On March 16 2013 06:03 gamerdude12345 wrote: I haven't followed HotS a lot, but is protoss still the turtle race for professional players? Blizzard stated they wanted to promote less turtle and less deathball play with the MsCore and the Oracle. Curious to see if it worked or not (as this is the first major tournament since HotS release and the players will most likely be much better than IEM).
It's really cool now, there's a lot of hydras and storm dodging and positioning with swarm hosts and zealot runbys, plus abducts on Colossus/Void Ray that can be countered with feedbacks. A lot of people still don't like it, but it's WAY better than Infestor/Brood Lord vs Mothership.
False, most games i see on professional streams are the protoss turtling to air and terrans turtling to mass ravens...Even from the games i've played, everyone just turtles for 20mins until they get maxxed out air. Quite frustrating.
On March 16 2013 06:03 gamerdude12345 wrote: I haven't followed HotS a lot, but is protoss still the turtle race for professional players? Blizzard stated they wanted to promote less turtle and less deathball play with the MsCore and the Oracle. Curious to see if it worked or not (as this is the first major tournament since HotS release and the players will most likely be much better than IEM).
It's really cool now, there's a lot of hydras and storm dodging and positioning with swarm hosts and zealot runbys, plus abducts on Colossus/Void Ray that can be countered with feedbacks. A lot of people still don't like it, but it's WAY better than Infestor/Brood Lord vs Mothership.
As a protoss player who's worst matchup in hots so far is PvZ I say void rays need some kind of nerf tho, but agreed on everything u said.
On March 16 2013 06:11 Sc2Null wrote: False, most games i see on professional streams are the protoss turtling to air and terrans turtling to mass ravens...Even from the games i've played, everyone just turtles for 20mins until they get maxxed out air. Quite frustrating.
On March 16 2013 06:11 Sc2Null wrote: False, most games i see on professional streams are the protoss turtling to air and terrans turtling to mass ravens...Even from the games i've played, everyone just turtles for 20mins until they get maxxed out air. Quite frustrating.
maybe you have been incredibly unlucky, i think those games aren't common
On March 16 2013 06:11 Sc2Null wrote: False, most games i see on professional streams are the protoss turtling to air and terrans turtling to mass ravens...Even from the games i've played, everyone just turtles for 20mins until they get maxxed out air. Quite frustrating.
I didn't see any games like that at IEM.
Well people didn't know how strong VR's were at IEM now did they ~.~
On March 16 2013 06:11 Sc2Null wrote: False, most games i see on professional streams are the protoss turtling to air and terrans turtling to mass ravens...Even from the games i've played, everyone just turtles for 20mins until they get maxxed out air. Quite frustrating.
I didn't see any games like that at IEM.
Well people didn't know how strong VR's were at IEM now did they ~.~
On March 16 2013 06:03 gamerdude12345 wrote: I haven't followed HotS a lot, but is protoss still the turtle race for professional players? Blizzard stated they wanted to promote less turtle and less deathball play with the MsCore and the Oracle. Curious to see if it worked or not (as this is the first major tournament since HotS release and the players will most likely be much better than IEM).
It's really cool now, there's a lot of hydras and storm dodging and positioning with swarm hosts and zealot runbys, plus abducts on Colossus/Void Ray that can be countered with feedbacks. A lot of people still don't like it, but it's WAY better than Infestor/Brood Lord vs Mothership.
Ah cool, thanks. I'd imagine turtling is still pretty popular on the ladder as it gives you the most amount of XP possible (more than a 2-base allin / cheese) per minute per game.
On March 16 2013 06:22 Havik_ wrote: I assume the rest of the Ro32 games will be tomorrow along with the Ro16?
yup!
Thanks. As for today's games. I want to see:
Huk v Innovation Seed vs Rain MKP vs Jjakji
The mirrors will probably be pretty meh quality, but its high level hots, so I'm excited. Flash or Innovation will win the whole thing is my guess. I'd love to have Bomber make a late tournament run though.
On March 16 2013 06:11 Sc2Null wrote: False, most games i see on professional streams are the protoss turtling to air and terrans turtling to mass ravens...Even from the games i've played, everyone just turtles for 20mins until they get maxxed out air. Quite frustrating.