@@shmidd85 didn't I believe Elazar lately play a game (Lowko reviewed it) where he just held down the ov button for a minute or two? Maybe this was his strat
And you have to manually target the immortals or the Hydras will focus the interceptors. Also you can't target the immortals under the interceptors either, and when you finally do you get stormed and have to back up and try again.
@@tesserax8183 Just dont make armoured stuff, you don't need to go crazy to kill them! Immortals are basically big, slow stalkers if you don't have armoured ground units. Hydras killing interceptors is fine as long as the immortals aren't popping off 50 damage shots every second. Wiping out all the interceptors is actually a legitimate strategy at times.
This is like Lowko crafting a beautiful sword with how he played this game. And then it turns out the opponent, despite his lack of skill or finesse, pulls out a gun.
@@wernerviehhauser94 erm, exactly what air units again ? Mutalisks get shredded by HTs and Archons, Broodlord is way too slow fight HT, Archons, and can't attack Carriers, Corruptors might not be the best way to counter Immortals, since they can't shoot down, and Vipers are supporting units. You don't switch to air, you switch to Ling, Bane, Infestors, and add some Vipers to the mix. Since Lowko said he's not that good at controlling multiple casters, Ling Bane Infestor with his enormous bank would be more than enough
@@hoanganphanle brood lord, corrupter. Broodlord kills all on the ground. Corrupters kill air units. A few either vipers or infestors for support. Ling + bane is not a good idea. None of them shoot up. All of them dies to storm and archons. You could probably even spam roaches at this, and that would be better. Lurker corrupters + infestors are fine too. Ground can't deal with lurkers, corrupters can snipe air.
Well, skill in sc is mostly decision making, discipline and consistency. There are a lot of habits you can develop to be able to tell if a cannon rush is happening, and if you know it's coming it's much easier to defend.
@@tryhardedgelord FWIW I'm in Silver as a zerg and I actually like cannon rushes since I can defend against them quite well, and it brings some variety. That's much better than dying from a zealot all-in.
Tbh I feel like that toss was actually a zerg player, who probably said something like "toss is so stupid, I'm just gonna abuse all of the tricks they have as much as possible" which is why they opened like that. I could be wrong but it almost feels like that.
Lol I'm Terran and I play like that when I play Toss because I love a moving carriers while pressing t and watching the whole army disappear. Storms and skytoss are actually fun to play, because everything just dies.
Lol I'm a terran who plays zerg because I think it's absolutely retarded. There are people out there like that. The moment someone started giving me salt about how stupid zerg was, I was just agreeing with him
Some great insights here, and impartial analysis with cogent metaphors as we've come to expect. My take-home is that everybody is right here. Lowko is right that he massively outplayed his opponent for 90% of the game, but then the protoss maxed and marched across to win, having not ventured out of his base until then. Reynor is right that late-game PvZ is IMBA and pays Lowko very nice compliments on his excellent play. But, sadly, Harstem is also correct that Lowko failed to notice the protoss composition, understandable at first, but not after a couple of failed attacks. I entirely understand this is because Lowko has been facing so many late-game skytoss armies, but to improve he has to have a composition that trades reasonably well with the opponent, and towards the end he did not have that. Perhaps Lowko could also have played according to the maxim, when you're ahead, get more ahead, by taking even more bases, building lots of static defense, and building up more of a bank, whilst continuing to scout the opponent, at least with run-bys, to check his composition. Tech-switching when you have a massive economic advantage is entirely fine, you can afford it.
He sets off my 'uncanny valley' alarms (I think it's his nose), which is completely unfair of me. Especially since there are SC2 figures with actual scandals attached to them, and Harstem isn't one of them as far as google can discern.
This was so good that I watched it twice, first on Harstem's channel and now on Lowko's channel. Freaking hilarious. Really could have used some spines/spores to box in the turtle toss.
I think this Okwo L. Is just Harstem in disguise, he couldent admit openly that toss might be a little op (or a little more) so he createt an fake persona.
lowko, i'd like to correct you on your "when you lose, your opponent played better" saying. in my experience it is actually, "when you lose, you played worse than your opponent". because if rts taught me one thing it is that i most often didnt have the right answer to let's say a "silly question." but i feel you. toss in late game is so ridiculous...
