ehhhh I retract my earlier statement..Symbol wins but could have done a better job. Not quite the standard I usually see from him.

- Needed more macro hatches

- Static D should have gone up earlier

- Needed more queen production to push the creep and transfuse.

He did play intelligently though, but Maru definitely did better in the macro.

Yello

Germany7411 Posts

July 23 2013 10:13 GMT

#650

On July 23 2013 19:09 Yello wrote:

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On July 23 2013 19:05 Yello wrote:

On July 23 2013 19:04 Yello wrote:

On July 23 2013 19:01 Yello wrote:

On July 23 2013 18:58 Yello wrote:

On July 23 2013 18:55 Yello wrote:

Maru vs.

Symbol
Game 3: Star Station

Maru spawns in the bottom right

Symbol spawns in the top left

0:00-4:00min
Depot, Rax and Gas on 8 supply for Maru
right in the vision range of Symbol's first Overlord

Symbol moves out with 2 Drones to snipe the SCV
Maru is able to finish the Barracks by moving the SCV on and of the Rax
first Reaper in production

Symbol went for Pool and Gas, 6 Lings and queen in production
Maru builds a single Reaper and then flies his Rax back home

4:00-6:00min
Maru starts harassing with the Reaper and gets a single Ling-kill but Symbol pushes him back with Lings and Queen
Hatchery at the natural, 2nd Queen and Ling-Speed started for Symbol

Maru walls his main with CC and Factory
Hellion and 3rd CC in production

The Rax reaches the main base and starts a Reactor

6:00-8:00min
Symbol sees the 2nd and 3rd CC with his Lings
3rd Hatch and Roach Warren on the way

4th CC on the way for Maru
Tech Lab at the Factory, Siege Tanks started

Maru takes his natural and builds a Bunker there while building more Marines and Tanks
Symbol scouts the 4th CC with an Overlord and starts Lair and double Evo

8:00-10:00min
Double E-Bay by Maru, Stim started as well
the Factory moves to the Reactor after building 2 Tanks

Spire and additional Gas on the way for Symbol
Symbol starts +1 melee and +1 ranged

Maru scans twice, once at the natural and once at the main but misses the Spire
after the Scans Symbol cancels his upgrades to get more Mutas out

10:00-12:00min
Maru takes his third base and builds more Rax, Mines and a Starport
Symbol starts +1 Melee and +1 armor after getting a bunch of Mutas out

Symbol starts harassing with his Mutas, Maru loses all his SCVs in the main
during all of this Symbol takes his 4th and goes up to almost 100 Drones

12:00-14:00min

114

160
Symbol builds 10 more Mutas and takes a 5th base as well
Maru sets up defensive Mines and Marines

14:00-16:00min
lots of Banelings in production for Symbol as well
Symbol tries to harass the third of Maru but loses a lot of Mutas to some Mines

Symbol is about to be maxed against 170 supply of Maru
Big engagement: Symbol attacks Maru as he wants to move out with 2-2

Maru uses burrow-unburrow-micro on his Mines and good Marine splits for a very efficient trade against Symbols Ling-Bane army

16:00-18:00min

189

170
Symbol is out of Larva, he has lots of Minerals and Gas but can't reproduce
Maru pushes out towards Symbol's 5th base with lots of Marine-Mine-Medivac

Symbol pushes Maru back with Lings and Banes but Maru keeps trading efficiently
Ultralisk Cavern on the way for Symbol

18:00-20:00min

200

171
Maru takes out the 5th of Symbol and backs off to push towards the 4th now
Symbol adds Infestors to his army and still has lots of Minerals and Gas

20:00-22:00min

189

200
Symbol takes a good engagement towards his 4th and cleans up a bunch of Mines and Marines with Fungal and Banelings
massive Ultralisk reinforcements by Symbol

Symbol takes a huge engagement with his Ultralisks at his 4th and cleans up Maru's push convincingly

22:00-24:00min

162

196
Maru starts adding more and more Marauders to his army
a single Medivac at Symbol's 5th gets denied by Ultralisks

Symbol builds more and more Ultralisks and attacks the 4th of Maru
Maru tries to defend with Marine-Marauder-Medivac and a few Mines and Tanks but Symbol just steamrolls him with Fungals and Ultralisks

Maru tries to hold onto the game with some stutter step micro but Symbol has a huge lead now and Corruptors for the Greater Spire already on the way and Maru leaves the game

Symbol takes game number 3!

hifriend

China7935 Posts

July 23 2013 10:14 GMT

#651

On July 23 2013 19:12 habeck wrote:
I miss WoL Ultras

How did they change in hots?

TeeTS

Germany2762 Posts

July 23 2013 10:14 GMT

#652

On July 23 2013 19:12 DarkLordOlli wrote:

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Symbol got ahead by Maru doing 8/8/8 that was scouted the second it was built

yeah 8/8/8 is the really the worst build to transition out of. symbol's call for quick mutas was the best way to deal with Maru's greed afterwards. GG by Symbol, but you shouldn't read much into it.

nojok

France15845 Posts

July 23 2013 10:14 GMT

#653

The whole MMM vs lings blings mutas infestor was cool. Before and after this it was rather crappy.

Olli

Austria24417 Posts

July 23 2013 10:14 GMT

#654

On July 23 2013 19:13 teddyoojo wrote:

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symbol wasnt ahead until 20 scvs died

Which was a following consequence of Maru's 8/8/8 being scouted and him having to play greedy as hell to catch up, giving Symbol a chance to do that damage

Sogetsu

514 Posts

July 23 2013 10:14 GMT

#655

I can't believe Symbol was playing SO BAD, I said before "Symbol is going to win for sure", but he was throwing the games so badly against the Mines -_-U

At least not it's 2-1, but I can't see it anymore advancing now =/