i was getting triggered with zerglings swooping in to kill a probe over and over. it is so unclimactic to see one player a-move all the way across the map and win though
On May 26 2018 13:21 Fango wrote: If soO wins this season there's a good chance it will be by beating Dear, Rogue, Zest, Classic, then Innovation in the final.
On May 26 2018 13:21 Fango wrote: If soO wins this season there's a good chance it will be by beating Dear, Rogue, Zest, Classic, then Innovation in the final.
On May 26 2018 13:40 Fango wrote: Dear would be 50/50 against Inno in a potential winners match btw
No chance.
You think Dear has no chance? After all of Inno vs protoss this year it could go either way
When it's offline and it matters, I would give Classic, herO and Zest an upper edge vs Inno. Other protoss, no, especially this patch. I've said many times PvT is not that toss favored as perceived on this forum.
On May 26 2018 13:40 Fango wrote: Dear would be 50/50 against Inno in a potential winners match btw
No chance.
You think Dear has no chance? After all of Inno vs protoss this year it could go either way
When it's offline and it matters, I would give Classic, herO and Zest an upper edge vs Inno. Other protoss, no, especially this patch. I've said many times PvT is not that one-sided in toss favor as depicted on this forum.
I mean, Terran was just buffed with the explicit intention of making PvT less onesided....
On May 26 2018 13:44 Zaros wrote: Woop gj dear I was like the only guy to predict dear beating soO people underestimate him too much.
Dear is underrated, but you can't act like he won that match of pure skill. That was soO going full finals in games 2/3.
dear was playing pretty well game 2 apart from that one botched moment and he did well to take advantage of soO sitting back, game 3 I think soO expected Phoenix again so wanted to gain an advantage by not losing an overlord which cost him the game probably.
On May 26 2018 13:40 Fango wrote: Dear would be 50/50 against Inno in a potential winners match btw
No chance.
You think Dear has no chance? After all of Inno vs protoss this year it could go either way
When it's offline and it matters, I would give Classic, herO and Zest an upper edge vs Inno. Other protoss, no, especially this patch. I've said many times PvT is not that one-sided in toss favor as depicted on this forum.
I mean, Terran was just buffed with the explicit intention of making PvT less onesided....
When the game has such a small fan base, its opinion and whining kind of affects balance decisions.
On May 26 2018 13:51 pvsnp wrote: Artosis personally casted Rogue crashing out of the GSL last season in the Ro32, and crashing out of the Super Tournament in the first round........
I get that casters need to hype things up but seriously?
GSL was vs peak Shura though, he had no chance it wasn't his fault
On May 26 2018 13:40 Fango wrote: Dear would be 50/50 against Inno in a potential winners match btw
No chance.
You think Dear has no chance? After all of Inno vs protoss this year it could go either way
When it's offline and it matters, I would give Classic, herO and Zest an upper edge vs Inno. Other protoss, no, especially this patch. I've said many times PvT is not that one-sided in toss favor as depicted on this forum.
I mean, Terran was just buffed with the explicit intention of making PvT less onesided....
When the game has such a small fan base, its opinion and whining kind of affects balance decisions.
Plenty of protoss and zerg pros were saying terran basically couldn't win in TvP. Maru was miles ahead of every other terran and still lost to Classic, Zest, herO, Dear etc all the time.
Protoss was pretty clearly damn favoured before the patch. How it is now I'm not sure.
On May 26 2018 13:40 Fango wrote: Dear would be 50/50 against Inno in a potential winners match btw
No chance.
You think Dear has no chance? After all of Inno vs protoss this year it could go either way
When it's offline and it matters, I would give Classic, herO and Zest an upper edge vs Inno. Other protoss, no, especially this patch. I've said many times PvT is not that one-sided in toss favor as depicted on this forum.
I mean, Terran was just buffed with the explicit intention of making PvT less onesided....
When the game has such a small fan base, its opinion and whining kind of affects balance decisions.
Plenty of protoss and zerg pros were saying terran basically couldn't win in TvP. Maru was miles ahead of every other terran and still lost to Classic, Zest, herO, Dear etc all the time.
