EPTOn February 25 2022 04:40 Vindicare605 wrote:
TIME's TvZ has gotten SUPER good over the last couple years. I'd say he's easily top 5 Terrans in the world at the match up right now.
But when Serral is playing like that, I think he needs to switch tactics. That's why Maru plays more defensively like he does now. In both games, Serral was punishing him hard whenever he tried to move out with more than just skirmishers. In straight up fights TIME was actually playing really cost efficiently, it's just not really possible to match Zerg mobility especially when you are relying heavily on Thors and Siege Tanks.
Either that, or he has to rely on something more committed in the early or midgame before Zerg can maximize a 4-5 base economy.
He was playing into Zerg's hands the way he handled that series. The hyper mobility of Ling/Bling/Muta WANTS you to fight on two fronts at once. TIME was only figuring out too late in the games that he had to either commit to an attack or not and by that point Serral just had too many bases and too many Hatcheries for TIME to ever successfully win a base race.
TIME's TvZ has gotten SUPER good over the last couple years. I'd say he's easily top 5 Terrans in the world at the match up right now.
But when Serral is playing like that, I think he needs to switch tactics. That's why Maru plays more defensively like he does now. In both games, Serral was punishing him hard whenever he tried to move out with more than just skirmishers. In straight up fights TIME was actually playing really cost efficiently, it's just not really possible to match Zerg mobility especially when you are relying heavily on Thors and Siege Tanks.
Either that, or he has to rely on something more committed in the early or midgame before Zerg can maximize a 4-5 base economy.
He was playing into Zerg's hands the way he handled that series. The hyper mobility of Ling/Bling/Muta WANTS you to fight on two fronts at once. TIME was only figuring out too late in the games that he had to either commit to an attack or not and by that point Serral just had too many bases and too many Hatcheries for TIME to ever successfully win a base race.
I’ve only ever seen Maru consistently manage to secure the space and defend the territory to play that more defensive style, to the extent I really think it’s only him who’s capable of playing it against a real S class ZvTer consistently.
The other approach is to commit more to trying to cripple, allied with great control and Clem’s shown Serral can be taken down that way pretty consistently, so yeah agree with the commitment point as maybe the way to go.
Unless you get miracle trades, trying to skirmish for most of the game against Zerg mobility in the hands of a Serral will see you die by a thousand papercuts
