[Interviews] 2014 GSL Season 1 Code S Ro8 Winners - Page 2

On March 20 2014 09:45 Seeker wrote:
I am relieved that all those Terran players were eliminated from the GSL before the patch took place. If not, then I feel that only TvTs would have occurred.

I feel that things have gotten very serious now that there are 10 Terran players up there. When I see things like that, I feel that I’m not the only one who does badly in PvT. Widow mines have become very OP. In fact, I actually think that BW spider mines were better.
That additional damage against shield was really big. Now Protoss can’t play using a templar build order. Once Terrans realized that, they are now so much more daring. And even without all that, Terran is still too strong. It’s like WoL Brood Lord/Infestor level.

That’s still better than facing a Terran (laughs). I don’t want to make a sick comment but it is better than facing a Terran.

Even the practice players acknowledge it. Protoss got screwed because Terran players are overwhelmingly free styling it (laughs). Protoss sucks too much. Out of a Terran buff or a Protoss nerf, only one is supposed to occur at a time but it’s so difficult since they both occurred. It’s difficult to win unless you go blink stalker, but Terran players who know how to block it block it really well.

I don’t think I can because Terran is so OP. That’s how much confidence I am lacking. But I am relieved since there’s only one Terran player.

It will be difficult for PartinG since he’s Protoss (laughs).

Even before the patch took place, Maru himself stated that Terran was doable. Now that the patch is here, just imagine how much stronger he got.

On March 20 2014 15:49 forsooth wrote:
Rain turning it up to maximum crybabby

On March 20 2014 17:32 vthree wrote:


I thought Rain was a terran for a second there. Because we all know that only terrans are lazy and will not try new things but protoss will also work hard and figure things out...

On March 20 2014 17:46 Shellshock wrote:
Rain is just trying to be the new TaeJa guys. He's entering the wrong tournaments though. Needs to be targeting those $10k first places instead of GSLs if he's going to be like this.

On March 20 2014 18:11 klup wrote:
Actually he might be right.

I am one of the terran that rant about protoss early game a lot and I must admit rain might be right about mines being OP.

The problem of TvP was and is still early game shenanigans from protoss. buffed WM do nothing to counter this. Blink avoid mines, oracles was already oneshoted by mines.

What buff to WM does is just strengthen mid game of terran which is plainly wrong as Terran is already dominating this part of the game.

Now what might happen is that Protoss will allin every game from now on vs terran like we saw in PvZ with the infamous soul train vs Blord infestors at the end of wol. IN the near future it might be really hard for protoss to win macro games so allins might be the only option. Blink allin is very close to the soul train because even scouted it's really tough to defend.

The fact that DK don't want to adress directly early game problem has made the balance team compensate the ridiculous early game advantage from protoss to unjustified buffs to terran for mid and late game.

On March 20 2014 18:50 SC2ShoWTimE wrote:
feel like he is right about the blink all in. it's still very strong, but terran players are definitely getting better at defending it thanks to polt. at iem katowice he actually defended 3 out of 4 blink all ins with his reaper expand into 3 rax build and at iem cologne he did great against it as well. sadly it was kinda overlooked by most people due to the taeja/sos series afterwards.