Winston Churchill said the winner of WWII would be "...the leader who made the least amount of blunders." In fact he and Hitler made many, but the West made at least one fewer
@@superstaralen I mean is he wrong? Lowko attacked into a choke, with ultras, against immortals. Ultras are bad against either of those things, the two of them together and you get... well, the above game.
The one who plays best doesn't win, it's who makes critical mistakes who loses. The Protoss might not have been playing 'well' so to speak, but I don't think they made any outrageous mistakes either. Was there actually a need to be on the offensive here? Potential 10 bases vs 4, just box him in with lots of static defenses, keep harassing and starve him out.
I kind of agree with you, but the point is that Protoss can just sit in their base until they're maxed out and at that point Zerg can't do anything anymore so you HAVE to try to do something. It's just that you need to try the right thing, and having contained protoss like that, vipers would have been a better choice. Now if you couldn't contain the protoss it gets a lot dirtier...
The Protoss also gave a lot of time for Lowko to prepare. Headbutting with the wrong army composition in the same choke multiple time in a row is not the right move and you can't really blame balance when doing that lead to a loss. Sure dealing with turtly players isn't the most fun but that doesn't mean the game is imbalanced.
@@Fenpwet bro, you give serral this situation with how many upgrades, bases, and creep lowko had, he would never lose. Lowko was like a cat with 9 lives here, going into a gun fight with a knife. Just keeps getting blasted, comes back later, not with a bazooka that he could afford, but with another knife... over and over.
@@RenonTTV To be fair though, zerg bazooka sucks... Most of the times you go bazooka the other side has a friggin railgun so there's no point. As a zerg if the knife doesn't work, don't go bazooka, go with more knives. What Lowko was going for here is the economy war. You lose all your fights in the chokepoint, but your economy is a lot stronger, so if you can trade badly but take even a little bit every times, eventually you will outproduce them. If Serral and Reynor can do it doesn't mean everyone can. And Lowko is by no means a low level player. If Lowko can't do it then most people can't.
in fact, when you a-move a flying unit, it prioritizes units that can shoot up, so the primary damage of the carriers will often go into the hydras, not the ultra
9:26 at this moment. Why There is no Army attacking protoss base if you see a Void rays? Like. I have done this and i never seen a peaceful counter attack.
I love Harstem ever since Homestory Cup years ago and I'm so glad he's on RUclips now. However, I love seeing Raynor in these videos. You talk to that guy, ask him when he's going to Korea!
This was fantastic, thank you Lowko I love your content and remember watching this game. Being able to see things from Harstem's POV really helped me to see how theres moments where Sc2 can become like pool (scratching the 8 ball), but your playing was so commendable I couldn't help become tunnel visioned on the thought this game must be imbalanced with how clearly you outplayed your opponent. Very encouraging to see the room for growth, keep it up!
I agree man, honestly ultras need a buff, maybe extra dmg to buildings so they can be seen as assault unit that can take down buildings faster. Anything really.
They should have nerfed the Queen heal back when Heart of the Swarm came out. But Blizzard made a fanaticism out of "taking things slowly". Even the most obvious problems need 5 years to get addressed. I've made a balance mod... for myself. Just4fun. To the Ultras I did: - make the Ultras a bit smaller, so more than 2 can attack - added a 2nd chitinous thingy armor (whatever it is called) giving another +1 armor, bringing it to a total of +3. Back when LotV came out they buffed the upgrade to 4 armor, it was too strong, yeah, but more importantly WAAAAAAAY too quick. The general idea however might not be all that bad? We will never know. Blizzard is always implementing everything ultra-imbalanced and then wondering why it breaks. (They were doing nothing but wondering for 4 months during LotV beta, anyone remembers?) - tried to add a noob-button for the Ultra (but failed with that stupid editor), which made them not actually faster, but able to push own units. So they're not stuck behind a wall of Roaches. Fck Blizzard.
