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Ribbon
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States5278 Posts
September 28 2013 05:09 GMT
#21
Innovation is kind of like the ultimate version of 2010 Idra, really. Skilled but predictable.
Apoteosis
Profile Joined June 2011
Chile820 Posts
September 28 2013 05:44 GMT
#22
I dislike Innovation... he is predictable as hell.

You see, in WoL, back in the winfestor/GGlord era, he managed to make it to the RO4 twice by all-inning every tvz. Please correct me if I am wrong, but I am pretty sure that, at least, 80%-90% of his tvz was just pure all-in.
So, Innovation in WoL was just as predictable as it is now, going for 3CC double ebay every single tvz.

The guy is certainly skilled, nobody doubts that fact. But you can not really expect to dominate by just mechanics. That is the difference between Innovation and someone like DRG: strategy is just as important as mechanics. We have plenty of examples of that: Nestea, Mvp, even Elfi lol.

That is why Innovation lacks the aura of a champion. Aura that someone like Life, for example, even in a slump, has. Or DRG. Or Mvp. Or even MMA.
Life won like 200k and didn't hire a proper criminal lawyer.
julianto
Profile Joined December 2010
2292 Posts
September 28 2013 06:41 GMT
#23
Dat EG curse. O wait.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
ReignSupreme.
Profile Blog Joined September 2012
Australia4123 Posts
September 28 2013 06:50 GMT
#24
jjakji!!! stoked!
Mairo
Profile Joined February 2012
Sweden28 Posts
September 28 2013 06:56 GMT
#25
On September 28 2013 14:08 B_Type13X2 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 28 2013 13:52 metroid composite wrote:
On September 28 2013 13:13 B_Type13X2 wrote:
On September 28 2013 12:54 Pontius Pirate wrote:
That was such a random botched engagement by Innovation against Soo. No disrespect to Soo, but he really didn't deserve to win that. And just how quickly does the starcraft community usually bury the champions of yesterday? I don't think you could make a remotely credible argument that Innovation isn't still the overall best player, even with his weak spot of TvT.


Actually you can. It doesn't matter if your the best TvZ in the world or the best TvP (which I doubt he does) in the world if the moment you run into Taeja, MMA, Bomber, or in this case Jjakji and you lose. The best player in the world should be top 3 in the world in all matches which he just isn't now. He's definately top 10 but I wouldn't even place him top 5 anymore when there are so many players that are better then him TvT and good enough in the other matches so it doesn't matter.

Honestly? As much as I admire Inno, it's becoming hard to call even his TvZ dominating. Lost to DRG. Lost to SoO. Lost to Curious in the IEM qualifiers. Beat Hyun in the Acer teamstory cup. Those are his recent results against remotely good zergs.

Which...aren't bad results, but don't necessarily indicate a player so good at the matchup that you can call them the best purely because of their TvZ.


That's pretty much my opinion of it as well, I was trying to be polite to innovation though and give him the nod for atleast one matchup. To me the guy just seems to crumble, as was mentioned about his engagement vs. Soo he got frustrated and pretty much threw the game away. For a player to be the best in the world they also cannot become emotionally engrossed in the game, they have to make decisions independent of frustration, ego or anger. Innovation was lauded as a robotic player who played clean strong macro and made good decisions now were seeing those very real cracks. And he is a very good player but he should step back from tournaments for a few weeks and get his head screwed back on straight before he destroys his legacy before he builds it.

I don't want to say it but what separates Innovation from players like Seed and Sniper right now? He won a major tournament, so did they, then they fell off a cliff right after. Is it his lingering before dying that somehow separates him? Someone else mentioned Roro in the same sentence as Seed and Sniper, if he is drawing that sort of comparison already why isn't innovation?


Are you for real? Comparing Innovation to Seed and Sniper and using their ONE big tournament as an argument that they are on the same level is beyond ridiculous. What seperates him from them is that he still can take a series of everyone in the world and that his DOMINATION streak does not span from just one big tournament, his consistancy lasted for more than three months.

Train insane or remain the same.
skyflyfish
Profile Joined January 2012
Canada499 Posts
September 28 2013 06:59 GMT
#26
Poll: On a different note. who has best smile

Mvp (18)
 
53%

polt (11)
 
32%

rotterdam (4)
 
12%

Kaelaris (1)
 
3%

34 total votes

Your vote: On a different note. who has best smile

(Vote): Mvp
(Vote): rotterdam
(Vote): Kaelaris
(Vote): polt


as1
BigFan
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
TLADT24920 Posts
September 28 2013 07:04 GMT
#27
Still a shock that Innovation lost ><
Former BW EiC"Watch Bakemonogatari or I will kill you." -Toad, April 18th, 2017
NovemberstOrm
Profile Blog Joined September 2011
Canada16217 Posts
September 28 2013 07:12 GMT
#28
Thanks for the recap!
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Waxangel
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
United States33584 Posts
September 28 2013 07:22 GMT
#29
On September 28 2013 15:59 skyflyfish wrote:
Poll: On a different note. who has best smile

