"True Mechanics" = The Korean Gap, Low level myths - Page 7

On April 10 2012 08:07 jj33 wrote:
mechanics are only half the battle.

in bw, if you had good mechanics, but crappy mind games and bad on spot decision making you were getting nowhere.

same is true in sc2..

On April 10 2012 08:17 RedDragon571 wrote:



See this is what people will derail this thread into. My argument is that koreans on average have better mechanics, therefore korean's are better on average. Not that having the high eapm will make you the best player, only that you have the necessary mechanics to become one of the best players.

On April 10 2012 08:07 jj33 wrote:
mechanics are only half the battle.

in bw, if you had good mechanics, but crappy mind games and bad on spot decision making you were getting nowhere.

same is true in sc2..

On April 11 2012 09:43 Angra wrote:


Actually that's completely untrue for BW until you get up to the professional level, or at least A or so on iccup. At all levels of play besides the absolute highest, good mechanics won you a majority of your games by themselves.

Only after your mechanics were at close to peak efficiency was when mind games and decision making affected your winrate further beyond what your mechanics could do.

And a lot of SC2 pros are nowhere close to peak efficiency with their mechanics yet, so, take that how you will.

On April 11 2012 10:44 iky43210 wrote:
what happen to select? haven'r heard anything about him

On April 10 2012 08:03 RedDragon571 wrote:
Mechanics = The utilization of the keyboard, mouse and user interface to execute actions in the quickest and most efficient way.

The Korean Gap = "Korean's own white dudes" -Moon at IEM


The Korean Gap

Effective Actions per minute = a value that can evaluate mechanical skill



Sc2 Gears Replay Analysis from IEM world championship, MLG winter arena, Assembly winter, EU Bnet invitational



"Koreans really do own white dudes" - The data

Here is what I think truly defines the Korean Gap in Starcraft 2. Koreans have better mechanics and only the foreigners with the best mechanics can even hope to compete. In the top 30 of the Effective or Efficient actions per minute chart we can see that only a handful of foreigners are present. Idra, Ret, nerichio, stephano, select? The very top of the EAPM shows some ridiculous feats of mechanics by DRG, Losira, Taeja. Notice, Stephano one of the top foreign players, also has one of the top EAPM's competing with the top Korean's.

While not necessarily indicating skill it would seem to reaffirm my Hypothesis that Koreans have much better mechanics on average and the top foreign big names have some of the best mechanics out of all foreigners. So for to foreigners to decrease this gap, it would seem a top level Starcraft player needs to aim for about 350 APM and 200 or so EAPM to compete with the titans winning all the tournaments.


TEAM USA?

The myths lower level players in NA face. Are they destroying mechanics?


MACRO IS KING?



Destiny clearly mentions improving mechanics, but most low level players really focused in on the macro part. I cannot tell you how many lower level players i have tried to talk to say "You mean macro?" when I mention mechanics. There are macro mechanics and micro mechanics but in general "mechanics" is not "macro" or "micro".

Further discussion
[D] Underused Tactic in Lower Leagues
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=326528

How many bronze and silver level players are out there trying to focus on building workers, but clicking on the bottom right of the screen rather than using a hotkey. How many silver level players are getting their zerglings fried, because they tried to double click a fast moving group of unhotkeyed zerglings instead of control clicking them? How many gold players miss a few pylons because they sent a stalker to a watchtower by clicking and boxing it manually rather than cloning (Shift+deselect portraits)? How many platinum players cant keep their money low after 2 bases because they don't know how to tap to check their production? How many diamond players lost their entire army to a flank because they were watching their probes build at the nexus? How many masters players lost 20 drones to a stimmed marine drop, and responded to it too slow, cause the hotkeyed queen died and they don't use screen hotkeys? I hope you get my damn point.

You can't learn how to macro and micro until you know the correct way's to get around the screen.


Well, I am mad now, North American ladder needs to be like the korean ladder. But for the ladder to become competitive we need more competition. We need more plat's to become diamonds, and diamonds to become masters. We need to teach our lower level players better fundamentals. And our NA pro's could swallow their pride a bit and improve their mechanics also.

I leave you with possibly one of the most useful Day9 daily's of all time.