I know that lowko doesn't do the HELLO EVERYONE MY NAME IS LOWKO, but at this point whenever I start one of his videos my brain just plays the audio of him saying it
As a complete pleb, the big weakness in the mid-game seems to be how much freedom he had rotating this Mutas from 3rd to 4th to Main. What I wanted to see was a nest of spore crawlers on the high ground and even the low ground between the 3rd and 4th, and another on the west side of the main base. The spores in the main would prevent him from flanking it as easily, he'd have to leave down the middle of the base, closer to the ramp where your Queens and Hydras are. And the ones between the 3rd and 4th would force him to take a more circuitous route between the two bases, making it much easier for your ground units to keep up with their movements and respond. The longer it takes him to rotate his mutas, the easier it is to respond and position your units in time. I just don't understand why so many players would rather loose 7 or 8 workers to enemy attacks instead of an extra 3 or 4 in the form of static defense.
Also, when he's using overseers to abduct lurkers, would it make sense to just use your vipers to parasitic bomb his overseers? You could remove his vision AND zone away his vipers all at once.
Its for multiple reasons: 1. These 7-8 drones work for longer than having to be made into static defence (that has to be done before the attacks) so its more than just those workers. Its the minerals they would still bring in. Since larvae is often not the issue 2. Static defence costs money by itself. 3. With sufficient micro and strategy you can cut these static defence and defend it properly. The issue is that their strategy and planning don't go as planned. If someone is really pushing themselves to make the best plays possible it is by cutting the static defence early. If you're a regular player that makes a lot of mistakes than by all means make the static defence since it requires way to much apm otherwise :) but this is a thing pro players try to maximize :D
The vipers switch spots because of momentum, one viper goes under and the other goes over and momentum of the yoink carries them through to switch spots
Well two players in Archon mode only have an advantage, when they train it. If two players join in Archon mode who've never done it bevore they'll probably be worse.
@@spiritling play it on casual first, you pretty much can win this just by joining, and then slowly improve, play against the ai if you wish. Join lowkos discord. If you need anything just @madman
I just noticed that when Lowko is planting down a building, the building grid's squares light up in 2 different ways / color schemes. Am I going crazy or is that actually happening and something he has intentionally set up somehow?
@@LowkoTV You are totally right! The colour blind option is responsible for that visual difference and actually has more impact on the overall experience than I thought, I never messed around with that setting... Thank you very much Lowko! (I thought I was going crazy^^). Vrolijk kerstfeest en prettige feestdagen! Much love from Germany
split your damn army. You keep having them group together. Some hydra in your main base and some in the new 4th base you're about to setup. You keep cancelling this 4th base because you keep moving your entire army away
I'm so pissed I'm just a silver league Protoss trying to get good but every match is just a cheese I can never have a good macro game Terran just spam cloaked banshees and widow mine/marine drops Zerg just 12 pool and Protoss is just canon rush id really benefit from any advice you guys can give me
It takes practice. You need to keep playing and understand what your win con is for each cheese. Go into a 1 vs ai and practice build orders, get them down pat. Then go into online and do it against real people. Make sure you scout so you can respond to what your opponent is doing.
Lowko you might think lowly of yourself (haha lowly lowko..) but you're actually in the top 0.94% of all the players in the world www.rankedftw.com/team/753510/#td=world&ty=c&ra=best&tyz=0&tx=a&tl=1 that is a website that has all of the players who play on the ladder and has their rank I am You from the YD2K clan if you wanted to search me up and there should be a zerg symbol infront of my name but nowadays I am playing much more toss than zerg
@@LowkoTV Senpai noticed me! Yeah, okay. So, the sound of your video got normalized for me. Meaning during phases of you silently playing it got louder and louder until your keyboard clacking reached a certain level. Which in turn had you SCREAM into my ear when you started talking again and the normalization quickly reducing the level again, resulting in an actual bloody headache for me within a few minutes. ...but all of that magically disappeared by now and the sound of your video is static again instead of dynamic. Yeah. No idea. Might have been on my side then, even though I changed nothing and it was only on your video. Technology! It's magic! Apologies if my throwaway line caused any concern.
now we just need Lowko and winter vs serral in archon.
5 minutes later, GG and serral saying, lowko, you suck! honestly, I don't think that would be fair ;)
Oh yes dear Santa Claus this for Christmas PLEASE!
now, now, now, now lets do this!!!!
Archon mode isnt +2000 mmr.