I don’t know a lot about the ingame mechanics and fallouts of situations but i’ve been watching Starcraft 2 for a long time. I feel though that the main problem wasn’t even building Ultras when he started using them(although he shoudn’t have continued with them), a big issue to me was that he was attacking when he had the entire map(like Harshem breifly talked about), and didn’t even attempt to scout or evaluate anything about the enemy and his current composition(WHILE HAVING THE ENTIRE MAP)
As a backseat gamer, it seems like there's two things to improve: 1. Army comp decisions and pivots 2. Attacking multiple points at once, and/or rotating, and not always directly confronting the strong immortal army (or skytoss as the case may be) in a choke point
Its not about learning to play better, its about proving that this is the top play and yet still lost. Only thing left to do is scream more in forums:D
The narrative is that playing better means getting a very spellcaster heavy army and going to 696 APM while attacking in three places at once, but it seems like this Protoss won by identifying Lowko's army comp and pivoting from heavy carrier void ray skytoss to heavy on immortals (like in Lowko's previous IODIS) and templars. It seems like he can make easier to implement improvements with being more flexible about army comp and positioning. With 17 bases, he had fair bit of money to build tech. Two pronged attacks are higher APM too, but rotating is not. He rotated once and seemed to do alright there, but didn't keep up the zerg roulette
@@grudley It seems weird to me that Terran do Medivac drop all the time, and Toss also has the Warp Prism to drop army into enemy main base. Yet, its entirely out of the mind of Zerg players that you can Overlord drop army into enemy main base.
That ending was fucking hilarious! Lowko, my frend, this game was a classic example of "how to beat myself". I like how you are still defending yourself after watching this replay a few times and knowing what you did wrong. Ah, the ego is a wonderful thing. Lack of proper scouting, lack of proper unit countering, lack of taking the whole map when you see an opponent turtling, lack of vipers in endgame ZvP, using your infestors wrong (btw, microbial shroud is NOT dark swarm, in case you were confusing it with the SC BW ability) and attacking into choke points multiple times and canceling your own army numbers advantage (have you seen 300?). Mistakes were made, but i think the biggest one was not identifying the enemy army comp correctly. But hey, your creep spread and macro were great! Lowko, as Reynor sayd, you are a beast!
i kinda get what you're saying here but at the end of the day this toss was never going to move out so what are you really supposed to do? the real kicker here is the difficulty required for protoss to win a game is incrementally less than what zerg and terrans have to do game in and game out. theres nothing that requires a lower skill cap to do and has the same level of strength than what this toss did right here. yeah it was stupid to attack into a choke multiple times and not use any casters but then again there shouldn't be any type of strat like what the toss was doing in the game in the first place. good players should be good because they actually have to do things that win games as in great macro, multitasking, etc. the way skytoss is currently set up it requires actually not a single bit of that. this sounds a lot like a diamond toss trying to defend himself that way blizz doesn't nerf his stupid fucking low skill cap strategy that would absolutely run his win rates into the gutter if taken out of the game. ^^^
Entangle was the spell infestors got to try during a short period when Blizzard tried to find better answers to airtoss. Entangle made grounds units able to attack air. It was fantastic ^^
lowko you should integrate that little upgrade info box hes using in the top right corner to exsplain the upgrades, for newer viewers thats really handy!
This was freakin fun!!! REYNOR: wouldn't you consider turning to protoss? Would love to see that. HARSTEM: you're freakin fun man. LOWKO: this cast was a great idea ... keep going.
i think drinking something while watching was a bad idea... now my nose hurt and i have to clean my keybaord for all those moments that got me offguard laughing so hard...
" but lowko , no no no, he's a fast man. He wants to finish things quick, my friend. He's bang, in and out. You didn't even notice he was there " LMAO !! This would also be gold on Eharmony.
Skytoss is OP because you can't see the immortals under the carriers' models
Time to counter with mass overlords hovering over your ultras =)
@@shmidd85 didn't I believe Elazar lately play a game (Lowko reviewed it) where he just held down the ov button for a minute or two? Maybe this was his strat
And you have to manually target the immortals or the Hydras will focus the interceptors. Also you can't target the immortals under the interceptors either, and when you finally do you get stormed and have to back up and try again.
