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riceant
Profile Joined October 2012
Canada54 Posts
December 13 2013 15:03 GMT
#81
The mods on TL are obviously protoss players because everytime someone talks about protoss being easy and imba they get ban-hammered, but every time someone smack talks people who talk about protoss imba, they do nothing, even though the pro-protosses use language that is much more offensive...
Keep up the bias, mods!

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xsnac
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
Barbados1365 Posts
December 13 2013 15:03 GMT
#82
On December 13 2013 23:47 Hider wrote:
I guess in the end it just came down to him not enjoying playing protoss. I can relate to that as I find playing protoss to be the biggest waste time. Either you all in or you turtle with a deathball - both feels like a waste of time.


Maybe he dont enjoy play starcraft with races he is not good . like i tried recently pickup broodwar and war3 but i suck so much i gave up after a few games . sjow is a legend for doing this 13 days . is rly hard knowing ur rly good then starting again from the bottom.
1/4 \pi \epsilon_0
mechengineer123
Profile Joined March 2013
Ukraine711 Posts
December 13 2013 15:05 GMT
#83
On December 13 2013 21:16 ETisME wrote:
lol switched because P too imba in PvT, switched back because PvP is too frustrating

That's not strange at all, expected this because me and a friend of mine went through the exact same thing. We're top masters and switched to Protoss for a while because being Terran is just too depressing. Both our PvT winrates were ridiculously high, beating players much stronger than our own Terran. PvZ was harder than I thought, but it can be interesting so that's fine. However, playing the retardfest that is PvP all day can just break a person. The numbers were around 90 PvP's out of 190 games and although my winrate was even positive, that matchup just kills your entire joy in life.
ffadicted
Profile Joined January 2011
United States3545 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-12-13 15:10:59
December 13 2013 15:09 GMT
#84
On December 14 2013 00:05 mechengineer123 wrote:
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On December 13 2013 21:16 ETisME wrote:
lol switched because P too imba in PvT, switched back because PvP is too frustrating

That's not strange at all, expected this because me and a friend of mine went through the exact same thing. We're top masters and switched to Protoss for a while because being Terran is just too depressing. Both our PvT winrates were ridiculously high, beating players much stronger than our own Terran. PvZ was harder than I thought, but it can be interesting so that's fine. However, playing the retardfest that is PvP all day can just break a person. The numbers were around 90 PvP's out of 190 games and although my winrate was even positive, that matchup just kills your entire joy in life.


That's typical of any race switch. When I tried random for a while, my ZvP was insanely better then my other two matchups, same with my TvP. It's all to do with your extensive knowledge of your own race and how to abuse the weaknesses you've become much too familiar with when playing it.

Nothing to do with imba (although I don't think you implied that, but Sjow did)
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Hider
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Denmark9433 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-12-13 15:29:04
December 13 2013 15:11 GMT
#85
On December 13 2013 23:55 Faust852 wrote:
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On December 13 2013 23:54 Plansix wrote:
On December 13 2013 23:50 Faust852 wrote:
On December 13 2013 23:48 Plansix wrote:
On December 13 2013 23:38 Whatson wrote:
On December 13 2013 23:28 Plansix wrote:
Also, last time I checked he still doesn't use map hot keys. I don't know how he expects to do well against any high level player that uses them.

He obviously doesn't need them as Protoss

Oh clearly the highest level Protoss don't need map hot keys or control groups. Just draw a big box and Amove to glory. Then tab and storm, storm, storm! Ez pz.

Lol, camera control are useless, I don't know a single player that use them beside putting Main 2nd and 3rd. They spam it for 5 min then never use them after that.

Except for demuslim...? I hear he is pretty good.

Look at him playing, he almost never uses these controls, except as I said, spamming them early.


Innovation.

Honestly I also use them alot. I think it makes life easier.

Also its not even true Demuslim doesn't use it. He use it for scv's transfer alot to optimize saturation.
Drake
Profile Joined October 2010
Germany6146 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-12-13 15:13:38
December 13 2013 15:12 GMT
#86
mech jaeh ! xD go mech every mu !

On December 13 2013 21:23 Fliparoni wrote:
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On December 13 2013 21:17 Tosster wrote:
You wouldn't make it, sorry Sjow. Not so "imba" eh?


If you'd bothered to truly read his post you'd know that it was mostly because of the PvP matchup that he's ending his Protoss experiment. His opinions on the other matchups remain unchanged.


jaeh but if he thinks pvp is bad, as higher he would have gotten, pvz would have became rly "fun"
Nb.Drake / CoL_Drake / Original Joined TL.net Tuesday, 15th of March 2005
Plansix
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States60190 Posts
December 13 2013 15:14 GMT
#87
On December 14 2013 00:11 Hider wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 13 2013 23:55 Faust852 wrote:
On December 13 2013 23:54 Plansix wrote:
On December 13 2013 23:50 Faust852 wrote:
On December 13 2013 23:48 Plansix wrote:
On December 13 2013 23:38 Whatson wrote:
On December 13 2013 23:28 Plansix wrote:
Also, last time I checked he still doesn't use map hot keys. I don't know how he expects to do well against any high level player that uses them.

