ByuN's widow mine

Ah, I see. When you said "(I'm assuming, haven't gotten to Masters yet)" I thought you were saying you were assuming that I haven't gotten to masters yet - as a jab at me.

But this all does come from you saying :

Strongly disagree, even at my relatively shit skill level I can split against mines or just get detection and kill it before it launches.

It's hard to take you seriously when you say things like that. Sure, in GSL we see terrans manually target mines often. But almost always at the beginning of the game when there's less going on and almost always in the mineral line.

And we do sometimes see successful splits against mines. But most of the time we don't; we see massive mine hits (though this one is particularly spectacular). Honestly in terms of micro I think even at the pro level it's just better to not engage because even at the pro level splitting against mines is really hard. Units are so small, the line indicating the targeted unit is hard to see, the mine fires so quickly (as opposed to the huge delay in seeker missile impact) etc. It's similar to how we see stim backwards and medivac pickup more than marine splits: just more efficient use of apm.

You're saying that because I think M + GM players target their mines, I'm implying M + GM players are better than GSL players, because GSL players never manually target their mines. Is this the implication you're talking about?

No, the implication is from when you said that even at your shit level of playing you have no problems with widow mines. But here in this clip we see Rogue having trouble with widow mines in a non-manually targeted situation where he's not splitting his units (which you say is a bronze/silver level of mistake).

So since you're claiming that you don't have problems with widow mines and we clearly see GSL level zergs having problems with widowmines, then the implication is that you must be better than them.

Combine that with my misreading of your comment about masters level and that on this sub people really do act like nothing is bad game design, "you're just a noob", get to masters and you wont have that problem etc etc and I think you can understand the implication I'm talking about.

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