Going to try my hand at translating Ddasik: Hey Mr. Anonymous Terran, would you be available for a few practice games? Flash: Sorry, during the day I'm taking it easy and want to play ladder with different races too. D: Ah ok, I don't mind if you want to play all three races. I just want some practice games to warm up. F: Oh are you not a streamer(bj)? D: I'm not. I used to be one but now I'm only practicing for asl. F: I see. D: So can we play after this game? F: I can in the evening, I have someone else I need to play right now. D: Ok, could you accept my friend request afterwards then... I'll be on call 24/7 F: Oh thanks
I love watching flash meme on people like this, and the best part is its not just a meme. Playing the other two races gives him insight on how they have to respond to threats and pressure, so he can refine his terran play to GIVE them said pressure.
If he can surpass sn0w then no doubt, however right now if Flash and sn0w 1v1'd it would probably be a 3-1 ratio sn0w taking lead, however given time Flash will definitely beat him
Flash showed how applying pressure to slow down zerg tech even on the backfoot shows how you can create a longer window for a chance to take a game before dark swarm arrives. His approach covers the meta, even while behind and is still enough to bleed out his opponent. His execution and delivery shows us how protoss can improve in the early to mid game, even while behijd.
Shield Upgrades have some interesting mechanics behind them. Protoss Units Regen 1 shield point per in-game Second (or faster) and if you have a fully upgraded Zealot / Goon with 4 armor and 3 shields... that 1 Shield point negates 4 points of damage... then the armor negates another 4 points of damage... meaning the next incoming hit negates 8 damage. Tempo wise the shield upgrade is bad but otherwise it negates 1 hit worth of damage usually ever 1s in game or so.
Yes the interaction when shield is at 1 point is very beneficial for Protoss, subtracting the shield armor and regular armor from the incoming hit. And just having -3 damage per hit on the full shield is also very good against fast firing units like marines or zerglings. Against bigger units with higher explosive or concussive damage its not that insanely good because shield takes full damage from all damage types, but -3 damage on a hit from a dragoon, vulture or hydra is still pretty good.
It's not 1 shield per second. It's 7/256 shield per frame, so it takes 37 frames to regenerate a full point of shield (and then some). At fastest speed, that's 1.554 seconds. It's still true though that every second and a half or so, the shield armor kicks in again. But regular armor will be applying on every hit at that point. Of course, shield armor also applies to the first few hits of fresh units, while armor does not. So in some cases, shield armor can be better than regular armor. In practice though, regular armor is better for the units it affects, with the exceptions of the archon and dark archon. Of course, it doesn't affect structures or flying units, so if you have a significant air force or a lot of archons, shield armor can be better. But usually it is worse, or at least not enough better to be worth the extra resources. But since lvl 1 shields is much cheaper than lvl 3 armor, it makes sense just for that reason.
PvZ might actually be the best match up in BW. PvT is the same thing every time, ZvT kinda falls off once dark swarm spam starts. PvZ is so consistently dynamic and fun to watch.
what you mean " a lot of flash games", barely few series... there is bunch of new stuff from him, like DMatrix BCs vs Zerg etc. You're falling behind Artosis!
@JonasStenmarkMT he's already been delivering even after being sick. Give the man some respect! We all know that an artosis cast makes you happier than sex. That's okay. Because you're not alone. Just wait patiently and you'll be prematurely ejaculating like it's your first time ever!
Ah yes the multitude of lowground bases this game. He really had a gluttony of lowground targets and chose wrong! The hypocrisy of calling others 'hurdur' when zerg spam invisible ranged attackers and orange smoke...
Caster Artosis - random at tournament, what an astounding achivement, much wow. Player Artosis, mets random random at ladder - histerical breakdown "its unfair!!!".
oh damn man ! if flash wasnt impatient with that last engage and would have set up the 9 o clock base first he wouldve been in a much better position... he really catapulted himself out of the race after such an insane and great counter attack prior to it ! really fun game and amazing to see flashs aggressive protoss
In pvz corsair are the counter to scourge and mutas. Flash needed to keep his Corsair in a tighter group and needed more so that he doesnt lose any air to scourge.
As far as I remember, all zerg units doing full damage vs all protoss units? Armor mostly better because you already have armor. Like 2 armor goon means 9 per shot for 2 attack hydra So 3d armor will give you more then 11% damage reduction for 100 health 80 shield unit. And shield could give 1/12th =8.3% * 0.8. Over all it gives 6.6%. If you take goon to comparison
No, hydras do explosive damage (and devourers). This is mostly relevant against zealots, against which they do half as much dmg as vs most other protoss units. So if the opponent is hydra-heavy and you use zealots getting shields helps a lot.
3-5 Flash games in a row with a short break between makes perfect sense. Keep the Flash coming, until he stops being interesting. If that ever happens.
