It is common knowledge that the terran is extremely overpopulated in the lower level leagues, and its pretty obvious why. Terran because of its mechanics is by far the easiest and most casual player friendly race.
For instance terran is the only race that can safely expand in the main and float to their natural, not having about defensing a building expansion. If they get supply blocked, drop supply. Forget Detection? Scan! forget to build workers? Mules!
Terran players have also had the privilege of being able to go MMM in every match up since WOL. Its why terran players can be broken down into Bio or Mech players. the other races have to understand their whole unit arsenal and cannot do the same thing every game.
Terran units also are very easy to micro. Sure bio can be a little micro intensive, but unless your masters or higher you can just stim A-move for easy wins. Units like the BC, Thor, Hellion, Hellbat, widow mine, liberator, and tank essentially require 0 micro. Most just A-move or click siege, boom done. Sure you might target fire with a tank or two but thats easy when you have nothing else to do.
All of these reasons are why terran players over very overpopulated in the lower leagues, because it attracts the casual play and the noob. People who enjoy employing strategy and thinking play zerg and protoss
Nobody cares about balance in bronze and silver, they make so many mistakes it doesn’t even matter what race they play. It’s from platinum and up that it starts to matter, and it gets worst the higher you go.
Lower league is extremely overpopulated by terran race because they need to be somewhere you know? Terran is too hard for most casual players to break the gold barrier so they end up in bronze-gold leagues. Otherwise where you would place these casuals? In masters league???
I’d say there are more factors than just ease of entry.
Terran is the most familiar to us race, the one to which we can refer as humans, with familiar things like: tanks, helicopters, fighters, soldiers. People like things they know.
WoL is the first campaign a player encounters, and right now it is even free to play (however, I think after Nov 2017 we got more Protoss players, I am not sure).
Terran is also the first race we meet in Tutorial.
I actually don’t know, but I heard Terran was pretty popular in BW.
Ofcourse entry mechanics are the easiest on Bronze-Silver, like continous army production or army composition, what does not determine high play difficulty.
In my view it is a bit difficult to determine correctly all factors that make Terran so popular in low leagues.
Also please keep in mind, if you can’t split as MMM, you die on stage of D3.
Humans are complex beings ^^
Yes but because zerg and protoss actually requires skill and strategy they are able to perform better in the higher leagues. While terrans who have so many crutches and casual mechanics develop bad habits and struggle when they have to play competent players. Once stim A-move or thor A-move no longer works, its off to the forums to complain
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Who also had some background in mathematics/stadistics (probably resolved unsolved mathematic problems in chalkboards while she was working as a janitor at an university) and apparently having enough skill to earn good money in sc2 but didn’t play competitively because that would mean earning less money that at the usual job. The next reveal will be that she bought a shrimp boat and started a business with her mutilated vietnam veteran friend and had some sucess but felt the sea life wasn’t enough so she decided to run across the country for several months until she cleared her mind and decided to studying neuroscience.
I kind of disagree here. Terran is the starter race in tutorial/campaign, that’s why people tend to go for it (bronze/silver maybe gold too).
There’s nothing wrong with going with a standard composition. The problem comes when this T1 standard composition is so broken it can destroy a fleet of T3 air units. When players go bio, they don’t transition. When they see lurkers, brood lords, ultralisks, archon/immortal, colossus, disruptor, even sometimes carriers, they just keep pumping out MMM and expecting to win. And the worst part is, they tend to win by doing so. It’s insane.
Let’s be honest here. Anyone below M2 by today’s standards is not microing bio enough to complain about it. At best, you know how to stutter step, send an extra drop somewhere else, maybe siege some units and forget. At a higher level though, bio is the most micro intensive, probably the most so. It’s actually not that easy, so don’t play it down too much. Of course, the people on the forums that complain about Terran micro are obviously just stim F2 a-movers and just want an easy game. It is very micro intensive though.
As for mech Terran, it’s just siege and forget. It’s even less micro than Protoss or Zerg. It’s mostly just about positioning and turtling. It takes more thinking, but it is not intense by any means.
I disagree here. No one below 4k mmr uses strategy or thinking when they play. After 2 minutes into the game, they make basic but fatal mistakes that would cost them the game against higher level players. In the master league, everyone is at least using their brain to various extents. I don’t think it’s because of race, just that there are better players in all 3 races.
I disagree here.
I have 2 builds per match-up and no build for PvT, and even if I am following builds, I am able to successfully adapt to situation in the game and use opponent’s decisions to my advantage.
Example: I always follow idea of robo colossus fast 3rd macro game in PvT (and actually never play different openings). But when I met Terran who went CC first (not even barracks), I changed into oracle opening and dealt really decent damage with that. (yes, it was before 2nd minute, but I have more mid-game relevant examples, this was just the first I thought about)
Mine MMR is 3600-3900. So I guess example of myself shows “noone uses strategy and thinking” not true. It’s usually blind build order following, but there’s space for strategy and creativity as well, even if it’s usually rare.
I am pretty sure I met a few other people who used and enjoyed strategiest on my level of play.
Diamond is not as unforgiving as Master and I believe people have a lot of freedom in terms of strategic thinking, including during mid/late game, than following meta on higher level.
??? I’m not good enough at SC2 to even THINK about going pro, and my mathematics skills are maybe average at best. And right now I’m a student, I don’t have any high paying job (or any job at all, for that matter).
Idk if you PPP truly believe that any disagreement with the horrific state of balance in SC2 is just the same person making alt accounts, or if you know the truth, and are just trolling, attacking the character of the people making these claims so that it seems like there’s nothing wrong and all concerns with balance are actually just trolling from a single bored individual.
Terran players are fast-tracked to lower leagues as a product of primarily TvP, which is why T/P representation in lower leagues is negatively correlated. Those are big words, so let me put it in simpler terms: When Protoss goes down in Bronze, Terran goes up in Bronze; Terrans performance in bronze is dependent on the balance of PvT which favors Protoss. The variability of Terran representation is greater than Terran’s margins of dominance in Bronze, meaning Terran representation is due to PvT balance.
