[WCS 2018] Global Finals - Finals Day - Page 38

On November 04 2018 07:27 Arvendilin wrote:

JvZ was named JvZ not because he won a buch of time or because he was dominant (although that ofcourse is a necessary factor), but because he was so dominant in a match up tha lots of people before that point thought was a 50/50 toss up more or less.

It was considered the matchup where personal skill matters the least, and where basically everything is decided by which build you randomly chose without any information about your opponent at the start of the game.

This is the important factor, because naming it JvZ is so special, eventhough Protosses for a while were failing horribly against Zerg and then Bisu gets like insane winrates against them it wasn't called (usually) BvZ instead of PvZ, because everyone agreed that in PvZ skill is a factor and Bisu is just that good.

Whereas in ZvZ people agreed that skill is largely irrelevant and then suddenly JaeDong dominates it and what most people think about the MU was completely flipped on its head when he plays, it played by different rules than normal ZvZs which is why it got that name.