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ejozl
Profile Joined October 2010
Denmark3481 Posts
February 22 2013 11:51 GMT
#2001
Gotta say Terran players has adapted well, making it look balanced.
PvZ still looks like bullshit though. A lot of it has to do with the maps, I cannot see how you're able to beat a Muta'ing player on Bel'Shir Vestige SE.
SC2 Archon needs "Terrible, terrible damage" as one of it's quotes.
vthree
Profile Joined November 2011
Hong Kong8039 Posts
February 22 2013 12:14 GMT
#2002
On February 22 2013 20:51 Dvriel wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 22 2013 20:17 Nekovivie wrote:
On February 22 2013 10:12 BakedButters wrote:
If GSL has 4 zergs in semi-final, it's such a sad way to end WOL balance.


Just means the four players were the best of the tournament.


LoL.Did you see yesterday Innovation?? The game on Daybreak was the best TvZ you will ever see.Defending so good,losing the 4th 4-5 times ans still win... INCREDIBLE! Next game Symbol just learned and Innovation had nothing to do.The moment Zerg go heavy Muta/ling/baneling denying Ts expansions,the game is over.As T you cant got the Zs macro and spread your units well enough in each corner to defend,expand and guess what??: Harass! Its just impossible. HotS wont change anything in TvZ.Hellbats are still being nerfed till the ground and T still got no way to harass the triple expanding Z in early...


If Blizzard doesn't make any more changes, I would say that hellbats will definitely be an issue for zergs. Although I think that zergs will learn to deal with it better, it at least forces them to get roaches. One of the issues with current WoL meta is that zergs can defend almost all Terran aggression using good wall, Queens and some zerglings which allows them to saturate 3 bases so quickly.
Nekovivie
Profile Joined October 2011
United Kingdom2599 Posts
February 22 2013 16:27 GMT
#2003
On February 22 2013 20:51 Dvriel wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 22 2013 20:17 Nekovivie wrote:
On February 22 2013 10:12 BakedButters wrote:
If GSL has 4 zergs in semi-final, it's such a sad way to end WOL balance.


Just means the four players were the best of the tournament.


LoL.Did you see yesterday Innovation?? The game on Daybreak was the best TvZ you will ever see.Defending so good,losing the 4th 4-5 times ans still win... INCREDIBLE! Next game Symbol just learned and Innovation had nothing to do.The moment Zerg go heavy Muta/ling/baneling denying Ts expansions,the game is over.As T you cant got the Zs macro and spread your units well enough in each corner to defend,expand and guess what??: Harass! Its just impossible. HotS wont change anything in TvZ.Hellbats are still being nerfed till the ground and T still got no way to harass the triple expanding Z in early...


So basically you're saying the Zerg played better.
If you are not supporting K-Pop you are hurting E-Sports.
Assirra
Profile Joined August 2010
Belgium4169 Posts
February 22 2013 17:30 GMT
#2004
On February 22 2013 20:51 Dvriel wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 22 2013 20:17 Nekovivie wrote:
On February 22 2013 10:12 BakedButters wrote:
If GSL has 4 zergs in semi-final, it's such a sad way to end WOL balance.


Just means the four players were the best of the tournament.


LoL.Did you see yesterday Innovation?? The game on Daybreak was the best TvZ you will ever see.Defending so good,losing the 4th 4-5 times ans still win... INCREDIBLE! Next game Symbol just learned and Innovation had nothing to do.The moment Zerg go heavy Muta/ling/baneling denying Ts expansions,the game is over.As T you cant got the Zs macro and spread your units well enough in each corner to defend,expand and guess what??: Harass! Its just impossible. HotS wont change anything in TvZ.Hellbats are still being nerfed till the ground and T still got no way to harass the triple expanding Z in early...

If you are honestly saying that speed medivacs and hellbats don't do anything to TvZ you are quite frankly delusional.
CakeSauc3
Profile Joined February 2011
United States1437 Posts
February 22 2013 17:52 GMT
#2005
On February 23 2013 02:30 Assirra wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 22 2013 20:51 Dvriel wrote:
On February 22 2013 20:17 Nekovivie wrote:
On February 22 2013 10:12 BakedButters wrote:
If GSL has 4 zergs in semi-final, it's such a sad way to end WOL balance.


