"Terran is the best race" - Tester video interview - Page 17

On May 26 2010 00:49 Origine wrote:
APM doesn't do all, many things can make a battle turn in another way, army positioning, using Immo's to focus heavy units etc.. if you just 1A (but the worst is that 1A works pretty well with toss) then don't cry -_-

On May 26 2010 00:20 Skyze wrote:


and every post you make is crying how bad terrans are.. You are a fucking terran crybaby, stop defending your race when its VERY OBVIOUS they are the strongest, as the 16 pages here by non-biased people + every other fucking thread.

TLO picks terran because it gives him the best chance of winning. END OF STORY. Did I say he ONLY plays TvZ?? No, He can play any matchup, like TvT too, because he was a RANDOM PLAYER.. but he knows terran will win him games in the other two matchups easy, and he can play TvT decent enough to win.

Even more korean pros are switching to terran, as Artosis has said, and terrans have won every major tournament in the month of May. Show me where tournaments were "dominated" by zergs?? Just about every tournament in recent memory that has been listed on TL.net, besides the HDH has been won by a terran.

PS; Im a PROTOSS player.. why would I care if zerg is weak? I never said zerg is weak EVER, I think they will be the scariest race once the game has actual balance, but TvZ is retarded right now everyone knows that, as does TLO which is why hes beating Freedom and Check, players way better than him, with relative ease.

Look at the ASM Cup 2 for example. 13/32 were zerg, then 10/16, then 7/8 and lastly a complete shutout at 4/4. (It's worth noting that only 1 of those 13 zergs had a stint as a bw pro so these are mostly players who don't have the Artosis seal of approval)

Here in this World Cup we had 13/32 and now 9/16 are zerg. (4 of 13 were ex pros here)

Do people seriously believe that results like these are due to a skill gap between those players who chose zerg and those who chose protoss and terran? Really?

Edit - If Tester, Rainbow, Spunky, Silver and other strong players switched to zerg and Cool, Freedom, Thewind, Sirasoni, SoO and so on switched to protoss/terran would we really see a big shift in the racial balance?

On May 26 2010 00:59 Skyze wrote:


Not really.. Protoss is the race that you have to micro the most, cant just 1A at all.. properly placed forcefields are nessisary (as we've seen in 17173 tourney, forget who it was but some toss (maybe WhiteRa?) did some bad forcefeilds, blocking out his zeals and he lost because of it with a bigger army).. Then you got storms, blink, etc..

Nothing gets more attack-move than MMM. Press stim then run them in, dont have to do anything and you clear out everything in the game. Maybe get a ghost where your insane EMP radius takes out every shield with 1 shot, there goes all templar/sentry mana, then stim 1A gg.

The saving grace in BW which made M&M balanced was the fact that medics were stupid at times, ran around and were dumb.. now with medivacs, they can never be out of position, always floating ahead, and they can even pick up weak units if the terran decides to do something more than 1A, not like they need it though.

I am scared when someone who is head and shoulders dominant like Moon or Jaedong comes to SC2, they are going to make MMM look unbeatable, microing each dying marine into dropships and such.

On May 11 2010 12:30 weeeee wrote:


Fragile units that are easily counterable? Sounds like tanks vs protoss. Vs prtosss if you don't have an early starport you die to voidrays. So its not like its a choice.

On May 26 2010 00:59 Skyze wrote:


Not really.. Protoss is the race that you have to micro the most, cant just 1A at all.. properly placed forcefields are nessisary (as we've seen in 17173 tourney, forget who it was but some toss (maybe WhiteRa?) did some bad forcefeilds, blocking out his zeals and he lost because of it with a bigger army).. Then you got storms, blink, etc..

Nothing gets more attack-move than MMM. Press stim then run them in, dont have to do anything and you clear out everything in the game. Maybe get a ghost where your insane EMP radius takes out every shield with 1 shot, there goes all templar/sentry mana, then stim 1A gg.

The saving grace in BW which made M&M balanced was the fact that medics were stupid at times, ran around and were dumb.. now with medivacs, they can never be out of position, always floating ahead, and they can even pick up weak units if the terran decides to do something more than 1A, not like they need it though.

I am scared when someone who is head and shoulders dominant like Moon or Jaedong comes to SC2, they are going to make MMM look unbeatable, microing each dying marine into dropships and such.

On May 26 2010 01:14 Skyze wrote:
well when ive played terran, I've beaten 2000+ protoss/zerg with ease, attack moving my MMM ball. Its comical. I actually was losing games trying to be cute with hellion/etc, then just switch back to MMM and walk thru every unit in the game, including collosus.

This was even before the latest patch which makes stim/health cheaper. I can only imagine now.

On May 26 2010 01:06 xLethargicax wrote:


Are you an idiot? MMM ball takes micro if you are not bad. You obviously are terran raging, and can't beat MMM ball. Please quit making blanket statements, because I micro my marauders and marines.

On May 26 2010 01:36 Slayer91 wrote:
I'd like to find a random player who actually thinks protoss players are harder "apm wise" or micro/macro w/e than terran.

Protoss players seem to think that spamming forcefields is super skillful. Hell, I haven't seen many players do it effectively like i think white ra with the checker board [50% block out a concave, 50% block retreat of the remaining units combined with the two block forcefields
UXUXUX
XUXUXU
X = forcefields U = units.

Zerg is mostly about moving around the screen all the time with queen spewing overlord creeping creep tumours and unit positioning. [not that many people do more than 1a]
Not too much to do on a given screen so its not so much "apm"

I don't think ZvT is imbalanced I just think that people need to abuse drops and maybe nydus worms for retreat a lot more against mech play. It's not an easy way to play but i think mech is only really strong in head up battles which is not what you want to be comitting to as zerg.

On May 26 2010 01:23 FALAPARK wrote:

LIAR, first of all marine balls are useless because balenings and collosus counter this very easily. i say this because i was and currently i am #1 in my division and i am a terran pplayer as well so dont give me this crap, you probably used tanks, or something to back them up because marine balls are useless.

On May 26 2010 01:31 CruelZeratul wrote:


Doens't change the fact, that a Protoss army usually needs more micro. What do you micro in your MMM ball after using Stim? I guess micro units back und forth, focuse important units, perhaps putting some in a Medivac. You have to do that with the Protoss army, too, but on top u have to use FF, be really carefull with your Collossi, need well placed Storms etc.

On May 26 2010 01:44 MindRush wrote:
Artosis, this might seem far-fetched .... but can you add some subtitle for when the korean translator is speaking? i cannot seem to understand him unless i up my volume really high

On May 26 2010 00:59 Skyze wrote:
I am scared when someone who is head and shoulders dominant like Moon or Jaedong comes to SC2, they are going to make MMM look unbeatable, microing each dying marine into dropships and such.