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Olli
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
Austria24422 Posts
August 02 2013 13:11 GMT
#13001
Why would a protoss blink stalker all in against that though?
Administrator"Declaring anything a disaster because aLive popped up out of nowhere is just downright silly."
NarutO
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
Germany18839 Posts
August 02 2013 13:12 GMT
#13002
I had that situation once. Your marine hellion timing is earlier than blink so if he prevented your scout with a stalker or even goes a nexus blink pressure he will shut down your aggression and kill you after or simply contain and delay your expansion forever. Mines dont help break the contain or pressure and dont allow taking the natural.
CommentatorPolt | MMA | Jjakji | BoxeR | NaDa | MVP | MKP ... truly inspiring.
Pirfiktshon
Profile Joined June 2013
United States1072 Posts
August 02 2013 13:22 GMT
#13003
Your scout is the most important thing with that build LOL If you don't get your 5 min scout regardless you are playing a 50 / 50 game..... the scout tells you whether or not you are going the hellion drop or you are going mines to defend...... I like to look at it this way though which since I have i've been wrecking protoss is that the factory counters zlots with hellions and counters stalkers with mines since realizing this I've had 0 problems with early game pressure at all.... lol I know its simple and everyone should know this but it was like an epiphany that sparked all these new ideas and progression of my game that I think is goign to get me to higher levels lol
NarutO
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
Germany18839 Posts
August 02 2013 13:26 GMT
#13004
Maybe you should listen to someone who is already high level.... that your approach doesnt work on our level anymore
CommentatorPolt | MMA | Jjakji | BoxeR | NaDa | MVP | MKP ... truly inspiring.
Olli
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
Austria24422 Posts
August 02 2013 13:28 GMT
#13005
An epiphany, lol
Administrator"Declaring anything a disaster because aLive popped up out of nowhere is just downright silly."
Pirfiktshon
Profile Joined June 2013
United States1072 Posts
August 02 2013 13:35 GMT
#13006
Ok innovation.... I was just putting something out there you could try that has worked for me several times but hey if you already know everything there is about the game then shouldn't you be the Top ten to the right here? Don't be so negative and just say it doesn't work repeatedly after constant overcome of your objections pretty sure thats like law #2 at the start of this thread......
WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland27206 Posts
August 02 2013 13:36 GMT
#13007
What level is it working for you?
'You'll always be the cuddly marsupial of my heart, despite the inherent flaws of your ancestry' - Squat
NarutO
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
Germany18839 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-08-02 13:50:49
August 02 2013 13:37 GMT
#13008
He said diamond to masters so I suppose very low master.
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CommentatorPolt | MMA | Jjakji | BoxeR | NaDa | MVP | MKP ... truly inspiring.
Orek
Profile Joined February 2012
1665 Posts
August 02 2013 13:39 GMT
#13009
NEW RECORD
215 unread posts per day...
I feel so left out. Maybe I shouldn't sleep/work to catch up with balance discussion.
MstrJinbo
Profile Joined March 2011
United States1251 Posts
August 02 2013 13:42 GMT
#13010
to me every time I see PvZ or even PvT it feels like the protoss lacks a "proper" AOE unit since damage from gateway units are pitiful.


I know exactly what you mean. Protoss should have a gateway unit where you can research an ability to summon a lightning storm which kills everything that stands under it.
bo1b
Profile Blog Joined August 2012
Australia12814 Posts
August 02 2013 13:43 GMT
#13011
On August 02 2013 22:39 Orek wrote:
NEW RECORD
215 unread posts per day...
I feel so left out. Maybe I shouldn't sleep/work to catch up with balance discussion.

Why sleep when you can read the balance discussion thread?
bo1b
Profile Blog Joined August 2012
Australia12814 Posts
August 02 2013 13:43 GMT
#13012
On August 02 2013 22:42 MstrJinbo wrote:
Show nested quote +
to me every time I see PvZ or even PvT it feels like the protoss lacks a "proper" AOE unit since damage from gateway units are pitiful.


I know exactly what you mean. Protoss should have a gateway unit where you can research an ability to summon a lightning storm which kills everything that stands under it.