Mvp (18)
 
53%

polt (11)
 
32%

rotterdam (4)
 
12%

Kaelaris (1)
 
3%

34 total votes

Your vote: On a different note. who has best smile

(Vote): Mvp
(Vote): rotterdam
(Vote): Kaelaris
(Vote): polt




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B_Type13X2
Profile Joined October 2012
Canada122 Posts
September 28 2013 07:42 GMT
#30
On September 28 2013 15:56 Mairo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 28 2013 14:08 B_Type13X2 wrote:
On September 28 2013 13:52 metroid composite wrote:
On September 28 2013 13:13 B_Type13X2 wrote:
On September 28 2013 12:54 Pontius Pirate wrote:
That was such a random botched engagement by Innovation against Soo. No disrespect to Soo, but he really didn't deserve to win that. And just how quickly does the starcraft community usually bury the champions of yesterday? I don't think you could make a remotely credible argument that Innovation isn't still the overall best player, even with his weak spot of TvT.


Actually you can. It doesn't matter if your the best TvZ in the world or the best TvP (which I doubt he does) in the world if the moment you run into Taeja, MMA, Bomber, or in this case Jjakji and you lose. The best player in the world should be top 3 in the world in all matches which he just isn't now. He's definately top 10 but I wouldn't even place him top 5 anymore when there are so many players that are better then him TvT and good enough in the other matches so it doesn't matter.

Honestly? As much as I admire Inno, it's becoming hard to call even his TvZ dominating. Lost to DRG. Lost to SoO. Lost to Curious in the IEM qualifiers. Beat Hyun in the Acer teamstory cup. Those are his recent results against remotely good zergs.

Which...aren't bad results, but don't necessarily indicate a player so good at the matchup that you can call them the best purely because of their TvZ.


That's pretty much my opinion of it as well, I was trying to be polite to innovation though and give him the nod for atleast one matchup. To me the guy just seems to crumble, as was mentioned about his engagement vs. Soo he got frustrated and pretty much threw the game away. For a player to be the best in the world they also cannot become emotionally engrossed in the game, they have to make decisions independent of frustration, ego or anger. Innovation was lauded as a robotic player who played clean strong macro and made good decisions now were seeing those very real cracks. And he is a very good player but he should step back from tournaments for a few weeks and get his head screwed back on straight before he destroys his legacy before he builds it.

I don't want to say it but what separates Innovation from players like Seed and Sniper right now? He won a major tournament, so did they, then they fell off a cliff right after. Is it his lingering before dying that somehow separates him? Someone else mentioned Roro in the same sentence as Seed and Sniper, if he is drawing that sort of comparison already why isn't innovation?


Are you for real? Comparing Innovation to Seed and Sniper and using their ONE big tournament as an argument that they are on the same level is beyond ridiculous. What seperates him from them is that he still can take a series of everyone in the world and that his DOMINATION streak does not span from just one big tournament, his consistancy lasted for more than three months.



And how long exactly has innovation lasted after his win? His consistency is one of someone who does the exact same thing and its being figured out. Once people have a road map on how to beat you and you don't make the changes you need to, well bye bye. And that's what innovation is right now figured out by players that are better then him. It doesn't matter if he can take a series off of anyone in the world if that's what mattered above all else then MVP would still be the consensus #1 in the world because even with his injuries he can take a series off of anyone and he almost did it to innovation. No ones calling him the #1 in the world anymore he's not even in the top 10 list. What were seeing is innovation fall into the rank of Elite player but not a special player. Don't be emotional about it as a fan look at where he is right now, this is SC2 a player is very much so of the moment and his moment may have passed him by unless he can adapt to the changing game.
Half the fun of the internet is untwisting the 20 layers of BS around everything
Nebuchad
Profile Blog Joined December 2012
Switzerland12423 Posts
September 28 2013 07:43 GMT
#31
Everytime a protoss starts to win games, he's getting insane protoss hope hypes, and he suddenly has the best PvX (often PvT) in the world. But then the protoss proceeds to lose, usually in a bad way, and we instantly forget him and move on to the next. Last two were First and Super.

How does that relate? Well Inno is suffering this in an elongated way. He's been so hyped for so long, he's just not allowed to lose anymore unless he's underperforming. And if he's underperforming, woo, it's time for all the people who "knew all along" to show up.