Rax OP, because you can hide widow memes under them
@@tesserax8183 Just dont make armoured stuff, you don't need to go crazy to kill them! Immortals are basically big, slow stalkers if you don't have armoured ground units. Hydras killing interceptors is fine as long as the immortals aren't popping off 50 damage shots every second. Wiping out all the interceptors is actually a legitimate strategy at times.
This was the best collaboration I've ever watched. No kappa
Stop the kap
More from Lowko and Hartsem!
this was hilarious, loved it
This is like Lowko crafting a beautiful sword with how he played this game. And then it turns out the opponent, despite his lack of skill or finesse, pulls out a gun.
Perfectly balanced
@@prophecynewt2250 as all things should be
Reminds me of that zerg player getting flattened by marines only
13:40 Harstems analogies are hilarious.
And on point!
Yeah I really enjoyed ‘to a man with a hammer, every problem looks like a nail’
Lowko/IODIS is the greatest crossover of all time
That's how I first saw IODIS, was Lowko's reaction to the first one.
This is bigger crossover: On Twitch I watched Harstem watching Lowko watching Harstem casting Lowko's IODIS game :D
@@tomosko2669 I hope he posts that video so Lowko can react to it.
@@danielskrivan6921 i feel like reynor needs to react to it as well
We need more from the Owko L. guy.
He should have his own youtube channel.
that Okwo L. was on point. Wanna see more of his analysis.
Its Okwo L.
Finally a reporter I can trust
"Did your opponent play better than you?"
Well, not actually - you did all the dirty work yourself
I'm not good at SC2, but even I would have switched to air units to get away from the immortals
@@wernerviehhauser94 erm, exactly what air units again ? Mutalisks get shredded by HTs and Archons, Broodlord is way too slow fight HT, Archons, and can't attack Carriers, Corruptors might not be the best way to counter Immortals, since they can't shoot down, and Vipers are supporting units. You don't switch to air, you switch to Ling, Bane, Infestors, and add some Vipers to the mix. Since Lowko said he's not that good at controlling multiple casters, Ling Bane Infestor with his enormous bank would be more than enough
@@hoanganphanle brood lord, corrupter. Broodlord kills all on the ground. Corrupters kill air units. A few either vipers or infestors for support.
Ling + bane is not a good idea. None of them shoot up. All of them dies to storm and archons. You could probably even spam roaches at this, and that would be better.
Lurker corrupters + infestors are fine too. Ground can't deal with lurkers, corrupters can snipe air.
@@hoanganphanle hydra corruptor ftw
I actually cried laughing!!!
yeah when i saw the vid on harstem's channel cried like a new born
I'm screaming my lungs off
Some amateur golfer! Lol
Lowkos a good sport lol.
Try to use ENSNARE more :)))
Lowko: if you lose its because your opponent played better
Me: Sad cannon rush noises.
Me: sad dt rush noises.
Well, skill in sc is mostly decision making, discipline and consistency. There are a lot of habits you can develop to be able to tell if a cannon rush is happening, and if you know it's coming it's much easier to defend.
@@tryhardedgelord the comment's point is that cannon rushes are easier to do than to hold, so worse players often win.
@@tryhardedgelord FWIW I'm in Silver as a zerg and I actually like cannon rushes since I can defend against them quite well, and it brings some variety. That's much better than dying from a zealot all-in.
yea i like cannon rushes in pvp too since its super easy to defend vs apes who want free mmr
You know content is great when you have watched this one live, harstem video and now you are watching this again.
Lowko, Okwol, Harstem and Reynor in one Video? Hell yeah!
That Owko L guy is definitely a rising star in the SC2 community.
Dont forget about Harstem's editor Hamster.
idk that owko guy might be lowko, not sure tho
That casual "What's up, idiot?" is amazing.
31:09
"That smile, that god damn smile"
Ohhhh, Lowko 😂👌💩⚓⛴️
As a protoss player, sending your hydras into a choke point and the ultras onto the immortals sounds like a dream, for the protoss
Harstem is freaking hilarious, I love that guy
Tbh I feel like that toss was actually a zerg player, who probably said something like "toss is so stupid, I'm just gonna abuse all of the tricks they have as much as possible" which is why they opened like that. I could be wrong but it almost feels like that.
Lol I'm Terran and I play like that when I play Toss because I love a moving carriers while pressing t and watching the whole army disappear. Storms and skytoss are actually fun to play, because everything just dies.
