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ForTheDr3am
Profile Joined November 2010
842 Posts
January 15 2012 14:57 GMT
#1701
You need to kill Zerg before he gets his deathball, because Broodlord/Infestor/Corruptor is more supplyefficient than anything Protoss can manage.
Zane
Profile Joined January 2011
Romania3916 Posts
January 15 2012 14:57 GMT
#1702
On January 15 2012 23:48 Lann555 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 15 2012 23:46 Flanq wrote:
On January 15 2012 23:45 clusen wrote:
On January 15 2012 23:44 Flanq wrote:
What happened to people getting some void rays against broodlords, that used to work quite well didn't it? or do infestors make that a bad thing to do.

Yep, infestor are too good against voids

I thought as much, this army for zerg does look WAY too unbeatable though. Not a balance whine because i know they'll change it for HotS, but it sucks


Well, it's balanced in a shitty way. Protoss has to kill Zerg early or do massive damage. If you play a passive game, you will get the snot beaten out of you by any good zerg, since their deathball is unbeatable without a good archon toilet.

Well this sounds awfully similar to another protoss match-up.
Lann555
Profile Joined February 2010
Netherlands5173 Posts
January 15 2012 14:58 GMT
#1703
On January 15 2012 23:57 ForTheDr3am wrote:
You need to kill Zerg before he gets his deathball, because Broodlord/Infestor/Corruptor is more supplyefficient than anything Protoss can manage.


Pretty much. I hope Grubby gives up on trying to play lategame with Stephano. He gets away with it vs sloppier Zergs, but Stephano knows Z lategame too well (he actually things it's overpowered). Gogogogo 7 gate
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Pandain
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States12989 Posts
January 15 2012 14:58 GMT
#1704
On January 15 2012 23:53 HaXXspetten wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 15 2012 23:51 Pandain wrote:
On January 15 2012 23:49 Tarotis wrote:
On January 15 2012 23:48 Pandain wrote:
You need to tech switch to carriers. I kept waiting for him to realize that he can't beat that many broodlords with any amount of ground army. Mass carrier mothership really is one of the few counnters to infestor broodlord, with 3 or so collusus support.

Have you ever tried building carriers? They need ages...


Yeah so does getting up a broodlord infestor corruptor army. The way stephano played(super passive) just invited carrier tech switch.

I've seen plenty of tosses beat infestor broodlords with carrier/mothership based armies. MC, Hongun, Huk, they all eventually tech switch to carriers.

Not really true. Yes, it takes a long time to tech up to, but once you have the tech, you can have a full army in a minute, simply because of how Zerg production works. Protoss however can only build one Carrier at a time per Stargate, and each takes 120 seconds, even if you build like 4 Stargates, it would take like 5 minutes with chrono boost to get a dozen of them... and then they just die anyway because Carriers are godawful :/


Pure carriers are awful yes.
But when you have a mothership(can vortex corruptors/infestors), collusus(kills broodlings, infestors), and some stalker and high templar support(feedback +storm), you can't just say "corruptors counter carriers."
red4ce
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States7313 Posts
January 15 2012 14:58 GMT
#1705
On January 15 2012 23:53 Lann555 wrote:
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On January 15 2012 23:52 KalWarkov wrote:
I like how the "protoss deathball is unbeatable" changed to "zerg deathball is unbeatable", while protoss got buffed and zerg got nerfed :D

zerg brains function slower i guess, they realized they have T3 units and casters as well ~.~


Didn't Voidrays work differently back in the day?


Fungal growth is better now than it was back then too.
Doublemint
Profile Joined July 2011
Austria8760 Posts
January 15 2012 14:58 GMT
#1706
On January 15 2012 23:57 ForTheDr3am wrote:
You need to kill Zerg before he gets his deathball, because Broodlord/Infestor/Corruptor is more supplyefficient than anything Protoss can manage.

absolutely agree with this. or you hope you don´t face stephano who denies archon toilet with splitting like a boss^^.
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before the fall.
ZAiNs
Profile Joined July 2010
United Kingdom6525 Posts
January 15 2012 14:58 GMT
#1707
Stephano is an Evil Genuis?!
Seraphone
Profile Joined January 2012
United Kingdom1219 Posts
January 15 2012 14:59 GMT
#1708
On January 15 2012 23:55 graNite wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 15 2012 23:49 Seraphone wrote:
On January 15 2012 23:47 Moriarty wrote:
How the hell would Grubby even beat that comp of Stephano?


