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I was a masters NA Zerg, not quite at your level but we probably could have met in the ladder at some point. I totally agree, I just think it's not great advic

I was a masters NA Zerg, not quite at your level but we probably could have met in the ladder at some point. I totally agree, I just think it's not great advice to say "if you want to get good go after the meta". Some gaming communities over emphasize the meta and IMO StarCraft is one of them. Meta is just one aspect of ways to get an edge and as you progress in your skill you need to take advantage of every edge you can get. Many StarCraft streamers will do challenges where they only go for a certain, non dominate strategy to see how high they can rise, the one that stuck with me the most was destiny going mass queen. I saw so many people asking "what can counter mass queen" because they saw him winning over and over again. The answer wasn't how should you change your strat to deal with someone going mass queen, they aren't that good, the answer was to be better at macro than that player.

__blockcipher__ 7y ago
> I just think it's not great advice to say "if you want to get good go after the meta". Right, I totally agree here. If it wasn't clear, I think the vast majority of players should just ignore the meta and focus on fundamentals. That being said, often specific meta strategies (say, the 2 base sentry/immortal all-in that was so ridiculously powerful back in the day) give players a really hard time, and so IMO the best way to do it is to use learning how to beat the strategy as an example of learning fundamentals. For example, beating that all-in required effective scouting, map control, micro, and stopping drone production at the perfect time.
__blockcipher__ 7y ago
I started in Gold and ended up in GM, so depending on timing, we might have come across each other. I played under the name "sanddbox". I used to be a huge Destiny fanboy. In fact, my measure of when I'd "made it" was when I could beat Destiny on ladder. (He beat me many times as well, of course). Side note: Kind of sad that when I checked up him a couple months ago, he mostly just seems to do weird political debate style stuff these days

__blockcipher__ 7y ago

> I just think it's not great advice to say "if you want to get good go after the meta". Right, I totally agree here. If it wasn't clear, I think the vast majority of players should just ignore the meta and focus on fundamentals. That being said, often specific meta strategies (say, the 2 base sentry/immortal all-in that was so ridiculously powerful back in the day) give players a really hard time, and so IMO the best way to do it is to use learning how to beat the strategy as an example of learning fundamentals. For example, beating that all-in required effective scouting, map control, micro, and stopping drone production at the perfect time.

__blockcipher__ 7y ago

I started in Gold and ended up in GM, so depending on timing, we might have come across each other. I played under the name "sanddbox". I used to be a huge Destiny fanboy. In fact, my measure of when I'd "made it" was when I could beat Destiny on ladder. (He beat me many times as well, of course). Side note: Kind of sad that when I checked up him a couple months ago, he mostly just seems to do weird political debate style stuff these days