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fastr
Profile Joined February 2011
France902 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-10-15 22:59:22
October 15 2017 22:59 GMT
#61
On October 16 2017 06:57 SnowfaLL wrote:
a completely undefended main that one sneaked overlord with a nydus could decimate in seconds with cracklings.


For the time it takes for a nydus to be built, enough lings coming out of it and destroying a nexus, Neeb would have had time to recall 10 times. Every other supposition you are making about scarlett potential harassment can be answered by the same thing: recall. You are the embodiment of the backseat twitch chat GM meme. It's obvious you either don't play starcraft or at a very low level, because your theory crafting makes absolutely no sense. Scarlett didn't play perfectly but neither did Neeb, actually he came very close to throwing the game due to some questionable fights. His saving grace was actually mining on Scarlett's side of the map which allowed him to spam zealot harass and win despite losing more ressources overall. If you wanna be critical of Scarlett's play, focus on that part of the game, unless in your world nydus and cracklings kill 15 cannons and a nexus in 3 seconds.
SnowfaLL
Profile Joined December 2008
Canada730 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-10-16 00:46:11
October 16 2017 00:45 GMT
#62
sigh.. 20 lings minus from her army would let neeb destroy her whole base? The irony of someone saying 'backseat twitch chat GM meme". Insult me all you want but you know I'm right in the fact that that game was VERY winnable from Scarlett with a few smarter decisions.

But its ok, keep telling yourself Protoss is overpowered and thats the only thing keeping you out of GM, or in Scarlett's case, the only thing keeping her from beating Neeb every single series they play.
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frazzle
Profile Joined June 2012
United States468 Posts
October 16 2017 00:51 GMT
#63
Congrats to Neeb! He makes it look so easy

Having said that, I think revelation should be nerfed a bit, and recall should cost double. What with warp ins AND recall, it is impossible for late game Protoss to ever "be out of position". Add that to the main army being unbeatable in one engage and that last game was agonizing to watch.
SnowfaLL
Profile Joined December 2008
Canada730 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-10-16 01:09:10
October 16 2017 01:04 GMT
#64
On October 16 2017 07:59 fastr wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 16 2017 06:57 SnowfaLL wrote:
a completely undefended main that one sneaked overlord with a nydus could decimate in seconds with cracklings.


For the time it takes for a nydus to be built, enough lings coming out of it and destroying a nexus, Neeb would have had time to recall 10 times. Every other supposition you are making about scarlett potential harassment can be answered by the same thing: recall. You are the embodiment of the backseat twitch chat GM meme. It's obvious you either don't play starcraft or at a very low level, because your theory crafting makes absolutely no sense. Scarlett didn't play perfectly but neither did Neeb, actually he came very close to throwing the game due to some questionable fights. His saving grace was actually mining on Scarlett's side of the map which allowed him to spam zealot harass and win despite losing more ressources overall. If you wanna be critical of Scarlett's play, focus on that part of the game, unless in your world nydus and cracklings kill 15 cannons and a nexus in 3 seconds.


Oh I'll even do you zerg memers one better.. Look, a replay! Dark vs Stats. Same situation, lategame skytoss vs wall of spores.. opening was oracle. I will even put it to where the oracle harass begins to see how "wrecked" Dark gets!




Notice what Dark does in this game?? I think that states my case 100%. Neeb had at least 2 free nexus mining that lings would have done SOMETHING at least, even forcing a recall like you guys say is well worth the wasted energy for 20 lings, but okk just pretend magically every pylon on the whole map can instantly start shooting despite how far away the MS is.

See the overlord drops?? no banes, just lings. While drops happening, lings harass the 4th, get the nexus despite 10 adepts there. Corruptors in with spray.. etc. OMG A BURROW SIGHTING!! He even sent 3 ultras into a cannon-defended base just to draw Stat's attention away.. This is how you play zerg, or you could just say "Welp, I know Protoss is OP so no point putting effort in getting better". Your choice.

Watch close at 22:18 - a 10 ling runby in the main to fight cannons + adepts, and listen to the casters (think its Rotti?? of course, a protoss player) - "That runby was so important!" omg who knew even 10 Lings were useful in the lategame! Not TeamLiquid!

