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Vindicare605
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
United States16109 Posts
February 11 2024 13:36 GMT
#1101
Maru going back to his tried and true heavy Raven use. Gumiho knew how to punish this, we'll see if Byun does too.
aka: KTVindicare the Geeky Bartender
WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland26224 Posts
February 11 2024 13:37 GMT
#1102
On February 11 2024 22:30 Nakajin wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 11 2024 22:28 Poopi wrote:
Maru has no chance vs Serral though on this patch / map pool, but he will not look as hopeless as Cure / ByuN or HeroMarine, so we gotta hope to see him navigate the TvTs


I think HM can put a good fight. Cure and Byun, I don't see it.

I guess you’re going back a while, so not super relevant to this meta but I recall HM basically always losing to Serral bar a tournament, and Cure beating him at least a few times.

Hoping for a good series here and not too much cyclone wars. Maru with a few early errors by his standards, but he’s making some decent moves now
'You'll always be the cuddly marsupial of my heart, despite the inherent flaws of your ancestry' - Squat
{Frozen}
Profile Joined October 2022
16 Posts
February 11 2024 13:39 GMT
#1103
Protoss players are just worse than Zergs and Terrans right? It's just the players obviously, not the patches. Toss has had many world class players; yet none of them can win anymore. Obviously they're lazy and Terran and Zergs just work harder or are just better players.

herO wins GSL and DH Atlanta? Time to nerf disruptor purification nova and super battery. What happens? No protoss player has won a premier since. And then we nerf disruptors supply?

So... Basically we've had 2 void ray nerfs, 2 battery nerfs (super and if not near nexus), 2 disruptor nerfs, DT attack delay after blink, and interceptor priority nerf.

For... slightly faster forge upgrades, faster sentries (+2 seconds guardian shield let's go), slightly faster HTs, archon size, immortal barrier taking first hit, slightly cheaper shield upgrades, stasis ward vision, and tempest acceleration.

So huge nerfs and almost inconsequential buffs.

Disruptor and battery nerfs would be similar to increasing siege tank supply to 4, reducing their splash damage area, and decreasing medivac healing rate by 25%.

I looked at the stats pre and post disruptor/super battery nerfs with 2022 DH Atlanta to 2023 Masters Main event. Feel free to correct if anything is incorrect.

In the main events of DH Atlanta 2022 and Masters 2023, player skill is accounted for because all the top players are there except Maxpax (but he's not there in either event) and Reynor (in DH Atlanta 2022). Reynor not being there likely decreases ZvP winrates in 2022. However, he played a total of 2 ZvP games in Masters 2023; remove those from the data and everyone else important is still there.


DH Masters Atlanta 2022 Main event

ZvP - 45.6%

PvT- 45.7%

ESL SC2 Masters 2023 Summer Main event

ZvP- 58.6%

PvT- 33.3%

Regional results

DH Masters Atlanta 2022 Regionals

ZvP - 46.8%

PvT- 48.7%

ESL SC2 Masters 2023 Summer: Regionals Statistics

ZvP- 61.8%

PvT- 42.5%

Note, this is a total of 243 games before and after patch so this isn't your "Oh well clearly toss made a mistake in 1 game so they lost cuz lol bad protoss players."

PvT DH Atlanta 2022 - 48.7%

PvT Masters 2023 Summer- 42.5%

Hypothesis, PvT winrates are the same pre and post patch, p1-p2 = 0.

Assumptions- a bunch of shit is >5, which it is.

phat = (x1+x2)/(n1+n2) = (76+37)/(156/87) = 0.465

Z = (p1-p2)/sqrt [phat*(1-phat) *(1/n1 + 1/n2)] = (48.7-42.5)/sqrt[0.465*(1-0.465)*(1/156+1/87)] = 6.2/sqrt 0.004453 = 92.91

At alpha = 0.01, the critical value is 2.58.

Since Z > critical value, PvT winrates were significantly worse after the patch in these tournaments.

ZvP went even more in favor of zerg after patch so obviously significant as well.

