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NotSupporting
Profile Joined February 2008
Sweden1998 Posts
June 16 2008 23:16 GMT
#21
Terran, for the same reasons everyone else has said.
Conquest101
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
United States1395 Posts
June 16 2008 23:24 GMT
#22
Protoss, every game. Perfectly microed probes, 0 deceleration > all
Solarian
Profile Joined June 2008
United States100 Posts
June 16 2008 23:46 GMT
#23
On June 17 2008 08:16 mmmf[r]ogs wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 17 2008 07:53 Leath wrote:
perfect scv rush every game o.o


That wouldn't work, perfectly microed probes/drones > perfectly microed scvs

damn their range and rechargable hp/shields


SCV's can repair faster than shields/hp recharge.

Two or three SCV's work to repair each other and kill the enemy's nexus/hatchery/CC while whatever other SCV's there are work to force probes/drones to fight back, run, or be destroyed.
Hi.
Tropics
Profile Joined August 2007
United Kingdom1132 Posts
June 16 2008 23:56 GMT
#24
Zerg. Flawlessly microed zerglings, lurkers, perfect swarms, perfect plagues, every overlord constantly picking up weak units and redropping them etc.

Mostly it's the defilers that do it
InfeSteD
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States4658 Posts
June 17 2008 00:01 GMT
#25
Once again, SC would be perfect.

Because If all units microed perfect, then it's still even I guess O_O
w/e
Ra.Xor.2
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States1784 Posts
June 17 2008 00:12 GMT
#26
On June 17 2008 09:01 InfesTeD]i[ wrote:
Once again, SC would be perfect.

Because If all units microed perfect, then it's still even I guess O_O


You said it. But observers>all :p
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fusionsdf
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada15390 Posts
June 17 2008 00:16 GMT
#27
Terran

terran has the most potential, its just extremely hard to get to that level
SKT_Best: "I actually chose Protoss because it was so hard for me to defeat Protoss as a Terran. When I first started Brood War, my main race was Terran."
G5
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
United States2906 Posts
June 17 2008 00:22 GMT
#28
terran easilly

there is a reason P and Z need more expos then the T

its because there units kill at a much higher ratio then P and Z. if it wern't for there lack of mobility, P and Z would never beat them.
jkillashark
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
United States5262 Posts
June 17 2008 00:24 GMT
#29
On June 17 2008 08:56 Tropics wrote:
Zerg. Flawlessly microed zerglings, lurkers, perfect swarms, perfect plagues, every overlord constantly picking up weak units and redropping them etc.

Mostly it's the defilers that do it


The thing is, flawlessly microed marines own flawlessly microed zerglings and lurkers. Flawlessly microed marines will run away from flawlessly cast swarms and plagues will be kept to a minimum.
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HamerD
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United Kingdom1922 Posts
June 17 2008 00:31 GMT
#30
I think one of the scariest things would be perfect medic micro to heal all marines amazingly. Also, running mechs from the battle at 1 red health, to get repaired and then return to the battle
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G5
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
United States2906 Posts
June 17 2008 00:34 GMT
#31
even my terran friends like artosis and shit say that if the game was played perfectly, terran would be the best easilly. and they are the most self-hating players i've ever seen, always talking about how imba p and z are and how there are no terran maps and how hard terran is etc...

terran is the best race in raw form without a doubt. just the fact that they r so versatile on maps too make them even more deadly.
Cascade
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
Australia5405 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-06-17 00:50:16
June 17 2008 00:36 GMT
#32
On June 17 2008 08:24 Conquest101 wrote:
Protoss, every game. Perfectly microed probes, 0 deceleration > all


This is it for normal maps I think. At least terran is out of the question. Probe/drone rush and perfect simultaneous devil probe will kill all scvs immediately. And even if T managed to rush to get out a marine, the drone/probes would just move-shoot them to death before they cuold get many shots of. scvs trying to build bunkers would be deviled quickly as well.

But since the probes would never slow down to a standstill the acceleration wouldnt come into play. Shields recharge quicker than drones heal, but the drones can hunt down probes by perfect move-shoot micro, so once in range of each other, the one getting the upper hand will kill the other worker quite fast. So all in all i dont htink the porbe rush would work vs zerg. I claim that 4 probes cannot beat 6-9 drones, or however many you have by that time, since the probes can be killed by perfect move-shoot.

I think a perfectly microed 9 pool speedlings (all building will die quickly by just staying out of lot/probe range and approaching from all directions) can kill a toss that open with gates. Some sort of forge-first with a wallin and probe block if needed would probably defend this though, so imo, ZVP would at least go beyond lings/lots even with perfect micro.