Protoss was pretty clearly damn favoured before the patch. How it is now I'm not sure.
If by pretty clearly damn favored you mean 53.x% in the last patch (not counting the one before) then yeah. I'm not saying it was not toss favored. It was not that beyond healthy balance variance statistically speaking. The problem was not balance per se but the MU tends to be dominated by early game from each race. When a match up is trending that direction, even if balance is perfect a change is warranted. In the absolute top level, majority of the protosses are early game oriented so it might have skewed balance perception.
On May 26 2018 13:40 Fango wrote: Dear would be 50/50 against Inno in a potential winners match btw
No chance.
You think Dear has no chance? After all of Inno vs protoss this year it could go either way
When it's offline and it matters, I would give Classic, herO and Zest an upper edge vs Inno. Other protoss, no, especially this patch. I've said many times PvT is not that one-sided in toss favor as depicted on this forum.
I mean, Terran was just buffed with the explicit intention of making PvT less onesided....
When the game has such a small fan base, its opinion and whining kind of affects balance decisions.
Plenty of protoss and zerg pros were saying terran basically couldn't win in TvP. Maru was miles ahead of every other terran and still lost to Classic, Zest, herO, Dear etc all the time.
Protoss was pretty clearly damn favoured before the patch. How it is now I'm not sure.
If by pretty clearly damn favored you mean 53.x% in the last patch (not counting the one before) then yeah. I'm not saying it was not toss favored. It was not that beyond healthy balance variance statistically speaking. The problem was not balance per se but the MU tends to be dominated by early game from each race. When a match up is trending that direction, even if balance is perfect a change is warranted. In the absolute top level, majority of the protosses are early game oriented so it might have skewed balance perception.
Winrates aren't everything. They take into account every pro game that's played.
If I say protoss is favoured it means I'm talking about the top pros. And in the case of TvP we saw that Inno/TY/Maru/Byun/gumiho/aLive/special all take dips in their ratings and start really struggling in the matchup compared to their usual level.
At the same time every top protoss (herO, zest, classic, trap, dear etc) took a significant increase in their PvT ratings. It became the favoured matchup for all of them.
Fair enough if Artosis thinks Rogue is gonna win this season, but idk why he keeps giving him titles he clearly doesn't deserve. He isn't a bonjwa, he isn't the most dominating player of all time, and he is certainly not the best lategame player in the world.
G2 was masterfully played. Rogue was actually in a terrible spot for 20 seconds or so, but he did everything right afterwards. The ability to make split second intelligent decision without dropping a beat. sOs on steroids. G1 was a more straight up domination, but G2 gave me more confidence in him.
I hope Rogue doesn't try to defend the archon harass with ling/bane. I remember he tried that last year against herO in the Super Tournament finals and he got bopped.
Amazing to see Dear come out in first. I'm a Protoss fan but even I had him in 4th spot easily in this group. 1 spot in top 8 for Innovation, soO, Rogue that's insane.
I had my doubts that Zest or Dear would make it out of Ro32, now one will be in Ro4. Awesome.
Dear had 4 bases versus 2. He had 14 army supply versus 110. Yet he sent every warp in of zealots to the roaches and SH's, which minimized the eco/tech army damage he took.
On May 26 2018 15:22 Colouss wrote: Dear hasn't looked good against a Protoss offline in a long time. Last time he faced a protoss in the playoff rounds, he got smashed by Classic.
Almost everyone got smashed by Classic in that tournament tbf. He lost like one map before the final
On May 26 2018 15:44 deacon.frost wrote: This state of TvZ is something I definitely don't like.
soO has been complete trash in both ZvT and lategame in general for a while. Every time he gets to the lategame he just freezes up and doesn't do anything
On May 26 2018 15:44 deacon.frost wrote: This state of TvZ is something I definitely don't like.
Yeah, with the Marauder buff and Ghosts coming back into the meta we've basically arrived back at HotS where all of Zerg's tier 3 is trash against Terran late-game.
