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Charoisaur
Profile Joined August 2014
Germany16057 Posts
August 05 2022 16:21 GMT
#81
On August 06 2022 01:12 Vindicare605 wrote:
Maru really hates using Battlecruisers at this point in the game, but it's honestly the best thing he could do right now. Abuse Tempest mobility by just porting directly onto them.

Hard disagree here, BCs trade horribly against Tempests and Protoss can anticipate BC harass movement.
there's a reason Maru doesn't do it
Many of the coolest moments in sc2 happen due to worker harassment
Pandain
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States12989 Posts
Last Edited: 2022-08-05 16:22:54
August 05 2022 16:22 GMT
#82
On August 06 2022 01:21 Charoisaur wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 06 2022 01:12 Vindicare605 wrote:
Maru really hates using Battlecruisers at this point in the game, but it's honestly the best thing he could do right now. Abuse Tempest mobility by just porting directly onto them.

Hard disagree here, BCs trade horribly against Tempests and Protoss can anticipate BC harass movement.
there's a reason Maru doesn't do it


Hasn't Maru won these kinds of late games all the time (like how hes playing now)? Thought he was pretty much unbreakable pretty late game TvP and this is consequently a very impressive showing from ShowTime. Could be wrong.
Poopi
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France12911 Posts
Last Edited: 2022-08-05 16:23:23
August 05 2022 16:22 GMT
#83
On August 06 2022 01:20 Vindicare605 wrote:
I'm not just fucking theorycrafting here, if you want to beat Protoss in those kind of split map situations, then you want Battlecruisers. Protoss doesn't have a good answer for them and they are so insanely cost effective when they can use their Yamato in a hit and run raid.

Spirit destroyed Neeb on Blackburn split map scenario with battlecruiser, so I kinda trust you. But I am not sure Maru had the setup to go for them at this point / space for buildings was lacking on this map.
I doubt he has encountered as good of a defensive protoss as ShoWTimE in KR, so that's why he usually won with this gameplay in split map scenarios
WriterMaru
Vindicare605
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
United States16121 Posts
August 05 2022 16:30 GMT
#84
On August 06 2022 01:21 Charoisaur wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 06 2022 01:12 Vindicare605 wrote:
Maru really hates using Battlecruisers at this point in the game, but it's honestly the best thing he could do right now. Abuse Tempest mobility by just porting directly onto them.

Hard disagree here, BCs trade horribly against Tempests and Protoss can anticipate BC harass movement.
there's a reason Maru doesn't do it


No they don't. Head to head Battlecruisers wreck Tempests, Tempests can only out trade BCs when they are able to poke at them, when you have BCs on top of Tempests they win.

Anyway the point isn't to fight Tempests with BCs, the point is to use them to hit outlying bases and then force additional anti-air out of the Protoss which your Bio can then kill in a head to head fight. Tempests can't catch BCs that are attacking on their own, and playing around Recall is super easy.
aka: KTVindicare the Geeky Bartender
Waxangel
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
United States33565 Posts
August 05 2022 16:30 GMT
#85
Well, it looks like Maru might get a do-over. I wonder what adjustments he'll make?
AdministratorHey HP can you redo everything youve ever done because i have a small complaint?
Charoisaur
Profile Joined August 2014
Germany16057 Posts
August 05 2022 16:33 GMT
#86
On August 06 2022 01:30 Vindicare605 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 06 2022 01:21 Charoisaur wrote:
On August 06 2022 01:12 Vindicare605 wrote:
Maru really hates using Battlecruisers at this point in the game, but it's honestly the best thing he could do right now. Abuse Tempest mobility by just porting directly onto them.

Hard disagree here, BCs trade horribly against Tempests and Protoss can anticipate BC harass movement.
there's a reason Maru doesn't do it


No they don't. Head to head Battlecruisers wreck Tempests, Tempests can only out trade BCs when they are able to poke at them, when you have BCs on top of Tempests they win.

Anyway the point isn't to fight Tempests with BCs, the point is to use them to hit outlying bases and then force additional anti-air out of the Protoss which your Bio can then kill in a head to head fight. Tempests can't catch BCs that are attacking on their own, and playing around Recall is super easy.

