IdrA vs TheStC

Awesome games. Love it when idra get pwned.



Regardless of one's perceptive of Idra and much as I dislike his emotional rage, he has much potential to exceed. Sadly, Idra is Idra's biggest obstacle.



I agree with you spark... An extra spine or two could have helped him on game three when he knew he was being rushed. Plus a queen or two on the entrance would have prevented the game winning blow as well.

STC never repeats builds in every series and hellion rush was the obvious next choice.



I'm sure you would have done better number 3.



"He knew he was being rushed" - wrong. When hellions are on the field, the Zerg is blind except for slowverlords, which take 10 minutes to move across a map safely. TheSTC is practically a walking demo of how you can win as Terran by abusing imbalance. Proxy 2rax, mass marines, hellions into an all-in. The only strat that was scoutable was the mass marines and in that case Idra absolutely dominated him. There is a major, major, major balance problem in the game that simply won't be addressed. It doesn't matter whether banelings can burrow-charge or ultralisks can jump over cliffs and hit air, until mutas/obs come out the game is a big fat blind crapshoot for anyone playing vs Terran, and that's a massive fucking problem



Of course, the proxy 2rax is massively powerful whether it's scouted or not, and still has a huge chance for success even vs 14gas/14pool, same way that the 1-1-1 wins over and over and over even if Protoss knows for a fact it's coming. Not like Blizzard cares



DjWheat? Where is TB?



konqrr - Definitely not. I'm just a casual player but I'm an Idra fan. Do keep up the intelligent comments. It shows how wise you are.

Yabba - TheSTCs units were piling up in front of his base. He even had a bunch on Idra's creep by his entrance. That's what I meant when he knew he was being rushed. Then again, he may have already given up after the first wave.

You're right. The game has a lot of improving to do in terms of balancing the races.





The reason why Idra is winning so many big TvZs lately is because mass marines & siege is not the right counter to his unit composition and yet that is all the Ts do against him. Except for when they rush and win.

Once people figure out the correct counter for macro games, things will go back to normal.



It is so funny that there are always people whinging about imbalance.

Game #3:
Banking 600 gas for muta is a big gamble when you don't know what the opponent is doing. Idra is vulnerable in the early game until the mutalisks pop out. When they do he usually has the advantage if there has been no pressure and so it swings the other way. TheSTC knew his opponent and knew there is *ALWAYS* a window to win in the early game. If Idra went roach ling in game #3 it would have been a micro battle:


roach > hellion
hellion > ling
ling > marauda
marauda > roach



pretty funny that petroz doesn't mention "marine" in his quick guide to early ZvT units and their counters...

marine > ling
marine > bling
marine > roach
marine > hydra
marine > muta
marine > corruptor
marine > infestor (minor micro required)
marine > broodlord
marine > ultra

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