On December 05 2012 00:04 lichter wrote:
Hmm, I'm not liking this team all that much. They could do well in an all-kill format with Taeja and Stephano as the backbone and HerO, JYP and the rest as the meat, but they might not do well in Proleague. Do they have a player for each matchup? Proleague format puts a lot of importance in race picking for maps, so having a matchup ace for all matchups is more important than having all-around strong players.

TvT: Taeja
TvZ: Taeja
TvP: Taeja
DeMuslim is okay in TvT and TvP though, esp if he brings his NASL form. Not sure how Thorzain is right now. Sea is showing potential but not sure what his best matchup is. PuMa had eye surgery or something (read it on NASL LR thread explaining his triple bunker rush), so I wonder how much he has been practicing.

PvP: HuK / Coinflip
PvZ: JYP? I guess
PvT: HerO? No real choice.
Their Toss lineup of HerO/JYP/HuK look good on paper, but do any of them have a really strong matchup? They are all players that are good in everything but don't have a specific great one. JYPvZ used to be solid but I don't know about now, esp with all the late game PvZ tears.

ZvZ: Idra / Zenio
ZvT: Stephano
ZvP: Stephano
The Zerg lineup seems ok, with Idra showing really strong ZvZ recently. Stephano is historically weakest in that matchup but thankfully Zenio and Idra might be good enough to fill that role. Picking up ByuL might be a good idea though. I liked the look of his ZvT.

Actually that's better than I thought. However they're going to need someone to step up in the TvX (Taeja can only play one game lol) and PvX matchups (more specialty, less all around) before they will really be a threatening team. Hope they do well.

Edit: Forgot to mention they could get counter picked really hard. Stephano doesn't like ZvZ, JYPvT is legendary, HerO's pretty weak in PvP, HuK's PvT is sub-50. Taeja is the only one without a weak matchup among their staples.

Lol this is such a bad 'analysis'. Hero just 4-0d Taeja and you're calling hero meat.. Right

Ettick

United States2434 Posts

December 04 2012 16:23 GMT

#110

I really hope the last player isn't JD because that would mean Team 8 would have like no one left lol

Raysalis

Malaysia1034 Posts

December 04 2012 16:23 GMT

#111

When Yin meets Yang, there is balance

sCuMBaG

United Kingdom1144 Posts

December 04 2012 16:24 GMT

#112

hope this is not too offtopic, but

the author should think about how you use:

their, there, they're etc...
your mistakes give me headaches

Rhaegar_tar

France847 Posts

December 04 2012 16:24 GMT

#113

On December 05 2012 01:10 GenesisX wrote:
Wow stacked team... Just add in Scarlett lol

There is no need for her here, she would give no addition to the team.

I aso think that there is still something behind this, maybe the EG guys like Stephano taking part in the next OSL, which would be a huge blow to GOM, who tried countless times to bring Stephano in code S.

TheDougler

Canada8304 Posts

December 04 2012 16:25 GMT

#114

I'd love it if there was a complete breakdown of team KT Rolster. I mean, they've got Flash, and I can see in their PL history in Liquipedia that Stats seems to be a key player for them in SC2. The MvP invitational terrified me with how many more games the Kespa players won than the "MLG Players," but nobody other than Flash has an SC2 liquipedia page. Anyways, what else can you guys tell me about the first matchup of TLEG vs KT?

theseraph

United States100 Posts

December 04 2012 16:28 GMT

#115

shame it's not all-kill format, stephano would be more than happy to. even so, this is very exciting. hopefully vods and all aren't too pricey or difficult to come by.

speknek

758 Posts

December 04 2012 16:31 GMT

#116

On December 04 2012 23:38 Gosi wrote:
Too bad Stephano is the only foreigner in this "foreigner team" that will be able to actually take games.

thorzain has solid tvt, huk can 4gate, they'll get some maps here and there

Epoxide

Magic Woods9326 Posts

December 04 2012 16:31 GMT

#117

On December 05 2012 01:28 theseraph wrote:
shame it's not all-kill format, stephano would be more than happy to. even so, this is very exciting. hopefully vods and all aren't too pricey or difficult to come by.

That would make it Winner's League and not Proleague.