Think you're misunderstanding his comment. He means that Hera was also a really tough opponent for Viper today.You talk like he easily won the finals, but the reality is that the games were close and it could have done either way. Actually, this game is so not primitive that Vinchester, who is not considered a top 8 player, made Liereyy work hard to get to the finals.
Well Maradona might be a good example, even though football is a team sport. He often didn't look like he was in the best physical shape, did drugs, drank, and he partied like there was no tomorrow (he's said to have told his coach at Napoli, Ottavio Bianchi, who tried to get him to cut down on his night life, "you're right, but I want to live life to the fullest"), yet he was still the best in the world during his career. An interesting, but less known (I only learned about it recently) episode that comes to mind is a two-week span in 1985 in which Maradona played 5 games - 3 with Napoli and 2 with Argentina. He had to play in Italy, fly to Argentina, fly back to Italy, then back to his home country, then return to Naples for the last game. You can imagine he didn't have much time to train, or even rest, in that period, yet he still put in some pretty stellar performances. In short, sometimes he could run on talent alone.Would like to hear a story like this in any other more or less popular competitive discipline
Well Maradona might be a good example, even though football is a team sport. He often didn't look like he was in the best physical shape, did drugs, drank, and he partied like there was no tomorrow (he's said to have told his coach at Napoli, Ottavio Bianchi, who tried to get him to cut down on his night life, "you're right, but I want to live life to the fullest"), yet he was still the best in the world during his career. An interesting, but less known (I only learned about it recently) episode that comes to mind is a two-week span in 1985 in which Maradona played 5 games - 3 with Napoli and 2 with Argentina. He had to play in Italy, fly to Argentina, fly back to Italy, then back to his home country, then return to Naples for the last game. You can imagine he didn't have much time to train, or even rest, in that period, yet he still put in some pretty stellar performances. In short, sometimes he could run on talent alone.
There's another point worth noting about Maradona. According to Bianchi, the Argentine often skipped training in the morning because he stayed up late at night. The fact that he wasn't seen in regular training gave rise to the notion that he didn't train at all - however, Bianchi notes that Diego often trained in the afternoon or even alone at night and that he resented not being able to train. Just because we don't see Larry play ranked games and meme about it doesn't mean he's not training behind the scenes, and training hard, too.
Ps. Sorry about the Maradona panegyric, but it seemed like a fitting example. Just in case let me add that I do not endorse his off-the-pitch shenanigans.
Doesn’t the importance of timings come down to strategy, diversity, and choice? I mean, you can have a great castle age timing and have made completely wrong unit choices, be in the wrong position to achieve things with your timing, etc. Small things become big things, and sometimes as an observer the top players make it seem so simple that the complexity of the game is lost.I'd say you're right, the depth of this game has been cored out by successive bad development choices. Strategy, diversity, choice has been patched out.
This game is, now, properly titled Age of Timings.
dude, daut won last wololo with a bunch of new strategies.I'd say you're right, the depth of this game has been cored out by successive bad development choices. Strategy, diversity, choice has been patched out.
This game is, now, properly titled Age of Timings.
True but it still was Empire Wars.dude, daut won last wololo with a bunch of new strategies.
Is Larry the Wayne Gretzky of AoE?People need to remember that DotA2 is essentially the same mechanical skillset as AoE2 and not dissimilar in game concept either. He is obviously also practicing AoE2 in non-ladder games but if anything the time spent playing DotA2 is helping him in AoE2 rather than hurting him.
True but it still was Empire Wars.
Was he known for playing other sports a lot? I have actually never heard that about him.Is Larry the Wayne Gretzky of AoE?
Maybe a Canadian can provide more expertise, but from memory when he was growing up he played a lot of other sports during the off-season, especially lacrosse which helped him gain some skills that he took back to hockey.Was he known for playing other sports a lot? I have actually never heard that about him.
Oh yup that is very similar then.Maybe a Canadian can provide more expertise, but from memory when he was growing up he played a lot of other sports during the off-season, especially lacrosse which helped him gain some skills that he took back to hockey.
Cries in Hoanggrinding 1v1 ladder means nothing. if it had mattered, top players in terms of game count should have won all the tournaments.
It's not pure talent, in your example it would be more a student who is brilliant enough that they have such a strong "base" that studying specifics for an exam is enough, and they don't need to maintain their knowledge in between.I think people get it all wrong about Liereyy. It's not about practising at all but staying relatively inactive betwen the tournaments. If you go check his profile you will notice that the his last ladder game happened 27 days ago!
IF I could compare it to something it reminds me of student who do close to nothing the whole semester and then a week before exam they learn for some time and still get amazing grades. Larry is pure talent.
I see what you did thereLierey has always been the chosen one
AoE2 and Dota are very different animals. Brains have a much greater weight in the first.Can you imagine a guy who barely playing the game winning nearly everything in Chess? SC2? Any other competitive discipline?
Just perfect execution of a very few things beats any strategy, any creativity, whatever. At this point It looks like in-depth just isn't there in this game.
Yeah you can say he's incredibly talented which might be true, but why he didn't get the same results in Dota which he's been playing a lot?