EPTWhy are there so few foreign terran players ? - Page 9
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dUTtrOACh
Canada2339 Posts
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Goky
United States10 Posts
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PiQLiQ
Sweden702 Posts
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tozi
United States506 Posts
In TVP, a couple of good storms, the Terran is dead. Terran is always playing a reactionary game to the high templar/colossi army. With extremely difficult to micro ghosts and vikings, a 200/200 protoss army almost always beats a 200/200 terran army. Same thing goes with fungal. Bad positioning and the immobility of tanks make it hard for terrans against the highly mobile units of zerg. I feel that foreign terrans are having trouble because everything listed above to be done effectively requires the highest level of multitasking, apm, and decision making. To be dropping and harassing while maintaining macro is extremely difficult. If I'm trying to control banshees and hellions, its really hard to keep up macro. If I'm microing ghosts with a different hotkey and trying to spread vs storm, same thing, my macro starts getting affected. I'm just a diamond player and I realize that masters and grandmasters are at a completely different level, but still, the point is: #1) a little mistake = game over for terran. Only top koreans can consistently avoid these little mistakes. #2) hard to control without high apm (ie microing ghosts, splitting vs banelings, seige unseige) while macroing. | ||
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jinorazi
Korea (South)4948 Posts
i guess people dont like to split units but rather put down spells, i'm the opposite, i love dodging storms and banes, i hate putting down forcefields and fungal (i actually avoid sentry/colossus/infestor in my playstyle) it does make sense, greater result with less effort with spells rather than micro. | ||
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RanDomFox
United States84 Posts
On December 20 2012 04:22 Goky wrote: PROUD to play Terran PROUD Terraner too! :D | ||
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Daumen
Germany1073 Posts
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Daumen
Germany1073 Posts
On December 20 2012 04:19 dUTtrOACh wrote: Also, since Jinro's retirement, we can't count him as a foreign Terran anymore. He's a foreign Terran (Ret.). What? Jinro is not a foreign Terran but he is a foreign Terran? Im confused | ||
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dubRa
2165 Posts
On December 20 2012 04:22 Goky wrote: PROUD to play Terran HELL YEA BROTHER | ||
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Ryps
Romania2740 Posts
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goiflin
Canada1218 Posts
I'm sorry... | ||
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FnaticNaama
Finland120 Posts
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Butterednuts
United States859 Posts
On a serious note, I feel like the Terran race, far more than any other race, has been dominated by Koreans so any kind of Foreigner Terran play is overshadowed by Koreans. | ||
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Zygno
Austria276 Posts
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DavoS
United States4605 Posts
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c0sm0naut
United States1229 Posts
koreans may pick racial pride and nostalgia over money (play terran == harder == i know myself that my korean friends who play T have a lot of pride to play as terran) but foreigners never do. if stephano had the motivation to practice 8 hours per day, or nerchio wasn't also attending school I'm sure they could be competitive as terran, but the problem is that, even for some foreigner terrans, this still isn't enough to be successful in korea. think about how good the KR z and p are that play an equal amount of time? bomber practices 14 hours per day some days (i think during week) which is pretty much completely unhealthy and for me as a spectator worrying becuase i honestly care more for the players health than their results and that is basically giving himself 10 hours per day to sleep, eat, socialize, take care of committments. there is no foreigner in the world that will do this, so there is no foreigner in the world who will be successful as terran | ||
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goiflin
Canada1218 Posts
On December 20 2012 06:03 DavoS wrote: Terran macro is really easy to mess up, and most foreigners don't focus as much on perfecting their builds as Koreans do. One of the reasons LucifroN does so well (at least in TvZ) is that he almost exclusively goes for one rax expand into 4 hellions into banshee. Because he does it so religiously, it's as polished as a Korean build. Streamlining for Zerg is just getting to Hive as quickly as possible (see Scarlett). You know, when I switched races I did kind of feel the same way. My builds as terran were much harder to refine and perfect, but as zerg, everything just seemed to... flow? I think would be the way I'd describe it. | ||
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tuho12345
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AnachronisticAnarchy
United States2957 Posts
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ejozl
Denmark3383 Posts
Some of them changed race to Zerg, some cannot perform at the pro level anymore, because of it. | ||
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