quantic.NaNiwa - Page 12

Forum Index > News
289 CommentsPost a Reply
Prev 1 10 11 12 13 14 15 Next All
zanga
Profile Joined September 2011
659 Posts
May 17 2012 00:29 GMT
#221
On May 17 2012 09:18 tskarzyn wrote:
Life on planet Naniwa.
Naniwa's skill level > MVP's
"Super late game" favors Terran.
Zerg imba after ovie patch.
Everyone else is bad, he is good. Oh wait, except Squirtle. Squirtle is the best in the world right now.
Whatever he is smoking, give me double!


Surely you are already smoking something far heavier than anyone else in order to extrapolate and exaggerate expressed opinions in such a way to make them untrue and add statements which was not expressed? o_O
(:
Zdrastochye
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Ivory Coast6262 Posts
May 17 2012 00:59 GMT
#222
Why are people interpreting his words when they're there clear as can be. It's not like a translation from Klingon to English, you have all his answers in clear text. It's like those doing it need to dumb down his speech into something they can comprehend.

Anyways, glad to get pro insight.
Hey! How you doin'?
SecondHand
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
United States329 Posts
May 17 2012 01:00 GMT
#223
On May 17 2012 09:29 zanga wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 17 2012 09:18 tskarzyn wrote:
Life on planet Naniwa.
Naniwa's skill level > MVP's
"Super late game" favors Terran.
Zerg imba after ovie patch.
Everyone else is bad, he is good. Oh wait, except Squirtle. Squirtle is the best in the world right now.
Whatever he is smoking, give me double!


Surely you are already smoking something far heavier than anyone else in order to extrapolate and exaggerate expressed opinions in such a way to make them untrue and add statements which was not expressed? o_O


Naniwa was definitely smoking something during the interview. Mvp beat the best PvT player in the world in Parting, and super late game absolutely favors protoss. I don't know how many games I have watched a terran get a 60 supply advantage and then lose.. But its too many. And the zerg ovie isn't imba, its the queen range thats the problem.. lol
Ladder more, win less
LuckyMacro
Profile Joined July 2010
United States1482 Posts
May 17 2012 01:15 GMT
#224
On May 17 2012 05:56 bananajk wrote:
He stole socks? Let's email his sponsors about it.
It's so funny, I actually read the whole interview in NaNiWa voice without even realising :D
He is just my favourite e-sport personallity.


I lol'd.
I hope he can repeat his recent GSL performance soon.
pOnarreT
Profile Joined March 2012
155 Posts
May 17 2012 01:49 GMT
#225
On May 17 2012 10:00 ILuMiNaTe wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 17 2012 09:29 zanga wrote:
On May 17 2012 09:18 tskarzyn wrote:
Life on planet Naniwa.
Naniwa's skill level > MVP's
"Super late game" favors Terran.
Zerg imba after ovie patch.
Everyone else is bad, he is good. Oh wait, except Squirtle. Squirtle is the best in the world right now.
Whatever he is smoking, give me double!


Surely you are already smoking something far heavier than anyone else in order to extrapolate and exaggerate expressed opinions in such a way to make them untrue and add statements which was not expressed? o_O


Naniwa was definitely smoking something during the interview. Mvp beat the best PvT player in the world in Parting, and super late game absolutely favors protoss. I don't know how many games I have watched a terran get a 60 supply advantage and then lose.. But its too many. And the zerg ovie isn't imba, its the queen range thats the problem.. lol



Leave it to Terrans to start the whine-fest
EAGER-beaver
Profile Joined March 2004
Canada2799 Posts
May 17 2012 01:59 GMT
#226
Great interview, really in depth and honest. I like it also how it branched out into a bunch of other players too.
Simon and Garfunkel rock my face off
hillman
Profile Joined February 2012
United States162 Posts
May 17 2012 02:25 GMT
#227
He seems way more humble after the multiple code a losses....its has done him some good I think, because he is inherently confident, and now he has opened himself up to accepting faults or something...he's going to stick around in GSL with that attitude (I hope at least)...
Dontkillme
Profile Joined November 2011
Korea (South)806 Posts
May 17 2012 02:38 GMT
#228
Always thought he was a dick and shallow, but seems like he's a fun and thoughtful and smart guy Good Job NaNiwa
Bomber & Jaedong & FlaSh & SNSD <3
Trowa127
Profile Joined January 2011
United Kingdom1230 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-05-17 03:17:33
May 17 2012 03:16 GMT
#229
On May 17 2012 09:18 tskarzyn wrote:
Life on planet Naniwa.

Naniwa's skill level > MVP's

"Super late game" favors Terran.

Zerg imba after ovie patch.

Everyone else is bad, he is good. Oh wait, except Squirtle. Squirtle is the best in the world right now.

Whatever he is smoking, give me double!


Why? He backed up everything he said with good arguments. He's probably the best foreign sc2 player in the world and he made it to the ro8 in the GSL, don't you think his opinion carries any weight?

