Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
Stop ignoring my posts!
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Stop ignoring my posts!
Pancakes
hot, steaming, as melted butter slips into the cracks, drizzled with sticky sweet syrup OH GOD
The technology just isn't there man!
Just tried mech in TvT. Blue flame drop, killed all his workers. Somehow he kept producing marauders and suicided them into my siege lines. Scouted all of his base, nothing....
He took my gold at the start of the game.....
Herp scouting; xel naga tower derp.
I won the game though.
He took my gold at the start of the game.....
Herp scouting; xel naga tower derp.
I won the game though.
Youre OP!
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
Blizzard:
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
Cuz he is the most popular foreigner besides maybe idra :/
PhoenixDark
Banned
He's more popular than Idra, who has completely fallen off.
Best foreigner on the planet.
I know he's really popular but I don't even see Korean streamers pulling that many.
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
If idra wants he could pull that many. He just has to say shit
Koreans dont pull that much in general.
PhoenixDark
Banned
Stephano also has lots of viewers because he has an almost attractive androgynous look. Girls like him, some guys might like him too. I know I do
Jesus Christ....
He's playing on NA? We need Panda to snipe him.
PhoenixDark
Banned
lmao
Don't Scout, Build Lings. gonna try that tonight!
Don't Scout, Build Lings. gonna try that tonight!
Yeah i think its a new account. He said he wants to get to 40-0.
PhoenixDark
Banned
Part of Idra's problem is his refusal to change his play when the metagame calls for it. It took him ages to move from Roach/Corrupter to any Infestor play (even before the Infestor nerfs), and instead spent his time complaining about the matchup.
When I see DRG or Stephano making ZvP look straight up silly, I can't help but shake my head that Idra is still losing to the same 6 gate timings, proxy pylons taking out third expansions, etc that he's been losing against for more than a year.
Initially I figured he'd do relatively well this year, ie placing decently in some MLGs or getting far in a European tournament. But considering he simply cannot beat protoss, I doubt he'll win much of anything this year.
When I see DRG or Stephano making ZvP look straight up silly, I can't help but shake my head that Idra is still losing to the same 6 gate timings, proxy pylons taking out third expansions, etc that he's been losing against for more than a year.
Initially I figured he'd do relatively well this year, ie placing decently in some MLGs or getting far in a European tournament. But considering he simply cannot beat protoss, I doubt he'll win much of anything this year.
TheThunder
Member
He's next in line of "an overrated foreigner"
PhoenixDark
Banned
Remember when Idra said Stephano was a gimmick player who had been figured out (by MVP), and would fade away? yup
But Stephano actually wins things.
PhoenixDark
Banned
well he was right about that!
Idra has always been a whiney idiot. In Broodwar he played Terran and bitched about Protoss being imbalanced. In Broodwar, Terrans won almost every tournament and Protoss won the fewest, but that doesn't matter to Idra because his mindset is that he is never at fault, the game is simply broken.
In SC2 Protoss is once again the weakest race by tournament results but Idra is complaining about balance again.
In SC2 Protoss is once again the weakest race by tournament results but Idra is complaining about balance again.
No he wasn't right. Nestea has 3 GSL championships including a flawless victory. Nestea had been in EVERY season of Code S and is the only player other than NaDa to do that. Nestea also reached at least the Ro16 every time IIRC. He is by far the most consistent and successful Zerg. He's been showing some weakness lately but he still won his Code A match the day after flying back from MLG WA and requalified for Code S.
MarineKing has always been a top 3 Terran but also somehow underrated.
He gets a lot of silvers because he's good enough to keep making it to the finals. Getting a bunch of 2nd places is much harder than getting a single 1st place because it's harder to be consistent than streaky.
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
I can stream me browsing the web
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
DO IT!
PhoenixDark
Banned
I'm joking, although I still believe Nestea has shown an inability to deal with the Terran metagame changes. I certainly believe part of it is a problem with balance, but there are zergs out there who can effectively shut down Terran abuse.
Idra is going to prove training in Korea doesn't mean much if you aren't invested in truly getting better. He's got very good mechanics, great macro, good micro etc....but just seems unable to handle certain things. His mentality seems to be "I have 4 base, you have 3 base, I have more stuff. I should win" but that just isn't the case in ZvP.
You never see Idra doing 3 base Roach rushes, which is basically a zerg timing attack, or any other aggressive stuff to be honest.
He's fallen far in terms of the foreigner scene. Huk, Naniwa, Sen, Stephano, etc are all better. I'd imagine Nerchio is better too
I personally think the "Idra's macro is so great" is an exaggeration. I don't think his macro is any better than a typical Korean Zerg. His decision making is far worse though.
Idra has awful unit control, it's like he doesn't even know how to attack, probably because he thinks the game should be a no rush 20 and he should win by simply starving out his enemy, Thorzain style. He jokes about Protoss or Terran being 1-a races but that's exactly how he plays Zerg and he loses to Protoss and Terran players who micro.
Non-aggressive players like Idra and Thorzain will never achieve the highest level of success because they never control the pace of the game. When you play a top Korean, he's always in your face so you can't do what you want, throwing you off and forcing you into mistakes that he will capitalize on to crush you.
Idra has awful unit control, it's like he doesn't even know how to attack, probably because he thinks the game should be a no rush 20 and he should win by simply starving out his enemy, Thorzain style. He jokes about Protoss or Terran being 1-a races but that's exactly how he plays Zerg and he loses to Protoss and Terran players who micro.
Non-aggressive players like Idra and Thorzain will never achieve the highest level of success because they never control the pace of the game. When you play a top Korean, he's always in your face so you can't do what you want, throwing you off and forcing you into mistakes that he will capitalize on to crush you.
OrangeYouGlad
Banned
I'll make it meta by restreaming his stream. Much more intense.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
I'll watch both streams at the same time.
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
Competitive Web Browsing. Im battling a teenage girl on who can browse the web the best.
Yeah, so eliminating lag (potentially) and improving gameplay experience for LAN-like settings is worthless now, right?
Any improvement is an improvement over a model that already works
I am not ignoring anyone on GAF
I am just lazy to check back o_o EDIT: Thanks, I see the link now.
Mcrae such a hacker!
you didnt know? i picked up a side gig working for blizzard