Sense of Star

Sunken Specialist
He has an unnatural sense that can determine the limits as he controls the seemingly uncontrollable factors for attacking a sunken line: the flow of units, speed, position, managing the rate of attack with stim pack, controlling firebats for any possible zerglings, and maintaining the health of the units with control of the medics.

Pyromaniac
He uses more firebats than the average Terran. He relishes firebats and the color red. If he does not get the randomly assigned color red in his game, he'll just make more firebats to mix in the color.


Below translated from Fighterforum.com:

All players have their own styles.

BoxeR uses the dropship exquisitely, and YellOw assaults his opponents like a storm.

Sync, aka Qoo)BlazE, viciously forces through the Zerg defensive line with units made from the barracks.

Seoul, January 7th, 2005. The fourth week in the 16-round of the IOPS Starleague. The crowd was stunned as Sync tore through the sunken colony line with only a small number of bionic forces. Though he lost the game in the end, Sync's style would once again be engraved into the minds of the people.

How is it that Sync's bionic units, in comparison with other progamers, break through the sunken colony line so easily? After the match, the interviewers asked him, "How is it that you break through the sunken colonies so well? Is there a secret to it?" He answered plainly, "I just do it."

Where does that strength come from, to be able to tear through the sunken colonies so ruthlessly? I investigated this mystery by analyzing the replay of the game.

Six minutes after the game started, Sync approached the opponent's entrance with 12 marines, 4 medics, and 4 firebats, as he sent an SCV to verify the number of sunken colonies and defensive units. There were 4 sunken colonies, 2 additional sunken colonies being made, and 4 zerglings.

At this point, most Terrans would retreat. The two sunken colonies would soon be completed, and the Zerg could supply zerglings from the three hatcheries at any time. Sync, however, checked the condition of the opponent by using the scan, and plunged into the sunken colonies, ripping through the six. It was horrific.

That was all I could gather from watching the replay. What, then, is the thing that makes others call him the "Spark Terran," and what is the driving force behind it? I decided to set up an experiment.

After selecting Protoss for myself and the computer as my opponent, I used the cheats to upgrade the dark archon and mind-control a drone and an SCV. I then made a sunken colony, a marine and a medic. I also researched the stim pack and upgraded the range for the marine.

After using the stim pack, I sent one marine with a medic to attack the sunken colony. With an attack of 6, the marine damaged the sunken colony each time it fired by 4 HP, because the colony has a basic defense of 2. That would mean that the marine would need to fire roughly 75 times to destroy a sunken colony. After testing it, it was about 78 to 80 times, because of the Zerg's healing ability. On average, the marine cut about 140 to 150 HP of the sunken colony.

What about the firebat? It's commonly known that a firebat is fairly useless in attacking a building structure. The firebat's attack is 16, but against any structure it only does 25% damage. After using the stim pack, the firebat with the medic was able to fire about 25 to 26 times. The HP of the sunken colony was reduced by about 112 to 120. The results were completely opposite to the common belief that firebats are ineffective against buildings. The conclusion is that when a firebat supports a marine, sunken colonies will break quickly.

The answer finally surfaced after watching the replay again. Sync's two firebats persistently attacked the sunken colonies as the marines stood behind the firebats, attacking the sunken colonies separately. After the marines used the stim pack one more time, four sunken colonies began to break up in sequence, starting from the center.

Sync, the "Spark Terran" - the driving force is his firebats.


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