Stats defeats Solar to win ASUS ROG Summer 2019 - Page 4

On August 06 2019 17:17 ThunderJunk wrote:
Stats is to Sc2 what Bisu was to broodwar when he revolutionized PvZ.

Please don't complain away the very best, most fairly articulated early-midgame PvZ setup there's ever been.

On August 06 2019 23:36 DomeGetta wrote:
Stats vs. Serral was honestly one of the best series Ive watched this year. With the current PvZ and PvT meta its difficult for me to remember when Ive seen a series where the Protoss play impressed me to any degree. Zest vs Elazer at HSC comes to mind with Zests unrelenting perfect execution of harass. This series though blew even that away for me. Stats played so unbelievably well in games 3-5. This is what RTS is supposed to be about. If you can literally brute force out apm your opponent you should win the game, period (Life for example as Zerg (i dare spoke his name) or Maru as T have illustrated this historically beautifully). Non stop harass at multiprong with perfect micro while not missing a beat macroing all the while executing strategically brilliant transitions that threw the god for a loop. We got to see both players pushed to their ceiling with sick highlights like in game 5 when Serral was multiprong hitting the third and natural w SH roach/rav and Stats used his prism from his third to grab 2 immo to juggle into the nat chasing roaches while simultaneously perfectly microing the fight at his third with FF and bile dodges..so fucking epic. Consider that he did this vs. SERRAL - the literal god of defensive Zerg play swatting down KR gods left and right over the last year. Compare that now to watching goblin put his prism in warpmode out of range of queens and spam zealot warpins while right clicking his immortals a few times at 5min in...smh...I will take this 100 out of 100 times over gimmicy all ins or turtle play into deathballs.. MOAR PLS

On August 06 2019 23:36 DomeGetta wrote:
Stats vs. Serral was honestly one of the best series Ive watched this year. With the current PvZ and PvT meta its difficult for me to remember when Ive seen a series where the Protoss play impressed me to any degree. Zest vs Elazer at HSC comes to mind with Zests unrelenting perfect execution of harass. This series though blew even that away for me. Stats played so unbelievably well in games 3-5. This is what RTS is supposed to be about. If you can literally brute force out apm your opponent you should win the game, period (Life for example as Zerg (i dare spoke his name) or Maru as T have illustrated this historically beautifully). Non stop harass at multiprong with perfect micro while not missing a beat macroing all the while executing strategically brilliant transitions that threw the god for a loop. We got to see both players pushed to their ceiling with sick highlights like in game 5 when Serral was multiprong hitting the third and natural w SH roach/rav and Stats used his prism from his third to grab 2 immo to juggle into the nat chasing roaches while simultaneously perfectly microing the fight at his third with FF and bile dodges..so fucking epic. Consider that he did this vs. SERRAL - the literal god of defensive Zerg play swatting down KR gods left and right over the last year. Compare that now to watching goblin put his prism in warpmode out of range of queens and spam zealot warpins while right clicking his immortals a few times at 5min in...smh...I will take this 100 out of 100 times over gimmicy all ins or turtle play into deathballs.. MOAR PLS

On August 07 2019 04:02 Wombat_NI wrote:

I’m really excited to get hold of the replays of that series and rewatch from their respective views for the reasons you described.

I wish Protoss was a bit easier to play in that style, and a bit harder to play in other ways, it’s more enjoyable to watch for me and you see the full range of player skills.

Protoss has a lot of cool tools that require tons of skill to use simultaneously anywhere close to the level Stats showed, sadly they’re also very potent when bringing out the Protoss book of bullshit.

PvZ is potentially in a really good spot of late, Zerg have gotten a lot better vs various timings, so the terrible state the matchup was in a few months ago of games consisting of one all in that either succeeded or failed seems to have been negotiated.

If Protoss can either figure out or get some patch help at dealing well once it goes very late game the matchup will have quite a lot of potential in terms of ‘straight up’ macro games

On August 07 2019 10:51 Duceman wrote:
Strong backbone units like the immortal and Templar?

RIP old colossus tho and 2018 carriers

On August 05 2019 17:10 BlackPride wrote:


Yeah! The first since Classic one GSL Super Tournament just a couple months ago!

On August 07 2019 17:42 StarcraftSquall wrote:


That’s a major in name only, it’s basicall a weekend of chaos among just 16 players. Besides that tourney you have to go back to 2017 to find a bonafide long form tourney Protoss title.

On August 07 2019 17:42 StarcraftSquall wrote:


That’s a major in name only, it’s basicall a weekend of chaos among just 16 players. Besides that tourney you have to go back to 2017 to find a bonafide long form tourney Protoss title.

On August 07 2019 20:10 Z3nith wrote:


I don't understand how you think GSL Super Tournament is less prestigious than ASUS ROG. It has more top tier Koreans and a larger prize pool, compare the ro.16 of last GSL super tournament to the ASUS ROG equivalent.

On August 07 2019 13:55 BerserkSword wrote:


The immortal and templar are specialists

Immortals are anti armored ground units

High emplars are for their AOE spells

Protoss has no unit like marine, or hydralisk - or even thor or BC (carrier is a flying trash can now)