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Patience and Solar advance to Ro16 of Code S

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TL.net ESPORTS
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Last Edited: 2017-07-18 22:45:47
July 18 2017 16:05 GMT
#1
Meeting a day early, the four member of Group E, (T)Maru, (T)jjakji, (Z)Solar and (P)Patience, gathered to kick off a blockbuster week consisting of four GSL groups.

After winning game one against Maru on the back of a doom drop and an attack on Maru's third, jjakji put on a clinic in game two. He inflicted damage with proxy reapers and defended a banshee before finishing Maru off with a cyclone/tank/viking push.

Patience won the first game on Abyssal Reef when his immortal/sentry heavy army plowed straight through Solar's fourth. He followed that up with a crisp adept timing that sent him to winner's match.

After a close game one in which jjakji almost managed a comeback despite losing 35 workers, Patience went wire to wire on Odyssey. Early pressure killed 10 workers and pinned jjajki on two bases. Patience wiped out two pushes to become the first player to advance from the group.



The losers' match was a long and scrappy affair. Newkirk Precinct and Frost were nearly mined out as Solar and Maru’s highly advanced armies were reduced to pitiful scraps. After a handful of corruptors closed out game one, hydra/ling/bane took it for Solar in the second.

Solar was once more brought to the brink in game one of the deciding series, but he earned the win on no mining bases. Up a game, Solar lost 16 drones to jjakji's hellions, but assembled a solid ling/bane/infestor army. Key fungals and a final runby saw Solar into the Round of 16.


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Argonauta
Profile Joined July 2016
Spain4967 Posts
July 18 2017 16:11 GMT
#2
Maru T.T
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Fango
Profile Joined July 2016
United Kingdom8987 Posts
July 18 2017 16:28 GMT
#3
Maru played great TvZ, he'd probably have won vs any zerg apart from Solar or Dark.

Shame TvT snipers got him again, it's 3 seasons in a row now
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Ciaus_Dronu
Profile Joined June 2017
South Africa1848 Posts
July 18 2017 17:44 GMT
#4
On July 19 2017 01:28 Fango wrote:
Maru played great TvZ, he'd probably have won vs any zerg apart from Solar or Dark.

Shame TvT snipers got him again, it's 3 seasons in a row now


I haven't been following him too much but is Jjakji really considered a TvT sniper?

Also GG Solar! Always somewhat underrated IMO.
gab12
Profile Joined June 2016
Poland147 Posts
July 18 2017 19:05 GMT
#5
poor Maru and nerf swarmhosts pls
pvsnp
Profile Joined January 2017
7676 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-07-18 19:50:47
July 18 2017 19:09 GMT
#6
On July 19 2017 02:44 Ciaus_Dronu wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 19 2017 01:28 Fango wrote:
Maru played great TvZ, he'd probably have won vs any zerg apart from Solar or Dark.

Shame TvT snipers got him again, it's 3 seasons in a row now


I haven't been following him too much but is Jjakji really considered a TvT sniper?

Also GG Solar! Always somewhat underrated IMO.

No, jjakji hasn't knocked out any top-tier Terrans until now with Maru. Gumiho, aLive, and Ryung are the big TvT snipers.

Solar's ZvT is pretty creative but usually not the best. Hydra/Ling/Bane beats up Terran just as well as it beats up Protoss though. There isn't really any good Terran counter atm. Bio-Tank and 4M are both suboptimal. Even guys like Maru or INnoVation are losing to it.

For whatever reason (the usual Korean inertia) Hydra/Ling/Bane hasn't really caught on with KR Zergs just yet; Solar and Leenock are the only two that I've seen use the build extensively. Whether the build is actually OP can't really be determined until we have a larger sample size, but at the very least Hydra/Ling/Bane is a very strong ZvT build (and of course a very strong ZvP build). That much cross-MU strength raises a few red flags already, so it's definitely something to keep an eye on. Time will tell.
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sneakyfox
Profile Joined January 2017
8217 Posts
July 18 2017 19:38 GMT
#7
This was a great group! Matches were much closer than results suggest. More of that please!
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Mizenhauer
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
United States1939 Posts
July 18 2017 20:21 GMT
#8
On July 19 2017 04:09 pvsnp wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 19 2017 02:44 Ciaus_Dronu wrote:
On July 19 2017 01:28 Fango wrote:
Maru played great TvZ, he'd probably have won vs any zerg apart from Solar or Dark.