Possibly a 2 hatch upped hydras would kill everything. cannons would probably not be enough (or would they?), and lots would die without getting a single hit in. I dont really know what toss can do to counter a 2 hatch hydra build actually.
Remember that zerg will cycle damaged hydras perfectly, while cannons stays where they are. And some fast zealot thingy to intercept hte hydra build will not work since drones are faster and will quickly devil-drone and/or move-shoot them to death without taking a single hit from the lots. Maybe if the cannons are up a ramp...

If it'd go to endgame, zerg would probably win since with a few defilers (and no cooldown consume) you can advance and lay out a carpet of swarm/plauge as quick as a defiler can move. Then you can easily corner the toss army somewhere and kill it with crack/ultra/lurk. Storm is an issue, but with queens and spawn broodling that shouldnt be too big a problem. Dont know if DAs could be a problem with mind control and/or feedback...

Same thing with endgame ZvT i think. carpet of swarm/plauge > terran. you would need a few hydras and scourges to defend from irradiate, but that should be ok. Just keep OLs exactly above the defiler to make it impossible for the terran to target them. Or pick them up just before vessels are in range in worst case. Im fairly sure that the outer part of a plauge will outrange irradiate, so the defiler should be able to get a plague of before getti gpicked up by the OL. so vessels shouldnt be a problem. And lurks > bats+medics, so you cant do anything with those. Same goes for mines. And tht is moreor less everything terran has that does damamge unders warm, so.... gg.

omg, that was a long post... well, that's the answer anyways.
Z > all (in theory)
FragKrag
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States11552 Posts
June 17 2008 00:36 GMT
#33
This makes a paradox. Perfectly placed storms would always make the largest amount of marines possible take damage, but perfectly microed marines would never take damage from storms.
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FakeSteve[TPR]
Profile Blog Joined July 2003
Valhalla18444 Posts
June 17 2008 00:46 GMT
#34
theyd still take damage what are you talking about
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0xDEADBEEF
Profile Joined September 2007
Germany1235 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-06-17 00:53:06
June 17 2008 00:49 GMT
#35
The "probes with perfect micro > all" is a good point, but I think it still wouldn't work. If you do a rush with your first 4 probes, you first have to scout, and when you've found him you don't do much damage. Your opponent can get a fast pool with a sunken, or marines, or a zealot (the perfectly microed probes could theoretically kill the zealot without taking damage but it takes far too long... when he's at low HP P will have more zeals already or a goon and then it's over). Basically, your perfectly microed probes can only win the game before the opponent gets his first combat unit. Which is unlikely to happen... if you wait for more than 4 probes you give him even more time for that.
Last Romantic
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
United States20661 Posts
June 17 2008 00:50 GMT
#36
Haven't y'all read the X comic?

perfect multiple moving-shot probes would rape the shit out of scvs.

Drones have a slight range advantage, though, so a 4-drone rush would theoretically win every game.
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fusionsdf
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada15390 Posts
June 17 2008 00:53 GMT
#37
On June 17 2008 09:50 Last Romantic wrote:
Haven't y'all read the X comic?

perfect multiple moving-shot probes would rape the shit out of scvs.

Drones have a slight range advantage, though, so a 4-drone rush would theoretically win every game.


eh? dont probes outrange drones?
SKT_Best: "I actually chose Protoss because it was so hard for me to defeat Protoss as a Terran. When I first started Brood War, my main race was Terran."
Cascade
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
Australia5405 Posts
June 17 2008 00:55 GMT
#38
On June 17 2008 09:50 Last Romantic wrote:
Drones have a slight range advantagegame.


They do??
Ok, that settles that then.
Z > all
0xDEADBEEF
Profile Joined September 2007
Germany1235 Posts
June 17 2008 01:20 GMT
#39
Addon to my last post: of course I'm assuming that you don't do some sort of greedy build, because then the perfect probes would kill you. But if you know you might get rushed by perfectly microed probes, you can get a pool/rax/gate *fast* enough and get a combat unit or sunken out in time, before all your workers die to the probes.
evanthebouncy!
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
United States12796 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-06-17 01:31:22
June 17 2008 01:30 GMT
#40
On June 17 2008 08:24 Conquest101 wrote:
Protoss, every game. Perfectly microed probes, 0 deceleration > all

LOL guy is right! Terran is weak lol 4 probe rush ur screwed.
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