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#7: soO - Greatest Players of All Time - Page 2

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spirit76
Profile Joined February 2011
25 Posts
January 24 2024 08:13 GMT
#21
On January 24 2024 17:08 Charoisaur wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 24 2024 17:05 tigera6 wrote:
On January 24 2024 16:40 yht9657 wrote:
So... Maru Serral Rogue Inno Dark Zest are locked in top 6 right?

Serral Inno Maru Rogue are 100% lock imo, Dark-Zest-Stats will be fighting for 2 slots, but I think Dark is favored to be in it with a world title.

Considering Mizenhauer values winning a lot in a short amount of time highly, Mvp will also be there



MVP has to be on this list!
MC to me is also top ten, he changed the way protoss is played and he still has the record for more gsl for a protoss player.
soO doesnt belong in the top 10.
Edpayasugo
Profile Joined April 2013
United Kingdom2216 Posts
January 24 2024 08:32 GMT
#22
I think soO > sOs is fair
FlaSh MMA INnoVation FanTaSy MKP TY Ryung | soO Dark Rogue | HuK PartinG Stork State
Pavel Nedved
Profile Joined April 2015
8 Posts
Last Edited: 2024-01-24 09:31:31
January 24 2024 09:31 GMT
#23
1.Serral
2.Maru
3.Rogue
4.Innovation
5.Dark
6.TY
7.herO
8.Zest
9.SoO
10.MVP
Fango
Profile Joined July 2016
United Kingdom8987 Posts
January 24 2024 09:32 GMT
#24
I mentioned this in a previous thread, but soO is fewer than 10 games away from being a bonjwa and potential GOAT. You can't be that close to perfection and not fall in at least the top 10.

He's the best midgame zerg, and arguably the best ZvZ, of all time. Making 4 GSL finals in a row, in an era where no one else even made back to back ro4s, is one of the biggest achievements in the games history. He was a better starleague player than anyone else except Maru.

Some people only care about trophies, but if you care about achievements in any broader sense, he deserves the spot.
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 Ireland26222 Posts
January 24 2024 09:45 GMT
#25
What a player, what a write-up
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Sorusaba
Profile Joined October 2017
294 Posts
January 24 2024 09:48 GMT
#26
"When I was down 0-2, I just thought to myself, god- it's happening again. Maybe this is the limit of my skill? Maybe this is it? But then I thought, let me show everything that I have."

Yeah, soO deserves it.
MJG
Profile Joined May 2018
United Kingdom1373 Posts
January 24 2024 11:20 GMT
#27
Surely it would've been more fitting for soO to be #2 on the list?



Definitely deserves a place. Getting to the finals so many times is a sign of great talent, even if he didn't get over the line.
puking up frothing vitriolic sarcastic spittle
Locutus_
Profile Joined August 2023
Brazil65 Posts
January 24 2024 12:18 GMT
#28
Serral / Maru / Rogue / MvP / Dark / Zest / Innovation... One of those is out then.

Its Zest or Dark. Hard Call.

I think Zest is out though.
Comedy
Profile Joined March 2016
466 Posts
January 24 2024 12:25 GMT
#29
I think it's easy let mvp out at this point. He was only dominant for 2 years or so, and he still lost a ton in foreign tournaments etc. Just won a bunch of gsl's.
RPR_Tempest
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Australia7798 Posts
January 24 2024 13:35 GMT
#30
On January 24 2024 21:25 Comedy wrote:
I think it's easy let mvp out at this point. He was only dominant for 2 years or so, and he still lost a ton in foreign tournaments etc. Just won a bunch of gsl's.

Instead of posting this it would have been more honest for you to say "I never watched Mvp play and I am misinformed about his greatness."

Read TL's article on him from the 2015 GOAT list and maybe you will understand.


4 GSLs, IEM, WCG, MLG, Blizzcon in 2 years is genuinely insane and also being such an innovator in terms of builds.
Soundwave, Zerg player from Canberra, Australia. @SoundwaveSC
Cricketer12
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
United States13990 Posts
January 24 2024 15:38 GMT
#31
On January 24 2024 16:44 Charoisaur wrote:
Then Stats should also be there considering he has more 2nd places than soO including in 3 world championships and actually won 2 starleagues

On the other hand, look at who made the list
Chain 1 Arthalion Chain 2 Urgula Chain 3 Mululu Chain 4 Lukias
Mizenhauer
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
United States1906 Posts
January 24 2024 15:41 GMT
#32
On January 25 2024 00:38 Cricketer12 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 24 2024 16:44 Charoisaur wrote:
Then Stats should also be there considering he has more 2nd places than soO including in 3 world championships and actually won 2 starleagues

On the other hand, look at who made the list


You already turned on Stats by gushing about other Protoss players.
┗|∵|┓Second Place in LB 28, Third Place in LB 29 and Destined to Be a Kong
Poopi
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France12906 Posts
January 24 2024 16:09 GMT
#33
Given how dominant mvp was (albeit there were far more GSL back then) in a short period of time, he should still be placed pretty well. What’s impressive about mvp was his dismantling of MKP: MarineKing was kind of a ladder god similarly to Bomber, and he had very good results versus the other GSL players, be it in GSL or MLG (his rivalry vs DRG was awesome, before the BL/infestor era), but he was completely hopeless vs mvp.

