[GSL] Super Tournament Season 1 2018 - Day 3

On April 07 2018 03:45 Myrddrael wrote:
Maru 2 - 3 Classic
Dark 3 - 1 TRUE
Bogus 3 - 2 herO
Solar 3 - 1 Stats

Super hard to call these but I'll go like this

On April 07 2018 12:45 Cricketer12 wrote:

You love underrating stats huh?

On April 07 2018 14:10 Ej_ wrote:

It's been his best matchup throughout his entire career, with 65% wr offline vs Korean opponenta in LotV.
After the Blizzcon patch, his ZvT actuay skyrocketed above it 70%, but Solar's ZvP is as unreliable as the player himself is, and it's the one matchup where he's performed in throughout the years regardless of his form (like beating Stats in SSL before getting rolled by INnoVation in the final)

On April 07 2018 15:02 brickrd wrote:
i find the maru hype train really fascinating. more than ever the top sc2 players are all quite comparable in skill level, and yet more than ever people overreact wildly to short winning/losing streaks

i think maru was a pretty incredible player before he got hot and he's a pretty incredible player now. what i don't think is that he's "unbeatable" or that classic, one of the most consistently high level players of the past 5 years, can't beat him in a matchup which is fairly stable for protoss

no result would surprise me. 3-0, 3-1, 3-2, either player can win depending on how they turn up. more often than not these hot and cold streaks just reflect sharp, minor meta changes where one player gets really good at exploiting common playstyles. this isn't foreign ladder where people are "outclassing" each other - probably only true is mismatched here (personally im hoping for him to advance )