The thing that stood out to me about fOrGG's play (watching last night, ~13 hours ago) most was the constant harrass. Build-wise, it looks like he's still doing a lot of "Let's try to make this BW build work here". His compositions often seem to be less than optimal in tank/marauder/marine ratios, but his support units (hellions, vikings, ravens) are super-effective. But the harass and battle micro is a cut above anything we've seen. He abuses drops and height (although he's clearly not entirely adjusted to SC2's new height mechanic). Even when he loses battles, he'll still have a random four vikings wiping out pylons or something.

On the other hand, there was a game vs Cezanne (or that account at least) where the harass got completely shut down, and his lack of a clear strategy besides "keep attacking till I win" lost the game. Honestly this is something that seemed vaguely familiar from his BW play: "Plan A didn't work, now what?", but it seems more excusable here... maybe.

SafeAsCheese

United States4924 Posts

December 09 2011 16:37 GMT

#685

God... how do people watch him.

I know he is good, but fucking jeez, he does hellion banshee or thor timings every game...

Art.FeeL

1163 Posts

December 09 2011 16:42 GMT

#686

On December 10 2011 01:37 SafeAsCheese wrote:
God... how do people watch him.

I know he is good, but fucking jeez, he does hellion banshee or thor timings every game...

He is...practicing?

m0ck

4194 Posts

December 09 2011 16:44 GMT

#687

Denied!

zerker2strong

775 Posts

December 09 2011 16:45 GMT

#688

stephano wins! :D

Naphal

Germany2099 Posts

December 09 2011 16:45 GMT

#689

i need that game vs stephano just now casted o.o

SafeAsCheese

United States4924 Posts

December 09 2011 16:46 GMT

#690

On December 10 2011 01:42 Art.FeeL wrote:

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He is...practicing?

By being predictable?

Kerm

France467 Posts

December 09 2011 16:47 GMT

#691

Stephano wins, i feel reassured, fOrGG is not the unbeatable monster some say he is.

Awesome control I must say though.

Itsmedudeman

United States19229 Posts

December 09 2011 16:47 GMT

#692

On December 10 2011 01:46 SafeAsCheese wrote:

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By being predictable?

You know you play different players on ladder right?

poorcloud

Singapore2748 Posts

December 09 2011 16:47 GMT

#693

On December 10 2011 01:37 SafeAsCheese wrote:
God... how do people watch him.

I know he is good, but fucking jeez, he does hellion banshee or thor timings every game...

Its just ladder and he has been doing this same hellion banshee thor timings just to practise it i guess.

Hes still doing it better than anyone else i seen. And i'm pretty sure he won't be pulling this out in an actual GSL game.

Ahelvin

France1866 Posts

December 09 2011 16:48 GMT

#694

Yep, and his mech style is quite unimpressive IMO.

Sacrificied way too many hellions, couldn't push early enough because of this, got supply blocked, underproduced SCV because he was too busy microing hellions/banshees...

Not too impressed. It's ladder so not representative, but I'm not sure this style is the way to go.

poorcloud

Singapore2748 Posts

December 09 2011 16:52 GMT

#695

Hes doing this relentless aggression thing every game. I would like very much to see him play a standard game to see how good he really is. I mean hes obviously amazing since he has a high win rate doing this style. But i wonder if OGSthewind has helped him with his play style in other ways.

poorcloud

Singapore2748 Posts

December 09 2011 17:07 GMT

#696

And to add on, i noticed he dosen't like to build scvs. There will be moments he decides not to build scvs at all. As in he literally screens through his CC idling and dosen't build any scv at all.

Thats really weird and sub optimal to me.

SKYFISH_

Bulgaria990 Posts

December 09 2011 17:08 GMT

#697

seems to me stephano won that game EZ .....forGG is hardly the unstoppable pro TLers have been hyping up for the past month