quiksilver87 said:
True, for some reason rifles take mad micro against bears. And many times you end up losing even with high micro. But it can be won.
IMO, storm played AWESOME in the last tournament. He really showed his skills!
Here is my take on APM. Higher APM doesn't necessarily mean you are a better player than lower apm. Many people SPAM actions just for the sake of moving somewhere! But if you were to take an average of all players, yes in general, higher APM does indicate better micro. You might think that spamming actions is totally useless, but think of it. The more you spam actions the more aware you are in the game, less things you forget to do, and the quicker your reflexes and decisions are. By spamming actions I dont only mean movement and attacking actions, it is also like when you jump around the map and do things here and there.
Have you ever seen a GOSU not SPAM ACTIONS? DO YOU THINK 200 APM IS ALL USEFULL ACTIONS? HELL NO! IT JUST KEEPS THEM ON THEIR TOES FOR THE GAME. If youve ever seen a video of TOD or DIDI8 playing, you'll know what I am talking about.
Yes you said what i think in short quik
BUT
1) i dont think 300 apm includes only micro and other actions but also selection, that you call useless. Still, do you think that without useless selection, if his actions come from micro and that stuff not SPAM, he wont get at least 150+ apm (with SPAM over 200 or some -> 300)?
2) Giving our BG player mTw-DIDI8 for example is not right for gosu with low apm , cuz DIDI8 makes 300 apm and in his interview to 'How do you get this insane apm?' he says he never stays in the base but smth is always in constant movemnt.. ToD also gets 190-220 but not below.
When i get 160-170 apm i use the useless selection as you call it, but a gosu doesnt make more selections than me in the beginning. The reason why i would get this 160-170(BTW it doesnt all come from selections, i also play fast with uisng many things) and a gosu 200+ is because we have equal selections in the beginning but the
reset is he plays faster, uses more things faster than me .
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Now SEE why im talking about apm. Game is HU vs HU and i get my record for relatively long game of 178 APM! And he has below 100. Why do you think i get this record, because i spam more ????? Just see, i start with usual selection in which if you check apm sometimes i get only 150-160 even 140+ if i play static game . What made this record are the many micro and multiple action you see? I lost but i had much better mico than him.
And if you know, the reason to post this game is not APM but exactly the micro game even though i lost. And this apm, i dont think about apm during the games as i said, this 178 came by itself -from more micro than usual. He finally forced me without expo, he had expo and the reason why the game holded so long was micro you know ? He had 0 micro so so but the rest he did just checj it quik. MAp: LT.
Now you see the logical connection about apm ? You play fast enough, you micro more --> you get higher apm.
Thus, when i say higher apm it means 'I showed more micro'. This game if i had the same as his and expo the game was mine cuz i had better micro.
