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terialk
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
United States770 Posts
November 19 2011 23:40 GMT
#6501
On November 20 2011 08:39 Grettin wrote:
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On November 20 2011 08:38 terialk wrote:
omg have you guys seen that team slayers interview that got posted ~5 minutes ago? So touching :O!


Link?



Interview <- lol, can't believe I didn't link it. Here you go!
"This is not the beginning of an end. Instead, it is the end of a beginning." // Little Sprite Fan :D // Never go full China. // At least NA won at Dota 2.
Al Bundy
Profile Joined April 2010
7257 Posts
November 19 2011 23:40 GMT
#6502
On November 20 2011 08:35 mierin wrote:
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On November 20 2011 08:34 HelloGoodbye wrote:
On November 20 2011 08:32 TheKefka wrote:
On November 20 2011 08:30 dcemuser wrote:
On November 20 2011 08:27 Fandango wrote:
Pretty much the most abusive build possible, I can't tell if I like it or hate it, i'm gonna go with hate because it's so easy to pull off in comparison to being ready to beat it.


It's not remotely easy to pull off. His sentry micro was sick.

That's pretty much the most complicated form of drop play you can pull off in sc2 rofl.


Says alot about the game though...


I do miss the brilliance of Reaver/Templar + shuttle micro...

You can still do similar stuff in sc2, for example HT + Warp Prism or Infestor + Overlord as zerg. These are good ways to protect the casters from the ghosts in vT matchups. It requires good unit control because the of the fast pace of the game.
o choro é livre
TYJ.Aoy
Profile Joined March 2011
Brazil1265 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-19 23:41:32
November 19 2011 23:40 GMT
#6503
On November 20 2011 08:36 SeaSwift wrote:
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On November 20 2011 08:34 TYJ.Aoy wrote:
On November 20 2011 08:29 scaban84 wrote:
On November 20 2011 08:29 iLike413 wrote:
OH god I have no doubt that Protoss is the most micro intensive race O.O

When there aren't Colossus involved.

Vortex into insta win is very micro intensive, I agree.


Anyone trying to argue about lack of micro in PvZ after seeing that game has surprisingly adept keyboard skills for a sloth.

I'm not arguing about that game in particular or saying that PvZ lacks micro in general, just against protoss being the most micro intensive race as there's constant use of colossus and chargealots in every match up, whilst terran relies on heavy micro in all the matchups(unless you go mech, which nobody does percentage wise)
Grettin
Profile Joined April 2010
42381 Posts
November 19 2011 23:40 GMT
#6504
On November 20 2011 08:39 NagAfightinG wrote:
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HotBid is that you? :o


Thats not Hot_bid, i'm pretty sure.
"If I had force-fields in Brood War, I'd never lose." -Bisu
Zeon0
Profile Joined September 2010
Austria2995 Posts
November 19 2011 23:40 GMT
#6505
On November 20 2011 08:39 KillAudio wrote:
Nooooo marine king is out! (((((((

didnt even know he was in Providence^^
Hater of MKP since GSL Open Season 2 | Fanboy of: NesTea Stephano IdrA DIMAGA MorroW ret DongRaeGu Snute SaSe Mvp ThorZaIN DeMusliM
StarStruck
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
25339 Posts
November 19 2011 23:40 GMT
#6506
On November 20 2011 08:36 TheKefka wrote:
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On November 20 2011 08:34 HelloGoodbye wrote:
On November 20 2011 08:32 TheKefka wrote:
On November 20 2011 08:30 dcemuser wrote:
On November 20 2011 08:27 Fandango wrote:
Pretty much the most abusive build possible, I can't tell if I like it or hate it, i'm gonna go with hate because it's so easy to pull off in comparison to being ready to beat it.


It's not remotely easy to pull off. His sentry micro was sick.

That's pretty much the most complicated form of drop play you can pull off in sc2 rofl.


Says alot about the game though...

Drops in BW are hardly more complicated.What makes a good drop successful is a good diversion and fast execution.


Dropping in BW came down to a science as well in execution and the box.

