There are common clichés that a caster says about every player no matter the game:

"If anyone can make a comeback here, it is this player."

"If he plays at his best, he has a shot to beat any player in the world."

Both are innocuous statements meant to fill up air and try to keep the viewer engaged, but when they're scrutinized, they prove to be flimsy. Not everyone can win a championship. Even on their best days, mediocre players can never beat the best players, even on the best players' worst days. However, when applied to certain professionals, like Choi "Polt" Seong Hun, both statements hold truth.

Polt is one of the oldest veterans in the scene. He has been playing since the first Global StarCraft II League Open back in 2010, where he unveiled his 1-1-1 strategy and knocked out one of the favorites of the tournament Jang "MC" Min Chul. Since then, he's accrued multiple achievements to his name: GSL, ASUS ROG, Major League Gaming, Red Bull, and now, his fourth World Championship Series titles and numerous top 4 placings.

Yet he isn't some monster in the closet, some unstoppable juggernaut that no one can surpass. He hasn't been that way since his heyday back in 2012 or his second peak at the end of 2013/early 2014. If you look at the tangible skills he has, they aren't incredible. His micro wavers between below average to above average. His macro is lackluster. His APM lower than most pros (though very efficient). He often gets supply blocked. In these raw skill sets, there are many foreign players you can say are superior to him.

Choi "Polt" Seong Hun at the 2015 WCS Season 3 Finals Patrick Strack/ESL

Yet, it is Polt that is raising up his fourth WCS title; it is Polt who is one of the great all-time players; it is Polt that we laud as the champion. Why? The answer is because he makes the most out of what he has. Polt's strength is in his tactical genius, his composure and his experience. If there is one player you can count on to make a comeback in a game, it's Polt. He's proven it for years now as his standard modus operandi has been to lose the early and mid-game, but surge back in the late game with his superior tactical and strategic might. Polt is the player who finds his own paths to victory and understands his own strengths and how they match up to any player in the world. It is why Polt on his best day can still challenge the best players from Korea despite dropping sets or matches to a lot of players from overseas. He knows how to win with the tools available to him.

And this time Polt met Jens "Snute" Aasgaard in the finals. Snute is one of the all-time great foreign players of SCII; a player of great mechanical skill and a great strategic mind. Like Polt, he finds his own ways to victory and pursues his ideal style of always taking it to the late game and outplaying his opponents there. However, Snute's biggest weakness has always been his nerves. He can beat anyone in the earlier rounds of a tournament, even GSL and StarCraft II StarLeague Champions. But once it got to the round-of-8 and beyond, he'd start crumbling, playing nervously, indecisively. This didn't happen at all this WCS. Instead, Snute played more clutch than he ever has; more composed than he ever has.

In Polt's winner's interview, he alluded to this fact himself. He praised Snute as a great player, a player that forced him to pull out everything he had to win this finals. When you look at this series, you can't help but feel that is true. Polt's typical modus operandi is to just play for the late game. To take the hit early on in the games and play it out strategically. This time he mixed it up. He attacked Snute's weakness in the early game with outdated timing attacks that Snute would have no way to have practiced against for years. He won the late game with superior tactical skill and taking advantage of the map design to choke Snute economically. Despite playing well, Snute was only able to take two maps: one was a timing attack he executed himself, the other was light pressure that caught Polt off guard while he was going to execute a 5 rax all-in. It was then dragged to the late game where Snute closed it out easily.

Yet Polt's experience, preparation and skill won out. And with this victory he adds more hardware to his trophy case. Another achievement to add to one of SC2's greatest players. As for Polt himself? With his sponsorship ending with CMStorm, he is now looking to step forward onto the next part of his career. When asked by Paul "Redeye" Chaloner if he was looking for any teams, Polt simply said:

"I'm not looking. They will come to me."

A fitting attitude for the best player in WCS and one of SCII's greatest players.