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MCXD
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
Australia2738 Posts
August 27 2013 22:51 GMT
#81
It makes me extremely happy to see some non-gen-1 Pokemon used for a change.
Raketen
Profile Joined May 2013
Sweden14 Posts
August 27 2013 22:56 GMT
#82
Damn it Zealously! Now I'm more psyched for the next pokedex that GSL... You ruin everything!

PS.
Good read, keep it up!
Seeing Blademail on Bristleback makes me cringe.
MrMotionPicture
Profile Joined May 2010
United States4327 Posts
August 27 2013 22:57 GMT
#83
Pigbaby already advanced. He already advanced to the Ro4 actually.
"Elvis Presley" | Ret was looking at my post in the GSL video by Artosis. | MMA told me I look like Juanfran while we shared an elevator with Scarlett
ShroudeD
Profile Joined August 2012
Greece1333 Posts
August 27 2013 22:59 GMT
#84
ludicolo haha that was one of my favourite pokemons
Mvp,Fantasy 4ever
Survivor61316
Profile Joined July 2012
United States470 Posts
August 27 2013 22:59 GMT
#85
On August 28 2013 07:38 lolfail9001 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 28 2013 07:29 Survivor61316 wrote:
Gotta say, don't see how Soulkeys status somehow magically goes up because he wasn't able to make it into the season finals..really doesn't make any sense. Even assuming that you were correct is saying that the wcs korea participants did not do well, which i don't agree with, soulkey still wasn't able to even make it to the finals by virtue to losing to those players as well as inferior ones (supernova). If anything, I think the most obvious thing to come out of the finals was jaedong and scarlett usurping him as the best zergs in the world.

As I said though, I also dont agree that the wcs korea participants under performed in the finals. First did not "tread water," he made it to the semi-finals, hardly an unremarkable acheivement, especially as he came in as the 5th seed from korea. Innovation lost to naniwa sure, but isnt that what naniwa has always been good at? Killing off koreans when he has time to prepare for them? Who else would he specifically be preparing for in that group over inno? Also, inno's series vs Taeja was one of the best TvTs in quite a while, especially game 3. Rain made it out of his group, only to be defeated by a super hot Taeja, hardly a black mark on his record; it just shows the level Taeja is currently playing at more than anything else. And Maru winning one osl hardly make him a benchmark to judge other players against, just ask seed and sniper.

Soulkey made himself looking better by lacking the need to embarass himself at WCS Season 2 finals (especially since he is so consistently inconsistent :S), and no, Soulkey's status as best zerg in the world (overall, i start to think that jd may have the claims for one of the best zvp's in the world now and scarlett easily gets status of one of best zvters in the world) is yet to be actually rivaled (call me, when Soulkey loses to Pigbaby and PartinG and gets in Code A Ro48 :D).
First did perform well , true that. Granted he did perform only on back of his vT match-up and got embarassingly stomped by jd in zvp. If anything naniwa would be preparing for duckdeok and hope to somehow past through terrans, so Innovation's loss there did look awkward (haha, i used this word too!). Innovation vs TaeJa was driven to have one of the best games of the year (other 2 were lackluster IMO) on the back of mech vs bio mechanic in general and Bomber soon have shown that their tvt is just not there. Rain lost to jvp (and now you cannot really blame him for that, haha) and then got stomped in his best match-up with sloppy play everywhere. And Maru losing in his group is just sign that he is heavy preparation based player, that can get hot sometimes. So if you ask me, WCS Korea's representatives except for Bomber did look subpar this weekend.

Dont see why soulkey would have to lose so horribly to be replaced as the best zerg in the world..jaedong already is acknowledged as having some of the best zvz, his zvp has improved tremendously (perhaps to the point of also rivaling the best in the world) and he lost to some very inspired tvz. IMO he already is ahead of soulkey.

You honestly think naniwa would have been more worried about facing duckdeok than innovation? That makes absolutely no sense to me..

And Bomber winning in game 5 in a bo5 means that Taeja's TvT isnt there? Why is that exactly?

As far as Rain goes, Taeja has been playing exceptionally well for a while now..that series was more about him winning than Rain losing.

