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A korean zerg player consumes her daily supply of Terran tears from her vanguished foes!
Rejoice my Brood! We shall overcome! Idra, our Overmind has set in motion the means to evolve and dominate the Terran scum! We will demoralize them! We will PWN them!
DONT READ: IEM RESULTS
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Today, Idra has demonstrated the magic box technique, using 20 mutalisks to take down 5-6 thors at a time and rendering Tarson's army useless. He uses a technique called the magic box that most of you are familiar with.
On August 22 2010 03:45 Qzy wrote:
I'll help you here...
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I'll help you here...
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Fly my pretties!
The magic box makes mutalisk extremely effective against all ground and even against thors, from which the splash damage DOES NOT WORK. Thors will only hit a single muta at a time. I believe this makes the mutalisk ACTUALLY USEFUL as a 100/100 unit.
On August 22 2010 03:43 Jimmy Raynor wrote:
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RAGE At the magic box!
What does this mean for ZvT? Well for one, Terran has to be more careful about putting early pressure on as he will not have the macro to deal with this sort of mutalisk play. It will subsequently become harder for terrans to secure expansions with mass tanks/planetary fortresses. And since Mutas are flying units, chokes do not affect them, being one of the only zerg units that aren't affect by the "terrible terrible splash damage!!" syndrome. I can already imagine the QQ Terran players will generate.
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^ 3xiLe doesn't like this!
On August 22 2010 05:03 3xiLe wrote:
What 99% of players don't understand is that this is a glitch and it will be fixed/nerfed next patch.
For the time being calling terran "IMBA LOL" is retarded, as baneling and muta will be an unbreakable combo.
TvZ was less "broken" before favouring the terran (I never actually believed there was an imbalance, just that zerg players didn't find the gold strategy, this turns out to be it, a glitch...)
Now that it apparently favours the Zerg, which I actually do believe, TvZ actually is "broken."
You can spam as much QQLOL as you want, but just remember, it won't last, it will be patched.
What 99% of players don't understand is that this is a glitch and it will be fixed/nerfed next patch.
For the time being calling terran "IMBA LOL" is retarded, as baneling and muta will be an unbreakable combo.
TvZ was less "broken" before favouring the terran (I never actually believed there was an imbalance, just that zerg players didn't find the gold strategy, this turns out to be it, a glitch...)
Now that it apparently favours the Zerg, which I actually do believe, TvZ actually is "broken."
You can spam as much QQLOL as you want, but just remember, it won't last, it will be patched.
A typical Terran player crying for Mutalisk nerfs
The power of mutalisks now leads to other strategies that zerg already has, little tricks they can use to pull ahead. Since marines are now pretty much the only good AA against muta besides vikings (And since vikings get wtfBBQpwned by mutas when clumped up) this opens up more baneling play. Not just any baneling play, but securing the map with mutalisks and then punishing a player to move out with baneling mines.
The effectiveness of baneling mines, no micro needed! Just set it and forget it! Right click unburrow, they act as spider mines but better! They still explode when killed!
Also the variation of being devastating at expansions using simple set, then detonate skills!
With the combination of these two things, terran players will be hard pressed to take any sort of map control mid or late game with this type of mass mutalisk play
TL;DR:
Where is Terran getting owned?
That poor guy didn't seem to happy.
