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Sc2 flawless victory8/13/2023 The Protoss army has always thrived on working together (a nice way of saying Deathball). So, if we look at the current role of the Mothership Core in Protoss vs Terran, it will generally help you (with good positioning of Pylons), to defend your bases early game with a minimum of Gateway units while getting out Robo tech, or an Oracle, or maybe even an upgrade like Blink. If you make more than a handful of Gateway units before going higher up the tech tree, this generally means that you are going all-in, as the Gateway units simply don’t scale well without upgrades or splash damage. The Protoss race, from the get-go, has been about teching up before macroing. The Mothership Core was introduced to help shore up early game Protoss defence. What is the function of the Mothership Core? Why does Protoss need such a tool? I think that many non-Protoss players are happy to see the Mothership Core go, and that many Protoss players are scared of the same prospect. The thing is, we have to look at it in context of all of the upcoming changes, and this change, in particular (with regards to Terran vs Protoss), has amazing synergy with other changes.įirst lets look at the Mothership Core, its purpose, and its removal. In our current version, this would be a brutal change for for Terrans. What I wrote above is an outline of what this change does alone in our current version of LotV. Now, this all sounds really silly when I outline it like this. With this change, though, Protoss players will simply trade a Probe for a Widow Mine, and happily go about their day. You simply must have detection – Observers or Oracles – no matter what. The power of the Widow Mine’s consistent cloak in the early game has truly been powerful. In fact, I’m already planning on opening Twilight every single game now. Now, none of these decisions matter any more for Protoss. What if the Terran made a proxy Factory and Starport? Maybe I should go for a Robo so I can clean up mass Mines more easily. Do I keep my Oracle out on the map or send it home to defend vs drops? Do I risk flying in not knowing where mines are? If I lose that Oracle, I’m going to be really hurting at home. Let’s think about early game TvP for a moment. Widow Mines are now revealed while Sentinel Missile is on cooldown. This blog will go into some detail on my thoughts about how those changes could impact the matchup. When reading the “Major Changes” coming for StarCraft 2 later this year, the first thing that jumped out at me are how different Protoss vs Terran will look. I’ll give a full update when the qualifiers are over and the bracket is drawn as to each and every scenario for whoever is left over. ByuN would have to get 1st place and sOs 2nd place, specifically, to knock him out of contention.ĮDIT: Apparently sOs doesn’t get the 225 because of the invite, but he is still in the ro16. If herO qualifies for ST#2, he is almost 100% locked for Blizzcon. Here are the players who still can qualify for the final 2 spots:īyuN, Maru, Solar, aLive, Classic and Rogue do NOT qualify for ST#2, they are out of the running for the WCS World Championships. Here are the players qualified already for Blizzcon from Korea: The following screen shots are from their pages. You can watch for updates (although I don’t think anything is actually streamed) here: Ĭheers to Liquipedia. This is an extremely important day, as its the last big SC2 tournament for Korea currently scheduled this year, and will decide the last 2 spots at the World Championships for the Koreans. As many of you might be aware, today are the GSL Super Tournament #2 qualifiers.
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