So? Who cares? Byun switched from protoss to terran and tlo from terran to zerg DRG from protoss to zerg.
Still doesnt matter to the bigger picture of zerg having the most earnings overall and protoss and terran are earning mostly the same.
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How many time passed from his switch to the point he dominated?, the switch argument would make sense if the benefit was inmediate, but I’m not sure he started dominating fast, except right at the beginning of the game for obvious reasons, nobody has dominated from being just a ladder hero, every good player played for many time until they started dominating, for example,Serral was never a God, he was that ladder warrior.
The only thing that had the inmediate effect of earning more, was playing on NA before region lock.
And as aditional fun fact, Z was always the best race, for many years the only race that could beat top players from KR was Z.Stats were clear, playing Z was an advantage. Nowadays the gap is close and every race can beat the top KR players, even T, which was the worse race at dealing against them.
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I promised myself to stop posting on here, but this is so monumentally stupid I just had to log in again. How can you with (what I am assuming to be) a straight face post these numbers? In case you haven’t realized, the matches played in 2017-18-19 were not played on the patch that came out at the end of 2020. Obviously zerg will have the most win money when they were generally agreed upon to be OP as hell for most of the game’s history. I’m not even agreeing with the OP, just wanted to clarify what a dumb thing it is to post these numbers.
So is SC2 terribly balanced or balanced terribly?
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If you would have been able to read and understand you would have known that i was replying to thrasher and he replied to someone saying:
“Like it or not, if Protoss was advantaged, all the people that have their livelihoods dependent on the game, would have switched to Protoss, because it would give them the best shot at earning cash prizes.”
To which he replied:
“Neeb and Classic say HELLO!”
Which means he wanted to say that protoss was op WAY BEFORE the current patch.
In short: i wasnt replying to the op. I was replying to thrasher.
And now log off forever.
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I will heed your advice
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Thank you very much.
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2014 he’s playing terran, being a ro32 gatekeeper and then in 2016 he’s the first foreigner to win a tournament on Korean soil.
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Those numbers tell us that issues are not pattch-related. The narrative “Protoss is OP” is easily countered by the numbers provided.
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So not instant, I’m reading liquipedia now and it says Neeb switched in Apr 2015, that Kespa tournament was almost 1,5 years later. Even Whinemarine said that if he had to switch races (to protoss) it would take a lot of time, at least one year, until he reached enough level to be competitive, it’s not as easy as changing races and start winning titles, there is effort and training behind the results.
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you mean embarrassing.
Because he had only one TvP in entire playoff, and that was against Dns.
Most of the Protosses were taken out by Zergs.
As for group stage, Clem 0 2 GunGFuBanDa
nuff said
PS. Also he got lucky that Serral was taken out via ZvZs
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The answer is:
SC2 is so well balanced, that it plays very tame and when you lose, you feel absolutely powerless, but when you win, you feel you barely scrapped that victory.
The issue with SC2, is that it is too balanced, to the point that abusive stuff has been hugely reduced, over time, and now does not excite the playerbase anymore, as it went from an analogue to chess, to glorified tic-tac-toe.
Every exciting element, because it was abusive and uncompetitive, was balanced into being useful in only a few select scenarios. This in turn made the gameplay feel both stale and oppressive.
You know who else is imbalanced? …
YOUR MOM!
Wrong, proxy voids are example of such abusive stuff
Go no further than soul-hellraiser game in DH
Yeah yeah…and what about maru? He easily Beat some protoss only to lose to simple roach pushes. Terran so weak amirite? It was his gsl to lose.
Lets face it. The game is pretty balanced right now.
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It very much is.
Not so much as Brood War, but Starcraft 2 is a balanced game, now, and the most balanced it has EVER been.
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If protoss is so op why dont they earn much more ? 
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Sigh
This has been explained several times but I’ll do it again. The top Protoss players are MILES behind the top Terran and zerg in term of skill (because the race is easy, they don’t evolve and get better, they stay stale) but the race is so op now that those lesser skilled player are winning almost every tournament (trap is a great exemple, used to be a one trick abuser of PvT and now he abuses in all match up)
LOL, the five minute of hate of this worm is so juicy.
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