Stephano vs Naniwa

Dreadful end to this game - it was so unecessary...



That range buff for the immortals was just so necessary, right?



PvZ winrate in pro tournaments is still just 43%. So the range buff for immortals was obviously not enough, #2.

It does mean that sometimes the a1 roach only tier 1 army shown by Stephano here won't win against a perfectly balanced tier 3 army of zealot, sentries, colossus, DT's, immmortals and massively microed blink stalkers (as shown by Naniwa). So zerg may actually have to either micro a bit or use more than one unit in every game if blizzard decides to fix the massive biased towards zerg in the match-up. See http://i.imgur.com/JW38u.png



I really expected better play from stephano



lol, #3 gtfo. Naniwa is the most herp derp protoss player around. Sure, he's got amazing control but all he does is 2-base all-in every game, and if that doesn't work he just turtles on 3 base for the standard deathball. herp fucking derp.

Also Stephano had some incredibly unique micro in his engagements. Game 1 he defended naniwa's 2 base 6 gate all-in and cut off Naniwa's entire blink stalker group using roaches/lings in 2-3 distinct packs to hunt them down across the map. And in the same game (after naniwa maxed out on 3 bases) Stephano also had an incredible surround tactic where he used 3 groups of roaches to try and cut-off the deathball. Naniwa pulled off some tight forcefields though and the collosus raped everything, but Stephano definitely was not a1 attacking.

If you want to see creative protoss play, watch LiquidHero, SaSe or Kiwikaki.


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