• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EDT 15:23
CEST 21:23
KST 04:23
  • Home
  • Forum
  • Calendar
  • Streams
  • Liquipedia
  • Features
  • Store
  • EPT
  • TL+
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Smash
  • Heroes
  • Counter-Strike
  • Overwatch
  • Liquibet
  • Fantasy StarCraft
  • TLPD
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Blogs
Forum Sidebar
Events/Features
News
Featured News
Serral wins HomeStory Cup 2912Serral wins Maestros of the Game 243ByuL, and the Limitations of Standard Play3Team Liquid Map Contest #22: Results and Winners7Code S Season 2 (2026): RO4 and Finals Preview12
Community News
Reynor: GSL Loss Wasn't About Preparation Format12[IPSL] Spring 2026 Grand Finals - This Weekend!1Weekly Cups (July 6 - 12): Protoss strike back9BSL Season 22 Full Overview & Conclusion8BSL Season 22 Full Overview & Conclusion8
StarCraft 2
General
Is the larve respawn broken? Weekly Cups (July 6 - 12): Protoss strike back Interview with an American 16 Year Old Grandmaster Serral wins HomeStory Cup 29 Reynor: GSL Loss Wasn't About Preparation Format
Tourneys
WardiTV Summer Cup 2026 GSL CK #5 Race War RSL Revival: Season 6 - Qualifiers and Main Event HomeStory Cup 29 Vespene Cup #1 — $300+ USD, July 10
Strategy
[G] Having the right mentality to improve
Custom Maps
New Map Maker - Looking for Advice - Love or Hate Work In Progress Melee Maps [D]RTS in all its shapes and glory <3
External Content
The PondCast: SC2 News & Results Mutation # 534 Burning Evacuation Mutation # 533 Die Together Mutation # 532 Nuclear Family
Brood War
General
screpdb: new Starcraft reporting tool Pros Debate: Zerg Unfairly Nerfed? (ASL S22 map) ASL 22 Proposed Map Pool BSL Season 22 Full Overview & Conclusion BGH Auto Balance -> http://bghmmr.eu/
Tourneys
[ASL22] Wildcard Qualifier [IPSL] Spring 2026 Grand Finals - This Weekend! [Megathread] Daily Proleagues IPSL Spring 2026 Top 4!
Strategy
Fighting Spirit mining rates Simple Questions, Simple Answers Creating a full chart of Zerg builds Relatively freeroll strategies
Other Games
General Games
General RTS Discussion Thread Nintendo Switch Thread Stormgate/Frost Giant Megathread Path of Exile Summer Games Done Quick 2026!
Dota 2
Looking for a Dota Mentor Official 'what is Dota anymore' discussion
League of Legends
Heroes of the Storm
Simple Questions, Simple Answers Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Deck construction bug
TL Mafia
NeO.D_StephenKing vs This Guy From 1 Million Dance TL Mafia Community Thread TL Mafia Power Rank Vanilla Mini Mafia
Community
General
US Politics Mega-thread Russo-Ukrainian War Thread UK Politics Mega-thread YouTube Thread Canadian Politics Mega-thread
Fan Clubs
The IdrA Fan Club The HerO Fan Club!
Media & Entertainment
Anime Discussion Thread [Req][Books] Good Fantasy/SciFi books Movie Discussion! Series you have seen recently...
Sports
2024 - 2026 Football Thread McBoner: A hockey love story Tennis[sport] Formula 1 Discussion TeamLiquid Health and Fitness Initiative For 2023
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
Simple Questions Simple Answers FPS when play League Of Legend on laptop How to clean a TTe Thermaltake keyboard?
TL Community
The Automated Ban List
Blogs
Poker (part 2)
Nebuchad
The Experiences We Want and …
TrAiDoS
An Exploration of th…
waywardstrategy
Gauntlet SC2: A Retrospectiv…
Ctone23
ramps on octagon
StaticNine
Funny Nicknames
LUCKY_NOOB
Evil Gacha Games and the…
ffswowsucks
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 6388 users

PartinG, soO, Trap, herO advance to Code S quarterfinals -…

Forum Index > SC2 General
84 CommentsPost a Reply
Prev 1 2 3 4 5 Next All
insitelol
Profile Joined August 2012
845 Posts
May 30 2019 05:37 GMT
#21
On May 30 2019 13:40 machinus wrote:
Definitely one of the more boring seasons of GSL. Maru's dominance was just hiding the problem

The problem of terrans being bad? I guess that's it, because the problem of terrans being whiny was not ever hidden. Especially those "10 posts terrans", you know? Half of them are avilo's smurfs though but still.
Less is more.
litLikeBic
Profile Joined August 2018
Canada105 Posts
May 30 2019 06:07 GMT
#22
why can't people accept that protoss players are just better than everyone else right now
xelnaga_empire
Profile Joined March 2012
627 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-05-30 06:15:19
May 30 2019 06:14 GMT
#23
In the last GSL Super Tournament, there were 7 of 8 Protoss players in the Round of 8. Never in the history of SC2 or even BW, for a premier Korean tournament, were there 7 players of the same race in the Round of 8. And BW tournaments in Korea for pro gamers go back to 1999 so that's 20 years of Korean pro tournaments.

