I will say I agree with him that Ascension is a fruity pick for Larva to make at the 4th game spot, I’d assume he’d take Ultimate Stream because of how good he plays against protoss on that map, but I guess it doesn’t seem like he had many options overall I won’t go into the maps on my side of the preview, TaardadAiel does a good job on the overall for that so scroll down for it. Versatility is absolutely crucial when it comes to dealing with a player like mini, where ZerO is solid and is very capable of getting things done, he’s slow to adapt his gameplan in a series, Larva can abandon his plans with reckless abandon and its backfired on him several times as well but its also served him well like against rain in ASL4 to just do things differently. Regardless he did beat him to get here, and having a winning record against almost everyone else shows how hes versatile in the matchup.

Offline in this season alone Larva has taken out the 2 topmost protoss sitting on the sponbbang rankings, Bisu and Larva in their Ro16 group, both being big and mostly decisive victories for him, but lets look at his online PvZ from sponbbang(stats taken from April onwards)Īdditionally he also has one game against huro, taking the overall winrate against protoss at 62.1%.Ī winrate above 60% in a matchup is a big deal and outside of having some form of mental block against Bisu, maybe from all the years of torturous training from the T1 house. Twice before he’s made it to the Ro4 but never further, both times it was ZvZ, falling to hero in a close series back in ASL4 and then again last season in ASL10 against ZerO who eventually went on to win the season and now finally in ASL11 he beats hero to make it here to face off against Mini, his odds are on paper really good but its a matter of momentum here and what Mini showed against ZerO in their semifinal match is easily one of the most confident plays imaginable one that I imagine Larva has done everything he possibly could to scout it out because Mini isn’t going be doing much of that himself. In fact the last time I saw Larva come this close to major championship gold in Korea was in the first ever major offline finals since the end TVing OSL 2012 and the end of the KeSPA Era, in the finals of SSL7 against Killer all the way back in December 2012, its been a long 9 years and a few good ASL runs in them, but this is the first time he’s been to the finals since then. Big Shot Larva is a lot of things, a hell of an entertainer, passionate starcraft player, a father, but what hes never been is a Champion.

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