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Jaedong: Raise Your Dongers, It’s About To Get Hot In Here

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Jer99
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Canada8157 Posts
October 24 2014 19:24 GMT
#1


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Jaedong: Raise Your Dongers, It’s About To Get Hot In Here



Don't forget to read about Jaedong's road to blizzcon here.


      In August of last year, Jaedong broke out of the semis of the WCS Season 2 Finals, looking like he had finally overcome his old ZvP demons and looking stronger than ever. With a boastful shout, he proclaimed “The Tyrant is back!” What occurred directly there afterwards was a 4-0 whomping from Bomber, followed by a year of ZvT woes. Although Jaedong managed to finish 2013 strongly, in 2014 he has gone 5-14 in ZvT, an atrocious record for any pro, notwithstanding the legendary title Jaedong has to live up to. His overall win percentage in ZvT has dipped down to barely 50%, and almost all of his 2014 tournaments have been cut short by a ZvT in the earlier rounds. In spite of curing his ZvP ailment, he seems to have found another Achilles' Heel.

When we look back to the Jaedong we knew a year ago, the player who was expected to do well in every tournament, who frequently took second place at every major event (usurped by soO in this trivial day and age), who not only eked out wins but demolished his opponents in a decisive manner, how can we not believe in him? Among the rough history of the last ten months have been a few beauties, a few treasured games, but what lives in everyone’s memory is the legend, the story of a time when things were better. Jaedong will never be remembered for fumbling, indecisive play or failed success; he will always be remembered as one of the greatest Zerg players of all time.

Jaedong’s ZvT, for the most part, has been characterized by very solid macro play with lots of aggression and constant ling counterattacks. Jaedong typically opens very safely, transitions to a solid mid game, and plays all the way to the late game, where his superior mechanics and speed gained from Brood War come into play. He is very fond of lings, and will often delay mutalisks for quite a while to crush early timings and do constant ling counterattacks. While others may fear to step off of creep, Jaedong is not afraid to take engagements off of creep, knowing when and where he has the advantage to take such engagements and only trading as much as necessary.

Jaedong vs Innovation G1 on Bel’Shir Vestige



Innovation v Jaedong G1 ASUS ROG Northcon


To commemorate the legend, what better way than to remember his first premier tournament win in SC2? In December of 2013, after a full year of “close-but-not-quite”s, Jaedong had one more opportunity to finally secure the win he had been hoping for all year at ASUS ROG Northcon. The finals against Scarlett shouldn’t be underestimated, but when looking at the brackets, Innovation was definitely the final boss for Jaedong and perhaps the strongest player at the tournament. Game 1 on Bel’Shir Vestige displays not only Jaedong’s signature style, but also showcases an impressive display of counterattacks, ling/bling micro, and brilliant decision making that allows him to take down the The Machine.

Jaedong opens very standard with a hatch first into quick speed while scouting Innovation’s anticipated CC first. He pulls workers off of gas after 100 to focus on his economy, shooting up to 40 drones and a 6:00 third base. After deflecting Innovation’s small hellion pokes, Jaedong makes a swell of lings to pressure. When the hellions move out of position, Jaedong sneaks 20 lings by, surrounds the hellions, and pushes all the way to Innovation’s base, where a small runby forces Innovation to defend while the creep spread and the fourth base at home remain unharassed. The entire time, this runby is also buying Jaedong time to tech up to lair safely.

Jaedong finishes lair and immediately sends overlords to block off the potential third of Innovation with creep. However, Innovation is a little too quick and manages to place his CC down before the overlord can get there. Innovation’s first poke with marines and medivacs looks like it might be devastating at first, as he immediately loses two queens and kills almost nothing with his initial lings before Innovation picks up, but his split second decision making to counterattack the unprotected third with the lings proves to be a powerful move. Jaedong is able to kill off the remaining marines in the drops with reinforcing lings, losing almost no drones, and buying precious time for mutalisks to get out.

Because Jaedong spent no gas on banelings to clean up the drop, he has enough gas to immediately make ten mutalisks upon spire completion. With another massive swell of lings, Jaedong is able to push off the small force directed at his fourth base and dismantle the parade push before it begins. It’s not until 12:45 that Jaedong makes his first banelings, and he only uses them to be offensive. After breaking Innovation’s initial pressure, Jaedong immediately takes map control again by cutting into Innovation’s reinforcement line and picking off several marines for free.

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Free marines? Medivacs? Mines? Oh yes, please!