Grubby could and should have won that game. He had so many opportunities to snipe hatcheries with DT's both when his shrine finished and when he had the warp prism in the bottom of the map.

When it gets to 10 spines at every base and max brood/infestor then sure he can't win but he made a lot of errors by not utilising major harass opportunities.


Read his post again: the question was how to beat this composition of broodlord infestor, not how to win a game vs stephano.

the real problem are the infestors, because the counter everything with chain fungal. i think there should be a delay so that you cant fungal the same unit again for a short period so that there is a way to run after a fungal.

i feel like carries could beat broodfestors, but they are too easily countered with corrupters


I don't feel like it's valid to argue that if you leave a player to do what he likes for 25 minutes and he gets an unbeatable composition the game is imbalanced.

This is the exact same conversation Zergs had with Protoss six months ago and are having with Terran now over ghost mech.

One race will always have a better Kulas extreme level composition, but Protoss has plenty of opportunity to do something before Zerg gets infinite gas.
Mvp, Nestea, Leenock, MC, Oz, Jjakji!
KalWarkov
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
Germany4126 Posts
January 15 2012 14:59 GMT
#1709
On January 15 2012 23:56 Seraphone wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 15 2012 23:54 KalWarkov wrote:
On January 15 2012 23:52 Tarotis wrote:
On January 15 2012 23:50 Seraphone wrote:
On January 15 2012 23:48 Lann555 wrote:
On January 15 2012 23:46 Flanq wrote:
On January 15 2012 23:45 clusen wrote:
On January 15 2012 23:44 Flanq wrote:
What happened to people getting some void rays against broodlords, that used to work quite well didn't it? or do infestors make that a bad thing to do.

Yep, infestor are too good against voids

I thought as much, this army for zerg does look WAY too unbeatable though. Not a balance whine because i know they'll change it for HotS, but it sucks


Well, it's balanced in a shitty way. Protoss has to kill Zerg early or do massive damage. If you play a passive game, you will get the snot beaten out of you by any good zerg, since their deathball is unbeatable without a good archon toilet.

That's why MC still does good vs Zerg. He just 7gates blinks all the time


Not true. Hero and JYP win late game vs Zerg all the time.

Ye, I saw JYP winning against Dimaga on Dual Sight at the HSC...oh wait!


Give dimaga the brain to play lategame like stephano. Dimaga shouldve 3-0d JYP easily, he threw all games away.


And yet Stephano lost 2-0 to MC and actually is 0-5 against MC.

The game is not imbalanced.


and every game ended before the 20 minute mark with strange allins protoss relies on.
DiaBoLuS ** Sc2 - Protoss: 16x GM | Dota2 - Offlane Immortal | Wc3 - Undead decent level | Diablo nerd | Chess / Magnus fanboy | BVB | Agnostic***
Noocta
Profile Joined June 2010
France12578 Posts
January 15 2012 14:59 GMT
#1710
A player than mess with grubby more than stephano ?
Well... Moon ?
" I'm not gonna fight you. I'm gonna kick your ass ! "
KalWarkov
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
Germany4126 Posts
January 15 2012 15:00 GMT
#1711
On January 15 2012 23:59 Seraphone wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 15 2012 23:55 graNite wrote:
On January 15 2012 23:49 Seraphone wrote:
On January 15 2012 23:47 Moriarty wrote:
How the hell would Grubby even beat that comp of Stephano?


Grubby could and should have won that game. He had so many opportunities to snipe hatcheries with DT's both when his shrine finished and when he had the warp prism in the bottom of the map.

