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YiukeDukem
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States125 Posts
December 29 2010 08:17 GMT
#41
On December 29 2010 17:08 IdrA wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 29 2010 17:01 Beef Noodles wrote:
On December 29 2010 16:21 IdrA wrote:
On December 29 2010 15:44 Liquid`Ret wrote:
all these theories on idra ladder are untrue...he ladders to win games...just watch his stream...it also explains why zerg isnt in top10 and why there are less of us in the top200

indeed
if i think i can win i stay in the game. there are times when ive left a game and my opponent couldve made a gigantic mistake and handed me the win, but thats rare and irrelevant.
its just really fucking easy to lose as zerg.

Do you think that zerg is currently at a disadvantage or do you think it is a momentum race that cannot lose momentum if they want to win?

I know that you don't like to respond very often, but I would like to hear your views on the current state of the zerg race (without iNcontrol telling you to shut up like on SOTG lol)

zerg is fucking awful
clearly weakest, least reliable options early game. any viable pressure is nearly a complete allin, besides light roach aggression which is easily nullified. both t and p have lots of ways to put game ending pressure on z early and half of them arent even close to allin, and most are unscoutable and have different counters.

and the idea that z is somehow the strongest late game race is fuckin absurd. hive units are nearly useless and horribly cost inefficient unless broodlords catch them off guard. ya, you can insta remax if you're allowed to get a giant econ, but remaxing on lair units vs collosus or tank based armies hardly matters when you can trade 200/200 for a tenth of their army.

if z guesses, and guessing is required if t and p dont show a ridiculously early expansion, correctly and hits drone timings perfectly then they have a mid game advantage, but its not an advantage that can be used very well. its very easy for t or p to make themselves unkillable and head for that invincible late game army. z gets to use their unit advantage to tech towards hive, which can be nullified, or to expand a bunch so they can throw away a few extra 200/200 armies before getting rolled.

zerg is failing massively in just about every statistic besides gsl first places. the race is fucking awful. i honestly have no idea how so many people dont acknowledge it yet. zergs performance in the foreign scene is very nearly non existent. i think morrow has won one viking cup and otherwise 0 z wins since i won mlg dc. and a pitiful number of titles before that.



yet u still play z
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dapierow
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Serbia1316 Posts
December 29 2010 08:19 GMT
#42
^^ I dunno if I can agree with IdrA on the hive units thing but I am a 2500 zerg so what do I know

but ill give my opinion anyway

vs Terran Brood lords are my saving grace if I can tech up to them I can usually win the game but getting up to brood lords without spending too much gas on infestors or surviving drop play is the hard part

vs Protoss they usually get 200/200 and push out before I can even get brood lords but If i can get them, they will just go trigger happy with forcefields and try to abuse range of collossus but I can usually just back up and abuse the range of brood lords while their gateway units are trapped... unless they have blink... then its gay as fuck... or void rays... then its even gayer...


...shit IdrA is right...
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IdrA
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
United States11541 Posts
December 29 2010 08:22 GMT
#43
On December 29 2010 17:13 mdb wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 29 2010 17:08 IdrA wrote:
On December 29 2010 17:01 Beef Noodles wrote:
On December 29 2010 16:21 IdrA wrote:
On December 29 2010 15:44 Liquid`Ret wrote:
all these theories on idra ladder are untrue...he ladders to win games...just watch his stream...it also explains why zerg isnt in top10 and why there are less of us in the top200

indeed
if i think i can win i stay in the game. there are times when ive left a game and my opponent couldve made a gigantic mistake and handed me the win, but thats rare and irrelevant.
its just really fucking easy to lose as zerg.

Do you think that zerg is currently at a disadvantage or do you think it is a momentum race that cannot lose momentum if they want to win?

