, the cutest terran alive.
Cant you edit your post and add him again (before he notices this awfull omission)

I dont know, its difficult to pinpoint a terran king, contrary to toss and zerg where only a few people would compete for the title
So manny good terrans

1-Polt (no probably not, but i like him)
2-Marineking.
3-MVP (hearsaying, never realy seen manny games from him, nor been impressed by the ones i saw but apearently hes kinda good)
4-Bomber.

Arcanne

United States1519 Posts

March 26 2012 14:33 GMT

#722

MKP #1

NarutO

Germany18839 Posts

March 26 2012 14:34 GMT

#723

On March 26 2012 23:30 Whitewing wrote:
MKP admitted in the interview after the finals at MLG that he didn't think he could beat DRG in straight up games playing standard, and that he did tricky and weird strategies on purpose because DRG is better than he is.

MKP is good, he wins, but I don't think you can call him the top terran. MMA and Jjakji are both better IMO.

It was very humble of MKP to say, but its far from the truth. Heart pushed DRG with complete standard and I might say MKP playes a lot better marine/tank style compared to Heart.

He didn't really play all that gimmicky, he played one timing push but other than that, 1 game bio with insane control and macro behind it. Its not gimmicky, its just a different style.

S_SienZ

1878 Posts

March 26 2012 14:34 GMT

#724

That's more to do with Zerg's style of play imo. Zerg relies heavily on droning hard and responding as late as possible to get econ lead. Random new timings are a lot more punishing to Zergs than T or P.

Noocta

France12578 Posts

March 26 2012 14:34 GMT

#725

Bomber is clearly not in competition for this anymore.
He's not the same since his legendary chocke against Byun in GSL ro4.

Gantritor

Italy112 Posts

March 26 2012 14:36 GMT

#726

I am an MVP fanboy but, after I saw the MLG this weekend and I do not have doubts: MKP is the best terran in the world, at the moment, BY FAR. He has crazy micro, crazy macro, sick multitasking and he is one of the few who is FREAKING unpredictable when he plays. He can cheese the hell out of you or putting 3 OC at 6 minutes, that's the sign of a champion.

ZenithM

France15952 Posts

March 26 2012 14:40 GMT

#727

Lol, way to interprete MKP's words as you wish. You didn't understand well. It's precisely MKP's style to play various and unpredictable strats. He's not saying that DRG is better than he is (in fact he hasn't said that at all, wtf), he is acknowledging DRG's strength by having to use the full spectrum of his play and not the common standard "safe" strats, which is what would do MKP at 20% of his strength (*wink*). I'm assuming by that he's talking about reactor hellion expand into marine tanks and other standard expand builds into standard compositions. He meant that if you only spam that against DRG, it won't work, because DRG is good enough to abuse your predictability that's all.
Again, one of MKP's strengths is his unpredictability. It's not like he had to force himself to do "weird" stuff to win, in fact, I don't think he even cheesed successfully once, even though he could have. It's just how he plays, and it defeated the best Zerg in the world resoundingly this week-end.
MKP is way ahead of jjakji by far (remember MKP's all kill of NHSH not long ago...and MKP's won a ridiculous amount of games against jjakji, in TvT which is not his best matchup).
MMA is very good, and I would put him ahead of MKP if it wasn't for his horrendous TvP. MKP's TvP is just masterful.

renaissanceMAN

United States1840 Posts

March 26 2012 14:46 GMT

#728

by results alone MVP is by far the reigning king of the terrans, and I would still say he's the best terran player in the world

MMA can't seem to win against players that aren't MVP, and MKP has two outside-of-korea championships but has yet to claim the GSL gold

despite MVP's current slumping and "injury" it's only a matter of time before he gets back to where he was

I don't know if MMA will be able to continue his TvT domination now that Ganzi and Taeja have left the SlayerS house either, and MMA has a habit of falling apart to players before getting to the finals

and MKP is good, I'm a huge MKP fan and it's obvious that he's improved to the point where it's not just all flashy micro, but he's nowhere as smart as MVP

Abort Retry Fail

2636 Posts

March 26 2012 14:53 GMT

#729

Who is the Terran King?
Of course Marine King (Prime)!

CakeSauc3

United States1437 Posts

March 26 2012 15:10 GMT

#730

Who is the current Terran king? The King of Marines (and Thors, as we saw yesterday) himself, MarineKingPrime.

However, while I am a huge MKP fan, I will admit that MVP was the best until he had his injury, and it's probably only a matter of time until he makes a comeback.

I do have to wonder, though, if he could take down MKP if they had another rematch. Part of me gets the feeling that MKP has learned from his "kongness" and is a lot less likely to choke in the finals than he used to be. Also, we see him using more and more builds that are less predictable, so the chances that MVP can simply cheese him out or play a straight up macro mech game and win are less and less likely. The days of "I train marines, you build tanks, I die" are over.

The other side of the coin is, MKP is the master of TvP, and also dominates TvZ. Part of the strength that players like MVP and MMA have drawn on is their sheer ability to excel in TvT. Now that the amount of Code S Terrans is (finally) starting to dwindle to a more balanced amount, TvT is less important than ever. If the previous Kings of Terran can't learn to deal with the other matchups soon, MKP will remain far ahead of them.

Zeon0

Austria2995 Posts

March 26 2012 15:15 GMT

#731

one is not simply king without winning a GSL

spena

Canada116 Posts

March 26 2012 15:23 GMT

#732

winning a few foreign tournaments without taking GSL title(s) does not merit the Terran King glory.
imo MVP is still king with MMA close behind.

DawN883

Sweden558 Posts

March 26 2012 15:27 GMT

#733

Marineking is the new terran king. He can't be stopped

-Secret-

United Kingdom233 Posts

March 26 2012 15:28 GMT

#734

1. MKP
2. MMA
3. Polt

Aemilia

344 Posts

March 26 2012 15:28 GMT

#735

There is none.

aTnClouD

Italy2428 Posts

March 26 2012 15:30 GMT

#736

There is no king but I have to say marineking's tvp is probably the best in the world right now, and the same could be said about MMA's tvz. MVP is a mystery at the moment, we don't know how good he is until he shows up at more foreign tournaments and plays some GSL games.

Robson13

United Kingdom248 Posts

March 26 2012 15:33 GMT

#737

MVP > MMA > MKP

Gecko4lif

United States42 Posts

March 26 2012 15:34 GMT

#738

On March 27 2012 00:33 Robson13 wrote:
MVP > MMA > MKP

I will go with this until further notice

Special nod to Polt though

anApple

Singapore275 Posts

March 26 2012 15:35 GMT

#739

I think MKP has the beast TvP though....
Other than that, either MVP, Bomber, aLive, Polt or MMA

Zeon0

Austria2995 Posts

March 26 2012 15:46 GMT

#740

Am I the only one who is curious like hell how Mvp will do this GSL season? He was the best player in the world for quite some time, I cant and wont believe he will fall behind like Nestea did.