Just means the four players were the best of the tournament.


LoL.Did you see yesterday Innovation?? The game on Daybreak was the best TvZ you will ever see.Defending so good,losing the 4th 4-5 times ans still win... INCREDIBLE! Next game Symbol just learned and Innovation had nothing to do.The moment Zerg go heavy Muta/ling/baneling denying Ts expansions,the game is over.As T you cant got the Zs macro and spread your units well enough in each corner to defend,expand and guess what??: Harass! Its just impossible. HotS wont change anything in TvZ.Hellbats are still being nerfed till the ground and T still got no way to harass the triple expanding Z in early...

If you are honestly saying that speed medivacs and hellbats don't do anything to TvZ you are quite frankly delusional.


What he's saying is that speed medivacs and hellbats aren't going to do anything to keep Zerg from taking their natural and 3rd early, uncontested. After all, both of those units won't come into play until the midgame (especially with the next hellbat patch on the way). So actually, he has a point.

On the flip side, reaper harass CAN do something about that. However, history has shown that Blizzard likes to give Zerg a free ticket to the midgame by default, and so it's still likely to be changed. Therefore, I'm not going to keep my fingers crossed.
keglu
Profile Joined June 2011
Poland485 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-02-22 18:04:19
February 22 2013 18:02 GMT
#2006
On February 22 2013 06:41 Big J wrote:
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On February 22 2013 04:45 IshinShishi wrote:
On February 22 2013 03:45 Big J wrote:
On February 22 2013 03:32 IshinShishi wrote:
2 seasons without paying for the gsl (or any sc2 tournament for that matter), let's hope hots changes that.

Zerg had a 55% win ratio vs terran (GSL) if the entirety of 2012 is considered, which obviously includes the period before the queen patch, it is that bad.

52.5%
http://www.gomtv.net/records/index.gom?searchType=3&race=Z&vsrace=T&season=2012&leaguetype=20&leagueid=0&gamever=0&mapid=0

you didnt do it right, this doesn't include all the gsl based tournaments, also its still 54,5% for whole matches.


matches don't count for winrate. They are already a product of winrate. It's a normal statistical effect that match winrates are higher than winrates... If winrates swing, matchwinrates naturally swing even harder and the longer you make series, the bigger the difference between winrate and match winrate will become.

So how did you do it to get the 55%?
To get the Team League and Blizzard Cup Results in the stats I manually added League+GSL sponsor results and calculated it: 52.9355% for ZvT


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On February 22 2013 05:33 keglu wrote:
On February 22 2013 03:14 Big J wrote:
On February 22 2013 02:18 keglu wrote:
On February 22 2013 02:07 Big J wrote:
On February 22 2013 01:54 keglu wrote:
Its funny how we had balanced game in april 2012 when Blizard decided to randomly buff queens and now almost a year later they still cant fix the problem they caused.

In short good job.


nonononononono... This is not how you tell this properly.

TvZ was balanced before blizzard randomly nerfed reapers!


http://imgur.com/a/5uKDQ

Early 2012, TvZ fluctuates around 50 (+-3%) for few months straight
Blizard :"lets give Zerg free third base, we'll se what happens"

Post patch - May 2012 TvZ 45%, Blizard "ooops, but we cant admit mistake, lets pretend for few months its ok, we'll figure something out later "

Better version?


What about Korea? What about April - the month when the patch hit? You have two post patch winrates and cherrypick the one that is Z favored, while the other one is quite equal.
What about tournament results of early 2012, late 2011? What about Zerg repesentation in the GSL? People like you are whining these days when only 2 or 3 Terrans make it to the GSL Ro8... Look at how these representations looked for Zerg in GSL Season 1&2, Blizzard Cup. One. Maybe two. Or none. You know, people call 2012 a Zerg year. Well, look at the tournament winners of early 2012:
8T-3Z-2P; late 2011? 3T-1Z-1P

Sure, I'm also a believer that the queen patch was too much. But you know, the situation after it was no more imbalanced than the situation before.


If you really believe in what you said last senetence there is not really room to discussion. If we look a the same chart and you come to that conclusion. Unless by "before" you reference to year earlier for example but that would be pointless i quess.

