A masterpiece of literature and presented accordingly! Maybe there could be a series with just the poetical stories of Imbalance complaint forms. Some of them surely would make shakespear proud :D
Shakespeare would be proud. As Harstem stated in one of his previous vids, he enjoyed games of Starcraft II. Even based some of his plays on replays from SCII tournaments.
I can’t get over the fact he dedicates half his army supply to phoenixes to make absolutely sure all those banshees are killed then he immediately flies the phoenixes over the thors, sacrificing all of them to kill like 1 of the 5 banshees. 99% sure dude literally just all army A-moved into the mech death ball and accordingly died
I was just thinking "wait a sec, the Phoenix also can't lift massive units, right?"... and then the editor added a lovely reminder at the top with unit details. LOVE this. Keep this up, this is fantastic editing for your viewers. So damn interesting to have those in there, love, love, love! More of these, please! :) edit: omg, and there's "Trade info" as well. I love this series. NICE!
I haven't watched anything past the intro yet so I'll eat crow if I'm wrong here but at this point I feel like this series is more. "Kevin, here is a game of mine in which I failed & claim IMBA. PLEASE....explain why I suck." PS: I love this series.
I think this guy thought he was playing the Legacy of the Meme mod for single player - turns whirlwind zealots into anti-air while whirlwind is active.
One of the gentlest, most genuinely helpful iiodis I've seen, I appreciate that you're harder on the GM's and give this diamond player a bit of a break. Even if he still sucks.
Still waiting for the day someone sends him a replay where they're playing against a content creator doing a ridiculous challenge. Also, Happy birthday Captain!
Happy birthday cap! Thanks to you and Hamster for doing these videos, I'm watching them for a few months now with the great pleasure, and are eagerly awaiting your 100k. All the best wishes -- loyal friends, lots of health and happiness!
At 20:00 Harstem says Golozo's clawing his way back, but I think Golozo's already blown his chance with that DT harassment. Golozo needed to invest that APM and unit production time in scouting and preparing a counter for SaMsonOD's attack that moves out at 21:00. It's coming and Golozo doesn't know it, and it's going to put him on the back foot. He needed to seize the initiative while he had the chance and squandering his gas bank on that run-by wasn't enough.
I have an idea for the next season of Rank Roulette (which I hope is on the horizon). You could have one round where you just have the build order chart of each player, and try to guess from that what league they are in.
I think as a bonus round we're it's a 3 choice multiple choice would be a cool idea. It'd be three choices so there's no huge guess gaps because a bronze player knew their build orders.
This is an interesting concept... I am not sure how interesting it would be to only guess from the build order for the viewers, but maybe providing it as additional information could be interesting as well! And if it is on the horizon, no, absolutely not. It is way closer than the horizon already ;)
Wait is that - no it can't be, can it??? 100K subs??? MY man! Congrats dude I'm not sure 100K people still play this game. You have the best SC content and I will still be here when you hit one million!
"if you don't want to pay attention to your units, you should be playing zerg", seems like reynor hasn't flamed him enough when harstem sends in zergling runbys and forget about them.
Happy birthday Harstem! It’s my birthday today too and I always get loads of laughs from iodis and tons of insight from your harstemcasts channel. Even though I have nightmares of floating resources, I know one day we will have to micro our kids and be floating money while trying to counter a diaper rush
Building workers is too hard for player in the lower leagues? Seems that way ... I rarely see an IODIS, where the loosing player has 50 workers at the 6-minute-mark. This toss had 44 at 9:43 .... brrrrrrr.
Kevin, he is playing perfect race for those who dont want to pay attention to their units. I cant believe you forgot everything you learned from Reynor and Lambo
yea I had to puase after that one his literally playing the a move race. the entire reason zerg only has one production structure is so that we have to focus on our unit more. so much so that our macro mechanic is literally a spell from the queen.
@@henningbreede6428 most protoss units benefit less from micro than most Terran and zerg units that's why it's the a move race. secondly it didn't say that zerg pays less attention to macro than the other races I said that they pay more attention to units that Horsham is implying since most of zergs macro mechanics literally revole qround a unit which is the queen. I'm sorry if you didn't understand becuase I will admit that my first comment was written poorly.
at 25:14 he basicly would have won the game if he fell back. at 25:20 he lost the game xD and thanks for the humble commentary Harstem :D very soft and metoring, nice ;)
12:42 are we in big enough number to kill enemies? yep - do we have energy to lift? yep - are we in danger of getting killed? nope - what do we do now guys? wave the retreating enemy good bye!
