Ilyes "Stephano" Satouri is the star of the 14th episode of my 'Grilled' interview feature.
Some of the topics discussed: -How good he was back during his 70-3 ladder streak. -If Stephano's career would have been drastically different had he not won IPL3 -The tournament which stands out as the most perfect StarCraft of his career. -The tournament he felt he should have won but didn't. -Why ZvZ continues to be his weakness. -How he, hypothetically, thinks he would do in GSL Code S if he competed there. -His thoughts on VortiX, NesTea, MaNa and viOLet. -The foreigner who is the best in each of the following categories: best mechanics, smartest, best under pressure and best at huge comebacks.
If other Zergs copied Stephano's style:
Everybody is using it, since quite a long time. Well, against Terran especially, everyone goes infestor and ultralisk. Against Protoss, like at least some point, everyone was going the 12 minutes max roaches. Now it's kind of like pointless to do it anymore.
Talking about what he is good at in the game:
"I would say maybe the map control, like I look a lot to the mini-map. I can spot everything on the mini-map, I don't have to show it on the screen, so drops don't really work against me. Unique positioning, most of the time I always take perfect fights. Especially against Terran, I don't have to circle them."
On not liking to take risks:
"I really don't like to take risks, basically I know I'm better than them, so if I play safe and good and get into the late-game I know I can win. That's where I need to get, the late game, but it doesn't really happen a lot to me, again cos they play very random and I can get surprised a lot."
On patch-zergs:
"[...] the fact that so many Zerg players got better, proves there is a 'patch-zerg' thing. I don't want to name anybody, there is a lot, everyone knows it."
The 45m26s video interview can be watched at Team Acer.
Even if patch-zergs are a thing, the fact the community uses it to trash every decent zerg result is what's awful, even sans infestors (which is the much bigger issue anyway compared to some queen range increase).
On November 28 2012 06:01 PiQLiQ wrote: Life is about taking risks sometimes
He does take a lot
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I think that comment about patch-zergs could tarnish the scene though since there are clearly some zergs that are just plain good at tearing the others apart.
On November 28 2012 05:56 Xpace wrote: That patchzerg comment is priceless. Best foreigner pro in Starcraft 2 history, hero of the foreigners, says there's a lot of them!
He probably prefers it when zerg is weak. So only high skilled zergs like himself can win games.
On November 28 2012 05:56 Xpace wrote: That patchzerg comment is priceless. Best foreigner pro in Starcraft 2 history, hero of the foreigners, says there's a lot of them!
He probably prefers it when zerg is weak. So only high skilled zergs like himself can win games.
He wants zerg to be nerfed so when he quits, nobody will be able to overcome his results and so he will stay the best foreign zerg until the end of time. Evil and Genius plan.
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Stephano" Satouri is the star of the 14th episode of my 'Grilled' interview feature.
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