I don't think I'll ever understand the disrespect for Roach Wars, these are some of my absolute favorite games, something about the Roach makes it an ideal unit to watch for me visually, range isn't too long so the positioning feels like it matters more and is easier to see, they're also rather tanky so the fights don't end instantly.

ALL HAIL ROACH WARS

Vindicare605

United States16121 Posts

August 18 2019 09:19 GMT

#398

On August 18 2019 18:07 NotSoHappy wrote:

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Please, in sc2 history, 3 expansions you can't say "terrans are just better". Thats just biased opinion. You can say "terran had better luck in patches" or "terran found quality/abusive strats faster than other races and abused them better" or "terran was the most op during the early stage of the game and to this day theyre strong as hell even with all the nerfs".

Terran is the race with most premier title wins, yet you still bring the "protoss zerg abuse one strat" card. Not really they are and we aren't seeing anything close to GomTvT era. You have to realise many great players quitted this game over the years and we're left with small pool of pros that are split in various levels of skills. Maybe its true that playing terran without mistakes is harder and less forgiving than zerg or protoss, but their skill ceiling is the highest from all three races.
We should balance for the top of the top players and not gold leaguers that just can't macro properly.

We as spectators want to watch CLOSE games and not one pro abusing one strat over and over again and before you say anything I can't see Roro level of abuse this tournament, becaue not every pro did infestor BL and you can't argue that getting it was the thing that moved the game in zergs direction because of so many factors that affect this game. Meta is developping, players are trying new things and we are wasting time bitching about meaningless stuff with patch around the corner that will change things up.

Maru last year abused Raven and Proxy 2-rax builds that were hard as fuck to scout and counter properly, because of so many options. He and other terrans.

Look at the gsl standings and tell me honestly which terrans you think are underperforming due to balance, because to me they are performing for their own skill level. Maru plays worse, but so is Serral. They won a lot and people started to figure them out. That's how this game looks. It's in the best shape since many years'. I just wish they spent more time for fixing (fixing not NERFING and bandaiding) protoss.

For the record, I think Balance is pretty good at the moment outside of PvZ late game.

I'm just explaining why historically Terrans have felt like they've had more to complain about. Just because the current top player in the world is winning, it doesn't impact the rest of the scene that much except as inspiration.

The Foreign scene has historically been totally devoid of Terrans. That's not debatable, that's just a fact. The current era we're in has had more good Terran players than any era before it by a large margin. That's just one example of that.

If you go by who has the most titles only, that tells a story, but it's not the only one and it's a really narrow way of looking at things.