StarCraft 2: Dark's Unexpected SWARM HOSTS Transition!
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- Опубликовано: 25 янв 2025
- Best-of-3 series of top level StarCraft 2 between Dark (Zerg) and Creator (Protoss). This series is from the ESL StarCraft 2 Open Cup 191 Korea and features some very cool and unexpected SC2 strategies.
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I don’t think “serral gambit” would work for a build name because in a gambit you’re sacrificing some piece(s) for a stronger position in a few turns, and serral doesn’t sacrifice units for free to mess with his opponent. (However you could have a “harstem gambit” where you lose all your probes in the first eight minutes of the game and lose)
Harstem banter is crazy 🙏😭
Yeah a "Serral Slaughter" build name would be far more apt...
Lmao
The Serral System, The finishers defense/attack. Serral defense/attack.
@@josefwoodendOptimal Serral-nario? The Finnish Finisher? or just the Serral stratagem if you don't like puns.
I love the way Europe works. I'm from Canadian and you guys are talking about crossing multiple countries in a few hours. I can't even cross my province in that time. Let alone the entirety of this country. That's a 5-7 day venture.
My friend from Britain got upset that I couldn't visit Manitoba from Ontario. "It's only one province over."
I know your always asking about the skipping a few minutes.I have been watching you cast for years now, i think you will know the appropriate amount of time to skip on a game by game basis. :) keep up the good work
Yeah I've never felt concerned about his choices on this. The main reason to keep that in is if Lowko is in a mood to go on a weird tangent. His talking is plenty entertaining.
@@Tera_GX agreed
Hahaha, Creator is creative. Lowko's so funny it made me smash the like button!
When Creator isn't creative he is Crater.
Love the wisdom in the commentary
"They finish when they get done".
Sage.
I only watch Protoss games in the hopes I get to hear "making the beam thick"
God forbid Lowko realizes it takes almost 12 hrs of driving just to get across texas... Into a whole different time zone at that
27:05 the amount of value that this round of locusts destroyed
Back in my day 1-1-1 was called the destiny cloud fist build so
Oh, good old times with Husky and HD.
This brought back the first match someone used swarm hosts on me. I was terrified. I had a spore forrest and was taking over the map but each wave kept pushing me further and further back. I think this was in like 2015? Crazy. I still remember the map too one of the icy ones with a back base.
Can we get a queen named Gertrude?
Brooooooooo YESSSSS❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
i want one named Rose xD
Strategically speaking, proxy openers are the equivalent to gambits. Suboptimal development moves, aggressive, risky, and taking your opponents off balance.
I think there are another analogies. The sum of the structures is the king(dom). Medivacs, momma ships and queens are, yes, the queen. nydus recalls and blink drives are an open column for a rook attack.
Infantry units are pawns, (no disrespect to marines intended😅)
Lowko there already is a move called "The Polish Gambit" in SC2 where you skip at least one spore against Protoss and rely on good queen positioning. It's named after Elazer of course
Finally the intro is back. Thank you, Lowko.
He didn't sing it though. Unsubbed and reported 😉
The Gumiho Gambit, the Serral Slide, the Reynor Riposte, the Dark Deflection, the Harstem or Her0 Harry, the Max(pax) or Maru Manoeuvre, the Clem Cleave, the Byun Bumble (+3 infantry armor)
Byun Bumble 10/10
9:37 But what about the Lowko maneuver?
What is Lowko maneuver? Doing math on stream?
@@ustpcz9739building hydras and corruptors
@@ustpcz9739I am not fully sure I remember properly. I think the lowko maneuver was with Corruptors vs. Carriers. By throwing parasitic bombs on the carriers with vipers and then moving the Corruptors to be right on top of the carriers so that the interceptors of the carriers that are attacking the Corruptors would be affected by the Parasitic bombs of the carriers and thus AOE damage all the interceptors.
But I could be wrong.
Serral's scouting should be called "Black Sheep Wall"
lmfao underestimated comment
serral macro be “show me the money build ”
12 min drive to Germany and 10 min drive to Belgium , long live the south of the Netherlands :P Fill up your car in Belgium at a cheaper price and then drive to Germany to get the groceries cheaper... So handy .... :P On Topic : Nice games :D
Hey look! Another series of games where zerg survive multiple mistakes, but protoss crumble after just one!
