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On June 01 2011 11:15 Dexington wrote:Show nested quote +On June 01 2011 11:10 MonsieurGrimm wrote: T___T mingun allins, idra defends it, minigun expands and now idra is behind :/ The fuck? He did a 4 gate expand and defended Idra's all-in. Get out.
Idra is way too predictable on that map. This is the second time his roach ling "all-in" was straight up countered on Xel'Naga (first time was against Tyler).
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Good forcefields? You mean infinite .
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On June 01 2011 11:14 MonsieurGrimm wrote:Show nested quote +On June 01 2011 11:12 Mordiford wrote:On June 01 2011 11:11 Chicane wrote:On June 01 2011 11:10 MonsieurGrimm wrote: T___T mingun allins, idra defends it, minigun expands and now idra is behind :/ You got it backwards. Minigun expands, IdrA all ins and doesn't do enough damage with it and is behind. Yeah, what game were you watching? I'm pretty sure Minigun was the defender with IdrA streaming in units... the one where minigun 4gated and then attacked with a zealot and a bunch of sentries
It was never an attack. Minigun didn't committ to the 4 gate at all, in fact all he made was a 1 zealot and sentries before his nexus. It was pretty much a fake attack into a 3 gate expand, with 150 minerals spent on a 4th gateway that did nothing. The tradeoff was that minigun sacrificed a bit of his economy, but in return had more production potential against a roach / ling attack. Idra played into it and got a disadvantage.
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On June 01 2011 11:15 VPCursed wrote: he gives up way to easily
I'm sorry but he had it lost. He lost his main army, toss was about to be on equal bases and minigun's army trashed idra's. The game was over this game was a game he had lost that the only way he could have possibly won was if minigun went afk.
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roach/hydra/corruptor is such a bad unit comp
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On June 01 2011 11:16 PhyreHazard wrote: Why is idra just a moving into the ball with all the ff there... could have split the army in 2 and flank it... He tried that in the previous engagement. It doesn't work.
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On June 01 2011 11:14 Chicane wrote:Show nested quote +On June 01 2011 11:12 MonsieurGrimm wrote:On June 01 2011 11:11 Chicane wrote:On June 01 2011 11:10 MonsieurGrimm wrote: T___T mingun allins, idra defends it, minigun expands and now idra is behind :/ You got it backwards. Minigun expands, IdrA all ins and doesn't do enough damage with it and is behind. you missed the part where minigun 4gated and tried to be aggressive with it, forcing idra to make those units which were basically useless against forcefields You have never seen a player put on a bit of pressure? That's just good game play. He moved forward and instantly pulled back as he expanded. potentially sacrificing all your expensive as fuck units is good gameplay now?
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forcefields are just abysmal from a game design perspective, and completly mitigating the micro from the player facing them
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On June 01 2011 11:16 MonsieurGrimm wrote:Show nested quote +On June 01 2011 11:14 Jyvblamo wrote:On June 01 2011 11:14 MonsieurGrimm wrote:On June 01 2011 11:12 Mordiford wrote:On June 01 2011 11:11 Chicane wrote:On June 01 2011 11:10 MonsieurGrimm wrote: T___T mingun allins, idra defends it, minigun expands and now idra is behind :/ You got it backwards. Minigun expands, IdrA all ins and doesn't do enough damage with it and is behind. Yeah, what game were you watching? I'm pretty sure Minigun was the defender with IdrA streaming in units... the one where minigun 4gated and then attacked with a zealot and a bunch of sentries Did you notice the part where his natural expansion was already up when his sentries and zealots reached Idra's front? well then why the hell did he push out with a fuckton of expensive units, and build an aggro pylon? the good old make nothing but sentries and try to kill the zerg build? you are trolling right? XD
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You can always tell when Idra is going to rage quit. He's so stubborn about how he approaches the protoss deathball situation. I'm not telling you that it's easy, I'm just saying he gets so impatient. He sees an inherent imbalance, and he thinks that all he can do is take out the colossus, remax and attack, and that if that fails, the game is over, but it almost becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, to where he is willing to take on a battle he can't win, knowing he can't win.
It's really frustrating, because he has adapted in several ways, but he's just given up solving that riddle.
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On June 01 2011 11:17 Xanderk wrote: Saying "impressive forcefields" is an oxymoron when you spam twenty of them at a time. impressive in the fact that you can spam them and win the game. i.e. "it's impressive that forcefields can win a whole entire game!"
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On June 01 2011 11:16 hi_0 wrote: I don't understand why people always say "sick FF's". All u gotta do is make sentries and then drop the forcefields, what could idra have done against that. FF everytime he wants to fight almost endlessly.
Either burrow under the forcefields, get Ultras, get broods to make them attack head on or baneling drop over the forcefields. A Zerg has options and running your units into the forcefields is not one of them.
