so i finally got around to watching sky vs fov from wc3l finals..here they are again if you haven’t seen them: terenas stand and secret valley

on TS he used paladin and teched to tier 3 without expo against fov’s panda. he seems to be doing this no-expo tech a lot, but i don’t really watch many replays so maybe it’s the standard human strat now? fov uses necrowagon with gargs and sky adds paladin + bloodmage with knights, gyros and late mortars.

SV, sky gets the mountain king and creeps to level 3 but once again techs without expanding. fov got a DK this game and gets an early 2nd crypt but doesn’t make many gargs. sky goes for t2 hawks and eventually expands.

i think sky is so incredibly amazing.. he never seems to lose the same way too many times before moving on to something new. i used to whine a lot about elf having too many choices for units/strategy but it seems like human has a few options too!??! seems like there are new strats out before i’ve even practiced the old ones

but yeah these strats seem to really rely on hitting acolytes and hurting UD economy instead of expanding to get the economic advantage… otherwise hawks vs gargs 1 base vs 1 base SUCKS