Shame TvT snipers got him again, it's 3 seasons in a row now


I haven't been following him too much but is Jjakji really considered a TvT sniper?

Also GG Solar! Always somewhat underrated IMO.

No, jjakji hasn't knocked out any top-tier Terrans until now with Maru. Gumiho, aLive, and Ryung are the big TvT snipers.

Solar's ZvT is pretty creative but usually not the best. Hydra/Ling/Bane beats up Terran just as well as it beats up Protoss though. There isn't really any good Terran counter atm. Bio-Tank and 4M are both suboptimal. Even guys like Maru or INnoVation are losing to it.

For whatever reason (the usual Korean inertia) Hydra/Ling/Bane hasn't really caught on with KR Zergs just yet; Solar and Leenock are the only two that I've seen use the build extensively. Whether the build is actually OP can't really be determined until we have a larger sample size, but at the very least Hydra/Ling/Bane is a very strong ZvT build (and of course a very strong ZvP build). That much cross-MU strength raises a few red flags already, so it's definitely something to keep an eye on. Time will tell.



Why would ByuL go hydra when he has the best muta control in the world? Why would Dark use hydras (btw he was using hydra/ling/bane in December) when he has the best late game spell caster control in the world? soO goes hydras, but he just loses no matter what he does in ZvT. Rogue uses hydras, so Solar and Leenock aren't the only ones. This build was first played by Koreans way back in 2016 so I don't think there's any of this inertia that you're describing. That phenomena was the product of the team environment and the fact that Koreans did not have any room for experimentation in offline matches so they just practiced and played the consensus best style. That's not really a thing anymore and I think we've seen a lot less of its influence.
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Elentos
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
55585 Posts
July 18 2017 20:41 GMT
#9
On July 19 2017 05:21 mizenhauer wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 19 2017 04:09 pvsnp wrote:
On July 19 2017 02:44 Ciaus_Dronu wrote:
On July 19 2017 01:28 Fango wrote:
Maru played great TvZ, he'd probably have won vs any zerg apart from Solar or Dark.

Shame TvT snipers got him again, it's 3 seasons in a row now


I haven't been following him too much but is Jjakji really considered a TvT sniper?

Also GG Solar! Always somewhat underrated IMO.

No, jjakji hasn't knocked out any top-tier Terrans until now with Maru. Gumiho, aLive, and Ryung are the big TvT snipers.

Solar's ZvT is pretty creative but usually not the best. Hydra/Ling/Bane beats up Terran just as well as it beats up Protoss though. There isn't really any good Terran counter atm. Bio-Tank and 4M are both suboptimal. Even guys like Maru or INnoVation are losing to it.

For whatever reason (the usual Korean inertia) Hydra/Ling/Bane hasn't really caught on with KR Zergs just yet; Solar and Leenock are the only two that I've seen use the build extensively. Whether the build is actually OP can't really be determined until we have a larger sample size, but at the very least Hydra/Ling/Bane is a very strong ZvT build (and of course a very strong ZvP build). That much cross-MU strength raises a few red flags already, so it's definitely something to keep an eye on. Time will tell.



Why would ByuL go hydra when he has the best muta control in the world?

I also asked myself this question after SSL on Monday.

I don't think hydra/ling/bane's strength in ZvT is anywhere close to problematic.
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pvsnp
Profile Joined January 2017
7676 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-07-18 21:01:01
July 18 2017 20:43 GMT
#10
On July 19 2017 05:41 Elentos wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 19 2017 05:21 mizenhauer wrote:
On July 19 2017 04:09 pvsnp wrote:
On July 19 2017 02:44 Ciaus_Dronu wrote:
On July 19 2017 01:28 Fango wrote:
Maru played great TvZ, he'd probably have won vs any zerg apart from Solar or Dark.

