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herO going to milllitary December 10th - Page 4

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Edpayasugo
Profile Joined April 2013
United Kingdom2217 Posts
October 29 2019 19:12 GMT
#61
On October 29 2019 01:07 Nakajin wrote:
Goodbye old friend, you will be dearly missed.

A few of his best moments across the years.

Beating (P)Rain and (Z)soO in back to back ace match vs SKT in the 2011-2012 hybrid proleague s2 playoff, CJ ended up winning the championship and herO stayed CJ ace player until the end of proleague.
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Deifying Kespa by responding to (Z)Stephano "gl hf" in proleague and turning down the automatic victory. It also mark an exception as it is one of the only time where a pause wasn't herO's doing.
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Overcoming (Z)HyuN on his way to the IEM Katowice final (g4 in particular)
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Breaking (Z)Snute immaculate swarm host style with non stop warp prison harrassment
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Beating a not-yet-kong (Z)Dark to finally win his first Korean tournament.
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Stopping (P)Rain on his GSL-SSL unification tour, claiming his second 4-3 victory over the calm archangel with true pvp bullshit. herO would go on to stomp (Z)ByuL to win SSL and finish the year as the no1 seed in Korea, almost 2000 point in front of second place (T)Maru.
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Beating SSL and soon-to-be GSL and GSLvsTW champ (T)INnoVation as well as (T)TY to claim the best tvp in the world and reach his 5th IEM final.
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Not yet done! An underappreciated herO lead TSG to a chinese team championship victory with win over (Z)Solar and (P)Patience culminating into a nail biter final map.
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There are many, many more great games from one the best protoss player SC2 has ever seen. Also fitting that it ended at the hands of (P)Classic, the man who now has eliminated him in his 3 Blizzcon appearances.

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Excellent summary.

Truely one of the greats good luck herO.

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WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland26225 Posts
October 30 2019 00:04 GMT
#62
On October 29 2019 16:44 paddyz wrote:
I only recently realised that herO is the most "special" SC2 player imo.

His intuition in understanding the game, even in unique/rare situations is the most impressive and inspirational thing in SC2 to me. He has the best micro imo too. I loved watching him decicively commit to attacks that could only work with amazing micro and pulling it off. To me, watching him play felt like art more than watching any other.

He was never my favourite player, it was only yesterday when describing the styles of the sc2 players to my gf that I realised how amazing herO really is.

He is the only Protoss in the top 10 for winrate vs Koreans offline this year. He was the highest rated on aliguliac in PvZ when he narrowly lost to Reynor and Classic became the highest rated in PvP after winning vs him. I am sad to see him go out like that, I strongly feel like he deserved to win vs Reynor. Sad.

Best wishes smiling assassin.

It’s always counted against him, that his games are somehow sloppy or whatever. That he so consistently drags the game and his opponent with him into weird territory and then wins is testament to his fantastic Starcraft brain.

He’s been doing it for over half a decade and some people don’t give him the credit he deserves vs other Protoss legends who play more standard like Stats and Classic.
'You'll always be the cuddly marsupial of my heart, despite the inherent flaws of your ancestry' - Squat
ZugzwangSC
Profile Joined October 2019
87 Posts
November 01 2019 13:02 GMT
#63
Sad to lose herO, but man, he gave us some great games in a fantastic career! Even his final series was a great watch, er most of the games anyways.

herO seemed very classy the way he comfortably chatted with Classic following what might be his final elimination.

In terms of post-service comebacks, I really want to pull for Taeja. He has the kind of talent and desire that should be able to find its way in an alien-meta. As others have mentioned though he also has to battle his wrist injury and that might not be something that can be overcome on drive alone. If anything though, that should make him all the more fan-worthy.
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ProFalseIdol
Profile Joined June 2018
70 Posts
November 02 2019 17:48 GMT
#64
His Rivalry against sOs made the most interesting games of all. Glad to have seen those games. Same with Maru v TY.
Psz
Profile Joined April 2011
Hungary52 Posts
November 03 2019 12:03 GMT
#65
The Smiling Assassin will truly be missed. Nobody plays Protoss in a way that makes the opponent want to uninstall the game at the highest levels. Good luck in the military and looking forward to your return!
sneakyfox
Profile Joined January 2017
8216 Posts
December 04 2019 16:06 GMT
#66
"I saw what sneakyfox wrote on TL.net and it made me furious" - PartinG
Harris1st
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Germany7051 Posts
December 04 2019 16:11 GMT
#67


You will be missed
Go Serral! GG EZ for Ence. Flashbang dance FTW
sharkie
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Austria18573 Posts
December 04 2019 16:38 GMT
#68
bye bye herO
stilt
Profile Joined October 2012
France2754 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-12-04 18:09:42
December 04 2019 18:07 GMT
#69
Classic, herO, it's rough for the protoss of Korea...
Who's still here? Trap, Stats, Zest and Parting right ? And only Stats/Trap might be top tier.

edit : ofc he was an amazing player, I'll never forget how much I hated seeing his blink stalkers destroying left and right my favorite zergs in 2015.

On November 03 2019 21:03 Psz wrote:
The Smiling Assassin will truly be missed. Nobody plays Protoss in a way that makes the opponent want to uninstall the game at the highest levels. Good luck in the military and looking forward to your return!


I am pretty sure sOs did, at least, watching his games made me do it
[16thSq] Kuro
Profile Blog Joined April 2014
1217 Posts
December 04 2019 21:14 GMT
#70
On December 05 2019 03:07 stilt wrote:
Classic, herO, it's rough for the protoss of Korea...
Who's still here? Trap, Stats, Zest and Parting right ? And only Stats/Trap might be top tier.

Stats and Zest are same age as herO, so probably will be going soon as well
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