To be more precise, Akrij was diamond 3 (from 2800 to 3200 MMR) for more than 5 YEARS. Since 2018. Hardstuck at the same level for 5 years. And then cyclones come around aaaaand.... He gains more than 2000 MMR in 2 months.
Cyclones are not even that good. Im guessing he got to GM mostly through cheesing which is not that crazy tbh. I got to masters 1 as protoss with cannon rushing even though im a master 3 Terran primarily because most people don't know how to defend against it properly. Were I to play normal macro games i could never get to M1 with toss, im certain of it.
What happened to your twitch account akrij1211? I saw you do this to Thriving (you lost that time) and immediately followed you but it say you have been suspended? "This channel is currently unavailable due to a violation of Twitch's Community Guidelines or Terms of Service."
@@Tsnafu TBH no one knows... after sc2 streams with amberdrake, my sister and her BF, where we were teaching them sc, i got banned for "Sexual content" for Indefinite time period.... After 7 years of streaming almost daily. Maybe on vid you can hear, that i am not in good mental state, so sorry
This actually makes a ton more sense when you consider that Akrij is Grandmaster in League of Legends. League doesn't require nearly as much APM or multitasking as Starcraft, but it does demand really good control and decision-making. Maybe the build is OP, but I think the bigger thing here is that he found a build that plays to his strengths.
Exactly this. When I've heard he's only got 1k games in SC2, my first thought was "maybe he's actually talented, but at first couldn't find the opportunity to let that talent flourish". He's now facing other Terran GMs on the ladder, and any one of them with more experience/mechanics/skill should be able to recognize him, execute his build against him, and roflstomp him - but it's actually Zerg that's currently causing him trouble. Akrij is actually good at the game.
precisely -- he said that he needs vision to plan what to attack in which order. Moreover, the mobility of cyclone and high DPS enable him to snipe precisely the targets that he needs to get the best gradient of power. His friends try the same build order and it doesn't work, precisely because the first 3-4 targets sniped decide if the opponent can recover or not. In other words, decision-making wins. Good job mate! Go Czechia!
Low iq: I'll just make a bunch of cyclones and win the game Average iq: Nooo you need a real build order and lots of practice High iq: I'll just make a bunch of cyclones and win the game
Spy, a european cheeser did the same thing with zerg back in like 2019 I think. he went from plat 2 I think to 5.4k gm on na server using 12pool spinerush in ZvZ, 2base nydus ling in PvZ, and fakemacro banebust in PvT. took him about 2 months. I was very salty that he made it while I was hardstuck diamond, so I challenged him to a game, and thats the story of how I beat a grandmaster zerg in a macro game
he meant ZvP. Banebust works to GM in ZvP you rush and hide zerglings make 5+ banes which blow up the unit blocking the wall and/or the pylon if it's reachable to deactivate the wall. Made well and executed well it's a legit ZvP cheese to mid GM
So accurate that I don't even need to make my own comment. Terrans can always come from nowhere because there's not a skill barrier to make the highest level. This is why Oliveria can shock IEM with terran.
@@WhitefoxSpace Obviously since he is not a great player just someone who cheeses a lot. It is like if you have one opening in chess and the opponents just never played you before so they don't know the response to it. (well that may not be the best example since grandmasters in chess now most of the openings and how to counter them but let's move on) Also he has like 70 APM which certainly doesn't help if you want to perfect any build.
I love everything about this :D how Harstem found him that Harstem is doing a video about this how he refined the proxy build into something else less than 1000 games to gm how he is flamed and Harstem is asking about it
As protoss you can beat this build with a one base DT drop where you have about 4 dt's at their base at 4:15-4:20. You have to do some micro but the Terran will eventually run out of scans. You'll also need to warp a DT or two at home because he'll be halfway across the map when you are dropping at his side.
7:07 Harstem cracking up at Akrij getting flamed a lot is primo content 😂 This was the cheesiest man alive meeting one of his idols (that he didn't know he had)
A poor build order executed perfectly is better than a perfect build order performed poorly. Credits to this man for his hard work and sticking to it. This is hilarious and really brings a smile to my face
How incredibly satisfying it must be to be able to reply to "Bullshit, you're a liar" comments with a video of one of the bigger names in the community interviewing you 😂
@Harstem Omg! That's extremely similar to my most successful strategy I've used as I've played SC2 on and off over the years. I had Broodwar as a kid; loved it. I love SC2 as well, and about halfway through SC2's existence, I made variations of cyclone/SCV rushes that I just called my cyclone rush in replays. It's had several variations because of how the cyclone has changed multiple times over the years, but, no matter the variation or patch, that's always been my best rush! Wow, that's just crazy to see. I have to say that I can play macro games and other builds, too. I'm not a noob or anything, but that's my most successful.
