The difficulty in PvT is that protoss is so heavily reliant on splash damage. All the decent splash (archons, giraffes and high templar) is hard countered by the standard MMMVG that terran goes with (and colossus does so little damage to anything that's not marines or SCVs anyway). This leaves just disruptors, but even in diamond league, a terran will easily dodge 95% of disruptor shots, and at lower levels you often hit your own units (e.g. chargelots) more often than the enemy as you've both got to control the disruptor ball and all your melee units. It's all very well zoning out the MMMVG with a disruptor ball, but if at some point you have to do damage to the terran army, zoning them out won't win games. As such, with how weak protoss is in PvT, I almost always cheese every terran, it's absolute folly to let it go to the late game.
Protoss is not weak in PvT. aligulac shows tournament level PvT is 56% (Protoss favored). PvZ is the same. Anything over 53-54% is considered IMBA if it stays that way for too many months. Just because Terran and Zerg more often win the Grand Finals in Premieres doesn't change the fact that Protoss win the most games in those tournaments. What is likely to happen in the next balance patch is Ghosts might get a very slight nerf as the unit has a bit too much power overall. Mech may get a tiny buff (Cyclones... Ravens... everything else is strong). Zerg is getting buffed for certain, a baneling nerf reverted and research times or something. If they do those things they might not need to nerf Protoss. Carriers can still be problematic for most pro Zergs so that might be a possibility. If Diamond Terrans can dodge 95% of Novas that would make them better than most pros lol. Protoss don't need Disruptors to make GM & balance has no impact whatsoever on your ladder matches. Most Protoss want the game to go late because of the massive late game advantage Protoss have and how easy it is mechanically (excluding the very very top players). If you want to avoid the late game as Protoss, you're somehow putting yourself behind in the early game or doing something very wrong. The players I've coached are almost always not using a real build order, poorly executing it and/or not understanding the opponent's build when they scout.
Really epic game!
Epic indeed
Terran fan but wanted to see USA win lol epic match great game
The difficulty in PvT is that protoss is so heavily reliant on splash damage. All the decent splash (archons, giraffes and high templar) is hard countered by the standard MMMVG that terran goes with (and colossus does so little damage to anything that's not marines or SCVs anyway). This leaves just disruptors, but even in diamond league, a terran will easily dodge 95% of disruptor shots, and at lower levels you often hit your own units (e.g. chargelots) more often than the enemy as you've both got to control the disruptor ball and all your melee units. It's all very well zoning out the MMMVG with a disruptor ball, but if at some point you have to do damage to the terran army, zoning them out won't win games.
As such, with how weak protoss is in PvT, I almost always cheese every terran, it's absolute folly to let it go to the late game.
Protoss is not weak in PvT. aligulac shows tournament level PvT is 56% (Protoss favored). PvZ is the same. Anything over 53-54% is considered IMBA if it stays that way for too many months. Just because Terran and Zerg more often win the Grand Finals in Premieres doesn't change the fact that Protoss win the most games in those tournaments.
What is likely to happen in the next balance patch is Ghosts might get a very slight nerf as the unit has a bit too much power overall. Mech may get a tiny buff (Cyclones... Ravens... everything else is strong). Zerg is getting buffed for certain, a baneling nerf reverted and research times or something. If they do those things they might not need to nerf Protoss. Carriers can still be problematic for most pro Zergs so that might be a possibility.
If Diamond Terrans can dodge 95% of Novas that would make them better than most pros lol. Protoss don't need Disruptors to make GM & balance has no impact whatsoever on your ladder matches.
Most Protoss want the game to go late because of the massive late game advantage Protoss have and how easy it is mechanically (excluding the very very top players). If you want to avoid the late game as Protoss, you're somehow putting yourself behind in the early game or doing something very wrong. The players I've coached are almost always not using a real build order, poorly executing it and/or not understanding the opponent's build when they scout.