The Dramatic Reading of a compelling story made me feel deep sorrow for this Poor Defenseless Protoss. My heart goes out to him and I havent even watched the replay yet.
You know what planetaries can't do? Shoot up. I don't even play, just watch, and if I see a terran going mass planetary then I would go skytoss primarily. Thors? Tempest out range them. Stutter step with revelation with enough to one shot a thor each time.
Thors outrange tempest and going skytoss as response to planetaries is very stupid. Just listen to Harstem, he generally lists all or most of the viable options. It's really showing that you don't even play.
@@henningbreede6428 Which I stated! Never headed anyone mention that thors can shoot beyond their sightline, while it's often mentioned for tempests. So you know, it was a logical thought assuming all of the units have the same LoS.
Dear Harstem, you praised Macro Hatches in your other videos and Gateways are basically small Macro Hatches. So shouldn't an early Gateway be good a good thing? I hope you can explain why a small Macro Hatch was not a good idea in this game. With best regards -Mr.Bronze
Every time Harstem makes the Gateway rant, it's always about Gateways before Warpgate tech. After Warpgate he doesn't complain about them. Before Warpgate there's this awkward phase where starting a unit in a regular Gateway can actually be worse than just waiting for Warpgate to finish, because Warpgate is THAT much of an upgrade. This doesn't apply to builds that make two gateways immediately, before the Nexus, because those builds are intended to use both gateways for the entire time until Warpgate is ready. In this case the second gateway finished just barely fast enough to make one extra unit before Warpgates, which is...not a total waste, but still not very efficient. Making the 2nd Gateway a little later, and putting more effort into keeping the 1st Gateway busy more consistently, would have given this player the same size army while getting the Stargate up faster.
Jeez am I wrong, is the player base just wayyy worse than HOTS days? I remember being high platinum and not making nearly as many mistakes as this, and this is diamond?
im sorry for my noobness here but how the hell are tempest a counter to BC ? lets say you have 15 bc vs 15 tempest, as soon as the engagement starts, the BC yamato the tempest and more than half of them are all dead. thats why i personally almost always went blink stalkers because they are way cheaper to build , more mobile and can blink out of a yamato shot. what am i missing here ?
Tempests shoot Battlecruisers from beyond BC vision range, and can constantly cut down the BC numbers without the BCs getting ever close to Yamato range. BCs can jump, but unless it’s somehow a pure BC army they’re going to be jumping alone into an army. Add in an oracle to cast revelation on the BCs and you can kite them to pieces from 14 range compared to Yamato’s 10 range. Blink stalkers aren’t very bad against the BCs in a vacuum but they can’t engage into a position if a few tanks are there, so the terran can keep building up their deathball and by that point stalkers are almost dead weight against a ball of battlecruisers with mech. Plus BCs can use terrain against the ground units very well with their fire-while moving and escape teleport.
26:12 Don't believe his lies
Lol
Happy birthday Harstem! To another year of malding over replays!
happy bday captain!
From Mee to happy birthday
Happy birthday Harstem, mon capitaine.
O Captain, My Captain have yourself a very happy birthday!!
Happy birthday big man
Golozo: "I've tried nothing and I'm all out of ideas!"
He should have played zerg. Zergling would leap up and chew on his battlecruisers
Evolution complete!
That’s incorrect, the right unit is swarm host, because locusts can fly.
Just destroy the battlecruisers, then they will fall down, right on the zealots' blades
I like how the toss is behind 50 supply after 8 minutes in a game where nothing happens lol
Harstem: make sure you control your DTs
Uncontrolled DTs: kills 41 workers in 30 seconds
those were like 20 dts. 2 scvs each is not wow.
@@LiviuGelea the loss was 18 supply, so 9 DTs
i mean, zealots would have done just as well if not better, which is what Harstem was saying.
the dramatic reading of the complaint form was actual top tier content, i was in tears
A masterpiece of literature and presented accordingly! Maybe there could be a series with just the poetical stories of Imbalance complaint forms. Some of them surely would make shakespear proud :D
A slow dramatic reading with some piano in the background x)
Shakespeare would be proud. As Harstem stated in one of his previous vids, he enjoyed games of Starcraft II. Even based some of his plays on replays from SCII tournaments.