He obviously doesn't need them as Protoss

Oh clearly the highest level Protoss don't need map hot keys or control groups. Just draw a big box and Amove to glory. Then tab and storm, storm, storm! Ez pz.

Lol, camera control are useless, I don't know a single player that use them beside putting Main 2nd and 3rd. They spam it for 5 min then never use them after that.

Except for demuslim...? I hear he is pretty good.

Look at him playing, he almost never uses these controls, except as I said, spamming them early.


Innovation.

Honestly I also use them alot. I think it makes life easier.

I don't know why anyone could claim otherwise. Maphotkeys are the dopest. Being able to move the map without going to the minimap is always great.
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BakedButters
Profile Joined November 2011
United States748 Posts
December 13 2013 15:14 GMT
#88
On December 14 2013 00:05 mechengineer123 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 13 2013 21:16 ETisME wrote:
lol switched because P too imba in PvT, switched back because PvP is too frustrating

That's not strange at all, expected this because me and a friend of mine went through the exact same thing. We're top masters and switched to Protoss for a while because being Terran is just too depressing. Both our PvT winrates were ridiculously high, beating players much stronger than our own Terran. PvZ was harder than I thought, but it can be interesting so that's fine. However, playing the retardfest that is PvP all day can just break a person. The numbers were around 90 PvP's out of 190 games and although my winrate was even positive, that matchup just kills your entire joy in life.


Ah yes, Protoss has reach an over-saturation point where the hesitant factor to switch is dealing with PvPs.
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Faust852
Profile Joined February 2012
Luxembourg4004 Posts
December 13 2013 15:17 GMT
#89
On December 14 2013 00:14 Plansix wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 14 2013 00:11 Hider wrote:
On December 13 2013 23:55 Faust852 wrote:
On December 13 2013 23:54 Plansix wrote:
On December 13 2013 23:50 Faust852 wrote:
On December 13 2013 23:48 Plansix wrote:
On December 13 2013 23:38 Whatson wrote:
On December 13 2013 23:28 Plansix wrote:
Also, last time I checked he still doesn't use map hot keys. I don't know how he expects to do well against any high level player that uses them.

He obviously doesn't need them as Protoss

Oh clearly the highest level Protoss don't need map hot keys or control groups. Just draw a big box and Amove to glory. Then tab and storm, storm, storm! Ez pz.

Lol, camera control are useless, I don't know a single player that use them beside putting Main 2nd and 3rd. They spam it for 5 min then never use them after that.

Except for demuslim...? I hear he is pretty good.

Look at him playing, he almost never uses these controls, except as I said, spamming them early.


Innovation.

Honestly I also use them alot. I think it makes life easier.

I don't know why anyone could claim otherwise. Maphotkeys are the dopest. Being able to move the map without going to the minimap is always great.

It's not like it will prevent you to get into gm.
playa
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States1284 Posts
December 13 2013 15:17 GMT
#90
I don't get the p vs p hate, unless hating on cannon rushers... You can make same units as other guy. You have a nexus cannon that basically means you can get to the mid game and outplay your opponent. I see some builds working better against others, but if you can't adjust to outplay someone, then the problem is your build, not the mu.

Most of the time I hear about toss imbalance from terran players on ladder, usually their worst matchup by far is t vs t.... Someone with 25% in t vs t and 64% in t vs p was telling me how easy p vs t is and toss in general. My question is, what would their sentiment be if their t vs p was at 25%? It's just embarrassing to me how many players can be horrible at a mirror mu, yet blame any short comings in another mu on imbalances, lol. Terran players...

Razbu
Profile Joined November 2011
Croatia10 Posts
December 13 2013 15:18 GMT
#91
I am glad you decided to abandon that disgusting dirty race and get back to the real deal...the terran...you will get stormed, you will get amoved thru while the tos is sitting back sipping on his juice...but you will have your dignity and the respect of your terran bros. WP

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Faust852
Profile Joined February 2012
Luxembourg4004 Posts
December 13 2013 15:21 GMT
#92
On December 14 2013 00:17 playa wrote:
I don't get the p vs p hate, unless hating on cannon rushers... You can make same units as other guy. You have a nexus cannon that basically means you can get to the mid game and outplay your opponent. I see some builds working better against others, but if you can't adjust to outplay someone, then the problem is your build, not the mu.