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On June 01 2011 11:16 Blasphemi wrote: Poor play by Idra. Consistantly head butting forcefield with his roaches. Burrowing underneath would have won him both games. This match really demonstrated the gulf in skill between Nestea and Idra. Roach burrow is actually pretty pointless in late game (it's good to hold off heavy sentry 4gate or 2 base pushes), but once it's the late stage - Minigun has technically enough sentries to forcefield on top of the roaches as they burrow (so they will be stuck while they are getting burned by Collosus) - reminiscent of Morrow's roach heavy PvZ.
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Nice build by minigun. Those 4 warped in stalkers were key in holding off idra's all-in.
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On June 01 2011 11:18 MonsieurGrimm wrote:Show nested quote +On June 01 2011 11:14 Chicane wrote:On June 01 2011 11:12 MonsieurGrimm wrote:On June 01 2011 11:11 Chicane wrote:On June 01 2011 11:10 MonsieurGrimm wrote: T___T mingun allins, idra defends it, minigun expands and now idra is behind :/ You got it backwards. Minigun expands, IdrA all ins and doesn't do enough damage with it and is behind. you missed the part where minigun 4gated and tried to be aggressive with it, forcing idra to make those units which were basically useless against forcefields You have never seen a player put on a bit of pressure? That's just good game play. He moved forward and instantly pulled back as he expanded. potentially sacrificing all your expensive as fuck units is good gameplay now?
just stop rofl
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Everybody here realizes that if protoss doesn't have FF there, that protoss army would of been CRUSHED in every possible way despite them being equal in food?
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On June 01 2011 11:17 VPCursed wrote:Show nested quote +On June 01 2011 11:16 Mailing wrote:On June 01 2011 11:15 VPCursed wrote: he gives up way to easily 4 base protoss on better upgrades and equal supply? lol. ye, i mean there is just no way idra could come back no matter what he did. so why try? rly? He doesn't even try. Minigun isn't a top notch player. He could have pulled a comeback if he tried. possibly
Miniguns army was at the deathball stage. He could of pushed after that battle and won without micro.
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On June 01 2011 11:16 MonsieurGrimm wrote:Show nested quote +On June 01 2011 11:14 Jyvblamo wrote:On June 01 2011 11:14 MonsieurGrimm wrote:On June 01 2011 11:12 Mordiford wrote:On June 01 2011 11:11 Chicane wrote:On June 01 2011 11:10 MonsieurGrimm wrote: T___T mingun allins, idra defends it, minigun expands and now idra is behind :/ You got it backwards. Minigun expands, IdrA all ins and doesn't do enough damage with it and is behind. Yeah, what game were you watching? I'm pretty sure Minigun was the defender with IdrA streaming in units... the one where minigun 4gated and then attacked with a zealot and a bunch of sentries Did you notice the part where his natural expansion was already up when his sentries and zealots reached Idra's front? well then why the hell did he push out with a fuckton of expensive units, and build an aggro pylon? the good old make nothing but sentries and try to kill the zerg build? He put on pressure with those units because Idra rarely makes many units at that point in the game, to force units (which worked). At that point he forced Idra to make a hard decision, go all in by staying on even base with Toss and making units, or make just enough to defend and try to extend the game by taking a third.
On June 01 2011 11:18 MonsieurGrimm wrote:Show nested quote +On June 01 2011 11:14 Chicane wrote:On June 01 2011 11:12 MonsieurGrimm wrote:On June 01 2011 11:11 Chicane wrote:On June 01 2011 11:10 MonsieurGrimm wrote: T___T mingun allins, idra defends it, minigun expands and now idra is behind :/ You got it backwards. Minigun expands, IdrA all ins and doesn't do enough damage with it and is behind. you missed the part where minigun 4gated and tried to be aggressive with it, forcing idra to make those units which were basically useless against forcefields You have never seen a player put on a bit of pressure? That's just good game play. He moved forward and instantly pulled back as he expanded. potentially sacrificing all your expensive as fuck units is good gameplay now? You don't always move out with your army with the intention of killing the enemy.
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On June 01 2011 11:17 imareaver3 wrote:Show nested quote +On June 01 2011 11:14 Chicane wrote:On June 01 2011 11:12 MonsieurGrimm wrote:On June 01 2011 11:11 Chicane wrote:On June 01 2011 11:10 MonsieurGrimm wrote: T___T mingun allins, idra defends it, minigun expands and now idra is behind :/ You got it backwards. Minigun expands, IdrA all ins and doesn't do enough damage with it and is behind. you missed the part where minigun 4gated and tried to be aggressive with it, forcing idra to make those units which were basically useless against forcefields You have never seen a player put on a bit of pressure? That's just good game play. He moved forward and instantly pulled back as he expanded If it was just pressure, that would have been true. But it wasn't--it was an MC 4-gate, and if IdrA had built any fewer units he would have died after the nexus cancel+warp-in+FF on ramp. What bugs us Z isn't that IdrA's later attack failed, it's that Minigun was able to play an all-in, see that his opponent reacted appropriately, and immediately about-face and switch into economic play without being behind. that by it's very definition is not an allin
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Minigun is one of those players that really paid off for ROOT's recruitment policy. He won with pure strategy and fairly low APM. Now he still has that great micro and strategy, but his APM and mechanics have gone way up.
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