Snute vs TRUE

He's really the best non-Korean Zerg? lol



No he's not. Snute has been playing the same style since beta. Roach ravager into muta fungle (With roach ravager still in there)

A top tier tournament professional does not play the same style 95% of the time. Pro's become top tier because they have alternative build orders, because they have different compositions, because they can be unpredictable.

The best example, I feel, is Innovation. While his macro is absolutely one of the best in the entire world, he is not able to reach the "I'm the best Terran". He gets very close from time to time and even winning a GSL; but that is thanks to his immaculate macro. If you let Innovation build the composition he wants, he will absolutely destroy you. But if you put dents in his builds, with pressure and harass, he does end up falling apart.

This is important to note, because Tastosis mentioned this often too in the past, joking about the "machine" getting a bug because he encountered something he wasn't prepared for and he falls apart.

I feel a lot of it is true with Snute as well. He has one style, and if you let him have his style, like Innovation, he is very favored to annihilate you. Throw a wrench in his style (By forcing other units to be built etc) and slowly they crumble under the pressure.

Don't get me wrong, both Innovation and Snute would kill any laddering GM almost blindly, but they're up against other professionals that also want to win a tournament, and they will try to exploit your weaknesses to the full extent. This is what TRUE did here, Snute just couldn't deal with the pressure in any of the games.

I consider Snute still a top-tier foreign Zerg, but not the best, because of his "I can only do this style" play.

I personally favor Nerchio or Scarlett because they mix things up and keep things unpredictable. Both which are very important.



Thanks for the explanation. I don't watch a lot of foreign SC2 and I was under the impression that Snute was the best. I didn't expect to see the "best" foreign Zerg get crushed so easily--the real one probably wouldn't be.



You're welcome, and it's mostly my analytical viewpoint, I'm sure there's people out there that'd disagree with me. Everyone has their opinion in that regard.

I hope you did see the Nerchio vs Scarlett match in this same list. You can see different builds being utilized. Not spoiling, for example, at the end in the interview, the winner did say that (s)he thought that her/his opponent was going for a Nydus, this turned to be a "bad read" on the situation that ultimately caused him/her to lose on that map.

If you study Snute's games, a pro at tournament level would always try to identify weaknesses, and you can see from those matches that Snute doesn't do fancy things like Nydus, Ultralisk or Hydralisk play, 95-99% of the time. So while playing those matches, Snute's opponents would have a much easier time predicting what he'd go for.

Nerchio vs Scarlett showed a wide variety styles of play, early rushes, droverlords, burrowed roaches, hydras, ultralisks, very quick infestors, late macro games etc. I think that, not only does that make it more enjoyable to watch, if you want to be a tournament level pro player for many years, you have to change and adapt. The game changes, the meta changes, you have to go with the flow. Even Innovation has changed some of his style in the last few months ;)



Outmatched.

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