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> placing within the top 0.15% of the region's 90,000 players > 61 wins out of 90 games against high-ranking players This doesn't seem to be quite as commandi
by plopz 7y ago
> placing within the top 0.15% of the region's 90,000 players
> 61 wins out of 90 games against high-ranking players
This doesn't seem to be quite as commanding as it was in Go. Do we know what MMR it reached or if it consistently beat players like Serral?
- nightcracker 7y agoIt hasn't beat Serral once, from the article: "The AI wasn’t able to beat the best player in the world".
- dmichulke 7y agoTo play devil's advocate: They didn't say anywhere they scored a win against the top 10 either. To elaborate: to be among the "top 0.15%" of 90k is place ~14 (13.5) in the worst case, so nowhere near the "commanding" abilities mentioned by GP
- swarnie_ 7y agoYou'll struggle to work it out, go look at the top 20 of any of the ladders IIiiIII1iI1iII!II
- CydeWeys 7y agoIt seems like it's only a matter of time though. StarCraft II also has a rock-paper-scissors nature to it though, so you wouldn't expect even a perfect player to win 100% of the time. There are some strategies that are hard-counters to other strategies, and because of the imperfect information nature of the game, by the time you scout your opponent and see what they're doing, it may be too late to shift and deal with it.
- Erlich_Bachman 7y ago> by the time you scout your opponent and see what they're doing, it may be too late to shift and deal with it. Unless you're Serral and your observers magically come out of nowhere and cover every single pixel of your base.
- Erlich_Bachman 7y agoLike this is happens when you try to surprise Serral https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTMIh9wzDjo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTMIh9wzDjo
- friendlybus 7y agoThere aren't really 'hard' counters, there's just a high chance you'll win. Flash had a 70% winrate overall and had time periods of 90%+ winrate.