-You see Boris, when enemy make flying units, they don't expect a ground force with knives for arms. That's why they get confused and we win!

I wonder if he thought: "I don't have to respond to your air, you're the one who has to respond to my ultras!"

Nobody expects the Ultra-Inquisition =)

When i saw the title i assumed that this was a viewer game XD

10:49 apparently letting zerglings get into your base really good for Protoss

and spawning in the netherlands, he is easily one of the very best casters in the world, he won our hearts multiple times and will probably continue to do so, it is Lowko!

It warms my heart to see Ultralisk sow terror in the heart of enemies once again.

Lowko quote of the day: “Who the heck goes ULTRALISKS against PROTOSS?”

Ultra's wings upgrade actually helps to deal with airunits. That's what i call evolving.

First half of the video os lowko fanboying about Double Stargate Second half lowko asking himself why did dark Go ultras

There is no denying that there is no denying

So basically the understanding at why Dark was able to go Ultralisk is actually pretty simple. The whole setup in aggression at the beginning is all about setting the game up in your favour. Basically trying to force your opponent to counter what you have, then knowing exactly how to counter their counter basically forcing them to waste resources on units that end up dying and, in the end, granting you the favour of larger numbers. Dark didn't "respect" that, so to speak. Rather than produce a predictable counter that Her0 would "know" he would go and know how to go against, he instead went with a unit comp that Her0 didn't exactly have a response to. Yeah, Her0 could've gone for a base trade and likely have won, but he had no idea what was coming as he didn't scout it out early enough. In other words, rather than being the one forced to counter, Dark said "not today" and forced Her0 to have to make a counter instead. At the time Her0 already had a large supply of the previous units meaning the only way to switch would be to lose the precious resources that he had spent in trying to force the game into his favour. Dark had basically canceled out what all of the beginning aggression was supposed to mean for the rest of the game. Again though, Her0 could've avoided this if he had scouted out the ultralisk cavern early on enough to see that there was research going on meaning that Ultras were coming, and could've made a big push or other and taken the game.

glad to see ultras! still think they could use a little buff like an upgrade similar to zealot charge, maybe even make it player activated. that would be so cool to watch a heard of ultras crashing into some toss or terran!

Hey Lowko, I just wanted to let you know that I really enjoy your content! The production of your videos is very entertaining and informing please keep up the great work!

Love the dark protoss skin.

The magic of that transition, great!

Thats why i whatch Lowko: "I'm still flabberghasted" Loving it

1:35 what, lowko soO is always second

Love this!! Amazing turn around! I watch the whole thing, still don't know how Dark do it, it just happen @.@

Toss so weak ground units with no anti air can beat them, nerf cyclone

Hearing how you said flabbergasted made my day. Great vid lowko

herO : Ultras don't counter the "golden armada". Dark: We'll see about that.

One thing I think people are underestimating is the new speed boost on the ultralisks. Look at 18:24. Those two ultralisks would have been so easily picked off normally but instead they are just fast enough to get away.

I love herO, always have done, I would love to see more herO casts!

I see Ultras. I click. Now for Ultras vs. BC’s!!! Thanks Loco, for some great casting

It took 15mins, slowly but surely though, I got to hear what I was waiting for 😎

Currently one of the top videos in the world

Jeez Lowko, thanks for not spoiling any of the round of the 32 matches in GSL lol. I’m a bit behind on my VODs, but I forgive you. ♥️

So the Ultras were actually built for only a very short period of time. Dark wanted them for that one engagement, for the very specific purpose of surprising herO and killing that 4th base, and critically, killing all the high templar. Setting himself up to have a massive advantage for the follow-up fight he knew would happen in a few minutes of air vs air.

Ultra vs air is indeed strange, unless it’s mass carriers. Back in the day, and even now less commonly, ultra armor is my answer to a million interceptors. It’s hilarious to just walk by a massed our air army because you have the armor to do so.

Well, if Hero could place some High templars at home as defense to zerglings, it would be much better for him. But I believe it is really hard to control an army like that. Really a well played game by Dark.

nobody: Lowko: HAY MY NAME LOWKO

I love watching Starcraft if only I could play it.