This doesnt include the latest patch, but we can see the impact of super battery and disruptors nerfs.
Vindicare605
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
United States16109 Posts
February 11 2024 13:43 GMT
#1104
Damn, ballsy engagement from Byun. Totally reset Maru's army.
aka: KTVindicare the Geeky Bartender
lolfail9001
Profile Joined August 2013
Russian Federation40190 Posts
February 11 2024 13:43 GMT
#1105
ByuN pulling off the famed "fly 3 full medivacs into anti-air" move from 2013 lmao.
DeMoN pulls off a Miracle and Flies to the Moon
Vindicare605
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
United States16109 Posts
Last Edited: 2024-02-11 13:48:07
February 11 2024 13:47 GMT
#1106
Maru is neglecting air control and opting to use GtA weapons instead. This is going to backfire. Cyclones are garbage in this situation. or.... Byun can just miscontrol the fight lol.
aka: KTVindicare the Geeky Bartender
Topin
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Peru10099 Posts
February 11 2024 13:48 GMT
#1107
no lib range?
i would define my style between a mix of ByuN, Maru and MKP
Poopi
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France12906 Posts
February 11 2024 13:48 GMT
#1108
Mech is still broken in TvT, poor ByuN, but I am rooting for Maru so it's alright
WriterMaru
M3t4PhYzX
Profile Joined March 2019
Poland4228 Posts
February 11 2024 13:48 GMT
#1109
On February 11 2024 09:29 Nebuchad wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 11 2024 08:50 Vindicare605 wrote:
On February 11 2024 08:41 Charoisaur wrote:
On February 11 2024 08:15 Vindicare605 wrote:
On February 11 2024 08:01 Poopi wrote:
No Zest no hope for protoss, really. I mean herO wasn’t the best toss even before his military departure, he is a scarily good aggressive protoss but you can’t have all of your hopes into a single player
It’s very annoying to cheer for a race and that race has low representation, but unfortunately since there are so few top players left in the game, it’s bound to happen unless you make the race so overpowered that many protoss win


I mean let's just look at the field for a moment. We had herO, stats, Showtime, Astrea, Skillous, Firefly, Trigger and Cyan representing Protoss in this tournament.

Even with Showtime playing better than he has in a while that is a STEEP drop off in player caliber after herO. Stats if he was in his peak would be another strong player but anyone that's watched him lately can clearly tell he's nowhere near as good as he used to be since coming back from the military.

Meanwhile Classic who is as good or better than herO failed to qualify because he got beat in PvP in the qualifiers.

Then herO the lone protoss hope of the tournament, throws a series he was ahead in 2-1 because he loses to a proxy Marauder rush and because his hidden gold natural expansion gets scouted.

I'm sorry but it's really hard to look at that result and say that balance was the reason he lost. Protoss has a very limited group of high caliber players, and it isn't drawing any new ones in because it isn't designed in such a way where new talent is going to pick it as the "cheesy ladder race" over the other two options if they want to win tournaments.

If we want to fix this Protoss representation problem, we can do it in two ways. We can rig the game so that Protoss can win with lower tier players against higher tier ones, either through a very favorable map pool or through balance changes that make Protoss easier to win with with less skill attached (because it would be these same players winning, they wouldn't magically be getting any better just because the game balance shifts in their favor)

Or we can adjust Protoss at its core so that it is less gimmicky in a Bo1 and more stable and rewarding of consistent macro play. This would attract more fresh blood to the race that wants to win with skill alone instead of mindgames and build orders.

Those are the options. I know which one I'd rather do.

Weird how we have to do those justifications and mental gymnastics why Protoss lost every tournament for Protoss but not for the other races


Because Protoss's problems are VERY different from the problems Terran and Zerg have. They always have been.

But sure let's assume for a moment that balance was the reason Protoss is out of this tournament. I'd like to hear what kind of balance changes need to happen so that Skillous could have beat Dark today.

Or I'd like to hear how game balance is the reason why herO lost to Cure today.

If we want to complain about the patch and how it needlessly nerfed Protoss, then I'm all for that, but I'd ask you again, even if we rolled back every nerf Protoss received in the last two patch cycles. Would anything have changed in this tournament? Would Stats have advanced out of Group B? Would Showtime knock out Maru or Dark to get out of Group D? Would Skillous have beat Dark? Would herO have held that proxy Marauder rush?

When Zerg was OP, we all knew Zerg was OP and we all knew EXACTLY HOW Zerg was OP. We all knew what needed to be done, and how to reign them back in.

Weird how we don't see that same discussion about how and where Protoss needs help in these threads now. If it was just a balance problem that a single patch could fix, it's weird how no one can seem to suggest what exactly needs to be done to fix it. Just a lot of woe is Protoss.


