Life Advice With Harstem! | Is It IMBA Or Do I Suck?
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
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Dog poison is lingbane (lings were referred to as dogs in Chinese back in the days of sc1, and they inherited this nickname)
Two boat man is 211 (since it’s first push is 2 medivacs full of marines)
Thx for the explonation, i like that picture of the dog poison and boat men.
OMG TASTELESS THAT IS SO MUCH DOG POISON, I'M GETTING NERD CHILLS THERE's A TWO BOAT MAN ON THE OTHERSIDE AS WELL
Fun fact: in Russian they are called dogs too
xie xie ni
thanks for the translation
Ok I'm just pausing now after harstem's talk about not putting yourself down and I got to say that it was actually super nice to hear. Not all of us will make it to masters and the fact that someone made it to diamond shows an achievement that I for one am proud of :)
Unless you play on KR being GM is top 0.50% of players. Even masters you are top 3.5%. Diamond top 25%. Most people still playing SC have been playing it for over a decade so even diamond players should be proud. Watching starcraft and knowing what to do is alot easier then actually pulling it off ingame without mistakes.
Daddy harstem will roast you but he won't let you roast yourself.
"Be proud of your achievements son, even if you suck"
-my dad harstem
Thank you Harstem!!! (and Hamster!!!) It did mean A LOT to me for what you said in the beginning and Hamster's notes! Being one of the young ones in the group of friends I play with, they tend to get a bit out of control with their jokes (maybe it's just because I lack a sense of humor or I'm just too sensitive). I always felt that I didn't belong in the diamond league beacuse of that! This episode was extremely helpful and inspirational, I promise to keep in mind each and every advice you give me! And I will never stop practicing no matter what happens or whatever my friends say! I shall work on my micro and game understanding, till the day you see me send my application to TL!
P.S. The dialouge my friend and I had was
"I don't know how to play ling bang combo"
"cool, nice to hear that"
"then I'll use 2-1-1" (Tactical Lie"
Tactical Lie? Someone read the Art of the Deal, didn't you? ;)
huo zhuo er wu zai
does harstem need to calculate the exact trade info always by himself? seems to be a lot of work
huo zhuo er wu zai
Halfway through, and I get a feeling Harstem really likes this guy. Most constructive critism and least amount of roasting as of yet
I agree. He really tried to help him and get the best advices for each situation!
Harstem: "Don't be so hard on yourself. You should be proud of the achievement."
Also Harstem 20 minutes later: "You suck"
Only have 2 choices and it wasn't imba
I mean, Harstem's analogies are golden. I trully believe that in 1000 years people will look back and say "hey, who the hell is Confucius? Kevin aka Harstem is the guy, whos wisdom we follow"
Honestly Harstem and Hamster are becoming a great team. Before Hamster mostly worked as a supplement to Harstem but now I feel like they are two parts of a whole.
is it just me, or did Harstem got nicer to Terrans ever since he started to ladder up his Terran play? :-D
Did Hamster intentionally leave out the ding sfx for his messages? I was 10 minutes into the video wondering why he hadn't been chiming in, before I realized there was just no sound effect.
They have been removed about 2 months ago as a test ^^ But we are thinking about bringing them back in some form
@@hamster_designs as a fellow editor I think you should add the sfx (or whatever other sfx you like) back! It’s nice to see your little comments but if you don’t have the sound effects sometimes your fun little comments can get lost without the sound. Also, I aspire to be as good as you as an editor, your level of creativity, production and witty-nes is something I really admire.
Is hamster a real person? Or is that just editor harstem? Or is Hamster like Tyler Durden?
@@hamster_designs
I would just say that the message at the very top at 3:09 was totally missed by me until I rewatched that section. The problem was the top YT bar was hiding it as I kept moving my mouse, shifting the time, etc. until I went back far enough and let my mouse sit, I saw that message.
