15:31 that was almost like a cartoon moment for this zealot.

Flash keeps making those small adjustments like adding a few more turrets + mines in the base + goliaths sooner + better timing attack ... at some point he will be unstoppable!

What would be a cool twist on this Flash series is maybe a couple games only cast with Flash's vision ONLY... might be more of a brain teaser on what he could be thinking with what he sees or didn't see.

So we finally have the answer to the question "how does Terran counter carriers?": "JUST BE FLASH!"

Gotta love the Archon derping around 18:40 mark

Carriers are nearly unstoppable, but the transition into them takes a long time, and as seen here, can be effectively punished of the opponent reads the switch.

The amount I've learned about playing Terran during these flash games has been more than watching Broodwar for the past 2 years combined

From when the carriers start the clock is ticking: 4 stargates = 4 carriers w/ 4 interceptors each: 2 Minutes and 20 seconds At this point you need 3 base with gas, working on a 4th, 3/2 upgrades, 200/200 supply, be across the map, have 12+ goliaths, be Flash 4 stargates = 8 carriers w/ 8/4 interceptors: 3 minutes 48 seconds at this point you are definitely dead

wow flash really dominated that one! nice win for him

10:03 Chills confirmed 😂❤

I can't wait for Season 18 of ASL! Thanks for always tying us over, Arty!

"chills... alright..." Artosis' passion for an asian man's terran plays gives me chills... alright.. that is what I want to see.

To be fair to Flash's monotonous gameplay these games probably occurred in the span of an afternoon

I love this new youtube format, where I get to find out what happens before I even watch the vid

Every day a new Artosis cast is the best thing ever

Excellent play by Flash. Thanks for casting

This is why it will never get boring watching Flash.

Imagine being that one zealot who got hit by like 10 mines at once

This is the Flash we know and love!

He's baaaaack! Artosis world giving us the best in Starcraft analysis

Always good to see some flash excellence

*Welcome back to FlashCasts

Flash is literally fine tuning his strategy like a Machine Learning model

Felt like flash realized that he was facing carriers when the templars kept psi storming only goliaths.. thats what i would've thought but idk if thats a common tatic so he can zealot bomb with the shuttles

"Oh god, OH GOD, that was a huge shot"

I think the toss should've had the carrier production spread around the map. You said "had he has the carrier production elsewhere" - well, then the flash would've been in that place, he went for the the production line.. So the Toss has to spread it.

The one and only counter to carriers: stop your opponent from getting carriers.

Watching from start to finish on 0.5x was very enjoyable. (Intoxicated Arty sounds funny)😂

Love to see it!

Learned the lesson and didn’t let him go with a lot of carriers, good job!

This Flash guy seems pretty good. I think if he keeps at it he might make a name for himself!

The Tosis doing the castosis!!

I feel like the video quality looks a little strange today, compared to some older videos...hm🤔

Ty arty!!❤

I LOVE YOU ARTOSIS!!!!!

Please more flash!!

Looking at that minimap before the final battle, I never thought Terran would win. I guess they don't call him God for nothing

Masterful play by Flash.

"templurs"

Yep nice one Artosis

Spoiler Blocker

that's well-blayed

Insane timing

Hey guys, welcome back to CastsFlash

seeing Flash put mines in his own base is a sign he is figuring out the meta.

Flash is back!

@artosiscasts I made a custom map with a CARRIER HARD COUNTER. It's the only video on my channel.

Great game!!

Flash finally made a volture play, prev games he had 0 of them

flash's timing gave me CHILLS

very exciting match

So I have thought about this for YEARS... and finally I think I have a couple ideas worth saying. Specifically this is about how to DEFEND a 3rd / 4th Base as Terrian vs Defiler, Ling, Ultra, Lurker... Zerg Late game basically. Sense this is the latest Arty vid... just going to toss it down here... 1. Dark Swarm with a Single Lurker in it... or even 2 Spread... seems like the PERFECT time for Optical Flare. Can't kill them? Well Make it so they likewise can't kill you! 2. Defending a Base using anything but Battlecruisers either doesn't work or is HILLARIOUSLY Cost ineffective... so here is the proposal in full... 2a) Start the expansion by mining the GAS with a hand full of Bio as Defense... this gas mining will fuel the BC Defense. 2b) Put a Bunker down INSIDE the Mineral line as FAR away from the ramps as possible... best done when minerals are top or bottom of CC. The fire from the Bunker makes it impractical to target the SCV's... who mining away cause all kinds of disruptions... and can easily Repair 2c) Have 3 BC's and 2 Medics be your picket forces out in front. The BC's are positioned quite far ahead... above, over, and even beyond the ramp entrance a bit. They are there to pew pew attackers and Yamato Defilers. Spread should be as such so only 1 can be Plagued at a time. The 2 Medics are there to be annoying and sound the alarm when attacked. Restore Plagued BC's... and Optical Flare Lurkers if things go truly interesting. Without Dark Swarm on your CC / in the mineral line the BC's and Bunker should be more then enough Defense. You will lose some SCV but likely won't even have to stop mining during the attack. Is this defense impossible to break? No. But it is rather cost effective at 24 Supply and the counter attack option with 3 BC's that far forward is quite good as well.

What would Flash do…? Switches on his Flash timings to kick some Protoss bntt! GG!

Flash feel like a different person, like someone is showing the new meta moves to flash...

The winner just steamrolled, gg.

You should do his series against Best btw, that's when he learned and finally went 5-factory. It's also where he won a game.