That’s also why MMA beating mvp and achieving various other great things (like winning a premier in every extension) was kind of a big thing in WoL
WriterMaru
Fango
Profile Joined July 2016
United Kingdom8987 Posts
Last Edited: 2024-01-24 16:20:41
January 24 2024 16:20 GMT
#34
No chance Mvp doesn't make the list.

I think the top 6 was always set and should be pretty consistent across any GOAT list. soO and sOs falling in after makes sense and they have have something that's set them apart from the next tier.

But beyond that for #9-20 I'd go Stats, Dark, TY, Rain, NesTea, Classic, MC, Taeja, Reynor, Trap, CJ herO, MMA, or something like that. You can really jig all those guys however you want without it being particularly outlandish
Zest, sOs, PartinG, Dark, and Maru are the real champs. ROOT_herO is overrated. Snute, Serral, and Scarlett are the foreigner GOATs
BlueStar
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
Bulgaria1168 Posts
January 24 2024 16:21 GMT
#35
soO above $O$ is simply ridiculous1
lol
Leader of the Bulgarian National SCBW/SC2 team and team pSi.SCBW/SC2
TossHeroes
Profile Joined February 2022
281 Posts
Last Edited: 2024-01-24 17:17:04
January 24 2024 17:16 GMT
#36
On January 24 2024 12:02 serralbest wrote:
There are also rankings in China
10.MVP
9.Rain
8.hero
7.rogue
6.zest
5.stats
4.dark
3.innovation
2.maru
1.serral


Rogue pretty low
Move him to the 2nd spot and everything looks pretty good
yubo56
Profile Joined May 2014
690 Posts
Last Edited: 2024-01-24 17:27:54
January 24 2024 17:25 GMT
#37
On January 25 2024 02:16 TossHeroes wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 24 2024 12:02 serralbest wrote:
There are also rankings in China
10.MVP
9.Rain
8.hero
7.rogue
6.zest
5.stats
4.dark
3.innovation
2.maru
1.serral


Rogue pretty low
Move him to the 2nd spot and everything looks pretty good

yeah I agree, this is an incredibly hot take if Rogue got 7th haha, with 4 GSLs and 3 WCs

I agree with the rest of the people that it seems like the remaining six must be maru rogue serral inno mvp zest (roughly), so it looks like Dark is out And fair enough, soO did have a much more dominant peak (even if it was without golds) than Dark, and Dark never really managed to string together anything resembling a reign of dominance. He's probably the single greatest "good player of the game", in that his play passes every eye test, but he simply never got the results to match. I think that stats and trap are kinda in that bucket too though, so maybe not single greatest haha.

Though I do think that mvp's reign at the top is kinda short, at only two years, and his "four GSLs" are boosted by the number of GSLs, he won 4/17 GSLs in a 1yr4mo spread... I wonder if there's any chance his relative lack of longevity kicks him out?

But of course, he is part of THE sc2 experience for most longtime fans, so if we're making a list of the greatest players of all time (and not just the best / most dominant players), that X factor probably keeps him in the list.
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tigera6
Profile Joined March 2021
3444 Posts
Last Edited: 2024-01-24 17:37:29
January 24 2024 17:34 GMT
#38
If Rogue didnt have to join the miliary, who to say that he couldnt win another IEM or a couple more GSL. As a Maru fanboy, I felt relieve knowing that Rogue couldnt get to G5L before Maru due to that reason, and Maru must somewhat felt the same as well. Imagine having 4 titles in a row and get to watch the guy slowly creeping up from behind like that.
And imagine if Rogue somehow make it to the IEM Final against Oliveira, it would be a fucking massacre, not a magical fairy-tale, because thats what Rogue does to storyline.
So yeah, anything outside of top 3 is straight-up bad imo, he could might as well be top 1 depending on how we value big time tournament performance.
spirit76
Profile Joined February 2011
25 Posts
January 24 2024 18:48 GMT
#39
On January 24 2024 22:35 RPR_Tempest wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 24 2024 21:25 Comedy wrote:
I think it's easy let mvp out at this point. He was only dominant for 2 years or so, and he still lost a ton in foreign tournaments etc. Just won a bunch of gsl's.

Instead of posting this it would have been more honest for you to say "I never watched Mvp play and I am misinformed about his greatness."

Read TL's article on him from the 2015 GOAT list and maybe you will understand.


4 GSLs, IEM, WCG, MLG, Blizzcon in 2 years is genuinely insane and also being such an innovator in terms of builds.



do you have a link? i cant find the article.
spirit76
Profile Joined February 2011
25 Posts
January 24 2024 19:22 GMT
#40
some people dont understand how great MVP was.

its not just about how many championships he won, its also about how dominant he was, how he changed the game, the builds he had, his macro, his micro, how great he was in big important matches, how smart he was, he was ahead of everyone, i was great to see him play back in the day.

sadly his wrist and other injuries prevent him of winning more tournament and his career was cut short.
but even with all those health issues, he was still dominant and doing crazy things.
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