[Johnny.L]

In the last SOTG episode, Stephano stated that he doesn't have a build orders or a what to build at what time. He just goes by his gut feeling. Do you believe this 'Gut Feeling' is something we can develop? or should we develop solid build orders in order to get better?

edit: Sorry I tried tagging Pigs post into this comment but i'm still new to this forum.

Pig:-
"My two cents would be that a key point people forget is you can't be thinking on the spot ingame. If you want to get to and beyond than you want to be developing solid builds and reactions and following these to the dot. Say you scout say 1 rax fe into 4rax, if you react differently each time you see this you never really improve too far because you spend all your time thinking about and adjusting your reactions in-game rather then doing them in split-seconds by memory and focusing on memory/opponent while doing so.

So you want to always know what to do next and if you are every spending much time thinking about a build/reaction ingame then you won't be able to do it fast enough. Also you will focus too much attention on it and not be able to monitor everything else going on.

Make sure each time you lose a game if you don't know how you lost then memorise what you should have done differently and get more and more confident in what you have to do at each moment"

[Bloodmyst]

Originally Posted by Johnny.L

In the last SOTG episode, Stephano stated that he doesn't have a build orders or a what to build at what time. He just goes by his gut feeling. Do you believe this 'Gut Feeling' is something we can develop? or should we develop solid build orders in order to get better?

edit: Sorry I tried tagging Pigs post into this comment but i'm still new to this forum.

Pig:-
"My two cents would be that a key point people forget is you can't be thinking on the spot ingame. If you want to get to and beyond than you want to be developing solid builds and reactions and following these to the dot. Say you scout say 1 rax fe into 4rax, if you react differently each time you see this you never really improve too far because you spend all your time thinking about and adjusting your reactions in-game rather then doing them in split-seconds by memory and focusing on memory/opponent while doing so.

So you want to always know what to do next and if you are every spending much time thinking about a build/reaction ingame then you won't be able to do it fast enough. Also you will focus too much attention on it and not be able to monitor everything else going on.

Make sure each time you lose a game if you don't know how you lost then memorise what you should have done differently and get more and more confident in what you have to do at each moment"

Somehow I don't think the same mentality would work for either Terran or Protoss. Since you know how Zerg is considered the "reactionary race" out of the three and the fact they can tech switch so quickly compared to Toss and Terran.

Most would probably say to go by a build order and they are most likely right as it's quiet obvious imo that you would improve at a much faster rate then just going by "your gut feeling." However, if you feel going by your gut feeling works well for you, by all means go for it. Each to their own I guess.

But I do think the fact Stephano plays by his gut feeling is god damn insane since hes doing so well atm.

EDIT: LOL, had to edit this post twice because of typing "Guy Feeling" instead of "Gut Feeling". HAHA, might save this one for the "Where the girl blogs at" blog.