Shame TvT snipers got him again, it's 3 seasons in a row now


I haven't been following him too much but is Jjakji really considered a TvT sniper?

Also GG Solar! Always somewhat underrated IMO.

No, jjakji hasn't knocked out any top-tier Terrans until now with Maru. Gumiho, aLive, and Ryung are the big TvT snipers.

Solar's ZvT is pretty creative but usually not the best. Hydra/Ling/Bane beats up Terran just as well as it beats up Protoss though. There isn't really any good Terran counter atm. Bio-Tank and 4M are both suboptimal. Even guys like Maru or INnoVation are losing to it.

For whatever reason (the usual Korean inertia) Hydra/Ling/Bane hasn't really caught on with KR Zergs just yet; Solar and Leenock are the only two that I've seen use the build extensively. Whether the build is actually OP can't really be determined until we have a larger sample size, but at the very least Hydra/Ling/Bane is a very strong ZvT build (and of course a very strong ZvP build). That much cross-MU strength raises a few red flags already, so it's definitely something to keep an eye on. Time will tell.



Why would ByuL go hydra when he has the best muta control in the world?

I also asked myself this question after SSL on Monday.

I don't think hydra/ling/bane's strength in ZvT is anywhere close to problematic.

Why would anyone use any build? Because it wins games.

It could very well be the case that Hydra/Ling/Bane just so happens to fit Solar very well and he can achieve disproportionate success with it. That's why I said we need a larger sample size before drawing any conclusions.

Solar's use of it defeated INnoVation in SSL. Scarlett did the same in GSL. Snute beat MajOr+Kelazhur at Valencia. And today Solar beat Maru. It's not like every single Zerg is suddenly winning with Hydra/Ling/Bane, but there's something there. When top-tier Korean Terrans like INnoVation and Maru are losing games to a new build, it sets off some red flags. Nothing conclusive yet, but enough to draw my attention.
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Elentos
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
55585 Posts
July 18 2017 20:46 GMT
#11
On July 19 2017 05:43 pvsnp wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 19 2017 05:41 Elentos wrote:
On July 19 2017 05:21 mizenhauer wrote:
On July 19 2017 04:09 pvsnp wrote:
On July 19 2017 02:44 Ciaus_Dronu wrote:
On July 19 2017 01:28 Fango wrote:
Maru played great TvZ, he'd probably have won vs any zerg apart from Solar or Dark.

Shame TvT snipers got him again, it's 3 seasons in a row now


I haven't been following him too much but is Jjakji really considered a TvT sniper?

Also GG Solar! Always somewhat underrated IMO.

No, jjakji hasn't knocked out any top-tier Terrans until now with Maru. Gumiho, aLive, and Ryung are the big TvT snipers.

Solar's ZvT is pretty creative but usually not the best. Hydra/Ling/Bane beats up Terran just as well as it beats up Protoss though. There isn't really any good Terran counter atm. Bio-Tank and 4M are both suboptimal. Even guys like Maru or INnoVation are losing to it.

For whatever reason (the usual Korean inertia) Hydra/Ling/Bane hasn't really caught on with KR Zergs just yet; Solar and Leenock are the only two that I've seen use the build extensively. Whether the build is actually OP can't really be determined until we have a larger sample size, but at the very least Hydra/Ling/Bane is a very strong ZvT build (and of course a very strong ZvP build). That much cross-MU strength raises a few red flags already, so it's definitely something to keep an eye on. Time will tell.



Why would ByuL go hydra when he has the best muta control in the world?

I also asked myself this question after SSL on Monday.

I don't think hydra/ling/bane's strength in ZvT is anywhere close to problematic.

Why would anyone use any build? Because it wins games.

