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SmoKim
Profile Joined March 2010
Denmark10305 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-04-15 13:58:59
April 10 2011 21:17 GMT
#1
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•UPDATE(15-04-2011) PART 2 IS NOW UP

At Meet Your Makers, we asked the captain of our SC2 Team: Mondragon if he would like to do a special interview where the community is able to ask him the questions instead of the staff members of the websites.The interview ended up with around 60 questions(!!!)

Read the many questions and answers here:

>>>Mondragon answers Questions part 2<<<

>>>Mondragon answers Questions part 1<<<

Part 2 is now up

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Here is a few examples:

From Squarewalker: I'd like to know how viable do you find Nydus Worms (for late-game mobility), especially in ZvP (but also in ZvT against mech). They are very rarely used by progamers, but they seem like something with a lot of potential that has yet to be "discovered".
Indeed, it is a very useful strategy to harass. Though due to the user friendly way of StarCraft 2 they added a sound to hear a nydus worm coming up. I think they should remove the sound. If a player does not cover the crucial areas to prevent a nydus worm, he should suffer the consequences and not be helped by the game by a sound telling him that something is wrong.

From CosmicHippo: Dear Mondragon,

 Why do you say you have won important matches in the past because of luck when you obviously have shown not only in Broodwar, but in your match against Zeerax, that your games are'nt luck based, there very much you just destorying the other opponent?
I did not really destroy ZeeRaX. He’s a fantastic player and for sure he did not show his best play which made it look as if I destroyed him. In fact it was just because he had a bad day.


From sheaRZerg: What is your opinion of zerglings in SC2. Do you think they have lost the potential for any sort of early pressure in SC2?
Nope, Zerglings are really bad in my opinion. You cannot really put any pressure on a good opponent because they are really weak, they stack really bad and get killed by splash damage so easily.

From Testie: Dear Mondi,
If there's ever 2v2 tourneys in SC2 Want to kill them?
Easy! Lets do it and push the easy Button :D

From Swain: Hello Mondi,

 First of all, congratulations for your performance against ZeeraX. You haven't got much time to play StarCraft II because of your studies and yet, you still managed to defeat a player who's played more than 4 000 ladder games. You always claim that you're a lucky player, don't you think you have a talent for this game?
Indeed, I have a talent for this game, but without any luck, talent does not help you either



From sheaRZerg: I was wondering if you had strong feelings, remembering the awesome runbys you used to do against toss in bw?
Haha. Well, the run bys were a great thing and it was fun to exploit the lack of safe wall ins, but unfortunately Blizzard made it so user friendly, that any building can completely block off units. I dislike that a lot as well.


From StuBob: If you could bring into sc2 one zerg unit from brood war what would it be?
Defiler instead of useless Infestors and definitely Lurkers instead of useless Banelings!

From StuBob: What is your favourite new zerg unit/tactic in sc2 that wasn't in brood war?
Roaches


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"LOL I have 202 supply right now (3 minutes later)..."LOL NOW I HAVE 220 SUPPLY SUP?!?!?" - Mondragon
HaIf
Profile Joined January 2010
Canada234 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-04-10 21:22:46
April 10 2011 21:21 GMT
#2
From StuBob: What is your favourite new zerg unit/tactic in sc2 that wasn't in brood war?
Roaches

Of course!

Laughed at that answer ;D
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BeMannerDuPenner
Profile Blog Joined April 2004
Germany5638 Posts
April 10 2011 21:23 GMT
#3
haha love the answers. thats a bw mind looking at sc2. <3


and yay mondi!
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peeeky
Profile Joined September 2010
Canada631 Posts
April 10 2011 21:24 GMT
#4
Thanks for posting this. Looking forward to his match in the TSL next week. Hope to see him go far!
Cush
Profile Joined September 2010
United States646 Posts
April 10 2011 21:29 GMT
#5
useless infestors and banelings lol. How will he win zvt?
"That's not your main base Stardust.....Stardust.....that's not your main" Sayle
Bagi
Profile Joined August 2010
Germany6799 Posts
April 10 2011 21:32 GMT
#6
Sounds like a zerg player allright.
MasterReY
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
Germany2708 Posts
April 10 2011 21:33 GMT
#7
On April 11 2011 06:29 Cush wrote:
useless infestors and banelings lol. How will he win zvt?


