Pool first is safe against cheese, it’s a BO loss against macro because you’re inherently putting yourself behind if you’re not being super aggressive, which Serral wasn’t.
One? There was multiple mistakes that game, not just one. Not the least of which was staying on roach tech for as long as he did.
He knowingly played a slow-ling roach opening into a helion opening with no wall off to deal with it, and did so multiple games vs Clem across both series, and in both series, he got punished for doing exactly what he did.
If you open slow lings to rush a roach opening, you must have a wall off specifically to prevent exactly what happened, from happening. That’s genuinely an unforgivable mistake.
Oh come off it Hallo.
I’m not going to deny that I have my biases - who doesn’t, after all (though I do my best to temper them, despite what you might think) - but Serral wiped the floor with literally every other player he faced except Clem, who was the only person he dropped maps to.
Where Serral is concerned, he seems to have a real mental block when it comes to Clem, especially recently after EWC. His engagements weren’t as clean, his decision making wasn’t as good, his macro wasn’t as on point. Frankly, he looked like a lesser Zerg compared to the Serral we saw in every other series he played.
Just no.
Both of these I still 100% disagree with. Unabductable mothership is bad for the game (though I understand why they did it, I disagree with it - half distance abduct on the MS specifically would be a fair compromise since you can only make one), but because there aren’t any good protoss pro players it will likely stay in the game. Queen nerf was entirely unnecessary and I hope it gets reverted quickly.
I think he’s saying that Clem’s inherent speed gives him an advantage over other Terran players who simply can’t stress Serral’s multitasking as much (outside of maybe Oliviera)
