On December 11 2012 05:10 hifriend wrote: Jaedong in his prime beats anything I've ever seen or am ever likely to see in e-sports. Just the gaze on that kid sent chills down my spine, you could literally see the ridiculous amount of willpower in his expression. I always think of jaedong as a player who doesn't necessarily make the perfect decisions like flash, but when he was at his best it didn't even matter because he'd just get things to work by brute force.
And his style made the games unbelievably exciting. BW definitely wouldn't have been the same without Jaedong, and LeeSsang in particular I guess. Epicness.
I think this game is the prime example of that. It contains muta micro that (to my knowledge) only Jaedong has ever performed effectively.
I love how "he who shalt not be named" smirks when JD loses his first group of mutas, then blinks in disbelief as JD rapes his teammate using 2 control groups of mutas.
Amazingly enough, this isn't the first or only time he did this. Look at literally any of the Proleague or MSL/OSLs where he faced players like Baby, Iris, Sea, Canata or Leta. Jaedong at the pro level facing nothing but other people who have 70%+ winrates against 100% pros was dominating so much that most Terrans and Protoss couldn't even make it past the muta midgame stage vs him. It wasn't unit imbalance, it wasn't a build difference or a race/ability/spell imbalance, it was just plain old being THAT MUCH BETTER than everyone else in the entire world hands-down no possible contest or upset.
There were quite a few games that Killer (BW Killer, aka "mini-dong" not SC2 south american "Killer") had some very sick muta control since JD was his alpha teacher.
Jaedong's muta always have "power overwhelming" activated..xD
On December 11 2012 07:18 McBengt wrote: I remember watching a PvZ from years ago, might have been against Stats, when Jaedong attacks a protoss force with dragoons,1 archon, 3 sairs and a few HTs with nothing but his muta-ball. And wins. I sat for like 30 seconds just staring at screen, trying to figure out what just happened.
And to my knowledge JD is the only player to make his opponent fall out of his chair in a televised game.
Lol, who did this happen to? I must see this!
It was versus Shuttle in Andromeda. Though he never really fell from his chair rather than he leap quite a bit when that happened
This was awesome. Am now a Jaedong fan, before i was just like, meh, jaedong was really good, but the pro BW that i knew more about was boxer-nada era. Thank you
It was a fantastic article. It has been such a ride for us who have followed Jaedong since 2007.
This is my favorite quote about Jaedong:
"In any given circumstance, he reads them all. He's not just good at playing the game... He knows how to win the game. What I mean by that is, he has a way to win even in the most desperate situation. He's not just GREAT at game (like the rest of the progamers), he KNOWS how to WIN the game. From the start to finish, everything he does is to WIN the game, heck, I don't even know how to describe this!
Watching him play, upsets me. Even in my PRIME time, was I THAT good? Casting doubt to myself.
Even with Jaedong's skill, win is not guaranteed, then how about me? Depressing... Perhaps this is the reason my passion to win collapsed...(nervous laugh)" -YellOw, five time individual league finalist and Zerg legend
I'm going to tune in tomorrow to see the champion battle it out for a spot in Code S.
"In any given circumstance, he reads them all. He's not just good at playing the game... He knows how to win the game. What I mean by that is, he has a way to win even in the most desperate situation. He's not just GREAT at game (like the rest of the progamers), he KNOWS how to WIN the game. From the start to finish, everything he does is to WIN the game, heck, I don't even know how to describe this!
Watching him play, upsets me. Even in my PRIME time, was I THAT good? Casting doubt to myself.
Even with Jaedong's skill, win is not guaranteed, then how about me? Depressing... Perhaps this is the reason my passion to win collapsed...(nervous laugh)" -YellOw, five time individual league finalist and Zerg legend
I'm going to tune in tomorrow to see the champion battle it out for a spot in Code S.
Only 6 hours and then he plays, will more like 8-9. I wish he played 1st or second though T_T.
"In any given circumstance, he reads them all. He's not just good at playing the game... He knows how to win the game. What I mean by that is, he has a way to win even in the most desperate situation. He's not just GREAT at game (like the rest of the progamers), he KNOWS how to WIN the game. From the start to finish, everything he does is to WIN the game, heck, I don't even know how to describe this!
Watching him play, upsets me. Even in my PRIME time, was I THAT good? Casting doubt to myself.
Even with Jaedong's skill, win is not guaranteed, then how about me? Depressing... Perhaps this is the reason my passion to win collapsed...(nervous laugh)" -YellOw, five time individual league finalist and Zerg legend
I'm going to tune in tomorrow to see the champion battle it out for a spot in Code S.
Same here.... just 30 minutes to showtime now!!
It's weird though, with Jeadong already accomplishing so much in BW and having legend status etc, it still blows my mind whenever I remember that he's only 22 :O I keep thinking of him as some old man lol. And for each game he loses nowadays I find myself all clumped up and nervous hoping he won't give up or get bored of SC2, or thinking "Bah fuck this shit, I have my golden mouse, I'm just gonna go play poker or something." Come on, get that Code S spot.....ARGHGH
On December 12 2012 11:46 Elroi wrote: It was a fantastic article. It has been such a ride for us who have followed Jaedong since 2007.
This is my favorite quote about Jaedong:
"In any given circumstance, he reads them all. He's not just good at playing the game... He knows how to win the game. What I mean by that is, he has a way to win even in the most desperate situation. He's not just GREAT at game (like the rest of the progamers), he KNOWS how to WIN the game. From the start to finish, everything he does is to WIN the game, heck, I don't even know how to describe this!
Watching him play, upsets me. Even in my PRIME time, was I THAT good? Casting doubt to myself.
Even with Jaedong's skill, win is not guaranteed, then how about me? Depressing... Perhaps this is the reason my passion to win collapsed...(nervous laugh)" -YellOw, five time individual league finalist and Zerg legend
I'm going to tune in tomorrow to see the champion battle it out for a spot in Code S.
Same here.... just 30 minutes to showtime now!!
It's weird though, with Jeadong already accomplishing so much in BW and having legend status etc, it still blows my mind whenever I remember that he's only 22 :O I keep thinking of him as some old man lol. And for each game he loses nowadays I find myself all clumped up and nervous hoping he won't give up or get bored of SC2, or thinking "Bah fuck this shit, I have my golden mouse, I'm just gonna go play poker or something." Come on, get that Code S spot.....ARGHGH
I don't get worried about him quiting but I do get nervous/exciting when I see him play. I wish he didn't play so late tonight as last match
EPT