Mutas would have been a way better choice on Overgrowth. At the very least better than the lurker transition.
Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.
pvsnp
Profile Joined January 2017
7676 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-07-18 20:51:34
July 18 2017 20:50 GMT
#12
On July 19 2017 05:46 Elentos wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 19 2017 05:43 pvsnp wrote:
On July 19 2017 05:41 Elentos wrote:
On July 19 2017 05:21 mizenhauer wrote:
On July 19 2017 04:09 pvsnp wrote:
On July 19 2017 02:44 Ciaus_Dronu wrote:
On July 19 2017 01:28 Fango wrote:
Maru played great TvZ, he'd probably have won vs any zerg apart from Solar or Dark.

Shame TvT snipers got him again, it's 3 seasons in a row now


I haven't been following him too much but is Jjakji really considered a TvT sniper?

Also GG Solar! Always somewhat underrated IMO.

No, jjakji hasn't knocked out any top-tier Terrans until now with Maru. Gumiho, aLive, and Ryung are the big TvT snipers.

Solar's ZvT is pretty creative but usually not the best. Hydra/Ling/Bane beats up Terran just as well as it beats up Protoss though. There isn't really any good Terran counter atm. Bio-Tank and 4M are both suboptimal. Even guys like Maru or INnoVation are losing to it.

For whatever reason (the usual Korean inertia) Hydra/Ling/Bane hasn't really caught on with KR Zergs just yet; Solar and Leenock are the only two that I've seen use the build extensively. Whether the build is actually OP can't really be determined until we have a larger sample size, but at the very least Hydra/Ling/Bane is a very strong ZvT build (and of course a very strong ZvP build). That much cross-MU strength raises a few red flags already, so it's definitely something to keep an eye on. Time will tell.



Why would ByuL go hydra when he has the best muta control in the world?

I also asked myself this question after SSL on Monday.

I don't think hydra/ling/bane's strength in ZvT is anywhere close to problematic.

Why would anyone use any build? Because it wins games.

Mutas would have been a way better choice on Overgrowth. At the very least better than the lurker transition.

Lurkers against Terran seem shitty every time I've seen it. Ultras seem to be the better transition. But Hydra/Ling/Bane is a midgame build, not a lategame one. What comes after is a wholly different issue.
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Elentos
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
55585 Posts
July 18 2017 21:02 GMT
#13
On July 19 2017 05:50 pvsnp wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 19 2017 05:46 Elentos wrote:
On July 19 2017 05:43 pvsnp wrote:
On July 19 2017 05:41 Elentos wrote:
On July 19 2017 05:21 mizenhauer wrote:
On July 19 2017 04:09 pvsnp wrote:
On July 19 2017 02:44 Ciaus_Dronu wrote:
On July 19 2017 01:28 Fango wrote:
Maru played great TvZ, he'd probably have won vs any zerg apart from Solar or Dark.

Shame TvT snipers got him again, it's 3 seasons in a row now


I haven't been following him too much but is Jjakji really considered a TvT sniper?

Also GG Solar! Always somewhat underrated IMO.

No, jjakji hasn't knocked out any top-tier Terrans until now with Maru. Gumiho, aLive, and Ryung are the big TvT snipers.

Solar's ZvT is pretty creative but usually not the best. Hydra/Ling/Bane beats up Terran just as well as it beats up Protoss though. There isn't really any good Terran counter atm. Bio-Tank and 4M are both suboptimal. Even guys like Maru or INnoVation are losing to it.

For whatever reason (the usual Korean inertia) Hydra/Ling/Bane hasn't really caught on with KR Zergs just yet; Solar and Leenock are the only two that I've seen use the build extensively. Whether the build is actually OP can't really be determined until we have a larger sample size, but at the very least Hydra/Ling/Bane is a very strong ZvT build (and of course a very strong ZvP build). That much cross-MU strength raises a few red flags already, so it's definitely something to keep an eye on. Time will tell.



Why would ByuL go hydra when he has the best muta control in the world?

I also asked myself this question after SSL on Monday.

I don't think hydra/ling/bane's strength in ZvT is anywhere close to problematic.

Why would anyone use any build? Because it wins games.

Mutas would have been a way better choice on Overgrowth. At the very least better than the lurker transition.

Lurkers against Terran seem shitty every time I've seen it. Ultras seem to be the better transition. But Hydra/Ling/Bane is a midgame build, not a lategame one. What comes after is a wholly different issue.