I know that you don't like to respond very often, but I would like to hear your views on the current state of the zerg race (without iNcontrol telling you to shut up like on SOTG lol)

zerg is fucking awful
clearly weakest, least reliable options early game. any viable pressure is nearly a complete allin, besides light roach aggression which is easily nullified. both t and p have lots of ways to put game ending pressure on z early and half of them arent even close to allin, and most are unscoutable and have different counters.

and the idea that z is somehow the strongest late game race is fuckin absurd. hive units are nearly useless and horribly cost inefficient unless broodlords catch them off guard. ya, you can insta remax if you're allowed to get a giant econ, but remaxing on lair units vs collosus or tank based armies hardly matters when you can trade 200/200 for a tenth of their army.

if z guesses, and guessing is required if t and p dont show a ridiculously early expansion, correctly and hits drone timings perfectly then they have a mid game advantage, but its not an advantage that can be used very well. its very easy for t or p to make themselves unkillable and head for that invincible late game army. z gets to use their unit advantage to tech towards hive, which can be nullified, or to expand a bunch so they can throw away a few extra 200/200 armies before getting rolled.

zerg is failing massively in just about every statistic besides gsl first places. the race is fucking awful. i honestly have no idea how so many people dont acknowledge it yet. zergs performance in the foreign scene is very nearly non existent. i think morrow has won one viking cup and otherwise 0 z wins since i won mlg dc. and a pitiful number of titles before that.


What do you think is the reason for this? The current patches or there is something fundamentaly wrong with the zerg race?

the nature of drone vs unit balance means its probably always going to be a delicate race, but i dont think thats fundamentally a problem, thats just one of the skills required to play the race
the game could certainly be balanced with patches, improving the hydra and/or hive units and making early game scouting (for all races) significantly better.
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village_idiot
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
2436 Posts
December 29 2010 08:23 GMT
#44
On December 29 2010 17:08 IdrA wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 29 2010 17:01 Beef Noodles wrote:
On December 29 2010 16:21 IdrA wrote:
On December 29 2010 15:44 Liquid`Ret wrote:
all these theories on idra ladder are untrue...he ladders to win games...just watch his stream...it also explains why zerg isnt in top10 and why there are less of us in the top200

indeed
if i think i can win i stay in the game. there are times when ive left a game and my opponent couldve made a gigantic mistake and handed me the win, but thats rare and irrelevant.
its just really fucking easy to lose as zerg.

Do you think that zerg is currently at a disadvantage or do you think it is a momentum race that cannot lose momentum if they want to win?

I know that you don't like to respond very often, but I would like to hear your views on the current state of the zerg race (without iNcontrol telling you to shut up like on SOTG lol)

zerg is fucking awful
clearly weakest, least reliable options early game. any viable pressure is nearly a complete allin, besides light roach aggression which is easily nullified. both t and p have lots of ways to put game ending pressure on z early and half of them arent even close to allin, and most are unscoutable and have different counters.

and the idea that z is somehow the strongest late game race is fuckin absurd. hive units are nearly useless and horribly cost inefficient unless broodlords catch them off guard. ya, you can insta remax if you're allowed to get a giant econ, but remaxing on lair units vs collosus or tank based armies hardly matters when you can trade 200/200 for a tenth of their army.

if z guesses, and guessing is required if t and p dont show a ridiculously early expansion, correctly and hits drone timings perfectly then they have a mid game advantage, but its not an advantage that can be used very well. its very easy for t or p to make themselves unkillable and head for that invincible late game army. z gets to use their unit advantage to tech towards hive, which can be nullified, or to expand a bunch so they can throw away a few extra 200/200 armies before getting rolled.

zerg is failing massively in just about every statistic besides gsl first places. the race is fucking awful. i honestly have no idea how so many people dont acknowledge it yet. zergs performance in the foreign scene is very nearly non existent. i think morrow has won one viking cup and otherwise 0 z wins since i won mlg dc. and a pitiful number of titles before that.