@@Jordan-Ramses Hamster is real. He invests far more time into small details than Harstem ever would
The analogy of the day illustrates the issue of transitioning too early to a late-game unit composition, and it actually evolves, leading to a second comparison:
“It is as watching a tutorial video on baseball, but you are only half paying attention, and you hear that “the goal is to go back to the home base”. You don’t know very much about the rules of the game, so your start running to the first base, then you skip bases two and three, you reach the home base, and you start celebrating. […] The late-game units often are a supplement, except for the ghost. The ghost is the entire army by himself: is support unit, main-damage output, and it has a tanking ability. That unit has it all, it is the complete man. The ghost is truly the Arnold Schwarzenegger of SC2: governor, film start, bodybuilder, seems a nice guy. Never met him, but tbf if I would not say it he may beat me up.”
Critics praised the Author for the usage of the chained analogy, a very rare and precious rhetorical technique, where the strength of the first analogy is amplified by the second, giving an unparallel pleasure to the senses. They also praised the Author's candour for admitting that he would prefer to avoid the risk of being beaten by a terminator. Critics, by virtue of the fact that they all live in my single head, also feel quite sympathetic with the protagonist of the first analogy, who knows nothing about baseball.
"The issue here isn't your macro, the issue here is that you lack production" Harstem, 2021
Harstem was nice to this guy because he felt bad at seeing a guy live down his achievements. Sometimes a confidence boost and some friendly advice is all one needs to improve.
If he'd want friendly advice, he wouldn't have sent the replay to Harstem...
Lets ramp up the algorythm to think that we are saying some important encouragements to other people. Great episode and stuff.
I think the algorithm knows quite well that there are no such things like encouragement on this channel...
I'm pretty sure the exchange was
"I don't know how to play Lingbane as Zerg"
"Ok, now that i know that I'm going 2-1-1"
And as we also know from previous episodes of IODIS, "Flying Dragon" are Mutas.
I've watched so much Harstem I had a dream about Kevin. That scared me and I am taking a break. I'm sorry Kevin. Its not you, its me.
We all dream of Harstem. It comes with the smooth voice and the "hiehiehieh"
@@Xenomorphin1 O.O
My water heater has been broken for a week. I dreamed about taking a shower.
@@Jordan-Ramses Why don't you get it fixed,
A rare CN iodis that the person sending it is self-aware and isn’t overselling (but underselling) the video and their skill.
Though the entire video has symptoms similar to every other before it which is a decent opening, bad choices and questionable follow-ups.
His only mistake was not to split. I bet Maru would make it work going for libs instead of tanks, and then everybody on the ladder would do it, too, and Harstem be like "this is indeed a viable build order now..."
26:30 Aww, that's not fair, he doesn't suck. This is definitely one of the better players i've seen on IIIODIS, early game macro was really good, zerg just got a load of fungal/bile combos hitting loads of clumped units, trading extremely efficiently. Both players were good here. But good advice from Harstem in the midgame on what new structures to build in what order.
Hey, I understand what you mean. Fact is: he played really well early game for a 3.2k. After that he tried to skip midgame and go straight to a lategame army comp. and had too many bases for the infrastructure he had. And let’s be real, my friend with 2.6k Gold has better unit control. I feel bad for this guy too and he maybe doesn’t suck, but the Imba complain is not true so harstem has to put a Suck stamp on it. That’s life..
And like I commented above, I agree with harstem bringing up extremely productive advices!
Harstem is nitpicking like my girlfriend during her period. "This makes no sense" isn't good advice either. His micro sucked, his macro though was good enough to get him into diamond. And since no pro is ever going for Roach Infestor, people who have only learned by copying don't know how to respond then - and Harstem didn't tell him.
@@nightmareTomek he did tell him. Tanks and slow push. Use marines to initiate the conflict, kite back into tanks.
When moving forward leave some units sieged to protect the push.
For infestors presplit your army. Dont fight in chokes/ramps, kite them into areas where your ranged splash can take effect.
(Added: Zerg excels in open fields, don't fight to their strengths).
@supergoon1989 I mean it isn't Imbalance or do I play above average. Harstem did do an aside about "be proud of your achievements" but he's got a show to run.