Dark is in the house!

They can't mine from the sky

If only he went for mass Chad rays

I just love when Vipers are used for Abduction

Well seeing this many strange builds i will now try proxy siege tank in TvP. Wish me luck lowko

So taking a look at that moment multiple times, basically Ultras to hunt down High Templar with Ling escort swarming what they can, and few Corruptors and Queens to occupy the air units. High Templar and ground Protoss are pretty much down while air units are still occupied with the Zerg AA, while remaining Ultras deal with that base without much resistance. Plus there were only like 3 Immortals engaging the Ultras at the time, so it didn't seem like enough anti-Ultra damage going on with the air units focusing on the Zerg AA. With creative stuff like that, I'm interested to see how much further the meta can evolve over time.

Somehow the end reminded me of the legacy of the void opening :)

These ultras where used as a siege weapons to bring down that nexus, what a sick game!

10:50 Very good for the protoss indeed! Without enemy harass you start to get overconfident and we all know, what a slow and insidious killer it is. ;)

Hero got so bamboozled by the ultras that he forgot his upgrades.

such flavor !

Lowko, one of the very strongest BOMBAS in the world right now

I literally thought, hey, I should try this sometime, ultra vs skytoss, 5 seconds after, Lowko says: It won't work if YOU do it :.......okay then......if you say so Lowko.....

I am very late, but in the full playthrough of the Little Nightmares(which I Totally watched) I realized u are a great singer!

I think the reason why this works is that it reduces overall micro for the zerg, as in you effectively silence the high templar. In addition the protoss airships increase the amount of micro needed to use high templar due to them blocking line of sight.

But Lowko, you are one of the best casters in the world, def in the top 50

whenever I encouter a tough army comp as zerg i just spit out some ultras

Lowko never shows Protoss winning games

In the grand scheme of things, leaving 4 Ultras on a sliver of health alive to rampage through your base is a bad idea.

¡Qué lowko!

10:09 trying to pretend they're buildings too.

this "counter" of the zerg is actualy pretty smart: rather than trying to directly counter the oponents army emediatly, he went for counter aggression. he used ultras to take out the high templar, a very vital unit for the protos because with their psy-storms they control the enemy army movement and keep them away. with the high templar gone, zerg could simply attack without fear of storms. a core of ultras easily charges through the psystorm, get close and shut them down before getting downed themselfs and then go on and charge into the base and deal a ton of dmg. i am very curious if we will see ultras now more often. i would like it a lot.

I still see abduct as what wins that - you target whatever and it just dies. It's a free kill power.

Dark achieved Ultra-Instinct

Sweet! Revenge of the Swarm!! ♥

That many phoenix killing all those drones, the zerg needs to put 2-3 spore crawlers right away. Zerg is the best for static air defense because you can move those spore crawlers later in the game. Then you got the larva to make units to go counter attack.

Awsm game! :D

Ballsy...absolutely ballsy. The UsainBoltralisks ftw

Well, based on lowko's casts there are approximatley 20 rank 1 player in the world at the same time.

I gotta be honest, I like watching starcraft games, but I'm here only for your voice. I wouldn't mind if you started singing me to sleep everyday

Corruptors always seem to have more hitpoints than I expect them to.

Me with volume at 100%: 8-l Lowko: HELLO EFERYONE MY NAME IS LOWKO

Lowko - If you could humor us and do some more view submitted matches we would enjoy that. Also BTW the reason cannons and voids are common in lower level Protoss is because they are easier to micro than say Phoenix and Stalkers. Thanks!

Tempests: Cower before the might of the skytoss deathball! Ultras: im in ur base killing ur doodz.

Sick another video about how OP zerg is right now lol

Hey Lowko! I have a question, I've followed yourhotkey tutorial about cameras, the shift-f1 to f4 and f1-f4 to jump on those locations, but I'm having problem when it comes to late game and I have 5 or six bases, I can only go to 4 bases immediately, is it much better to go for base camera or camera locations? What do you often use when injecting the hatcheries?