Lol I'm a terran who plays zerg because I think it's absolutely retarded. There are people out there like that.
The moment someone started giving me salt about how stupid zerg was, I was just agreeing with him
Nah, I love playing skytoss.... easy to kill as zerg.... and I love asking skytoss OP? everytime I win.
LOwkO prOtoSs is ImbA, In PvP PrOTosS AlwAYs wIns
@@lelouchvibritannia7809 What exactly is OP about zerg?
dude even after 6 years of watching lowko he still makes me laugh
keep it up :D
Lowko reacts to Harstem reacts to Lowko reacts to skytoss
Not skytoss
Lowko reacts to Reynor reacts to Harstem reacts to Lowko reacts to Protoss.
The legendary mediocrelisk returns to win the game ...
for your opponent.
this has me rolling each time i look at it
I started to watch Harstem because of you Lowko, now I came back from his channel to watch this. The circle is complete.
Harstem looks like the happy version of that food critic from Ratatouille. Just destroying Lowko like that dude destroyed Gusteus.
That game where you build things, with the scummy raccoon.🤣🤣
We will never know what he's talking about
Some great insights here, and impartial analysis with cogent metaphors as we've come to expect. My take-home is that everybody is right here. Lowko is right that he massively outplayed his opponent for 90% of the game, but then the protoss maxed and marched across to win, having not ventured out of his base until then. Reynor is right that late-game PvZ is IMBA and pays Lowko very nice compliments on his excellent play. But, sadly, Harstem is also correct that Lowko failed to notice the protoss composition, understandable at first, but not after a couple of failed attacks. I entirely understand this is because Lowko has been facing so many late-game skytoss armies, but to improve he has to have a composition that trades reasonably well with the opponent, and towards the end he did not have that. Perhaps Lowko could also have played according to the maxim, when you're ahead, get more ahead, by taking even more bases, building lots of static defense, and building up more of a bank, whilst continuing to scout the opponent, at least with run-bys, to check his composition. Tech-switching when you have a massive economic advantage is entirely fine, you can afford it.
Thanks that helps a lot. Very good analysis :)
I think the whole point is that as Zerg you need to unterstand the game, as Protoss you need to max out
Does harstem look like a villian for 007
Answers yes and he sounds like one too.
He sets off my 'uncanny valley' alarms (I think it's his nose), which is completely unfair of me. Especially since there are SC2 figures with actual scandals attached to them, and Harstem isn't one of them as far as google can discern.
especially when he is laughing
Pwahaha!
This was so good that I watched it twice, first on Harstem's channel and now on Lowko's channel. Freaking hilarious. Really could have used some spines/spores to box in the turtle toss.
BROOO THIS IS ACTUALLY SO GOOD , OWKO XD
yo keep doing this with harstem please
This Okwo L. guy really has it all figured out! Lowko maybe you can learn a thing or two from him.
I think this Okwo L. Is just Harstem in disguise, he couldent admit openly that toss might be a little op (or a little more) so he createt an fake persona.
Sooo Hilarious! I loughed my a$$ off xD
You guys are great.
Thank you very much Lowko for great Entertainment!
9:58 I've seen that guy. Under the glasses i know it's Mr. Imp Foster.
lowko, i'd like to correct you on your "when you lose, your opponent played better" saying. in my experience it is actually, "when you lose, you played worse than your opponent".
because if rts taught me one thing it is that i most often didnt have the right answer to let's say a "silly question."
but i feel you. toss in late game is so ridiculous...
Winston Churchill said the winner of WWII would be "...the leader who made the least amount of blunders."
In fact he and Hitler made many, but the West made at least one fewer
32:04 is one of the best parts, this kind of videos (IODIS with Lowko, Harstem and Reynor etc..) are the best :D
If the other player played better without actually playing, that just means you threw away your units at his defenses, right? Harstem's totally right.
Ya ur protoss lol
@@superstaralen I mean is he wrong? Lowko attacked into a choke, with ultras, against immortals. Ultras are bad against either of those things, the two of them together and you get... well, the above game.
protoss built a wall , and lowko smashed his head into it 3 times , who is the better player ?:D
@@superstaralen yeah this dude is just below bronze. Go back playing Campaign.