I think I play with this guy once, in a TvT. It is very difficult to scout into this build since most of the time terran will open with double gas, therefore they will not scv scout and will scout around their base for proxy first. when the time reaper reached his base cyclone will just kill them and we have no information. So unless you just build blind tank you have to be very precise with your reaper to counter it in TvT.
I think the key actually is to just give up the natural and pull up the ramp more than the tank. I've held this twice at this point and that was the most important part. You're just so hard to break up the ramp.
For one of the games, I think I'd lost my reaper but I had I think 4 cyclones total with the last two just finishing as the attack hit. SCV's are key though. You definitely need to pull SCV's. But you generally can chew though a bunch of their scvs on the ramp up and then when they break through you pull. @@owenthailand
Wow, I loved this video. You two guys were so happy and you had so much fun, it was absolutly contagious. I was grinning and laughing all the time :D This guy is an absolute genius - he analysed his weaknesses and adpoted a perfect strategy to circumvent these weaknesses. I salute you!
It was only a matter of time after the last patch which boosted Terrans. There are probably many similar examples, but havent come up to attention...yet. And remember - this guy does it with 1 base all in (in other words, in fast and short games that end early), in a patch that was supposed to "stabilize the Protoss in the early game".
Nah its just a highly specialised build that will probably get figured out in the next week how to beat. It reminds me of the proxy voidray from 18mo or so ago, although that one was around for quite a while at the lower levels.
@@joshuadalton6063 you mean the one which got triple nerfed because terrans kept crying about it? It wasn't figured out, at least the reason its no longer a thing is not because it was figured out, but because of the nerfs. So it is pretty reasonable to nerf the cyclone, but since we are talking about a terran unit and not a protoss one, it is probably not gonna get nerfed.
@@norberthiz9318 I believe that was figured out by simply scouting towards your third, but maybe the response required was still difficult, maybe you remember better than me. IDK how you nerf cyclone to prevent this all-in, a small increase in build time maybe, but tbh its on people to scout lack of expansion and treat it as a 1base all-in the same way as every other 1base all-in.
@@joshuadalton6063 I have a pretty good sulotion. Just revert the cyclone back. There was no reason to rework it at all and the rework failed anyway. It would be 100% better for the game I belive uthermal made a guide on how to defend the proxy voids, but it was still very difficult, cause you had very little room for error. It was certainly insanely op, even at pro level it was commun.
You dont need buffs. You never did. You need Maxpax to play offline and Zest to come back from the military. Watch how Parting easily cracks top ten within the next few months.
@@joshuadalton6063 The first time I lost but its a really easy hold if you just scout he doesn't have an expo. Drop two spines, go roaches off a half saturated natural and make sure you let the scvs attack in first so you can go behind them and attack the cyclones with the roaches.
I find the cyclone really funny because if you where around in late 2000s, waiting for SC2 to finally drop, you may have watched some of the trailers Blizzard dropped showcasing the SC2 Alpha at the time. In the video showcasing the Terran, they showcased a little unit called the Cobra, a unit with a railgun that did high damage to armored units, but more importantly fired on the move. This unit was eventually removed from the multiplayer during the alpha and made it's way into the Campaign, most of you would recognize it as the Diamondback. This unit didn't make it to the multiplayer because it was extremely difficult to balance. The ability to fire on the move made it easy to micro to the fullest with little effort. If it was overturned it could basically be an unstoppable death machine. If they tried to nerf it to compensate for the ease of use, it would be basically useless. And so I found it very funny when the cyclone was added because it's lock on wasn't exactly like the diamondback/cobra, but the idea was very similar. And so it's no surprise that the cyclone has had such a turbulent balance history.
Oh Captain, My Captain! After years of failed IODIS submissions, you took it upon yourself to brew a cocktail of abomination of a build that even a low ranked Terran player can throw at the veterans of the game and laugh as they hopelessly lose. A thing of beauty.
