Blizzard's Potential Balance Test Map Changes - Page 14

On April 23 2013 14:33 BeyondCtrL wrote:



Ya because soo and San played those games perfectly, right? It's as if they totally outplayed their opponents. There are games where players of even, or near even skill, can produce games where it's a rofl stomp. The reason why Stargate opening are favored over ground is because it produces better results over all. If you are suggesting that it's the other way around or that both frontlines are equally ridiculous then why aren't we seeing PvZ with a crushing stat like TvZ? Where in actuality it's nowhere close to that. When you favor the Stargate it implies that Protoss feel like the ground battle is less favorable, something which good Viper play has shown, enabling a roach/hydra comp to crush a robo based comp.

I just don't understand how you can only evaluate the balance of the game on just army vs. army basis, when the reality is that it's only a portion of the outcome and is a result of a whole game's worth of decisions prior to that. It's obvious that there are comps in the game that are very hard to beat, but arriving to them is really rare and very hard and nerfing the units that compose them weaken their ability to be viable in the earlier parts of the game which makes the MU into a bigger turtle fest. The reason the VR and Stargate units were focused on was because of how bad it was before, and not only that we have been in the same discussion with VRs in the beginning of WoL too; the eventual nerfs to which completely phased the unit out from the game, except in rare occasions (SKMC).