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Sensator
Profile Joined April 2010
Australia377 Posts
March 23 2011 00:09 GMT
#301
All skill is trained, it's just a fact.
Wr3k
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Canada2533 Posts
March 23 2011 00:14 GMT
#302
On March 23 2011 09:09 Sensator wrote:
All skill is trained, it's just a fact.


Agreed, no one is born better at SC than another. The one who grows up training hand eye coordination, quick thinking, and strategic decision making will obviously have an innate advantage over the one who doesn't though. Practice time does not directly correlate to ladder rank, but the more someone practices the better they will be. Once someone hits the cap of mechanical ability and general knowledge their talent will show through.
hitman133
Profile Joined October 2010
United States1425 Posts
March 23 2011 00:15 GMT
#303
Definitely trained so hard.
Noob4hire
Profile Joined August 2010
United States38 Posts
March 23 2011 00:16 GMT
#304
natural what progamer do you ever see practice?
B-Wong
Profile Joined October 2010
United States240 Posts
March 23 2011 00:20 GMT
#305
Training plays a large part of it. Personally, I rose from Bronze and am now mid diamond (should probably play the game more) and I think the experience of looking back at your noob games compared to where you are at the moment can be such an eye opener to training and improvement.
PowerKock
Profile Joined March 2011
46 Posts
March 23 2011 00:48 GMT
#306
Yeah I think training and practice is HUGE..... but natrual ability and instinct also come into play.
Some people with the exact same amount of practice, by the exact same coach. Some people will grasp the concept a lot faster than others. Some people are just naturally gifted.

For example, when it comes to sports. Say MMA for example. Some guys are born with the natural "Knock out power" without very much training. A guy in the same weight division could have been practicing Muay Thai for dozens of years, has all the technique in the world, but Never in his life could develope that Knock out Punch. Anyone who follows the MMA world, not sure how many gamers do but, Randy Couture has been training boxing for over a decade now, he has never posessed that Huge ONE PUNCH KO power.... it cant be trained, its a gift. Where say a Young Mike Tyson at 18 Years of age with only a year or 2 of Training, Possessed some of the most lethal KO power ever. It was a god given gift. Where both fighters could have recieved the exact same amount of training, the exact same amount of technique. But one fighter was Naturally gifted.

I could train my whole entire life, practice every single GOD damn day of my life. Will I ever beat that dude from Jamaica who won the 100m at the olympics? Bolt is his name. I would never ever come close. Even if we trained the same amount, and I practice 1349294932492394 hours, was the best shape of my life. Some stuff you just cant train. You are born with it.

shawster
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Canada2485 Posts
March 23 2011 00:51 GMT
#307
On March 23 2011 04:18 Aterons_toss wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 23 2011 04:05 shawster wrote:

whats the difference between making a really good pass in basketball and knowing when someone is going to proxy you? not much imo. those basketball players see things differently and can make that pass. sc players have game sense and know when something is suspicious.



You are using your brain, an organ that we usually use at 10% of its capacity to determine if the opponent is going to proxy you or not ( based on the info you have ).

You are using your body strength and your HEIGHT to make the pass in basketball.


you don't use 10% of our brain, it's a myth.

you don't use body strength and height to pass a basketball, have you never played? anyone can pass a ball decently hard (50% of the population) it's all about timing and if you want to make a great pass it requires court vision and smarts.

if you are using your height why are point guards freaking 6 feet... come on
inFeZa
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Australia556 Posts
March 23 2011 00:54 GMT
#308
This is a great question and i love the debate:

I would have to say that it consists of both as you can have a natural awareness and understanding of the game, but you cant be born with timings, unit knowledge and build orders.
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Chrissy
Profile Joined March 2011
United States9 Posts
March 23 2011 01:20 GMT
#309
reading this thread gave me +100 SC2 skill points and a headache
Slago
Profile Joined August 2010
Canada726 Posts
March 23 2011 01:26 GMT
#310
It is absolutely trained for SC2, I remember watching stevens stream back in the beginning of the beta and thinking wow I could smash this guy, and I even stream sniped him a few times and he wan't that good but I took a long break and don't play much and now he is miles ahead of me and I don't think I'd be able to take a game off him so seems to me practice is more important. Alteranately I played lacrosse for a long time and was always very good but one kid who was never on my team cause he always played house, this kid played for almost 13 years and every year was the worst player on his team so sports is more natural talent where starcraft is just rigorous training and obviously some basic knowledge and skill. Basically any intelligent person that plays everyday and learns should get into masters very easily
I came here to kick ass and chew bubble gum and I'm all out of... ah forget it
fer
Profile Joined November 2010
Canada375 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-23 01:31:04
March 23 2011 01:30 GMT
#311
Yes. Some babies are born with extreme adeptness at Marine v Baneling micro management. Other lucky ones are sometimes born with extreme Mutalisk control, or 5+ base flawless unit production and building placement.