This will be another moment in history if 7 Protoss players qualifies for the Round of 8. It would make two consecutive Korean premier tournaments where 7 Protoss have made the Round of 8.
Veluvian
Profile Joined December 2011
Bulgaria256 Posts
May 30 2019 07:06 GMT
#24
Classic is on top. Hurricane defended perfectly against the early zergling rush of Ragnarok. Parting showed us some incredible new strats despite his controversial talking all the time. Those are pure individual successes, no patches victories.
Sorry, but It has been more than two years of terrans winning Code S. If it's not for Classic, I will be extremely happy for Dark to take it all finally. To be honest in lower ladder leagues is bit of different of races balance and the way some pro-s dominate in the scene right now is only in top tier matches. This is an evolution I guess. We used to watch WhiteRa special tactics in WoL era with warp prisms but now pro-s use it like pure magic perfect immortal blink like nobody dared to dream before.
Oz; MMA; Rain; sOs; Classic, Soulkey, TY, Dark
machinus
Profile Joined January 2010
United States292 Posts
May 30 2019 08:20 GMT
#25
On May 30 2019 14:37 insitelol wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 30 2019 13:40 machinus wrote:
Definitely one of the more boring seasons of GSL. Maru's dominance was just hiding the problem

The problem of terrans being bad? I guess that's it, because the problem of terrans being whiny was not ever hidden. Especially those "10 posts terrans", you know? Half of them are avilo's smurfs though but still.


Terran has major problems as a race. Sounds like you don't know much about SC2
insitelol
Profile Joined August 2012
845 Posts
May 30 2019 08:41 GMT
#26
On May 30 2019 17:20 machinus wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 30 2019 14:37 insitelol wrote:
On May 30 2019 13:40 machinus wrote:
Definitely one of the more boring seasons of GSL. Maru's dominance was just hiding the problem

The problem of terrans being bad? I guess that's it, because the problem of terrans being whiny was not ever hidden. Especially those "10 posts terrans", you know? Half of them are avilo's smurfs though but still.


Terran has major problems as a race. Sounds like you don't know much about SC2

Race is definitely your problem according to this
https://www.rankedftw.com/search/?name=Machinus
Less is more.
deacon.frost
Profile Joined February 2013
Czech Republic12131 Posts
May 30 2019 08:56 GMT
#27
On May 30 2019 16:06 Veluvian wrote:
Classic is on top. Hurricane defended perfectly against the early zergling rush of Ragnarok. Parting showed us some incredible new strats despite his controversial talking all the time. Those are pure individual successes, no patches victories.
Sorry, but It has been more than two years of terrans winning Code S. If it's not for Classic, I will be extremely happy for Dark to take it all finally. To be honest in lower ladder leagues is bit of different of races balance and the way some pro-s dominate in the scene right now is only in top tier matches. This is an evolution I guess. We used to watch WhiteRa special tactics in WoL era with warp prisms but now pro-s use it like pure magic perfect immortal blink like nobody dared to dream before.

Nobody is against Protoss winning the thing, but after the IEM, GSL ST and this Code S it really doesn't look like the game is in the healthiest stage. Terrans nowehere to be found + Zergs suffering in Korea. This can't be a coincidence tha we just broke the GomTvT record of player balance in the RO8.

It's similar to the BL Infestor thing, Mvp was winning, Terrans were fine (Maru was winning the Code S, Terran is fine)
I imagine France should be able to take this unless Lilbow is busy practicing for Starcraft III. | KadaverBB is my fairy ban mother.
Z3nith
Profile Joined October 2017
485 Posts
May 30 2019 09:33 GMT
#28
On May 30 2019 17:56 deacon.frost wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 30 2019 16:06 Veluvian wrote:
Classic is on top. Hurricane defended perfectly against the early zergling rush of Ragnarok. Parting showed us some incredible new strats despite his controversial talking all the time. Those are pure individual successes, no patches victories.
Sorry, but It has been more than two years of terrans winning Code S. If it's not for Classic, I will be extremely happy for Dark to take it all finally. To be honest in lower ladder leagues is bit of different of races balance and the way some pro-s dominate in the scene right now is only in top tier matches. This is an evolution I guess. We used to watch WhiteRa special tactics in WoL era with warp prisms but now pro-s use it like pure magic perfect immortal blink like nobody dared to dream before.

