[2024 GSL S1] Ro.8 Group A Match5 Maru vs Classic

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[@wotwot6868]

With Maru's performance in the past with his royal road runs and MVP titles in ProLeague, then his unmatched godlike record in Code S, and weekend wins like WESG. He is the GOAT. No other player has achieved this feat in both prepared and weekend tournaments!

[@dc8836]

Skytoss doesn't beat vikings. You can't just go pure carrier/tempest with basically no ground forces and expect it to work, you just simply can't make enough tempest/carrier to outmatch multiple reactor starports pumping out vikings by the dozen. But classic apparently thought he should do it again even though Byun already trashed him when he did it. Pretty unfortunate set, though not unexpected for Maru to be moving into semifinals. Skytoss only works as a transition after you've forced the terran into a ground war. You need terran's supply to be wrapped in up ground forces that don't do very well against massed carriers or tempest kiting, that gives you the window to get in and deal damage before he can convert dead bio into vikings to fight off your fleet. And even then, you still need stalkers and especially templar on the ground to soften the viking clumps and prevent them from chasing your very slow carriers and tempests. Idk where the balance whining is coming from. T definitely still has an advantage in TvP, but it's no longer an overwhelming advantage. Cyclone and mines nerfs, in particular, let toss be a lot more aggressive on the map. It's made TvP a lot more fun to watch since the toss gets to actually play the fucking game now.

[@jonathanmvkhai]

Well said!

[@ptitlubelin7114]

This has been a huge problem in this game since its creation: Imho vikings are op against protoss (corruptors too by the way). As a tier 2 unit (2 supplies), they are countering almost every protoss tier 3 units (colossus, carriers, tempests, mothership). They are also countering voidrays, phenixes, prisms and oracles and they can be used to harass as well, living protoss with no options but to go templars and disruptors (but generally it's too late). They should raise the time to build them and/or raise their supply need so terrans can't stay with a dozen of vikings all game long.

[@durazno45]

Maru the best!!!

[@royallad2961]

Why no storm?

[@georgvonrechenberg2217]

Maru didn't rely heavily on bio. Also Maru was attacking so early that Classic's tech wasn't ready.

[@troy3423]

Good to see that the unstoppable vindicator siege and mindless widow mine drops are not as viable anymore. It makes the games more interesting

[@malekiththeeternityking5433]

How are Terrans supposed to slow down Stargate openers now?

[@beauwoodcock7327]

​. Did you watch this series yet?

[@troy3423]

@@beauwoodcock7327 i watched every single game. instead of 12 probes dying, its 6 or 7. Widow mine targeting is much clearer, allowing for better responses. There wasn't much sieging wth vindicators unlike in the past. Once Terran realize their bio upgrades are busted, the meta will solidify.

[@teddanville6996]

@@troy3423 Terran going bio vs Toss was the meta back in 2020-2021. The PvT match up was very one-dimensional back then. The terran players would always do a 2 base stim timing attack, if the attack is success, the Terran wins, if not, the Terran lose, and the Toss would do 4 gates blink stalker to possibly punish greedy terran plays or slow down the stim timing attack. In fact, it was the same for TvZ, the terran had so little option against the other 2 races and would go for stim timing attack almost every game. I was glad that they buffed the cyclone and make mech terran viable again, but alas they nerfted the cyclone so everything is back to square 1 again. No cyclone means even the TvT match up is back to the boring state that it was. They should have find a better way to nerf cyclone while still keep it meta.

[@dc8836]

@@malekiththeeternityking5433 Vikings can trade favorably with phoenix and are extremely effective vs carrier/tempest. VIking is the best air to air unit in the game and they can land and do... okay... on the ground if there's nothing to shoot in the air. If toss open stargate every game, adding vikings would probably work out fine. Or just build some extra missile towers.

[@AAkCN1]

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[@SeviersKain]

Maru is the only Terran that could adapt extremely quickly under new circumstances (new patches), because he and Serral has the same level of intelligence of knowing this game, en...

[@anthonyalfieri4154]

7:20 the cyclone nerf is huge, combined with the wm nerf and the terrans are doing way worse with their timings/defense.

[@areurdytoparty]

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Ticket price is $6? Lol most of the funding come from blizzard sale of those commanders.

[@kinggarithos888]

The music choice is horrid.

[@teddanville6996]

LoL with how strong toss is after the patch, maybe Classic got a head of himself and play a bit too greedy.

[@N0noy1989]

Nah, he was just up against. Maru. Ang toss isn't strong. Just fair. Terrans will adjust soon enough.

[@rubix1461]

Now mines are unplayable, thx balance team and whiny toss

[@rnf123]

Unplayable is a stretch. Weaker yes but not unplayable. Maru was still happy to open with mines and he's the greatest Terran ever.

[@tigera6]

@@rnf123 Maru tends to get into his way quite often by choosing pretty bad opening, and one of his bad opening is actually mine drop. He literally lost the earlier series to herO because he was trying to mine drop too many time and didnt get any significant damage done.