Most of the time I hear about toss imbalance from terran players on ladder, usually their worst matchup by far is t vs t.... Someone with 25% in t vs t and 64% in t vs p was telling me how easy p vs t is and toss in general. My question is, what would their sentiment be if their t vs p was at 25%? It's just embarrassing to me how many players can be horrible at a mirror mu, yet blame any short comings in another mu on imbalances, lol. Terran players...



Try to get high TvT ratio when you can never train it because of the lack of terrans on ladder. (that's notmy case I have 71% TvT right now).
StarStruck
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
25339 Posts
December 13 2013 15:22 GMT
#93
t v t turtle fests in bw and just listen to all those guys who go nuts with regards to zvz in sc2 and bw alike lololol. Mirrors are unavoidable. Race pickers, hue!
Valikyr
Profile Joined June 2010
Sweden2653 Posts
December 13 2013 15:25 GMT
#94
On December 13 2013 23:38 Whatson wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 13 2013 23:28 Plansix wrote:
Also, last time I checked he still doesn't use map hot keys. I don't know how he expects to do well against any high level player that uses them.

He obviously doesn't need them as Protoss

They're actually the least important with zerg because u can use queens for locations. Chrono'ing ur nexi without camera hotkeys is a pain noone should have go through.
Jampackedeon
Profile Joined November 2010
United States2053 Posts
December 13 2013 15:26 GMT
#95
I think it was a worthwhile effort if it helped your understanding of the game, best of luck!
Valikyr
Profile Joined June 2010
Sweden2653 Posts
December 13 2013 15:26 GMT
#96
On December 14 2013 00:00 Plansix wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 13 2013 23:55 Faust852 wrote:
On December 13 2013 23:54 Plansix wrote:
On December 13 2013 23:50 Faust852 wrote:
On December 13 2013 23:48 Plansix wrote:
On December 13 2013 23:38 Whatson wrote:
On December 13 2013 23:28 Plansix wrote:
Also, last time I checked he still doesn't use map hot keys. I don't know how he expects to do well against any high level player that uses them.

He obviously doesn't need them as Protoss

Oh clearly the highest level Protoss don't need map hot keys or control groups. Just draw a big box and Amove to glory. Then tab and storm, storm, storm! Ez pz.

Lol, camera control are useless, I don't know a single player that use them beside putting Main 2nd and 3rd. They spam it for 5 min then never use them after that.

Except for demuslim...? I hear he is pretty good.

Look at him playing, he almost never use these control, except as I said, spamming them early.

I watch his stream a lot with my fiancé, he uses them all the time to mark rally points, to keep an eye on the opponents ramp. He says he uses them out loud during his stream. Why are you trying to tell people map hot keys are bad? They are super useful as Protoss for quick chrono boosting and warp ins.

Almost all pros use them all the time. Don't listen to the silver heros in here.
Ravomat
Profile Joined September 2010
Germany422 Posts
December 13 2013 15:27 GMT
#97
On December 14 2013 00:18 Razbu wrote:
I am glad you decided to abandon that disgusting dirty race and get back to the real deal...the terran...you will get stormed, you will get amoved thru while the tos is sitting back sipping on his juice...but you will have your dignity and the respect of your terran bros. WP


This comment makes me so sad. It's like playing on ladder.
StarStruck
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
25339 Posts
December 13 2013 15:28 GMT
#98
On December 14 2013 00:25 Valikyr wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 13 2013 23:38 Whatson wrote:
On December 13 2013 23:28 Plansix wrote:
Also, last time I checked he still doesn't use map hot keys. I don't know how he expects to do well against any high level player that uses them.

He obviously doesn't need them as Protoss

They're actually the least important with zerg because u can use queens for locations. Chrono'ing ur nexi without camera hotkeys is a pain noone should have go through.


the way sjow goes against the grain just isn't viable. you cannot play like that and expect to get results. I think it's amazing that early on he did okay and heck he's still going at it. Dude's persistent but he really is set in his own way. Respect for that, but my God man. I don't know how anyone can play like that.
Val_
Profile Joined May 2010
Ukraine156 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-12-13 15:38:34
December 13 2013 15:28 GMT
#99
you were close to GM Sjow

i played with u
you had 1800 MMR (US GM = 1900)

AKA [7x]Val / GML Terran EU
geokilla
Profile Joined May 2011
Canada8245 Posts
December 13 2013 15:29 GMT
#100
On December 13 2013 21:16 ETisME wrote:
lol switched because P too imba in PvT, switched back because PvP is too frustrating

This... I respect Sjow for making a statement, but this is similar to why he switched to Protoss 2 weeks ago. Because TvP is frustrating. If he kept on switching on that reason alone, then he'd might as well quit the game because TvP is more frustrating that PvP imo. No matchup in the game can be considered not frustrating.
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