I can’t get over the fact he dedicates half his army supply to phoenixes to make absolutely sure all those banshees are killed then he immediately flies the phoenixes over the thors, sacrificing all of them to kill like 1 of the 5 banshees.
99% sure dude literally just all army A-moved into the mech death ball and accordingly died
I was just thinking "wait a sec, the Phoenix also can't lift massive units, right?"... and then the editor added a lovely reminder at the top with unit details. LOVE this. Keep this up, this is fantastic editing for your viewers. So damn interesting to have those in there, love, love, love! More of these, please! :)
edit: omg, and there's "Trade info" as well. I love this series. NICE!
If he thinks PF was the issue, Tempests have no problems with PFs. So the only answer against all his questions at the same time was Tempests.
You need some forward vision for that to work but he had none
@@vinniechan Actually tempest can fly directly over a PF and still kill it.
27 minutes in and he just fought the first pf only to melt it at little to no cost.
Idk what the person sending the complaint was on
I haven't watched anything past the intro yet so I'll eat crow if I'm wrong here but at this point I feel like this series is more. "Kevin, here is a game of mine in which I failed & claim IMBA. PLEASE....explain why I suck."
PS: I love this series.
I really like how Harstem put in an emotional performance to reading out the balance report. This alone has earned my like today
I think this guy thought he was playing the Legacy of the Meme mod for single player - turns whirlwind zealots into anti-air while whirlwind is active.
One of the gentlest, most genuinely helpful iiodis I've seen, I appreciate that you're harder on the GM's and give this diamond player a bit of a break. Even if he still sucks.
Still waiting for the day someone sends him a replay where they're playing against a content creator doing a ridiculous challenge. Also, Happy birthday Captain!
The very ackward fly under of some ground stuff at 31:58.
Happy Birthday!
As always, awesome content, good analysis, I enjoyed every second of it.
I wish the 100k subscribers hit as fast as possible :)
Happy birthday cap! Thanks to you and Hamster for doing these videos, I'm watching them for a few months now with the great pleasure, and are eagerly awaiting your 100k.
All the best wishes -- loyal friends, lots of health and happiness!
Gosh I've been checking in daily in anticipation for 100k SUBS! You an an awesome content creator sir! :) HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
"called gg out of respect and later sat down in my bathtub, as cold water droplets merged with my tears" xD.
At 20:00 Harstem says Golozo's clawing his way back, but I think Golozo's already blown his chance with that DT harassment. Golozo needed to invest that APM and unit production time in scouting and preparing a counter for SaMsonOD's attack that moves out at 21:00. It's coming and Golozo doesn't know it, and it's going to put him on the back foot. He needed to seize the initiative while he had the chance and squandering his gas bank on that run-by wasn't enough.
That attack killed like 40 workers, it could've been a lot better but it was good
Harstem was obviously correct there, what are you on about.
15:11 Thanks for the massive tip, Hamster. Although it wasn't uplifting.
What a dad joke...
This terran seems to just be playing a TvZ build. Worked out, so more power to him, but very weird.
I have an idea for the next season of Rank Roulette (which I hope is on the horizon). You could have one round where you just have the build order chart of each player, and try to guess from that what league they are in.
I think as a bonus round we're it's a 3 choice multiple choice would be a cool idea. It'd be three choices so there's no huge guess gaps because a bronze player knew their build orders.
This is an interesting concept... I am not sure how interesting it would be to only guess from the build order for the viewers, but maybe providing it as additional information could be interesting as well! And if it is on the horizon, no, absolutely not. It is way closer than the horizon already ;)
28:17 Did not expect that irl advice
Wait is that - no it can't be, can it??? 100K subs??? MY man! Congrats dude I'm not sure 100K people still play this game. You have the best SC content and I will still be here when you hit one million!
Happy Birthday Harstem! Thank you for all the laughs and great content, I'll be here enjoying the laughs and great content throughout the future!
Complains about Terran static defense; doesn't use Super Battery.
"if you don't want to pay attention to your units, you should be playing zerg", seems like reynor hasn't flamed him enough when harstem sends in zergling runbys and forget about them.
Love your videos, happy birthday and thank you for all you do.
The fact that the game didnt end at 10 minutes should make terran send a balance compaint form lol
Damn this guy is almost up there with the guy who sent a rap complaint.