Solar beat Maru in the super late game both times, how does that count if it's a wholly different issue then?
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pvsnp
Profile Joined January 2017
7676 Posts
July 18 2017 21:04 GMT
#14
On July 19 2017 05:21 mizenhauer wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 19 2017 04:09 pvsnp wrote:
On July 19 2017 02:44 Ciaus_Dronu wrote:
On July 19 2017 01:28 Fango wrote:
Maru played great TvZ, he'd probably have won vs any zerg apart from Solar or Dark.

Shame TvT snipers got him again, it's 3 seasons in a row now


I haven't been following him too much but is Jjakji really considered a TvT sniper?

Also GG Solar! Always somewhat underrated IMO.

No, jjakji hasn't knocked out any top-tier Terrans until now with Maru. Gumiho, aLive, and Ryung are the big TvT snipers.

Solar's ZvT is pretty creative but usually not the best. Hydra/Ling/Bane beats up Terran just as well as it beats up Protoss though. There isn't really any good Terran counter atm. Bio-Tank and 4M are both suboptimal. Even guys like Maru or INnoVation are losing to it.

For whatever reason (the usual Korean inertia) Hydra/Ling/Bane hasn't really caught on with KR Zergs just yet; Solar and Leenock are the only two that I've seen use the build extensively. Whether the build is actually OP can't really be determined until we have a larger sample size, but at the very least Hydra/Ling/Bane is a very strong ZvT build (and of course a very strong ZvP build). That much cross-MU strength raises a few red flags already, so it's definitely something to keep an eye on. Time will tell.



Why would ByuL go hydra when he has the best muta control in the world? Why would Dark use hydras (btw he was using hydra/ling/bane in December) when he has the best late game spell caster control in the world? soO goes hydras, but he just loses no matter what he does in ZvT. Rogue uses hydras, so Solar and Leenock aren't the only ones. This build was first played by Koreans way back in 2016 so I don't think there's any of this inertia that you're describing. That phenomena was the product of the team environment and the fact that Koreans did not have any room for experimentation in offline matches so they just practiced and played the consensus best style. That's not really a thing anymore and I think we've seen a lot less of its influence.


Regarding the inertia (since Elentos/me addressed the 'why' portion), isn't that exactly what forced all the Korean Terrans to push/drop into Adept/Phoenix? TY showed us that poking and turtling to lategame was the better answer but nearly everyone else just kept attacking and losing.

That was only a few months ago, well after the teamhouses closed. If inertia was not the cause, what was?
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pvsnp
Profile Joined January 2017
7676 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-07-18 21:50:49
July 18 2017 21:17 GMT
#15
On July 19 2017 06:02 Elentos wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 19 2017 05:50 pvsnp wrote:
On July 19 2017 05:46 Elentos wrote:
On July 19 2017 05:43 pvsnp wrote:
On July 19 2017 05:41 Elentos wrote:
On July 19 2017 05:21 mizenhauer wrote:
On July 19 2017 04:09 pvsnp wrote:
On July 19 2017 02:44 Ciaus_Dronu wrote:
On July 19 2017 01:28 Fango wrote:
Maru played great TvZ, he'd probably have won vs any zerg apart from Solar or Dark.

Shame TvT snipers got him again, it's 3 seasons in a row now


I haven't been following him too much but is Jjakji really considered a TvT sniper?

Also GG Solar! Always somewhat underrated IMO.

No, jjakji hasn't knocked out any top-tier Terrans until now with Maru. Gumiho, aLive, and Ryung are the big TvT snipers.

Solar's ZvT is pretty creative but usually not the best. Hydra/Ling/Bane beats up Terran just as well as it beats up Protoss though. There isn't really any good Terran counter atm. Bio-Tank and 4M are both suboptimal. Even guys like Maru or INnoVation are losing to it.

For whatever reason (the usual Korean inertia) Hydra/Ling/Bane hasn't really caught on with KR Zergs just yet; Solar and Leenock are the only two that I've seen use the build extensively. Whether the build is actually OP can't really be determined until we have a larger sample size, but at the very least Hydra/Ling/Bane is a very strong ZvT build (and of course a very strong ZvP build). That much cross-MU strength raises a few red flags already, so it's definitely something to keep an eye on. Time will tell.