Nobody is against Protoss winning the thing, but after the IEM, GSL ST and this Code S it really doesn't look like the game is in the healthiest stage. Terrans nowehere to be found + Zergs suffering in Korea. This can't be a coincidence tha we just broke the GomTvT record of player balance in the RO8.

It's similar to the BL Infestor thing, Mvp was winning, Terrans were fine (Maru was winning the Code S, Terran is fine)


You can't really use IEM to point to protoss imbalance specifically when most of the top tier terrans were knocked out by Zergs and there was equal representation between Zerg and Protoss from the quarterfinals all the way up to the finals and protoss didn't even win said finals.
NspFancy
Profile Joined May 2016
Korea (South)21 Posts
May 30 2019 11:15 GMT
#29
Protoss good race !

User was warned for this post.
fronkschnonk
Profile Joined November 2011
Germany622 Posts
May 30 2019 11:41 GMT
#30
Well, I'm almost always a fan of "let's wait how this develops" in balance questions. But at some point one has to admit due to mere statistics that Protoss probably is somewhat favored. I'm not actively playing right now, so I'm not able to pinpoint where the exact problem is but waiting another GSL/WCS Season is probably too much.
Furthermore, I consider that some kind of Code A must be reestablished.
DomeGetta
Profile Joined February 2012
480 Posts
May 30 2019 11:43 GMT
#31
On May 30 2019 11:09 Xain0n wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 30 2019 10:25 waiting2Bbanned wrote:
We have the B-list Trap and Hurricane, the semi-retired Hero and the actual retired Parting in the GSL RO8.
This is what passes nowadays for the 'world absolute best' in SC2 talent, really??

I never imagined I'd say these words, but I really miss David Kim!!

Watching Classic stroll through a string of flawless victories on his way to the trophy is gonna be great! The suspense is killing me LOL

This is just sad..


Classic is the only acceptable Protoss all at once and everyone would be delighted now to see him win a Code S in his last year(after being underrated for his entire career), while herO who is most likely about to retire as well is half-active(low skilled, I guess)?

PartinG actually came back from retirement, he's recovering, while Trap seems eventually on the verge of becoming a top player once that he is free from the towering shades of his teammates. Harry "GentleBreeze" Kane is probably the one who benefits the most from his meta, but he definitely earned his ro8 spot by dispatching Solar and Ragnarok.

The sad thing is the disproportionate amount of whine and Protoss hate.


Annnnnnd this is why no one respects you.

Bury your head in the sand more. Protoss needs a nerf its completely obvious and u over here like "b b b but they all just gods..git good other races....ommmmg protoss has all the spots bb bb b but maru and serral win!?"
deacon.frost
Profile Joined February 2013
Czech Republic12131 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-05-30 11:54:19
May 30 2019 11:52 GMT
#32
On May 30 2019 18:33 Z3nith wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 30 2019 17:56 deacon.frost wrote:
On May 30 2019 16:06 Veluvian wrote:
Classic is on top. Hurricane defended perfectly against the early zergling rush of Ragnarok. Parting showed us some incredible new strats despite his controversial talking all the time. Those are pure individual successes, no patches victories.
Sorry, but It has been more than two years of terrans winning Code S. If it's not for Classic, I will be extremely happy for Dark to take it all finally. To be honest in lower ladder leagues is bit of different of races balance and the way some pro-s dominate in the scene right now is only in top tier matches. This is an evolution I guess. We used to watch WhiteRa special tactics in WoL era with warp prisms but now pro-s use it like pure magic perfect immortal blink like nobody dared to dream before.

Nobody is against Protoss winning the thing, but after the IEM, GSL ST and this Code S it really doesn't look like the game is in the healthiest stage. Terrans nowehere to be found + Zergs suffering in Korea. This can't be a coincidence tha we just broke the GomTvT record of player balance in the RO8.

It's similar to the BL Infestor thing, Mvp was winning, Terrans were fine (Maru was winning the Code S, Terran is fine)


You can't really use IEM to point to protoss imbalance specifically when most of the top tier terrans were knocked out by Zergs and there was equal representation between Zerg and Protoss from the quarterfinals all the way up to the finals and protoss didn't even win said finals.

But I'm not pointing out Protoss imbalance What I'm saying is - Terran is in a bad place global-wise(IEM, ST, Code S). Zerg is in a bad state in Korea(ST, Code S). Because I don't know if the issue is in the Protoss(e.g. the most cited "op" thing - warp prism pick up range - how does this affect PvT?). IMO the issue is more complicated than "nurf Protoss, Protoss OP" And I don't see the solution(especially for PvT)

On May 30 2019 20:43 DomeGetta wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 30 2019 11:09 Xain0n wrote:
On May 30 2019 10:25 waiting2Bbanned wrote:
We have the B-list Trap and Hurricane, the semi-retired Hero and the actual retired Parting in the GSL RO8.
This is what passes nowadays for the 'world absolute best' in SC2 talent, really??