One thing Bisu made a grave mistake, is he's Luring Flash in the Carrier Production base. Some carriers being popped out getting slaughtered by Goliaths

I feed this helps demonstrate something to me that flash should be aiming for. On like three of his games his timing attack around carrier time kind of rolled whatever base he chose but ultimately lost due to carriers getting too much. Why not just identify and hunt the carrier production base first?

Just on time 😅

15:30 that is pure gold comedy man

I've said it before in so many words, but Flash's gamesense is kind of outrageous.

Dang, guess we won't see the NFT build any time soon.

Chills.

You da man arty

Sick game

He didn't say hey guys : (

GREAT GAME

Flash killer instinct is deadly

Pro-toss or Pro-DOS?

Two macro GODS walk into a bar...

Bush should have his star gate base @ 1 o clock instead get flash kill 5 o’clock base and you get 12 carriers

Well this explains why Protoss doesnt go to carriers more often, feels like they really need to heavily reduce the tank count at least once, or get lucky and hide the stargates long enough.

Artosis does only flash practice like this, or do all of the pros practice like this. I know this a bit of a nerdy question should pros try and adopt flashes practice habits? And what is flashes practice habits?

Did bisu miss his max timing because he forgot to upgrade legs? I feel like that was a very slow leg upgrade

24 day flash streak

hey arty, how about that game where light went triple CC against best on troy, huh? (KCM 2024 S3 W1)

What are the advantages of upgrade terran that Flash wants to go for it every single game?

Timing comments

GG

bisu felt bad for him and gave him game 10.... thats what it feels like

I feel like Bisu's macro wasn't great this game. He ended with 100 supply and 2k/1k in the bank.

That was the mother of all timings. And I feel like carriers are overrated (but I'm a noob, so there's that). Not because they were weak. They are the ultimate weapon, they demolish Terran. But why risk it? Bisu was ahead, the transition to carriers is super dangerous, and the transition to arbiter isn't. Arbiters, while almost as strong as carriers, don't have any exploitable weakness (cheaper & quicker) when you're in Bisu's position at the 15:00 minute mark (3 mains vs one). Just pump 2 Stargate Arbiter, get their energy upgrade as well, and put 10 gates in each main. And as soon as Terran steamrolls one of the mains, suicide recall into their base (arbiters can be recalled as well, yes?) and block one of those tiny ramps with stasis. I always feel like stasis is massively (!) overrated in open field battles, because it blocks zealots and forces Protoss to stay in one spot to dispose of unfreezing units. But stasis on the ramp to the main base, cutting off reinforcements? Terran HATES that, because rebuilding your base/depots isn't really a thing with Terran. And yes, vessel EMP can theoretically intercept that, but that's not going to cut it in the long run (EMP is fickle against repeated suicide arbiters). Nor will mines in the Terran base. Then again, I'm a noob. :P

Now we can see why you shouldnt go to carriers every game.

why not make one wraith for the shuttle in the early game, and valkyries against interceptors?

I don't know man. Somehow i think that maybe, just maybe, SC indeed needs a tiniest patch

Let's place bets, I think flash is going to settle on 3 fac over 2 fac at a minimum for this. This still looked really weak and killable at many different points

so wait, is protoss just going to gamble????

ggs

Would it break the game if vultures could buy more mines like reavers buy scarabs?

Why is Flash having 500 apm against 300 of Bisu right at the beginning? 😂

Flash would lost that

gg

For the algo

Flash drew the logical conclusion that if bisu doesnt attack into him he most likely transitions - fool me once? shame on me, fool me twice shame on YOUUUU then it doesnt even matter, 200/200 tank vulture push, reinforce with goliaths and he will be fine - very smart and enjoyable to watch, because the push has such massive momentum and doesnt lose any moment due to the small army size of protoss, reinforcing with goliath isnt even a big gamble at that point im very curious of how the meta will change from this point on, because protoss will be forced to bomb terran or transition faster before terran is maxed ? Is that even possible, because flash is a scanning monster and will probably pull the trigger earlier ? seems like turtle terran, albeit super duper boring for 15 minutes wins (what a surprise?)... just like in SC II with boring turtle terran play... i just dont think terran turtle should be able to get soooo much map info without moving out of base at all... id like to see some arbiter gateway man vs flashs 7min 3rd CC upgrade terran turtle style (on citadel) id also like to see more map variation of flash vs bisu - i just really cant find tvp enjoyable on citadel because protoss legit has almost no option for rotation vs. terran on this map, the 4th and 3rd are always so close together that u can form a single tank line with heavy focus on the 3rd, because the 4th is so choked and heavily protected by terrain.... vulture movement is key and reinforcements to either are so damn quick because its literally on the rally point of terran why does bisu not crunch on the 3rd with a smaller task force from the north (stairs) and the mid? seems like he could potentially bomb terrans tank deep enough so he could break the 3rd from the northern stairs with goons (+1reaver ?) or at least heavily harass SCVs one of the games they played he did that when flash spawned on the 4 o clock base, he harassed the 3rd from the stairs and bombed from the middle as well and it was decently successful? SO MANY QUESTIONS artyyy please give us some in depth analysis of this game compared to the last two... its so confusing to see bisu smash flash and then suddenly not being able to smash him, even though technically in the past games they were pretty darn close to being even before the triggers had been pulled (e.g. last game after vulture drop before bisu bombs flashs 3rd)

Just rename it Flash casts and be done with it 🤣🤣🤣

Fuck work, lets just watch Starcraft!

SPOILER WALL

We want some PvZ now... Enough of the guy that just got out of the military... And the 2 fact armory-academy experiments...

Flash would have won

Like in SC2 terran needs a boost to the early game Econ and production. Protoss has every ability to dictate the early game with no downside and if you over react with 1 marine too many then your permanently behind in Econ as the protoss takes a third that will never be punished