When it gets to 10 spines at every base and max brood/infestor then sure he can't win but he made a lot of errors by not utilising major harass opportunities.


Read his post again: the question was how to beat this composition of broodlord infestor, not how to win a game vs stephano.

the real problem are the infestors, because the counter everything with chain fungal. i think there should be a delay so that you cant fungal the same unit again for a short period so that there is a way to run after a fungal.

i feel like carries could beat broodfestors, but they are too easily countered with corrupters


I don't feel like it's valid to argue that if you leave a player to do what he likes for 25 minutes and he gets an unbeatable composition the game is imbalanced.

This is the exact same conversation Zergs had with Protoss six months ago and are having with Terran now over ghost mech.

One race will always have a better Kulas extreme level composition, but Protoss has plenty of opportunity to do something before Zerg gets infinite gas.


so you want to say protoss has an advantage over Zerg in early and midgame? I would say the opposite.
DiaBoLuS ** Sc2 - Protoss: 16x GM | Dota2 - Offlane Immortal | Wc3 - Undead decent level | Diablo nerd | Chess / Magnus fanboy | BVB | Agnostic***
wklbishop
Profile Joined July 2011
United States1286 Posts
January 15 2012 15:00 GMT
#1712
On January 15 2012 23:56 Seraphone wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 15 2012 23:54 KalWarkov wrote:
On January 15 2012 23:52 Tarotis wrote:
On January 15 2012 23:50 Seraphone wrote:
On January 15 2012 23:48 Lann555 wrote:
On January 15 2012 23:46 Flanq wrote:
On January 15 2012 23:45 clusen wrote:
On January 15 2012 23:44 Flanq wrote:
What happened to people getting some void rays against broodlords, that used to work quite well didn't it? or do infestors make that a bad thing to do.

Yep, infestor are too good against voids

I thought as much, this army for zerg does look WAY too unbeatable though. Not a balance whine because i know they'll change it for HotS, but it sucks


Well, it's balanced in a shitty way. Protoss has to kill Zerg early or do massive damage. If you play a passive game, you will get the snot beaten out of you by any good zerg, since their deathball is unbeatable without a good archon toilet.

That's why MC still does good vs Zerg. He just 7gates blinks all the time


Not true. Hero and JYP win late game vs Zerg all the time.

Ye, I saw JYP winning against Dimaga on Dual Sight at the HSC...oh wait!


Give dimaga the brain to play lategame like stephano. Dimaga shouldve 3-0d JYP easily, he threw all games away.


And yet Stephano lost 2-0 to MC and actually is 0-5 against MC.

The game is not imbalanced.


MC knows how to do it right, he just kills the zerg before they get that composition. The one time he came close to facing that composition was on Daybreak in HSC, but he killed Stephano before he reached critical mass.

Honestly, for all the criticism MC gets for his timings, I honestly think he knows how to face zerg correctly nowadays.
Gameplay > Personality
Seraphone
Profile Joined January 2012
United Kingdom1219 Posts
January 15 2012 15:01 GMT
#1713
On January 15 2012 23:59 KalWarkov wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 15 2012 23:56 Seraphone wrote:
On January 15 2012 23:54 KalWarkov wrote:
On January 15 2012 23:52 Tarotis wrote:
On January 15 2012 23:50 Seraphone wrote:
On January 15 2012 23:48 Lann555 wrote:
On January 15 2012 23:46 Flanq wrote:
On January 15 2012 23:45 clusen wrote:
On January 15 2012 23:44 Flanq wrote:
What happened to people getting some void rays against broodlords, that used to work quite well didn't it? or do infestors make that a bad thing to do.

Yep, infestor are too good against voids

I thought as much, this army for zerg does look WAY too unbeatable though. Not a balance whine because i know they'll change it for HotS, but it sucks


Well, it's balanced in a shitty way. Protoss has to kill Zerg early or do massive damage. If you play a passive game, you will get the snot beaten out of you by any good zerg, since their deathball is unbeatable without a good archon toilet.

