Terran from being harrased by mutas to harass zerg with wraiths , oh how the tables have turned and i love it

valks annihilating mutas never gets old

The brilliance of this game is how it can still find ways to reinvent itself this many years later

Can't get enough BishOp wraith play.

ohhh, this is so cool for another reason. Such a refreshement and a break from the ZvT "Build turrets and defend against mutas" meta

8:04 Who's going to win A space starfighter with missiles and invisibility that is operated by a pilot with years of training or A flying colon

Man this was crazzy. To think we could be moving into an erra of SCBW where Zurg cant just blindly build spire and win with Mutas.

Ok legit the best wraith build/execution I’ve ever seen 👏🏻

one thing i love about these matches is that I'm never rooting for anyone in particluar. I just love great plays being made.

10:55 that play was amazing. Using the wraiths as bait for the valks was genius. Gotta love BishOp

I know you said he shouldn't build spores, but he should build spores.

"is this broken?! He didn't lose a single unit!" that Terran in me swells with pride witnessing this match.

Starcraft evolves again! Let's go baby!

Wow. Spoiler alert: … That most the most dominant performance I’ve ever seen in a high level SC match. AWESOME! Bishop’s a BEEEEEAAAAST!!!

Jaw-dropping wraith play - if you are old enough to remember when mutas were imbalanced like RT said it's glorious.

They are so much cooler than the derpy Viking. In fact unit design in Sc 1/brood >>>> Sc2

I could watch these two games on repeat all day. Holy hell this Wraith build is so fun to watch!

Glad to see the tables turned on Zerg with air unit micro.

Awesome, so many innovative games in these series.

That was cool!! Exciting and scary at the same time if you had to face it. A quick, powerful attack.

That first round was very impressive. Love seeing terren own zerg early air game!

I'm curious what BishOp's transition would be against a Hydralisk response. He has to expect that as a possibility and have something ready to counter it.

Love these casts!

Nice little wraith extension to bait the mutas into the valk trap. The burrow was good to remember. There's a lot of room to play against it, but no counters will involve charging in scourge alone, unflanking, and without a distraction.

The big issue here is needing to go one-base. You really need to do massive damage to not lose here. It does look almost impossible to beat without Spores tho (and Wraiths have enough range to micro against Spores pretty well).

Love the air battle. Wraiths into Valkyries with a handful of Mutas and turrets for detection of burrow! Sheesh.

Bishop avenges every Terran that was forced to gg by quick mutas.

it makes me so happy seeing T throw the air dance domination right back at the Z

Wow. Amazing play. Mutabuilds felt.really opressive and like an instawin against Terran, like 2 months back even. Now Bishop is doing some amazing work here.

After playing a bunch of command and conquer ... Terran is honestly just like the Brotherhood of NOD. Lots of stealth tactics aka cloaked Wraiths and Ghosts

Can you imagine if zerg players will stsrt having to turle behind spores at a certain time now? Just as they forces T to do behind turrets for the longest time

You had me at wraiths

Meta change into just a whole new type of unit, basically. You gotta love it.

The Wraith attack is NOT a double attack btw. The animation has 2 missiles, but it is treated as a single attack, so armor isn't actually all that useful against them.

I sometimes wonder if it would be healthy for Zerg matchup meta in general if Devourers didn't require Greater Spire but just needed a morph research upgrade from the regular Spire, like Lurkers.

long time Melee player. learning to adapt is always more rewarding than waiting for a patch.

Gotta say that's some next level micro.

Not gonna lie, I sit here with great amount of smugness, after years of being on the receiving end of muta harrass, watching zerg taste their own medicine. Tables have turned indeed.

10 10 10 Flash did it in season 8 vs snow

I’ve tried so hard to learn wraith micro years ago and just seeing potential like this gives me hope (I still suck)

DOMINATING!!!!!

"best defense is a good offense"

Nice job Bishop for winning both games using two port wraith’s strategy. For the first game, if Zerg had built the spore colonies just ahead of time, the Terran player would had a hard time breaking through the base.

2nd match was like bish0p simply says "no". 1st match I thought "Isn't that too passive for Bish0p? Did Artosis clickbait us again with a thumbnail?" I was wrong... How much was I wrong? Like going 1 carapace against Bish0p.

extra nice series

Incredible games and ridiculously one sided

Really cool strat! I wonder why no static D in response.

Love to see tech terran tactics

Insane chills

2 Wraith meta in 1 video~! Love it~!

That wraith micro was CRAZY

Holy fuck Bishop is wild!

Omgggg I literally have chillzzzzzz

DOMINATION!

