Kim "sOs" Yoo Jin showed dominant skills throughout his championship run at IEM Taipei, capped off by a blowout victory over "ByuN" Hyun Woo in the finals.

In the first round, he easily demolished Jang "MC" Min Chul in a 3-0 sweep. His hardest challenge came in the semifinals, where he had a rematch of his $100,000 winner-take-all showdown with Kim "herO" Joon Ho. It was an electrifying match that showed the strengths of both players and demonstrated how the PvP dynamic has changed. In the end, sOs proved he was once again herO's superior and won the match 3-2.

In the finals, sOs met ByuN. This was ByuN's first outing outside of Korea in the three years since his appearance at the IGN ProLeague, and it marked more than two years since he last played in an official LAN. But he showed no rust as he defeated David "Lilbow" Moschetto in near record time, winning the best-of-five series in less than 20 minutes. ByuN then played Kim "Soulkey" Min Chul in the semifinals, edged him out with a 3-2 victory.

For ByuN, this was his first finals since his Global Starcraft II Code A back in January 2011. For sOs, it was just another day at the office. ByuN showed uncharacteristic composure as he stuck to his builds and play style to battle sOs. And perhaps that would have worked if sOs were any other Protoss player in the world. In typical sOs finals fashion, he showed why he is one of most clutch players in Starcraft II's history and one of the great mind-gamers. Editor's Picks StarCraft II's shrinking talent pool

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In the finals, sOs pulled out two builds that had not yet been seen in competitive Starcraft II play. On the first map, he went for an incredibly greedy four-base double-forge build that went up before ByuN realized what was going on. He then closed the game out with carriers. For sOs' second victory, he expanded to three gold bases and overwhelmed ByuN with mass units. After that, it was just a sweep as sOs got bored of playing around with ByuN and crushed him quickly to clean up the series 4-2.

It was a finals reminiscent of many of sOs' past finals, as he would sweep through the competition with incredible ease. The most fitting parallel is his 2014 Hot6ix Cup victory over Lee "MarineKing" Jung Hoon. MarineKing's backstory was similar to sOs' at that time: MarineKing had retired from Starcraft 2 to try his hand at League of Legends. Once he failed there, he switched back, but he was unable to accomplish anything until the patch hit Protoss and the metagame turned to fit his greedy play style. He swept through the Protoss competition, but once he met sOs, he was summarily slaughtered and sent into a slump he has yet to recover from.

Similarly, ByuN had finally returned from his three-year exile from competition. He went into this tournament as a possible contender to win the whole thing and was hyped as one of the top two Terrans playing the game -- and possibly the best player in "Legacy of the Void." He even defeated sOs previously in the StarCraft II StarLeague qualifiers in a metagame that was stronger for the Protoss than it is now.

Yet once again, sOs proved that he shows up for the big game. He crushed ByuN with such ease and style that the series could be described as a sadist's dream. With this victory, sOs has firmly established himself as one of the strongest Protosses in Korea, which is ironic, as he was knocked out of both SSL and GSL and will be unable to attend any other individual tournaments until they restart again in six months.

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Choi "Polt" Seong Hun played an impressive series against Soulkey, which he narrowly lost, 2-3. While one best-of-five series isn't much of a skill test, it at least bodes well for his Terran-vs.-Zerg matchup.

Soulkey played two close series against both Polt and ByuN. He played both roach/ravager and muta/ling/bling, and he was caught off guard by early attacks and struggled to master high-octane multitasking when using the roach/ravager. He will need to fix those mistakes if he want to continue through and possibly win a league in Korea.

HerO continues to struggle in PvP. On the bright side, this was his best PvP performance, even though he lost. At least this time he can take solace in the fact that he earned money.

And what about ByuN? Will he follow MarineKing's example and go into a massive slump after a humiliating defeat to sOs? Usually I'd say no, but in ByuN's case, it happened before after he faced Ahn "Seed" Sang Won in his ro4 Code S match. That sent him into a downward spiral that he didn't recover from for years. Hopefully he doesn't tilt quite so hard this time around.