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aringadingding
Profile Joined September 2010
481 Posts
August 17 2019 19:45 GMT
#81
Sigh... :/
Venika
Profile Joined October 2010
Croatia2 Posts
August 17 2019 19:51 GMT
#82
Whiners, just play zerg if it's so easy to win. There is so much money to earn, and by the looks of it, it's easy money if you play zerg and make some infestors, right?

Anc13nt
Profile Blog Joined October 2017
1557 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-08-17 19:56:31
August 17 2019 19:53 GMT
#83
I hope Elazer wins this one.

Honestly, I think the balance is ok but zerg definitely is the best in late game. Feels to me like the room for error is a lot smaller for the other races during late game. What Morbidius said about how they are trying to bring back pretty bad metas I think is a good point. I don't know why they would want to buff nydus, immortal push and Broodlord+Infestor. That even sounds like a recipe for disaster.

That said, I think the tournament has shown that the foreign scene has improved a lot, even though I do believe that this is an outlier overall.
BaneRiders
Profile Joined August 2013
Sweden3630 Posts
August 17 2019 20:00 GMT
#84
On August 18 2019 04:28 Latr02 wrote:
Welp glad I was on vacation this week and missed this whole tournament.


Big korean fanboi, eh?
Earth, Water, Air and Protoss!
rasi86
Profile Joined July 2019
44 Posts
August 17 2019 20:22 GMT
#85
On August 18 2019 04:37 MockHamill wrote:
The game is mostly balanced, terran is just slightly too weak in early mid game in TvP and Zerg is slightly too strong in the late game.

But I think we the coming patch with:
1. Nerfed infested terrans
2. Improved stim timing
3. Improved late game EMP
4. Slightly nerfed warp prisms.

The game will be close to balanced.


Only gglord nerf and winfestor further nerf needed. then I agree
Zerg is OP as hell. Blizzard, stop nerfing Toss!
WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland27201 Posts
August 17 2019 20:30 GMT
#86
The salt in this thread is fucking insane, does anyone actually like this game outside of masochism?
'You'll always be the cuddly marsupial of my heart, despite the inherent flaws of your ancestry' - Squat
atira_sc2
Profile Joined April 2019
10 Posts
August 17 2019 20:38 GMT
#87
can't tell if this is 2012 or 2019
Psychobabas
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
2531 Posts
August 17 2019 20:39 GMT
#88
Go EU!
tigon_ridge
Profile Joined March 2019
482 Posts
August 17 2019 20:58 GMT
#89
If zerg can survive protoss's early and mid-game, zerg deserves to have a lategame advantage. That said, the current advantage is slightly a bit too much, but that's going to be addressed by the next patch. Versus terran, the early and mid-game is a bit less difficult to survive for zerg, so zerg's lategame advantage is currently even more unwarranted than in ZvP. That, too, will be addressed.

At the highest level of competition, early and mid-game protoss is stupidly strong, which is why despite all of this anti-zerg balance whine, protoss has been enjoying the most tournament success, overall, out of all 3 races. Even in this tournament, protoss was over-represented in the quarter and semi-finals. Yet, somehow, all the of the balance whine is being focused entirely on zerg.
Anc13nt
Profile Blog Joined October 2017
1557 Posts
August 17 2019 21:03 GMT
#90
On August 18 2019 05:58 tigon_ridge wrote:
If zerg can survive protoss's early and mid-game, zerg deserves to have a lategame advantage. That said, the current advantage is slightly a bit too much, but that's going to be addressed by the next patch. Versus terran, the early and mid-game is a bit less difficult to survive for zerg, so zerg's lategame advantage is currently even more unwarranted than in ZvP. That, too, will be addressed.

At the highest level of competition, early and mid-game protoss is stupidly strong, which is why despite all of this anti-zerg balance whine, protoss has been enjoying the most tournament success, overall, out of all 3 races. Even in this tournament, protoss was over-represented in the quarter and semi-finals. Yet, somehow, all the of the balance whine is being focused entirely on zerg.


