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nojok
Profile Joined May 2011
France15846 Posts
October 23 2011 15:33 GMT
#4801
I hope next games will be better, they seemed to play below their standards because of the game's mean.
"Back then teams that won were credited, now it's called throw. I think it's sad." - Kuroky - Flap Flap Wings!
bgx
Profile Joined August 2010
Poland6595 Posts
October 23 2011 15:33 GMT
#4802
On October 24 2011 00:32 Whalecore wrote:
It's funny that most people consider Protoss a late game death ball race. Truth is, both Terran and especially Zerg beat Protoss in 200/200 engagements.

Protoss death ball is a myth.

when you let zerg get 12 infestors and 20 broodlors with 3-3 air upgrades and 3 melee than yea
Stork[gm]
Demonaz
Profile Joined January 2011
United Kingdom1219 Posts
October 23 2011 15:33 GMT
#4803
On October 24 2011 00:31 pdd wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 24 2011 00:30 Demonaz wrote:
Stephano remaxes so ridiculously fast, Mana waited far too long there and let him get half the map. I reckon an earlier air switch might have been helpful too.

Mana had no gas. He should have expoed earlier.


True, needed to take another base. I swear he had enough windows to do so as well, just kind of sat there for ages. I'd like to see more early harass from Mana too, Stephano is just too strong if he's allowed to get 4 bases super fast like that.
Rowa
Profile Joined July 2010
Belgium962 Posts
October 23 2011 15:33 GMT
#4804
I was hoping for a Mothership too, either for kiwikaki recall squads or just for the simple advantage of vortex (as shown in kiwi vs stephano against the same strat stephano was using)
♞ To obtain a bird's eyes is to turn a blizzard to a breeze ♞
enemy2010
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Germany1972 Posts
October 23 2011 15:33 GMT
#4805
I dont think Stephano has good unit control/micro skills....

He pretty much always goes "1a" with his army, and therefore wins by macroing his opp out.

Or am I wrong?
1on1 auf azze no he no flash no awp only holztor. | Ja, da meint der ich hätt' abgeschmatzt, aber dat is Quatsch, verstehste?
Warfie
Profile Joined February 2009
Norway2849 Posts
October 23 2011 15:33 GMT
#4806
On October 24 2011 00:32 Whalecore wrote:
It's funny that most people consider Protoss a late game death ball race. Truth is, both Terran and especially Zerg beat Protoss in 200/200 engagements.

Protoss death ball is a myth.

The extreme late game deathball is a myth in that you can't use a deathball which is powerful in the mid to early late game to roll over the extreme late game zerg units. Stephano had largely 3-3 upgrades on everything and too many BLords and infestors. I think Mana could've utilized his "deathball" earlier in the game though.
mcc
Profile Joined October 2010
Czech Republic4646 Posts
October 23 2011 15:34 GMT
#4807
On October 24 2011 00:25 Fyzar wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 24 2011 00:21 mcc wrote:
Mana is kind of expected to lose, unfortunately. Manas PvZ is better than it was, but it is still worse than Sase, Naniwa, White-ra or elfi,and probably Sockes.

His pvz is better than Elfi's, Ra's & Socke's.
He plays a very turtlish style which is good but he always switches into air very late versus broodlords.

Definitely not better than recent White-ra's PvZ. Mana's turtlish style might work against some zergs, but it ends up as this game against Stephano vs extremely good zergs. He harasses too little and his late game expanding is just plain non-existent.
rasnj
Profile Joined May 2010
United States1959 Posts
October 23 2011 15:34 GMT
#4808
On October 24 2011 00:33 enemy2010 wrote:
I dont think Stephano has good unit control/micro skills....

He pretty much always goes "1a" with his army, and therefore wins by macroing his opp out.

Or am I wrong?

You're wrong.
Rimah
Profile Joined September 2010
Germany34 Posts
October 23 2011 15:34 GMT
#4809
What do you think about a change to broodlords so that you can "mineralwalk" over broodlings?
I think the main reason why broodlords are so strong in bigger numbers is that all ground units get stuck and can't attack ( especially archons with 3 range).
Fungals could still root some of the army, but if your fast enough with your feedbacks, you would have atleast a small chance
Oldfool
Profile Joined January 2011
Australia394 Posts
October 23 2011 15:34 GMT
#4810
Great game one!