I am finaly proud at myself achiving soemthing. thank u harstem
14:14 the ghost is the the guy she told you not to worry about
while you are the SCV building their new home after they took off together
I love you. "...that Maru used against Dark". And You really, really tried to hide the smile, and did a good job of doing it;)!. You know, I try to start my own channel, and I will actually remember some things you do. The main thing I like about you is your honesty, but fair. The "You should always be proud of your achievements, even if compared to others, it isnt much". You, as far as I can tell from some online videos, are a good man.
I wish you and Cookie and wonderful Happy New year 2022!
When you want to help a player out but your contract says you have to be mean to them:
really liked this video. felt actually fairly constructive!
"Dear Harstem, I enjoy your content very much" haha same bro
@Harstem
Although I really like when you are roasting people with your mindblowing analogies, it was very cool to see you trying to help him getting better with very good and productive comments. I‘m a protoss myself and my Terran sucks. But I feel like my understanding of how Terran works really improved in a few minutes. Sometimes it’s very satisfying to see the friendly and carry side of you Captain. Great Video!!!
(P.S. I’m the one who invited you to a DS-Commander 3v3 during Stream. Sry for that xD)
2:20 You know more languages than I do. Don't be too hard on yourself.
Translation of ruclips.net/video/PREqfd1LGZU/видео.html
Zerg player: I have no idea how to play ling bane (as a zerg)
Terran player: Okay. Then I'll go with two medivacs + marines (boat -> medivac, man -> marine)
The way he delivers the opening monologue is so spot on
This player does a lot of stuff well for someone at their mmr, i was impressed!
I really like what you said about getting into diamond. Very respectable
This was an easy one for Harstem, since in the complaint form Halfedcookie already admitted that he sucks.
Countering opponents army components.. .. I like the way this flows.
Its painful to see that army stim forward into that chokepoint.
How to get to diamond with luck: there's always those insta-leave MMR tankers, esp in low elo. I once got queued against them like 5 games in a row. That's something like 200 MMR if it's your first 20 games.
Someone's bound to get even luckier and queue into them something like 10 games in a row. That's a free boost from plat 3 to diamond 5
i always look forward to the CN players
Absolutely love your stats popping up.
I can relate a lot to this Terran, although his macro is probably a bit better than mine, too but his army control and lack of patience/ splitting/ clumping is so relatable!
It's really sad that all the pros go MMMM only and all the other players go copy-pros-only. Blizzards crappy game design. With bio you do need lots of mechanical but little strategical skill. Just the build order and you just go split and kite all day, no matter where. You can also beat a lot with just MMM. With mech that's a different story, for instance you can't just load in everything into medivacs and then boost away. So you need to plan your moveouts correctly, siege in time, use the map, and build the correct counters.
The experience really shows in this cast
174 for diamond is quite common, I'm a platinum toss and even when I'm slow I play on 150-160 apm, on my good days I average 175-180 and on my best days I even get to 200-205 apm average.
People are getting faster with time, not to mention younger players (I'm 25 and I consider myself kinda old to react super fast to things) who have better reflexes.
at 11:52 he is long sitance mining and starts his 3rd base orbital while it is still in the main. if he flew it to the 3rd and stated the orbital there he would've had slightly better eco in that time period
24:50 Ah, I got it. I need to make a 2-rax scv-pull all-in. Thanks!
Quality of this content is at very high level, thanks.
19:45 I'm as good as Clem....was several years ago.
The cruise cut through the Bermuda Triangle.
My eyes made a single diamond tear when you said we deserve it and it is a great achievement jaja
Really good video my dood. Keep continue your work you're the best SC2 analyst in my eyes
the baseball analogy was spot on
I would say that the only serious mistakes here were related to rather advanced micro: splitting marines, splitting liberators and sieging them separately. This imho is pretty difficult, it feels harder than casting fungals or borrowing lurkers. So, I would say that the balance complaint was reasonable.
boxing ten marines, stimming and a moving them is not advanced micro at all
@@whdshwrthmsk6425 this is not. But figuring out where infestors are and splitting marines accordingly is quite advanced to me. Also, sieging liberators one by one also feels quite advanced.