I don't know if Pig and Beasty archon could beat Serral, let alone Lowko and Winter.
I know that lowko doesn't do the HELLO EVERYONE MY NAME IS LOWKO, but at this point whenever I start one of his videos my brain just plays the audio of him saying it
90% of what SC players hear for half the game is
NOT ENOUGH MINERALS/GAS.
That's a sign you are marching well!
Soooooo 45%? lol
"This is real nice for us."
Bold of you to assume I'm rooting for you! :D (I am.)
Lowko flexing on the kids I see
well this is a nice early Christmas present
I got a challange for anyone who wants to watch this match:
*Take a shot every time Lowko has to cancel his 4rth*
What is rth - rd + th or what?
Ya if he had double spore the 4th, he could have actually have his 4th base. XD But drinking game is more fun.
That was really fun to watch. GG
LoL, "Mom, my science fiction video game is fake!"
He keeps saying it, for some reason.
As a complete pleb, the big weakness in the mid-game seems to be how much freedom he had rotating this Mutas from 3rd to 4th to Main. What I wanted to see was a nest of spore crawlers on the high ground and even the low ground between the 3rd and 4th, and another on the west side of the main base. The spores in the main would prevent him from flanking it as easily, he'd have to leave down the middle of the base, closer to the ramp where your Queens and Hydras are. And the ones between the 3rd and 4th would force him to take a more circuitous route between the two bases, making it much easier for your ground units to keep up with their movements and respond. The longer it takes him to rotate his mutas, the easier it is to respond and position your units in time.
I just don't understand why so many players would rather loose 7 or 8 workers to enemy attacks instead of an extra 3 or 4 in the form of static defense.
Also, when he's using overseers to abduct lurkers, would it make sense to just use your vipers to parasitic bomb his overseers? You could remove his vision AND zone away his vipers all at once.
Its for multiple reasons:
1. These 7-8 drones work for longer than having to be made into static defence (that has to be done before the attacks) so its more than just those workers. Its the minerals they would still bring in. Since larvae is often not the issue
2. Static defence costs money by itself.
3. With sufficient micro and strategy you can cut these static defence and defend it properly. The issue is that their strategy and planning don't go as planned.
If someone is really pushing themselves to make the best plays possible it is by cutting the static defence early. If you're a regular player that makes a lot of mistakes than by all means make the static defence since it requires way to much apm otherwise :) but this is a thing pro players try to maximize :D
Also you will have to make more of these massive static defence walls at multiple places. Which just costs way to much
This video is over at 23 min. Thanks for all your content Lowko
The vipers switch spots because of momentum, one viper goes under and the other goes over and momentum of the yoink carries them through to switch spots
That was super fun to watch, I'd love to see the same thing Vs Protoss or Terran
the two players communicating together while watching the stream
He actually announced his build (and its origin) right after the game started.
lol. We were in a discord call ofc but no we didn't watch his stream.
I chuckled a bit when you try to call brenda back on your 3rd base 😂😂😂
I like how Lowko and the two Grandmasters were trading vipers and constant pressure
Nice dragon fly drawing sir haha
Does anyone else want a keyboard/mouse cam for vids like this? I would love to see how he coordinates his hands with everything going on.
Does anyone else watch players at this level clicking the screen and lines everywhere and think
"What the fuck is going on?"
Yes
Well done! Nice match!
lowko was on the defensive for so long how did he end up on top xD
I don't play online much. What does "16 pool 17 hatch" mean? I know it's spawning pool and hatchery, but what are the numbers?
Well two players in Archon mode only have an advantage, when they train it.
If two players join in Archon mode who've never done it bevore they'll probably be worse.
Merry Christmas Lowko 🎉🎊😊😊
Could you do more pro lvl archon mode like the one you did a while back?
You did canceled your base at 8:55, passed from 95 minerals to 326 at 8:55 !
Mutalisks just make sense to play in archon mode since they'll be easier to micro
I suck at Starcraft 2
Same tbh
No I mean I can’t even beat the Terran campaign 😢
In the words of a wise man, Starcraft 2 is a game all about learning to suck less.
@@spiritling play it on casual first, you pretty much can win this just by joining, and then slowly improve, play against the ai if you wish. Join lowkos discord. If you need anything just @madman
Thank you for the advice but I don’t have discord
Merry Christmas
now zerg archon with harstem against rotti and winter as protoss? Would that be fair?