Not me subconsciously trying to unpause the video when Lowko has paused Harstem.
One of the best videos from you Ive personally ever seen :)
Much entertainment
The one who plays best doesn't win, it's who makes critical mistakes who loses. The Protoss might not have been playing 'well' so to speak, but I don't think they made any outrageous mistakes either.
Was there actually a need to be on the offensive here? Potential 10 bases vs 4, just box him in with lots of static defenses, keep harassing and starve him out.
How could the protoss make mistakes? He literally did nothinf the whole game lol
I kind of agree with you, but the point is that Protoss can just sit in their base until they're maxed out and at that point Zerg can't do anything anymore so you HAVE to try to do something. It's just that you need to try the right thing, and having contained protoss like that, vipers would have been a better choice. Now if you couldn't contain the protoss it gets a lot dirtier...
The Protoss also gave a lot of time for Lowko to prepare. Headbutting with the wrong army composition in the same choke multiple time in a row is not the right move and you can't really blame balance when doing that lead to a loss. Sure dealing with turtly players isn't the most fun but that doesn't mean the game is imbalanced.
@@Fenpwet bro, you give serral this situation with how many upgrades, bases, and creep lowko had, he would never lose. Lowko was like a cat with 9 lives here, going into a gun fight with a knife. Just keeps getting blasted, comes back later, not with a bazooka that he could afford, but with another knife... over and over.
@@RenonTTV To be fair though, zerg bazooka sucks... Most of the times you go bazooka the other side has a friggin railgun so there's no point. As a zerg if the knife doesn't work, don't go bazooka, go with more knives.
What Lowko was going for here is the economy war. You lose all your fights in the chokepoint, but your economy is a lot stronger, so if you can trade badly but take even a little bit every times, eventually you will outproduce them.
If Serral and Reynor can do it doesn't mean everyone can. And Lowko is by no means a low level player. If Lowko can't do it then most people can't.
it felt like having 20 000 marines with pistols trying to attack 100 tanks and thinking - no way we can loose with so many marines.
You guys are amazing, all the three of you! Thanks Lowko for your content
I think re: microbial shroud, he was mostly reiterating the point of ultra v. immortal, namely, you misidentified your primary threat.
in fact, when you a-move a flying unit, it prioritizes units that can shoot up, so the primary damage of the carriers will often go into the hydras, not the ultra
LMAO!!! Yall are fricken awesome! LOVE THIS! No idea how this was 3 years ago and I'm JUST now seeing it! i watch you guys all the time!!
Such a great video i have no qualms watching it on both channels.
When I saw Kevin's video I was SO EXCITED to see your reaction video. Has been a rough week - needed this.
9:26 at this moment.
Why There is no Army attacking protoss base if you see a Void rays?
Like. I have done this and i never seen a peaceful counter attack.
Oh Lowko oh Lowko i knew what harstem was gonna target before he made the video
Watched harstem before this. Friggin awesome seeing the back and forth between you guys. Love these vids
I think the racoon is an Animal Crossing reference
I love the 'he actually left guys' from reynor
I love the attitude dude! It's great to see, more collabs with creators!!!!
I absolutely love these! xD Harstem is hilarious! And another Reynor cameo?! Lowko, you are one of the cool kids!
@LowkoTV 17:34 When he started the sentence it was 58 supp difference. (182-124)
Fantastic episode. I did choke on my coffee. XD Keep it up! I don't even play Starcraft but enjoy watching your videos.
This is the comedy I needed HAHAHAHA
Damn!! I've been waiting for this!! Finally a second one!!
I already watched Harstem's video and I am so happy to watch Lowko go through this video too. This is one of the best videos these guys have done!
Reynor telling Harstem to leave his own show with all the trophies in the background is just too good.
Love it - appreciate the effort & explanations! Thanks Lowko!
Absolute content gold right here!
9:53 LOL, that’s caught me off guard, actually laugh at that. If only I could see chat’s reaction tho, would made that moment perfect
I love Harstem ever since Homestory Cup years ago and I'm so glad he's on RUclips now. However, I love seeing Raynor in these videos. You talk to that guy, ask him when he's going to Korea!
