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MechKing
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States3004 Posts
March 31 2011 17:35 GMT
#2901
Something about Protoss players lately... they've been winning a lot. I'm a Protoss player myself, and I'm not sure if it's imbalance or not but there are so many openings that can punish both Z and T really quick and then you can transition into standard play.
Sadist
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
United States7328 Posts
March 31 2011 17:35 GMT
#2902
How did jinro play bad game 2? I mean what could have done against that with his build? Its not like he can just magically produce vikings out of nowhere. You need to 4 rax when you 1 rax cc. Terran cannot afford to tech AND expand vs protoss without some sort of tank/mech build without leaving themselves open to some 5-6 gate attack/4gate/dt rush/3 gate voidray/etc. If you defend too hard you lose the entire point of having the quick expansion and the protoss just expands and is ahead of you and rolls you.

This is the entire basis of me going mech, it lets you control space and its pretty good. Really fast phoenix builds are kinda sketchy and well timed carriers but thats about it.
How do you go from where you are to where you want to be? I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal and you have to be willing to work for it. Jim Valvano
Doraemon.doraemon
Profile Joined May 2010
United States335 Posts
March 31 2011 17:36 GMT
#2903
doh, sen and jinro kinda choked today... games weren't that close

both are great players though, they'll bounce back! fighting!
CheeseGrater
Profile Joined August 2010
United States290 Posts
March 31 2011 17:37 GMT
#2904
On April 01 2011 02:34 Yunarc wrote:
Dimaga and TT1 have looked the best out of the foreigners. I think Dimaga has a better chance to win though because TT1 has been sick.


I can't help but think you say this because they won lol
elementz
Profile Joined October 2010
United States281 Posts
March 31 2011 17:42 GMT
#2905
just seams that P is OP in both match ups, while ZvT is very good and fun to watch as evident by Dimaga vS MvP, however toss has so many options in their hands to counter anything that comes their way or even when one is not attacking them, sit in base make your deathball or just make insane push to punish them when they try to counter you by macroing crazy. Just doesn't look healthy.
this mah s#$%$
PikaXchU
Profile Joined December 2010
Singapore379 Posts
March 31 2011 17:44 GMT
#2906
Protoss probably feels overpowered because of the sick deathballs they can create. The deathball from Protoss is sick probably because of the Colossus's insane range and unlike the siege tank, it fires are a faster rate and can move. But SC2 is still a new game, so give it time for people to figure the deathball out.
Carrier has arrived.
Curu
Profile Joined March 2010
Canada2817 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-31 17:51:54
March 31 2011 17:51 GMT
#2907
On April 01 2011 02:44 PikaXchU wrote:
Protoss probably feels overpowered because of the sick deathballs they can create. The deathball from Protoss is sick probably because of the Colossus's insane range and unlike the siege tank, it fires are a faster rate and can move. But SC2 is still a new game, so give it time for people to figure the deathball out.


It's like the SCBW Terran deathball. Except it's mobile, can warp in anywhere, and can walk up cliffs!

IMO a nice solution would be to make forcefields attackable with like 50 HP or something. Toss is just way too safe with forcefields - look at MVP vs Genius (Or Alicia? One or the other) in the GSL Up and Downs, the Protoss player proxies a robo, it completes and is discovered without it doing ANY damage. But even then his fast expand is much more safe than MVP's, who can't punish the fast expand after failed proxy because his army would get split and killed.
wat
Roaches
Profile Joined February 2011
Denmark152 Posts
March 31 2011 17:58 GMT
#2908
On April 01 2011 00:17 fant0m wrote:
Poor Jinro. I know it's TvP and really hard to win, but I really want you to snap out of it and jinroll those gateway spamming nubs!

Practice TvP exclusively for the next tournament, that's the only matchup I've seen you lose since MarineKing in January!


He lost to MorroW in TSL3 just recently.
hi grack
cordlc
Profile Joined November 2010
United States360 Posts
March 31 2011 18:03 GMT
#2909
On April 01 2011 02:35 Sadist wrote:
How did jinro play bad game 2? I mean what could have done against that with his build? Its not like he can just magically produce vikings out of nowhere. You need to 4 rax when you 1 rax cc. Terran cannot afford to tech AND expand vs protoss without some sort of tank/mech build without leaving themselves open to some 5-6 gate attack/4gate/dt rush/3 gate voidray/etc. If you defend too hard you lose the entire point of having the quick expansion and the protoss just expands and is ahead of you and rolls you.