I never imagined I'd say these words, but I really miss David Kim!!

Watching Classic stroll through a string of flawless victories on his way to the trophy is gonna be great! The suspense is killing me LOL

This is just sad..


Classic is the only acceptable Protoss all at once and everyone would be delighted now to see him win a Code S in his last year(after being underrated for his entire career), while herO who is most likely about to retire as well is half-active(low skilled, I guess)?

PartinG actually came back from retirement, he's recovering, while Trap seems eventually on the verge of becoming a top player once that he is free from the towering shades of his teammates. Harry "GentleBreeze" Kane is probably the one who benefits the most from his meta, but he definitely earned his ro8 spot by dispatching Solar and Ragnarok.

The sad thing is the disproportionate amount of whine and Protoss hate.


Annnnnnd this is why no one respects you.

Bury your head in the sand more. Protoss needs a nerf its completely obvious and u over here like "b b b but they all just gods..git good other races....ommmmg protoss has all the spots bb bb b but maru and serral win!?"

You can always ignore him and don't reply to his post
I imagine France should be able to take this unless Lilbow is busy practicing for Starcraft III. | KadaverBB is my fairy ban mother.
renaissanceMAN
Profile Joined March 2011
United States1840 Posts
May 30 2019 12:08 GMT
#33
On May 30 2019 17:41 insitelol wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 30 2019 17:20 machinus wrote:
On May 30 2019 14:37 insitelol wrote:
On May 30 2019 13:40 machinus wrote:
Definitely one of the more boring seasons of GSL. Maru's dominance was just hiding the problem

The problem of terrans being bad? I guess that's it, because the problem of terrans being whiny was not ever hidden. Especially those "10 posts terrans", you know? Half of them are avilo's smurfs though but still.


Terran has major problems as a race. Sounds like you don't know much about SC2

Race is definitely your problem according to this
https://www.rankedftw.com/search/?name=Machinus


Did not know about this site, thanks for sharing!

Personally (diamond) I’m feeling ok right now in the game, but it does get somewhat disconcerting that I feel limited in my strategies as a Terran player—especially when I approach the later game.

Always seems like there are 10 million ways to die vP in the first 10 minutes, and even if I’m getting drones vZ, Mech still seems so flimsy at a certain point. I know I’m not beyond my own mistakes causing me to lose, but it seems like the mistakes my opponents (of other races) make always have less of overall effect.
On August 15 2013 03:43 Waxangel wrote: no amount of money can replace the enjoyment of being mean to people on the internet
the caz dog
Profile Joined April 2014
Australia17 Posts
May 30 2019 12:14 GMT
#34
The thing is Protoss just recently got a decent nerf across all matchups, including the Air Upgrades (which have never been a problem at any time).

Instead of reducing Protoss strength, it seems to have had minimal effect.

Why? I think it's because Protoss players are better.

Before you rush to downvote and flame, I'm not talking about mechanics, macro, micro, mini-map awareness, etc. I'm talking about the capacity to generate new and innovative builds as a community.

I feel lucky to have picked a race that happens to be played by guys like sOs, MC, Day9, Parting, Artosis, Petit Drogo, Trap and even an unknown like Max Pax (and so many others I've left out). They aren't whiners, but rather, they all have made massive creative contributions to how Protoss is played at one time or another. Then there's guys like Gemini, distilling and distributing that knowledge to us lower league types.

Can Terran and Zerg players say the same about their community leaders? I'm not so sure. And without the KESPA system, the meta is more volatile than I've ever seen, so having that community helping to solve problems is more important than ever before.

Anyway, I think Protoss will be nerfed at some point. But we've just seen how nerfing Toss can just make them stronger. That only makes sense if there is some other factor at play - which could be something like the types of communities each respective race have cultivated.
DomeGetta
Profile Joined February 2012
480 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-05-30 12:31:48
May 30 2019 12:27 GMT
#35
On May 30 2019 20:52 deacon.frost wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 30 2019 18:33 Z3nith wrote:
On May 30 2019 17:56 deacon.frost wrote:
On May 30 2019 16:06 Veluvian wrote:
Classic is on top. Hurricane defended perfectly against the early zergling rush of Ragnarok. Parting showed us some incredible new strats despite his controversial talking all the time. Those are pure individual successes, no patches victories.
Sorry, but It has been more than two years of terrans winning Code S. If it's not for Classic, I will be extremely happy for Dark to take it all finally. To be honest in lower ladder leagues is bit of different of races balance and the way some pro-s dominate in the scene right now is only in top tier matches. This is an evolution I guess. We used to watch WhiteRa special tactics in WoL era with warp prisms but now pro-s use it like pure magic perfect immortal blink like nobody dared to dream before.