Yeah but no Protoss lets his Tempests just fight the BCs head on. You can't jump on Tempests if they are supported by Voidray Stalker Battery as Protoss players learned to do.
Many of the coolest moments in sc2 happen due to worker harassment
Fanatic-Templar
Profile Joined February 2010
Canada5819 Posts
August 05 2022 16:34 GMT
#87
Maru just lost THREE full Medivacs.
I bear this sig to commemorate the loss of the team icon that commemorated Oversky's 2008-2009 Proleague Round 1 performance.
Waxangel
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
United States33565 Posts
August 05 2022 16:35 GMT
#88
the lowkey funniest part of Maru loss would be Solar randomly getting punished with another match against Maru in the lower bracket
AdministratorHey HP can you redo everything youve ever done because i have a small complaint?
Fanatic-Templar
Profile Joined February 2010
Canada5819 Posts
August 05 2022 16:37 GMT
#89
No way Maru wins this.
I bear this sig to commemorate the loss of the team icon that commemorated Oversky's 2008-2009 Proleague Round 1 performance.
Elentos
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
55566 Posts
August 05 2022 16:38 GMT
#90
Showtime played so much better this game than before it's almost uncanny.
Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.
darklycid
Profile Joined May 2014
3539 Posts
August 05 2022 16:38 GMT
#91
Maru needs to work on his openers against hero and here vs showtime he lost so hard on the early game alone.
tigera6
Profile Joined March 2021
3474 Posts
August 05 2022 16:38 GMT
#92
Maru play completely blind like shit there, losing Medivac and units everywhere for free.
Vindicare605
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
United States16121 Posts
August 05 2022 16:39 GMT
#93
That looked absolutely horrendous. Obvious latency issues here from both players, explains why Protoss was so reliant on Collosus and Maru on tanks. Problem is, Siege Tanks are shit in late game vs Protoss and Disruptors and Collosus are not.

I know TL doesn't want to talk about how obvious it was that they are having issues with EU vs KR but it really is obvious.
aka: KTVindicare the Geeky Bartender
FuRong
Profile Joined April 2010
New Zealand3089 Posts
August 05 2022 16:39 GMT
#94
Showtime bet #true for TLO's first question and really didn't want to lose that point.
Don't hate the player, hate the game
geokilla
Profile Joined May 2011
Canada8245 Posts
August 05 2022 16:39 GMT
#95
Maru didn’t know about the gold base at all
Pandain
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States12989 Posts
August 05 2022 16:39 GMT
#96
Time/Lambo/Showtime and either Neeb/Kelazhur filling out lower winners bracket - one of them guranteed top 3. Pretty sick tasteless.

WP Showtime
Charoisaur
Profile Joined August 2014
Germany16057 Posts
August 05 2022 16:40 GMT
#97
On August 06 2022 01:38 Elentos wrote:
Showtime played so much better this game than before it's almost uncanny.

He always had ocassionally this game where he suddenly looked like the best macro Protoss in the world
Many of the coolest moments in sc2 happen due to worker harassment
Poopi
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France12911 Posts
August 05 2022 16:40 GMT
#98
I kinda expected such a result but this is still sad!
Hopefully Maru comes out ahead in the lower bracket
WriterMaru
Pandain
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States12989 Posts
August 05 2022 16:40 GMT
#99
On August 06 2022 01:35 Waxangel wrote:
the lowkey funniest part of Maru loss would be Solar randomly getting punished with another match against Maru in the lower bracket


And Ragnarok - the two biggest punching bags for Maru
Poopi
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France12911 Posts
August 05 2022 16:43 GMT
#100
On August 06 2022 01:39 Vindicare605 wrote:
That looked absolutely horrendous. Obvious latency issues here from both players, explains why Protoss was so reliant on Collosus and Maru on tanks. Problem is, Siege Tanks are shit in late game vs Protoss and Disruptors and Collosus are not.

I know TL doesn't want to talk about how obvious it was that they are having issues with EU vs KR but it really is obvious.

Well it's not as bad as the first WoL TSL (the one Thorzain won) in which mvp was playing absolutely horrendous (was it even NA server?) because of ping + not being used to it, losing vs Adelscott of all players.
But indeed, looking at this series I would say it was ShoWTimE's server in g1 and g3 and Maru on g2, but either way it's laggy even when it's "your" server since it's probably NA central or NA west
WriterMaru
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