Community Feedback Update - Jan 6 + Jan 10 Update - Page 16

On January 07 2017 09:59 Solar424 wrote:
Is there a reason Blizzard loves Terran so much? PvT winrate is the worst it's been in years and they say "we're looking into it" as they always do, but when Adepts were plaguing the matchup they got nerfed within a 2 weeks.

On January 07 2017 09:59 Solar424 wrote:
Is there a reason Blizzard loves Terran so much? PvT winrate is the worst it's been in years and they say "we're looking into it" as they always do, but when Adepts were plaguing the matchup they got nerfed within a 2 weeks.

On January 18 2017 14:41 Liquid`Snute wrote:
The game i played vs gumi on overgrowth had a lot of bad decisions on my end, not my proudest zvmech

I think ZvT balance (not design) is in a good spot and that swarm host strength is not that high of a priority in terms of balance (not design).

Some players do mech in KR gm. It's still viable in some scenarios assuming zerg goes a certain route, and there are some moves you can make vs hosts: trying to force zerg away from making swarm host, pushing SH tech further back in time (say, a banshee into liberator opening) - the first minutes of the game are very important. When you delay the onset of the hosts, they lose their snowball effect. From there you can do a lot of cool fake pressure moves, too. But if you do something like 2base cloakshee expand and run into 2base muta into 3base swarm host, you will probably lose. Mech usually is not very favorable unless Zerg makes roach/hydra/viper/etc.

I know there aren't that many swarm host games for reference. But I do have a small library of them and when I do play well, I find hosts to just destroy T if I get them out early enough. I've also played some SH games in previous series vs Gumiho and those games were wins in my favor. I'm a little bit surprised to not see hosts used more on the KR streams I've watched - there's actually a lot of roach hydra viper into broodlord going on still, and it often loses to bc/raven and stuff.

I would love to contribute with something useful but honestly the mech samples on the highest levels of play are so small I don't really know what to think besides this.

On January 18 2017 14:41 Liquid`Snute wrote:
The game i played vs gumi on overgrowth had a lot of bad decisions on my end, not my proudest zvmech

I think ZvT balance (not design) is in a good spot and that swarm host strength is not that high of a priority in terms of balance (not design).

Some players do mech in KR gm. It's still viable in some scenarios assuming zerg goes a certain route, and there are some moves you can make vs hosts: trying to force zerg away from making swarm host, pushing SH tech further back in time (say, a banshee into liberator opening) - the first minutes of the game are very important. When you delay the onset of the hosts, they lose their snowball effect. From there you can do a lot of cool fake pressure moves, too. But if you do something like 2base cloakshee expand and run into 2base muta into 3base swarm host, you will probably lose. Mech usually is not very favorable unless Zerg makes roach/hydra/viper/etc.

I know there aren't that many swarm host games for reference. But I do have a small library of them and when I do play well, I find hosts to just destroy T if I get them out early enough. I've also played some SH games in previous series vs Gumiho and those games were wins in my favor. I'm a little bit surprised to not see hosts used more on the KR streams I've watched - there's actually a lot of roach hydra viper into broodlord going on still, and it often loses to bc/raven and stuff.

I would love to contribute with something useful but honestly the mech samples on the highest levels of play are so small I don't really know what to think besides this.