A lot of these things can be corrected by having better maps. Current map pool encourages cheese play with small rush distances and is full of choke points so Zerg army can't flank. No wonder Z feels weak.
CoupDeGrace
Profile Joined December 2010
United States7 Posts
December 29 2010 08:28 GMT
#45
On December 29 2010 17:13 mdb wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 29 2010 17:08 IdrA wrote:
On December 29 2010 17:01 Beef Noodles wrote:
On December 29 2010 16:21 IdrA wrote:
On December 29 2010 15:44 Liquid`Ret wrote:
all these theories on idra ladder are untrue...he ladders to win games...just watch his stream...it also explains why zerg isnt in top10 and why there are less of us in the top200

indeed
if i think i can win i stay in the game. there are times when ive left a game and my opponent couldve made a gigantic mistake and handed me the win, but thats rare and irrelevant.
its just really fucking easy to lose as zerg.

Do you think that zerg is currently at a disadvantage or do you think it is a momentum race that cannot lose momentum if they want to win?

I know that you don't like to respond very often, but I would like to hear your views on the current state of the zerg race (without iNcontrol telling you to shut up like on SOTG lol)

zerg is fucking awful
clearly weakest, least reliable options early game. any viable pressure is nearly a complete allin, besides light roach aggression which is easily nullified. both t and p have lots of ways to put game ending pressure on z early and half of them arent even close to allin, and most are unscoutable and have different counters.

and the idea that z is somehow the strongest late game race is fuckin absurd. hive units are nearly useless and horribly cost inefficient unless broodlords catch them off guard. ya, you can insta remax if you're allowed to get a giant econ, but remaxing on lair units vs collosus or tank based armies hardly matters when you can trade 200/200 for a tenth of their army.

if z guesses, and guessing is required if t and p dont show a ridiculously early expansion, correctly and hits drone timings perfectly then they have a mid game advantage, but its not an advantage that can be used very well. its very easy for t or p to make themselves unkillable and head for that invincible late game army. z gets to use their unit advantage to tech towards hive, which can be nullified, or to expand a bunch so they can throw away a few extra 200/200 armies before getting rolled.

zerg is failing massively in just about every statistic besides gsl first places. the race is fucking awful. i honestly have no idea how so many people dont acknowledge it yet. zergs performance in the foreign scene is very nearly non existent. i think morrow has won one viking cup and otherwise 0 z wins since i won mlg dc. and a pitiful number of titles before that.


What do you think is the reason for this? The current patches or there is something fundamentaly wrong with the zerg race?


Idra said it in his post. The reasons are three fold.

1. Inaccurate scouting or lack there of early game. Many early pressures by p or t have vastly different counters from zerg so its impossible to do a standard build that counters everything. So this requires good scouting which is next to impossible with good building placement and active anti-scouting.

2. Our requirement to gain an economic advantage to be in the game. This makes every early game pressure a near all-in. While you can do an aggressive 3 gate and still be okay with an expansion behind.

3. Lastly, the end game armies are incredibly cost efficient versus zerg armies. Our end game units are not nearly as cost efficient. Brood lords can be a great unit but due to immobility and production time they are not the answer.

I still play zerg and will continue but the majority of games I win the opponent makes a mistake or I counter them in the mid game and enter the late game with an advantage I compound through harass.

TLDR: Scouting requirements for zerg are much higher for zerg, economic requirements are higher for zerg, and our units are less efficient than the protoss/terran counterparts.

IVXX
Profile Joined July 2010
United States71 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-29 08:30:58
December 29 2010 08:28 GMT
#46
zerg is fundamentally flawed. when compared to T and P, it almost feels incomplete as a race - as if the designers had no idea wtf they were doing.

that said, i think if they gave us a hydra buff (like speed upgrade and make range natural) and removed nydus worm gas costs we'd be fine... but it looks like until HotS we're fucked.

edit: how the fuck did 5 people post before me
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Tachion
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Canada8573 Posts
December 29 2010 08:29 GMT
#47
On December 29 2010 17:08 IdrA wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 29 2010 17:01 Beef Noodles wrote:
On December 29 2010 16:21 IdrA wrote:
On December 29 2010 15:44 Liquid`Ret wrote:
all these theories on idra ladder are untrue...he ladders to win games...just watch his stream...it also explains why zerg isnt in top10 and why there are less of us in the top200

indeed
if i think i can win i stay in the game. there are times when ive left a game and my opponent couldve made a gigantic mistake and handed me the win, but thats rare and irrelevant.
its just really fucking easy to lose as zerg.

