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MegaVolt
28 Posts
Being smart will let you learn the metagame faster but by just practicing enough anybody will eventually learn all counters and strategies. While the game is new the smart guys will have an advantage, with time intelligence will be completely irrelevant compared to experience and mechanics. | ||
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zerious
Canada3803 Posts
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Trebis
United States182 Posts
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GGTeMpLaR
United States7226 Posts
yes, but once you start playing other players who have the same perfect mechanics as you, it comes down to intelligence | ||
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pHelix Equilibria
United States1134 Posts
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Tropics
United Kingdom1132 Posts
you can definitely become random b team player through brute force for sure though | ||
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stafu
Australia1196 Posts
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deL
Australia5540 Posts
However, regarding practice - that applies to ANYTHING so it's not really worth bringing up. You get the natural freaks vs hard workers in any sport or competition. Also, while intelligence on its own might be trumped by pure mechanics and experience sometimes, things such as mental strength and motivation play a big part so there is definitely a mental side to it. | ||
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Vz0
Canada378 Posts
I mean a retard will at one point reach the level of Flash if he practiced SC2 for 25 years non stop. | ||
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Entertaining
Canada793 Posts
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wrags
United States379 Posts
On September 21 2010 09:43 mOnion wrote: No. Example? Gositerran. artosis would have a fit over this | ||
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Railxp
Hong Kong1313 Posts
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Deathfate
Spain555 Posts
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mangina
United States230 Posts
For a person grinding so many games, its called practice. Practice practice practice. Skill isn't just a given talent. It's earned through practice. Whether is singing, dancing, physical sports, exercise. You have to practice and gain experience. And its not just all intelligence. For people like TLO, his tactics are clever but that's only his style. That sort of style, which isn't seen in the Korean servers will throw off a lot of players. Its practice that makes these Korean pro starcraft gamers on top. Building muscle memory and making everything second nature. There's so many things I can list that requires lots of repetitive practice that can make a person become better at it. (even if its considered a sport or not. I like to call it a talent/skill) One example that comes to mind is Michael Jordon. Every time he had a game, he would warm up with atleast 100 free throws. Every athletic sport requires practice, not just intelligence. Even for the World Cup, even nations team practiced their hardest. Even the countries in South Africa because they were playing in their home country (and I give a lot of respect for that). Even singers. Not everyone is gifted an "amazing voice". They practice and practice to pull out that amazing voice that they never knew they had. Even playing an instrument. It's not that someone is intelligent that allows them to play the instrument. They practice and practice. They exercise their brain to adapt and grow. That's probably one of the reasons why parents would want their parents to play an instrument. I, personally, like to draw. Although I haven't drawn for a long time, I would doodle a lot when I was younger. I would grow the motor skills. A person is the ideal AI or medium in which you can execute a sport/skill/talent. Through practice, you can grow on your knowledge. Every little detail that your brain absorbs becomes intelligence from the long hours of practice. And these little details also include actions that your muscles are doing without you knowing. Think of everything as a challenge. Adapting and learning. It's probably the greatest skill. To think one is intelligent and perfect to begin with, is a fault. | ||
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Edso
Canada112 Posts
On September 21 2010 09:46 awu25 wrote: if you're talking about intelligence as in do well in school and stuff like that, then no it isn't required to be good however game sense isn't something that you can achieve by practicing (otherwise everyone would be at flash's level) Lol im pretty sure flash practices so much to the point where the muscles in his fingers start tearing. I don't think theres alot of people outside of korea that practice that much. | ||
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pookychoo
New Zealand96 Posts
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Hakker
United States1360 Posts
On September 21 2010 09:52 WhoaDrugs wrote: The term intelligence is vague of a word anyway. This is a game. A really popular video game at that. Requires practice to increase the skill level. But I doubt you have to be smart to play. If one is to realize they actually have a brain, professional gaming isn't something they would go into anyway. I don't think that's an accurate assumption. If someone has the opportunity to turn something that they love into a lifestyle and career, the lesser person would shy away from the work and practice involved while the person with more initiative would take the opportunity and do everything he can to maximize the gain from it. My old math teacher in Middle school used to be a professional computer scientist specializing in cryptology for IBM making huge amounts of money for a non-executive position. He became a Middle School math teacher because he didn't like the attention he got and felt like he was being regarded as a spectacle instead of another person. Sometimes the smartest people can be the craziest. | ||
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D-Lite
United Kingdom223 Posts
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Keitzer
United States2509 Posts
On September 21 2010 09:48 {88}iNcontroL wrote: Machine. so bm =)... jk but ya... just cuz you can spam out mass hydras against toss doesn't mean you're gonna win every game.. it's the ability to think on the fly, react to what's going on in Real Time and adjust your Strategy based on that.... (see what i did there? eh? EH?!) the players who make "creative" or "intuitive" plays are the ones who will always be at the top. Period. | ||
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KezseN
Singapore1450 Posts
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