Happy Birthday Captain! Thanks for all the laughs and great sc2 content! Hope you have a great one!
Terran has like more than double APM in this match.
Kevin, it would be really nice to take that into consideration in these IMBA matches.
Welcome back. Happy birthday.
Happy birthday! I hope you make it to 100k subs very soon!
Countless years of evolution and zealots are still being used against BC's
Happy birthday Kevin. I do not see him having a planetary issue. His decision making sucks
Your reading of the complaint form was epic. As usual, I haven't even gotten to the game yet, and I have to like and comment.
Happy birthday Harstem! It’s my birthday today too and I always get loads of laughs from iodis and tons of insight from your harstemcasts channel. Even though I have nightmares of floating resources, I know one day we will have to micro our kids and be floating money while trying to counter a diaper rush
Happy birthday to you as well then!
Happy birthday Harstem! I don't play SC but I still enjoy your vids
That end was awesome! If bonking your head against a tree doesn't get rid of the tree, just try 5 more times!
Happy Birthday captain
Dang this guy had the best balance complaint intro ever... Happy birthday Harstem!
Building workers is too hard for player in the lower leagues? Seems that way ... I rarely see an IODIS, where the loosing player has 50 workers at the 6-minute-mark. This toss had 44 at 9:43 .... brrrrrrr.
Happy Birthday Captain!
Happy Birthday from Western US, Kevin! Keep up the awesome casting!
After watching all these IODIS videos I feel like one of main advices would be: don't be shy to retreat
Kevin, he is playing perfect race for those who dont want to pay attention to their units.
I cant believe you forgot everything you learned from Reynor and Lambo
yea I had to puase after that one his literally playing the a move race.
the entire reason zerg only has one production structure is so that we have to focus on our unit more.
so much so that our macro mechanic is literally a spell from the queen.
@@creeperkingdom3190 Zerg generally pays the most attention to macro and your "a-move race" comment sounds like a low league complaint.
@@henningbreede6428 most protoss units benefit less from micro than most Terran and zerg units that's why it's the a move race.
secondly it didn't say that zerg pays less attention to macro than the other races I said that they pay more attention to units that Horsham is implying since most of zergs macro mechanics literally revole qround a unit which is the queen.
I'm sorry if you didn't understand becuase I will admit that my first comment was written poorly.
me seeing this guy is 3540 mmr:
ok, he is probably pretty good
me also seeing that it's NA:
never mind...
You just insulted my entire race of people. And Yes!
Yep. I’ve lost every game so far. One day…
3500 mmr is low level on every server.
@@henningbreede6428 sure, that's why 90% players can't reach it
SO CLOSE TO 100K SUBS AAAAH
Happy birthday mate
A polite complaint form got rewarded with polite roasts and a lot of valuable insights for the protoss player.
Happy bday Cap. I hope this will be the year of Harstem.
at 25:14 he basicly would have won the game if he fell back. at 25:20 he lost the game xD and thanks for the humble commentary Harstem :D very soft and metoring, nice ;)
Drunk guy at a bar: " ooh yeeah I'm gonna scout this girl out"
Happy birthday Cap!! Best wishes!!
Sorry Professor Harstem, you read that wrong: They said "Im glad the prof is out now", that means they are referring to you as a teacher!
Happy birthday Captain! An idea for new series - You can't go over a certain supply limit (for example 100 or 120)
happy birthday Captain!
Happy Birthday Kevin
Happy birthday legend
You're a content MACHINE!
12:42 are we in big enough number to kill enemies? yep -
do we have energy to lift? yep -
are we in danger of getting killed? nope -
what do we do now guys? wave the retreating enemy good bye!
Happy Birthday Harstem!
Happy birthday
this jump in the beginning to minute 3 of the match was kind of overwhelming. How shall we recognize the shittiness in his BO?
The Dramatic Reading of a compelling story made me feel deep sorrow for this Poor Defenseless Protoss. My heart goes out to him and I havent even watched the replay yet.
Happy birthday Harstem!
Happy birthday Kevin! 🍻
Happy birthday Captain! Thanks for getting me back into the game
Turning into English essay tutorial series
I've missed it, but Congratulations on hitting the 100k subs! 🥳
Planetaries are OP indeed, every zerg knows that.
New stamp for Hamster: Rant : What is a Build Order?