Why would ByuL go hydra when he has the best muta control in the world?

I also asked myself this question after SSL on Monday.

I don't think hydra/ling/bane's strength in ZvT is anywhere close to problematic.

Why would anyone use any build? Because it wins games.

Mutas would have been a way better choice on Overgrowth. At the very least better than the lurker transition.

Lurkers against Terran seem shitty every time I've seen it. Ultras seem to be the better transition. But Hydra/Ling/Bane is a midgame build, not a lategame one. What comes after is a wholly different issue.

Solar beat Maru in the super late game both times, how does that count if it's a wholly different issue then?


I will preface this by noting that these are merely my own observations, and I don't claim to be an expert analyst by any means.

That being said, there are two wholly different issues:
1. Hydra/Ling/Bane outright wins in the midgame.
2. Hydra/Ling/Bane prevents the Terran from winning in the midgame and Zerg successfully techs to lategame.

The two are entirely distinct because the first is midgame TvZ while the second is lategame TvZ. Prevailing wisdom says that Terran is favored in the midgame but Zerg is favored in the lategame. Therefore, a standard TvZ will feature the Terran trying to kill the Zerg in the midgame while the Zerg tries to survive until lategame. In the case of Solar vs Maru, Hydra/Ling/Bane factors in as (2), a new strategy which better allows Zergs to survive until lategame and thus gain an advantage.

1.a. Zerg overwhelms Bio-Tank with a shitload of banelings. This is what Solar and Scarlett did to Inno, and it works by exploiting the weaknesses of Tanks against Ling/Bane.

2.a. Zerg shuts down 4M by denying drops and blunting parade pushes. This is basically LBM except that Zerg trades the harass ability of mutas for superior defense of hydras. From what I've seen the trade is a good one and Hydra/Ling/Bane basically comes off as a stronger version of LBM.

Again, these are only my personal observations from a handful of TvZ games that I've seen. Hydra/Ling/Bane doesn't win every ZvT and a sufficiently skilled Terran can defeat it with either Bio-Tank or 4M, but insofar as I can tell, Hydra/Ling/Bane appears significantly more successful than either LBM or Roach-Ravager. I suspect this is due to the fact that Terran counters LBM with 4M and Roach-Ravager with Bio-Tank, both of whose weaknesses against Hydra/Ling/Bane have been mentioned above.
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Last Edited: 2017-07-18 21:50:21
July 18 2017 21:46 GMT
#16
On July 19 2017 06:17 pvsnp wrote:
In the case of Solar vs Maru, Hydra/Ling/Bane factors in as a new strategy which better allows Zergs to survive until lategame and thus gain an advantage.

1.a. Zerg overwhelms Bio-Tank with a crapload of banelings. This is what Solar and Scarlett did to Inno, and it works by exploiting the weaknesses of Tanks against Ling/Bane.

Maru and Solar's bio vs ling/bane/hydra was played on Frost cross, Zerg should always be able to get to the late game on those spawns. With any composition.

The reason Scarlett managed to overwhelm Inno so easily was the fact that it was 51 banelings against 4 tanks because Inno took too long to realize it was a hydra style (even wasting all of his widow mines in a double drop that was killed for free). Generally, good sim city & target firing the banes with tanks as well as the situation allows you goes a long way in those engagements.
On July 19 2017 06:04 pvsnp wrote:
Regarding the inertia (since Elentos/me addressed the 'why' portion), isn't that exactly what forced all the Korean Terrans to push/drop into Adept/Phoenix? TY showed us that poking and turtling to lategame was the better answer but nearly everyone else just kept attacking and losing.

That was only a few months ago, well after the teamhouses closed. If inertia was not the cause, what was?

No, I wouldn't necessarily say that. Turtling to late game is certainly an answer against phoenix/adept, but it forces the Terran to play late game TvP. Very few Terrans are actually comfortable playing late game (in any match-up honestly), and arguably nobody to the same extent as TY.