Also i showed you cumulative results of whole pro scene and you are saying i cherrypick. That's really cute. You are the one cherrypicking by pointing Korean scene witth 100 game a month (54% ZvT btw in March so just before patch) or tournaments winners.(frow what i remember if you count winners of turnaments in TLPD database Zerg is in 1st place for whole WoL history)

I dont know also why you bring early 2011, how its relevant to early 2012 and balance situatuon before patch?
Terran was broken first year, Zerg is broken since queen patch.


Also if you look at the situation after May it was not getting any better.
http://imgur.com/a/1iwo8

Luckily for Zerg players after August we dont have TLPD results anymore. They can now pretend thats everything is ok.


The situation after May was missing tons and tons of games... As far as I remember the people who made those stats said themselves that they are not to be taken seriously...


Still above 2k of games.


I'm pointing towards Korea, because it is also relevant.
The International Stats are flawed as hell as well, because the feature tons of stupid results of "Pro vs Amateur" players from online cups. Guess who wins those games regardless of balance? The Pro player. Guess what happens in the stats? They always tend towards 50-50 as they get "smoothed out" by a great deal from balance irrelevant games.


First of all post patch ZvT in Korea is 61% so i have no idea why would you want to use Korea stats to prove that post patch ZvT was better than prepatch. Thats more lopsided result than any month for 12 months back in Korea
Second of all im pretty sure sample size of 100 games is not enogh to get releveant results. But be my quest and try make some conlusions from for example february - may ZvT winrates going 43,57,45,61 in Korea.


You can look at the flawed Korean or the flawed International stats in the end "only" picking one is cherrypicking.


Not really, international results includes Korean results, i use all data available.


And if you think I'm cherry picking with my comments above... I was not. I was adding stuff to your two or three evidences for balance, that you somehow forgot. I'm not saying that those are all the things out there to be considered... In the end we don't have "one tool" to determine balance. However closing your eyes to 50% Terran distribution and the top 10 TvZ/ZvT winrates only featuring one Zerg(DRG) in late2011/early 2012 (there was some thread about this, how basically every Code S Terran had TvZ as his best matchup) is just as wrong as denying that Zergs are overrepresentated in the later rounds of GSL and there being a miraculous rise of many "previously average" Zergs to suddenly play for premier tournament titles.


These al lTvZ specialist were included in TLPD results I was basing my opinion on. So logically to bring results to 50% there had to be some ZvT specialist like for example all non Koreans...
I would want clarify something. In your opinion TvZ was most balanced in what period of WoL. Also was it more balanced in last half of a year then in january-april of 2012?

Prplppleatr
Profile Joined May 2011
United States1518 Posts
February 22 2013 18:12 GMT
#2007
So now that HOTS is coming can we get a patch terran and patch toss thread going , please
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Topdoller
Profile Joined March 2011
United Kingdom3860 Posts
February 22 2013 18:33 GMT
#2008
On February 23 2013 03:12 Prplppleatr wrote:
So now that HOTS is coming can we get a patch terran and patch toss thread going , please



Actually most of the current Top Terran's for the last 2 years have been "Patch Terrans"

Dont forget they all got a free ride to victory when Khaydarin Amulet was removed from the game.

Simple fact of life i guess
aksfjh
Profile Joined November 2010
United States4853 Posts
February 22 2013 18:58 GMT
#2009
On February 23 2013 03:12 Prplppleatr wrote:
So now that HOTS is coming can we get a patch terran and patch toss thread going , please

Maybe if we see foreigners play Terran and win games against Koreans, and isn't Thorzain.
quebecman77
Profile Blog Joined February 2013
Canada133 Posts
February 22 2013 19:05 GMT
#2010
On February 23 2013 03:58 aksfjh wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 23 2013 03:12 Prplppleatr wrote:
So now that HOTS is coming can we get a patch terran and patch toss thread going , please

Maybe if we see foreigners play Terran and win games against Koreans, and isn't Thorzain.


foreigner pro play terran ? i was thinking that was a korean thing only

usualy foreigner are zerg and protoss
DidYuhim
Profile Joined September 2011
Ukraine1905 Posts
February 22 2013 19:42 GMT
#2011
On February 23 2013 03:58 aksfjh wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 23 2013 03:12 Prplppleatr wrote:
So now that HOTS is coming can we get a patch terran and patch toss thread going , please

Maybe if we see foreigners play Terran and win games against Koreans, and isn't Thorzain.