I rest my case. Go study please.
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frazzle
Profile Joined June 2012
United States468 Posts
October 16 2017 02:10 GMT
#65
On October 16 2017 10:04 SnowfaLL wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 16 2017 07:59 fastr wrote:
On October 16 2017 06:57 SnowfaLL wrote:
a completely undefended main that one sneaked overlord with a nydus could decimate in seconds with cracklings.


For the time it takes for a nydus to be built, enough lings coming out of it and destroying a nexus, Neeb would have had time to recall 10 times. Every other supposition you are making about scarlett potential harassment can be answered by the same thing: recall. You are the embodiment of the backseat twitch chat GM meme. It's obvious you either don't play starcraft or at a very low level, because your theory crafting makes absolutely no sense. Scarlett didn't play perfectly but neither did Neeb, actually he came very close to throwing the game due to some questionable fights. His saving grace was actually mining on Scarlett's side of the map which allowed him to spam zealot harass and win despite losing more ressources overall. If you wanna be critical of Scarlett's play, focus on that part of the game, unless in your world nydus and cracklings kill 15 cannons and a nexus in 3 seconds.


Oh I'll even do you zerg memers one better.. Look, a replay! Dark vs Stats. Same situation, lategame skytoss vs wall of spores.. opening was oracle. I will even put it to where the oracle harass begins to see how "wrecked" Dark gets!


https://youtu.be/0FOSEBFeeiY?t=14m6s

Notice what Dark does in this game?? I think that states my case 100%. Neeb had at least 2 free nexus mining that lings would have done SOMETHING at least, even forcing a recall like you guys say is well worth the wasted energy for 20 lings, but okk just pretend magically every pylon on the whole map can instantly start shooting despite how far away the MS is.

See the overlord drops?? no banes, just lings. While drops happening, lings harass the 4th, get the nexus despite 10 adepts there. Corruptors in with spray.. etc. OMG A BURROW SIGHTING!! He even sent 3 ultras into a cannon-defended base just to draw Stat's attention away.. This is how you play zerg, or you could just say "Welp, I know Protoss is OP so no point putting effort in getting better". Your choice.

Watch close at 22:18 - a 10 ling runby in the main to fight cannons + adepts, and listen to the casters (think its Rotti?? of course, a protoss player) - "That runby was so important!" omg who knew even 10 Lings were useful in the lategame! Not TeamLiquid!

I rest my case. Go study please.

Did Stats do a whole bunch of oracles in to mass adept harass? Or just a couple oracles and sit back and defend? And then go into a concave Nexus contain? I don't have time to watch the whole thing now (saw it back at he time of course).

I feel like Scarlett was slightly behind because of slightly OP harass. Once it was late game, Neeb played it brilliantly, but with recall, long lasting revelation, pylon cannons and warp-ins it is way too hard to have a comeback, even with cost efficient engages. There was almost no way she gets an ovie on Neeb's side of the map. And Neeb's bases did have a few cannons each, they weren't undefended.

I love watching Rogue, Dark, soO and Solar win against late game toss. I'm not so sure they have it "figured out" just because Rogue won the GSL Tourney thingy. Late game toss losing to zerg just isn't what usually happens. That last game was not fun to watch.
SetGuitarsToKill
Profile Blog Joined December 2013
Canada28396 Posts
October 16 2017 02:45 GMT
#66
On October 16 2017 10:04 SnowfaLL wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 16 2017 07:59 fastr wrote:
On October 16 2017 06:57 SnowfaLL wrote:
a completely undefended main that one sneaked overlord with a nydus could decimate in seconds with cracklings.


For the time it takes for a nydus to be built, enough lings coming out of it and destroying a nexus, Neeb would have had time to recall 10 times. Every other supposition you are making about scarlett potential harassment can be answered by the same thing: recall. You are the embodiment of the backseat twitch chat GM meme. It's obvious you either don't play starcraft or at a very low level, because your theory crafting makes absolutely no sense. Scarlett didn't play perfectly but neither did Neeb, actually he came very close to throwing the game due to some questionable fights. His saving grace was actually mining on Scarlett's side of the map which allowed him to spam zealot harass and win despite losing more ressources overall. If you wanna be critical of Scarlett's play, focus on that part of the game, unless in your world nydus and cracklings kill 15 cannons and a nexus in 3 seconds.


