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Drazerk
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United Kingdom31255 Posts
October 15 2011 16:29 GMT
#1241
On October 16 2011 01:28 Drazerk wrote:
Game Three on shattered temple

In the south position is Sase

While in the north is Hasuobs


2:10


Gas and gateway on the way for both players
Fyzar
Profile Joined January 2011
Netherlands8010 Posts
October 15 2011 16:30 GMT
#1242
Get out aLive!
It appears I have been chosen.
mcc
Profile Joined October 2010
Czech Republic4646 Posts
October 15 2011 16:30 GMT
#1243
On October 16 2011 01:21 ownyaah wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 16 2011 01:16 tree.hugger wrote:
On October 16 2011 01:02 Vansetsu wrote:
On October 16 2011 00:50 Elroi wrote:
On October 16 2011 00:38 BLinD-RawR wrote:
2 things,

1)Stephano is not the best foreigner zerg.

Who would you say is better? I think he is the best foreigner and I am almost 100% sure he has got the most potential in terms of talent.


There is absolutely no right answer to this in the foreign scene. There is no one with a total package game right now. The three closest answers are Dimaga, Idra, and Sen. Stephano has been showing results, but he certainly has big holes in his total game. Fortunately for him so far, the things he is doing good is making up for the things he doesn't have down perfect. If you can't tell, his big weakness are his late game mechanics. His strong points are his decision making/early mid game and decent micro.

You're right on some things, but the fact that you list DIMAGA as having the total package, while dismissing Stephano's micro makes me think you know much less about these players than you're pretending to. DIMAGA's unit control, especially with a large army is appallingly bad, it's far and away his biggest weakness. Stephano's micro is actually quite good.

Best three foreign zergs are Stephano, Nerchio, and Ret in some order, and then IdrA, Sen, Sheth, and DIMAGA are right behind, and IdrA may yet have recovered enough to be counted among the top three. But I think the top three is pretty hard to dispute if you watch the individual play.


haha, how many times have u seen nerchio win against a good player, one that is considered top?

at theyre best, idra or stephano is 1st and 2nd, sen or ret is 3rd.

Nerchio wins against top foreigners like all the time. Did you actually check his record ? He just does not play Koreans too much but as far as foreigner scene goes he is TOP zerg.
insolentrus
Profile Joined January 2011
Russian Federation304 Posts
October 15 2011 16:30 GMT
#1244
alive, leave already....
BarbieHsu
Profile Joined September 2011
574 Posts
October 15 2011 16:30 GMT
#1245
On October 16 2011 01:29 claash wrote:
sounds stupid but sase won because hasu lost it.
in the last normal straight up game he was outplayed.


The way Sase was expanding was not normal
Drazerk
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United Kingdom31255 Posts
October 15 2011 16:30 GMT
#1246
On October 16 2011 01:29 Drazerk wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 16 2011 01:28 Drazerk wrote:
Game Three on shattered temple

In the south position is Sase

While in the north is Hasuobs


2:10


Gas and gateway on the way for both players


3:30

Cores for both players finishing now

Sase getting a zealot while Hasu gets a stalker
KingPaddy
Profile Joined November 2010
1053 Posts
October 15 2011 16:30 GMT
#1247
On October 16 2011 01:29 claash wrote:
sounds stupid but sase won because hasu lost it.
in the last normal straight up game he was outplayed.

You consider 4bases at 12min mark as normal and straight up?
oDieN[Siege]
Profile Joined November 2009
United States2905 Posts
October 15 2011 16:30 GMT
#1248
On October 16 2011 01:30 Fyzar wrote:
Get out aLive!