This is the entire basis of me going mech, it lets you control space and its pretty good. Really fast phoenix builds are kinda sketchy and well timed carriers but thats about it.

If you watch game 2, you'd notice there was a point in time where Jinro had about 15 marines and a Marauder, and Anypro had maybe 2 sentries and stalkers. That was his timing window, playing passively allowed Anypro to beeline straight towards Colossus, guaranteed loss from there.

I was never a fan of no-gas fast expansion builds against Protoss, ever since Jinro was crushed by MC way back in GSL3, I've felt it has too many weaknesses. It's crushed outright by voidray zealot / 4gate sentry way too often. The proceeding transition into bio dies to the dreaded forcefield push (before stim), while an earlier mech transition leaves you with not enough for early warpgate pressure.

My favorite build is something that uses marauders/conc shell, straight into expo and tanks. You take map control momentarily, denying scouting for a while and clearing the map of any hidden probes/pylons. Good example is set 1 of Alicia vs Supernova
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elementz
Profile Joined October 2010
United States281 Posts
March 31 2011 18:03 GMT
#2910
Thermal lance giving the colosus the range of a siege tank that does have to siege, that is insane. and them firing faster than tanks and being upgraded from the forge? while a terran needs to upgrade at e-bay and Armory, same for zerg, melee and ranged attack? and their armor upgrade is useless for the most part wen they get one attack?
this mah s#$%$
GwSC
Profile Joined December 2010
United States1997 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-31 18:05:33
March 31 2011 18:05 GMT
#2911
Damn, how disappointing. Glad I went to sleep early.
Well, Dimaga Fighting!!!
..and I guess TT1.
jmbthirteen
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States10734 Posts
March 31 2011 18:05 GMT
#2912
On April 01 2011 02:37 CheeseGrater wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 01 2011 02:34 Yunarc wrote:
Dimaga and TT1 have looked the best out of the foreigners. I think Dimaga has a better chance to win though because TT1 has been sick.


I can't help but think you say this because they won lol


Well wouldn't them winning, not only this round, but in the team challenge, factor in heavily to them looking the best? Which foreigner has looked better? White-Ra looked good too, but he didn't advance (damn PvP)
www.superbeerbrothers.com
Sadist
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
United States7328 Posts
March 31 2011 18:09 GMT
#2913
On April 01 2011 03:03 cordlc wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 01 2011 02:35 Sadist wrote:
How did jinro play bad game 2? I mean what could have done against that with his build? Its not like he can just magically produce vikings out of nowhere. You need to 4 rax when you 1 rax cc. Terran cannot afford to tech AND expand vs protoss without some sort of tank/mech build without leaving themselves open to some 5-6 gate attack/4gate/dt rush/3 gate voidray/etc. If you defend too hard you lose the entire point of having the quick expansion and the protoss just expands and is ahead of you and rolls you.

This is the entire basis of me going mech, it lets you control space and its pretty good. Really fast phoenix builds are kinda sketchy and well timed carriers but thats about it.

If you watch game 2, you'd notice there was a point in time where Jinro had about 15 marines and a Marauder, and Anypro had maybe 2 sentries and stalkers. That was his timing window, playing passively allowed Anypro to beeline straight towards Colossus, guaranteed loss from there.

I was never a fan of no-gas fast expansion builds against Protoss, ever since Jinro was crushed by MC way back in GSL3, I've felt it has too many weaknesses. It's crushed outright by voidray zealot / 4gate sentry way too often. The proceeding transition into bio dies to the dreaded forcefield push (before stim), while an earlier mech transition leaves you with not enough for early warpgate pressure.

My favorite build is something that uses marauders/conc shell, straight into expo and tanks. You take map control momentarily, denying scouting for a while and clearing the map of any hidden probes/pylons. Good example is set 1 of Alicia vs Supernova
http://www.gomtv.net/2011gslsponsors2/vod/62461