The cutting into Innovation’s reinforcement line creates two “islands” of units and allows Jaedong to break through the weaker, isolated detachment at the third base. As Innovation furiously tries to micro his marines while bringing in reinforcements, Jaedong continuously focuses down medivacs and neutralizes the healing power of the bio units, draining Innovation’s economy and preventing him from ever reaching a critical mass of units. Although Innovation manages to clean up the Zerg in his third, another Zerg wave hits, and then another, and then another, until Innovation can no longer hold the third base and is forced to tap out.


Predictions


Jaedong’s abysmal ZvT record this year does not suggest he will be a contender to beat Bomber, who is among the best TvZ players in the world on a good day. Despite his incredible mechanics and brilliant decision making, Jaedong just hasn’t been able to get his counterattack playstyle to work in the past few months. Recently we’ve seen more cheesy play and all-ins from Jaedong in ZvT (see: Jaedong vs Ryung at DH: Stockholm), indicating that perhaps he has a few good tricks up his sleeve. Overall, though, things are looking pretty bleak for Jaedong.

However, we’ve seen Jaedong rise against worse. When he first started playing SC2, he was the laughing stock of ZvP, looking completely helpless and clueless what to do. After some dedicated practice, though, he sported the best ZvP in the world, completely throwing off all those old conceptions and roaring to the crowd, “The Tyrant is back!” With that memory fresh in mind, there’s no doubt that Jaedong’s years and years of training and experience can transform his gameplay into game-winning shape. Even now, the legend lives, and while the legend lives, there is always more to tell.

Raise your dongers! Raise 'em high!



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Shellshock
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States97056 Posts
October 24 2014 19:33 GMT
#2
warned for twitch meme
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ZenithM
Profile Joined February 2011
France15952 Posts
October 24 2014 19:38 GMT
#3
Haha, I was gonna say that.
InFluenza
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Netherlands55 Posts
October 24 2014 19:50 GMT
#4
On October 25 2014 04:33 Shellshock wrote:
warned for twitch meme

I don't see the red warning letters under the post :D
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Orcasgt24
Profile Joined August 2011
Canada3238 Posts
October 24 2014 19:52 GMT
#5
Unfortunately Jaedong isn't getting past Bomber
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GinDo
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3327 Posts
October 24 2014 19:52 GMT
#6
The lack or rainbow sheep is depressing
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y0su
Profile Blog Joined September 2011
Finland7871 Posts
October 24 2014 20:04 GMT
#7
or you could just raise your drink...
The_Templar
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
your Country52751 Posts
October 24 2014 20:05 GMT
#8
On October 25 2014 04:33 Shellshock wrote:
warned for twitch meme

Thank goodness there's some common sense in the comments
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vult
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
United States9381 Posts
October 24 2014 20:14 GMT
#9
JD doomed to go out.
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Musicus
Profile Joined August 2011
Germany23555 Posts
October 24 2014 20:20 GMT
#10
Well he beat Bomber in the WEC qualifier, so hopefully he can do it one more time offline!
Maru and Serral are probably top 5.
TheSayo182
Profile Joined September 2012
Italy242 Posts
October 24 2014 21:07 GMT
#11
liquidbetted against him but probably i will cheer for him! gogo JD!
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aRyuujin
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States5049 Posts
October 24 2014 21:16 GMT
#12
ima cri when jd loses without taking a map
i'll root for him but ima still cri
can i get my estro logo back pls
Cricketer12
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
United States13458 Posts
October 25 2014 00:32 GMT
#13
soo...i disagree, the robot was not final boss, scarlett played in that tournament prior to the finals, as good if not better than steph did at the ipl 5 world v korea team game (where he killed life mc seed drg before finally falling to squirtle in the final game)
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EAGER-beaver
Profile Joined March 2004
Canada2798 Posts
October 25 2014 04:25 GMT
#14
I dunno why people are discounting jaedong so badly, he did beat bomber recently and he's changed his zvt style a lot.
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lichter
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1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22271 Posts
October 25 2014 04:27 GMT
#15
this is the worst title ever
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Russian Federation163 Posts
October 25 2014 05:39 GMT
#16
grandzerg=)
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TAMinator
Profile Joined February 2011
Australia2706 Posts
October 25 2014 06:03 GMT
#17
I was going to read this, then you put that in title
tshi
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United States2495 Posts
October 25 2014 07:09 GMT
#18
warn for twitch meme use plz
scrub - inexperienced player with relatively little skill and excessive arrogance
Dismay
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States1180 Posts
October 25 2014 07:23 GMT
#19
I will never not bet on Jaedong.
In every age, in every place, the deeds of men remain the same.
tomastaz
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United States976 Posts
October 31 2014 17:08 GMT
#20
Jaedong please do this!!
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