Not the easiest thing to do, aye.
Lunares
Profile Joined May 2010
United States909 Posts
November 19 2011 23:40 GMT
#6507
On November 20 2011 08:39 KillAudio wrote:
Nooooo marine king is out! (((((((


No he's not. He has an extended series against sC, so it's a bo7 with MKP down 1-2 right now.
Katgram
Profile Joined June 2011
France45 Posts
November 19 2011 23:40 GMT
#6508
Players from the open bracket are stomping through the champ bracket for now...
Out of 10 seeded players, only one survived in the WB.
I came here for SC2... I stayed for BW!
Fandango
Profile Joined October 2011
291 Posts
November 19 2011 23:40 GMT
#6509
On November 20 2011 08:30 dcemuser wrote:
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On November 20 2011 08:27 Fandango wrote:
Pretty much the most abusive build possible, I can't tell if I like it or hate it, i'm gonna go with hate because it's so easy to pull off in comparison to being ready to beat it.


It's not remotely easy to pull off. His sentry micro was sick.


It was good but was largely unnecessary other than when the drones came and putting a control group into a warp prism is not sick micro by any means. Once the warp prism is set up and the sentries have done the ramp, there's very little micro to be done, he warped in a few zealots and had the void rays covering the prism from the few roaches that could spawn.

I do not get why people jump on any opinion of a build as if it's an indictment of the player's skill anyway. Void ray into warp prism sentry drop isn't remotely new either, it's part of the mixup that stargate allows you to get, you either go two stargate with phoenix or one stargate and robo into a number of options including this.

My issue with it is that it requires the zerg player to have adapted ahead of time by making units and positioning in the main base before the warp prism gets across and you can't easily scout the toss base because of the void rays. It's a very very good build but it abuses zerg's lack of stuff that can shoot up and distributed production heavily. You can't react to the warp prism in time because if you spawn everything on your main hatchery they can just pick up and go to the natural and get the ramp there.

I don't get it, you guys are protosses, you play against 1-1-1, why don't you get what constitutes a build being abusive and why does my opinion of hating that sort of build irritate you?
Ftrunkz
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
Australia2474 Posts
November 19 2011 23:40 GMT
#6510
On November 20 2011 08:34 Elem wrote:
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On November 20 2011 08:32 Golgotha wrote:
On November 20 2011 08:30 BouNCeR... wrote:
On November 20 2011 08:30 Golgotha wrote:
On November 20 2011 08:28 Jacobs Ladder wrote:
On November 20 2011 08:22 Goshdarnit wrote:
On November 20 2011 08:19 Pr0wler wrote:
Lol people still whine about archon toilet being OP... Newsflash: It's Not !

Hero is the best


Newflash! How do you avoid it? I know many people claim its op and others simply say no, but no denier of it being OP has yet said what zerg should do to combat vortex aside from being MORE than two bases ahead. Even then.... huk vs aria...

Huk vs Aria wasn't a serious game at all. Aria threw random comps at huk the whole time, anyone who understands the game can see how silly it was.

Zerg's CAN spread. When its Mothership/Archon against mass BL the Z has to play it kind of like a Terran. Slowly push, spread out broods, protect them. If you just 1a in and stack up, you WILL LOSE. Its the fact that Zerg players aren't used to slow pushing with slow units, they're used to swarming into the slow push and breaking it.


i know how to beat the toilet. mass banes and put them in the toilet along with the archons. boom.
wow you're really smart!

... stfu


no you stfu. what would happen though I never tried.
Banelings auto-detonate and nothing dies because of the ~1.5 second immunity after being vortexed (the "fix" to the archon toilet, but still works vs only Broodlords.)

??? This is completely not my experience at all... like 12+ banes and everything for the protoss that's ground dies when the vortex ends. I've had it happen many times to me (i open 2 base mothership into third all pvz's i play, high GM on SEA high masters on KR) and i guarantee you it was the reason why hero, if you watch that game over, intentionally DIDN'T put his archons into the vortex, and instead put them right outside of the vortex to hit the brood lords when they came out.

In my opinion archon toilet is fine. in broodwar you'd get punished to hell by storm if you stacked 12 guardians right on top of each other, so zergs got used to making a large concave with them so only 1-2 would get hit by storms. zergs will eventually learn a similar response to the archon toilet in sc2 if they want to continue to go broods against late game protoss, so only max of 3 broodlords can get sucked into the toilet.