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. -Bruce Lee Fair to say that Akrij is a one kick pony. And a deadly one.
This is hilarious. I took 23000 games to get to GM. So much watching videos on how to improve, etc, etc. This guy hit the same achievement far more efficiently & mined some nice salt along the way xD
One of my friends got really into SC2 because I showed him a marine/scv pull build in WoL and he made GM with it before any of our friend group just by jamming that build every game. It's kind of amazing what works for people sometimes, especially cool hearing this player improved in macro games to such a degree too.
This is interesting, I didn't realize this was such a rarity. Honestly, anyone who is diamond or platinum level can achieve low GM if they try hard enough. Research builds and timings for all matchups, and practice constantly. The only time you get hardstuck is when you keep doing the same things over and over and nothing changes.
While I think this is a rare occurence, it isn't that rare in other games, it is only rare in SC2 becasue the player base is so much lower than many other competetive games thus the sample size is lower as well. I float around Diamond in league every season all around, people may say that is where I belong but any time I decide to take the game seriously, I hit the highest ranks and remain there all season. I think there are a lot more cases like that, if you play a game competetively for 10+ years, you are bound to be among the best even if you don't take the game seriously. MMR doesn't matter if said people are just not taking the ladder seriously. There are also cases like the professional LoL player called Fudge. He was stuck in Platinum for 7+ years and then just made it into the pro scene in 2 years. I am guessing he was the same as me or this guy. Conclusion: If you can't hit the highest rank after playing for 10 years when you take the game seriously, you are likely not the smartest, quickest, most sharp tool in the shed and you are likely struggling at other parts of life itself. It is okay tho, get coaching, stop trying to invent builds even the smartest people learn from each other, or just get a new hobby.
Imagine if in chess, instead of 64 squares it's 262,144 squares (64 x 64 x 64), and instead of 6 unique pieces, there are 66. If you change how the knight moves by 5 squares per turn to make it better and change the rook to lose 10 squares per turn, you would break the current play styles. I'm not surprised at all that someone figures something out a month after the change happens. Newsflash- Terran broke, and no one's complaining because the complainers play Terran.
I don't want to be rude to the guy, but you can see on sc2pulse that he was at platinum/diamond all the way from 2018 until october, notably when the last patch hit, then his MMR magically went up.
@@lillian8307 this is well known information, not magically, patch sucks. the community has always had quite shit balance ideas but now that its actually in their hands we get shit like this happening.
@@eclipseeffigy Step by step. This commenter brings up natural talent as a possible explanation. Thus, I point out the correlation between the patch and use of the featured build, and point out that the sudden rise relative to his entire history of SC2 is probably not a coincidence, especially relative to the amount of time playing SC2 over the years. It is a response with an implication suggesting that it is not, in fact, natural talent that got him to where he is, in response to the original comment. I know exactly what the video is about.
@@lillian8307 he played what, 1000 games of starcraft 2? From 2018? Let me say this is really far from actually grinding anything. Also sometimes smth just clicks with some build (sc case) or champ (in league). I myself was stuck in gold in league until I picked up tryndamere and got to mid diamond (s3). But friends of mine who were silver-gold couldn't climb with him at all. Edit - checked time graph and indeed saying that he was in plat/diamond since 2018 is technically true but doesn't show full picture. And full picture is that he played like 1-7 games/month there and only since middle of last year he actually started to play actively. No wonder he started to climb, lol.
What an absolute legend, this guy was probably the sweatiest diamond Terran in history and then his mind was enlightened and he found the path to success
To be more precise, Akrij was diamond 3 (from 2800 to 3200 MMR) for more than 5 YEARS. Since 2018. Hardstuck at the same level for 5 years. And then cyclones come around aaaaand.... He gains more than 2000 MMR in 2 months.
Cyclones are not even that good. Im guessing he got to GM mostly through cheesing which is not that crazy tbh. I got to masters 1 as protoss with cannon rushing even though im a master 3 Terran primarily because most people don't know how to defend against it properly. Were I to play normal macro games i could never get to M1 with toss, im certain of it.
yeah he literally just cheeses with cyclones @@aaabatteries9948
But remember kids, the patch was to buff protoss in pvt
@@aaabatteries9948 How dare you call this cheese
@@aaabatteries9948 Just watch the video :D
Thanks a lot Harstem for interiew and sorry everyone for my awfull eng =D
It was fantastic!
