Just watched the GSL finals. LOL

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After watching the GSL finals – wow, what a mockery this game has become for balance. Cure literally just doing all-in’s every game because there’s no other way for terran to beat the protoss, and even one game, he does a 1 base all-in, hero has no idea its coming, and still is able to defend it LOL. evergy overcharge can just give these sentries high templar or batteries an absolute juicing that they don’t need. Not to mention protoss basically gets a maphack with their hallucinated sentry, so they have your playbook whenever they want.

when are they going to nerf this disgusting race and actually bring balance back into the game? zerg and terran winrates against protoss are just pathetic, and even when they’re getting wins it just relies on some cheese or all-in which exploits some timing since going toe-to-toe in a macro game against protoss is like bringing a knife to a gun fight.

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Not only that, Hero takes a fourth many times while trying to defend a 2 base SCV allin. Showtime did something similar – always taking a third & never going 2 base & never building shield batteries. The difference is in the ballpark of 10-15 zealots so if Protoss had an ounce of situational awareness it would be an ez pz f2 amove victory.

That’s the hilarious part of hero taking a fourth while trying to defend an SCV pull. The dude had all the tools, all the information, and somehow manages to pick the wrong answer. People say he’s a “strategical” player and that is absurd. He has some of the worst decision making I have ever seen at that level of play.

Probably never. The balance counsel’s goal was to create close games in the semi/finals for good esports content & don’t care about balance in the slightest. They managed to get some epic clips and that means balance won’t be changed one bit.

This is a form of matchfixing because they are rigging the game rules to ensure protoss players advance regardless of the actual skill of those players. Something similar happens in other entertainment industries where the judges will pick a team to advance and the team that is picked is always the ones the producers think will create more viewership. That’s fine for a cooking show but when it rigs the balance of a video game to be unplayable for 2/3rds of the population it creates obvious problems. If they want to rig balance for professional matches, then they should play a custom modded version in tournaments – they should not be allowed to balance the game as a whole.

This is the top 10 in Grandmaster right now: https://i.imgur.com/CXHdujG.png

80% protoss. Terrans are playing more Protoss than they are Terran. I predicted this would happen about a year in advance by the way. You can’t rig game balance to forcibly equalize a skill gap. If you look at pure first-order effects, like win-rate, you could in theory make it work. But if you add in second-order effects, like how players will quit playing or switch race, and it’s obvious it won’t work: all you will do is make every player switch to protoss, and then every tournament is a PvPfest. The crazy thing is that even with the top 10 in GM is 80% protoss, they still didn’t win Dreamhack. It is 100% a skill issue and a skill issue alone.

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Yep, for an even larger sample size I checked the top 100, and i counted over 50+ protoss in the top 100. 50 percent, a whole 17% higher than its supposed to be, certainly every protoss player is just better and thats why theyre in grandmaster right? /s

Its disgusting how you can have something so imbalanced for so long (you can even see my post history, 2 years ago i was complaining about the EXACT same thing, and yet nothing has been done). Don’t worry though, eventually every Z and T will quit the game, and the protoss will only have each other to play with.

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Generally about 5% of the population plays random at a GM level so the true expected number of toss is (100-5)/3=31.6. That means roughly 18-19% higher than expected.

It makes the protoss want to quit also because everyone cheeses against protoss since standard play is way more work & favors you less the game goes on (toss advantages stack up). This is why SCV pulls are the norm now at high level. PvX becomes super boring for the toss, and all they play is PvP which they hate even more.

When I play vs toss, I do ling floods & proxy hatches or I just leave the game.

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lol
this is so true !!!
but those casters like pig and winter will never admit they are terran-phobic racists
i think they do more harmful to this game than the balance council do as they are influencing public opinion for the balance council to do the harm

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Blink used to be something that would give nerdchills in an opening during WOL and HOTS. Now, the game is so spoonfed and sped up that Blink is literally just handed to the Protoss.

Defend harassment to show skill? Nah, spend 100 minerals and now your opponent is in trouble and you have a whole game anti-harassment building for 100 minerals. No tech needed and it’s literally better than a photon cannon.

The only reason Protosses aren’t winning literally everything is because they are braindead idiots. In a few years time, they will finally realize to survive the SCV/Marine/Tank allin all they have to do is get +1 armor and storm and pop a guardian shield while A-clicking. But that’s too hard. So instead, they take a THIRD and then a FOURTH while seeing it coming.

They can also easily hold these pushes with things like 1-2 gate phoenix. A terran trying to get to a protoss with 2 gate phoenix on a medium map is going to have their push slowed bare minimum by 50% while the phoenix guy picks unit after unit off the backline.

The game has pampered these progamers into playing these boring 4 base at 6 minute macro games to the point where SCV-allins which were ALREADY FIGURED OUT during WOL are working all the time. +1 armor +storm demolishes it. Phoenix play demolishes it. Even just gateway immortal man absolutely manhandles it. And protoss are so dumb, they forgot about the original composition for delaying these pushes call force shield stalker.

Honestly, the game is so crappy right now it’s not even fun winning, which is why I uninstalled. The wins give no dopamine because the game sucks, and the loses hurt bad because you know some mentally ill crossdresser on adderral or some pablo from south america who plays all day is ‘beating you’. Total losers. (I never read replies)

The goofiest part about them losing to these 2 base allins is that they see it coming. They can just stop it, then double expand and take 8 gas and deathball.

It’s also comical how these protoss also choose to mass disruptors which never land vs progamers anyhow. You’ll see even a worlds top protoss like Hero with 6 of them while he’s getting bent over by the Terran with 5 vikings, when he could’ve massed 4 collossus with phoenix support to tank the vikings. All this stuff will be ‘figured out’ in 5 years or so, but it’s pathetic that I’ve figured it out already and I’m just a mid GM toss on EU with no games played (because the game sucks now).

This game sucks (I never read replies)

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Who watches Winter anyway?

I find Winter to be one of the very few casters I don’t like to watch, maybe it is just not my style of humor or casting or both!