Your combo videos with Harstem rock! :D
I really wish we see more videos with Lowko and Harstem
Skytoss is like building the wonder on Age of Empires, if you can't stop it before they are finished, you lose.
macro is important, taking fights correctly also is. The toss took ok fights, Lokwo took very poor engagements.
The bad player doesn’t have to play good if the good player plays bad at the right moment
Gotta love 20/20 hindsight
This was fantastic, thank you Lowko I love your content and remember watching this game. Being able to see things from Harstem's POV really helped me to see how theres moments where Sc2 can become like pool (scratching the 8 ball), but your playing was so commendable I couldn't help become tunnel visioned on the thought this game must be imbalanced with how clearly you outplayed your opponent. Very encouraging to see the room for growth, keep it up!
You guys are great together. The three of you.
so again, ultralisks are not that ultra... mediocrelisk confirmed again.
which is still an improvement from where they were, lol
I agree man, honestly ultras need a buff, maybe extra dmg to buildings so they can be seen as assault unit that can take down buildings faster. Anything really.
@@Ajion Im down with ultra buffs if they nerf queens...transfuse is the reason they nerfed them in the first place
@@cavemantero That is a good point. I agree. SC is always so delicate, when it comes to balance changes.
They should have nerfed the Queen heal back when Heart of the Swarm came out. But Blizzard made a fanaticism out of "taking things slowly". Even the most obvious problems need 5 years to get addressed.
I've made a balance mod... for myself. Just4fun. To the Ultras I did:
- make the Ultras a bit smaller, so more than 2 can attack
- added a 2nd chitinous thingy armor (whatever it is called) giving another +1 armor, bringing it to a total of +3. Back when LotV came out they buffed the upgrade to 4 armor, it was too strong, yeah, but more importantly WAAAAAAAY too quick. The general idea however might not be all that bad? We will never know. Blizzard is always implementing everything ultra-imbalanced and then wondering why it breaks. (They were doing nothing but wondering for 4 months during LotV beta, anyone remembers?)
- tried to add a noob-button for the Ultra (but failed with that stupid editor), which made them not actually faster, but able to push own units. So they're not stuck behind a wall of Roaches.
Fck Blizzard.
Watched it last night and literally was like “wow I’ve been here at least 75 times”
Spot on about perfect play in the opener. Top level protoss analysis by Harstem.
Wow, that was really rough, man. But also very entertaining. XD So thanks for sharing one of your cruelest losses with Harshstem(sic).
I don’t know a lot about the ingame mechanics and fallouts of situations but i’ve been watching Starcraft 2 for a long time. I feel though that the main problem wasn’t even building Ultras when he started using them(although he shoudn’t have continued with them), a big issue to me was that he was attacking when he had the entire map(like Harshem breifly talked about), and didn’t even attempt to scout or evaluate anything about the enemy and his current composition(WHILE HAVING THE ENTIRE MAP)
As a backseat gamer, it seems like there's two things to improve:
1. Army comp decisions and pivots
2. Attacking multiple points at once, and/or rotating, and not always directly confronting the strong immortal army (or skytoss as the case may be) in a choke point
Its not about learning to play better, its about proving that this is the top play and yet still lost.
Only thing left to do is scream more in forums:D
The narrative is that playing better means getting a very spellcaster heavy army and going to 696 APM while attacking in three places at once, but it seems like this Protoss won by identifying Lowko's army comp and pivoting from heavy carrier void ray skytoss to heavy on immortals (like in Lowko's previous IODIS) and templars. It seems like he can make easier to implement improvements with being more flexible about army comp and positioning. With 17 bases, he had fair bit of money to build tech.
Two pronged attacks are higher APM too, but rotating is not. He rotated once and seemed to do alright there, but didn't keep up the zerg roulette
*it seems like this Protoss pivoted, responding to Lowko's army comp, where Lowko did not
@@grudley It seems weird to me that Terran do Medivac drop all the time, and Toss also has the Warp Prism to drop army into enemy main base. Yet, its entirely out of the mind of Zerg players that you can Overlord drop army into enemy main base.
