Like he said over 40% of his games are tvp, people are already switching to p / quitting T, doesn't Goody even race pick p vs p now? While sadly yes atm he probably should switch to protoss honestly if you can play T it's hard to switch to P because it's so boring, when you win as T it's a very satisfying feeling because you know you outplayed your opponent, when you win as P so often it just feels like you are winning because of your race, the micro opportunities are few and far between(assuming you've played a race other than P before) and your options are either do a 2 base all in or just turtle pretty much the whole game. (it's not like this is protoss fault, its just bad design)
I think some of the most depressing things about playing T especially if you are a foreigner competing at higher levels are:
a) There are many good korean Terrans
b) TvT is a very stable MU so as a foreign T player you will lose vs better(korean) terrans pretty much every time.
c) As T if you are worse than your opponent in TvZ or equal to your opponent in tvp, you will lose pretty much every time.
d)P and Z have the best chance of winning vs a superior opponent because their all in's are stronger and are much easier to execute then they are to hold(especially for PvX and ZvT),whereas almost every terran all in requires very good constant banshee micro to be successful.
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=317571You can even see this reflected in the statistics where p and z have a 17+% chance to beat a superior opponent compared to a 10% for terran.
These are pretty much the exact reasons you really only see foreigner p / z winning tournaments where there are koreans. Even if you are a way worse P or Z player you still at least always have some chance of winning a BO3. If you are terran and worse you are pretty much screwed, you might as well offrace and pick P or Z and do some sort of all in. add on the fact that even in macro TvP a worse player can still win in a macro game too because of how the MU is. This is also why terran is a very frustrating race to play, you rarely ever beat anyone better than you but other than in tvt you will lose to people worse than you pretty frequently especially in TvP.
The misconception that TvP is balanced or equally difficult for protoss is the result of MC pretty much single handedly shaping the protoss metgame for the first year of protoss play. MC likes to be very aggressive and this includes in PvT even in his style today. The thing is attacking T is pretty much the only way you can lose a macro game in PvT. Genius pretty much never moves out even to the middle of the map, much less attacking, until 3-3 is done and he is setting up a bank + mass gateways and he wins every single PvT, 100% win rate when both sides get to 200/200 this season. The fact that MC does silly attacks that STILL WIN HIM THE GAME HALF THE TIME and then protoss still complain about the other half where the attack fails and he loses 10 minutes later, while genius never attacks and wins 100% of his PvT is truly mind boggling.
It's like if terran still kept doing the old 2 base 3 siege tank push vs zerg in the earlier days, eventually zerg figured it out and crushed it, so terran figured out new ways to put on pressure like blue flame, as well as exploring more macro heavy styles, so they start going faster 3rd cc and playing a more passive game,(a lot like pvt) the difference is, pretty much every terran starts playing this style, the metagame evolved quickly and terrans were able to adapt quickly to it. Whereas protoss players TODAY still do these retarded failed timings attacks when they don't have to but it still gets them a win half the time. It was so bad blizzard had to do a minor buff to forge upgrades just to get protoss in right direction ( adel scott beat IM MVP with double forge 3-3 chargelot archon in TSL3 pre buff)
Not to mention the fact that when a PRO LEVEL protoss uses a warp prism(another time blizzard has nudged protoss through balance changes even though whitera was using warp prism with success)to harass in late game pvt it's considered really special or rarely seen when even diamond level terrans use drops regularly. Obviously I'm not saying diamond terrans are better than pro protosses, just a note on how behind/slow/ dependent on blizzard buffing them the protoss metagame is.
The phoenix change also further emphasizes this notion that protoss need to be coddled, its a relatively useless buff sure but phoenix could already indefinitely kite muta, the reason they did the change was to make the micro easier, on a unit that already shoots while moving, to help them with an issue that was never imbalanced in the first place(muta).
Also hearing the "WELL LOOK AT THE CHAMPIONS!" is one of the most stupid arguments I've ever heard / seen on such a frequent basis and I have no idea why it's accepted as an argument. At release the champions were z and p does that mean T was UP at release? no of course not. I really don't understand how they make that argument make sense in their head.If Genius wins last gsl it would mean P is good but since genius lost it means "nope P still weak they haven't won a champion in so long" because apparently 2nd place means shit. It's a cop out to not look at the actual game and facts about the metagame.
Honestly I wouldn't even care about all this if there wasn't this misconception that protoss is equally difficult and that it was recognized that yes, their metagame was slow to evolve and indeed terran is harder. Pretty much everyone that has played all the races past mid master agrees that Terran is the hardest race,with pvt being their "best" mu. The last time I played protoss I stopped when I beat TT1 on ladder because I thought it was completely retarded how fast I got to that MMR and was able to actually win ~_~. I felt no sense of pride or accomplishment at all for beating him, because I knew I wouldn't have been able to beat him as T or Z.
In BW I thought it was pretty widely considered that T is the harder race to play especially in tvp at non pro level and if you are less skilled you will do better with protoss than you would with terran. In SC2, the majority of protoss I meet actually think protoss is HARDER than T at all levels, despite it being the most popular race by far outside of korea(just look at this thread so many face palm moments of protoss suggesting hellions vs lategame chargelots or "drop more its so hard to deal with!"). If terrans just got the respect they deserve you would see a lot less whining and a lot more terrans come back to play. Being the least played, hardest, and most hated race while seeing "sad zealot" on front page every other day, is it any wonder why people don't want to play terran?
Sadly in HOTS it seems the solution is make terran easier instead of making protoss harder, protoss got no new units that will give them real additional needed battle micro just more harass options they don't use anyways and their defense gets even more forgiving with recall, and being able to turn buildings into cannons when they already have warp in. Terran are just made easier assuming battle hellions don't get owned by collosi and are actually viable vs chargelots.
Honestly I could go on... the fact that gateways are 150 min and can warp in anywhere a variety of units, whereas rax cost 150 mins + build time and can make 1 marine without add on, need more money and lost production time for the add ons. How easy it is to macro chargelot archon(all gas into archons, all mins into zealots!), the lack of gas dump for terran in lategame tvp... but those are seperate issues.
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