Nobody is against Protoss winning the thing, but after the IEM, GSL ST and this Code S it really doesn't look like the game is in the healthiest stage. Terrans nowehere to be found + Zergs suffering in Korea. This can't be a coincidence tha we just broke the GomTvT record of player balance in the RO8.

It's similar to the BL Infestor thing, Mvp was winning, Terrans were fine (Maru was winning the Code S, Terran is fine)


You can't really use IEM to point to protoss imbalance specifically when most of the top tier terrans were knocked out by Zergs and there was equal representation between Zerg and Protoss from the quarterfinals all the way up to the finals and protoss didn't even win said finals.

But I'm not pointing out Protoss imbalance What I'm saying is - Terran is in a bad place global-wise(IEM, ST, Code S). Zerg is in a bad state in Korea(ST, Code S). Because I don't know if the issue is in the Protoss(e.g. the most cited "op" thing - warp prism pick up range - how does this affect PvT?). IMO the issue is more complicated than "nurf Protoss, Protoss OP" And I don't see the solution(especially for PvT)

Show nested quote +
On May 30 2019 20:43 DomeGetta wrote:
On May 30 2019 11:09 Xain0n wrote:
On May 30 2019 10:25 waiting2Bbanned wrote:
We have the B-list Trap and Hurricane, the semi-retired Hero and the actual retired Parting in the GSL RO8.
This is what passes nowadays for the 'world absolute best' in SC2 talent, really??

I never imagined I'd say these words, but I really miss David Kim!!

Watching Classic stroll through a string of flawless victories on his way to the trophy is gonna be great! The suspense is killing me LOL

This is just sad..


Classic is the only acceptable Protoss all at once and everyone would be delighted now to see him win a Code S in his last year(after being underrated for his entire career), while herO who is most likely about to retire as well is half-active(low skilled, I guess)?

PartinG actually came back from retirement, he's recovering, while Trap seems eventually on the verge of becoming a top player once that he is free from the towering shades of his teammates. Harry "GentleBreeze" Kane is probably the one who benefits the most from his meta, but he definitely earned his ro8 spot by dispatching Solar and Ragnarok.

The sad thing is the disproportionate amount of whine and Protoss hate.


Annnnnnd this is why no one respects you.

Bury your head in the sand more. Protoss needs a nerf its completely obvious and u over here like "b b b but they all just gods..git good other races....ommmmg protoss has all the spots bb bb b but maru and serral win!?"

You can always ignore him and don't reply to his post


PvT is chrono + late superior late game splash (upgrades + better tech = gg better all in)
For this one you can't just nerf/buff in isolation - more difficult to solve.

PvZ it's clearly the warp prism immortal juggling - needs to go.
Marjory timing also needs to be messed with.
royalroadweed
Profile Joined April 2013
United States8301 Posts
May 30 2019 12:29 GMT
#36
On May 30 2019 21:14 the caz dog wrote:
The thing is Protoss just recently got a decent nerf across all matchups, including the Air Upgrades (which have never been a problem at any time).

Instead of reducing Protoss strength, it seems to have had minimal effect.

Why? I think it's because Protoss players are better.

Before you rush to downvote and flame, I'm not talking about mechanics, macro, micro, mini-map awareness, etc. I'm talking about the capacity to generate new and innovative builds as a community.

I feel lucky to have picked a race that happens to be played by guys like sOs, MC, Day9, Parting, Artosis, Petit Drogo, Trap and even an unknown like Max Pax (and so many others I've left out). They aren't whiners, but rather, they all have made massive creative contributions to how Protoss is played at one time or another. Then there's guys like Gemini, distilling and distributing that knowledge to us lower league types.

Can Terran and Zerg players say the same about their community leaders? I'm not so sure. And without the KESPA system, the meta is more volatile than I've ever seen, so having that community helping to solve problems is more important than ever before.

Anyway, I think Protoss will be nerfed at some point. But we've just seen how nerfing Toss can just make them stronger. That only makes sense if there is some other factor at play - which could be something like the types of communities each respective race have cultivated.

Best troll post 2019?
"Nerfing Toss can just make them stronger"
insitelol
Profile Joined August 2012
845 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-05-30 15:46:06
May 30 2019 12:35 GMT
#37
On May 30 2019 20:41 fronkschnonk wrote:
Well, I'm almost always a fan of "let's wait how this develops" in balance questions. But at some point one has to admit due to mere statistics that Protoss probably is somewhat favored.

