Playing Style
Like other Protoss players, Bisu generally starts the games with commencing a second base, Corsair harass when confronting Zerg and subsequent attack of mixed units, including High Templars. Conducting a relentless, often harassing Probe scouting and known for superlative multitasking, Bisu widely uses Corsairs to gain air superiority and Dark Templar insults against Zerg. Bisu's harassment style and the use of Shuttles were praised particularly by Stork. Bisu popularized the associated opening against Zerg, which has been called "Bisu build": a Protoss player in such opening would warp in a Forge, skipping weapon upgrades, and having warped in a second Assimilator early, would ultimately proceed to Corsairs and Dark Templar harass, followed by extensive Gateway gameplay. Bisu subsequently qualified Corsairs and Dark Templars as his favorite units. With a few minor adjustments, Bisu’s fast base expansion, secured by one or more Photon Cannons, can be used further in StarCraft II Protoss versus Zerg gameplay.
Along with Corsair and Shuttle harass, Bisu's multitasking and Zealot timing rushes are considered standard for his matches against Zerg players. During the 2011 Shinhan Winners League match against Zerg player Peace, in particular, Bisu dispatched Zealots to Peace's two bases at different locations while eliminating Overlords with his Corsairs; after this split Bisu focused his Zealots on eliminating Peace's Drones while micromanaging his Corsairs to evade opponent's Scourges, making it seem as if four different persons were playing for Protoss.
In his gameplay against Protoss Bisu successfully used the so-called Manner Pylons to block direct access to his opponent's mineral fields and disrupt his economy. During the 2007 Shinhan Bank Proleague Bisu scored a fulminant victory over PokJu by placing a Manner Pylon close to PokJu's Probes and warping in two Gateways nearby. PokJu surrendered the game after three minutes. In the 2008 Incruit OSL Bisu applied the Manner Pylon against Much twice in a row, managing to keep the opponent behind by a slight margin. In the following year, at the WCG Grand Final, Bisu put two consecutive Manner Pylons at player PJ's base.
While hotkeying, Bisu usually sets F2 for the main Nexus, F3 for Gateways and F4 for the natural expansion. As described by Bisu in one of the interviews, his hotkey setup against Zerg, for example, could be "1" and "2" for Zealots, "3" for Dragoons, "4" for High Templars, "5" for Observers and "6", "7", "8", "9" for Gateways. Bisu's APM rate may oscillate around 332–391, as in his 3-game matchup against Stork in 2008 in particular.
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