Oh I'll even do you zerg memers one better.. Look, a replay! Dark vs Stats. Same situation, lategame skytoss vs wall of spores.. opening was oracle. I will even put it to where the oracle harass begins to see how "wrecked" Dark gets!


https://youtu.be/0FOSEBFeeiY?t=14m6s

Notice what Dark does in this game?? I think that states my case 100%. Neeb had at least 2 free nexus mining that lings would have done SOMETHING at least, even forcing a recall like you guys say is well worth the wasted energy for 20 lings, but okk just pretend magically every pylon on the whole map can instantly start shooting despite how far away the MS is.

See the overlord drops?? no banes, just lings. While drops happening, lings harass the 4th, get the nexus despite 10 adepts there. Corruptors in with spray.. etc. OMG A BURROW SIGHTING!! He even sent 3 ultras into a cannon-defended base just to draw Stat's attention away.. This is how you play zerg, or you could just say "Welp, I know Protoss is OP so no point putting effort in getting better". Your choice.

Watch close at 22:18 - a 10 ling runby in the main to fight cannons + adepts, and listen to the casters (think its Rotti?? of course, a protoss player) - "That runby was so important!" omg who knew even 10 Lings were useful in the lategame! Not TeamLiquid!

I rest my case. Go study please.


That's Tod, and I think he's overstating how important that ling runby is.

Anyway, the oracle usage is very different (2 vs Mass in Neeb's case). I feel like Scarlett was more behind in her game and Neeb played it out well to snowball it (before almost throwing at least). The game today was 100% a game of resources. Neeb was mining on Scarlett's side of the map and she never denied it, and when it was almost broke vs almost broke Neeb barely hung on. She didn't need lings on the other side of the map, she was barely hanging on at home forever and Neeb got away with one of the greediest nexus I've seen in a long while. 20 lings there could have denied it but she felt too pressured by the army to ever split anything off. Whether her feelings were correct and she really couldn't split anything off would require a rewatch to determine though. It was only defended by like 3 cannons but when every other base was defended by 20 maybe she thought she didn't see all of them or something.
Community News"As long as you have a warp prism you can't be bad at harassment" - Maru | @SetGuitars2Kill
blunderfulguy
Profile Blog Joined April 2016
United States1415 Posts
October 16 2017 03:49 GMT
#67
I wish I could take people who ask silly questions or claim that complex questions have simple answers and plop them into the game and make them play and have them witness everything from one perspective instead of the semi-omniscient perspective that spectators get.

There is so much that each player can't see and that alone has a huge impact on what both Neeb and Scarlett were doing for 10, 15, 20+ minutes of that final game. Even with Observers and Changelings and other scouting, there is so much you can't see. The vision they had, not just of the enemy army but their bases as well, and how they comprehend the state of the game changes several times every minute. Put [any Protoss player] and [any Zerg player] in that same game and a million different things will happen just from what they can and can't see and how they react to that on any given day.

"But look at this late game Protoss versus Zerg game that totally proves-" nothing. It doesn't show anything but a series of decisions that worked against another player's series of decisions in a very different type of game on a very different map with two very different players. Add as many objective similarities as you want, "Oracle harass" "late game skytoss" so on and so on, those similarities will still be incredibly minor compared to everything else going on.

This game, for example, was not a game of splitting one's attention or distracting, it was not a game arguably decided by a single push, and it was not a game played at the beginning of a series like the Stats vs. Dark example. This game was a game of vision, of positioning, a game of survival, attrition, structure vs unit defense, and. very importantly. it was a game of resources and Zerg vs Protoss late game reproduction cycles.

"See what Dark does in this ga-" look, it has so, so very little to do with anything that happened in the Scarlett vs. Neeb match that it just doesn't matter. That example and this gate are like brown sugar poptarts and barbecue chicken pizza, they're just too different to compare so simply or use any part as an argument against the other.

And, for all of those reasons and more, I found that game extremely fascinating to watch.
Blunder Man doing everything thing a blunder can.
-Kyo-
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Japan1926 Posts
October 16 2017 07:43 GMT
#68
wtb vods....
Anime is cuter than you. Legacy of the Void GM Protoss Gameplay: twitch.tv/kyo7763 youtube.com/user/KyoStarcraft/
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blunderfulguy
Profile Blog Joined April 2016
United States1415 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-10-16 18:52:33
October 16 2017 18:50 GMT
#69
On October 16 2017 16:43 -Kyo- wrote:
wtb vods....

Good, because you can literally buy access to their vods on https://www.twitch.tv/eschamp by subscribing, and for a little while longer all subscriptions are half off.