I like how you tried to put it intelligently with "let it settle" stuff and then followed it with "buuuuut, you know, there is statistics". Nice try. Too bad there is no "statistics". Unless it includes 4 gsl terran titles in a row for korea and undeniable zerg dominance in eu for last couple of years. The only statistics worth mentioning here is the average mmr of terrans, who constantly whine about.. everything, i guess?
Less is more.
DomeGetta
Profile Joined February 2012
480 Posts
May 30 2019 12:41 GMT
#38
On May 30 2019 21:35 insitelol wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 30 2019 20:41 fronkschnonk wrote:
Well, I'm almost always a fan of "let's wait how this develops" in balance questions. But at some point one has to admit due to mere statistics that Protoss probably is somewhat favored.

I like how you tried to put it intelligently with "let it settle" stuff and then followed it with "buuuuut, you know, there is statistics". Nice try. Too bad there is no "statistics". Unless it includes 4 gsl terran titles in a row for korea and undiniable zerg dominance in eu for last couple of years. The only statistics worth mentioning here is the average mmr of terrans, who constantly whine about.. everything, i guess?


Another imbecile stuck on 1 player winning GSL lmao.

Race representation has been P heavy for 1.5 years - it's now at a ridiculous level - you can't hide anymore lmao.

User was warned for this post
deacon.frost
Profile Joined February 2013
Czech Republic12131 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-05-30 12:43:05
May 30 2019 12:41 GMT
#39
On May 30 2019 21:27 DomeGetta wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 30 2019 20:52 deacon.frost wrote:
On May 30 2019 18:33 Z3nith wrote:
On May 30 2019 17:56 deacon.frost wrote:
On May 30 2019 16:06 Veluvian wrote:
Classic is on top. Hurricane defended perfectly against the early zergling rush of Ragnarok. Parting showed us some incredible new strats despite his controversial talking all the time. Those are pure individual successes, no patches victories.
Sorry, but It has been more than two years of terrans winning Code S. If it's not for Classic, I will be extremely happy for Dark to take it all finally. To be honest in lower ladder leagues is bit of different of races balance and the way some pro-s dominate in the scene right now is only in top tier matches. This is an evolution I guess. We used to watch WhiteRa special tactics in WoL era with warp prisms but now pro-s use it like pure magic perfect immortal blink like nobody dared to dream before.

Nobody is against Protoss winning the thing, but after the IEM, GSL ST and this Code S it really doesn't look like the game is in the healthiest stage. Terrans nowehere to be found + Zergs suffering in Korea. This can't be a coincidence tha we just broke the GomTvT record of player balance in the RO8.

It's similar to the BL Infestor thing, Mvp was winning, Terrans were fine (Maru was winning the Code S, Terran is fine)


You can't really use IEM to point to protoss imbalance specifically when most of the top tier terrans were knocked out by Zergs and there was equal representation between Zerg and Protoss from the quarterfinals all the way up to the finals and protoss didn't even win said finals.

But I'm not pointing out Protoss imbalance What I'm saying is - Terran is in a bad place global-wise(IEM, ST, Code S). Zerg is in a bad state in Korea(ST, Code S). Because I don't know if the issue is in the Protoss(e.g. the most cited "op" thing - warp prism pick up range - how does this affect PvT?). IMO the issue is more complicated than "nurf Protoss, Protoss OP" And I don't see the solution(especially for PvT)

On May 30 2019 20:43 DomeGetta wrote:
On May 30 2019 11:09 Xain0n wrote:
On May 30 2019 10:25 waiting2Bbanned wrote:
We have the B-list Trap and Hurricane, the semi-retired Hero and the actual retired Parting in the GSL RO8.
This is what passes nowadays for the 'world absolute best' in SC2 talent, really??

I never imagined I'd say these words, but I really miss David Kim!!

Watching Classic stroll through a string of flawless victories on his way to the trophy is gonna be great! The suspense is killing me LOL

This is just sad..


Classic is the only acceptable Protoss all at once and everyone would be delighted now to see him win a Code S in his last year(after being underrated for his entire career), while herO who is most likely about to retire as well is half-active(low skilled, I guess)?

PartinG actually came back from retirement, he's recovering, while Trap seems eventually on the verge of becoming a top player once that he is free from the towering shades of his teammates. Harry "GentleBreeze" Kane is probably the one who benefits the most from his meta, but he definitely earned his ro8 spot by dispatching Solar and Ragnarok.

The sad thing is the disproportionate amount of whine and Protoss hate.


Annnnnnd this is why no one respects you.

Bury your head in the sand more. Protoss needs a nerf its completely obvious and u over here like "b b b but they all just gods..git good other races....ommmmg protoss has all the spots bb bb b but maru and serral win!?"

You can always ignore him and don't reply to his post


PvT is chrono + late superior late game splash (upgrades + better tech = gg better all in)
For this one you can't just nerf/buff in isolation - more difficult to solve.

PvZ it's clearly the warp prism immortal juggling - needs to go.
Marjory timing also needs to be messed with.

Chrono changes would break PvZ. That's why I want to see a change to Terrans rather than to Protoss.

