agreed

True

Totally agree. They make a great casting couple. Statless!

Artosis was always b tier

State is fantastic.

It's funny bc he's actually exempt from military service because of his shoulder LOL!

@@rickyj3921 isnt he japanese?

Almost 30 year old man he is just small

You can't be GOAT, if you lose 86% of your matches to someone better!

@@hannulr6171 you are suppose to lose 100% of your matches to someone better than you. If you only lose 86% then you are GOAT.

@@hannulr6171 Is this a reference to Serral? I will be promoting Serral to GOAT status in another year or two if he continues his rampage.

Me in 2012 :wow protoss is garbage. Me in 2024: wow protoss is even worse than before.

You don’t need that. It’s way too predictable

Serral does seem to have Maru´s number in the heads up. No denying it. Serral is such a brilliant player, a true menace to everyone that faces him. One of the best of all time, for sure. With a solid case for the greatest of all time. But, in my mind, it´s somewhat hard to compete against 8 GSL titles.

Those tournaments are completely different too. Playing against double digit number of players over a weekend is vastly different from 2-3 possible opponents over several weeks. If Serral were actually the GOAT he'd compete in GSL

@@sanctuarygaming4984 On paper Serral is undeniably the GOAT. But I agree that we have a lack of data with Serral not competing in league style formats. It's kind of pointless to argue about that too much. Serral and Maru are absolute masters of their realms. Since neither Serral will ever compete in GSL nor Maru will go full allin on participating in overseas tournaments all the time while perhaps living in Europe being on a a foreign team, it'll just stay like that.

Slight balance adjustments targeted at Serral, maybe we see them face off in the dreamhack finals again

@@Terracronz right now Serral is in the military for 6 months. Next time Maru and Serral play is probably e-sport world cup, which is suppose to the the world championship of SC2 because the Saudi spent a lot of money on it. And then for the next 2 years we won't see Maru cuz he will go to military for 2 years.

For me it's the complete awe at how efficiently he plays. While absolutely crazy stuff is going on in the map, (sometimes to the point where you think Maru is losing a fight, and could be any precarious position) then you glance away for a matter of what feels like 30 seconds and look back and suddenly he is ahead 18 workers, has an upgrade lead and he's landed a third base with the fourth one building and it's all just "blah blah blah maru things". I don't really care that he's missing the world championship trophy, The reason that he is simply the best human being that's ever touched the game in my eyes is: the way plays when he's up against the wall, chips are down, And he's way behind, sometimes 70 supply behind.. The list of games [I have on a Google keep note] where he is that far behind and yet somehow grinds an impossible comeback like an absolute unkillable Jedi-Terran - is pretty long. For me that is what makes him quite fascinating and exhilarating to watch.. It's not just watching him play while he's ahead, it's witnessing the magic he can do with these units when he's BEHIND that keeps me coming back. Also those moments when he's being all-in'ed by the likes of Rogue, Reynor and Showtime (recently) and pulls off the most edge-of-your-seat clutch holds. That's my fav.

find lame they didnt shake hands

Really? 4-1 where a protoss feels like he needs to all-in a terran virtually every game?

That loss vs Oliveira really haunts Maru 😢

@@rickyj3921 Yes, I felt so bad for Maru that series. He had it within his grasp...but slipped. This year, he has a very good chance.

Maru is the GOAT of GSL, but nothing more than that.

@@charlie123abc cope

​@@charlie123abcdoes... does stuff outside of GSL really matter that much? It's like saying "well yeah this team might have won the Superbowl but they aren't *international* American football champions!".

And Carriers... and warp prisms... Terran looks ridiculous at the hands of a pro. Like comically OP compared to Toss/zerg.

@@ChristianNeffuntil Serral comes into the mix. He is ridiculous. Hopefully Protoss gets a Maru or Serral before SC2 dies

EIGHT

8sl

He already got G5L, 6SL, GS7, and now GSL 8

Co-op tryhards have entered the chat.

too expensive for what they do compare to Z and T. That's why toss always have to run away (and use force fields to escape) to the shields batteries, otherwise they get completed destroyed. The army size is always 20% to 40% lower than terrain/zerg until max out

He's unofficially retired per his little brother (Gumayushi)

get loud!

Yeah, really sucks :/

Adapt, he just said he changed after the first loss this series

Cause this matchup is a joke, hero still microed better than him this finals but he isnt playing terran

Maru smiles more often after losses than wins tbh

hero looked much better in other matches. Choke job maybe.

@@forte9910 I suspect it was the "patch effect". He was a lot stronger following the release of the patch. But the main problem with Protoss is the best way (currently) to play it is aggro and cheese. Once this is figured out, they struggle. The Stats games I watched were a genuine treat to witness...and if Prot went more down that direction...I think that would shift things a lot more than any future nerfs to terran or buffs to protoss ever would.

Protoss Logic: Deny my storm, OP... Storm, totally balanced.

Its a joke for the casters to say this was a good finals, hero played so bad

It kinda felt like he lost his composure after that sky toss build in map 2

😡😡😡😡😡

Camera zooms out from Hero and Stats is sitting under the desk with mouse and keyboard...

All i want is cure vs stats at the finals , they didn't even play against each other so sad

That is the real Spoiler Shild (of Aiur)

Lol