Alternatively you can play on that map where zealots can cast storm
WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland27206 Posts
August 02 2013 13:43 GMT
#13013
A nice selective quote there man
'You'll always be the cuddly marsupial of my heart, despite the inherent flaws of your ancestry' - Squat
Hattori_Hanzo
Profile Joined October 2010
Singapore1229 Posts
August 02 2013 13:50 GMT
#13014
On August 02 2013 22:35 Pirfiktshon wrote:
Ok innovation.... I was just putting something out there you could try that has worked for me several times but hey if you already know everything there is about the game then shouldn't you be the Top ten to the right here? Don't be so negative and just say it doesn't work repeatedly after constant overcome of your objections pretty sure thats like law #2 at the start of this thread......


Or post a replay of it working. Adjusting balance isn't always about the stats. Some unit compositions were innately broken aka pre-nerf BL/Infestor/queen/spine crawler siege line, damn, that shit was broken.
Cauterize the area
NarutO
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
Germany18839 Posts
August 02 2013 13:50 GMT
#13015
Okay listen, even though you come across as a cocky bitch, I will break it down to you and waste my time, because you will possibly still talk back and disagree even though you should have realized both Dwf and me are higher level than you are.

Your build is no reaction to anything, your build is something that you set up previously, even though you vary it, its by no means a 'REACTION' to a blink stalker allin. If you scout and see no nexus at 5 minutes you can assume that there is aggression coming from Protoss. So long, as you have scouted so late I assume you have no reason to assume its blink stalkers.

It can be proxy robo, blink stalkers, dt, stargate bust... there can be various things and all that you can only assume if you actually figured he has no nexus. If he intercepts you before you could scout the location, you are left with a decision blindly. Do you still go for hellions or mines?

The appropriate answer to a scouted blink with your build would be getting tanks, as this would allow you to at least put down your already delayed expansion and tech towards medivacs / bio with it. As it stands, mines (as previously mentioned) help in the defensive but can be negated by a good Protoss and he'll be building stuff faster than you. A one - barracks marauder production really isn't sufficient to outdo a 3 build stalker pressure not even going to guess what happens vs a 4 gate stalker allin. While you are producing bunkers mines and marauders, he'll be either sitting in front of your base picking off your wall, barracks or simply harassing/containing getting his own expansion teching to storm.

If you defend a blink-pressure/allin perfectly and he still threw the nexus, he'll have storm before you can hit him. ALWAYS. If he doesn't fuck up. Thats why I mentioned blink allins/pressure builds are so dangerous. Even though they should be allin, they are not due to the fact that you don't need to overcommit/warp stalkers constantly, but can take an expansion and delay the Terran ones forever. Now you are in the situation where you have put down mines, bunkers and your expansion - how do you proceed? You cannot move down with marauders and mines, there's no way. So you possibly need to sneak out a medivac with a mine drop and I potentially dare to say, a good Protoss will lose a probe all 40 seconds to a mine, while continuously mining / having an expansion / stormtech or robo on the way.

So now tell me, how do you believe you would fare against a Protoss on my/Dwfs level, because I can guarantee you that every Protoss that knows the build and is capable of playing it will win right out OR be in a very advantageous position against you.

To finish off, I want to explain that you (people like you) are the reason lots of good players give up on giving advice, because they are so stubborn and will not listen. I have 1100 games this season and I played Protoss from semi-pro to very top european pros (MaNa for example) so I tried tons of shit and the reason I told you your build doesn't work well is, because it does not.

By the way I used the build you described lately vs Protoss regardless what they do and there is a huge difference even between a 1600 point master and a 2000 point master Protoss dealing with it and even along the same points. Some people realize it and defend well and you are way behind even against an expansion and some people die to it, doesn't mean the build overall is solid and by no matter a REACTION to anything.
CommentatorPolt | MMA | Jjakji | BoxeR | NaDa | MVP | MKP ... truly inspiring.
Pirfiktshon
Profile Joined June 2013
United States1072 Posts
August 02 2013 13:56 GMT
#13016
So if my approach is garbage and doesn't work against anyone good the only option is to make tanks bunk up get a force push out to take nat.... Nothing else will ever work ... got it thank you masser
Mehukannu
Profile Joined October 2010
Finland421 Posts
August 02 2013 14:01 GMT
#13017
On August 02 2013 22:43 bo1b wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 02 2013 22:39 Orek wrote:
NEW RECORD
215 unread posts per day...
I feel so left out. Maybe I shouldn't sleep/work to catch up with balance discussion.