Do you think that zerg is currently at a disadvantage or do you think it is a momentum race that cannot lose momentum if they want to win?

I know that you don't like to respond very often, but I would like to hear your views on the current state of the zerg race (without iNcontrol telling you to shut up like on SOTG lol)

zerg is fucking awful
clearly weakest, least reliable options early game. any viable pressure is nearly a complete allin, besides light roach aggression which is easily nullified. both t and p have lots of ways to put game ending pressure on z early and half of them arent even close to allin, and most are unscoutable and have different counters.

and the idea that z is somehow the strongest late game race is fuckin absurd. hive units are nearly useless and horribly cost inefficient unless broodlords catch them off guard. ya, you can insta remax if you're allowed to get a giant econ, but remaxing on lair units vs collosus or tank based armies hardly matters when you can trade 200/200 for a tenth of their army.

if z guesses, and guessing is required if t and p dont show a ridiculously early expansion, correctly and hits drone timings perfectly then they have a mid game advantage, but its not an advantage that can be used very well. its very easy for t or p to make themselves unkillable and head for that invincible late game army. z gets to use their unit advantage to tech towards hive, which can be nullified, or to expand a bunch so they can throw away a few extra 200/200 armies before getting rolled.

zerg is failing massively in just about every statistic besides gsl first places. the race is fucking awful. i honestly have no idea how so many people dont acknowledge it yet. zergs performance in the foreign scene is very nearly non existent. i think morrow has won one viking cup and otherwise 0 z wins since i won mlg dc. and a pitiful number of titles before that.

Are you banking on Blizzard balancing things, or are you gonna stick with Zerg regardless?
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udgnim
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States8024 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-29 08:30:22
December 29 2010 08:30 GMT
#48
On December 29 2010 17:17 YiukeDukem wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 29 2010 17:08 IdrA wrote:
On December 29 2010 17:01 Beef Noodles wrote:
On December 29 2010 16:21 IdrA wrote:
On December 29 2010 15:44 Liquid`Ret wrote:
all these theories on idra ladder are untrue...he ladders to win games...just watch his stream...it also explains why zerg isnt in top10 and why there are less of us in the top200

indeed
if i think i can win i stay in the game. there are times when ive left a game and my opponent couldve made a gigantic mistake and handed me the win, but thats rare and irrelevant.
its just really fucking easy to lose as zerg.

Do you think that zerg is currently at a disadvantage or do you think it is a momentum race that cannot lose momentum if they want to win?

I know that you don't like to respond very often, but I would like to hear your views on the current state of the zerg race (without iNcontrol telling you to shut up like on SOTG lol)

zerg is fucking awful
clearly weakest, least reliable options early game. any viable pressure is nearly a complete allin, besides light roach aggression which is easily nullified. both t and p have lots of ways to put game ending pressure on z early and half of them arent even close to allin, and most are unscoutable and have different counters.

and the idea that z is somehow the strongest late game race is fuckin absurd. hive units are nearly useless and horribly cost inefficient unless broodlords catch them off guard. ya, you can insta remax if you're allowed to get a giant econ, but remaxing on lair units vs collosus or tank based armies hardly matters when you can trade 200/200 for a tenth of their army.

if z guesses, and guessing is required if t and p dont show a ridiculously early expansion, correctly and hits drone timings perfectly then they have a mid game advantage, but its not an advantage that can be used very well. its very easy for t or p to make themselves unkillable and head for that invincible late game army. z gets to use their unit advantage to tech towards hive, which can be nullified, or to expand a bunch so they can throw away a few extra 200/200 armies before getting rolled.

zerg is failing massively in just about every statistic besides gsl first places. the race is fucking awful. i honestly have no idea how so many people dont acknowledge it yet. zergs performance in the foreign scene is very nearly non existent. i think morrow has won one viking cup and otherwise 0 z wins since i won mlg dc. and a pitiful number of titles before that.



yet u still play z


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DeltruS
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada2214 Posts
December 29 2010 08:34 GMT
#49
Marines are stronger than in BW and mules are very strong too. It is way too easy for terrans to all in and still be ahead economically..