And that was kinda my point about Maru..he cant really be considered one of the best players in the world just because he won one tourny..and therefore it shouldnt come as some huge shock that he didnt play exceptionally well.
Liquid Fighting
rshawer
Profile Joined December 2012
178 Posts
August 27 2013 22:59 GMT
#86
MKP is dragonair, never winning gsl so he can't evolve to dragonite. Maru on the other hand is either salamance or garchomp. Both dragons have very high attack and speed. Maru likes to be aggressive, and is pretty good at ending games fast
TBH. the best pokemon to describe Bomber is Slakoth, so much potential, but hindered by his weakness, truant aka bomber law.
lolfail9001
Profile Joined August 2013
Russian Federation40190 Posts
August 27 2013 23:16 GMT
#87
On August 28 2013 07:59 Survivor61316 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 28 2013 07:38 lolfail9001 wrote:
On August 28 2013 07:29 Survivor61316 wrote:
Gotta say, don't see how Soulkeys status somehow magically goes up because he wasn't able to make it into the season finals..really doesn't make any sense. Even assuming that you were correct is saying that the wcs korea participants did not do well, which i don't agree with, soulkey still wasn't able to even make it to the finals by virtue to losing to those players as well as inferior ones (supernova). If anything, I think the most obvious thing to come out of the finals was jaedong and scarlett usurping him as the best zergs in the world.

As I said though, I also dont agree that the wcs korea participants under performed in the finals. First did not "tread water," he made it to the semi-finals, hardly an unremarkable acheivement, especially as he came in as the 5th seed from korea. Innovation lost to naniwa sure, but isnt that what naniwa has always been good at? Killing off koreans when he has time to prepare for them? Who else would he specifically be preparing for in that group over inno? Also, inno's series vs Taeja was one of the best TvTs in quite a while, especially game 3. Rain made it out of his group, only to be defeated by a super hot Taeja, hardly a black mark on his record; it just shows the level Taeja is currently playing at more than anything else. And Maru winning one osl hardly make him a benchmark to judge other players against, just ask seed and sniper.

Soulkey made himself looking better by lacking the need to embarass himself at WCS Season 2 finals (especially since he is so consistently inconsistent :S), and no, Soulkey's status as best zerg in the world (overall, i start to think that jd may have the claims for one of the best zvp's in the world now and scarlett easily gets status of one of best zvters in the world) is yet to be actually rivaled (call me, when Soulkey loses to Pigbaby and PartinG and gets in Code A Ro48 :D).
First did perform well , true that. Granted he did perform only on back of his vT match-up and got embarassingly stomped by jd in zvp. If anything naniwa would be preparing for duckdeok and hope to somehow past through terrans, so Innovation's loss there did look awkward (haha, i used this word too!). Innovation vs TaeJa was driven to have one of the best games of the year (other 2 were lackluster IMO) on the back of mech vs bio mechanic in general and Bomber soon have shown that their tvt is just not there. Rain lost to jvp (and now you cannot really blame him for that, haha) and then got stomped in his best match-up with sloppy play everywhere. And Maru losing in his group is just sign that he is heavy preparation based player, that can get hot sometimes. So if you ask me, WCS Korea's representatives except for Bomber did look subpar this weekend.

Dont see why soulkey would have to lose so horribly to be replaced as the best zerg in the world..jaedong already is acknowledged as having some of the best zvz, his zvp has improved tremendously (perhaps to the point of also rivaling the best in the world) and he lost to some very inspired tvz. IMO he already is ahead of soulkey.

You honestly think naniwa would have been more worried about facing duckdeok than innovation? That makes absolutely no sense to me..

And Bomber winning in game 5 in a bo5 means that Taeja's TvT isnt there? Why is that exactly?

As far as Rain goes, Taeja has been playing exceptionally well for a while now..that series was more about him winning than Rain losing.

And that was kinda my point about Maru..he cant really be considered one of the best players in the world just because he won one tourny..and therefore it shouldnt come as some huge shock that he didnt play exceptionally well.