Broodwar is amazing, you can find use for any unit - except the Scout

Sometimes broodwar feels as new as all the new RTS coming out.

Calling it Now: Queens and Ghosts will become meta again. Aka parasite / ensnare / lockdown.

I understand 2 port wraith can be situational but Bishop made that look like using any other build is dumb.

If z/p revolves around the corsair it makes sense that t/p will revolve around the wraith

Awesome seeing both wraiths and burrow being used in a real game

you love to see it

Love the series, great games

Man, I remember when everyone would just laugh at wraiths as useless annoyances. They can easily supply block a zerg :D

Isn't it possible to place the spore between the minerals and the base like in SC2? Or it messes the mining too much?

I fucking love watching wraiths do muta micro to mutas.

There are just a few of those units in BW that you feel like are underused (for good reasons). But dang, a frickin composition like that in game 1? Yeshhhhhhh.

When a game leaves a man who has played and watched literally tens of thousands of hours speechless.

Artosis can you explain what a championchip mind is?

Most of the time, Terran gameplay can get a little stagnant, or feel unexciting to someone who doesn't play the race. But OH MY BISH0P. Its ridiculous.

Ya gotta be a hydra opening, I could see fast 2.5 hatch into spores, but where do you go from there to secure the 3rd base? Hydras lol.

Love me some air battles.

I believe hydra's explosive damage are way more effective against wraith's. Not that i play as zerg tho, but clearly going mutalisk agaist wraith is not a good plan. I believe that sometimes this type of play, that no one use except some expert or a experimenting guy, tend to confuse the oponent. I mean here we are talking of pro's but even then, i suppouse not many terran go for this build, so probably not a lot of zergs know exactly how to beat it. The ensnare is a good counter but for it depends on a lot of factors to be succesfull, like hiting the timing of having the queen with energy before getting reck, not missing the spell shot wich will be challenging with that type of micro. I still believe going hydra and aiming for a longer game is the way to deal with it, becouse with that level of micro, you would never beat the wraith + valkyrie with only mutalisk + scourge its just too much splash damage and movement unless you have the numbers wich again with that harassment of the drone's even if it dont get killed, you get way behind in resourses, resourses that you need to have more units if the plan is to overwhelm the enemy with scourges and mutalisk. The few times i did manage to use the really dificult corsair + reaver tactic back when i did play all day this game, i think many zergs are not use to deal with it, and end up not knowing what to do. And when you have your opponent in a defensive position for too long, that give you a window for getting more bases, more resourses, more production in general. And im not for sure a genious at shuttle+reaver micro, but when you strike zerg's with that flexibility they just crumble really fast. You go drop, kill all within seconds with 3 shuttle full of reaver, and get out before they can counter you. I love that strategy for that, but its really hard to manage so many shuttle in direct fight with the zerg army. I feel like this wraith strategy is doing kind of the same effect, zergs that are not really prepared for that kind of harasment tend to crumble really fast, they are so use to be the harasers, that when they get harass indeed have a hard time.

Are you sure spores are bad? arty_?

Whooaaaa😮

Wriaths air attack is a single attack, even when they shoot two rockets, they are a single hit.

Hate the new format but hey... thanks for casting this awesome tournament!

I think Yoon researching overlord vision would have got him a better chance against the wraiths. Also the wraiths zone out the scourge making it easy to the valks

Sweet!

love that terran player

Awesome gameplay by Bishop. For Yoon... going back to creativity. Mechanics are 100% there but understanding how to deal with "off meta" builds everyone becomes clueless. 0 spores, few hydralisks? You tell a Zerg they need to build a spore and everyone loses their mind!

bishop for president

wooo!

Terran never has had their meta phase

Why this is not being used in ASL then?

"He lost ZERO units" before panning down to the marine splatters with mutalisks sitting overhead got a laugh out of me. Environmental storytelling.

This is why I just build 120 hydralisks. Nothing beats 120 hydralisks.

Wraiths....chef's kiss.

broooo valks mixed with the cloaked wraiths shred any air

Holy cow

forgot, how much energy does it cost to initiate cloak, 25?

hahahah, it's funny how he doesn't even have to chnage his strategy. Zergs will have to come up with sth :D

Cnsl been wildin

SPOILER BLOCK

Kudos to BishOp he knew that zerg is rushing to Mutas gets countered by wraiths and Valks

gg

What about hydra Man with uogrades

I fucking love it, zerg getting wrecked by air units in early game zvt

Are Whyman and Yoon twins?

I think burrow zerling vision is a little too efficient. You get two zergling for 1 supply and with borrow still retain full vision. maybe burrowed units should lose half of their vision range.

ggs