Lowko, you're so funny I'm going to hit the like button! 👍
The Serral System would be his chess opening.
We need to have a Lowko strategy at some point...maybe some cheeky Infestor play that makes opponents cry. I do like the Lowko spinning logo, it looks really cool.
Investor stonks
I can relate to the struggle of PVZ wanting to kill drones, you don't want the zerg to just sprint up to 80 drones for free by 6 minutes, but also you don't want to throw away all of your army in harrass or just constantly do timings/all ins against zerg!!! Jeez this game is hard.....
At the end when you were saying “Creator should be renamed to…” it was cracking me up how hard you were searching for any word other than “Loser” 😂🤦🏼♂️
You should play with your wonderful icon. It looks great, really.
I drove for four hours totally on the expressway last week and didn't even get half way across my state. I did get to the better half of it though, so it was worth it.
Never forget the Lowko maneuver!
And since this is a video with all the possible Queens names, I was wondering : what about the other units, which are the all the Lowko ‘s names?
Jimmy the marine
Zachary the zealot
Otto the hero overlord
… others? And why so many different names for queens?
29:10 "He does have a scary army”
✨The Army✨: two Colossi with 1/3 shields, two Mortals without shields deep in the red, two stalkers, and an Archon-Cloud
“1+1/2 hours to drive from Netherlands to Krevelt” - between two countries.
MEANWHILE, I AS A TEXAN, HAVE TO DRIVE FOR LIKE 6 HOURS JUST TO GET OUT OF MY STATE. In any direction! It’s almost 18 hours if I drive for the Western border!
I vote hiding a battle cruiser transition should be called operation: Sozin's comet. I know it's a reference outside of Starcraft but I like it
Sozin's comet would be using hellions to wipe out all the workers in your opponents main and natural but they fly their buildings away so you can't reach them until you develop flying tech before the SCV you missed at the third allows them to remax and destroy you right when your airshi- I mean battle cruiser transition completes and you're about to move out. Oddly niche scenario I admit but thematically appropriate. My vote for the surprise battle cruiser transition would be "everything changed when the fire nation attacked" or just "surprise fire nation invasion" since that's a mouthful.
Omg you’re so funny Lowko I’m gonna hit like
I have been waiting so many videos to say this
Hello my name is lowko and welcome to another game of DarkCraftsDudes!
I love that description of Dark's strategy. "An arbitrary amount of zerglings". XD
Show us the final units lost screen! Please lowko! Love the casts!!!
Protoss players seem to be making uncharacteristic errors recently, particularly hero and creator
And then the comment section states that Protoss needs a buff.
Creator really had that game until he didn't.
@@quwarqwell it of course need some buffs in my opinion. It would be great to see one or two of protoss's units to see some radical changes.
Tho I'm really just here to make an argument happens because I'm absolutly trash at the game and I shouldn't even say anything about it 😅
In the first game, I'd have liked to see Dark take an Overlord with him on that march, to drop some creep, then one of the Queens could have dropped a tumor and they could have healed each other then
Overlord creep requires Lair tech. That would have delayed the attack by another minute.
@@adicacid Ah, was unaware of that. I thought it was something inherent to the overlord, wasn't aware it was behind a tech level.
Been a long time since I played 😉
Lol the Disrespect in the first Match xD
Yes, Les Miz covers, part 2! I’m here for it.
Rushing a third base + proxy hatch as Zerg should be called the Four Lowko
the EU is a supernation, which is very unusual and tends to become a nation over time. the US was a supernation briefly, and the USSR was kinda a supernation for a bit. Germany used to be the HRE which was a supernation until it unified, which isn't very different from Italy and the UK.
Wow Creator really dropped the ball in that last game.. Idk why but it just always seems like Protoss players get outplayed or outsmarted by their oppenents and make unforced errors like losing 3 HTs for free to Swarmhosts
Lowko, please upload some Florencio casts or I will travel to the Netherlands and steal Toby
27:59 overcharge will tank that
Creator becoming Self-Destructor oh no 😂
He did the Thing again, YEEEES YEEEEEEES
I don’t know why the people don’t use, they have 220 life plus +1 armour and drop 2 units with 35 life that can fly to the target and make a big dps for only 100/75 cost. I my opinion are amazing, even when are in wait for the larvas can be a good protection wall for the hidras.