Why sleep when you can read the balance discussion thread?

Channel the power of duck.
C=('. ' Q)
WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland27206 Posts
August 02 2013 14:01 GMT
#13018
No need to get pissy.

Go dispute Naruto's critique. Tbh it pisses me off. I suck and rely on high
Level players breaking things down.

I don't even know why he bothers, most of the responses he gets are appalling arrogant crap
'You'll always be the cuddly marsupial of my heart, despite the inherent flaws of your ancestry' - Squat
Pirfiktshon
Profile Joined June 2013
United States1072 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-08-02 14:45:05
August 02 2013 14:05 GMT
#13019
I actually learn quite well from ppl that are good. I was trying to say strategies are like wine they get better with age so ppl can have time to perfect them..... working out kinks is part of that perfection or coming to the "viability" phase you being a dick and saying that its impossible to ever make something work or do decent is like saying that players never get better by playing....

I was not insinuating that " I " could perform this at a higher level but that someone at a higher level could possibly make this work into an effective strategy that gets Protoss off gaurd. Sorry to piss you off but you have to realize you are not the "All Say" of every strategy of sc2. I will always be willing to learn new things and if this strategy is completely unusable than big whoop worth giving it a shot as oppose to always playign the same reaper expand or cc first and losing to blink stalker 60% of the time vses trying something that will only make it 40% of the time.....

Edit: I would like to know how a Deviation based off what you see is not a reaction? I don't usually do confrontational things and I'm not about poking the bear I just don't like Stonewall No-sayers.....
Shiori
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
3815 Posts
August 02 2013 14:11 GMT
#13020
On August 02 2013 08:37 GhostOwl wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 02 2013 08:25 Gullis wrote:
On August 02 2013 08:10 GhostOwl wrote:
On August 02 2013 07:52 ChristianS wrote:
On August 02 2013 07:50 xyzz wrote:
What's the problem with adding Ghosts? Are we trying to make Terran play without Ghosts viable here? That's like whining that Protoss needs to be buffed as a whole because it can't beat mid/late game Bio without 4+ Colossus or mass HT.

No, just GreenGringo decided to start arguing Terran win rates would be fine without ghosts, or the ability to lift command centers, or MULEs. Then everyone else in the thread told him that's crazy. Now he's gone for a little while, so we can hopefully get off the topic


I guess that's how some of you guys want to deal with anyone who argues against Terran benefits. Report him and hope he's banned.

All those things together gone would not be okay, but they do have a fundamental problem and they need to be addressed. He didn't put it into the prettiest of words, but they are indeed unnecessary advantages Terran has.

For example, some Terrans will deny that having all your buildings lift off gives you a timing/safety/opening build advantage. But no one can deny that ability to lift your buildings gives you a unfair base trade advantage. I heard someone say "different race is different" as an answer, but why does Terran need to get a base trade advantage even though its different?

I really wish, at the very least, that the ability to lift was a 200/200 tech upgrade that needed to be researched available at Orbital.



Not being able to swap addons would make terran production way to inflexible.

Compared to the other races terran already have a though time to fend to certain allins (mainly from protoss) and in some situations it is required you are able to lift your cc to not loose immediately.

There is nothing wrong to have the opinion that terran is to strong (this is a balance thread after all) but you and GreenGringo come with way to anti terran suggestions that makes it pretty clear that you can't keep an objective discussion here.
I will try to not respond to either of you again.


You can change addons so that it can lift instead. Have you ever thought of that?

Every race has to fend off allins, Terrans already have an incredibly flexible T1 unit that can shoot both ground + air, and bunkers that can salvage so you can make a ton of them if you fear of an allin. Oh, you also have repair, other races have slow regeneration that takes literally ages (even tho its free)

The only beef I have with lifting is that it gives Terran an unfair base trade advantage. That's all I'm saying.

Then don't reply? I don't need to waste my time with a biased player if who defend their race even with a broken TvZ matchup in front of you. Tournaments are showing up with 65%, 70% problematic percentages and you guys just stick to the "But look at the GSL champions" argument over and over again.

Protoss has Recall/Warp-in while Zerg has Creep/mobile static defense. Both of these are incredibly helpful in base trade scenarios.
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