On May 30 2019 21:35 insitelol wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 30 2019 20:41 fronkschnonk wrote:
Well, I'm almost always a fan of "let's wait how this develops" in balance questions. But at some point one has to admit due to mere statistics that Protoss probably is somewhat favored.

I like how you tried to put it intelligently with "let it settle" stuff and then followed it with "buuuuut, you know, there is statistics". Nice try. Too bad there is no "statistics". Unless it includes 4 gsl terran titles in a row for korea and undiniable zerg dominance in eu for last couple of years. The only statistics worth mentioning here is the average mmr of terrans, who constantly whine about.. everything, i guess?

The last time I saw this type of argumentation was when Zerg was dominating everything with BL infestor but Mvp won some tournaments so everything was fine and the imbalance wasn't there.

C'mon, we have heavy Protoss representation in several tournaments in a row, low Terran representation in several tournaments in a row, kinda low for Zergs too. And we're talking about tournaments with the best players possible.
I imagine France should be able to take this unless Lilbow is busy practicing for Starcraft III. | KadaverBB is my fairy ban mother.
Z3nith
Profile Joined October 2017
485 Posts
May 30 2019 12:45 GMT
#40
On May 30 2019 21:27 DomeGetta wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 30 2019 20:52 deacon.frost wrote:
On May 30 2019 18:33 Z3nith wrote:
On May 30 2019 17:56 deacon.frost wrote:
On May 30 2019 16:06 Veluvian wrote:
Classic is on top. Hurricane defended perfectly against the early zergling rush of Ragnarok. Parting showed us some incredible new strats despite his controversial talking all the time. Those are pure individual successes, no patches victories.
Sorry, but It has been more than two years of terrans winning Code S. If it's not for Classic, I will be extremely happy for Dark to take it all finally. To be honest in lower ladder leagues is bit of different of races balance and the way some pro-s dominate in the scene right now is only in top tier matches. This is an evolution I guess. We used to watch WhiteRa special tactics in WoL era with warp prisms but now pro-s use it like pure magic perfect immortal blink like nobody dared to dream before.

Nobody is against Protoss winning the thing, but after the IEM, GSL ST and this Code S it really doesn't look like the game is in the healthiest stage. Terrans nowehere to be found + Zergs suffering in Korea. This can't be a coincidence tha we just broke the GomTvT record of player balance in the RO8.

It's similar to the BL Infestor thing, Mvp was winning, Terrans were fine (Maru was winning the Code S, Terran is fine)


You can't really use IEM to point to protoss imbalance specifically when most of the top tier terrans were knocked out by Zergs and there was equal representation between Zerg and Protoss from the quarterfinals all the way up to the finals and protoss didn't even win said finals.

But I'm not pointing out Protoss imbalance What I'm saying is - Terran is in a bad place global-wise(IEM, ST, Code S). Zerg is in a bad state in Korea(ST, Code S). Because I don't know if the issue is in the Protoss(e.g. the most cited "op" thing - warp prism pick up range - how does this affect PvT?). IMO the issue is more complicated than "nurf Protoss, Protoss OP" And I don't see the solution(especially for PvT)

On May 30 2019 20:43 DomeGetta wrote:
On May 30 2019 11:09 Xain0n wrote:
On May 30 2019 10:25 waiting2Bbanned wrote:
We have the B-list Trap and Hurricane, the semi-retired Hero and the actual retired Parting in the GSL RO8.
This is what passes nowadays for the 'world absolute best' in SC2 talent, really??

I never imagined I'd say these words, but I really miss David Kim!!

Watching Classic stroll through a string of flawless victories on his way to the trophy is gonna be great! The suspense is killing me LOL

This is just sad..


Classic is the only acceptable Protoss all at once and everyone would be delighted now to see him win a Code S in his last year(after being underrated for his entire career), while herO who is most likely about to retire as well is half-active(low skilled, I guess)?

PartinG actually came back from retirement, he's recovering, while Trap seems eventually on the verge of becoming a top player once that he is free from the towering shades of his teammates. Harry "GentleBreeze" Kane is probably the one who benefits the most from his meta, but he definitely earned his ro8 spot by dispatching Solar and Ragnarok.

The sad thing is the disproportionate amount of whine and Protoss hate.


Annnnnnd this is why no one respects you.

Bury your head in the sand more. Protoss needs a nerf its completely obvious and u over here like "b b b but they all just gods..git good other races....ommmmg protoss has all the spots bb bb b but maru and serral win!?"

You can always ignore him and don't reply to his post


PvT is chrono + late superior late game splash (upgrades + better tech = gg better all in)
For this one you can't just nerf/buff in isolation - more difficult to solve.

PvZ it's clearly the warp prism immortal juggling - needs to go.
Marjory timing also needs to be messed with.