Wrong forum?
말크 : ^_^~ NeO)GabuAt, vGODieN
insolentrus
Profile Joined January 2011
Russian Federation304 Posts
October 15 2011 16:30 GMT
#1249
terran so bm...
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20343 Posts
October 15 2011 16:30 GMT
#1250
Hasuobs just took second gas at ~19 supply in SaSe's face... he has balls to do that after the last 2 games
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
Adreme
Profile Joined June 2011
United States5574 Posts
October 15 2011 16:30 GMT
#1251
Inori needs to get a couple VRs to finish off those buildings.
ohampatu
Profile Joined July 2010
United States1448 Posts
October 15 2011 16:31 GMT
#1252
On October 16 2011 01:28 Toxi78 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 16 2011 01:26 ohampatu wrote:
I disagree completely on Stephano/Ret/Nerchio... Im not for sure how you could even name them as top.


Stephano has only ipl 3. Unless he gets more there's just not enough information to put him as a top player.

Ret has the ability to be in that list, but doesn't have the results at all recently, even stephano has more results than ret. (just because he is doing good in pool play really doesn't mean anything).

Nerchio doesn't have LAN results. Enough Said.


Sen and Idra are the onlly zergs i think we can call 'top' right now, with ret narrowing out the 3 id say. Sen is really the only foreigner zerg who deserves to be top right now, all other foreigner zergs are only just now starting to show good promise again (ret recently increasing, idra recently increasing, stephano making a breakthrough).


Instead of talking about top foreigner zerg, since no zerg has really emmerged as the top, i wish we would just all put our hopes on idra/sen/ret/dimaga/stephano and cheer for all instead of comparing so much. None of them are clear winners. At this point in time it doesn't matter who comes out, as long as one or two of them do.


and what has sen done in a loooooooooong time?
your post is worthless.



We haven't seen ANY of these players doing consistently good. The only player who has been consistently good on that list is Sen. He may not have recent big tourney wins, but his skill never diminished (like ret and idra) and whenever we have seen him he has played top notch. Just because he is more into the lesf (or w/e its called) atm doesn't mean his previous skill can just be ignored.

In terms of consistency only Sen deserves to be on that list. If you want to talk about 'best' and only look back 1 or 2 months, then yes only stephano/nerchio/ret/idra will be mentioned. But the game is slightly over a year old, when making these claims you need to be looking at a 3-4 month timeframe.

That's why i said this discussion is pointless, no foreigner zerg is doing well enough to make a top list. Let alone 3 zergs doing well enough to make a top 3.
I am become death, for I am the destroyer of worlds.....You will be missed KT Violet!!!
Drazerk
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United Kingdom31255 Posts
October 15 2011 16:31 GMT
#1253
On October 16 2011 01:30 Drazerk wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 16 2011 01:29 Drazerk wrote:
On October 16 2011 01:28 Drazerk wrote:
Game Three on shattered temple

In the south position is Sase

While in the north is Hasuobs


2:10


Gas and gateway on the way for both players


3:30

Cores for both players finishing now

Sase getting a zealot while Hasu gets a stalker


5:00


Gateways on the way for both players as sase finishes his warp gate tech
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20343 Posts
October 15 2011 16:32 GMT
#1254
5:10 nexus yet again, down to the second
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
claash
Profile Joined August 2011
Poland472 Posts
October 15 2011 16:32 GMT
#1255
On October 16 2011 01:29 myPlums wrote:
Sase fighting. His control and imagination is much better than Hasu.


control?lol you havent seen game 1 as it seems.
Drazerk
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United Kingdom31255 Posts
October 15 2011 16:32 GMT
#1256
On October 16 2011 01:31 Drazerk wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 16 2011 01:30 Drazerk wrote:
On October 16 2011 01:29 Drazerk wrote:
On October 16 2011 01:28 Drazerk wrote:
Game Three on shattered temple

In the south position is Sase

While in the north is Hasuobs


2:10


Gas and gateway on the way for both players


3:30

Cores for both players finishing now

Sase getting a zealot while Hasu gets a stalker


5:00


Gateways on the way for both players as sase finishes his warp gate tech


5:30


Robo and two gates for Hasuobs while Sase expands
Radook
Profile Joined August 2010
Sweden326 Posts
October 15 2011 16:32 GMT
#1257
woohoo inori!
Woop Woop!
MCDayC
Profile Joined March 2011
United Kingdom14464 Posts
October 15 2011 16:32 GMT
#1258
I hate to say it, but Sase's build would just straight up die to a 4gate.
VERY FRAGILE, LIKE A BABY PANDA EGG
Drazerk
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United Kingdom31255 Posts
October 15 2011 16:32 GMT
#1259
On October 16 2011 01:32 Drazerk wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 16 2011 01:31 Drazerk wrote:
On October 16 2011 01:30 Drazerk wrote:
On October 16 2011 01:29 Drazerk wrote:
On October 16 2011 01:28 Drazerk wrote:
Game Three on shattered temple