That's why MC still does good vs Zerg. He just 7gates blinks all the time


Not true. Hero and JYP win late game vs Zerg all the time.

Ye, I saw JYP winning against Dimaga on Dual Sight at the HSC...oh wait!


Give dimaga the brain to play lategame like stephano. Dimaga shouldve 3-0d JYP easily, he threw all games away.


And yet Stephano lost 2-0 to MC and actually is 0-5 against MC.

The game is not imbalanced.


and every game ended before the 20 minute mark with strange allins protoss relies on.


Not true. One of the Homestory 3 games was late game and the Blizzard Cup game Stephano all inn'd MC. You don't have a god given right to win if you let your opponent do whatever he wants.
Mvp, Nestea, Leenock, MC, Oz, Jjakji!
vOkk
Profile Joined June 2010
Belgium576 Posts
January 15 2012 15:01 GMT
#1714
On January 15 2012 23:59 Noocta wrote:
A player than mess with grubby more than stephano ?
Well... Moon ?


TB has no clue about wc3
Tarotis
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
Germany1931 Posts
January 15 2012 15:01 GMT
#1715
On January 16 2012 00:01 vOkk wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 15 2012 23:59 Noocta wrote:
A player than mess with grubby more than stephano ?
Well... Moon ?


TB has no clue about wc3

He has none about SC2 either....
poorcloud
Profile Joined April 2011
Singapore2748 Posts
January 15 2012 15:02 GMT
#1716
Watch slayers brown guys, he will be the answer to this late game z v p style.
MrCash
Profile Joined October 2011
United States1504 Posts
January 15 2012 15:02 GMT
#1717
Grubby doesn't appear to quite be ready to take on Stephano.
So far this has been an extremely one sided match up.
-y0shi-
Profile Joined July 2011
Germany994 Posts
January 15 2012 15:03 GMT
#1718
Mutas are such bullshit... this is painful to watch
Seraphone
Profile Joined January 2012
United Kingdom1219 Posts
January 15 2012 15:03 GMT
#1719
On January 16 2012 00:00 KalWarkov wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 15 2012 23:59 Seraphone wrote:
On January 15 2012 23:55 graNite wrote:
On January 15 2012 23:49 Seraphone wrote:
On January 15 2012 23:47 Moriarty wrote:
How the hell would Grubby even beat that comp of Stephano?


Grubby could and should have won that game. He had so many opportunities to snipe hatcheries with DT's both when his shrine finished and when he had the warp prism in the bottom of the map.

When it gets to 10 spines at every base and max brood/infestor then sure he can't win but he made a lot of errors by not utilising major harass opportunities.


Read his post again: the question was how to beat this composition of broodlord infestor, not how to win a game vs stephano.

the real problem are the infestors, because the counter everything with chain fungal. i think there should be a delay so that you cant fungal the same unit again for a short period so that there is a way to run after a fungal.

i feel like carries could beat broodfestors, but they are too easily countered with corrupters


I don't feel like it's valid to argue that if you leave a player to do what he likes for 25 minutes and he gets an unbeatable composition the game is imbalanced.

This is the exact same conversation Zergs had with Protoss six months ago and are having with Terran now over ghost mech.

One race will always have a better Kulas extreme level composition, but Protoss has plenty of opportunity to do something before Zerg gets infinite gas.


so you want to say protoss has an advantage over Zerg in early and midgame? I would say the opposite.


I don't think you can make sweeping statements like one race is better in the early, mid and late game. It completely depends on the map, the skill of the players involved and the compositions/upgrades in question.
Mvp, Nestea, Leenock, MC, Oz, Jjakji!
WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland27209 Posts
January 15 2012 15:03 GMT
#1720
On January 16 2012 00:02 poorcloud wrote:
Watch slayers brown guys, he will be the answer to this late game z v p style.

What does he do differently? The games I saw from him were similar endgames, but the Zerg I saw him play let him get an archon toilet on his entire army.
'You'll always be the cuddly marsupial of my heart, despite the inherent flaws of your ancestry' - Squat
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