Exactly my predictions. Classic is a very dangerous player, I see him making it out no matter what, even if he loses his first bo3. Maru should be the 2nd one that makes it out. His TvZ is "bad" as in not as good as his other match ups, but he's Maru so that means it's still pretty damn good. Hydra on a good day could make it out at the expense of Classic, but don't count on it. Symbol... as sad as I am to rule him out, it's gonna be an extremely uphill battle for him tonight.

opterown

Australia54783 Posts

February 21 2014 07:51 GMT

#33

it's so weird that there are so many maru fans these days lol

Poland255 Posts

February 21 2014 09:36 GMT

#34

Maru - Classic game 1. So many missed storms hitting Zealots and still P winning the game with ease.
Do u really think that nerfing blink is gonna help Terrans?

The problem with Ghosts means far less Maruders, only Marines. When it is still mid game and u dont have too many barracks with TL, it is either Marines with Ghosts or Marines with Maruders, not both.

Edit:
Top 5 Terran with best TvP gets smashed by quite good P.
This is how the history is made. 1 T in ro16, cause I dont know if Maru can win next 2 bo3.

Sianos

580 Posts

February 21 2014 10:12 GMT

#35

On February 21 2014 18:36 TW wrote:
Maru - Classic game 1. So many missed storms hitting Zealots and still P winning the game with ease.
Do u really think that nerfing blink is gonna help Terrans?

The problem with Ghosts means far less Maruders, only Marines. When it is still mid game and u dont have too many barracks with TL, it is either Marines with Ghosts or Marines with Maruders, not both.

Edit:
Top 5 Terran with best TvP gets smashed by quite good P.
This is how the history is made. 1 T in ro16, cause I dont know if Maru can win next 2 bo3.

Maru was allin in game 1. He was at a huge strategic disadvantage, because he chose to fight zealot/archon/immortal/ht with pure marauder/medivac. This composition for protoss is the best composition in small size engagements and pure marauder/medivac is the worst matchup, because immortals do extra damage against marauder and it takes forever to kill zealots, archons and immortals with pure marauder. He had a tactical advantage in army size and mobility, but he didn't make use of it. He could have split up with units and attacked at different locations, because of his mobility advantage, but he chose to fight and trade against the protoss composition without any follow up and this snowballed on him. His ghost entered the field, when he was already dead. His micro was really great, but he was just keeping himself alive from that huge strategical disadvantage. If he would have used his maruader/medivac army to attack at different places at once, while teching to ghosts behind it, he would have been in a way better position.

I'm a terran player myself and it's easy to look at these fights with perfect micro and missing the huge strategical disadvantage
maru had. SC2 is a strategy game after all.

opterown

Australia54783 Posts

February 21 2014 10:27 GMT

#36

He could have split up with units and attacked at different locations, because of his mobility advantage

dno why you say this when maru was kiting on two fronts at a time at both of classic's expos. just wasn't enough

Poland255 Posts

February 21 2014 10:37 GMT

#37

It is easy to say what Ts do wrong, yes Maru could have played a little bit better, but Classic didn't play his A game as well -> so many storms hitting Zealots and so on.

Sianos

580 Posts

February 21 2014 10:56 GMT

#38

dno why you say this when maru was kiting on two fronts at a time at both of classic's expos. just wasn't enough

Kiting is exactly, what you should not do. Yes, he did some multipronged attacks, but he always end up fighting the protoss army for too long. There was a time, where he got the momentum in the middle and snipped the nexus in the main, which was a very nice move and he should do more of those and try to avoid the protoss army for as much as possible.

It is easy to say what Ts do wrong, yes Maru could have played a little bit better, but Classic didn't play his A game as well -> so many storms hitting Zealots and so on.

This just shows the huge strategical disadvantage by maru. SC2 is a strategy game after all. This shows nicely, that perfect micro is not everything in SC2. In this case Classic did choose the better strategy than maru.

nasax

United States2 Posts

February 21 2014 11:09 GMT

#39

As unreliable as Mech can be against Protoss I can't help but feel it would beat the status quo of bio.

Zerg players have managed to make a turtle esque style work very nicely against Protoss perhaps it is time that Terran did the same.