Power Rank 05/03/2010 - Page 36

On May 26 2010 15:09 phosphorylation wrote:
plexa's PRs have been very problematic and this month was no exception
no effort not even on CNBC is very strange indeed.. effort has been 4th for two months when riptide was doing the PR. When plexa took over (last 4-5 months), effort is not mentioned once.
Midas, although I love him, is also ranked way too high etc etc

On May 26 2010 06:00 tree.hugger wrote:

It's true except that was the best that I could do. No one else has out-multitasked EffOrt in a late-game especially recently.

Look, (NDJ) I think what it really comes down to is that I'm looking at his play and thinking; "EffOrt is completely out of his slump" where as if you're not as convinced that EffOrt is back in his summer form, then I can completely see why you'd be skeptical of his abilities. I admit that in general, my argument is that he has recovered his insane multi-task and management of last year (and I think he may have acquired the flexibility to end ZvT's early, and ZvP's with hydras).

Which means that we'll just have to see. Give me, however that EffOrt in form has the management that I say he has, even if you dispute whether or not he's in form.

EDIT:

As I said, there really isn't a perfect analogy for it, EffOrt hasn't been beaten in a late game recently except by Flash. His real problem was actually that he wasn't getting to the late game at all.

But I addressed the second part of that to n.DieJokes, I knew what you were arguing, T3.

On May 26 2010 15 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              26 2010 15      end_of_the_skype_highlighting:41 ndralcasid wrote:
Why are people still complaining about Effort's lack of placement LAST month? As good as he's playing this month, OSL champ and all (and he does deserve top 3 at least), he really did play like absolute ass in April.

On May 26 2010 22 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              26 2010 22      end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              26 2010 22      end_of_the_skype_highlighting:01 Shikyo wrote:

6-game winning streak at the end of the month, when you have has-beens like Midas in PR, and just awful players like Hiya, MVP, Great?

No, the PR just was bad.

On May 26 2010 21 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 26 2010 21 end_of_the_skype_highlighting:20 TwoToneTerran wrote:


Effort, in form, doesn't have better anything than Flash. Same goes for Jaedong, honestly. Effort was absolutely astonishing at one point in his career, but he's never shown anything resembling proof that he's better at any particular skill than Flash or Jaedong. Not in making builds, not in managing small and big army confrontations, not in macro, not in micro. He is an astounding player but there's no reason to say he, at his best, is better than the two best players to ever play the game.

On May 25 2010 18:32 StylishVODs wrote:
ManagementApm

On May 26 2010 22:04 Shikyo wrote:




Effort has more APM than either of those... and I'd say he's better than Flash in the early stages of the game although T and Z are difficult to compare. I think JD > Effort though, although Effort still has higher APM and I guess his lategame management/macro might be slightly better.

JD's the best player ever though, so it's kind of difficult to compare.


EDIT: well crap it posted it in a seperate post, I'm sorry.

On May 27 2010 00:19 okum wrote:
I'm not that familiar with Effort's style and qualities, but what I remember from his period of domination a couple of months back is that he was insanely good at sending small groups zerglings all over the map and somehow making every one of them effective.

On May 27 2010 03:42 TwoToneTerran wrote:
I like how you only agree with the Jaedong half of my post.

On May 26 2010 07:44 Mortality wrote:
Effort has a much more chaotic late game than either Flash or Jaedong. He really tries to do shit everywhere. What's amazing is how well it works. I won't go so far as to say that he has better game management than those two, but on his good days he's every bit as good. He lacks consistency. And I think part of it is that Flash and Jaedong have historically been better at arranging the battles they fight. No matter how fast you are, your hands will feel slow if your opponent is the one choosing the battles.

On May 27 2010 03:59 SuperArc wrote:


Don't take me wrong. In terms of micro, macro, management and multitasking Flash surely is on par with Jaedong. But JD's edge in bo5s just makes him more complete.