Against protoss chrono boost allows a protoss to change builds without changing structures. This makes it hard to tell if they are gonna 3 gate or all in.

On top of this, lategame is an AoE fest where every zerg unit gets obliterated.

It would be nice if AoE was toned down, marine attack speed was nerfed, and zerg was given an early game support unit with scouting capabilities. Even a spine crawler build time/ burrow time would go far.
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Silidons
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States2813 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-29 08:36:12
December 29 2010 08:35 GMT
#50
On December 29 2010 15:44 Liquid`Ret wrote:
all these theories on idra ladder are untrue...he ladders to win games...just watch his stream...it also explains why zerg isnt in top10 and why there are less of us in the top200


Or maybe because it's the least played race. But that's a huge maybe. (sarcasm)

I hope you guys realize this makes people want to play the game less because of all this QQ. People think if pro's QQ then it must be right. I don't see NesTea or FruitDealer saying the same things IdrA says. It's because it's unwarranted QQ bullshit.
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gyad
Profile Joined May 2010
United States423 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-29 08:36:58
December 29 2010 08:35 GMT
#51
As a Protoss/Terran player, I feel there is no such thing as a Zerg deathball.
Bliznako
Profile Joined November 2010
Serbia165 Posts
December 29 2010 08:39 GMT
#52
The two wins in GSL for Zerg didn't do any favor for the race in the whole picture and the balance discussion. IMO, the Zerg players who win these tournaments would be one hell of an opponent if they played T or P, simply because of the sheer "on the edge" experience from playing Zerg.

Thumbs up for players like Idra who are just stubborn enough to change race.
IdrA
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
United States11541 Posts
December 29 2010 08:41 GMT
#53
On December 29 2010 17:35 Silidons wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 29 2010 15:44 Liquid`Ret wrote:
all these theories on idra ladder are untrue...he ladders to win games...just watch his stream...it also explains why zerg isnt in top10 and why there are less of us in the top200


Or maybe because it's the least played race. But that's a huge maybe. (sarcasm)

I hope you guys realize this makes people want to play the game less because of all this QQ. People think if pro's QQ then it must be right. I don't see NesTea or FruitDealer saying the same things IdrA says. It's because it's unwarranted QQ bullshit.

fruitdealer made a big post bitching about zvt during his gsl 1 run
nestea called out and tvz'd some random korean newbie who said it was easy to hold cheese zvt because its that retarded.

you think they resort to allins nearly every zvp because they want to turn the game into a coinflip vs players worse than them?
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village_idiot
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
2436 Posts
December 29 2010 08:41 GMT
#54
On December 29 2010 17:35 Silidons wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 29 2010 15:44 Liquid`Ret wrote:
all these theories on idra ladder are untrue...he ladders to win games...just watch his stream...it also explains why zerg isnt in top10 and why there are less of us in the top200


Or maybe because it's the least played race. But that's a huge maybe. (sarcasm)

I hope you guys realize this makes people want to play the game less because of all this QQ. People think if pro's QQ then it must be right. I don't see NesTea or FruitDealer saying the same things IdrA says. It's because it's unwarranted QQ bullshit.

You can't know what they think since Nestea and FD don't post on TL. Also, there is no recent balance discussion in the translated interviews.

I think you're making this up.
IdrA
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
United States11541 Posts
December 29 2010 08:42 GMT
#55
On December 29 2010 17:29 Tachion wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 29 2010 17:08 IdrA wrote:
On December 29 2010 17:01 Beef Noodles wrote:
On December 29 2010 16:21 IdrA wrote:
On December 29 2010 15:44 Liquid`Ret wrote:
all these theories on idra ladder are untrue...he ladders to win games...just watch his stream...it also explains why zerg isnt in top10 and why there are less of us in the top200

indeed
if i think i can win i stay in the game. there are times when ive left a game and my opponent couldve made a gigantic mistake and handed me the win, but thats rare and irrelevant.
its just really fucking easy to lose as zerg.

