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by Benjammer 2989 days ago
I actually find the advanced micro to be far more interesting in the edge cases where you can break the game's balance system. I remember when the Brood War api first was released a while ago, there was an AI bot that won some competition with just mutalisks because the AI micro prevented them from overlapping their AOE hit boxes as they moved around. So you had mass mutalisks that the opponent couldn't use AOE against. It was able to effectively micro mutas against goliaths/corsairs/valkyries/etc.
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You don't even need an AI to do this. ByuN micros reapers so well that he was literally the only player at the top echelons of play who revealed they could be OP. Blizzard nerfed the reaper twice specifically due to his play.