Problem is you dont know what the protoss is doing, he saw 2 gateway robo expand. he could add 4 gates and make an immortal or something and if you try to attack there you get absolutely crushed and game is over. Or if he has 3 gateways you just split half the marines and warp in stalkers and maybe have an immortal and again hes owned. Its so risky to attack early vs P.
How do you go from where you are to where you want to be? I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal and you have to be willing to work for it. Jim Valvano
skrzmark
Profile Joined November 2010
United States1528 Posts
March 31 2011 18:14 GMT
#2914
people should go MMM still but get 1 thor out and have it on top of your army to break the forcefields, then you can transition into tanks, if needed, get the Strike cannons if they go immortals.
We got them GOM TvT's and them mlGG's
Kazeyonoma
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States2912 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-31 18:18:14
March 31 2011 18:17 GMT
#2915
I think the combination of the change to high ground advantage, and the fact that colossus completely removes any high ground advantage (with vision) makes positional fights less powerful for terran which is what siege tanks are best for. If you can't siege up good high ground areas, you lose with mech, on larger maps where run bys can happen, warp'ins, etc it leaves terrans feeling like they can't expand anywhere safely with such an immobile force. We haven't even begun to see drop play yet in TvP from protoss. Imagine late game, having to force terran into mech play, having his death ball somewhere, and then just warping in 8 warpgates worth of units into terran bases with 1 warp prism.

The only solution I've found while laddering and have seen good terran players do to win against T (and has been suggested in this thread as well), is just to do timing attacks before late game happens, and pray that some stupid amount of force fields aren't waiting for you to choke you out until they're deathball is complete.


But more on topic, I hope Jinro bounces back from this, he's been in a slump, and his reaction to the loss is pretty sad for me to see, i feel like I can feel his pain and is hating himself for it. We <3 you Jinro, we believe! for now, Dimaga FIGHTING!
I now have autographs of both BoxeR and NaDa. I can die happy. Lim Yo Hwan and Lee Yun Yeol FIGHTING forever!
CCa1ss1e
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada3231 Posts
March 31 2011 18:17 GMT
#2916
looks like we have a few upsets.. can't wait to watch the games.

great job to everyone!
~ The Ultimate Weapon
vectorix108
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States4633 Posts
March 31 2011 18:22 GMT
#2917
Sad about Jinro
Aka XephyR/Shaneyesss
FallDownMarigold
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States3710 Posts
March 31 2011 18:23 GMT
#2918
On April 01 2011 02:36 Doraemon.doraemon wrote:
doh, sen and jinro kinda choked today... games weren't that close

both are great players though, they'll bounce back! fighting!


Ehh... Sen was doing some pretty good things, I wouldn't say he really "choked" unless perhaps my interpretation of "choke" is a bit different
Flat Zerg
Profile Joined March 2011
United States16 Posts
March 31 2011 18:26 GMT
#2919
Sen just said he tried playing JulyZerg style in the first game and was really surprised when he found out MKP was so mech heavy. Pretty impressive, July style will get you slapped down hard unless you're really good.
MESeidel
Profile Joined February 2011
Germany326 Posts
March 31 2011 18:32 GMT
#2920
On April 01 2011 02:35 Sadist wrote:
Problem is you dont know what the protoss is doing, he saw 2 gateway robo expand. he could add 4 gates and make an immortal or something and if you try to attack there you get absolutely crushed and game is over. Or if he has 3 gateways you just split half the marines and warp in stalkers and maybe have an immortal and again hes owned. Its so risky to attack early vs P.


How can you not know it?
scout the front with an scv or marine --> cost you 50min and might show you everything.
scan costs you 400 mins (or something the mule is equivalent) --> you see everything except maybe hidden buildings
Even if you fear hidden buildings like a DT tech, a combined scan and front scout should show you the army and most of the tech so that you can estimate if he did spend all his money on what you seen.

Also you could try to drop and not only pick up a pylon but also see the base and most or all of his army by that.

On April 01 2011 02:42 elementz wrote:
just seams that P is OP in both match ups, while ZvT is very good and fun to watch as evident by Dimaga vS MvP, however toss has so many options in their hands to counter anything that comes their way or even when one is not attacking them, sit in base make your deathball or just make insane push to punish them when they try to counter you by macroing crazy. Just doesn't look healthy.


It's only the deathball that is really strong.
With that Protoss is defensibly building up all game long.
And FF often is only a way to not die at the moment.
But wih the deathball Toss is also very slow.
Toss needs FF to hold vs. MM, 1-3 base Roach, Hydra on close posi, Thor+X, ....
And deathball build up is weak to drops, Nydus, Muta, .....
Check the 2nd game Idra Cruncher from last weeks TSL.
Stargate and HT build are ab it different story.
But they also aren't strong in th eearly to mid game.

Basicly it is a very often timed push or a build up to a great unit composition for Protoss.
Midgame you can right crush it, out-macro it or at least use your mobility advantage.
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