Do you think that zerg is currently at a disadvantage or do you think it is a momentum race that cannot lose momentum if they want to win?

I know that you don't like to respond very often, but I would like to hear your views on the current state of the zerg race (without iNcontrol telling you to shut up like on SOTG lol)

zerg is fucking awful
clearly weakest, least reliable options early game. any viable pressure is nearly a complete allin, besides light roach aggression which is easily nullified. both t and p have lots of ways to put game ending pressure on z early and half of them arent even close to allin, and most are unscoutable and have different counters.

and the idea that z is somehow the strongest late game race is fuckin absurd. hive units are nearly useless and horribly cost inefficient unless broodlords catch them off guard. ya, you can insta remax if you're allowed to get a giant econ, but remaxing on lair units vs collosus or tank based armies hardly matters when you can trade 200/200 for a tenth of their army.

if z guesses, and guessing is required if t and p dont show a ridiculously early expansion, correctly and hits drone timings perfectly then they have a mid game advantage, but its not an advantage that can be used very well. its very easy for t or p to make themselves unkillable and head for that invincible late game army. z gets to use their unit advantage to tech towards hive, which can be nullified, or to expand a bunch so they can throw away a few extra 200/200 armies before getting rolled.

zerg is failing massively in just about every statistic besides gsl first places. the race is fucking awful. i honestly have no idea how so many people dont acknowledge it yet. zergs performance in the foreign scene is very nearly non existent. i think morrow has won one viking cup and otherwise 0 z wins since i won mlg dc. and a pitiful number of titles before that.

Are you banking on Blizzard balancing things, or are you gonna stick with Zerg regardless?

im stuck with z for the time being cuz of gsl in january. ill probably stay with it regardless just cuz ive invested so much time in it and i would like the way the race plays a lot if it were stronger, but im playing a lot of protoss as well right now.
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AndAgain
Profile Joined November 2010
United States2621 Posts
December 29 2010 08:42 GMT
#56
Idra, why don't you just switch to protoss? Forcefields basically allow you to decide what kind of games you want to play- long or short. Would probably be much better fit.
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crescendo111
Profile Joined August 2010
11 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-29 08:45:10
December 29 2010 08:44 GMT
#57
Idra,

As to the early game scouting comment, how could Blizzard make that better? I would love to be able to scout better, as I feel scouting is the weakest part of my game and consequently the part holding me back from gaining on the ladder.
YiukeDukem
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States125 Posts
December 29 2010 08:48 GMT
#58
On December 29 2010 17:42 IdrA wrote:
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On December 29 2010 17:29 Tachion wrote:
On December 29 2010 17:08 IdrA wrote:
On December 29 2010 17:01 Beef Noodles wrote:
On December 29 2010 16:21 IdrA wrote:
On December 29 2010 15:44 Liquid`Ret wrote:
all these theories on idra ladder are untrue...he ladders to win games...just watch his stream...it also explains why zerg isnt in top10 and why there are less of us in the top200

indeed
if i think i can win i stay in the game. there are times when ive left a game and my opponent couldve made a gigantic mistake and handed me the win, but thats rare and irrelevant.
its just really fucking easy to lose as zerg.

Do you think that zerg is currently at a disadvantage or do you think it is a momentum race that cannot lose momentum if they want to win?