Otherwise, they should be uploaded to their YouTube soon(™).
I hope soon-soon, I missed the first few games of the day. ._.
Blunder Man doing everything thing a blunder can.
Scarlett`
Profile Joined April 2011
Canada2393 Posts
October 16 2017 19:02 GMT
#70
On October 16 2017 10:04 SnowfaLL wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 16 2017 07:59 fastr wrote:
On October 16 2017 06:57 SnowfaLL wrote:
a completely undefended main that one sneaked overlord with a nydus could decimate in seconds with cracklings.


For the time it takes for a nydus to be built, enough lings coming out of it and destroying a nexus, Neeb would have had time to recall 10 times. Every other supposition you are making about scarlett potential harassment can be answered by the same thing: recall. You are the embodiment of the backseat twitch chat GM meme. It's obvious you either don't play starcraft or at a very low level, because your theory crafting makes absolutely no sense. Scarlett didn't play perfectly but neither did Neeb, actually he came very close to throwing the game due to some questionable fights. His saving grace was actually mining on Scarlett's side of the map which allowed him to spam zealot harass and win despite losing more ressources overall. If you wanna be critical of Scarlett's play, focus on that part of the game, unless in your world nydus and cracklings kill 15 cannons and a nexus in 3 seconds.


Oh I'll even do you zerg memers one better.. Look, a replay! Dark vs Stats. Same situation, lategame skytoss vs wall of spores.. opening was oracle. I will even put it to where the oracle harass begins to see how "wrecked" Dark gets!


https://youtu.be/0FOSEBFeeiY?t=14m6s

Notice what Dark does in this game?? I think that states my case 100%. Neeb had at least 2 free nexus mining that lings would have done SOMETHING at least, even forcing a recall like you guys say is well worth the wasted energy for 20 lings, but okk just pretend magically every pylon on the whole map can instantly start shooting despite how far away the MS is.

See the overlord drops?? no banes, just lings. While drops happening, lings harass the 4th, get the nexus despite 10 adepts there. Corruptors in with spray.. etc. OMG A BURROW SIGHTING!! He even sent 3 ultras into a cannon-defended base just to draw Stat's attention away.. This is how you play zerg, or you could just say "Welp, I know Protoss is OP so no point putting effort in getting better". Your choice.

Watch close at 22:18 - a 10 ling runby in the main to fight cannons + adepts, and listen to the casters (think its Rotti?? of course, a protoss player) - "That runby was so important!" omg who knew even 10 Lings were useful in the lategame! Not TeamLiquid!

I rest my case. Go study please.


If you think you know better than me id be happy to play a betmatch
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ploguidice
Profile Blog Joined June 2013
United States233 Posts
October 16 2017 20:28 GMT
#71
On October 17 2017 04:02 Scarlett` wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 16 2017 10:04 SnowfaLL wrote:
On October 16 2017 07:59 fastr wrote:
On October 16 2017 06:57 SnowfaLL wrote:
a completely undefended main that one sneaked overlord with a nydus could decimate in seconds with cracklings.


For the time it takes for a nydus to be built, enough lings coming out of it and destroying a nexus, Neeb would have had time to recall 10 times. Every other supposition you are making about scarlett potential harassment can be answered by the same thing: recall. You are the embodiment of the backseat twitch chat GM meme. It's obvious you either don't play starcraft or at a very low level, because your theory crafting makes absolutely no sense. Scarlett didn't play perfectly but neither did Neeb, actually he came very close to throwing the game due to some questionable fights. His saving grace was actually mining on Scarlett's side of the map which allowed him to spam zealot harass and win despite losing more ressources overall. If you wanna be critical of Scarlett's play, focus on that part of the game, unless in your world nydus and cracklings kill 15 cannons and a nexus in 3 seconds.


Oh I'll even do you zerg memers one better.. Look, a replay! Dark vs Stats. Same situation, lategame skytoss vs wall of spores.. opening was oracle. I will even put it to where the oracle harass begins to see how "wrecked" Dark gets!


https://youtu.be/0FOSEBFeeiY?t=14m6s

Notice what Dark does in this game?? I think that states my case 100%. Neeb had at least 2 free nexus mining that lings would have done SOMETHING at least, even forcing a recall like you guys say is well worth the wasted energy for 20 lings, but okk just pretend magically every pylon on the whole map can instantly start shooting despite how far away the MS is.

