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theDragoon
Profile Joined June 2010
Canada307 Posts
October 24 2010 05:00 GMT
#201
yes!! always liked his zerg play.
BrodiaQ
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
United States892 Posts
October 24 2010 05:01 GMT
#202
Yess, TLO as zerg is pretty awesome news!
"So come right up and let me squash your creativity with my iron fist of conservative play."--Nony
MadULol
Profile Joined October 2010
Argentina19 Posts
October 24 2010 05:02 GMT
#203
Looking forward for a valid explanation in a few months when the protoss will get a massive buff patch and he immediately switches again.

;-)
MythicalMage
Profile Joined May 2010
1360 Posts
October 24 2010 05:02 GMT
#204
On October 24 2010 13:59 kojinshugi wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 24 2010 13:39 MythicalMage wrote:
He isn't saying balace doesn't matter. It certainly effects the game. But he's saying that players matter a lot MORE. If TLO wasn't good with Terran he won't be with Zerg. If Cool wasn't good with Zerg he wouldn't be with Terran and so on.


The idea that only the player matters is ridiculous. What matters is the player's strengths working together with the race's strengths.

Idra would probably make a very mediocre SC2 Terran on the tournament level, Artosis's stories notwithstanding. That doesn't mean Idra's bad, it means Idra's playstyle works best with Z, and he is near-godlike at that playstyle.

TLO thrives on variation, his protoss was always poor because protoss has always been very rigid. Zerg now has variation, Terran no longer doesn't. It's always mech in TvZ and always MMM/vikings in TvP. Look at any TvP on Xel'naga Caverns, it's always the same two builds taking the same three bases that ends in a mexican standoff by the third base PF.

Mech in TvZ? I dunno about that(anymore). The issue is that, in my mine, you can't do anything early game significant, and that in EVERY matchup it's all bio all the time. Occasionally tanks/vikings make an appearance, and occasionally there are banshees/ravens, but it's always over an infantry core, and that's rather limiting.
FuryX
Profile Joined April 2010
Australia495 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-24 05:05:17
October 24 2010 05:04 GMT
#205
Seems he goes where eva the patch balance goes... curious to see what he thinks in a few months once protoss gets a buff ^_^
On_Slaught
Profile Joined August 2008
United States12190 Posts
October 24 2010 05:06 GMT
#206
On October 24 2010 14:04 FuryX wrote:
Seems he goes where eva the patch balance goes... curious to see what he thinks in a few months once protoss gets a buff ^_^


Based on past patches, plus the protoss win %s in most leagues around the world, it will be a very very very long time before protoss get a legitimate buff.
eNtitY~
Profile Joined January 2007
United States1293 Posts
October 24 2010 05:08 GMT
#207
Hmm, not sure about this. Hopefully he gets in sick practice with IdrA tho.
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kojinshugi
Profile Joined August 2010
Estonia2559 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-24 05:11:34
October 24 2010 05:09 GMT
#208
On October 24 2010 14:02 MythicalMage wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 24 2010 13:59 kojinshugi wrote:
On October 24 2010 13:39 MythicalMage wrote:
He isn't saying balace doesn't matter. It certainly effects the game. But he's saying that players matter a lot MORE. If TLO wasn't good with Terran he won't be with Zerg. If Cool wasn't good with Zerg he wouldn't be with Terran and so on.


The idea that only the player matters is ridiculous. What matters is the player's strengths working together with the race's strengths.

Idra would probably make a very mediocre SC2 Terran on the tournament level, Artosis's stories notwithstanding. That doesn't mean Idra's bad, it means Idra's playstyle works best with Z, and he is near-godlike at that playstyle.

TLO thrives on variation, his protoss was always poor because protoss has always been very rigid. Zerg now has variation, Terran no longer doesn't. It's always mech in TvZ and always MMM/vikings in TvP. Look at any TvP on Xel'naga Caverns, it's always the same two builds taking the same three bases that ends in a mexican standoff by the third base PF.

Mech in TvZ? I dunno about that(anymore). The issue is that, in my mine, you can't do anything early game significant, and that in EVERY matchup it's all bio all the time. Occasionally tanks/vikings make an appearance, and occasionally there are banshees/ravens, but it's always over an infantry core, and that's rather limiting.


Mech as in Thors/Tanks/Hellions. Multiple factories.

Of course there's always gonna be an infantry core, that's not the same thing as MMM. MMM is the primary army composition in bio play, in mech play it's more of a support role.