In the south position is Sase

While in the north is Hasuobs


2:10


Gas and gateway on the way for both players


3:30

Cores for both players finishing now

Sase getting a zealot while Hasu gets a stalker


5:00


Gateways on the way for both players as sase finishes his warp gate tech


5:30


Robo and two gates for Hasuobs while Sase expands


6:30

Hallucination on the way for Sase

Observer for Hasuobs
tree.hugger
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Philadelphia, PA10406 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-10-15 16:38:26
October 15 2011 16:32 GMT
#1260
On October 16 2011 01:26 ohampatu wrote:
I disagree completely on Stephano/Ret/Nerchio... Im not for sure how you could even name them as top.


Stephano has only ipl 3. Unless he gets more there's just not enough information to put him as a top player.

Ret has the ability to be in that list, but doesn't have the results at all recently, even stephano has more results than ret. (just because he is doing good in pool play really doesn't mean anything).

Nerchio doesn't have LAN results. Enough Said.


Sen and Idra are the onlly zergs i think we can call 'top' right now, with ret narrowing out the 3 id say. Sen is really the only foreigner zerg who deserves to be top right now, all other foreigner zergs are only just now starting to show good promise again (ret recently increasing, idra recently increasing, stephano making a breakthrough).


Instead of talking about top foreigner zerg, since no zerg has really emmerged as the top, i wish we would just all put our hopes on idra/sen/ret/dimaga/stephano and cheer for all instead of comparing so much. None of them are clear winners. At this point in time it doesn't matter who comes out, as long as one or two of them do.
See my response above your post, results are cute and all, but I think you should be able to determine whether one player is better than the other based on actually watching them play, as opposed to looking at numbers in TLPD. Obviously if a player fails to get results after a while, then it seems like they're doing something wrong, but ideally my thoughts on those players will be proven right in the future.

You say you don't have enough information on Stephano, Nerchio, Ret but that's because you haven't been trying to get it. It's all out there.

I think IdrA's mindset has clearly improved, and that's great because that was really holding him back. His map vision and multitask haven't faltered so much from his BW days, and his macro and unit composition decisions seem to also have improved, which is good because those were two other big issues he had. What keeps IdrA from being at the very top, in my opinion, is that he doesn't scout enough, relies on incomplete reads of his opponents, and I still question some of his decision making. He's obviously extremely good though.

Sen is fantastic, I just haven't seen enough of him lately, and he's lost a bit in the TeSL, which is weird. But he could very well get right back to the top, it's hard to tell.

On October 16 2011 01:29 Vansetsu wrote:I agree with that I guess. You're correct in that I don't watch enough foreign Zergs, and the ones I listed have always shown some consistently stable or strong play (or just a bit more mainstream play in General). I absolutely did not consider Ret or Nerchio, and while I havn''t seen so much Nerchio (though I know he has been posting results), I kind of dropped the ball on Ret.

Also, while I wasn't downplaying Stephano's micro, I wasn't highlighting it much either, as I feel it gets a bit weaker as the games get more mechanically intense, from the games I've seen anyways. If I had to put someone for zergs to par up to micro=mechanics wise, it would probably be Leenock after the games he played with Ganzi. I just feel that what makes Stephano really strong are his decisions and army compositions (which he uses with good micro earlier in the games I've seen), and I think that's a mimic-able trait for players who have better mechanics if they choose.

Fair enough. But I think most players have trouble managing everything lategame, and I think Stephano actually does it better than most. Ret and Nerchio seem a little better in the lategame to me though.
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