No, in life you generally (read: always) have to learn / train things at any point in time. Some people will learn faster, some slower. So no, SC skill is not natural.
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HomicidaL
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States283 Posts
March 23 2011 01:39 GMT
#312
Defintly all about training, practice and play alot of games. Reflexes will come when play more and get a feel for the keyboard. Also Lazyness sometimes people dont want to play fast and just want to play.
R A V
Profile Joined November 2009
United States217 Posts
March 23 2011 01:42 GMT
#313
Definitely something you gain through training.

In Day9 daily 100 Sean told the story about how he spent a couple months playing like 12+ hours a day and he saw a considerable increase in his win rate vs someone who would regularly beat him.

Grinding games (and obviously TRYING to get better through watching your own replays, etc) will make you better at Starcraft.
Jaedong? More like JDAWG
BluePanther
Profile Joined March 2011
United States2776 Posts
March 23 2011 01:45 GMT
#314
It's a combination. This was discussed to death in WoW. That was a game where time input had a direct reflection on what you could do in the game. However, among that population there were wide ranges in ability. Almost everyone had a cap of some sort, and while practice can always make you better, some poeple are simply better at it than others.

For me, I've been top 100 in MMO's and Shooters. However, I'm pretty average at RTS and Fighters. I have great hand eye coordination and a high spacial cognition, but I'm terrible at technical stuff (lists, remembering to do little things). Each person is different, and they are going to peak in different ways. However, practice alone will not make you good at a game. You need to have a skill set that goes beyond practice to be good at a particular game.
manicshock
Profile Joined November 2010
Canada741 Posts
March 23 2011 01:52 GMT
#315
It definitely comes down to trained until you're at the best of the best.
Never argue with an idiot. They will just drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
Verwi
Profile Joined May 2010
Germany42 Posts
March 23 2011 02:06 GMT
#316
In my opinion a lot of the skill needed can be trained, especially mechanics and game knowledge. But I think there is a part of it, which comes from your mindset aproaching the game. Being an analytical person (which is not caused by genes and stuff but more by education) does definitly help. Maybe the last little step spreading the very good from the godlike tier of players is through natural talent for basic skills in rts (good multitasking, fast reaction, etc.), which makes those even better. The difference would be like the "normal" korean BW progamer and Flash for example.
But in general I think one can become a very good player just by playing a lot.
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HavoK.
Profile Joined March 2010
United States172 Posts
March 23 2011 02:09 GMT
#317
It is very much so trained we don't see any top players that just started playing do we? i mean most top players either came from SC:BW or WC3 definitely trained IMO.
rfoster
Profile Joined December 2010
United States1005 Posts
March 23 2011 02:10 GMT
#318
Ive definitely worked for it I was in bronze in janruary so needless to say ive come a long way. Not quite there yet though
PowerKock
Profile Joined March 2011
46 Posts
March 23 2011 14:25 GMT
#319
And just like Any sport, or anything... and this is a PROVEN Fact...

YOU ARE ONLY AS GOOD AS THE PEOPLE YOU TRAIN WITH.

During my wrestling career, I out grew my first team I trained with, then I eventually had to travel an hour or so everyday, to train with the university team to progress my skills. My skill leval once i switched training camps went through the roof, i had high leval guys to train with.

say you went to train with a team of Diamond players for 12 hours a day 7 days a week
vs
a team of GSL S Code guys for 12 hours a day 7 days a week.

FataLe
Profile Joined November 2010
New Zealand4497 Posts
March 24 2011 09:37 GMT
#320
On March 22 2011 16:35 Nazarid wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 22 2011 16:11 FataLe wrote:
Read the quote below..

It hints at natural talent overcoming all eventually. Like boxing, you can get very far off hard work & dedication. But the special fighters are naturally talented. Like Floyd Mayweather. A current undefeated fighter. Sure there's a plethora of hard if not harder working fighters than him out there, but if you're genetically superior from the outset, it's hard to match.

or perhaps comparing Flash to some other BW pro's. Now I'm not 100% positive but I'd assume he doesn't practice the most of all Brood War pro's. He's just naturally gifted in a lot of what Starcraft requires. Which is why he stands above the rest.


I have to disagree completely with this quote, Natural skill is considered what you have before training, also this is not boxing/fighting, there are so many factors that are involved in fighting compared to playing a game where there is no physical limitation that cannot be overcome with training...as for the comment to flash, he is a great player and trains 10 hours a day to become what he was and is. he studies the game like you would for your masters degree picking it apart piece by piece, the only thing that would separate you from becoming a Pro, would be your intelligence, and your mental psychology. Those 2 things are the only thing that would separate you from the best if you trained just as hard and studied the game just as much.

I guess we don't see eye-to-eye. Bear in mind, natural talent is different than natural skill. Talent carries you throughout your career which why if you get two fighters to do the exact same training regime and you get them to fight afterward, the one that wins 9/10 is the one who is naturally a better fighter. True, there are many more factors in fighting, though the principle still stands. I agree with you about Flash, though given the same amount of time & resources, natural talent & genes play their part once similar amounts of effort are put in.
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