What happened to your twitch account akrij1211? I saw you do this to Thriving (you lost that time) and immediately followed you but it say you have been suspended? "This channel is currently unavailable due to a violation of Twitch's Community Guidelines or Terms of Service."
Your english is good enough that it can be understood, so don't worry about it. Congratulations on reaching grandmaster! You did amazing.
Don't worry, it was more than sufficient to understand you.
Never apologize again. 😊😊
@@Tsnafu TBH no one knows... after sc2 streams with amberdrake, my sister and her BF, where we were teaching them sc, i got banned for "Sexual content" for Indefinite time period.... After 7 years of streaming almost daily. Maybe on vid you can hear, that i am not in good mental state, so sorry
Harstem: Did you make it? Did you steal it?
Akrij: I stole it form you.
Star Wars plot twist
It's hilarious that Harstem's own cheese came back to haunt him. Just made even dumber.
"I learned it from watching you"
This actually makes a ton more sense when you consider that Akrij is Grandmaster in League of Legends. League doesn't require nearly as much APM or multitasking as Starcraft, but it does demand really good control and decision-making. Maybe the build is OP, but I think the bigger thing here is that he found a build that plays to his strengths.
Yeah I think this is a really interesting and important point that's kind of glossed over in the video.
Exactly this. When I've heard he's only got 1k games in SC2, my first thought was "maybe he's actually talented, but at first couldn't find the opportunity to let that talent flourish". He's now facing other Terran GMs on the ladder, and any one of them with more experience/mechanics/skill should be able to recognize him, execute his build against him, and roflstomp him - but it's actually Zerg that's currently causing him trouble. Akrij is actually good at the game.
This is what i was going to say. Sometimes it takes time and the right conditions for some players to shine and others to fall off.
precisely -- he said that he needs vision to plan what to attack in which order. Moreover, the mobility of cyclone and high DPS enable him to snipe precisely the targets that he needs to get the best gradient of power. His friends try the same build order and it doesn't work, precisely because the first 3-4 targets sniped decide if the opponent can recover or not. In other words, decision-making wins. Good job mate! Go Czechia!
Barracks: What is my purpose?
Akrij: You build 2 reactors then fly across the map.
Not enough terrans have the balls to play true mech. He even sends his SCVs to war so that zero bio units will remain
pass the butter
@@LittleRainGames Oh My God
Scanning ahead so you can figure out where to click is a brilliant way of dealing with your own lower APM. This guy is truly brilliant!
also you don't need to worry about decision making because you make your decisions on the way
It's not about clicking more. It's about clicking the right stuff and places!
@@ddenozor the REAL decisions are the ones we made along the way, friend.
Low iq: I'll just make a bunch of cyclones and win the game
Average iq: Nooo you need a real build order and lots of practice
High iq: I'll just make a bunch of cyclones and win the game
This is the best IIODIS episode by far
and Akrij does not suck :)))
but what about our captain himself?
The answer to is it IMBA or does he suck? Yes.
Harstem is finding evidence for cyclones imba after they killed his proxy hatch
@@JesusShaves5 why not both :)
His APM of 69 is epic.
Or at least nice
So is your Thumbs up now xD
Wrong. It indicates that the game is broken at a fundamental level. The fact this works is insulting, not funny.
nice
I love how Harstem wanted to know how much he got flamed XD
that's sc2 for ya
Some games you jus can't win. And that gets on people's egoes. How silly. Imagine getting butthurt over a game like sc2.
Spy, a european cheeser did the same thing with zerg back in like 2019 I think. he went from plat 2 I think to 5.4k gm on na server using 12pool spinerush in ZvZ, 2base nydus ling in PvZ, and fakemacro banebust in PvT. took him about 2 months. I was very salty that he made it while I was hardstuck diamond, so I challenged him to a game, and thats the story of how I beat a grandmaster zerg in a macro game
bane bust in pvt
bro did you mean zvp and zvt?
he meant ZvP. Banebust works to GM in ZvP you rush and hide zerglings make 5+ banes which blow up the unit blocking the wall and/or the pylon if it's reachable to deactivate the wall. Made well and executed well it's a legit ZvP cheese to mid GM
Is it imba that a diamond player can beat gms with this simple strategy? No, harstem, you suck!
