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Code S RO32 Preview: Maru, Forte, Leenock, Dear - Page 2

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Fango
Profile Joined July 2016
United Kingdom8987 Posts
July 07 2018 13:46 GMT
#21
On July 07 2018 05:15 Waxangel wrote:
I think it's pretty telling that Maru picked Forte instead of MMA, PartinG, Reynor, SpeCial, or Ragnarok.

PartinG, Ragnarok, Reynor, and SpeCial have looked strong recently. Or at least strong enough that a complete walk-over would be unlikely.
Zest, sOs, PartinG, Dark, and Maru are the real champs. ROOT_herO is overrated. Snute, Serral, and Scarlett are the foreigner GOATs
washikie
Profile Joined February 2011
United States752 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-07-07 13:48:57
July 07 2018 13:48 GMT
#22
On July 07 2018 05:32 Elentos wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 07 2018 05:15 Waxangel wrote:
I think it's pretty telling that Maru picked Forte instead of MMA, PartinG, Reynor, SpeCial, or Ragnarok.

I can't imagine the gap between Forte and MMA is big should MMA even be the stronger player.


I think mma would have a better shot vs Maru than forte (not that he would be likely to win) mma has evolved into a very smart Terran who might be able to pull some wins vs Maru using odd build choices. I think of forte as a more straight forward mechanicle player and since Maru outclasses almost evrey Terran player mechanicly while also having good decision making and builds it would make sense he want to play against some one with a bit more predictable aproach to the game.
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Elentos
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
55561 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-07-07 14:01:21
July 07 2018 13:58 GMT
#23
On July 07 2018 22:46 Fango wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 07 2018 05:15 Waxangel wrote:
I think it's pretty telling that Maru picked Forte instead of MMA, PartinG, Reynor, SpeCial, or Ragnarok.

PartinG, Ragnarok, Reynor, and SpeCial have looked strong recently. Or at least strong enough that a complete walk-over would be unlikely.

What great chain of strong showings by these players from before the groups were announced did I miss to suggest Maru wouldn't crush them?

Easy to say in hindsight "Maru wasn't that impressive" or "Reynor was incredible in group A". But before the groups were revealed?
Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.
Fango
Profile Joined July 2016
United Kingdom8987 Posts
July 07 2018 14:18 GMT
#24
On July 07 2018 22:58 Elentos wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 07 2018 22:46 Fango wrote:
On July 07 2018 05:15 Waxangel wrote:
I think it's pretty telling that Maru picked Forte instead of MMA, PartinG, Reynor, SpeCial, or Ragnarok.

PartinG, Ragnarok, Reynor, and SpeCial have looked strong recently. Or at least strong enough that a complete walk-over would be unlikely.

What great chain of strong showings by these players from before the groups were announced did I miss to suggest Maru wouldn't crush them?

Easy to say in hindsight "Maru wasn't that impressive" or "Reynor was incredible in group A". But before the groups were revealed?

Maru would probably crush anyone, but in terms of who is the weakest of the tier 3 players, Forte is the obvious one. Or MMA I guess.

Ragnarok has apparently been doing really well on the ladder recently, SpeCial was obviously very good last year and did well in all the WCS events. Even Reynor looked decent at WeSG and has been practicing with a lot of the top koreans, they seem to have a lot of respect for him.

I doubt Maru would even consider picking PartinG given what his PvT usually entails and much of a wildcard he is.
Zest, sOs, PartinG, Dark, and Maru are the real champs. ROOT_herO is overrated. Snute, Serral, and Scarlett are the foreigner GOATs
Kurao
Profile Joined April 2018
215 Posts
July 09 2018 12:10 GMT
#25
So happy to see Leenock advance; winning against Maru in a 30 minute macro game is definitely ro4 material if he keeps this up.
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