On May 26 2018 15:44 deacon.frost wrote: This state of TvZ is something I definitely don't like.
soO has been complete trash in both ZvT and lategame in general for a while. Every time he gets to the lategame he just freezes up and doesn't do anything
It doesn't change the fact Inno wasted several medevacs and is still able to turtle into this stuff.
On May 26 2018 15:44 deacon.frost wrote: This state of TvZ is something I definitely don't like.
soO has been complete trash in both ZvT and lategame in general for a while. Every time he gets to the lategame he just freezes up and doesn't do anything
It doesn't change the fact Inno wasted several medevacs and is still able to turtle into this stuff.
Because soO let him. soO wanted to play the longer game even though he freezes every time he gets there.
Solar or Dark for sure wouldn't look this useless.
On May 26 2018 15:44 deacon.frost wrote: This state of TvZ is something I definitely don't like.
soO has been complete trash in both ZvT and lategame in general for a while. Every time he gets to the lategame he just freezes up and doesn't do anything
It doesn't change the fact Inno wasted several medevacs and is still able to turtle into this stuff.
Because soO let him. soO wanted to play the longer game even though he freezes every time he gets there.
Solar or Dark for sure wouldn't look this useless.
Not sure if other players would be that successful. Not saying soO was playing well the last 5 minutes, but part of it comes from the strength of Terran in that position.
On May 26 2018 15:44 deacon.frost wrote: This state of TvZ is something I definitely don't like.
soO has been complete trash in both ZvT and lategame in general for a while. Every time he gets to the lategame he just freezes up and doesn't do anything
It doesn't change the fact Inno wasted several medevacs and is still able to turtle into this stuff.
Because soO let him. soO wanted to play the longer game even though he freezes every time he gets there.
Solar or Dark for sure wouldn't look this useless.
Not sure if other players would be that successful. Not saying soO was playing well the last 5 minutes, but part of it comes from the strength of Terran in that position.
Not saying Dark or Solar would have necesarily won either. But they would have done at least something in the game. soO didn't even try to capitalise on any potential leads. He agreed to let Inno turtle and go lategame knowing he is completely useless in that area of the game.
At the end of the day Inno is just better in the matchup than soO. He has a 75% winrate against him for a reason. Any match that is this one sided on paper isn't a great indicator of the state of the matchup.
Actually an all protoss side of the bracket is very likely. Classic or Trap will likely get second in group C, and either sOs or Stats should get first in group D.
On May 26 2018 16:23 deacon.frost wrote: Did I hear that widow mines don't cost supply? Maybe Artosis should start playing some SC2 instead of Remaster
On May 26 2018 16:41 Isualin wrote: what made the swarm hosts popular again? that unit is the sole reason i stopped playing(one of the earlier iterations) still feels so stupid in design
Well used, they're a huge advantage against mech. And auto-win in some situations
On May 26 2018 16:41 Isualin wrote: what made the swarm hosts popular again? that unit is the sole reason i stopped playing(one of the earlier iterations) still feels so stupid in design
I don't think anyone else than Rogue is really using them.
On May 26 2018 16:41 Isualin wrote: what made the swarm hosts popular again? that unit is the sole reason i stopped playing(one of the earlier iterations) still feels so stupid in design
On May 26 2018 16:41 Isualin wrote: what made the swarm hosts popular again? that unit is the sole reason i stopped playing(one of the earlier iterations) still feels so stupid in design
Didn't Rogue lose every game he went for SH today? They are working here mostly, because Inno was too far behind from the failed double proxy rax.
On May 26 2018 16:41 Isualin wrote: what made the swarm hosts popular again? that unit is the sole reason i stopped playing(one of the earlier iterations) still feels so stupid in design
I don't think anyone else than Rogue is really using them.
On May 26 2018 16:41 Isualin wrote: what made the swarm hosts popular again? that unit is the sole reason i stopped playing(one of the earlier iterations) still feels so stupid in design
Didn't Rogue lose every game he went for SH today? They are working here mostly, because Inno was too far behind from the failed double proxy rax.
yeah, i don't imply they are super strong or anything.
Innovation is good at not losing medevacs. Loses 4 full medevacs vs. soO, loses medevacs against Rogue in game #1, loses medevac now. Is the curse now working against game units too?