My guess is roaches..... MASS roaches
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Mashes
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada441 Posts
April 10 2011 21:34 GMT
#8
wow, cool reading that his name is from Faryd Mondragon haha.

is it too early for a Mondragon's Body thread?
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Vorlik
Profile Joined October 2010
1522 Posts
April 10 2011 21:37 GMT
#9
On April 11 2011 06:34 Mashes wrote:
wow, cool reading that his name is from Faryd Mondragon haha.

is it too early for a Mondragon's Body thread?
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uhhh...which ones him? o.O
Brad
Profile Joined April 2010
2754 Posts
April 10 2011 21:43 GMT
#10
It's sad to hear that Mondragon doesn't want to pursue SC2 professionally. Seems like he has changed his perspective on life. It would of been awesome to see him in NASL etc.
Lee Jae Dong proved that a focus on mechanics and execution could solve problems in the StarCraft game strategy.
uSnAmplified
Profile Joined October 2010
United States1029 Posts
April 10 2011 21:48 GMT
#11
Really good interview, like me hes still caught up missing the old BW swarm

Not surprised he likes roaches, i think that was evident from his TSL games.
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Skamtet
Profile Joined July 2010
Canada634 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-04-10 21:52:32
April 10 2011 21:52 GMT
#12
I like how he says that Infestors are useless...
BeMannerDuPenner
Profile Blog Joined April 2004
Germany5638 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-04-10 22:07:00
April 10 2011 21:57 GMT
#13
On April 11 2011 06:52 Skamtet wrote:
I like how he says that Infestors are useless...


compared to defilers they are.

i understand that they had to take them out. with smart casting they would be incredibly powerful and super hard to balance. add that there is no vessel (which again would be super hard to balance irradiate) and defilers are just too strong for sc2.

its sad but from bw to sc2 most interesting units got taken out in favor of "aclick" units like the collosus,baneling etc
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Ksi
Profile Joined May 2010
357 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-04-10 22:00:44
April 10 2011 21:58 GMT
#14
Hehe, his comments about useful and useless units is so telling about Blizzard's half assed way of designing Zerg. They took out all the interesting multi-dimensional units that scaled into late-game instead gave them Roaches. Roaches are great in terms of cost effectiveness and strength as a unit, but they're just so bland. It's like Broodwar Zerg was a well-built fancy looking house. In the transition from BW to SC2, they threw bricks through the house's windows and just boarded them up as compensation. The roaches in this case are the wooden boards in my metaphor.
Piski
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Finland3461 Posts
April 10 2011 22:17 GMT
#15
On April 11 2011 06:57 BeMannerDuPenner wrote:
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On April 11 2011 06:52 Skamtet wrote:
I like how he says that Infestors are useless...


compared to defilers they are.

i understand that they had to take them out. with smart casting they would be incredibly powerful and super hard to balance. add that there is no vessel (which again would be super hard to balance irradiate) and defilers are just too strong for sc2.

its sad but from bw to sc2 most interesting units got taken out in favor of "aclick" units like the collosus,baneling etc


to be fair baneling is far from A-Click unit. On colossus I can agree. Oh mondy.. too bad you won't be staying with us for too long but you are an inspiration. I wonder if sometime in the future there will be mass queen killings and mass hatcherie plays going on. To free that supply.
ShoCkeyy
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
7815 Posts
April 10 2011 22:44 GMT
#16
Hah, Roaches... And it's true, Lurkers imo are way better than banelings. I really liked the questions a lot of the users gave and the responses that Mondragon returned
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bkrow
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Australia8532 Posts
April 10 2011 22:49 GMT
#17
From StuBob: What is your favourite new zerg unit/tactic in sc2 that wasn't in brood war?
Roaches


Lol did it even need to be asked? Haha mondy really seems to hate all zerg units except the Roach; seemed to work for him in Ro32 of TSL :p

Unfortunately for him SC2 =/= BW
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SmoKim
Profile Joined March 2010
Denmark10305 Posts
April 11 2011 09:53 GMT
#18
On April 11 2011 06:21 HaIf wrote:
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From StuBob: What is your favourite new zerg unit/tactic in sc2 that wasn't in brood war?
Roaches

Of course!

Laughed at that answer ;D


expected any other answer ^___^ ?
"LOL I have 202 supply right now (3 minutes later)..."LOL NOW I HAVE 220 SUPPLY SUP?!?!?" - Mondragon
justdweezil
Profile Joined July 2009
United States186 Posts
April 11 2011 09:57 GMT
#19
How does this guy ZvT without Banelings/Zerglings/Infestors? Apparently without Mutalisks. Or maybe he goes Mutalisk/Roach? What about ZvZ? I guess we'll see as he plays more in the TSL.
Essentia
Profile Joined July 2010
1150 Posts
April 11 2011 10:01 GMT
#20
Wow it's such a weird coincidence that almost ALL zerg players have personalities about complaining about the game/race they play.
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