EDIT: much like there's always gonna be zlots/stalkers/sentries with any toss composition and there's always going to be lings in any zerg composition.
whatsgrackalackin420
kojinshugi
Profile Joined August 2010
Estonia2559 Posts
October 24 2010 05:12 GMT
#209
On October 24 2010 14:04 FuryX wrote:
Seems he goes where eva the patch balance goes... curious to see what he thinks in a few months once protoss gets a buff ^_^


He won't ever main race toss.
whatsgrackalackin420
nOia.pod
Profile Joined May 2010
Hungary263 Posts
October 24 2010 05:13 GMT
#210
On October 24 2010 02:20 Carras wrote:
DAMM COPY CAT,
i start to not win against zerg.. he starts to not win against anybody
i see idra and dealer soo IMBA..
i switch..he switches..


That's what we call FOTM.
You see? The Drone became an extractor!
blade55555
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States17423 Posts
October 24 2010 05:16 GMT
#211
Would like to hear his reasoning. I know back in beta he said tvz was balanced (this was the start of where everyone was saying terran imba back when Mech was dominating). But he was still random then 2 weeks after that he picked terran and stuck with them. I am hoping he didn't switch to zerg because he thinks their "imba". Hope he comes out with his reason soon ^^
When I think of something else, something will go here
vesicular
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States1310 Posts
October 24 2010 05:18 GMT
#212
Call me crazy, but I still think of TLO as Random, since that's what he started as. So I don't have any problem with him switching to whatever race he wants, I sort of expect it to be honet.
STX Fighting!
Heosat
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Australia481 Posts
October 24 2010 05:19 GMT
#213
On October 24 2010 13:45 MisterPuppy wrote:
Hey Heosat anyway you could get TLO to do a writeup about why he prefers Zerg over Terran?


I'm confident it will be in the weekly.
Liquid ftw!
Horse != player. I'm from TLAF.
Tazza
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Korea (South)1678 Posts
October 24 2010 05:19 GMT
#214
To all the terrans, this doest NOT mean zerg is op now
Samus
Profile Joined July 2010
Australia47 Posts
October 24 2010 05:20 GMT
#215
The patch basically made Z very easy to secure that expansion.
To beat it, you have to do the same build.... as a terran which is very difficult or apply early pressure.
Since early pressure was nerfed, Zerg can easily take that expansion, have a defence ready for it.
Sad as it sounds basically the whole ZvT game depends on wherever you stop that early expansion or not because if you don't you could have mutas harassing your base or you'll just easily get outmacroed.
Don't know what they were thinking with this patch probably making terran have to work for early game pressure and make the zerg scared to ever expand again.

I'm currently still playing terran and adjusting to see if i can beat Z in ZvT. I've won a few games but no success for one BO to stop the Zerg atm. XD.
Engines are screaming
bendez
Profile Joined February 2010
Canada283 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-24 05:22:44
October 24 2010 05:21 GMT
#216
Don't look too much into this. You don't HAVE to be committed to one race! If you think other race suits your style better, go for it! Good for TLO

On October 24 2010 14:19 Tazza wrote:
To all the terrans, this doest NOT mean zerg is op now


I'd like to emphasize this as well.
Angra
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States2652 Posts
October 24 2010 05:22 GMT
#217
They got rid of almost all sorts of harassment options for terran the past few patches. It's no mystery why TLO, a player based on creativity and harassment-style play, is going to switch when they've gotten rid of a bunch of those options for his race.
0neder
Profile Joined July 2009
United States3733 Posts
October 24 2010 05:26 GMT
#218
I always knew he had it deep down inside when I watched him pull awesome strats with zerg in VODs. Not surprised.
Darklance
Profile Joined August 2010
22 Posts
October 24 2010 05:26 GMT
#219
On the one hand, I feel bad for TLO for feeling restricted with Terran

On the other hand, I am really excited to see more TLO zerg play!
Grond
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
599 Posts
October 24 2010 05:33 GMT
#220
On October 24 2010 11:41 Lucid90 wrote:
I never liked TLO. Honestly I don't think he has the natural talent needed to succeed against the best in korea. I don't even think he's good enough to beat top foreigners. To me he's always been a flashy player with a big fanbase because of stupid shit like "TLOwnage" or his "creative" play, but when it comes to actual straight up matches he falls flat. I guess the reason for his switch is that now terran isn't as strong against zerg say a month ago, so makes more sense switching to zerg. To me this is still pretty stupid because IMO PvZ is still broken in high levels and zerg is by far the hardest race to play because it's mostly defensive, so he should do even worse in tournament results now.

Sorry to hurt anyone's feelings but this is just how I feel.


This sounds like a person who's only knowledge of TLO's play is from the TLOwnage video. He showed exceptional creativity as Random all throughout the Beta. I guess you think Battle of the Timing Attacks is the epitome of strategy. I don't comprehend how you label creative play as stupid shit.
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