See the overlord drops?? no banes, just lings. While drops happening, lings harass the 4th, get the nexus despite 10 adepts there. Corruptors in with spray.. etc. OMG A BURROW SIGHTING!! He even sent 3 ultras into a cannon-defended base just to draw Stat's attention away.. This is how you play zerg, or you could just say "Welp, I know Protoss is OP so no point putting effort in getting better". Your choice.

Watch close at 22:18 - a 10 ling runby in the main to fight cannons + adepts, and listen to the casters (think its Rotti?? of course, a protoss player) - "That runby was so important!" omg who knew even 10 Lings were useful in the lategame! Not TeamLiquid!

I rest my case. Go study please.


If you think you know better than me id be happy to play a betmatch


Oh snap! I love watching people being being told to put their money where their mouth is .
I'm Joe
ZigguratOfUr
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Iraq16955 Posts
October 16 2017 22:21 GMT
#72
On October 17 2017 05:28 ploguidice wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 17 2017 04:02 Scarlett` wrote:
On October 16 2017 10:04 SnowfaLL wrote:
On October 16 2017 07:59 fastr wrote:
On October 16 2017 06:57 SnowfaLL wrote:
a completely undefended main that one sneaked overlord with a nydus could decimate in seconds with cracklings.


For the time it takes for a nydus to be built, enough lings coming out of it and destroying a nexus, Neeb would have had time to recall 10 times. Every other supposition you are making about scarlett potential harassment can be answered by the same thing: recall. You are the embodiment of the backseat twitch chat GM meme. It's obvious you either don't play starcraft or at a very low level, because your theory crafting makes absolutely no sense. Scarlett didn't play perfectly but neither did Neeb, actually he came very close to throwing the game due to some questionable fights. His saving grace was actually mining on Scarlett's side of the map which allowed him to spam zealot harass and win despite losing more ressources overall. If you wanna be critical of Scarlett's play, focus on that part of the game, unless in your world nydus and cracklings kill 15 cannons and a nexus in 3 seconds.


Oh I'll even do you zerg memers one better.. Look, a replay! Dark vs Stats. Same situation, lategame skytoss vs wall of spores.. opening was oracle. I will even put it to where the oracle harass begins to see how "wrecked" Dark gets!


https://youtu.be/0FOSEBFeeiY?t=14m6s

Notice what Dark does in this game?? I think that states my case 100%. Neeb had at least 2 free nexus mining that lings would have done SOMETHING at least, even forcing a recall like you guys say is well worth the wasted energy for 20 lings, but okk just pretend magically every pylon on the whole map can instantly start shooting despite how far away the MS is.

See the overlord drops?? no banes, just lings. While drops happening, lings harass the 4th, get the nexus despite 10 adepts there. Corruptors in with spray.. etc. OMG A BURROW SIGHTING!! He even sent 3 ultras into a cannon-defended base just to draw Stat's attention away.. This is how you play zerg, or you could just say "Welp, I know Protoss is OP so no point putting effort in getting better". Your choice.

Watch close at 22:18 - a 10 ling runby in the main to fight cannons + adepts, and listen to the casters (think its Rotti?? of course, a protoss player) - "That runby was so important!" omg who knew even 10 Lings were useful in the lategame! Not TeamLiquid!

I rest my case. Go study please.


If you think you know better than me id be happy to play a betmatch


Oh snap! I love watching people being being told to put their money where their mouth is .


His argument suffers from a plethora of issues such as false analogies, and generalizations, but "1v1 me bro, I'm a stronger player so I know better" is hardly a rebuttal.
Boggyb
Profile Joined January 2017
2855 Posts
October 16 2017 22:49 GMT
#73
When non-Korean Terran players complain about balance, responses typically express the sentiment of "get good". One of the best if not the best Korean player at the moment is a Zerg and he's a ZvP god, including being a master of defeating late game skytoss armies, so the response to non-Korean Zerg players whining should be "get good".
SnowfaLL
Profile Joined December 2008
Canada730 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-10-17 00:03:07
October 16 2017 23:43 GMT
#74
On October 17 2017 04:02 Scarlett` wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 16 2017 10:04 SnowfaLL wrote:
On October 16 2017 07:59 fastr wrote:
On October 16 2017 06:57 SnowfaLL wrote:
a completely undefended main that one sneaked overlord with a nydus could decimate in seconds with cracklings.