It's extremely easy to understand why protoss loses, and a bunch of people have already said it here and elsewhere. Mistakes are way more punishing for protoss than they are for terran or zerg. Do you remember the last time you thought Serral made a big mistake? I think one time he lost to Maxpax by flying his entire corruptor force over Maxpax's army and losing them all, in like 2021 or something. By contrast, do you remember the last time Serral lost a costly unit when he didn't have to lose it? Probably not, but that happens a lot more often. It doesn't even register as a mistake because there's an understanding that as terran or zerg sometimes you'll lose some costly units, it's fine. If you're protoss, those types of interactions are amplified because just one of those mistakes, at a key point in the game, can very easily mean that you lose. And then after you lose, smart people will go "Oh yeah I see that he made this key mistake, clearly he is lacking in skill and his opponent is very deserving" and we end up in this current silly discussion.

The situation is exactly the same in BW just not as extreme as it is in SC2.
odi profanum vulgus et arceo
Nakajin
Profile Blog Joined September 2014
Canada8989 Posts
February 11 2024 13:49 GMT
#1110
On February 11 2024 22:47 Vindicare605 wrote:
Maru is neglecting air control and opting to use GtA weapons instead. This is going to backfire. Cyclones are garbage in this situation. or.... Byun can just miscontrol the fight lol.


They seems good to me
Writerhttp://i.imgur.com/9p6ufcB.jpg
Topin
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Peru10099 Posts
February 11 2024 13:50 GMT
#1111
On February 11 2024 22:49 Nakajin wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 11 2024 22:47 Vindicare605 wrote:
Maru is neglecting air control and opting to use GtA weapons instead. This is going to backfire. Cyclones are garbage in this situation. or.... Byun can just miscontrol the fight lol.


They seems good to me

didnt helpt that byun a-moved them on top of cyclons xD
i would define my style between a mix of ByuN, Maru and MKP
Vindicare605
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
United States16109 Posts
February 11 2024 13:51 GMT
#1112
On February 11 2024 22:50 Topin wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 11 2024 22:49 Nakajin wrote:
On February 11 2024 22:47 Vindicare605 wrote:
Maru is neglecting air control and opting to use GtA weapons instead. This is going to backfire. Cyclones are garbage in this situation. or.... Byun can just miscontrol the fight lol.


They seems good to me

didnt helpt that byun a-moved them on top of cyclons xD


Yea I wasn't expecting him to do that lol. If Byun is going to do that, then Cyclones are a terrific choice.

Once that first battle was over, the choice of Cyclones meant that Maru could remax faster and Byun was trying to get BCs which take ages to build.
aka: KTVindicare the Geeky Bartender
fastr
Profile Joined February 2011
France902 Posts
February 11 2024 13:52 GMT
#1113
15 cyclones in the production tab, is this what the balance council intended?
Nakajin
Profile Blog Joined September 2014
Canada8989 Posts
February 11 2024 13:56 GMT
#1114
Why did people stop proxying in tvt btw? Seems like for year every tvt was some kind of proxy.
Writerhttp://i.imgur.com/9p6ufcB.jpg
WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland26224 Posts
February 11 2024 14:02 GMT
#1115
On February 11 2024 22:52 fastr wrote:
15 cyclones in the production tab, is this what the balance council intended?

IIRC at least all the publicly known members of said council were all like ‘this ain’t it’ re the cyclone change.

I don’t have a huge issue with them in lategame alongside actual mech, it’s their massability in early/midgame that sucks (and was entirely predictable with the patch)

If you had to manually target lock-ons and you couldn’t just move-click and infinitely kite things I’d have way less issue with the unit, and it could mitigate all sorts of annoyances.
'You'll always be the cuddly marsupial of my heart, despite the inherent flaws of your ancestry' - Squat
Mizenhauer
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
United States1906 Posts
February 11 2024 14:02 GMT
#1116
On February 11 2024 22:52 fastr wrote:
15 cyclones in the production tab, is this what the balance council intended?


another lotv unit that is either dogshit or way too good. is this what blizz intended?
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Topin
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Peru10099 Posts
February 11 2024 14:03 GMT
#1117
brutal series so far D:
i would define my style between a mix of ByuN, Maru and MKP
ekojs
Profile Joined February 2024
16 Posts
February 11 2024 14:03 GMT
#1118
Too much Raven energy used by ByuN.
Azzur
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Australia6260 Posts
Last Edited: 2024-02-11 14:05:46
February 11 2024 14:05 GMT
#1119
Hoping for a Serral vs Maru final, maybe a playoff for #1 spot in Mizenhauer's GOAT series?
Poopi
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France12906 Posts
February 11 2024 14:05 GMT
#1120
So far pretty one sided quarterfinals. Hopefully ByuN makes it a series, or Cure vs HM delivers
WriterMaru
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