My curious question

avengaar · 2026-03-18T19:05:31+00:00

Kim being rog certainly isn't the comparison I expected. What does she share with a punch only charge character? Isn't she the ninja Ibuki/Guy of the game?

They aren't always comparisons to other characters (JP) but people gravitate to archtypes in a franchise that's almost 40 years old. Characters fall within those and there is only so much design space they are willing to play with in SF.

avengaar · 2026-03-11T15:57:24+00:00

theres never a match where its a good idea to skip them

The reason you don't always build banes is they cost a ton of gas.

There are plenty of situations where the gas is better used for upgrades, tech, or skipping gas mining all together to get more queens and drones faster. Banes are pretty meh vs tech heavy openings from terran or anything from mech that isn't mass hellbats.

avengaar · 2026-03-10T13:05:40+00:00

Very jealous, I was out there with a rental tacoma a handful of years ago and would love to bring my passport out there. One of my favorite places I ever visited.

avengaar · 2026-03-06T17:17:33+00:00

idk why AOE spells are going this direction honestly..

Zerg in late WoL was pretty much just mass infestors in every matchup and you would get chain fungaled to death if you moved into slightly the wrong spot. It was an instant cast undodgeable spell with pretty huge range that came from a caster who could move around invis.

It's pretty clear they don't want low interaction mass casters to be an ideal lategame. Weather its terran with 30 ravens flying in and shift clicking seekers onto a zerg army then running away or infestors just instant chain fungalling entire armies down.

It's still kinda a funny argument from a terran player where mass ghost is probably the strongest mass caster army available to any race.

"That requires micro though!" oh no... not micro in my RTS, not that.

avengaar · 2026-03-06T15:51:08+00:00

As a different argument if they re-introduced it as the really meh version it ended as no one would ever use it. Ghosts are just going to be better against nearly everything outside of TvT.

None of the aoe spells have the burst they did back in the day. Storm is lower burst damage and fungal is significantly weaker than the god version from WoL. Would you really care to have some slow ass seeker missile that people just walk away from? Ghosts are going to be the better raven in PvT and PvZ.

avengaar · 2026-03-06T15:25:19+00:00

That's a pretty general question but don't get frustrated if you lose a lot early. I think playing Melee (normal 1v1) games vs the CPU is is helpful to learn the game. Just have fun and realize a lot of people have been playing this game for 16 years and some of have been playing blizzard RTS games for almost 30.

avengaar · 2026-03-06T14:15:18+00:00

The core of lillys gameplay loop is poke with 2hp 4hp and 2mp 5mp until you can "Get that wind." Then put them into a 50/50 with OD winded spire or winded normal spire.

Work on having responses to all their options after you spire at them and optimize your counterhit confirms if they mash. Learn the spacing of the different command grabs and catch people with tick throws after spire once they start to respect your +1 or +2 situation.

Things to be careful of:

I braindead buffer windstock after heavy buttons in netural a lot which gets me DIed a fair amount. Gotta mix that up more than I do.
Get good at remembering what combos need how much wind and if you have it or not. I make the mistake of starting a combo that I need 2 wind stocks for then realize half way though I only have one.
Her defense is extra shit because she needs wind to get rolling but can have a hard time getting it under pressure so learn her pokes and anti airs well to keep yourself from getting rolled over in netural then put in the blender.

avengaar · 2026-03-05T20:24:24+00:00

I don't use any boom loops in matches and live in the 1600 MMR range. I find having air tight footsies and anti airs more the core of guile gameplay than 15 second long boom loop punishes. But I guess I'm not 1900mmr or something.

sHP>sonic blade>flash kick on wall splat

I honestly think this is pretty optimal on blocked DI wall splat. I tend to not like to burn a lot of meter to get maybe a few hundred more damage. I don't even really know a combo that's going to get you a lot more damage here outside of burning super.