Another thing that a lot of people dont realize is how bad archons can be against big enough numbers of broods without them all being vortexed. Because archons are large units (ie: they only fit through 2-hex gaps, same size as ultralisks and siege tanks), they struggle even more than most units to actually get around the broodlings to be able to get under the broodlords.
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puzzl
Profile Joined October 2010
United States263 Posts
November 19 2011 23:40 GMT
#6511
Ganzi's true weakness comes out, dropping his TvP below 35% I believe now. GJ Oz.
jeeneeus
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
1168 Posts
November 19 2011 23:40 GMT
#6512
On November 20 2011 08:39 KillAudio wrote:
Nooooo marine king is out! (((((((

????
MLGSC2Scores:
MarineKing wins 2-0 over QIM.DarkCell in OLR7. #MLG MKP used a mass BC/Raven army to win G2.
namste
Profile Joined October 2010
Finland2292 Posts
November 19 2011 23:40 GMT
#6513
On November 20 2011 08:39 KillAudio wrote:
Nooooo marine king is out! (((((((


It's an extended series. sC starts with 2-1 score.
IM hwaitiing ~ IMMvp #1 | Bang Min Ah <3<3
Ansinjunger
Profile Joined November 2010
United States2451 Posts
November 19 2011 23:40 GMT
#6514
On November 20 2011 08:37 Worldatlarge wrote:
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On November 20 2011 08:35 Plansix wrote:
On November 20 2011 08:34 Worldatlarge wrote:
On November 20 2011 08:30 dcemuser wrote:
On November 20 2011 08:27 Fandango wrote:
Pretty much the most abusive build possible, I can't tell if I like it or hate it, i'm gonna go with hate because it's so easy to pull off in comparison to being ready to beat it.


It's not remotely easy to pull off. His sentry micro was sick.


Eh, it was almost unneeded though. By the time he had to micro his sentries, he had already killed most of the drones and the Hydralisk Den. It's not easy to do it like Hero, but it's definitely an abusive build, and it is easy to pull off a shittier version of it.


Yeah, its totally abusive to zergs who go blind double expand off of slow lings. That's a totally safe and valid build...


How did slow lings or the delayed tech affect the defense at all? Ret either has Muta's and holds or he happens to scout it and has units in the main. Not saying it's undefendable, but it can definitely come down to a coin toss, much like that game.


Maybe he should have considered spawning so close to the enemy base when massing drones.
StarStruck
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
25339 Posts
November 19 2011 23:40 GMT
#6515
On November 20 2011 08:40 Grettin wrote:
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On November 20 2011 08:39 NagAfightinG wrote:
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[image loading]

HotBid is that you? :o


Thats not Hot_bid, i'm pretty sure.


Doesn't look a thing like him either.
Masil
Profile Joined July 2011
United States60 Posts
November 19 2011 23:41 GMT
#6516
Good job, oz!!!!
Be honest, be yourself.
HolyArrow
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States7116 Posts
November 19 2011 23:41 GMT
#6517
Hm. Premium streams are understandably require a pass, so I don't think I want to spend money at this point. Will all vods from both the Blue, Red, and Beta streams be uploaded later (for access by anyone)?
PresenceSc2
Profile Joined February 2011
Australia4032 Posts
November 19 2011 23:41 GMT
#6518
On November 20 2011 08:35 Zealot Lord wrote:
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On November 20 2011 08:30 dcemuser wrote:
On November 20 2011 08:27 Fandango wrote:
Pretty much the most abusive build possible, I can't tell if I like it or hate it, i'm gonna go with hate because it's so easy to pull off in comparison to being ready to beat it.


It's not remotely easy to pull off. His sentry micro was sick.


Not remotely easy is an understatement lol - to micro like that while keeping up with macro the way Hero did can only be done by tier 1 pro-toss players in the world.

That said, I feel like these sort of strategies rely so heavily on knowing your opponent, those who always go such insane amount of drones asap (like Ret) is most vulnerable to such builds.


Most zergs will go for 60+ drones in response to a ffe, so the build would at least do good damage if not win you the game.
Stephano//HerO//TaeJa//Squirtle//Bomber
Jomppa
Profile Joined July 2011
1225 Posts
November 19 2011 23:41 GMT
#6519
Kiwikaki vs DRG starting on red stream
Grettin
Profile Joined April 2010
42381 Posts
November 19 2011 23:41 GMT
#6520
On November 20 2011 08:40 terialk wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 20 2011 08:39 Grettin wrote:
On November 20 2011 08:38 terialk wrote:
omg have you guys seen that team slayers interview that got posted ~5 minutes ago? So touching :O!


Link?



Interview <- lol, can't believe I didn't link it. Here you go!


Thank you kind sir.
"If I had force-fields in Brood War, I'd never lose." -Bisu
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