I know that you don't like to respond very often, but I would like to hear your views on the current state of the zerg race (without iNcontrol telling you to shut up like on SOTG lol)

zerg is fucking awful
clearly weakest, least reliable options early game. any viable pressure is nearly a complete allin, besides light roach aggression which is easily nullified. both t and p have lots of ways to put game ending pressure on z early and half of them arent even close to allin, and most are unscoutable and have different counters.

and the idea that z is somehow the strongest late game race is fuckin absurd. hive units are nearly useless and horribly cost inefficient unless broodlords catch them off guard. ya, you can insta remax if you're allowed to get a giant econ, but remaxing on lair units vs collosus or tank based armies hardly matters when you can trade 200/200 for a tenth of their army.

if z guesses, and guessing is required if t and p dont show a ridiculously early expansion, correctly and hits drone timings perfectly then they have a mid game advantage, but its not an advantage that can be used very well. its very easy for t or p to make themselves unkillable and head for that invincible late game army. z gets to use their unit advantage to tech towards hive, which can be nullified, or to expand a bunch so they can throw away a few extra 200/200 armies before getting rolled.

zerg is failing massively in just about every statistic besides gsl first places. the race is fucking awful. i honestly have no idea how so many people dont acknowledge it yet. zergs performance in the foreign scene is very nearly non existent. i think morrow has won one viking cup and otherwise 0 z wins since i won mlg dc. and a pitiful number of titles before that.

Are you banking on Blizzard balancing things, or are you gonna stick with Zerg regardless?

im stuck with z for the time being cuz of gsl in january. ill probably stay with it regardless just cuz ive invested so much time in it and i would like the way the race plays a lot if it were stronger, but im playing a lot of protoss as well right now.



yes, switch to the glorious protoss master race
quye
Moja
Profile Joined July 2010
United States313 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-29 08:50:24
December 29 2010 08:49 GMT
#59
On December 29 2010 17:08 IdrA wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 29 2010 17:01 Beef Noodles wrote:
On December 29 2010 16:21 IdrA wrote:
On December 29 2010 15:44 Liquid`Ret wrote:
all these theories on idra ladder are untrue...he ladders to win games...just watch his stream...it also explains why zerg isnt in top10 and why there are less of us in the top200

indeed
if i think i can win i stay in the game. there are times when ive left a game and my opponent couldve made a gigantic mistake and handed me the win, but thats rare and irrelevant.
its just really fucking easy to lose as zerg.

Do you think that zerg is currently at a disadvantage or do you think it is a momentum race that cannot lose momentum if they want to win?

I know that you don't like to respond very often, but I would like to hear your views on the current state of the zerg race (without iNcontrol telling you to shut up like on SOTG lol)

zerg is fucking awful
clearly weakest, least reliable options early game. any viable pressure is nearly a complete allin, besides light roach aggression which is easily nullified. both t and p have lots of ways to put game ending pressure on z early and half of them arent even close to allin, and most are unscoutable and have different counters.

and the idea that z is somehow the strongest late game race is fuckin absurd. hive units are nearly useless and horribly cost inefficient unless broodlords catch them off guard. ya, you can insta remax if you're allowed to get a giant econ, but remaxing on lair units vs collosus or tank based armies hardly matters when you can trade 200/200 for a tenth of their army.

if z guesses, and guessing is required if t and p dont show a ridiculously early expansion, correctly and hits drone timings perfectly then they have a mid game advantage, but its not an advantage that can be used very well. its very easy for t or p to make themselves unkillable and head for that invincible late game army. z gets to use their unit advantage to tech towards hive, which can be nullified, or to expand a bunch so they can throw away a few extra 200/200 armies before getting rolled.

zerg is failing massively in just about every statistic besides gsl first places. the race is fucking awful. i honestly have no idea how so many people dont acknowledge it yet. zergs performance in the foreign scene is very nearly non existent. i think morrow has won one viking cup and otherwise 0 z wins since i won mlg dc. and a pitiful number of titles before that.


I can understand the protoss death ball (I've seen it in games you played vs HuK), but what's the terran death ball composed of? Marine tank viking?

I agree that early game cheese/all-ins are far too prevalent against zerg... How can blizzard "make scouting easier" though?
IVXX
Profile Joined July 2010
United States71 Posts
December 29 2010 08:51 GMT
#60
i think tier 1 overseer (without abilities) would change a lot of things... might be a little OP though.
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