[SPL] Round 2 2016 - SKT T1 vs Afreeca Freecs - Page 8

On April 11 2016 19:56 opisska wrote:
It's kinda understandable how dark ended up with pure ultra - he was scrambling for army, everything but ultras got always repeatedly killed, a lot of the army was split and even though lone ultras are not great, they are still the best thing you can buy for that money - two infestors and ten lings won't do much alone, a single ultra will at least slow down the bio for a while.

But in general, Dark was just not being greedy enough at the start. Also it's funny how he does make banes in ZvP and refuses to do so in ZvT

On April 11 2016 20:01 OtherWorld wrote:

It will be

On April 11 2016 20:02 Heartland wrote:


It's about more than that really.

On April 11 2016 20:04 Heartland wrote:
for all the shit we give Blizzard they were right about boosting drop play

On April 11 2016 19:56 opisska wrote:
It's kinda understandable how dark ended up with pure ultra - he was scrambling for army, everything but ultras got always repeatedly killed, a lot of the army was split and even though lone ultras are not great, they are still the best thing you can buy for that money - two infestors and ten lings won't do much alone, a single ultra will at least slow down the bio for a while.

But in general, Dark was just not being greedy enough at the start. Also it's funny how he does make banes in ZvP and refuses to do so in ZvT

On April 11 2016 20:03 Liquid`Snute wrote:

dark's macro at the start was great, and he even added in drones for his 4th after killing 70% of bomber's initial 2/4vacdrop force. so he was definitely appropriately 'greedy'. the biggest mistakes were transitioning into banelings and ultralisks rather than sticking on pure roach ravager infestor against an opponent that didn't have a single tank or mine. roach ravager queen with the early infestors dark had would keep him safe forever against bomber's 3base allin, there was no need to make banelings at all compared to adding in a few ravagers/another infestor and the ultra transition (if it ever had to happen) could've been delayed without problem. for example dark had those amazing fungals but no mass ravagers to combo the entire fungal field with. he probably expected bomber to play passive, which in and of itself is a bit weird since bomber has been doing 3cc ~60scv non-stop builds for 5++ years now XD

in the situation he was in though, you're correct, making pure mass ultra is the only reasonable choice since you have excess gas (but not mineral patches) and ultralisks are the only reasonable choice to spend minerals on at that point.