I get the impression people just aren't reading the interview. He clearly explains how much he thinks the mindset part of sc2 plays a very important role. He never says thats a bad thing. He even says Nestea isn't the 'fastest' player, but he has the best gameplay and he respects that.

Seriously guys. Don't browse interviews and post moronic comments, its boring.

And for the record, he says 'super late game.' If a Terran can sack all but 10 of his SCV's, don't you think thats going to be hard to beat, even if Toss is 'imba' late game? Hmmm?
Bling, MC, Snute, HwangSin, Deranging (<3) fan. 'Full name - ESP ORTS' Vote hotbid. Vote ESPORTS.
Sableyeah
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Netherlands2119 Posts
May 17 2012 03:33 GMT
#230
God... took me 20mins to read that, should've been sleeping by now ><
BoA | Sunny | HyunA | ChoA | Hyemi // Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won't see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree and you will miss the entire f0rest - Takuan Soho
-TesteR-
Profile Joined August 2010
Canada1165 Posts
May 17 2012 03:38 GMT
#231
On May 17 2012 12:16 Trowa127 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 17 2012 09:18 tskarzyn wrote:
Life on planet Naniwa.

Naniwa's skill level > MVP's

"Super late game" favors Terran.

Zerg imba after ovie patch.

Everyone else is bad, he is good. Oh wait, except Squirtle. Squirtle is the best in the world right now.

Whatever he is smoking, give me double!


Why? He backed up everything he said with good arguments. He's probably the best foreign sc2 player in the world and he made it to the ro8 in the GSL, don't you think his opinion carries any weight?

I get the impression people just aren't reading the interview. He clearly explains how much he thinks the mindset part of sc2 plays a very important role. He never says thats a bad thing. He even says Nestea isn't the 'fastest' player, but he has the best gameplay and he respects that.

Seriously guys. Don't browse interviews and post moronic comments, its boring.

And for the record, he says 'super late game.' If a Terran can sack all but 10 of his SCV's, don't you think thats going to be hard to beat, even if Toss is 'imba' late game? Hmmm?


Um yes its known by most pros that in super late game when terran has very high ghost count (20+) and 40+ army supply from running on mainly mules, with just scvs for gas, it IS terran favoured without a question.
Trowa127
Profile Joined January 2011
United Kingdom1230 Posts
May 17 2012 04:12 GMT
#232
On May 17 2012 12:38 -TesteR- wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 17 2012 12:16 Trowa127 wrote:
On May 17 2012 09:18 tskarzyn wrote:
Life on planet Naniwa.

Naniwa's skill level > MVP's

"Super late game" favors Terran.

Zerg imba after ovie patch.

Everyone else is bad, he is good. Oh wait, except Squirtle. Squirtle is the best in the world right now.

Whatever he is smoking, give me double!


Why? He backed up everything he said with good arguments. He's probably the best foreign sc2 player in the world and he made it to the ro8 in the GSL, don't you think his opinion carries any weight?

I get the impression people just aren't reading the interview. He clearly explains how much he thinks the mindset part of sc2 plays a very important role. He never says thats a bad thing. He even says Nestea isn't the 'fastest' player, but he has the best gameplay and he respects that.

Seriously guys. Don't browse interviews and post moronic comments, its boring.

And for the record, he says 'super late game.' If a Terran can sack all but 10 of his SCV's, don't you think thats going to be hard to beat, even if Toss is 'imba' late game? Hmmm?


Um yes its known by most pros that in super late game when terran has very high ghost count (20+) and 40+ army supply from running on mainly mules, with just scvs for gas, it IS terran favoured without a question.


I know, read what I said. I'm agreeing with you.
Bling, MC, Snute, HwangSin, Deranging (<3) fan. 'Full name - ESP ORTS' Vote hotbid. Vote ESPORTS.
Pocky52
Profile Joined November 2011
United States463 Posts
May 17 2012 04:35 GMT
#233
Great interview, thanks Naniwa! gl in GSL next season!
Thanks TL and wax as always ^^
ratpac
Profile Joined May 2012
14 Posts
May 17 2012 07:39 GMT
#234
I love that he apologized to the fan. He knows he can trash talk all he wants, but it's almost impossible to pull off trash talking to the fans.
Greenei
Profile Joined November 2011
Germany1754 Posts
May 17 2012 08:20 GMT
#235
only protoss players are good players apparently.
IMBA IMBA IMBA IMBA IMBA IMBA
FATJESUSONABIKE
Profile Joined November 2011
184 Posts
May 17 2012 08:21 GMT
#236
this itw is like, good but like, i feel like he's using 'like' a lot like, it's what links all of his like, sentences together, like.


also mega obvious trolling about terran being better than toss in verylategame
-Exalt-
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States972 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-05-17 08:33:56
May 17 2012 08:33 GMT
#237

I think super-super lategame, Terran is overpowered, when they have planetary fortresses and like 10 SCVs and lots of orbitals and so on, you can’t really win.

That’s like super-late though, like Daybreak 5 bases.

