Seriously one o on f the best moments of StarCraft I’ve ever seen. Maru really knows how to hold on!

Why no vikings in that game I am wondering?

:D Grandpa level advice, love it :D

​@@hungpo454clem just knows how to deal with serral since they play many times before.

Yeah it looks like he just mentally gave up. Game One was definitely insane.

Which caster do u like best?

@darfboony824 so hard to choose a best, as each have their unique flairs! However, it probably would be close between lowko and winter. I do watch beo, pig, steadfast and rotten as well.

Know that feel exactly! Serral is just painting art while all others are playing a videogame it feels like sometimes.

@@Zamiroh hahaha same, i cant choose which one is my fav, but i know i dont like winter. Lol

@darfboony824 yeah winter is unique! I appreciate his sarcasm as I relate, but I could see it easily not resonating with everyone!

I guess playing against Serral has Maru's mind in shambles, because he does not look like the 2nd or 3rd best player in the world when facing the finn.

It feels like they could make a couple more tiers after grandmaster. In ascending order: -The master's master (players like Maru and Dark) -Serral

i think you mean game twooooooo

Maru, Dark, Reynor, hero, clem - tier 1 Serral - tier 0

Everyone, even some of the best of all time, makes mistakes. And unfortunately those mistakes get exploited to the nth degree.

It’s like Maru has mastered SSJ2 while Serral already has SSJ3 in his pocket.

@@SebastianBlixssj?

@@ZerglingLoverSuper Sayjin. DBZ.

Yeah but also record cat as well :D

Lowko on catnip could be the best thing ever

He did actually do that in a few games, lowko even cast 1 of them, maybe even more than 1.

That’s what I was thinking, but I didn’t want to question the grandmaster lowko

"Please stop saying it's a bad thing to mine out a base faster. " Damn that made you emotional xD

The real downside to mules in those lategame situations is that they destroy a part of the minerals due to having lifetime to mine but not complete their last return trip.

@@Komatik_ good point, I didn't think about that. So yes there is one minor down side. I think if you asked most the pro gamers though if they could choose between getting 3,000 minerals in 10 minutes or 3,200 in 14 minutes (fake made up numbers to illustrate the point) they'd still go with the mules. Especially in hectic end game scenarios. That with the fact that mining out a base faster means you don't have to protect it as long, especially the end game minerals farthest from your vulnerable production centers, gives the mules the win in my book.

watch clem beat him 80 precent of the time lol

Or Clem. Or Reynor. Or Solar. The man is indeed human.... just a really, really OP human.

It forces you to expand, which is risky all else equal. In a split map scenario, you getting more minerals in the mid game where you have limited tech, while your opponent gets more in the late game can spell disaster. On the whole, mules are great. These are second order drawbacks. The first order effect is as you say. But I do understand the logic to some (second order) disadvantages of the mules.

Yeah, not sure what he was talking about. Serral does it every single game. Cannons don't even work well either for protoss. 10 lings with 5 banelings behind and bye-bye any workers/far out expansions if your opponent isn't paying attention for 2 seconds.

@@GameOgreDonkey To be fair the only Starcraft i have watched dor some time is what Lowko post on YT, and in those you will always see zerlings and banes run by. Maybe is not the norm for the majority of matches Lowko watch or play.

Ahah my thought too :)

If I’m not mistaken isn’t that a shift + morph button? I can’t remember

@@gunkanjima3408 That's the problem. It's not!

He has had multiple already

​@@NeoStorm123I know you are exaggerating but they can't nerf zerg enough that doesn't completely impact their viability for the vast news who play it. Serral really is quite a ways better than the second best zerg.

They’re gonna make an anti-Zerg extension mod to throw in the lobby any time when it’s a series with Serral

@@IcariumGaming he's actually not exaggerating

Maybe he cancelled four buildings after reaching 200 supply or something?