Amazing games! But yo that Terran music tho, everytime I hear that guitar solo I can prevent myself from *redacted*
lowko maneuver could be mentioned too
I thought we have a Gambit build already? The Lowko Gambit.
0:00 : me : start the video... oops, I should like immediately, before I forget.
3:40 : me : unlike
end : me : like again
Dark content = best content
TLO walked so Lambo could run. I love how we're crediting new players with HOTS strategies.
“Lowko you’re so funny imma hit the like button” true
I always cheer for Protoss but I feel like it’s okay if Dark wins.
Lowko you’re so funny I’m going to hit the like button
Gumiho Gambit!
Lowko you meant 5head!!!! 😂😂❤❤
Maybe make the thing a button? 😊
beautiful city of krefeld? crayfelt? I want to visit this city haha how do you spell it?
To be fair, there's exactly one country you can *drive* to from South Korea, and you really wouldn't want to do that.
Another decade from now and Lowko will be skipping straight to the main fight 😂😂
I don’t mind skipping it!!
I love swarmhosts. they're so swarmy :)
HA Lowko youre so funny I gonna hit the like button
Is there a zerg v zerg? Coming anytime soon
Its not one one one, its the destiny cloud fist build,
Dark the magician
PvZ is definitely my favorite matchup by far
nothing better than not seeing widow mines around
glhf fam!
Hellooo, everyyyone! My name is locust...
Lowko, at least call the triple reaper start the “Threaper
lowko your so funny i hit the like button
Hour 45 i do that to and from work
My kid thinks you have to make a 4ft by 8ft portal out of obsidian in order to get to the Netherlands... it's a Minecraft thing
Velcome back 😂
Lowko, if you were friends with Johnny Depp and he mentioned he doesn't like his eye brow in a photo. You'd remind him that while it's legit to feel that way, he's being critical and people don't think that way unless they're looking to trash talk. In which case they'll always find something. Rather, it's mostly just fondness.
Thanks as always for the fun video!
Normal cylindrical map projection make Europe look bigger in map can deceive our (my) perception.
as an asian it is mind blowing how you European can just travel so easily across the country😂 most of us have water border or harsh terrains for border making it slightly harder for us to travel around from country to country
More Serral Video pls❤🎉
great
Looked like creator threw game 3, but then again hes known to blunder from time to tine
Yiiiiiieah, numero UNO!
Good for you.
I think the queen should have her attack removed. and have a 1k gas cost. and also be hive tech.
LowKo eats a COUPLE of boogers for breakfast 🥞
He said it but he didn't really say it :(
me hitting the like button for every pun to hit the like
sweet, now hungry for factorio
yes, yes every comment helps 😆
That's not a forehead, that's a fivehead!
Edit: Sorry, I have an ever bigger forehead than you do (age: 21), all love, from Sweden.
all this talk about cool starcraft terms make me miss the archon toilet lol
Liked the 3min skip
Long time viewer opinion : 3 minutes is too much to skip 😕I like the 2 minute'ish start.
I envy you europeans, with your neighboring countries. I can't drive to a neighboring state in 90 minutes.
zerg op
Anyone else 3 minutes was a bit too much? It may be similar but it gets rid of some of the buildup to the early game aggression.
👀
zerg OP even tho last game creator kinda was rubbish, thrown out of his comfort zone by dark in general
Larvae drone OP, queens OP, lings OP, and end game, everything is suuuuper good as shown by dark with the worse unit
like
Finally first
You were 17 seconds too late :(
@@josephtriplett6753 no........he was first.
@@Ghost-dx8mm yeah, let's say he is... Let him enjoy it!
Hey can i send you a replay so you can make fun of me :D lol
its a 4v4 i think youll like it :D
THIRD!!!!!!!
It seems like swarm hosts becaming a meta. I wouldn't call it commone, but it's not as rare as it used to be
swarm hosts another trash zerg unit. slow as fuck. the swarms are slow as fuck. sure they hit like a truck but when ur gimmick is a siege unit that has trouble getting around and its another unit that cant shoot air. like the broods dont last the swarms dont last...can get get rid of the gimmick units and just have a regular unit that can attack normally??
Lowko you're so funny I'm gonna hit the like button