Match Making Changes in Ladder Season 7 - Page 8

On April 07 2012 11:13 TheToaster wrote:
I personally find playing against severely lower ranked players a huge anxiety issue. If someone isn't playing standard, then I start to get a little hesitant and make dumb mistakes. Honestly, all my game winnings rely on playing someone in my league, who performs similar strategies/styles per race as everyone else. This creates the origins of my anxiety.

For example, if I see a Terran player rush for Banshees, without the 111 style Siege Tanks as a follow up, I immediately expand after their failed attack (btw I'm Protoss). But I've sadly lost to Silver league players who rush Banshee, fail horribly, then somehow win with some massively late bio push with Stim and Ghost, even though they spent shit tons on Banshees and Cloak. This nonsensical way of playing Starcraft 2 is a huge nuisance to play against because I can never tell if the other player is performing some elite strategy I've never encountered, or is simply the big noob that I suspect them to be.

With that being said, I still find this change to be quite exciting. Because this also means I'll be playing against players of higher caliber to learn new things. In my PvT match up, Terran players honestly suck at dropping my base, even though they are in Platinum league along with me. But I've played Diamond Terran who are simply amazing at their decisions to drop, and playing against them has taught me a lot.

On April 07 2012 11:45 Erik.TheRed wrote:


Don't complain about people playing "non-standard" strategies, especially if they beat you with them. If you make blind assumptions and greedy decisions then you're just as deserving of a loss as someone who cheeses and never expands.

And it's possible that your mindset is blinding you to other potential improvements that you could be making. Like in that example you gave, expanding after his banshee rush might have actually been viable but if you didn't make a good number of observers/gateways/units afterwards then that might have been a bigger problem. Or maybe you didn't have the watchtower, or poke his ramp, or spread your sentries. I can't really say much more without seeing the replay, but in general it's not very productive to blame scrubs for playing cheesy/cheap/dumb