On June 06 2012 13:23 OPL3SA2 wrote: In the past 17 GSTL games, the only player to win has been a zerg. If a zerg has lost, it has been to another zerg. Say what you want about the reactored hellion build that has been effectively removed from sensical build orders, it at least gave zerg something to think about in regards to positioning and defense. Most of the zergs I play on the ladder (I am a 1200 point rank 1 masters) do not even bother to get zerglings in the beginning of the game, opting instead for standard 4 queens and maybe 1 spine crawler. You can't stop overlords from getting into key positions early game (cloud kingdom and korhal compound for example) and without even drone scouting, they can see you are going for a macro game. Even when I build a bunker and put 2 marines in it, they don't even make zerglings. It's pretty ridiculous to see how the queen buff and overlord speed buff have changed the game. I didn't think it would be that big of a deal at first, but the metagame is proving me wrong. The combination of the additional defense queens provide and the ease of which they can scout your builds makes even average zerg players seem incredibly difficult to beat.
I wouldn't even bother with reactored hellion anymore. That was literally the last terran opener that hasn't already been nerfed and now that it has, you really have no choice but to 1 rax fe and hope the zerg decides he doesn't want to kill you. I see a lot of terrans blindly going for banshees after (and sometimes before) expanding and this is kinda solidish, but I feel if you're vs a decently strong zerg you probably won't get any drone kills. Though I guess you could probably still harass creep tumors so it ends up acting like a more expensive hellion opener.
^^^^Is that fact true? I've been watching all the GSTL games but haven't really clocked that. To be fair I guess it's Zerg time to shine, I have found vZ incredibly harder but oh well.
Moon, Symbol, Losira and Byul are the talking points for me so far in GSTL. And its not imbalance or anything its just amazing play. Losira with his great positional play, Symbol with all around great play, Moon proving to people that he can play SC2 and Byul what do you say about him he did dirty things to LG-IM. I would say for both of the losses that they suffered MC could have saved them.
Like he can take down most Zergs in the world right now and for them to lose mainly because of Zerg players wow. Im making a prediction right now Moon will win some huge tournament by the end of this year.
On June 06 2012 23:28 OPL3SA2 wrote: I didn't get a chance to see Fnatic vs IM. Did terran get any wins? I hope IMMvP got a win or two...
No, but the winstreak for Zerg ended with Yongwa winning a PvZ. He beat alive after it, so a great day for protoss. And Happy was ahead in supply for some time in his game, so I guess a great day for terran too.
On June 06 2012 23:28 OPL3SA2 wrote: I didn't get a chance to see Fnatic vs IM. Did terran get any wins? I hope IMMvP got a win or two...
No, but the winstreak for Zerg ended with Yongwa winning a PvZ. He beat alive after it, so a great day for protoss. And Happy was ahead in supply for some time in his game, so I guess a great day for terran too.
Then another relatively unknown Zerg Byul (unknown to those that don't watch the korean weeklies anyway) went on a rampage and 4 killed ^_^ so it was back to business as usual.
On June 06 2012 23:28 OPL3SA2 wrote: I didn't get a chance to see Fnatic vs IM. Did terran get any wins? I hope IMMvP got a win or two...
No, but the winstreak for Zerg ended with Yongwa winning a PvZ. He beat alive after it, so a great day for protoss. And Happy was ahead in supply for some time in his game, so I guess a great day for terran too.
Lol, saying that a terran had a chance to win doesn't make it a "great" day for terrans, if anything makes it more depressing.
Terrans are 2-6 against protoss and 0-8 against zerg, just kind of sad really. Just for the record PvZ has been pretty balanced, so far. It's 10 - 12.
And you know what, after almost a year and a half of them being left on the bench while their Terran buddies were getting all the glory I say it's really nice to finally see the zerg shine
seems odd they wouldn't send MC... MVP's TvZ has looked less then stellar, and Nestea is still slumping imo, while MC has been tearing zergs heads off... I think this was a poor decision on the bench.
EPT