Loved re-watching this on Lowko's channel after seeing the original 😂😂😂👌⚓💩⚓💩⚓⛴️
I watched this on Harstem's channel yesterday and that last minute had me laughing so hard I couldn't breathe!
Right?! And now this 😂😂👌💩⚓⛴️
Ok this was hilarious! Well done by all involved!
Honestly, if lowko and harstem replaced tastosis, when they're ready to move on, I would love it
That ending was fucking hilarious!
Lowko, my frend, this game was a classic example of "how to beat myself".
I like how you are still defending yourself after watching this replay a few times and knowing what you did wrong. Ah, the ego is a wonderful thing. Lack of proper scouting, lack of proper unit countering, lack of taking the whole map when you see an opponent turtling, lack of vipers in endgame ZvP, using your infestors wrong (btw, microbial shroud is NOT dark swarm, in case you were confusing it with the SC BW ability) and attacking into choke points multiple times and canceling your own army numbers advantage (have you seen 300?). Mistakes were made, but i think the biggest one was not identifying the enemy army comp correctly. But hey, your creep spread and macro were great!
Lowko, as Reynor sayd, you are a beast!
i kinda get what you're saying here but at the end of the day this toss was never going to move out so what are you really supposed to do? the real kicker here is the difficulty required for protoss to win a game is incrementally less than what zerg and terrans have to do game in and game out. theres nothing that requires a lower skill cap to do and has the same level of strength than what this toss did right here. yeah it was stupid to attack into a choke multiple times and not use any casters but then again there shouldn't be any type of strat like what the toss was doing in the game in the first place. good players should be good because they actually have to do things that win games as in great macro, multitasking, etc. the way skytoss is currently set up it requires actually not a single bit of that. this sounds a lot like a diamond toss trying to defend himself that way blizz doesn't nerf his stupid fucking low skill cap strategy that would absolutely run his win rates into the gutter if taken out of the game. ^^^
These vids a great you and harstem are the best starcraft content creators. Keep it up. Looking forward to the next one!
Entangle was the spell infestors got to try during a short period when Blizzard tried to find better answers to airtoss. Entangle made grounds units able to attack air. It was fantastic ^^
Instead of cool guys in Lord of the Rings its Lowko lol
"It was 6 base vs 3, he is 70 supply behind me and 5 minutes later he won" that is how I feel playing protoss vs terran in brood war
Harstem called it. Dank Lowko defeated Livestream Lowko to fulfill the imba prophecy.
Lowko, u just did the "Thomas Edison".
U might Not have invented the ultra hydra infestor style, but u popularized it.
Like that one kid who says your joke louder :'(
Bane - You learned the ultra hydra infestor style, I was born into it
Heres Ollie with weather! "Its raining sideways" thanks ollie
lowko you should integrate that little upgrade info box hes using in the top right corner to exsplain the upgrades, for newer viewers thats really handy!
16:55 That analogy is a thing of beauty. :D
I love how there's no call on Harstems phone while he is "talking to raynor" xD
Okay but...
Lack of being able Micro is why there's us regular people and then the pros.
I literally watch the previous video second time last night! And today got new video! Well done Lowko! That's a good one 👍🏻
These videos are hilarious And educational at the same time! man this is some good content!!
H: "That loss was more impressive than sad." ... lol
This is amazing, I love it!
Why did I just watched this on Harstem's channel and again here?
Why did I enjoy it?
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Good job guys! Great content!
This was freakin fun!!!
REYNOR: wouldn't you consider turning to protoss? Would love to see that.
HARSTEM: you're freakin fun man.
LOWKO: this cast was a great idea ... keep going.
I've played countless games like this against Protoss. You have to be so on point to win and your opponent doesn't even need to micro.
The protoss. He's just sitting there MENACINGLY!
This is an amazing video! Good to know that Protoss is officially IMBA!
09:50 that is so silly i love it
i think drinking something while watching was a bad idea... now my nose hurt and i have to clean my keybaord for all those moments that got me offguard laughing so hard...
" but lowko , no no no, he's a fast man. He wants to finish things quick, my friend. He's bang, in and out. You didn't even notice he was there " LMAO !! This would also be gold on Eharmony.
One of the funniest videos of the channel!
Thanks!