@@dmitry5319 Generally, yes, but there are still very simple micro things that he could have done better. For example, at 18:00 -- don't chase infestors with his entire army. Stop the group, then quickly select the front 8 marines/maraduers, and chase with that. He didn't need 30 units to kill 2 infestors -- all he did was make the Zergs job easier. But the main thing is to go slower, kill more creep. Very easy for a Zerg to fungal when they know everytime their enemy is going up a chokepoint ramp.
you're forgetting another big mistake: not getting the right unit counters. The player already admits that he didnt get the right counters, and that definitely cost him the game here as well. Just a couple of tanks would've made a world of difference. In that aspect I wouldnt call the complaint reasonable: is it reasonable for a player to say that carriers are imbalanced if you dont build a unit that can attack air?
@@Melchior yes, I agree, but it also feels a bit too much. if you are selecting 8 marines, they will take more time to kill infestors and infestors may be able to run away. So, I think, he should have not chased them. But this comes after thinking about the setup for a while. During the game this kind of thinking is hard. Moreover, you are not only microing but doing other things. So, i would say it is hard to blame terran at that level for doing this kind of mistakes
This is Hamsters/Harstem's present to us, the viewers, enjoy: @2:46
10:52 Fewer marines, not less marines. Marine is not a mass noun. It is a countable noun.
He should pay attention to how Maru seiges ramps and pokes with marines. Slow and steady.
I'm a diamond 2 zerg player, and I think I wouldn´t have beaten this terran. Was actually a good game. Zerg floated more resources the whole game.
Thanks for this Harstem, love ya ;)
Challenge: Marauders & Widow Mines :)
this was probably the best IIIODIS form, the player didnt point fingers on a bunch of things and acknowledged its own limitation/weakness or lack of knowledge and simply asked for advise on how to improve .
personally that's a 10/10 form and that type of mentality has a ton of room for improvement !
Happy New Year Harstem! This video was very helpful. Thank you!
Great Video!!! Thank you Harstem
Episodes like this one with constructive criticism and suggestions are so much more enjoyable than the unfortunate occasional mean-spirited roasting! Thanks. :)
I didn't hear any constructive criticism after the 4 Marines died....
how many different analogies have this man in his bottomless sleeves?)
At 3:12 it said “I don’t really know how to cooperate baneling and zergling when I play Zerg ”
Then after that he said “I will carry two medivacs full of marines coming for you~”
0:25 Client is sandbagging. Lol
I hope he'll do at least once a balance whine of a same race mirror match. We all know they do exist especially among Bio vs. Mech, and I doubt nobody ever send him one.
seems like lots of beginners learn a basic build order, and that's it. no mid game planning or late game. no mental game plan. no ending.
Ghost = Jhonny Sins?
nice!
my favorite series. :)
Happy new year Hartsem
Negative first time I started playing I was tossed into Diamond league because every match I went against before I was had "placement" quit within 10 seconds. I am high Gold, low Plat by skill.
just a tip, the name of his opponent sort of means "New Player", with a "noob" connotation
Also, the dialogue in the early game says: Z: I don't know how to play Ling Baneling. T: OK / If you said so I will play a double drop.
When I watch iodis I sometimes think harstem sounds like what Eminem would say to stan.... just in like a starcraft universe
5:10 any link/ description/ video to that build order in detail please? Especially the follow up pushes are hard to follow imo with the specific timings. I always do the first push and then I'm unsure when to move out again or what my target supply should be...
I love it, when u speak German.
SUGGESTION: Harstem says the darnest things. There was show of a similiar name on TV showing kids saying... wel the darnest things. You could do a compilation video every month showing just the funniest stuff you said. I wanted to introduce my friends to the channel but there is no "the best of" compilations that i could use to bait them, they dont wanna watch full videos - they need a trailer/compilation. Please and thank you ;*
If this had guy had of gone tanks with his marines at the start it would have been over. Tanks are the bane of my life in mid game tvz. As a zerg player you just cannot engage in the same way he could here. The dude was basically handed the win.
4:06 tot 5:51 Mand!
@0:30 that's not true harstem. In WoL season 4 of 2011 i made it into gold because i was playing games at 3am and 2 gold players quit the game as soon as it started and i cheesed a win on a platinum guy right after. So the game promoted me... And i knew i peaked and i would never be able to stay there so i stopped playing that season. I didn't make gold again before 2013 from actually getting better at the game.