Hello Lowko how's it going bro.

Make Ultralisks great again!

Hey lowko! Have a challenge for you! A really old game! Super Metroid for SNEs, tu upload to the KZfaq channel! Its a really awesome old game! Love your content!

Dark is my new Hero :D

Should have built more spore crawlers in the early game when getting harrassed by Phoenix swarm. The resources lost against those phoenixes were far more than if he had built several more spore crawlers to protect himself. Multiple Queens are too slow and cannot react to that many phoenixes. I don't know why players always insist on never using enough static defense and then get their mineral line devastated by repeated attacks.

What did i just watch...... WOW

Dark could’ve put down 5 or more additional spores to counter max Phoenix, be behind in minerals but increase the droning

Hey Lowko, about the "Some of the best in the world"... so you say if someone is Top 10 in their race, you can say it can apply. I would say that, as a precedent, in US college football and basketball, the Top 25 teams are ranked by number. That is from a field that includes hundreds of schools. So to say that the top 30 players are among the best in the world at Starcraft 2 might actually be cutting the herd down too thin, considering the 10s of thousands of daily SC2 players. Just food for thought. Keep on with the casting, young man!

Zerg - wins against anything with anything, as long as you have Vipersand a handful of Corrupters/Hydras.

Lowko, you should totally just say the players current rank at the beginning!

Pretty sure SC2 peaks at ~500k players depending on the time of the year, not 2 million.

I think pheonix should be able to lift unburrowed spine/spore crawlers.

How to send a replay to Lowko ? (And is this posible)

Can we see more games with $O$?

anyone else want to see reavers come back, good counter to mass infestors i would think

My fav top 3 pro players of every race: terran, maru-liquidthermy-inovation Protoss, stats-hero-trap Zerg, solar-dark-serral What is your list?

ULTRAS ARE BACK BOIZ

*every match* "well you see player number 1 is one of the best p/v/t player in the world and the 2nd player is also one of the best p/v/t players in the world"

too proud of his golden armada to make like 1 extra immortal

Zerg played like terran, except zerg has good units so it actually works. Great match to watch. I wish zerg would do this kinda stuff more.

yeah he went ultras against sky toss, but it was also a 6 base zerg against a 3 base protos.

Ultra vs skytoss? Wow. And she still won....how do they do that

what did I just see ? :D

Why doesn't anyone kill overlords? They're easy and you can supply block an opponent?

This reminds me of BW Zerg play.

The Ultra won the game because they killed the ground units that could have counter the corrupters and the queens. They were tanky enouth to blast through their own counter (the flying units) when doing so. Because herO didn't focus them with his tempus, and let a tempus vs corrupter duel happen without the necessary support from the high templars, he lost the whole fight.

Lowko, you are right but all the pro players are the best players of their race

The first three minutes of the video was purely about the “ best players” comment, which reminds me will Smith in the first MIB “ the best of the best of the best, sir!”

I found out my self the Ultras with corruptors are pretty good vs skytoss. Like my friend copied that kind of build from a Pro Protoss player where u get skytoss plus high Templars. If I went hydras or corruptors I'd lose but Ultras n corruptors r both pretty tanky so u do the math :'v xd

Amazing mass phoenix? Amazing ultralisk play? Or maybe: - Dark kept the mass phoenix from doing too much damage using spores and queens - phoenix does little against creep spread - this makes for a situation where Protoss doesn't want to move out and go deep on creep - this allows Zerg to make more drones, less army, and still be fine economically - so fine indeed that Dark was at an income advantage for a good 6 minutes before ultras even started doing anything - this allowed him to simply make more stuff - the creep spread also allowed him to bring the queens along and give him anti air - more stuff = win

herO and Dark are two of my very favourite players from the very beginning of myinterest in E-sports. And I always considered them two of the very best of the world. And let´s be frank - Darks decision making here is DeepMind level, or even AlphaGo level: using a seemingly nonsensical strategy that nevertheless works out. That´s exactly why I love to watch strategy games - not for control or makro, but for innovating new ideas...