And it's not TvT.
NexCa
Profile Joined March 2011
Germany954 Posts
February 22 2013 19:43 GMT
#2012
God, I love that thread ! :D
Best Protoss Player 4 ever - Bisu[Shield] || http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=326242 || THIS IS WHERE WE STAND, THIS IS WHERE THEY FALL, GIVE THEM NOTHING, BUT TAKE FROM THEM EVERYTHING ! || SKT FIGHTIIING
covetousrat
Profile Joined October 2010
2109 Posts
February 28 2013 07:44 GMT
#2013
Anyone notice the TLPD on the right side?
Top 5 foreigners and top 5 Koreans?
9/10 Zergs lol.
vthree
Profile Joined November 2011
Hong Kong8039 Posts
February 28 2013 07:46 GMT
#2014
On February 23 2013 03:12 Prplppleatr wrote:
So now that HOTS is coming can we get a patch terran and patch toss thread going , please


Actually, they will be expansion terran and expansion toss
M.R. McThundercrotch
Profile Joined June 2012
United States265 Posts
February 28 2013 07:55 GMT
#2015
On February 23 2013 03:58 aksfjh wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 23 2013 03:12 Prplppleatr wrote:
So now that HOTS is coming can we get a patch terran and patch toss thread going , please

Maybe if we see foreigners play Terran and win games against Koreans, and isn't Thorzain.


Jinroooooooo!
On June 30 2012 01:42 iNcontroL wrote: Fuck a lot of you. Fuck you forever.
NexCa
Profile Joined March 2011
Germany954 Posts
February 28 2013 08:04 GMT
#2016
On February 28 2013 16:44 covetousrat wrote:
Anyone notice the TLPD on the right side?
Top 5 foreigners and top 5 Koreans?
9/10 Zergs lol.


I "GUESS" there's a reason for that ... just a GUESS ... :D
Best Protoss Player 4 ever - Bisu[Shield] || http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=326242 || THIS IS WHERE WE STAND, THIS IS WHERE THEY FALL, GIVE THEM NOTHING, BUT TAKE FROM THEM EVERYTHING ! || SKT FIGHTIIING
nomyx
Profile Joined June 2012
United States2205 Posts
March 03 2013 22:20 GMT
#2017
Heart of the Swarm will be a nice reset for everyone, especially zergs. I'm hoping we can see a lot of cool style from zergs in HotS that do not feature broodlord infestor.
Account252508
Profile Joined February 2012
3454 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-03-03 22:28:23
March 03 2013 22:27 GMT
#2018
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nomyx
Profile Joined June 2012
United States2205 Posts
March 03 2013 23:13 GMT
#2019
On March 04 2013 07:27 monkybone wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 04 2013 07:20 nomyx wrote:
Heart of the Swarm will be a nice reset for everyone, especially zergs. I'm hoping we can see a lot of cool style from zergs in HotS that do not feature broodlord infestor.


Zergs have got used to a certain meta in which they were favored, so HotS will naturally be harder to adjust to for them than for other players. Thus it might create the false impression that Zerg is underpowered, and lead blizzard into nerfing T and P accordingly. Given time, we might just have another WoL in our hands.


I wouldn't be surprised. I can see reapers being nerfed because zerg can't hold them with hatch-hatch-pool
Assirra
Profile Joined August 2010
Belgium4169 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-03-03 23:35:20
March 03 2013 23:34 GMT
#2020
On March 04 2013 07:27 monkybone wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 04 2013 07:20 nomyx wrote:
Heart of the Swarm will be a nice reset for everyone, especially zergs. I'm hoping we can see a lot of cool style from zergs in HotS that do not feature broodlord infestor.


Zergs have got used to a certain meta in which they were favored, so HotS will naturally be harder to adjust to for them than for other players. Thus it might create the false impression that Zerg is underpowered, and lead blizzard into nerfing T and P accordingly. Given time, we might just have another WoL in our hands.

This looks like a defense in case it ends up imbalanced after all.
Can we wait at least for the dam gane to release?
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