What mmr is Harstem as Zerg?
Love you dude, keep it up x
Maaaan The hidra push in the end i thought was gg.
Bly's proxy is great! Very aggressive zerg player, that's new.
My favorite player is Clem but respect to Bly
Kinda wanna hear the archon teams side
Also wanna see my main(protoss) archon
Hm yeah I thought about that after it was done. We probably should've recorded it from our pov but we didn't really know he was gonna upload it so :/
I just noticed that when Lowko is planting down a building, the building grid's squares light up in 2 different ways / color schemes.
Am I going crazy or is that actually happening and something he has intentionally set up somehow?
Cant tell looks normal to me ? Probably u have a different setting but IDK if their is one I just ahve standard and it looks the same I think
You or I may have colour blind mode on. I don't remember if I have it on in this game.
@@LowkoTV You are totally right!
The colour blind option is responsible for that visual difference and actually has more impact on the overall experience than I thought, I never messed around with that setting...
Thank you very much Lowko! (I thought I was going crazy^^).
Vrolijk kerstfeest en prettige feestdagen!
Much love from Germany
Where is Lowko standing? Is he a GM himself?
If it is 1v2 why is there only one base for enemy?
It's Archon mode. 2 players control the same units and buildings (but Lowko was playing alone vs 2 players in this game)
Good video!
Dammit he beat us
Good micro= good zerg
Fijne feestdagen!
insane game holy shit
GG
Is it me or do lowko’s gas buildings look weird ?
Now i want lowko and winter vs BLYONFIRE i want to see the cheese ;D
16:09
OMG Lowko ... i was in bronze age like 4000 years ago and i can play waaaay much better than that!
Lowko, make a drawing/art channel.
Never been this early before
Thought for a moment that you said, "Never seen this before".
congrats
your creep spread was lacking
Here I come I am cinnamon.
split your damn army. You keep having them group together. Some hydra in your main base and some in the new 4th base you're about to setup. You keep cancelling this 4th base because you keep moving your entire army away
1 zerg main has more apm than 2 protoss
I mean.. this isn't really true but okay
Meaningful comments
There are some. Hi, btw.
I'm so pissed
I'm just a silver league Protoss trying to get good but every match is just a cheese
I can never have a good macro game
Terran just spam cloaked banshees and widow mine/marine drops
Zerg just 12 pool
and Protoss is just canon rush
id really benefit from any advice you guys can give me
It takes practice. You need to keep playing and understand what your win con is for each cheese. Go into a 1 vs ai and practice build orders, get them down pat. Then go into online and do it against real people. Make sure you scout so you can respond to what your opponent is doing.
@@trestenpope286 thanks for the advice
ur overload can pick up and drop lings
u guys can fly ur queens croos
u can also spread lurkers for bayylys
and overlords are extra hp
I'm listening to Lowko only to find out that stupid stuff matters really much in SC2…
Why are u denying creep tumor?its zvz i don't get that
Vision
lmao
Wow, time to go back to losing copper
Leave Brenda alone! jajjajaja
Jo man Harstem need a good Player how he can paly against. He is playing with a gold. Do you would Like?
Lowko you might think lowly of yourself (haha lowly lowko..) but you're actually in the top 0.94% of all the players in the world www.rankedftw.com/team/753510/#td=world&ty=c&ra=best&tyz=0&tx=a&tl=1 that is a website that has all of the players who play on the ladder and has their rank I am You from the YD2K clan if you wanted to search me up and there should be a zerg symbol infront of my name but nowadays I am playing much more toss than zerg
2nd?
My comments are always broken, cant see anyone else :( Oh well....Thanks for the entertainment Lowko!!!
I'm early
Oh God that microphone normalization. Unbearable.
Does the microphone sound bad? Sounds good to me but feedback is appreciated.
@@LowkoTV Senpai noticed me!
Yeah, okay. So, the sound of your video got normalized for me. Meaning during phases of you silently playing it got louder and louder until your keyboard clacking reached a certain level. Which in turn had you SCREAM into my ear when you started talking again and the normalization quickly reducing the level again, resulting in an actual bloody headache for me within a few minutes.
...but all of that magically disappeared by now and the sound of your video is static again instead of dynamic. Yeah. No idea. Might have been on my side then, even though I changed nothing and it was only on your video. Technology! It's magic!
Apologies if my throwaway line caused any concern.
@@Dirili All good, thanks for the update!
first
4th?
3rd?