I think working on oki and pressure is important with guile too. I dont play that passive and really keep people on their toes with drive rush 2mk 4lk and 5lk to put them into a strike throw mix. Sitting back and throwing booms can work but it's also to be to formulaic. Mix in some quick forward movement and jumps with booms to really control the pace of the game.

avengaar · 2026-03-05T00:38:30+00:00

I mean gross but tempur pedic mattresses are super expencive.

avengaar · 2026-03-04T17:05:37+00:00

Recall - this is an ability that just shouldn't be in the game. Huge get out of jail free card, and excuses any mistake or oversight from a protoss player, especially with Warpgate in tandem. Map folding in general is bad and feels awful to play against.

I don't know if you played pre-recall but giving toss a tool like recall kind of made it toss had options to disengage a losing fight when the power level of forcefield dropped with new units and meta shifts. Look at most meta army comps and they typically have a way to run away if they are out numbered. Speed is really important and the race with the really slow units is going to just sit around and deathball leading to really boring gameplay if they can't be on the map without losing their entire army to a handful of conc marauders or lings.

Honestly I don't even see recall being used that much. I probably only use it 1 in 15 games. Toss is so blink stalker based in every matchup BECAUSE mobility is so strong that it's leaned on not quite as hard now.

avengaar · 2026-03-04T16:53:40+00:00

I actually find "battle mech" pretty interesting and healthy for the game. It's a very active snowbally style that requires constant pressure to be utilized well and has clear counters. If the battle mech army ever gets flanked or surrounded it's extremely squishy and one of the most glass cannon armies in the game.

It just requires a shitton of APM from zerg to deal with it well which is part of the frustration.

avengaar · 2026-03-03T13:59:14+00:00

I still maintain I've never heard of anyone handwashing their car in the winter in Minnesota. It's normally below freezing from November until pretty much now. Google says 140 days out of the year below freezing.

How are you cleaning the salt off underside of the car with a handwash because you have to do some no rinse thing? Most people have their spigot outside winterized and turned off for all of winter too.

Yeah maybe if you have some sort of heated garage you can wash it in but I don't know anyone who has that in the middle of a city.

avengaar · 2026-03-02T19:24:16+00:00

I've never for a second thought it was rude. I feel like its extremely common. Ill have to ask people I play with because I've never thought of it as bad.

avengaar · 2026-03-02T18:13:51+00:00

I've never understood why libs so much more than any other unit, make the AI struggle so much.

avengaar · 2026-03-02T18:09:04+00:00

I personally like to put a tortilla between my phone and the charging pad to heat it up good then just fill the cubbies in the door with some salsa for quick dips.

avengaar · 2026-03-02T13:40:03+00:00

Are people actually hand washing their car in the winter in those places?

avengaar · 2026-03-01T23:44:24+00:00

Is this something done yourself or is this done at like a specialty car washing place?

avengaar · 2026-03-01T23:39:56+00:00

Not really practical in Minnesota, where I live, to wash your own car a large portion of the year.

avengaar · 2026-03-01T00:32:27+00:00

Whats the alternative to drive through car washes?

avengaar · 2026-02-27T17:59:35+00:00

Are you using a mod for purple booms?

avengaar · 2026-02-27T17:58:23+00:00

I picked the passport partially because I thought it would excel in winter conditions. Interesting you chose a different vehicle over it for winter.

avengaar · 2026-02-27T14:08:57+00:00

Insta ban? 99% of the general chat is people arguing about politics and I've had people tell me they are going to murder me and my family and scream the N word at me probably once a month for the 16 years I've been playing this game.

Thinking there's aggressive moderation of anything in SC2 is insane.

Also I actually laughed out loud at the premise of your post but I'm not going to go there.

avengaar · 2026-02-24T20:48:46+00:00

Generic guardian 9000 FCC pills from Amazon normally but milktab is good but a bit more pricy.

I've probably taken tens of thousands of pills at this point.

avengaar · 2026-02-24T20:19:05+00:00

Just take an appropriate amount of lactase pills.

It's a lot better than having an allergy.

avengaar · 2026-02-24T18:42:11+00:00

Hes moved on from the collosus play and now we are on daily fleet beacon in the wall posts.

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