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>If I have 20% more APM than you do I beat you even if I totally pick the wrong units and build order At 20%, no. Pro players beat other pro players with 20% m
by opportune 7y ago
>If I have 20% more APM than you do I beat you even if I totally pick the wrong units and build order
At 20%, no. Pro players beat other pro players with 20% more apm all the time, even if they pick reasonable unit comps (this is especially common when terran players do tank focus builds against zerg). At 200%, especially if it's effective and not spamming, maybe. There are videos of bots microing marines at very high apm to beat big baneling balls, which cost much more resources and are supposed to directly counter marines. Protoss players could have perfect blink micro or immortal dropping, etc.
- ajuc 7y agoAlphastar restricted to lower average APM than MaNa beat MaNa's mass archon-immortal with mass blink stalkers :) He blinked stalkers at once from 3 sides of MaNa army (which was several-screens-wide). Such micro wouldn't be possible for a human player, because you would need to know to move the screen to see a particular stalkre just in time to blink it when he has almost 0 hitpoints, and immediately move the screen so you see another stalker on other part of the map to blink it, and so on. And the bot did this, making the strategy part of the game irrelevant (blink stalkers are supposed to lose vs immortals).
- cjbprime 7y agoExactly how AlphaStar was restricted is controversial. Its peak/burst APM during fights seemed extremely superhuman. That the average APM was lower doesn't mean much. Insane APM will win fights even without the multiple screen thing.