Gefeliciteerd Koning Kevin
Happy Birthday Harstem! Best SC2 Content.
I am Dutch but sadly was too late to cover my ears. Completely shocked that the orange color in SC2 is not to support the national football team 😱
he was born 1 day after sc2 was "born" he was just made for it keep it up kevin (and hamster)
Actually, wounded zealots evolve into dragoons but it didn't work because that unit wasn't available in this game.
Happy birthday! Only 4 days away from mine
Haha the letter is god tier
Happy birthday, Harstem! We love you
You know what planetaries can't do?
Shoot up.
I don't even play, just watch, and if I see a terran going mass planetary then I would go skytoss primarily.
Thors? Tempest out range them. Stutter step with revelation with enough to one shot a thor each time.
Thors outrange tempest and going skytoss as response to planetaries is very stupid. Just listen to Harstem, he generally lists all or most of the viable options. It's really showing that you don't even play.
@@henningbreede6428
Which I stated!
Never headed anyone mention that thors can shoot beyond their sightline, while it's often mentioned for tempests. So you know, it was a logical thought assuming all of the units have the same LoS.
most people put turrets near planetaries.
Tempest have 14 range vs Air but only 10 vs ground
Happy birthday kevin! 🥺❤️❤️❤️
Happy birthday cap!
Dear Harstem, you praised Macro Hatches in your other videos and Gateways are basically small Macro Hatches. So shouldn't an early Gateway be good a good thing? I hope you can explain why a small Macro Hatch was not a good idea in this game. With best regards -Mr.Bronze
Every time Harstem makes the Gateway rant, it's always about Gateways before Warpgate tech. After Warpgate he doesn't complain about them. Before Warpgate there's this awkward phase where starting a unit in a regular Gateway can actually be worse than just waiting for Warpgate to finish, because Warpgate is THAT much of an upgrade.
This doesn't apply to builds that make two gateways immediately, before the Nexus, because those builds are intended to use both gateways for the entire time until Warpgate is ready. In this case the second gateway finished just barely fast enough to make one extra unit before Warpgates, which is...not a total waste, but still not very efficient. Making the 2nd Gateway a little later, and putting more effort into keeping the 1st Gateway busy more consistently, would have given this player the same size army while getting the Stargate up faster.
Jeez am I wrong, is the player base just wayyy worse than HOTS days? I remember being high platinum and not making nearly as many mistakes as this, and this is diamond?
Yeah, there a lot less players nowadays, so diamond being like the top 10%, well, that's a lot weaker than top 10% in WoL or HotS.
@@chloesmith4065 2013 was a great year. Miss the good ole days of layin noobs out.
Happy Birthday Captain ! We wish you Beating Top Players with All Kinds of Stuff !!!
Happy birthday harstem.
im sorry for my noobness here but how the hell are tempest a counter to BC ?
lets say you have 15 bc vs 15 tempest, as soon as the engagement starts, the BC yamato the tempest and more than half of them are all dead.
thats why i personally almost always went blink stalkers because they are way cheaper to build , more mobile and can blink out of a yamato shot.
what am i missing here ?
Tempests shoot Battlecruisers from beyond BC vision range, and can constantly cut down the BC numbers without the BCs getting ever close to Yamato range. BCs can jump, but unless it’s somehow a pure BC army they’re going to be jumping alone into an army.
Add in an oracle to cast revelation on the BCs and you can kite them to pieces from 14 range compared to Yamato’s 10 range.
Blink stalkers aren’t very bad against the BCs in a vacuum but they can’t engage into a position if a few tanks are there, so the terran can keep building up their deathball and by that point stalkers are almost dead weight against a ball of battlecruisers with mech. Plus BCs can use terrain against the ground units very well with their fire-while moving and escape teleport.
That man has a powerful tool, called sky toss, and he is unwilling to push it. What a legend!
He looks so stoned on Frame 0.
Harstem: You should control your 9 DTs way better, that control sucks
41 dead scv: Am I joke to you?
fun fact: golozo (goloso actually) is spanish for gluttonous
ok... At this point I have read too many spanish translations. Some of you guys have to be wrong xD
@@hamster_designs fair enough, but I'm from chile, and spanish is my first language so... :D
This protoss DID remember their upgrades, though. Good job!
31:56 what in the world did that BC just do
yeah this looks like my games...I get stubborn and don't want to change my strategy so I leave and get into another one :P
Happy old.