For the time it takes for a nydus to be built, enough lings coming out of it and destroying a nexus, Neeb would have had time to recall 10 times. Every other supposition you are making about scarlett potential harassment can be answered by the same thing: recall. You are the embodiment of the backseat twitch chat GM meme. It's obvious you either don't play starcraft or at a very low level, because your theory crafting makes absolutely no sense. Scarlett didn't play perfectly but neither did Neeb, actually he came very close to throwing the game due to some questionable fights. His saving grace was actually mining on Scarlett's side of the map which allowed him to spam zealot harass and win despite losing more ressources overall. If you wanna be critical of Scarlett's play, focus on that part of the game, unless in your world nydus and cracklings kill 15 cannons and a nexus in 3 seconds.


Oh I'll even do you zerg memers one better.. Look, a replay! Dark vs Stats. Same situation, lategame skytoss vs wall of spores.. opening was oracle. I will even put it to where the oracle harass begins to see how "wrecked" Dark gets!


https://youtu.be/0FOSEBFeeiY?t=14m6s

Notice what Dark does in this game?? I think that states my case 100%. Neeb had at least 2 free nexus mining that lings would have done SOMETHING at least, even forcing a recall like you guys say is well worth the wasted energy for 20 lings, but okk just pretend magically every pylon on the whole map can instantly start shooting despite how far away the MS is.

See the overlord drops?? no banes, just lings. While drops happening, lings harass the 4th, get the nexus despite 10 adepts there. Corruptors in with spray.. etc. OMG A BURROW SIGHTING!! He even sent 3 ultras into a cannon-defended base just to draw Stat's attention away.. This is how you play zerg, or you could just say "Welp, I know Protoss is OP so no point putting effort in getting better". Your choice.

Watch close at 22:18 - a 10 ling runby in the main to fight cannons + adepts, and listen to the casters (think its Rotti?? of course, a protoss player) - "That runby was so important!" omg who knew even 10 Lings were useful in the lategame! Not TeamLiquid!

I rest my case. Go study please.


If you think you know better than me id be happy to play a betmatch


Obviously you'd wipe the floor with me (even if I used to be GM, but just started playing again this past month) but my point is, PLEASE stop with the "protoss is OP' crap.. You are too talented to be placing blame on your race with all the race switching crap and etc.. This is what bugs me, this whole finals of KOTN was basically just an hour of "Well Scarlett knows she wont win so shes going to offrace and have fun" and signs of "Buff Oracles" joking going around and stuff. Just play the games, if you win you win, if you lose you lose.

It's just a typical foreigner zerg thing.. IdrA really started it off, another foreigner with korean-like mechanics like you, but for some reason had this mental block when it comes to playing certain people like HuK (and oddly enough, playing protoss) - Korean zergs don't have this.. It frustrates me cause I want you to be Code S / GSL winning and I do think you are capable, once you stop placing blame on balance and start realizing you can beat anyone if you believe.

You can blame your fans and their constant zerg balance whining for my harsh critics. I'm just trying to explain to the page full of "Protoss is so balanced.." posts with "Well, Scarlett had a chance that game" - WHICH YOU DID. You can't deny that. Obviously game is hard, its not "easy" when you are taxed mentally, but you had a chance that game, it wasnt like it was a 100% loss. This is my point. But your fans just see "Scarlett lost, shes the best mechanical foreigner in the world, so of course protoss is broken!"
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SnowfaLL
Profile Joined December 2008
Canada730 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-10-17 00:01:20
October 16 2017 23:53 GMT
#75
On October 17 2017 07:49 Boggyb wrote:
When non-Korean Terran players complain about balance, responses typically express the sentiment of "get good". One of the best if not the best Korean player at the moment is a Zerg and he's a ZvP god, including being a master of defeating late game skytoss armies, so the response to non-Korean Zerg players whining should be "get good".


But this is exactly what the foreign SC2 community is. Zerg's have a built in excuse for some reason, they never need to "play better" cause they play "the weak race" but yet any Terran or Protoss who loses a game is just a bad player. Any Protoss who wins ANY game, is just a lame cheeser who has no skill, just go read TeamLiquid/Reddit threads Twitch chat when NEEB of all people wins games.. Unreal.

It's like avilo's mentality, but for some reason its a widely accepted opinion outside of korea for ALL zerg players. I don't know how everyone got so brainwashed to believe it..