fair point. I guess people whine about zerg because Serral makes zerg look op lol.
Rusty253
Profile Joined July 2019
7 Posts
August 17 2019 21:12 GMT
#91
Who would have thought Elazer would make it to the finals. I bet he is overjoyed. The fact that two foreigners beat out all the Koreans is pretty cool. I would love to have seen Maru do better though. Nobody really wanted a mirror match. But Elazer beat Dark, maybe he can beat Serral. That would be something.
tigon_ridge
Profile Joined March 2019
482 Posts
August 17 2019 21:32 GMT
#92
High level ZvZ is one of the most entertaining matchups to watch. It's so fast-paced and action-packed, and can be really complex; perhaps not in unit compositions variety, but certainly decision making.
Die4Ever
Profile Joined August 2010
United States17740 Posts
August 17 2019 21:35 GMT
#93
when Maru abused ravens they were nerfed into the ground so quickly, but now infestors look even worse and it's taking forever to get even a small nerf
"Expert" mods4ever.com
Fango
Profile Joined July 2016
United Kingdom8987 Posts
August 17 2019 21:41 GMT
#94
On August 18 2019 06:35 Die4Ever wrote:
when Maru abused ravens they were nerfed into the ground so quickly, but now infestors look even worse and it's taking forever to get even a small nerf

Also note that it was literally only Maru doing well with terran during that patch. The two tournaments he won with ravens both had him as the only terran in the ro8. Terran was under-represented in every event.
Zest, sOs, PartinG, Dark, and Maru are the real champs. ROOT_herO is overrated. Snute, Serral, and Scarlett are the foreigner GOATs
WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland27201 Posts
August 17 2019 21:41 GMT
#95
On August 18 2019 06:32 tigon_ridge wrote:
High level ZvZ is one of the most entertaining matchups to watch. It's so fast-paced and action-packed, and can be really complex; perhaps not in unit compositions variety, but certainly decision making.

ZvZ is really good these days compared to a lot of SC2 history, PvP is too IMO. It’s a bit weird but there’s a lot of dynamic decision making, it’s not x build vs y build.
'You'll always be the cuddly marsupial of my heart, despite the inherent flaws of your ancestry' - Squat
Die4Ever
Profile Joined August 2010
United States17740 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-08-17 21:44:07
August 17 2019 21:43 GMT
#96
On August 18 2019 06:41 Fango wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 18 2019 06:35 Die4Ever wrote:
when Maru abused ravens they were nerfed into the ground so quickly, but now infestors look even worse and it's taking forever to get even a small nerf

Also note that it was literally only Maru doing well with terran during that patch. The two tournaments he won with ravens both had him as the only terran in the ro8. Terran was under-represented in every event.

Sometimes I wonder if Blizzard is turning a blind eye on purpose
I mean they could've released the balance patch they had before this tournament instead of holding it for no reason
"Expert" mods4ever.com
NotSoHappy
Profile Joined November 2010
445 Posts
August 17 2019 21:50 GMT
#97
Infestor is hard to use below pro level and not every pro uses it in every game that went to late game. If not the infestor zerg would hardly have any answer vs mass air late game army compositions. Slighlty nerfig IT might balance it more but nerfing infestor to the ground would make (AGAIN) zerg late game army laughable. In the current meta post raven nerf&BC buff T shouldn't be complaining while on the other hand P is a little bit worse in the late game although we have seen that it's still doable and developping meta (thanks stats).

Really, can we have longer periods without patches every few months? I really want to see the metagame developping by the players and if something feels broken like mass raven/blink era/whatever else in the past we could see some small adjustments.

My idea for making things better would be reversing HT nerf rather than nerfing infestor.
Balkow
Profile Joined August 2019
16 Posts
August 17 2019 21:52 GMT
#98
On August 18 2019 06:35 Die4Ever wrote:
when Maru abused ravens they were nerfed into the ground so quickly, but now infestors look even worse and it's taking forever to get even a small nerf




thats what i wonder about aswell. he was the only terran in RO8 of both Gsl and WESG of that patch if memory serves me right. meanwhile we have 5ish zergs doing good with infestors. which seems equally broken at the current balance.
terribleplayer1
Profile Joined July 2018
95 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-08-17 22:24:39
August 17 2019 22:23 GMT
#99
Why so much whine about Zerg out of the sudden?

How many of you actually had a ZvZ as a likely final? It was such a longshot for Elazer to make it, and he barely got there, if Zerg was really this imbalanced wouldn't more people be predicting ZvZ?

If we get a ZvZ final in GSL or 5 Zergs in GSL RO8 I think the whine is warranted, but infestors are already getting nerfed and Zerg didn't actually overperform that much.

Now take a good look at map winrates for GSL vs World.

TvZ => 57.1% (14 W 8 L)

ZvP => 69.2% (9 W 4 L) (6 wins by Serral, 2 Losses from Serral)

PvT => 75% ( 16 W 4 L) - Terrans won ZERO matches vs Protoss.


NotSoHappy
Profile Joined November 2010
445 Posts
August 17 2019 22:28 GMT
#100
Please, lol.

Stats vs Maru
Trap vs Heromarine
Classic vs Fanta
Classiv vs Special

you really want to bring any statistics about PvT with these players facing each other?
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