StarCraft 2: Dark's Unexpected SWARM HOSTS Transition!
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2023
- 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 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.
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."
27:05 the amount of value that this round of locusts destroyed
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
Serral's scouting should be called "Black Sheep Wall"
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
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 😅
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
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
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😅)
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
Lowko, you're so funny I'm going to hit the like button! 👍
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
The Serral System would be his chess opening.
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.
Finally the intro is back. Thank you, Lowko.
He didn't sing it though. Unsubbed and reported 😉
Show us the final units lost screen! Please lowko! Love the casts!!!
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.....
Yes, Les Miz covers, part 2! I’m here for it.
Lol the Disrespect in the first Match xD
Hello my name is lowko and welcome to another game of DarkCraftsDudes!
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
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?
Back in my day 1-1-1 was called the destiny cloud fist build so
Oh, good old times with Husky and HD.
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 😉
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” 😂🤦🏼♂️
I love that description of Dark's strategy. "An arbitrary amount of zerglings". XD
He did the Thing again, YEEEES YEEEEEEES
Lowko, please upload some Florencio casts or I will travel to the Netherlands and steal Toby
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
“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!
Amazing games! But yo that Terran music tho, everytime I hear that guitar solo I can prevent myself from *redacted*
Omg you’re so funny Lowko I’m gonna hit like
I have been waiting so many videos to say this
Creator becoming Self-Destructor oh no 😂
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.
HA Lowko youre so funny I gonna hit the like button
Hey look! Another series of games where zerg survive multiple mistakes, but protoss crumble after just one!
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.
Lowko you meant 5head!!!! 😂😂❤❤
Lowko you’re so funny I’m going to hit the like button
Lowko you're so funny I'm gonna hit the like button
Gumiho Gambit!
lowko maneuver could be mentioned too
great
glhf fam!
I thought we have a Gambit build already? The Lowko Gambit.
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.
I always cheer for Protoss but I feel like it’s okay if Dark wins.
lowko your so funny i hit the like button
Yiiiiiieah, numero UNO!
Good for you.
I love swarmhosts. they're so swarmy :)
27:59 overcharge will tank that
Dark content = best content
Dark the magician
Maybe make the thing a button? 😊
Velcome back 😂
TLO walked so Lambo could run. I love how we're crediting new players with HOTS strategies.
More Serral Video pls❤🎉
“Lowko you’re so funny imma hit the like button” true
PvZ is definitely my favorite matchup by far
nothing better than not seeing widow mines around
Another decade from now and Lowko will be skipping straight to the main fight 😂😂
I don’t mind skipping it!!
beautiful city of krefeld? crayfelt? I want to visit this city haha how do you spell it?
Is there a zerg v zerg? Coming anytime soon
0:00 : me : start the video... oops, I should like immediately, before I forget.
3:40 : me : unlike
end : me : like again
Hour 45 i do that to and from work
Its not one one one, its the destiny cloud fist build,
Normal cylindrical map projection make Europe look bigger in map can deceive our (my) perception.
Lowko, at least call the triple reaper start the “Threaper
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
Looked like creator threw game 3, but then again hes known to blunder from time to tine
To be fair, there's exactly one country you can *drive* to from South Korea, and you really wouldn't want to do that.
I think the queen should have her attack removed. and have a 1k gas cost. and also be hive tech.
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Hellooo, everyyyone! My name is locust...
LowKo eats a COUPLE of boogers for breakfast 🥞
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
zerg op
all this talk about cool starcraft terms make me miss the archon toilet lol
me hitting the like button for every pun to hit the like
Liked the 3min skip
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!
He said it but he didn't really say it :(
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.
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
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.
THIRD!!!!!!!
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!
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.
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
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??
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