Pity it was streamed on own3d.tv, which is actually the most horrible viewing experience I've had with streams - with constant freezes and dropouts.
"The trouble with quotes on the internet is that it is difficult to discern whether or not they are genuine." - Abraham Lincoln
Elean
Profile Joined October 2010
689 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-10-23 15:34:29
October 23 2011 15:34 GMT
#4811
On October 24 2011 00:32 HaXXspetten wrote:
Infestors > Void Ray, Mothership
Corruptors > Pheonix, Carrier
Brood Lords > Everything Else

And that's why you can never beat an army like that, especially in the hands of Stephano.

Stephano had the bigger army. When they showed the army value stephano was clearly ahead. So it's only normal he wins the fight.
SeaSwift
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Scotland4486 Posts
October 23 2011 15:34 GMT
#4812
On October 24 2011 00:32 HappyChris wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 24 2011 00:31 SeaSwift wrote:
That game just wasn't that good from either of them. Sure, it wasn't BAD, but it wasn't particularly entertaining. Neither player looked exceptional, and neither did anything innovative. tbh if it wasn't the finals, I could have mistook it for a game from 2 EU Masters League players.


lol, well those 2 masters player took out MC and Marineking 2-0 thats some really strong master players..



Way to completely miss what I was saying. I'm not saying Mana and Stephano are bad - Mana has an amazing PvT, his PvP vs MC was world-class, and Stephano swept aside IPL and looked undefeatable.

But in this game, neither of them played that well. It looked like a very standard macro game between 2 pretty good players. Not really finals-worthy IMO.

Also, I hate own3D too. It's just so astoundingly shit.
FaRess
Profile Joined September 2010
Tunisia937 Posts
October 23 2011 15:34 GMT
#4813
On October 24 2011 00:33 enemy2010 wrote:
I dont think Stephano has good unit control/micro skills....

He pretty much always goes "1a" with his army, and therefore wins by macroing his opp out.

Or am I wrong?


you are
YoloStar <3
HaXXspetten
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Sweden15718 Posts
October 23 2011 15:34 GMT
#4814
On October 24 2011 00:33 enemy2010 wrote:
I dont think Stephano has good unit control/micro skills....

He pretty much always goes "1a" with his army, and therefore wins by macroing his opp out.

Or am I wrong?

That final engagment was not exactly a deathball a-move...
m0ck
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
4194 Posts
October 23 2011 15:34 GMT
#4815
On October 24 2011 00:33 enemy2010 wrote:
I dont think Stephano has good unit control/micro skills....

He pretty much always goes "1a" with his army, and therefore wins by macroing his opp out.

Or am I wrong?


You're right that he's a zerg player.
industria
Profile Joined June 2011
Belgium15 Posts
October 23 2011 15:34 GMT
#4816
Awesome first game
Is this a BO7 or something else btw?
Caesarion
Profile Joined April 2011
Australia8332 Posts
October 23 2011 15:34 GMT
#4817
On October 24 2011 00:33 enemy2010 wrote:
I dont think Stephano has good unit control/micro skills....

He pretty much always goes "1a" with his army, and therefore wins by macroing his opp out.

Or am I wrong?


I think he has some of the best micro of any Zerg I've seen.
HaXXspetten
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Sweden15718 Posts
October 23 2011 15:35 GMT
#4818
On October 24 2011 00:34 industria wrote:
Awesome first game
Is this a BO7 or something else btw?

BO5
clusen
Profile Joined May 2010
Germany8702 Posts
October 23 2011 15:35 GMT
#4819
On October 24 2011 00:32 HaXXspetten wrote:
Infestors > Void Ray, Mothership
Corruptors > Pheonix, Carrier, Mothership
Brood Lords > Everything Else

And that's why you can never beat an army like that, especially in the hands of Stephano.

The only way it's even remotely possible is Archon Toilet, but an Infestor can just neural the mothership, or the corruptors can just one shot it :/

If you have so many Corruptor that you can oneshot a Mothership you are going to lose

And Vortex has 9 range.

MrCon
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
France29748 Posts
October 23 2011 15:35 GMT
#4820
Haa Mana, why no nexus first here TT
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