EPTSC2 Power Rank: April 2019 - Page 3
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Poopi
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Drake
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BisuDagger
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Elentos
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On April 04 2019 00:37 BisuDagger wrote: I would say in a land where no one person is shining over the rest, Maru appears to be the best candidate for #1. His results have been good and he is still killing it in the GSL. His games versus Dear showed how amazing his mechanics still are and he looked scary good. His fear level is off the charts right now. Maru flopped at IEM and was not nearly strong enough to make a claim for #1 at any point of the month until he played against Dear. But I don't think anyone deserves to occupy the #1 spot. Looking at the top 5 I already felt that all of them were too high, even though nobody outperformed them. | ||
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Xain0n
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On April 03 2019 21:00 Poopi wrote: Well losing to soO in IEM in a close 2-3 is a thing. Losing a close finals to INno 3-4 is something. But then losing to both HeroMarine and Reynor? Imo that's a warning sign, and it's enough for him to be out of the top 2. I'd argue top 3 is already generous when there are probably 7-8 top kor that would do fine vs both these players right now, but since he had a monstrous 2018 they give him benefit of the doubt, as they do with Maru generous top 2. I think it's understandable for Serral not to be first on this power ranking(less so for the previous power ranking and way less for the one before that; if Serral doesn't start winning international tournaments again, he will never get a first place on the ranking), finishing third in WCS Winter's groupstage wasn't a good result by any means; the argument of "he lost to X and Y", however, appears invalid to me, Reynor is(arguably?) better than Leenock and Heromarime is without a doubt better than Meomaika, who Maru lost 2-0 to(we could easily find 50 players who could beat Meomaika on a regular basis). Serral did better than Maru at both IEM and WESG and was three positions ahead of him in March's power ranking, I don't see how reaching the semifinals of Code S makes up for this. Both Dark(fine) and Maru(meh) went up three spots in the ladder because of the semifinals, so I find extremely confusing to see Classic ahead of Trap given that the former just entered the power ranking while the latter held the tenth spot last month; the results of today have to be ignored for obvious reasons. I understand a cut has to be made, I would have waited four/five days, the 7th/8th of April is just after its first week and, while retaining the results of Code S finals and Super Tournament for May's PR, you could make use of the insightful Code S semifinals and WCS Winter finals for this power ranking(Trap vs Maru and Classic vs Dark seem quite important for this ladder, as well as the answer to the question of Serral's ability of winning one tournament again). | ||
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Pandain
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On April 04 2019 00:37 BisuDagger wrote: I would say in a land where no one person is shining over the rest, Maru appears to be the best candidate for #1. His results have been good and he is still killing it in the GSL. His games versus Dear showed how amazing his mechanics still are and he looked scary good. His fear level is off the charts right now. I would say Maru is actually, just based off results, the weakest to argue for a top 2 spot. He did not even get out of group stages at IEM, he didn't even win the "Group of Life" that he was in in GSL, and lost to the first korean he faced in WESG. Basically he beat Dear and lost to everyone else. | ||
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Deleted User 3420
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Mine is definitely Serral but w/e. It's clear Serral literally has no way to top the power rank other than moving to korea and crushing GSL, or winning international tournaments over and over and over never faltering because it doesn't even make a positive impact (only hurts him somehow) when he gets a 2nd place instead of a first. Whereas a Maru can do it by winning a single GSL match and ignoring everything else that has happened for the last 2 months. | ||
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BisuDagger
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On April 04 2019 02:09 travis wrote: I mean power ranking should essentially be "if you had to bet all your money on one player winning any given tournament, who would you bet it on"? Mine is definitely Serral but w/e. It's clear Serral literally has no way to top the power rank other than moving to korea and crushing GSL, or winning international tournaments over and over and over never faltering because it doesn't even make a positive impact (only hurts him somehow) when he gets a 2nd place instead of a first. Whereas a Maru can do it by winning a single GSL match and ignoring everything else that has happened for the last 2 months. In GSL: I'd bet all my money on Maru over Serral in the finals. In all non-GSLs: I'd bet all my money on Serral over Maru. Maru losing outside of GSL is a meme at this point. | ||
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Poopi
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Charoisaur
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Jimmon
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IDK, I'd say Trap is #1 right now. He wins GSL 4-1 calling it right now. | ||
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Charoisaur
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On April 04 2019 02:09 travis wrote: I mean power ranking should essentially be "if you had to bet all your money on one player winning any given tournament, who would you bet it on"? I disagree with that actually. I think Power Ranking is just about which player looks the strongest at the moment and sometimes the player that looks the strongest wouldn't be the player I'd bet on due to things like a history of choking at critical moments, being inconsistent, other player having a greater legacy etc. If I had to bet all my money on one player to win the next tournament that comes up I think it would actually be Stats due to how insane he looked at Katowice up until the finals and his history of being the most consistent player in LotV but giving the #1 spot to a player who lost in the GSL ro32 would definitely be weird. | ||
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Geo.Rion
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On April 04 2019 03:16 BisuDagger wrote: In GSL: I'd bet all my money on Maru over Serral in the finals. In all non-GSLs: I'd bet all my money on Serral over Maru. Maru losing outside of GSL is a meme at this point. Fairly irresponsible bankroll management there, but who am I to judge. Also at this point i'm going full con-theo mode, the writers just purposefully set themselves up to for this, by releasing the PR with Dark first, hours before his semifinals, just to generate controversy :D | ||
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Xain0n
Italy3963 Posts
On April 04 2019 04:12 Charoisaur wrote: In a head-to-head I'd favor Maru everytime due to Serral's weak ZvT but I think Serral has overall been the better player this year so looking at head-to-head between 2 players only isn't a very good way to go about it. Maru's TvZ is on average better than Serral's ZvT; however, I'd bet on BlizzCon Serral over Code S S2 Maru every time. Serral played very few games against Terran during his period of dominance(excluding HSC which was played on another patch), but he looked deadly at GSL vs the World; also, Maru's TvZ was shaky in 2019, Serral might have won if they faced at WESG. | ||
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GoodSirTets
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Shathe
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Dark is a strange fella, he is always top 4-5, but is never defineatly top 1. | ||
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