Probably won't read this, but why not, I'll ask. I've read on TL a discussion about how Flash's Random run wasn't as impressive as it seemed because he's supposedly getting massive BO advantages due to knowing his matchup every game immediately, while his opponent has to play super safe to avoid instant losing due to BO. What's your read on this? I only casually watch professional BW, despite having done so a long time, so it's difficult to go "yeah, that sounds right" or "nah, this is bullshit" sometimes when I read things.
I wonder why flash wouldn't add reavers into the army, seems like it would have made the fights very easy. There's probably a reason, its Flash but im interested in why not.
Unpopular opinion, but I like this channel a lot more when it isn’t flash. Arty loses some perspective and neutrality about what is happening when flash is playing and slips into the same talking points too often. Just my two cents.
i see starcraft 1 remastered gameplay, i immidielty load up my old 1998 broodwar cd aka the better game and play ome good ol fashioned broodwar with proper graphics and not the plastic remaster graphics. old bw > sc remastered
"[Plasma shields don't scale as well because they take full damage from everything.]" Uh no, that's not how the math works. The defense from shields and armor is subtracted before damage type percentages are applied. So while a dragoon takes 20 damage to its shields from a vulture hit and 5 damage (discounting armor) to its health from the same, each point of shields subtracts an entire point of damage while each point of armor subtracts only 0.25 damage to the health. The shields being stripped 4 times as fast and the shield upgrades giving 4 times the effect cancel out, and the shield upgrades help just as much point for point as the armor. This is ignoring that the dragoon has more health than shields, but that difference isn't very large.
However, the fact that units have base armor does matter, since it makes further points of armor more efficient. But the most important fact is just that most units have more HP than shields.
Tomorrow on artosis cast. I've casted a lot of starcraft games from Flash and we are kind of doign that too much. So here is a cast of Flash doing his laundry. See how well he micros the detergent!
So this is an old laundry order that pros used for years but OH MY GOD Flash is putting the white clothes with the colored ones too? Ive literally never seen that before, im tellinf you guys he is redefining the meta…
Recently i saw a Snow x Soulkey playing terran in home of starcraft channel... someone need to cast that game... go Arty, keep flashing but soulkey is in the top right now
Not really, he lost despite zerg making terrible decision to engage within tiny base and getting stormed to death. And building no defiler till last moment.
Flash realized that TvP is impossible so he is making the switch to be an S rank ape! We welcome our brother Flash to the best race. Now he can play forever since he can spend 150 apm less per game and his wrists will thank him
Again shows how stupid the defiler and his cloud is. Absolutely OP for zerg. Without them the fight was i teresting and epic, then it just becomes dark cloud spam and all the other player can do is retreat in chaos. Horrible unit, the defiler. Game breaking.
"En Taro Adun Executor! There is no time to waste, we must join our brethren in battle!" - A supermodel rich on the stock market who has friends, rushing to drink beers with them on the beach
Flash just moving everywhere really delayed defiler tech since dark swarm it's less an MVP if the protoss just attacks everywhere. Flash biggest mistakes were not take the 4 and lose his corsairs
Heres my take: im just a noob but it seems to me that a lot of the maps are still kinda anti terran. One of terrans big advantages is that its buildings are big and dont need creep or pylons, so you can build them forward and use as mini walls, get in the way of enemy units and mess up pathing. There is so much unbuildable terrain on maps now though that terrans building becomes a disadvantage, the buildings are big and you lack space. There is little opportunity to simcity outside your base. I was fighting a zerg on one of the ladder maps and I knew he was about to lurker all in me so i went to build some bunkers at my nat. I wanted to build 3-4 kinda staggered away from my CC but there was so little buildable terrain, it was insane. If flash plays protoss instead, then maybe the maps will become pro terran or at least terran neutral again. lol. Whats the reason maps are made with so little buildable terrain outside of the main bases? Is it just to make terran harder?
Terran, played at the highest level, has a pretty sizeable statistical lead over the other two races (especially Protoss). That being said, I think the attempts to equalize things between the races a little bit has pushed things into Zerg favor overall. Balancing a game as complex and long lived as Brood War is not easy, especially since the only option to do so is how you build maps, and you do want things to feel fun and fresh. Then there's things like Troy where proxy gateway just wins ovewhelmingly, lol. But I think Troy is such a cool map! It's just too much of a powerful gimmick.
Flash, who could play all 3 races, choose Terran. As a competitive player, that tells me he thought Terran is the best. I wonder if he still thinks that.
Spoilers. Booooo flash played better, only won zerg imba. Worse handling of army. Wish Flash makes 10% of army to be Reavers, then its gg. Also hallucinations would have made it gg ez, spam out an extra 20 zealots to tank.
