EPT$30,000 King of Battles - Playoffs - Page 21
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geokilla
Canada8252 Posts
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Bagration
United States18282 Posts
On October 11 2020 03:45 Poopi wrote: Greatest of all time against French prodigy tomorrow, great! I don't know how Maru always manages to come back, super impressive Total domination I wonder if it was somewhat intentional given his composition (heavy air / massing Ravens) - he would play defensive for a while until he reached a critical mass of Ravens and could start banking energy | ||
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Bagration
United States18282 Posts
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MarianoSC2
Slovakia1855 Posts
On October 11 2020 02:35 parksonsc wrote: I dont know how ppl praise TY's TvT so much, as far as i remember Inno has been the best TvT for the last 2 years. In HOTS it was always Maru>TY>Inno >Maru. Then TY became an unstoppable TvT monster.... | ||
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JohnMatrix
France1358 Posts
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Poopi
France12999 Posts
On October 11 2020 03:46 Bagration wrote: I wonder if it was somewhat intentional given his composition (heavy air / massing Ravens) - he would play defensive for a while until he reached a critical mass of Ravens and could start banking energy I think INno really wanted to sleep as has been pointed out, the guy had a GSL group against GSL champions / Trap ffs  .But yeah Maru has shown such defensive TvT recently, against ByuN on this exact same map | ||
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Penev
28535 Posts
On October 11 2020 03:48 JohnMatrix wrote: 1st maru vs clem tomorrow ? nope, Cure - TY first | ||
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Slydie
1984 Posts
On October 11 2020 03:44 Supah wrote: I don't quite understand how Innovation seems to consistently let his tanks get Raven'd. Is that just lack of vision because he lost air, so then his marines can't be in the proper place quickly enough? It is because Maru's raven play is absolutely amazing. His style is to mostly skip medivacs early to get the air control and then keep it until his army is too strong to handle, even though it might take a while to get there. I don't think anyone has solved his tvt style yet, and he should be the favorite to win this. | ||
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MarianoSC2
Slovakia1855 Posts
Happy to see Maru in the finals I hope it's against TY. Against Cure it would be too one sided | ||
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JohnMatrix
France1358 Posts
i would say 1st time ? | ||
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Elentos
55586 Posts
On October 11 2020 03:47 MarianoSC2 wrote: In HOTS it was always Maru>TY>Inno >Maru. Then TY became an unstoppable TvT monster.... In HotS it was Inno > TY >= Maru > Inno. In LotV it's been TY > Inno > Maru >= TY. | ||
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Penev
28535 Posts
yes | ||
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Fango
United Kingdom8987 Posts
It's not as flashy as the aggressive micro plays he used to be known for, but I doubt he's capable of doing those right now/anymore. | ||
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HugoBallzak
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argonautdice
Canada2720 Posts
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Elentos
55586 Posts
On October 11 2020 03:53 Fango wrote: In all three matchups is Maru just playing defensive until every base is taken and he's somehow 20K resources ahead? It's not really somehow what with people throwing themselves into his defensive positions. Especially Inno did it with reckless abandon. But yeah after the early game his play doesn't really look Maru-esque. Cure played TvZ like one would expect from Maru. | ||
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Kashim
Poland1233 Posts
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Elentos
55586 Posts
On October 11 2020 03:57 Kashim wrote: TvT zzzzzzz.......... No, no Z, that's the novelty in this top 4. I thought Liquipedia staff would know better  | ||
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Fango
United Kingdom8987 Posts
On October 11 2020 03:55 Elentos wrote: It's not really somehow what with people throwing themselves into his defensive positions. Especially Inno did it with reckless abandon. But yeah after the early game his play doesn't really look Maru-esque. Cure played TvZ like one would expect from Maru. To be fair, in a lot of these games had it been any other terran they would have lost. Like vs Serral on Pillars of Gold or vs PartinG on Ice and Chrome. No one else is holding on in those games. But here INno just started throwing armies away without thinking. His TvT does live and die by hitting his macro and pushing with marine-tank, but it's not like Maru has a win condition of hitting the 15 minute mark. | ||
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Swisslink
2956 Posts
On October 11 2020 03:58 Elentos wrote: No, no Z, that's the novelty in this top 4. I thought Liquipedia staff would know better I mean, it‘s fine and well deserved, but I think full mirror Ro4 are generally speaking not the most entertaining stuff for many players. For obvious reasons. How often did that even happen in premier tournaments? I can‘t remember any ZvZvZvZ or PvPvPvP Ro4 and for TvTvTvT it‘s been 9 years. | ||
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