That shows so much disrespect in the effort it takes to be one of the best, or to beat one of the best. I have no idea why people see an upset and always go with "the loser sucks" instead of "the winner is amazing". People who do it on a consistent basis shouldn't consider themselves e-sports fans, and shouldn't be allowed to call themselves that.
No will to live, no wish to die
JDI1
Profile Joined December 2010
United States69 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-09-28 07:47:34
September 28 2013 07:47 GMT
#32
Innovation = MMA ver 2.0.

At least as part of Acer he can still make easy money off foreigners and less skilled Koreans. He's still mechanically superb, so he should still be around unless a massive meta shift comes.
Vete
Profile Joined May 2012
Germany190 Posts
September 28 2013 08:10 GMT
#33
I think the big diffrence is between MVP and Innovation is the releasing of replays after the Season. Inno's playstyle was analyzed by everyone.
Darrkhan
Profile Joined February 2012
Finland1236 Posts
September 28 2013 08:11 GMT
#34
Yeah, Innovation is good but he isn't best player. His TvT has been really bad since hellbat nerf. I don't really recall any series he won against pretty good players. He lost to Bomber, Maru, Taeja and jjakji at least..And his TvP really depends, sometimes he does extremely well but sometimes he loses to lesser players (like the 2-0 against NaNiwa, made no sense from Innovation) comparing him to for example TaeJa it is easy to say which one is better right now.
Ctesias
Profile Joined December 2012
4595 Posts
September 28 2013 08:16 GMT
#35
Once considered the heir to the Terran throne after Mvp’s voluntary exile to WCS EU, INnoVation has yet to fill the hole that Mvp left behind.


That's a hole no-one will fill. Mvp will live on forever.
Flash | Mvp
Orcasgt24
Profile Joined August 2011
Canada3238 Posts
September 28 2013 09:23 GMT
#36
On September 28 2013 17:10 Vete wrote:
I think the big diffrence is between MVP and Innovation is the releasing of replays after the Season. Inno's playstyle was analyzed by everyone.


GOM had every video of every game avalible on demand. Not quite the same as a replay but close enough that it wouldn't matter IMO.

Innovation has 1 build for each match up + rare cheeses. MVP had lots of builds for each and cheesed quite a bit. He was basiclly impossible to predict pre game.

I bet Artosis could cast an innovation game blind folded and get it right
In Hearthstone we pray to RNGesus. When Yogg-Saron hits the field, RNGod gets to work
A_Scarecrow
Profile Joined March 2013
Australia721 Posts
September 28 2013 09:25 GMT
#37
Stop putting some much disrespect upon innovation, hes switched teams and has been trying hard to play his style. I wont argue that he is not the best player in the world but at least hes been consistant in getting high in gsl and other tournaments. True he hasnt won many but at least he hasnt completely slumped. Some people cope changing teams, others take a bit of adjusting. He doesnt have many practise partners to work with anymore so it will take some time for him to get back in shape.
ProTech
Profile Joined November 2010
United States443 Posts
September 28 2013 09:28 GMT
#38
On September 28 2013 14:44 Apoteosis wrote:
I dislike Innovation... he is predictable as hell.

You see, in WoL, back in the winfestor/GGlord era, he managed to make it to the RO4 twice by all-inning every tvz. Please correct me if I am wrong, but I am pretty sure that, at least, 80%-90% of his tvz was just pure all-in.
So, Innovation in WoL was just as predictable as it is now, going for 3CC double ebay every single tvz.

The guy is certainly skilled, nobody doubts that fact. But you can not really expect to dominate by just mechanics. That is the difference between Innovation and someone like DRG: strategy is just as important as mechanics. We have plenty of examples of that: Nestea, Mvp, even Elfi lol.

That is why Innovation lacks the aura of a champion. Aura that someone like Life, for example, even in a slump, has. Or DRG. Or Mvp. Or even MMA.



And by all in you sound like you're referring to " No skill play. " Hate to break it to you bro, but in " all in " doesn't mean the same thing in the foreign scene. Your " all-in " is their " Standard play. "

You make it sound like " all in " makes someone a newbie at starcraft, it's actually rather annoying.
andilaama
Profile Joined December 2012
Finland192 Posts
September 28 2013 09:46 GMT
#39
Wow, 7-22. I guess Tasteless wasn't right after all, saying TvT was Innovation's best matchup
Heartland is an "Expert" "Expert".
Philozovic
Profile Joined August 2012
France1677 Posts
September 28 2013 09:50 GMT
#40
So because Innovation didn't manage to get for the 5th straight time in CodeS Ro8 a feat only acomplished by Soulkey and only went Ro4 Finals Ro8 Ro4 out of his last 4 he is a scrubs and just another Korean Terran ?
Well say what you want but mark my words :

If you don't pray the bogus he will hunt you, find you and kill you during your sleep. The only way to survive is to accept him in your hearth and beg for his mercy.

I wept, for I knew his words to be true
INnoVation is the absolute best | I wept for i knew his words to be true
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