sc2 skill, learned vs natural - Page 4
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Zurachi
Canada289 Posts
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deanyo
United Kingdom206 Posts
Maybe you should take a look in the practice partner thread if you dont know anyone that plays sc2, and get on vent/ts/skype and just play a load of games vs them. | ||
Talin
Montenegro10532 Posts
On January 04 2011 17:45 Leviwtf wrote: There is no such thing as talent, it has been proven over and over again. The level of expertise you have is directly tired to how much you practice AND how effectively you practice. How exactly has that been "proven over and over again", and where? | ||
Grummler
Germany743 Posts
My race was random for a while till i switched to Terran. I never played sc:bw besides the campaign, but i was into wc3 for about 2 years. | ||
ChaseR
Norway1004 Posts
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Crawly
Philippines8 Posts
It may sound trite, but at the end of the day, the single biggest factor would still be practice. There are even those who've gone as far as saying that it takes 10,000 hours of practice to master something. (Malcom Gladwell is a notable popularizer of this) | ||
FeyFey
Germany10114 Posts
I personally played a few games against the ai to get used to the shortcuts (normally i playd mouse only, yeah i am horrible). Didn't played the beta but watched stream. Started with the retail and was pretty good at holding cheese or early pushes and as no one else normally did a macro game i mostly won all the games that went above 10 minutes. Since when you are on your way to rank up, you play people that are going to be ranked down mostly, you have easier opponents most of the time, also a reason why people skyrocket at the start, if they get placed to low by the placement matches. So no worrys the system just works that way. (thats why i got top10 diamond in my division with an avg apm of 30 ... unortodox playstyle ftl ... wanted to play in silver and slowly increase my apm and micro as my only trademark is seeing weakspots from my opponent ) | ||
PimpMobeel
120 Posts
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IllegalAlien
United States8 Posts
I did not participate in the SCII beta. According to SCIIranks I started playing Oct 15th. One of my coworkers suggested I skip practice league. Because failing on the ladder amused him, I guess. My motivation for getting better was to crush HIM. So I decided to pick one race (toss) learn all I could about it. I did this on the ladder, bronze league is my placement....still. I spent roughly 100 games seriously sucking. I never really tried to perfect any cheese tactics or all in's, but I did dabble in the dark arts so I could see how they worked. Also how to react. I lost games, A LOT of games, just testing things. I would play 3 custom games, then take it against humans to see if it was viable. I tried strange builds , timings, compositions, all manner of things. Then I analysed my replays to see if these ideas were working based on competition or because they were valid. I was working on a build order optimizer for protoss until a much nicer one was released on this forum. This gave me a great appreciation for macro, and the realization that build orders are flexible. The first time I played my coworker, he crushed me 8 - 8. After that, I gradually became more challenging. Taking games from time to time. But nothing as bad as the start. Now, I'm better , and he struggles to beat me at all. I win 70% of my games now, I get matched against top silver and all level golds , even though I am bronze league. I rarely get games vs bronze anymore. I'm waiting for placement/reset, where I expect gold based on my MMR. http://www.sc2ranks.com/us/2043731/IllegalAlien#alltime you can see on this chart an exponential rise in wins in the past 3 weeks. The most wins coming against an increasingly higher and higher difficulty of opponent. When school ended I had time to do nothing but study starcraft and it shows. conclusion, skipping practice league prevented me from rising up the ladder as fast as the OP says. The only natural talents I have as a human are athletic talents, and SCII requires just the basic human dexterity. Every single thing I have applied this level of obsession too I have seen very positive results. Only basketball required what I consider natural talent. | ||
Conquerz
Argentina5 Posts
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danielsan
Romania399 Posts
Skill difference between leagues probably remained the same but all of them evolved at same pace. I'd bet my cat same average Joe, no previous RTS experience guy that managed to promote 2-3 months ago into diamond would have a hard time getting into gold right now. | ||
mr_tolkien
France8631 Posts
So, when picking up Star 2, some people wil be a lot more efficient than others. But in the long run, the best one will be the one who have chosen the best way to think, natural PRE disposition won't do anything, it will be your adaptation. | ||
idonthinksobro
3138 Posts
I used to play broodwar but never really competitive i had like 2 iccup seasons D+/C-. I actually consider players that needed like 250 games or more to get promoted to diamond bad players - and if you arent diamond within 500 1v1s there is very little hope that you´ll ever become great at SC2. To answer your question no i dont think they are liars since almost all of my friends that play sc2 became diamond really quick. /E iam a zerg player and never cheese in 1v1s | ||
Hamster
United Kingdom156 Posts
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Navane
Netherlands2747 Posts
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Crushgroove
United States793 Posts
And contrary to what was previously stated, talent exists if you consider the range of genetic predispositions possible in a human organism... Tall people could be considered talented basketball players... blind people would be very un-talented astronomers. Though there is a blind astronomer in Norway, and many short basketball players. | ||
Oxb
199 Posts
1. Learn how to learn the game, get all the facts figured out (e.g roach > marine). Watch your replays and figure out what you did wrong, and don't make the same mistake again! Scout. I guess watching the Day9 dailies is a good one? (I can't from China, or at least haven't figured out how to yet) Also watch some replays of decent lvl diamond players (not Korean pro's) The skill difference is the huge, watching a 3k diamond players teaches me more than watching a korean pro. 2. Know how to play, know your race timing (when expand with certain builds etc) and know what your enemy is doing by scouting. If you're at 600games and still in silver I guess ur the kind of player who, sometimes, 15~20min (game time) still hasn't got a second base up and saturated the second base mineral line? Possible still playing with 1~3 barracks, 1fact and 1starport for example? (if ur terran) If I watch some of the 'low' lvl diamond players on streams, all they do is decent macro, get a good size army, with decent variety and attack then win/lose. There's relatively little countering/scouting/micro etc. | ||
vileChAnCe
Canada525 Posts
Your easiest matchup eventually is going to be TvZ then ZvZ and finally ZvP. Because ZvP game sense in order to have a 50% win ratio you pretty much have to be Jesus | ||
plagiarisedwords
United Kingdom138 Posts
Another factor is whether you are actually trying to climb up the ladder quickly. It took me over 1000 games to get to diamond. I made a deliberate effort to get breadth of experience rather than try to get to diamond as fast as possible. If you vary your strategies, play different races and try to play a responsive game then it takes a lot longer to climb up the ladder. Trying to play a responsive game requires you to have an enclycopedic knowledge of the different builds your opponent can go for, how to scout them and how to respond to each one. Someone can get to diamond on 40 games but they simply won't have the same level of experience as someone with more games under their belt. I've experienced more than 40 types of cheese/all-in rushes so I don't really know how someone on 40 games will know how to spot each and how to respond to them. Having said that, It sounds like you are having a bit of trouble if you are still stuck in Silver. I think the games only become useful platinum and upwards so I would recommend you find a way to boost yourself up the ladder and not to spend time messing around in Silver. Focus on macro mechanics. Watch Day 9's first Newbie Tuesday about macro. That video took me from Silver to Gold almost overnight. Then after some practice onto Platinum too. I would win games in Gold where I went zealot stalker vs MMM and won from just better Macro. ForceStrategy on youtube can help get you off the ground but I don’t approve of his "recipe" approach to strategy. | ||
Goolpsy
Denmark301 Posts
(Didn't play Beta as my computer couldn't run it - Did however play alot of Wc3) | ||
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