[Official] Starcraft 2 Strategy & Discussion Thread - Page 1918

The lag is worse from EU actually.

Look at my record on NA masters this season, 10-15, not too hot. I would say I'm borderline high Diamond or low masters in NA right now. Rather depressing for me since I was always mid-high before... but anyway I am low diamond high plat in Korea, so really I'm almost in the same league. If I wasn't recently demoted in Korea, and if I kept playing in NA, who knows I could be in the very same league. I am still rusty from that six months off... well I wouldn't say rusty, but I am definitely behind.

All I know is I've played lots of EU players on the Korean server that are masters and I've beaten most of them. I believe the whole KR>EU>NA thing for sure at top 200 level, but at mine no way.

I played a rank #1 masters for the first time last night... and won

It was on Cloud Kingdom pvp (which is the ultimate cheese map pvp) and he tried to do the pylon wall + cannon flush/behind my mineral line. He got the 3 pylons up without me getting probes in, but the mineral layout on that map allows 4-probe surface area attacking one of the pylons. Busted the pylon right my zealot came out and the cannon came online with about 40hp of damage so it only killed 1 probe.

Seems like ladder matching has been giving a wider range recently cause I'm also getting placed against rank 30 or 40. In the past all the games would be against a tighter range of ranked opponents.

Blizzard announced they would broaden the matching range so that the league matches would not be so brutal to those who cant practice regularly. I dont like it personally. Andi dont practice normally. Dont wanna face golds while in high plat..

I feel like I'm going to be promoted soon. Been top 8 silver for a while facing top 8 gold and winning. Are the leagues locked or do I just have to win more?

Also another question. When is a good 4 gate time? Mine hits between ~5:55 - ~6:10 depending on if I mess up a bit.

I haven't played SC2 since when it first came out, because of school and life, but I now have the time to get back into it, and I was wondering if anyone would be nice enough to play a few tutorial games with me, and tell me what to work on. I was bronze when I first started, and copper in the beta lol I am bad at the game, but I want to improve before the heart of the swarm comes out. My username on steam is genji_takaya and my battle.net ID for SC2 is genji character code is 752. Thanks! I'll be on for the next few hours

What race do you play?

I only know how to play Terran, but I would like to explore others. I just was told Terran was the easiest to begin with.