JD is not ahead in terms of zvt now though, especially considering that soulkey only reliably(!!!) loses to only 1 player in the world in zvt right now (fanboy mode: at other times he is drunk and was only playing arcade games with Innovation and sOs for practice). And their zvz is pretty darn close IMO, considering their records against Korean zergs (JvZ is inflated by foreigners cause dreamhacks). Granted i will say that right now jvp looks better than soulkey's zvp.
I, for one, more than sure naniwa did not expect to face innovation at all. And no, i would be more worried about player who had 3-1'd me before, than terran, if i was a protoss. But yes, innovation falling out of group stage IS bad result for player of his caliber. Same as it is bad result from polt to fall out of group stage (well, he fell to First, the guy who only really loses pvts to bomber).
Also, losing game 5 is fine result for anyone. Question is HOW you lose it. If ou have seen same game as i did, you will understand what i mean.
And i do not blame Rain for losing to Team TaeJa's SummerTaeJa, i blame him for losing those 3 collosi in that game on whirlwind.
Maru is simply continuation of random premier tournament winner line IMO.
Also, buy me hat to eat if Soulkey does not get Ro16.
DeMoN pulls off a Miracle and Flies to the Moon
Waxangel
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
United States33510 Posts
August 27 2013 23:17 GMT
#88
the hard thing to judge about soulkey is that him losing to innovation is acceptable in a sense, but he has too few other zvts lately for us to judge. the supernova series cast doubt on his ability, but it's realllly hard to tell if that's supernova being awesome or soulkey failing
AdministratorHey HP can you redo everything youve ever done because i have a small complaint?
Jer99
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Canada8159 Posts
August 27 2013 23:24 GMT
#89
Loved the comparisons to Pokemon, I've been playing a lot of emerald recently and found these hilarious! Good write up
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Shellshock
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States97276 Posts
August 27 2013 23:32 GMT
#90
Coach park 4-0
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PerSe
Profile Joined June 2013
United Kingdom550 Posts
August 27 2013 23:36 GMT
#91
Inb4 Flash = Aerodactyl, Jaedong= Kabuto and Bisu = Omanyte
StarStruck
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
25339 Posts
August 27 2013 23:39 GMT
#92
On August 28 2013 08:17 Waxangel wrote:
the hard thing to judge about soulkey is that him losing to innovation is acceptable in a sense, but he has too few other zvts lately for us to judge. the supernova series cast doubt on his ability, but it's realllly hard to tell if that's supernova being awesome or soulkey failing


Probably combination of both. When you keep meeting up with Bogus and keep losing to him back-to-back-to-back-to-back I bet it would get to you for a while. I wouldn't be surprised if he's second guessing himself even though a lot of the games were fairly close.
DPK
Profile Joined May 2011
Canada487 Posts
August 27 2013 23:41 GMT
#93
I am the only here who doesn't get these pokemon references? Never understood the infatuation for these things... Never liked them and never will.
Desire.Discipline.Dedication
[Phantom]
Profile Blog Joined August 2013
Mexico2170 Posts
August 27 2013 23:43 GMT
#94
Lol Ludicolo i had forgotten it existed.

Wait..so you are saying that charizard beating articuno in one chapter of the anime was a lie and its not possible? :'( In my opinion charizard is the most badass looking pokemon.

On topic: I hope Parting advances.
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lolfail9001
Profile Joined August 2013
Russian Federation40190 Posts
August 27 2013 23:46 GMT
#95
On August 28 2013 08:32 Shellshock1122 wrote:
Coach park 4-0

He does not play today.
DeMoN pulls off a Miracle and Flies to the Moon
StarStruck
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
25339 Posts
August 27 2013 23:53 GMT
#96
On August 28 2013 08:46 lolfail9001 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 28 2013 08:32 Shellshock1122 wrote:
Coach park 4-0

He does not play today.


Coach Park always plays and wins. You should all know this by now.
painkilla
Profile Joined June 2013
United States695 Posts
August 27 2013 23:54 GMT
#97
On August 28 2013 08:17 Waxangel wrote:
the hard thing to judge about soulkey is that him losing to innovation is acceptable in a sense, but he has too few other zvts lately for us to judge. the supernova series cast doubt on his ability, but it's realllly hard to tell if that's supernova being awesome or soulkey failing


Of course SN is awesome. Always so underrated.
Supernova | TY | Polt | Innovation | forGG | Lucifron | Happy
Belha
Profile Joined December 2010
Italy2850 Posts
August 27 2013 23:57 GMT
#98
Please, don't tell me that every person who didn't watch pokemon will loss half of the further preview articles.
Chicken gank op
igay
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
Australia1178 Posts
August 27 2013 23:58 GMT
#99
Yes it's fucking back!
MVP <3 MKP <3 DRG <3
jiberish
Profile Joined April 2011
80 Posts
August 28 2013 00:01 GMT
#100
Finally stuff to watch again. I don't care if TI3 was amazing (it was pretty good), because what are you going to do for the rest of the time. Thank god for ongoing starcraft 2 content. It was a rough week with nothing since wcs finals.
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