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Olli
Austria24420 Posts
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digmouse
China6330 Posts
On November 04 2018 21:50 MyLovelyLurker wrote: Game 3 was pure hubris - he knew that standard play at the level of Heromarine should be enough to unsettle SoS, yet didn't try. It's okay, it's how every great eventually falls before learning their lesson. The absolutely absurd thing is, he is not some rookie who just broke into the scene. He is a 8 year veteran. | ||
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MyLovelyLurker
France756 Posts
On November 04 2018 22:12 digmouse wrote: The absolutely absurd thing is, he is not some rookie who just broke into the scene. He is a 8 year veteran. Truer words haven't been spoken. When that absurdity finally hits him, I hope he does the right thing and gets full blackout drunk, so as to forget this & recover ASAP. | ||
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terribleplayer1
95 Posts
On this patch Serral is absolutely the best player in the world, and the best player of 2018, it's unfortunate Maru had sOs -> Stats on his bracket so I figured the chances he'd get by was low (I was still expecting him to make it), but even if he did make it, I don't think Maru would stand any chance, you can sort of see how it'd play out by looking at Maru's TvZ's and Serral's ZvT. Serral is 18-0 vs T this patch on offline games, including an absolute stomp over inno 3-0, and 1-0 over Maru, Inno went 6-1 vs Rogue, a week before Serral decimated him, uThermal vs Reynor is pretty even, and Reynor gave Maru a hard time, uThermal vs Serral hasn't been close in a while. The most telling thing about Serral isn't even the insane stats, such as 6 Premiers in a row, highest winrate vs koreans out of anyone in 2018... but...... how he is actually winning, watch the god damn games, he is stomping koreans playing standard, while they try to throw weird shit at him, it's actually the inverse KR vs non-kr scenario. | ||
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Xain0n
Italy3963 Posts
You did not see sOs upsetting Maru, but all the other seven result predictions were correct with three exact scores guessed right. By far the best prediction out of all of writing staff's ones. | ||
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midhigh
49 Posts
On November 05 2018 00:25 terribleplayer1 wrote: I can't believe people are still hating on Serral, most of the arguments are pretty shit and have been debunked. On this patch Serral is absolutely the best player in the world, and the best player of 2018, it's unfortunate Maru had sOs -> Stats on his bracket so I figured the chances he'd get by was low (I was still expecting him to make it), but even if he did make it, I don't think Maru would stand any chance, you can sort of see how it'd play out by looking at Maru's TvZ's and Serral's ZvT. Serral is 18-0 vs T this patch on offline games, including an absolute stomp over inno 3-0, and 1-0 over Maru, Inno went 6-1 vs Rogue, a week before Serral decimated him, uThermal vs Reynor is pretty even, and Reynor gave Maru a hard time, uThermal vs Serral hasn't been close in a while. The most telling thing about Serral isn't even the insane stats, such as 6 Premiers in a row, highest winrate vs koreans out of anyone in 2018... but...... how he is actually winning, watch the god damn games, he is stomping koreans playing standard, while they try to throw weird shit at him, it's actually the inverse KR vs non-kr scenario. You are either blind or do not know the game enough.. Serral and Maru are head and shoulders above the competition skillset wise right now. You simply can't judge Serral's ZvT simply because he does not have enough matches versus Maru (and Inno and TY or Gumiho), just versus medicore competition in the EU, not to mention saying Maru would not stand a chance. Maru only lost one match the whole year vs Zerg that matters (vs Rogue Katowice, same amount as Serral only lost one match vs T in WESG). As of todayMaru is the only player capable of going toe to toe in multitasking in TvZ vs Serral. Just look at his game against Rogue in GSL ST2. He clearly prepared for Serral, with his building placements versus ling counterattacks. I am not saying Maru would beat Serral in a BO7, i am only Saying he is the only one capable of beating Serral right now. I would say it is a 50-50 chance. Also this blizzcon showed us that TvP is in a very bad state right now, as the best T in the world thinks proxying is the only chance of winning against a struggling Protoss, and it is especially alarming since sOs multitasking is one or two level below of Maru's. | ||
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KR_4EVR
316 Posts
On November 05 2018 00:25 terribleplayer1 wrote: I can't believe people are still hating on Serral, most of the arguments are pretty shit and have been debunked. On this patch Serral is absolutely the best player in the world, and the best player of 2018, it's unfortunate Maru had sOs -> Stats on his bracket so I figured the chances he'd get by was low (I was still expecting him to make it), but even if he did make it, I don't think Maru would stand any chance, you can sort of see how it'd play out by looking at Maru's TvZ's and Serral's ZvT. Serral is 18-0 vs T this patch on offline games, including an absolute stomp over inno 3-0, and 1-0 over Maru, Inno went 6-1 vs Rogue, a week before Serral decimated him, uThermal vs Reynor is pretty even, and Reynor gave Maru a hard time, uThermal vs Serral hasn't been close in a while. The most telling thing about Serral isn't even the insane stats, such as 6 Premiers in a row, highest winrate vs koreans out of anyone in 2018... but...... how he is actually winning, watch the god damn games, he is stomping koreans playing standard, while they try to throw weird shit at him, it's actually the inverse KR vs non-kr scenario. Serral has not yet proved he can beat a top Korean Terran. He beat Innovation at a time when Inno was at his low, but has not faced Gumiho, TY, or Maru. Yes, he is undeniably the best in the world right now. But he hasn't yet shown the tier of ZvT we want to see. Edit: That's why I was looking forward to Blizzcon. I hoped that TY would beat Rogue and Maru would Finals so that we could see at least one of Serral v. TY or Serral v. Maru. Thanks to Maru's bad choices and TY's dumb luck vs Rogue, neither happened. Honestly I almost gave up watching the Finals, another boring ZvP until Stats turned the fire back on in game 4 and 5. | ||
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waiting2Bbanned
United States154 Posts
On November 05 2018 04:02 KR_4EVR wrote: Serral has not yet proved he can beat a top Korean Terran. He beat Innovation at a time when Inno was at his low, but has not faced Gumiho, TY, or Maru. Yes, he is undeniably the best in the world right now. But he hasn't yet shown the tier of ZvT we want to see. Yasss!! Came for a good quality goal-post move, leaving satisfied!  | ||
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Parrek
United States893 Posts
On November 05 2018 04:02 KR_4EVR wrote: Serral has not yet proved he can beat a top Korean Terran. He beat Innovation at a time when Inno was at his low, but has not faced Gumiho, TY, or Maru. Yes, he is undeniably the best in the world right now. But he hasn't yet shown the tier of ZvT we want to see. Edit: That's why I was looking forward to Blizzcon. I hoped that TY would beat Rogue and Maru would Finals so that we could see at least one of Serral v. TY or Serral v. Maru. Thanks to Maru's bad choices and TY's dumb luck vs Rogue, neither happened. Honestly I almost gave up watching the Finals, another boring ZvP until Stats turned the fire back on in game 4 and 5. Part of why I personally believe Serral would win is because in his match vs Innovation we saw some great things. For example, in one game he held 4-5 hellions and a reaper with no queens and ~ 10 lings because he just spread them perfectly. So well it almost looked like he intentionally baited innovation in so he could kill them. I had never seen a Zerg do that before. There's just no room for Inno to do anything about that except just not attack. | ||
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RaidenSC2
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