Anyone know how the balance the game out? Do they just buff or nerf one of the races until the grandmasters win at equal percentage with each race?
Terran is designed for hardcore player, hell on earth, have godly multitask and micro or die
Protoss as the easiest race, 80 apm to make GM with
Zerg is in between
I remember the early WOL days when Terran = 60 APM, Zerg = 300 APM, to be on equal footing.
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Producing and commanding smaller units passively inflates your APM to absurd levels. Zerg in particular has the highest APM inflation as a result, and it has nothing to do with how much effort you actually put into the game.
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No - it’s about the best 25-ish players in the world.
The problem with buffing or nerfing a unit is making it easier for other players.
I think that raising the skill cap would be better in most cases.
Take sky toss as an example:
mothership, carriers, a couple voidrays, some archons and some high templars + 2-3 observers and maybe a couple chargelots.
–> All you need to do is a-move + storm and feedback with rapid fire. If I show you how it works and we train for 30 minutes, you will be able to micro this army as good as a diamond player or maybe even as good as a masters player.
Zerg on the other hand has to go for something like broodlord/corruptor/viper/infestor and mass spores with a ton of micro.
Also keep in mind that protoss has to get there - to have this awesome army - and that’s not easy by any means. I’m just saying that once protoss has this army, even master players struggle vs. this.
Pro gamer zergs on the other hand can handle this and make it look easy (like Serral especially). Protoss players llike Stats or Zest on the other hand can’t do that much more than a low GM protoss (you can also do chargelot harrass, position your units better to bait good engagements) and that is a problem.
So everyone in masters and below says that protoss is op and the top level players say that zerg is op.
I think the solution would be to always raise the skill cap if someone reaches it and to make a matchup diverse like TvZ / ZvT.
Also looking at lower leagues would be interesting because we make up the majority of the players / fans / “money force” so breaking a matchup in lower leagues means less fun for a lot of players.
Cannon-rush with shield batteries and proxy immortals + warp prism would be another example that usually doesn’t work on pro level but is extremely strong in lower leagues.
Also PvZ is immortals and archons or a 2 base allin with chargelots or adepts in the mid game most times.
You can get roach/ravager/bane into hive + corruptor/lurker/broodlord every ZvP and you’ll be fine and that’s not diverse.
Here is a video from Lowko that is pretty good imo:
_https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35t3viQwUZ4
–> additional feedback: The creep change seems to be fine and not that much in favour of terran because zergs can defend their creep still. The queen range nerf is a must because libs have -1 range and also tempests I think.
You can always tune down BCs for example but shutting out oracle play or banshee too much makes the game less diverse.
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Like 16 marines and 2 medivacs (18 units, stim, stutterstep(!)) vs. 5 chargelots and 2 high templars (7 units, a-move, storm, feedback).
Or spreading creep, producing drones / zerglings, ravager biles vs. archon/stalker/collossi/carrier.
Correct. 20-chars…
They buff terran until its users stop crying.
Hasn’t happened yet lol.
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especially right now it’s super lolz, some of the most dominance terran has had, and they’re still like “me buffs?”
Nobody knows how the balance team decides on buffs, we get reasoning but no idea how they reach these conclusions, really.
Not that their conclusions are wrong, they just have weird ways of “balancing” the game which has sort of backfired. In 2019 and now, in 2020.
Honestly, the answer to TvP going fast charge and a fast 3rd was becoming meta, Terran were figuring out it was a whole lot like Adept Phoenix; and the answer to that meta was also stop being so excessively aggressive, turtle up and then move out when not being home won’t kill you as Recall exists.