Zerg dominates tournaments, Protoss dominates GM ladder. There is no doubt that Terran is significantly underpowered at this point. Im glad that Zerg and Protoss nerf went through but those were just not enough. Widow mine nerf was unneccesary .Lurkers needed more nerf. Disruptors and chargelot a move also need to be addressed real quick.
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Terran is not underpowered, its just way harder to use than Z and P.
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ur an idiot, terran is by far the strongest race, followed by zerg, then protoss. check top gm(1-50)win rates. Dummy
Terran design has huge gaps in various areas
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Units cannot remain autonomous even for a few seconds. Once the positioning is lost, the units become pure meat for slaughter. If the player, especially at the lowest elo, is busy managing the economy for a moment, he loses his units in a few moments. This obviously does not happen when you only have to defend your base with all the tanks placed, but the game as we all know is not made up of defense only.
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The units are too slow, apart from the bio, which becomes the only viable choice even where the enemy deploys the natural counter in the field.
Many units also require you to go into “siege” mode to be effective, which aggravates the situation even more. -
The demand for micro in comparison to the two other races mows the lowest elo, but also the highest. The only time a terran is seen triumphing is when it actually manages to produce a far better game than the opponent. Even where this happens, it is not unusual to see the opponent win if he belongs to P or Z.
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Going back to point three there is no variety. Terrans only have vulnerable ranged units at short range (yes, hellbat are exception but they are too slow).
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Addons add other tasks and complications to an already dire situation. This has a greater impact in the lower elo, where as already mentioned the terran players have on average more apm than their counterparts net of the disparities of constant base apm due to the production mechanics (based on the matches master+ I see that the protoss produce an average 5-10 % less, zerg 5% more than terrans)
Ultimately, to me as a player who has ranged from bronze to platinum, the race always gives me the feeling of handling a very delicate crystal glass, but at the same time heavy and extremely bulky
I understand that the game must be balanced for the highest ranks, but I also understand that as with the protoss and the zerg, adopting a less punitive / elo-reliant design could have been an appropriate choice: there were 2 expansions after wings of liberty, and in the pro matches we always see the usual MMM go in the face of his natural counter
That would not be a terrible problem if the game was intended for infallible computers, but is intended for players with limited potential, subject to fatigue and fallibility; as well as heterogeneous characteristics.
No.
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Terran is the strongest race.
Best defence, best harassment, best ultra lategame. Cheapest and most effective units.
Jack of all Trades Race.
If you take a Terran, Protoss and Zerg player, all with exactly the same level of skill, Terran will have the highest MMR by far, than Toss, than Zerg.
You cant even compare Winrates because a 4k MMR Terran is far less skilled as Zerg and Toss at 4k thus making Winrate statistic useless.
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No, no… no.
Terran race is underpowered.
Terran players, in average, produce more apm than their protoss and zerg counterparts net of the apm base difference due to production mechanics (therefore a silver or gold terran will produce more apm than silver / gold protoss or zerg compared to the gap of a gm terran with the others two races in gm).
APM isnt an Indicator for skill.
Holding Q to queue some Marines is also APM and it has nothing to do with Skill, same goes for stutterstep etc.
You have not red my previous message. Read again, carefully.
Terran definitely isn’t underpowered - but they rely on timings because their production can be out attrition’d if they try and macro for the late game. Plus their late game comps are insanely expensive and require significant investment into polar opposite tech paths which makes it unrealistic for the Terran to get Thor BC Lib.
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I wonder what race he plays
I wonder what is his main race…
What could his main race be???
Terran is at least balanced
You have the 120hp marauder, the cyclone, and good air units
Every race is balanced