The Battle of the Smiling Assassins! Say whatttttttttttt I didn't see this storyline building !! We could have two of the most happy players in the booths together, this is insane too much happiness!?!1?

GumBa

United Kingdom31935 Posts

March 15 2014 19:01 GMT

#4226

On March 16 2014 04:01 Incognoto wrote:

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Well, I could be wrong.

Hmm second thoughts kinda??

arkedos

Germany1426 Posts

March 15 2014 19:02 GMT

#4227

On March 16 2014 04:01 Darkhorse wrote:
Wow Artosis is horrible. He wants to see herO or Polt sad.

taking the artosis curse to another level.

lichter

1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts

March 15 2014 19:02 GMT

#4228

herO doesn't always play standard ToD

ssxsilver

United States4409 Posts

March 15 2014 19:02 GMT

#4229

Damn I was hoping for Ret's casting. He gets so into Polt games.

Cheren

United States2911 Posts

March 15 2014 19:02 GMT

#4230

On March 16 2014 04:01 Neazbo wrote:
Why are they pretending like Polt doesn't have the greatest TvP this world has ever seen?

Polt 3 - 2 herO

Dunno, he seemed like the favorite in every TvP even before the patch.

bo1b

Australia12814 Posts

March 15 2014 19:02 GMT

#4231

On March 16 2014 04:01 BigFan wrote:

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On March 16 2014 03:58 bo1b wrote:

On March 16 2014 03:52 BigFan wrote:

On March 16 2014 03:45 bo1b wrote:

On March 16 2014 03:42 BigFan wrote:

On March 16 2014 03:41 bo1b wrote:
Honestly that was incredibly dissapointing from life, his micro was back in shape but he kept making such silly decisions over and over, we saw the constant run by metagame like 3/4 months ago, and it never worked there so I don't know why he's trying it now.

Undermaking banelings, suiciding banelings, not making mutas for no real reason (when muta/ling/bling is almost indisputably the best comp until ultra/infestor comes out and even then it's pretty fucking good). Ugh, really disappointing to see him get a pretty sizable lead every game then throw it away. Should have been a 3:0 tbh

it's his style so you can't ask him to change that.

I can ask him to run by into targets that are actually worth hitting, like production though. Honestly his style is self defeating

He did some pretty good damage with it. I'm not sure how familiar you are with BW but as an example: Bisu is known for his use of dts and corsairs. Even after his opponent know his style and adapt to it(spores+hydras to defend), they will eventually suffer damage with it. In starcraft, all it takes is for you to not notice a runby, drop etc... and you can lose quite a lot of infrastructure, workers and such. I blame life losing for his mistakes and less so for the runbys even if some weren't very cost efficient.

On March 16 2014 03:45 ArTiFaKs wrote:

On March 16 2014 03:42 BigFan wrote:

it's his style so you can't ask him to change that.

Throwing away banelings for SCVs is the dumbest "style" you can ever have. He will never beat a decent Terran if he keeps doing that. Everyone has basically figured out that the more muta heavy compositions are x10 better than the heavy ling style. 35 Mutas is way more of a threat than 80 lings that can die in 5 seconds. And he was consistently banking like 3k gas all game he could've easily cut back on the lings and made more banelings/mutas/bases in general. Just my opinion anyways and I think the recent ZvT's have shown that's true.

I wasn't actually commenting on the banelings aspect but more so on the constant ling runbys. He's been doing it since he came onto the scene(or at least GSL and other tourneys) so I don't see why he should stop. In those games, the runbys did a lot of damage. I think Taeja needs to be given a lot of credit for minimizing the damage and if it wasn't for life detonating his banes in games 1 and 2, then this could've been his series..

I've actually watched quite a lot of broodwar, though I haven't played enough for me to feel confident giving out even a wrong understanding of the game

That said, the style of harrassing the economy of terrans in zvt doesn't work because of mules, while harassing production lines of terrans is game winning. Yes, if you were to keep emptying mineral lines it would pay off, but the style almost never pays off because outside of maybe drg there just isn't anyone with the mechanics to keep it up for enough time to pay off.

did you end up watching SSL9 finals today? it was sick. Bisu vs hero, PvZ. If you plan to watch, don't look at this gif below:
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Anyways, I think production is also a good idea but does life know that?

lol

I didn't see, but that observer has about 80000 apm lol look at the building selection rate

liberate71

Australia10252 Posts

March 15 2014 19:02 GMT

#4232

On March 16 2014 04:01 Neazbo wrote:
Why are they pretending like Polt doesn't have the greatest TvP this world has ever seen?

Polt 3 - 2 herO

Cause he beat Dear 3-2 who made quite a few mistakes in most of his matches

I think Polt is awesome as well, but I think the debate is right there, im going 50/50 though