I'm sorry as much as you might not want to draw conclusions one a single replay with no obvious map hacking no matter how I look at it - even when I try to find reasons I cannot come up with anything that makes sense and does not equate to losing games
I left the game because I'm just not interested in playing a hacker. And while this is the only replay I remember thinking he was a hacker before too.
In GM level there may be valid points to making extra cannons because you are unsure but that doesn't address the timing of his so called scout nor does it address that he basically sends the probe to die by actually a-moving to the bottom of the ramp at my natural.
Also note his supply right before my roaches arrive - that is he has had no indication of any all in. And this is when he has only 1 gate. There is no reason he would be spending that money on an additional pylon - given where he placed it - unless he knew an attack was coming and didn't want the 2 pylons already there to unpower his excessive cannon count. At 30/44 no less.
I also noted his reaction right after I dropped my roach warren. He was supply blocked but was making a pylon in his main. Granted he may just be retarded so he made 2 pylons though why he wouldn't prefer to spend that money on... you know more than 1 gateway. Cause he'll be safe for sure against an attack he has no idea is coming in theory but he won't be able to do anything. He can't even tech what with only 1 gas.
Maybe he planned the wall that way from the beginning, maybe his mechanics really are so bad that he has one gate and a free 20 supply with another pylon on the way. He is protoss after all and you don't exactly have to be good to win as protoss
Or more logically he is hacking as not even a platinum would lose in a macro game to this guy that gets supply blocked at 18 for a painfully long time and counters that by getting 3 pylons ahead in supply. Then makes 4 cannons - no gates and late gas meaning any tech is going to be late. All this against the most standard of standard ZvP builds in diamond - speedling expo.
I am the first to criticize blizzard on their fail coding but not even I can fathom how a protoss can get into diamond by playing such a style as his standard against 14/14 regardless of how OP protoss may be
MC had apparently no scouting infromation on Idrain that MLG game (according to Tastosis). Whether MC knew it was coming we wouldn't have a clue, we are not MC.
I was debating sentiments with Nemo, I have absolutely no interest if whether this player hacks or not.
Listen to what Yang said, and don't even try pinning hacks on one game. I've won game on old metal close position where I just went a build that requires my opponent in the close spot to be successful. But I did it blindly anyway, because I can. I can stare at the fog of my opponents whenever I want, I did that in CH tourney to prove how silly it is, anyone watching those replays would call me a hacker outright. These EVIDENCE IS WEAK.
Consider this scenario: I sent an ob to my terran opponents base, my opponent scans and kills it before I see anything. I have no idea what he is doing, but because I know the potential of medivac drop comes around a particular timing, I automatically place units in my main to deny drops - this with no information at all but my experience and my desire for not being killed because I'm playing unsafe. Does that reaction make me a hacker?
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