In answer to your in video question,we're here to suffer and watch a good roast and learn some things.
He did have some nice Macro, I agree.
Some good potential there with some refinement.
Bit, by bit, by bit.
That's all we can do, just try to improve.
Suck massively, that is quite the judgement.
LOL.
If you kill 12 drones and lose the oracle then you no longer need to micro it. Kappa
"Sometimes my genius is... It's almost frightening!"
Fungle man
i'm a high diamond player but i absolutely agree that his macro is super on point, better than most of the diamond players and mine. my problem is the absolute opposite, too much focus on micro and my macro suffers 😅
I love Harstem
Let's be honest here Harstem, you studied german, because you are dutch, and it is basically the same language. So it was the easiest.
In my case i sucked at german so i took french instead
About how many IODIS forms do you get?
A few every week atm ^^
@@hamster_designs wow so hamster and harstem really are different
@@jhsrules8010 fake news!
The picture of the guys face that people have on their CC/nexus/hatch... who is that?
At least he's humble.
What headphones are you using Harstem?
I'm diamond all 3 races, and my terran totally doesn't belong there. I don't know any terran builds, I just throw waves of random crap until the other guy swears at me.
the opponent's name means newbee
Captions are auto generating in Dutch and not English like usual? Anyone else having this problem lol
I know this type of comment usually goes the other way around, but how am I diamond? These guys are way better than me
CN > KR/EU/NA ?
Harstem what would you say is best toss defense against lib, tank, marine comp?... I am so tired of being pushed with that comp...
Tank marine are slow when pushing, have a bunch of stalkers, pick off the reinforcements before they get a critical mass. Marines die to collosus. Get disruptors later on. Libs get wrecked by tempest, keep the terran siegining from their side of the map and you buy yourself plenty of time till they get to you.
@@Xenomorphin1 right and I've really utilized tempest and have done exactly what you say... but now that I hear you say that and I think of it again now, I guess it comes down to my micro
Which I really need to work on lol... thanks for making me think again
@@sykedem_yt6254 in Starcraft it rarely is the micro. Unless you are making really big mistakes, a minimal micro knowledge will get you far. Check your replays, look at your worker counts, unit counts, upgrades, etc. Usually that's where the problem lies, not with micro.
I'm stuck in Gold he should be proud
Yes.
I’m already laugh when I saw is came from CN server
Harstem, there is a thing which happens at what you would call "The lower leagues" which probably doesn't happen at your level and justifies his statement about luck. A lot of people instantly leave games to Spoof a lower MMR than they should have because they want easier opponents. The flip side of this is somebody gets force fed MMR which they may not be ready for. For example, I earned by way out of Gold league with Terran into Platinum 3. Then I had a strangely long streak of people instantly leaving, which put me into Platinum 2 Then I got my butt kicked repeatedly. I didn't earn my way into Platinum 2, I got there by luck. This is probably what this guy means. I will watch the episode now.
yep , im at the top of plat 2 because of this and im getting spanked by 3k mmr players now
i am curious why tanks would be considered the best play vs infestor roach devourer here since they can be killed with the bile drops soo easy (esp if they get a few vipers then tanks are completely useless)? are there no better options? or is the advice just to have a few for support at all times (instead of the liberators since they both would die equally fast but you might spread them out more)
I definitely get tanks vs roaches early game, but it seems like once they transitioned to using biles having stationary units in general is completely pointless and asking to give free kills
Did you just say The Ghost is imba?
Should have gone for Russian dorogoy
If you learn 2-3 words in chinese you will get couple milliards extra subscribers.
Which ones?
@@mikeshivak I think, it can be a "you suck", "idiot", "stupid decision", "brain damaged" or maybe "flying dragon"
Hi Harstem, you probably have more Chinese fans then you expect lol
How much u charge for 1 hour of training
The only purchasable coaching Harstem offers as far as I know of is on his Patreon (First officer: 250 €).
ah cool das du deutsch kannst