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Poll: Best RaceTerran (805) 70% Protoss (236) 20% Zerg (113) 10% 1154 total votes Your vote: Best Race (Vote): Protoss
(Vote): Terran
(Vote): Zerg
Poll: Worst RaceZerg (695) 69% Protoss (177) 18% Terran (137) 14% 1009 total votes Your vote: Worst Race (Vote): Protoss
(Vote): Terran
(Vote): Zerg
Yes, we know this game is balanced, blah blah blah. We know skill is truly, and of course luck, is truly what determines the winner. Hypothetically, there is no absolute build that can destroy everything. Unless you're Flash playing Terran metal.
Now that we got that out of the way, honestly which race do you think is the best, and the worst? I know this thread has been done before, but now that the beta is finally over and we've got a pretty good understanding of the game, I feel like this question should be be asked once again.
Take what I say with a grain of salt if you must, as I'm cognizant that I have no credentials:
My take on best: Protoss
It was actually a pretty close contest between Terran and Protoss in my mind, because Terran's MMM ball is pretty devastating and Tanks are obviously insane. However, MMM balls do not always work and is a lot less viable late game. Tanks are incredible, but they lack mobility and anti-air, which makes it not THAT good. Still almost too good, but not quite there to be broken.
Protoss however, has almost no flaws mid-to-late game it seems (as long as you have a good economy). Force field can be the difference between an epic battle of 200/200 supply of both players, to an absolute annihilation, favoring the Protoss players. Psionic storms, although not as good as it used to be, is still pretty damn good, especially if the opponent's army is all clumped up, or the opponent's workers are left undefended. I can go on, but I won't.
My take on the worst: Zerg
Zerg is great for macro. You can fast expand to your natural like no other. But what the Zerg excel in economy, it lacks in unit composition and variety. Typically, a Zerg will have a mixture of Roaches and Hydras and maybe 2 infestors mid/late game. While this can be strong, it is nothing special. Zerg is really a simple race, but that doesn't make a bad. But I still think it's the lesser of the three for now.
So yeah, that's just my opinion. What do you guy think?
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Best: Terran
Worst: Zerg
Imo, if you think any other way you're just fooling yourself. Toss are pretty good but it also takes a certain amount of skill to execute. Terran strategies are very strong and very easy to pull off.
I'm a Terran player.
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Most are probably going to see this as the strongest vs the weakest and right now Terran is dominating and Zerg is not for a number of reasons. These reasons mean that while I agree the greater majority of the game is balanced, it is not entirely balanced. It's no easy task that's for sure and I don't envy the people in charge of that.
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I'm pretty horrible with all the races...but..I fail the most with zerg.
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How can you even try to determine what the worst and best races are? Its all opinion based and depends on how you like to play and which race suits that way the best.
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If you made a pie-chart of race effectiveness, even if it was 34-33-32, there would still be a strongest and a weakest race. There's a hidden question missing from your polls: "Do you think there is glaring imbalance amongst the races?" I think mostly the answer is no, TvZ not withstanding. Still, I voted for T strongest due to variety of available options and Z as weakest just due to the weakness of 200/200 army relative to P and T.
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as this thread has been done to death, I'll give my same answer.
best: terran
worst: zerg
my race: zerg
I feel Zerg is pretty damn good, just because they are 'the worst' doesn't mean 'they suck.' The only reason I gave them my 'worst' vote is because well.. T is insane. Z/P are pretty comprable ZvP is very balanced, Z struggles vs. T, and P doesn't struggle quite as much vs T so therefore Z is worst.
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On July 20 2010 09:21 GreEny K wrote:
How can you even try to determine what the worst and best races are? Its all opinion based and depends on how you like to play and which race suits that way the best.
Word. I'm refrasing the question to "The Prefered and Unprefered Race" before i answer.
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I think Zerg is the least fun to play as far as options go, but I love the mechanics.
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Its all going to change with the expansion packs. This is the Terran game so they have a bunch of units, then zerg will get some, and then finally protoss.
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The best race right now IS TERRAN. I do not think many will say otherwise
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I'm not sure if this is true and the game is very young, but I think it was TesteR who said if the pros from BW switched over to SC2 right now, there would be no stopping Terrans.
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What's best and worst seems largely based on the individual players styles and preference. I get a kick out of playing Terran personally because I feel Terran benefit much more than Zerg or Protoss from good micro.
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Best: Terran
My single argument for Terran being the best is that in my eyes they are the most versatile. They are able to use a wide variety of drops & tactics to supplement their strategies and keep the harass up while still having the strongest defense of all the 3 races.
Worst: Zerg
Zerg does come off as very simple. With their buildings the easiest to scout of all the 3 races (difficult to hide a tech building on creep away from a base), there isn't too much in the form of trickery that the Zerg can muster. If you see a Spire go up mid-game, you can bet that Mutalisk will be coming out and it could be extremely bad for the Zerg to not get full usage of those Mutas.
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Best: Zerg
Easiest for me to win with. Winning with Terran is just harder.
Worst: Terran
Hardest for me to win with. I love them but they are hard to play.
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won't participate in this poll, because i'm not good enough to comment on the balance when both players are high skilled.
one thing i would like to say about the "terran is too strong" hypothesis is that i do think that all 3 races have viable options to deal with terran and mech.
but i also do believe that all my zerg options require a more refined play than my terran opponent needs to set up his mech play. doing a perfect timed attack with your ground army while carpet bombing the terran with your overlords and banelings maybe requires more refinement than the average silver/gold player has.
i'm not complaining about this because you can't balance a strategy game for all different levels of player skill and i believe that once the top players play more games they will find ways to deal with terran mech easily.
the only thing that i, as a zerg player, am a little bit jealous about is the wealth of viable options terran player have if they want to play aggressive. Reapers, banshees and hellions are just fun units with great harassing potential and if you add 3-4 siege tanks at your natural your enemy can't punish you that easily for being aggressive.
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Best race is terran imo due to the fact that they have the most hard counters and the most strategies you have to prepare for when facing them.
Tanks rape ground, thors rape light air, vikings rape heavy air, hellions rape anything light, marauders rape heavy. Ghosts rape toss and casters, ravens rape other terrans. reapers can be devastating early game in groups of 1 and 2. Both zerg and protoss have relatively soft counters for terran other than immortals vs. tanks/thors. Not saying the statistics will show this out, but on paper, most people will agree with this.
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I don't really get the utility of this kind of topic. You don't even give statistics.
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On July 20 2010 09:45 HubertFelix wrote:
I don't really get the utility of this kind of topic. You don't even give statistics.
Its simple, everyone votes the race that they play for best, and zerg for worst.
Just like they do every single time someone makes this thread.
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