The game is so different in Korea than it is in the rest of the world.. It almost seems like we're playing 2 different games. The way the foreigner community reacts almost seems like there is "SC2-Korean mode" where the races are normal, and "SC2 Foreign mode" where every zerg unit start with 30% less health. This is how I preceive the general balance consencus when hearing casters/forum/reddit talk outside of korea.

Anyways I'm done posting. Clearly this is not getting through. You will do anything to live in the lie that Protoss is imbalanced. I truly believe that Balance plays such a little part in this game, even at a pro level, that if you lose, you lost. If you win, you won. You can say "but Oracles!" but honestly, as soon as Oracles are nerfed next patch, as soon as Scarlett and Snute start losing to another Protoss build in 2018, the whole cycle will start again the exact same way. This is a re-played foreigner concept since 2011, it won't ever change. We need better, unbiased casters to make this community work and make this game live past 10 years. This is why BW is so great, people win and people lose, its up to them. No excuses.
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Drekkonis
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Canada286 Posts
October 17 2017 00:44 GMT
#76
On October 17 2017 03:50 blunderfulguy wrote:
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On October 16 2017 16:43 -Kyo- wrote:
wtb vods....

Good, because you can literally buy access to their vods on https://www.twitch.tv/eschamp by subscribing, and for a little while longer all subscriptions are half off.

Otherwise, they should be uploaded to their YouTube soon(™).
I hope soon-soon, I missed the first few games of the day. ._.


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frazzle
Profile Joined June 2012
United States468 Posts
October 17 2017 14:36 GMT
#77
On October 17 2017 08:53 SnowfaLL wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 17 2017 07:49 Boggyb wrote:
When non-Korean Terran players complain about balance, responses typically express the sentiment of "get good". One of the best if not the best Korean player at the moment is a Zerg and he's a ZvP god, including being a master of defeating late game skytoss armies, so the response to non-Korean Zerg players whining should be "get good".


But this is exactly what the foreign SC2 community is. Zerg's have a built in excuse for some reason, they never need to "play better" cause they play "the weak race" but yet any Terran or Protoss who loses a game is just a bad player. Any Protoss who wins ANY game, is just a lame cheeser who has no skill, just go read TeamLiquid/Reddit threads Twitch chat when NEEB of all people wins games.. Unreal.

It's like avilo's mentality, but for some reason its a widely accepted opinion outside of korea for ALL zerg players. I don't know how everyone got so brainwashed to believe it..

The game is so different in Korea than it is in the rest of the world.. It almost seems like we're playing 2 different games. The way the foreigner community reacts almost seems like there is "SC2-Korean mode" where the races are normal, and "SC2 Foreign mode" where every zerg unit start with 30% less health. This is how I preceive the general balance consencus when hearing casters/forum/reddit talk outside of korea.

Anyways I'm done posting. Clearly this is not getting through. You will do anything to live in the lie that Protoss is imbalanced. I truly believe that Balance plays such a little part in this game, even at a pro level, that if you lose, you lost. If you win, you won. You can say "but Oracles!" but honestly, as soon as Oracles are nerfed next patch, as soon as Scarlett and Snute start losing to another Protoss build in 2018, the whole cycle will start again the exact same way. This is a re-played foreigner concept since 2011, it won't ever change. We need better, unbiased casters to make this community work and make this game live past 10 years. This is why BW is so great, people win and people lose, its up to them. No excuses.

You really need to chill out.

Perhaps you main as toss and take extreme offense to any comments anyone makes about toss balance when toss wins. I get it, I main zerg and it was annoying, for example, to see so much whining early on in LotV about ZvT Ultralisks being "broken" before Terrans had even had the bothered to effectively incorporate Ghosts in their comps and learn to effectively use Liberators. I thought, "Hey, give it some time before jumping in and nerfing it".

That said, there's nothing wrong with commenting on a game like this and noting subtle things that make it frustrating to watch that could maybe be changed (obv. big changes are coming), like ridiculously long lasting revelation. If you can't have a level headed discussion about it after watching a game like that and at least acknowledge it may have looked bad from a zerg's perspective, then I don't know, I guess that's fine. Maybe once VoDs are up it will be easier to argue the specifics, but no need to get hot headed over it and throw l2p insults at Scarlett with comparisons to a Korean ZvP that played out entirely differently.
Drekkonis
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Canada286 Posts
October 18 2017 21:26 GMT
#78
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