On May 26 2018 16:49 deacon.frost wrote: Innovation is good at not losing medevacs. Loses 4 full medevacs vs. soO, loses medevacs against Rogue in game #1, loses medevac now. Is the curse now working against game units too?
On May 26 2018 23:12 Boggyb wrote: Dear won what on paper looked like the hardest group and I'm not impressed with his play at all.
On my paper C is still the hardest group
It is a strong collection of players, but too many match ups seem easy to call on paper. Dark > Classic Classic > TY and Trap TY > Trap Dark = TY Dark = Trap
On May 26 2018 23:12 Boggyb wrote: Dear won what on paper looked like the hardest group and I'm not impressed with his play at all.
On my paper C is still the hardest group
It is a strong collection of players, but too many match ups seem easy to call on paper.
On paper most people predicted Dear to go out in last, so I'm gonna refrain from looking at match-ups and just say that the overall level of group C in terms of players is at the very least equal to B.
On May 26 2018 23:12 Boggyb wrote: Dear won what on paper looked like the hardest group and I'm not impressed with his play at all.
On my paper C is still the hardest group
It is a strong collection of players, but too many match ups seem easy to call on paper. Dark > Classic Classic > TY and Trap TY > Trap Dark = TY Dark = Trap
Yeah but unlike Group B, all the players here have somewhat consistent form. The matches should be at a higher level even if they're historically one sided. All the guys from group B have flopped out of multiple events recently (including last GSL season for most of them).
Damn, I should have went with my heart in the liquid bet. Had Rogue and Inno only got it half right unless you have to guess the order correct, i'm 0 for 2 if you need to get the place right.
On May 27 2018 01:58 brickrd wrote: innovation out of a group? can i safely assume one of the terran posters is already writing an essay on how terran is underpowered?
According to aligulac, TvZ was at 43.28% in the previous period. That's not too surprising since Terran was around 47% before the raven nerf and the marauder buff is less relevant to TvZ than TvP.
On May 27 2018 01:58 brickrd wrote: innovation out of a group? can i safely assume one of the terran posters is already writing an essay on how terran is underpowered?
According to aligulac, TvZ was at 43.28% in the previous period. That's not too surprising since Terran was around 47% before the raven nerf and the marauder buff is less relevant to TvZ than TvP.
Yeah, but GSL winrates are at 59.5% in favor of Terran
On May 27 2018 01:58 brickrd wrote: innovation out of a group? can i safely assume one of the terran posters is already writing an essay on how terran is underpowered?
According to aligulac, TvZ was at 43.28% in the previous period. That's not too surprising since Terran was around 47% before the raven nerf and the marauder buff is less relevant to TvZ than TvP.
Yeah, but GSL winrates are at 59.5% in favor of Terran
Probably because of all the bad zergs that managed to qualify like the foreigners and low tier KR? There are a lot of them ^^
On May 27 2018 01:58 brickrd wrote: innovation out of a group? can i safely assume one of the terran posters is already writing an essay on how terran is underpowered?
According to aligulac, TvZ was at 43.28% in the previous period. That's not too surprising since Terran was around 47% before the raven nerf and the marauder buff is less relevant to TvZ than TvP.
Yeah, but GSL winrates are at 59.5% in favor of Terran
That includes games prior to the raven nerf and includes a lot of series that were always going to be won by the player that won.
On May 27 2018 01:58 brickrd wrote: innovation out of a group? can i safely assume one of the terran posters is already writing an essay on how terran is underpowered?
According to aligulac, TvZ was at 43.28% in the previous period. That's not too surprising since Terran was around 47% before the raven nerf and the marauder buff is less relevant to TvZ than TvP.
Yeah, but GSL winrates are at 59.5% in favor of Terran
That includes games prior to the raven nerf and includes a lot of series that were always going to be won by the player that won.
I'd say the majority were always gonna be won by the player than won.
Gumiho vs Scarlett + Losira ByuN vs Elazer + Leenock Maru vs Zanster Bunny vs Zanster TY vs Impact
The only unexpected terran wins were Cure vs soO and Keen vs Solar, but both of them lost in the rematches.