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Joanas Starcraft 2 Guide vs Shokz – Which Strategies Works Best? Shokz or Joana’s SC2 Strategy Guide Reviews

You may have heard of Joana from his fame as a World of Warcraft player. He is most famous for breaking a leveling speed run a few years ago. After breaking the record, so many people asked him how it was done that he created a best selling leveling guide. Once Starcraft 2 was announced, he turned his sights on the game. From the first day of beta, he was playing non-stop for six months. He rose the ranks and reached diamond in all the brackets that he played in. Based on what he learned, he wrote one of the best guides available. Here is a Joana’s Starcraft 2 Strategy Guide review.
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After my purchase of Joanas starcraft 2, I was instantly given access to it’s members area. Here’s how it looks like :
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1. New Updates Location. Now Joanas mentions that there will be regular update, but from their current members area format, I can’t seem to find any link where new contents are added. Unlike shokz, where a blog is provided for you to know the new starcraft 2 contents he adds to his shokzguide. How do we know when new content is added in Joanas?
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2. Scrollability. Ok, I am using Google Chrome, and it seems like there is a problem with using the vertical scrolling when clicking/holding it with the left-click mouse button. I did scrolling through the mouse scrolling button, but it took too long to go to a specific section of the page. I tried it with mozilla firefox, and it’s ok.
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3. Going back to the menu. Each of the page you have access are quite long, so when going and clicking through the strategies, it leads to the the middle or bottom part of the page for each race(1 long page for each race, contains the strategies, & stuffs for that specific race). Now it is a pain to go to the menu again. I have to scroll back to the beginning of each page to access the menu. Wish Joanas could fix this and make the menu go with the scrolling.
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4. Advertisements. Well, it depends on you, but for me it’s better not to have other advertisements in the members area.
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joanas-starcraft2-guide-review-advertisements

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Now Joanas Starcraft 2 Members area contains these sections :
  • Joanas Starcraft 2 Guide – Basics
  • Terran Guide Menu
  • Zerg Guide Menu
  • Protoss Guide Menu
  • Coming Soon -> Single Player Campaign Guide
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In the ‘Basics’ Section, obviously this discusses about sc2 information, like :
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1. How you can compare sc2 with warcraft III. Warcraft players will know on the key differences of sc2.
-> Also know the 5 points that Joanas talks about, to shift your gaming mindset to be better at starcraft II.
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joanas-starcraft2-guide-review-vs-warcraft3

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2. About Microing & Macroing
-> Basically, Macroing is the combination of your gaming skills like gathering minerals/gas and then using them to create more and more buildings/structures, producing mass units, upgrading, and many more. This is basically the “strategic” part of the game. This can be a deciding factor since this can decide what units you can have, what army you can have, or what upgrades you can afford.
-> Microing is basically controlling your army, in scouting, moving, and in engaging your enemy. You can select specific units to micro concentrate fire on a single enemy unit, then use the shift+click, to proceed to the next target enemy unit when your current target enemy unit is destroyed. Or doing kiting, where you as a ranged unit attacks a melee unit, then just running when that enemy melee unit gets close, then hitting it again when in safe range.
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3. Starcraft II Lingo & Terms
-> When in conversation with other sc2 players, watching a video about specific sc2 strategies, searching google, or browsing/participating in sc2 forums, you should know what people are talking about, especially what they mean like when they speak about AoE(Area of effect, splash damage), harass(basically doing damage to your enemy’s resource gatherer’s – protoss’ probes, zerg’s drones, terran’s scvs).
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4. Some Unit & Building abbreviations - just some abbreviations
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Now how do this basic section fare against the general guides of shokz, well, it’s ok, but shokz is much more better. Shokz guide has more of the following :
  • micro videos
  • about map controls
  • some general tricks n tips
  • more hotkeys
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For each of Joanas ‘race guide menus’, It is also divided into :
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joanas-starcraft-2-guide-review-terran-guide-menu

1. The race units and its strategies. This section has the unit & that specific units strategy guide is merged into one. In shokz, these are separated.
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-> For the units, here is the layout :
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a. for each race, it shows :
->super weak against, weak against, okay against, & strong against
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joanas-starcraft-2-guide-review-unit-guide-table-description

-> unit description. Just some unit’s description, where to build, etc.
-> note-worthy skills. This also shows some starcraft II ability tips.
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joanas-starcraft-2-guide-review-skills

-> how the specific unit fare against each of the races(including it’s own race)
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joanas-starcraft-2-guide-review-versus-race

-> specific strategies for the specific race unit
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joanas-starcraft-2-guide-review-unit-strategy-guide

b. The specific race against Protoss
c. The specific race vs Zerg
d. The specific race vs Terran
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-> Now for the specific race vs ‘race’ above, this contains 3 parts :
1. Opening Strategy -> What strategies are good at early game? What Rushes?
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2. Mid-Game Strategy -> What units and strategies are good during mid-game. what t2 units?
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3. Late Game strategy -> Go for those huge units? What enemy units to look out for when game drags on.
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joanas-starcraft-2-guide-review-late-game-strategy

These opening, mid and late game sections give you options for each progress of the game.
e. The race’s FFA Strategy – Fighting each other? How to build up your base accordingly, etc. What strategies you should use, and strategies are not recommended when you have multiple enemies.
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joanas-starcraft-2-guide-review-ffa-strategy

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6. Working with a Team for each race -> for 2×2, 3×3, or 4×4. What to focus on, what strategies? Should you rush? What works best?
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joanas-starcraft-2-guide-team-guides

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Now given all the basic guides, each race’s guides, each unit’s guide, strategy guides of Joanas, the layouts, and more, I would rate Shokz Starcraft 2 Guide higher than Joanas. There are also more neat content in Shokz, like :
  • ‘Request Feature’ option. You and along with all members can suggest what guides you want. The more members request a feature, it will be processed/made.
  • Building up the Shokz Community. e.g., through sc2 tournaments.
  • more new updates
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