Yeah, once you max and you have like 3-3 against 2-2, then I think it’s advantageous for Protoss, but only for a while, until they sacrifice SCVs and so on. I will say, it’s probably easier to play Terran. Like, it’s very obvious what you have to do: you have to upgrade, expand, do this at that timing, but I think Protoss has more potential.


my thoughts exactly (esp on daybreak). i don't know why terrans complain about late game PvT unless they have horrid army control in which case they should switch races.

and I also agree the overlord speed buff completely negates a lot of timings in PvZ while the queen buff makes it impossible to scout various zerg all ins. it won't break the matchup, but it makes it a lot more one dimensional (where fast 3rd is the only viable option, which zerg can metagame by mass droning).
guccioutlet2012
Profile Joined May 2012
China1 Post
May 17 2012 08:58 GMT
#238
--- Nuked ---
qke
Profile Joined May 2011
Sweden60 Posts
May 17 2012 09:32 GMT
#239
Kungen! Naniwa fighting.
Lazzi
Profile Joined June 2011
Switzerland1923 Posts
May 17 2012 09:43 GMT
#240
Awesome interview Wax and Naniwa!
It always botheres me by how Naniwa is hated by some guy for what he says , just because he's Naniwa. Stephano says way worst thing but it is ok, since he's Stephano...
It's good to be back
Prev 1 10 11 12 13 14 15 Next All
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
Next event in 2h 53m
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft 2
ByuN 643
Railgan 140
ZombieGrub86
StarCraft: Brood War
Calm 2848
Mini 415
ggaemo 157
League of Legends
Doublelift2350
JimRising 90
Counter-Strike
summit1g3680
Coldzera 877
minikerr1
Heroes of the Storm
Liquid`Hasu451
Other Games
tarik_tv8045
Grubby2975
Mlord509
shahzam356
UpATreeSC221
ArmadaUGS141
ToD134
XaKoH 108
JuggernautJason102
Livibee68
Trikslyr50
ODPixel45
OptimusSC22
Organizations
StarCraft 2
Blizzard YouTube
StarCraft: Brood War
BSLTrovo
[ Show 17 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• Hupsaiya 50
• RyuSc2 18
• musti20045 5
• IndyKCrew
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• sooper7s
• intothetv
• Kozan
• LaughNgamezSOOP
• Migwel
StarCraft: Brood War
• iopq 12
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
• BSLYoutube
League of Legends
• TFBlade1010
Other Games
• imaqtpie782
• Shiphtur415
Upcoming Events
OSC
2h 53m
CrankTV Team League
13h 53m
Replay Cast
1d 2h
CrankTV Team League
1d 13h
Big Brain Bouts
1d 18h
Soulspirit vs goblin
TriGGeR vs Bunny
Korean StarCraft League
2 days
Afreeca Starleague
2 days
RSL Revival
2 days
Serral vs SHIN
herO vs Solar
Online Event
2 days
Replay Cast
3 days
[ Show More ]
RSL Revival
3 days
Clem vs ByuN
Rogue vs Lambo
OSC
3 days
WardiTV Weekly
4 days
Sparkling Tuna Cup
5 days
PiGosaur Cup
6 days
The PondCast
6 days
Kung Fu Cup
6 days
Patches Events
6 days
Liquipedia Results

Completed

Proleague 2026-07-21
HSC XXIX
Eternal Conflict S2 E3

Ongoing

CSL 2026 Summer (S21)
KCM Race Survival 2026 Season 3
Proleague 2026-07-22
RSL Revival: Season 6
CranK Gathers Season 4: BW vs SC2 Team League
SCTL 2026 Spring
BLAST Bounty Summer Qual
Stake Ranked Episode 3
XSE Pro League 2026
IEM Cologne Major 2026
Stake Ranked Episode 2
CS Asia Championships 2026
Asian Champions League 2026
IEM Atlanta 2026
PGL Astana 2026

Upcoming

Escore Tournament S3: W4
ASL S22 SEASON OPEN Day 2
Escore Tournament S3: W5
ASL Season 22: Qualifier #1
ASL Season 22: Qualifier #2
CSLAN 4
ASL Season 22
HSC XXX
SC4ALL II: StarCraft II
Kung Fu Cup 2026 Grand Finals
Light Tournament 2026
Eternal Conflict S2 Finale
ESL Pro League Season 24
Stake Ranked Episode 4
Logitech G Connect 2026
SL StarSeries Fall 2026
FISSURE Playground #5
BLAST Open Fall 2026
Esports World Cup 2026
BLAST Bounty Summer 2026
TLPD

1. ByuN
2. TY
3. Dark
4. Solar
5. Stats
6. Nerchio
7. sOs
8. soO
9. INnoVation
10. Elazer
1. Rain
2. Flash
3. EffOrt
4. Last
5. Bisu
6. Soulkey
7. Mini
8. Sharp
Sidebar Settings...

Advertising | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use | Contact Us

Original banner artwork: Jim Warren
The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2026 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.