EPTWCS EU - Ro32 Group A Preview (Season 2) - Page 2
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TheBloodyDwarf
Finland7524 Posts
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TAMinator
Australia2706 Posts
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Zerg.Zilla
Hungary5029 Posts
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Xoronius
Germany6362 Posts
On May 13 2014 06:33 TeamLiquid ESPORTS wrote: Thankfully for viewers who don't want to be watching WCS until 1AM, the second Zerg in the group is as adverse to using Swarm Hosts as Stephano is fond of them.  Acer.Nerchio didn't mind abusing masses of free units in the BL-infestor days, riding the composition to become the top Zerg in Europe behind Stephano (a title he contested with VortiX at times). However, he's had a rougher time in HotS, unable to make it back to the top with his more 'conscientious' unit compositions. I don't think, that this does Nerchio justice, he was considered the best zerg outside of korea by many, long before the BL/infestor composition existed and also before Stephano himself rised. The amout of online domination shown by Nerchio at times in 2011 was incredible. | ||
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Dawg_Snow
France425 Posts
haha epic | ||
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v_lm
France202 Posts
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Trasko
Sweden983 Posts
On May 13 2014 17:58 Xoronius wrote: I don't think, that this does Nerchio justice, he was considered the best zerg outside of korea by many, long before the BL/infestor composition existed and also before Stephano himself rised. The amout of online domination shown by Nerchio at times in 2011 was incredible. Yes but many players have had 'online domination' with minimal offline success. In 2012 Nerchio won a Dreamhack and Home Story Cup. So no doubt he was successful and had his moments. But after IPL in 2011 when Stephano emerged and rose to the top, Stephano would almost always be favoured. This continued until the day Stephano 'retired'. It was an arms race between the two (and VortiX) but Stephano was almost always on top. | ||
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Rollora
2450 Posts
WCS Europe qualifiers, defeating defeating uzer 2-0, | ||
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sudete
Singapore3054 Posts
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RHoudini
Belgium3632 Posts
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AlternativeEgo
Sweden17309 Posts
On May 13 2014 18:14 Trasko wrote: Yes but many players have had 'online domination' with minimal offline success. In 2012 Nerchio won a Dreamhack and Home Story Cup. So no doubt he was successful and had his moments. But after IPL in 2011 when Stephano emerged and rose to the top, Stephano would almost always be favoured. This continued until the day Stephano 'retired'. It was an arms race between the two (and VortiX) but Stephano was almost always on top. It is not about him against Stephano, it is the "riding the composition to become the top Zerg in Europe" part. He already was that. | ||
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IMScientist
Italy125 Posts
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Trasko
Sweden983 Posts
On May 13 2014 18:36 AlternativeEgo wrote: It is not about him against Stephano, it is the "riding the composition to become the top Zerg in Europe" part. He already was that. But like I said. He didn't have any major titles until the composition started going into fashion. I'm not saying he used it every single game but him along with many other Zergs used the strategy to great success. | ||
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Dingodile
4139 Posts
His best performance was definitely with Millenium, around 10x better/more dominance than he showed with EG. Even during EG time, his ZvP and ZvT results were alot better than best korean zerg had. ~13 of ~15 tournaments (where he didnt won) he was eliminated by ZvZ while almost unbeatable in ZvT and ZvP in all ~15 tournaments. | ||
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Musicus
Germany23580 Posts
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Xoronius
Germany6362 Posts
On May 13 2014 18:40 Trasko wrote: But like I said. He didn't have any major titles until the composition started going into fashion. I'm not saying he used it every single game but him along with many other Zergs used the strategy to great success. Sorry, that I didn't make myself clear at first place, like AlternativeEgo said, I meant the "riding composition to become" part as well. He didn't ever travel as much as other zergs, because he still attendet university, which factored into him not having that many major titles. But his online form was easily enough to justify him being a top zerg. Sure online a lot of players have periods of domination, but what Nerchio did is not the "Siw won the last two ZOTACS in a row with 3-0 against good players, I consider him a top foreigner now" kind, but a level above anyone else. He still has 50% more won cups (Zotac and Go4) than everyone else and Hyun plays both for more than a year now. And not only the smaller cups, also the bigger events, like Shoutcrafts, Scan Invs, MSI pro cups, GSS and a 10k-dollar LAN in Berlin. Add to that his run at IPL 2. Just as a comparism: He won more money in 2011 than Idra. I'm not arguing that post-IPL3 Stephano was clearly the top zerg, but pre-IPL 3 Nerchio was considered one of the best foreign zergs already, with only Idra, DIMAGA and Sen rivaling him. And that was far before BL/infestor. Btw., this is all critizism on a high level, I liked the rest of the article | ||
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Furikawari
France2522 Posts
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Darrkhan
Finland1236 Posts
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Cluster__
United States328 Posts
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c0ldfusion
United States8293 Posts
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