@@TrixterTheFemboy maybe he had to to morph in extra broods?

you can see in the top left that he started 10 spine crawlers, went to about 196 supply, then cancelled 8 of them to go back to 2 spines instead getting back 8 drones. a few seconds later he starts another 7 spines. Cancelling the Spines is similar to the extractor trick to get more units out over supply but in this case i think Serral was just indecisive about how many spines he wanted

It allows you to go above the supply cap

To expand on it, say you have 14/14 supply. If you tried to make a drone at that point, you wouldn't be able to, since you're supply blocked. However, if you take one of your drones and tell it to make an Extractor, it morphs into the Extractor (essentially killing the drone), which moves you to 13/14 supply. Then you can make a drone. Then, you cancel the Extractor, getting the drone back. Since SC2 only checks supply at the time of issuing an order to make a unit, you will now have 15/14 supply. Worth mentioning that since cancels only refunds 75% of the building's cost, you lose about 6 minerals, which is abysmal and totally worth it for the quicker drone production.

Simple answer is there’s no time for it. Between pumping out medivacs and transitioning to either Vikings or Liberators there’s no spot to fit it in. Plus although it’s at the cost of a mule a scan isn’t that expensive, and mules are great for money now but make you use up your resources quicker and if you don’t have the infrastructure for it you’ll just be hoarding unused recourses and be inefficient in your macro. Simple answer 2: electric boogaloo, it’s not that bad to be a Protoss, it’s just most top Terran and Zerg players look really strong against them while lower tier players it’s more even. Data is a little skewed. The other answer is they’ve spent years perfecting their strategies and unit control in Protoss that if they switch they’ll never be as good (with exceptions because some TOP tier player can play 1 or both off races with great ability). Protoss has been up and down since launch and they are either broken or as you see now. With the infrequent balance patches Protoss gets hurt the most as they require fresh meta that balance changes bring.

@@braydenswinhart i used to see it more with banshee opens. 2 banshees and a raven would clear creap. If you sent it out with 4 marines to catch overseers and creep tumors on thrle edge of the creep i think it pays for itdelf after only a couple scans. (I think 4 marines 1 shot a creep tumor) Protos is tacky and i hate them. I met a protos once. Didnt care for them.

@@WordSonFoRealz the banshee raven opener was popular when roach play was bigger and we saw a lot of roach all-ins. Banshees are a great response to them and raven with anti-armor missile and auto turrets were a great support. If the game went to the mid game then they could become a small creep clearing hit squad. With roaches falling out of favor and instead only 12 or so being produced for defense, the whole reason for making 2 banshees and a raven diminishes. Now we only see 1 banshee for worker harass. The only armored unit available early-mid for Zerg is roach so anti armor missile isn’t effective until late game and with infestors one neural anti armor destroys late game Terran. Auto turret is nice but good zergs don’t lose mineral lines to it so that and the detector trait aren’t enough justify sacrificing a lot of gas and a lot of time with a tech lab on the starport. And yes Protoss is the worst designed race, and anyone who plays that knowing that is stinky because they rely on the fact it can be absolutely broken with a few small balance changes. If you play Protoss because cool aliens then no longer stinky to me.

@@braydenswinhart there is a lot of roach/ravager rushes going around. I usually see banshees in 3s. The single banshee scout/harras seems kinda rare. Even if you dont keep the raven into the late game for its spells, the early game detection seems worth it. A protos with 6 fingers killed my father

You morph a drone into a building, use the larva to make a unit, then cancel the building. Is the essence of the 15 drone hatchery that Lowko is talking. Instead of creating an Overlord when 15 drones, you create a hatchery, then morph one drone into a extractor, produce a drone, then cancel the extractor.

but why 25 min into the game? @@obliviouslich1722

once only i believe

I think it's actually 20, but one dies after a bit if you don't use it, taking you back to 19, although I have it in my head that it's 18 - 1, so 17 per hatch.

Even Maru and Oliveira couldn't, so probably nobody can. Neither can protoss. ZvZ is Serral only weakness.

@@ObeliskM clem just beat him today

wesg2017, 200000$ game

Oh okay, thats a few years back 🙂@@user-fl2co1oh3i

@@user-fl2co1oh3ithat was also the first head to head match for Maru against serial I think

There are only a handful of Maru replays available. I cast what I can.

Maru rarely wins any more? What? He just won 2 GSLs pretty recently... His 5th and 6th overall, more than anyone else ever did.