EPTOn July 30 2012 04:39 Mohdoo wrote:
Naniwa's personality and mindset plays hugely in his games. When he sees someone as a great player, he turns it up. When he sees them as bad, not only does he have a hard time taking them seriously, but he ALSO doesn't seem to put out the best builds. And this is something seen in many other situations. When other Code S players play in online cups or lower-tier tournaments, we don't see them do the same unbelievably refined, exact builds that we see in Code S. They don't use strategies that they spent weeks perfecting for something other than Code S. And this is something seen not only in Naniwa, but other players too. Naniwa considers himself a code S player first. He will travel to other tournaments, but Code S is the core objective in his career. Its no surprise that he did some really basic, by the book, predictable builds up til now.
Lets be honest. If you were a consistent Code S RO8 player and you were playing against someone you've never even heard of, would you be using your PvZ strats you intended to use in code S? I never even heard of this guy. He's playing well, and I agree that Naniwa misread the situation, but I think its a valid point to bring up how code S is played and how that compares to other methods of training.
Naniwa's personality and mindset plays hugely in his games. When he sees someone as a great player, he turns it up. When he sees them as bad, not only does he have a hard time taking them seriously, but he ALSO doesn't seem to put out the best builds. And this is something seen in many other situations. When other Code S players play in online cups or lower-tier tournaments, we don't see them do the same unbelievably refined, exact builds that we see in Code S. They don't use strategies that they spent weeks perfecting for something other than Code S. And this is something seen not only in Naniwa, but other players too. Naniwa considers himself a code S player first. He will travel to other tournaments, but Code S is the core objective in his career. Its no surprise that he did some really basic, by the book, predictable builds up til now.
Lets be honest. If you were a consistent Code S RO8 player and you were playing against someone you've never even heard of, would you be using your PvZ strats you intended to use in code S? I never even heard of this guy. He's playing well, and I agree that Naniwa misread the situation, but I think its a valid point to bring up how code S is played and how that compares to other methods of training.
It's not even the builds, on Metropolis he didn't scout and didn't see he could have won the game, instead dancing around, wasting forcefields, focusing a hatch until it had 30% and then stopping even though he could have finished it. This last game he attacked with stalkers with all his archons/immortals sitting behind, he blinked into a bunch of infested terrans and spines, he had horrible timings and position.
I remember his series against Nestea and DRG for exemple, not in Code S but still incredibly crisp play and perfect micro. Maybe he is tired or something, but this was definitely not his usual level of skill.