And it's not like the pushing approach didn't work. There was a fair amount of games where the Protoss slipped up (missed a drop, misjudged a fight and took a poor trade, got their 3rd base killed) and fell apart afterwards.
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Last Edited: 2017-07-18 23:08:06
July 18 2017 22:05 GMT
#17
On July 19 2017 06:46 Elentos wrote:
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On July 19 2017 06:17 pvsnp wrote:
In the case of Solar vs Maru, Hydra/Ling/Bane factors in as a new strategy which better allows Zergs to survive until lategame and thus gain an advantage.

1.a. Zerg overwhelms Bio-Tank with a crapload of banelings. This is what Solar and Scarlett did to Inno, and it works by exploiting the weaknesses of Tanks against Ling/Bane.

Maru and Solar's bio vs ling/bane/hydra was played on Frost cross, Zerg should always be able to get to the late game on those spawns. With any composition.

The reason Scarlett managed to overwhelm Inno so easily was the fact that it was 51 banelings against 4 tanks because Inno took too long to realize it was a hydra style (even wasting all of his widow mines in a double drop that was killed for free). Generally, good sim city & target firing the banes with tanks as well as the situation allows you goes a long way in those engagements.
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On July 19 2017 06:04 pvsnp wrote:
Regarding the inertia (since Elentos/me addressed the 'why' portion), isn't that exactly what forced all the Korean Terrans to push/drop into Adept/Phoenix? TY showed us that poking and turtling to lategame was the better answer but nearly everyone else just kept attacking and losing.

That was only a few months ago, well after the teamhouses closed. If inertia was not the cause, what was?

No, I wouldn't necessarily say that. Turtling to late game is certainly an answer against phoenix/adept, but it forces the Terran to play late game TvP. Very few Terrans are actually comfortable playing late game (in any match-up honestly), and arguably nobody to the same extent as TY.

And it's not like the pushing approach didn't work. There was a fair amount of games where the Protoss slipped up (missed a drop, misjudged a fight and took a poor trade, got their 3rd base killed) and fell apart afterwards.


Maps certainly factor into the matchup but I would hesitate to give them a "guaranteed lategame" level of influence. Easier to get to lategame, sure.

I mean sure, Inno made some big mistakes in that game. That's not the point. The point is that Bio-Tank isn't the optimal counter for Ling/Bane, while Bio-Mine is. For a textbook example, refer to Inno vs Scarlett Game 2. And the point of that point is that Bio-Tank is suboptimal against Hydra/Ling/Bane.


I would almost say that's even worse than inertia. If the reason was TvP lategame, Terrans have a harder lategame (MMM Ghost/Liberator/Viking) than both Protoss and Zerg. Super-lategame Raven/BC beats everything ofc but it's practically impossible to get there. So with Adept/Phoenix and Hydra/Ling/Bane it's attack and lose in the midgame or don't and lose in the lategame. Damned if you do and damned if you don't.

And of course Adept/Phoenix didn't win every game. It only won enough to be imbalanced (or at least appear to be imbalanced), and be subsequently nerfed. If the "answer" to Hydra/Ling/Bane does turn out to be "turtle to lategame" because midgame TvZ isn't viable, then that would definitely be sufficient grounds for the balance team to step in.
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Last Edited: 2017-07-19 02:28:39
July 18 2017 23:10 GMT
#18
maru vs solar was the best series ive ever seen in lotv. maru used marines, marauders, medivacs, mines, ghosts, liberators, vikings, tanks, hellions, hellbats, banshees, thors, ravens. solar used lings, banes, hydras, queens, swarm hosts, ultras, infestors, vipers, broods, corruptors. there was burrow, drops, speed banshees, biomech turret pushes. small groups of units all over the map, insanely complex armies being controlled very well. some of the best sc2 i've ever seen
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July 19 2017 07:13 GMT
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Totally agree. Must see series, especially game one.
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July 19 2017 08:19 GMT
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That sounds epic. Crushing to hear that it wasn't enough for him to move on.
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