I would say the main problem with chrono is the ability to rush out upgrades and that affects both match ups. It's part of the reason timings are so prevalent in PvZ as the Protoss can get an upgrade lead early on and exploit that. Even a minor nerf would significantly offset this while also meaning that the Protoss economy doesn't get too far ahead of the Terran's which it has a propensity to do at the moment.

I don't think you can nerf the splash of protoss without severely affecting PvZ and so perhaps I would say a buff to Terran would be more useful here. Maybe a unit like the liberator which doesn't see quite as much play in TvZ as far as I'm aware or perhaps a ghost buff which makes it more able to counter the likes of HT.

Maybe rather than nerfing warp prism range, making the warp prism cost perhaps additional gas so that it takes longer to get out and by extension takes immortals longer to get out. This would severely nerf the timing attacks of protoss as, combined with the chrono nerf would make it so that the protoss attack hit later and with less immortals, giving zerg more time to counter it.

However, in response to that you would absolutely need to buff protoss late game. Either through reverting the carrier or buffing the tempest a bit so that skytoss is a somewhat viable composition again. This would give Protoss an incentive to go into the late game rather than the timing attacks they are doing now.
Prev 1 2 3 4 5 Next All
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
Next event in 13h 38m
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft 2
UpATreeSC 215
BRAT_OK 64
Railgan 32
MindelVK 12
StarCraft: Brood War
Calm 2851
Britney 640
ggaemo 208
firebathero 160
Dewaltoss 114
Zeus 79
910 36
Dota 2
qojqva1563
Counter-Strike
fl0m1625
Heroes of the Storm
Liquid`Hasu263
Other Games
Grubby2746
Liquid`RaSZi983
Beastyqt566
tarik_tv442
C9.Mang0287
RotterdaM148
XaKoH 146
Livibee101
SteadfastSC63
CosmosSc2 24
Organizations
Other Games
gamesdonequick2521
StarCraft 2
Blizzard YouTube
StarCraft: Brood War
BSLTrovo
[ Show 15 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• StrangeGG 71
• Reevou 3
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• intothetv
• Kozan
• IndyKCrew
• LaughNgamezSOOP
• Migwel
• sooper7s
StarCraft: Brood War
• Michael_bg 8
• BSLYoutube
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
League of Legends
• Shiphtur324
Other Games
• imaqtpie984
Upcoming Events
Replay Cast
13h 38m
CrankTV Team League
15h 38m
Replay Cast
1d 13h
CrankTV Team League
1d 15h
Replay Cast
2 days
RSL Revival
2 days
Clem vs Lambo
Scarlett vs Cure
CranKy Ducklings
2 days
IPSL
2 days
Dragon vs Hawk
RSL Revival
3 days
Classic vs Trap
herO vs SHIN
Sparkling Tuna Cup
3 days
[ Show More ]
IPSL
3 days
Bonyth vs Ret
WardiTV Weekly
4 days
Monday Night Weeklies
4 days
PiGosaur Cup
6 days
The PondCast
6 days
Liquipedia Results

Completed

YSL S3
HSC XXIX
Eternal Conflict S2 E2

Ongoing

IPSL Spring 2026
Acropolis #4
CSL 2026 Summer (S21)
KCM Race Survival 2026 Season 3
RSL Revival: Season 6
CranK Gathers Season 4: BW vs SC2 Team League
SCTL 2026 Spring
Stake Ranked Episode 3
XSE Pro League 2026
IEM Cologne Major 2026
Stake Ranked Episode 2
CS Asia Championships 2026
Asian Champions League 2026
IEM Atlanta 2026
PGL Astana 2026
BLAST Rivals Spring 2026

Upcoming

Escore Tournament S3: W3
ASL S22 SEASON OPEN Day 1
Escore Tournament S3: W4
ASL S22 SEASON OPEN Day 2
Escore Tournament S3: W5
CSLAN 4
Blizzard Classic Cup 2026
HSC XXX
SC4ALL II: StarCraft II
Kung Fu Cup 2026 Grand Finals
Light Tournament 2026
Eternal Conflict S2 Finale
Eternal Conflict S2 E3
Logitech G Connect 2026
StarSeries Fall 2026
FISSURE Playground #5
BLAST Open Fall 2026
Esports World Cup 2026
BLAST Bounty Summer 2026
BLAST Bounty Summer Qual
TLPD

1. ByuN
2. TY
3. Dark
4. Solar
5. Stats
6. Nerchio
7. sOs
8. soO
9. INnoVation
10. Elazer
1. Rain
2. Flash
3. EffOrt
4. Last
5. Bisu
6. Soulkey
7. Mini
8. Sharp
Sidebar Settings...

Advertising | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use | Contact Us

Original banner artwork: Jim Warren
The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2026 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.