Gottem! ;)
yes, you gottem.
Perfecting the dumbest plan ever down to its smallest detail is perhaps the most Terran thing possible.
So accurate that I don't even need to make my own comment. Terrans can always come from nowhere because there's not a skill barrier to make the highest level. This is why Oliveria can shock IEM with terran.
The best is it's not even perfected to the smallest detail, it's barely perfected at all 😂
@@WhitefoxSpace
Obviously since he is not a great player just someone who cheeses a lot.
It is like if you have one opening in chess and the opponents just never played you before so they don't know the response to it.
(well that may not be the best example since grandmasters in chess now most of the openings and how to counter them but let's move on)
Also he has like 70 APM which certainly doesn't help if you want to perfect any build.
@@AntiDoctor-cx2jd lol what's your MMR with Terran?
@@tambaz2276 only a great fool would ask about the mmr in this situation
This is clearly the son of the dad who only built marines. He has achieved greatness
I have immediately figured out the Czech accent. Well done man, more of our Czech players on the ladder!
Yeah. It kinda reminded me of the video of Stanislav Řezač at some point XD. But its good.
I love everything about this :D
how Harstem found him
that Harstem is doing a video about this
how he refined the proxy build into something else
less than 1000 games to gm
how he is flamed and Harstem is asking about it
Fear the man who has mastered a single punch.
Harstrem knows how painful this is for so many people to hear and he just laughs uncontrollably 😂
As protoss you can beat this build with a one base DT drop where you have about 4 dt's at their base at 4:15-4:20. You have to do some micro but the Terran will eventually run out of scans. You'll also need to warp a DT or two at home because he'll be halfway across the map when you are dropping at his side.
ive never seen harstem so happy before
He's like a proud dad bewildered at his son's success, we need to have a match between them 😂
no point. This guy is surprinsinglt exploiting this build above diamon, which is well known in plat. He has no second chance@@MarlonSolisFallas
Akrij is an absolute beast ahaha. I hope he inspires more people to try finding and refining builds to that level
7:07 Harstem cracking up at Akrij getting flamed a lot is primo content 😂 This was the cheesiest man alive meeting one of his idols (that he didn't know he had)
A poor build order executed perfectly is better than a perfect build order performed poorly. Credits to this man for his hard work and sticking to it. This is hilarious and really brings a smile to my face
Thanks a lot
The best part is that this isn't a poor build order, it's a very good one :)
"WTF is this?"
"no"
LMFAO! 🤣
This is basically Harstem reviewing his own IODIS form
10:05 Funniest part by far,
“Had you beaten this guy already?”
“Yes I think 3 times”
“And… he was really pissed”
How incredibly satisfying it must be to be able to reply to "Bullshit, you're a liar" comments with a video of one of the bigger names in the community interviewing you 😂
You have to do a cheesiest man alive with this now
This was such a good watch. Thanks for not beeping the swears out it made it funnier. This guy is a legend lol.
Best SC2 video of 2024
that time that harstem met the actual cheesiest man alive
Thanks for interviewing this guy. Absolutely hilarious.
so finally we found the IMBA holy grail.
Someone who played against this terran must send imbalance compaint to iodis.
@@annoyed_kitsunevery easy to hold in TvT it’s 2 bunkers/ wall off in natural and 7-10 scvs ready for auto repair marines and tank Viking
@@AntonioLopez-kw3ev i have 0 worries about tvt, it's mirror, therefore no balance complaints should be.
You just killed the ladder Harstem!
watched this video and then immediately played against it on ladder. Thanks Hamster.
@Harstem Omg! That's extremely similar to my most successful strategy I've used as I've played SC2 on and off over the years. I had Broodwar as a kid; loved it. I love SC2 as well, and about halfway through SC2's existence, I made variations of cyclone/SCV rushes that I just called my cyclone rush in replays. It's had several variations because of how the cyclone has changed multiple times over the years, but, no matter the variation or patch, that's always been my best rush! Wow, that's just crazy to see. I have to say that I can play macro games and other builds, too. I'm not a noob or anything, but that's my most successful.
He really said "nah I'd win" and then proved it
This is amazing and I am mentally preparing myself for facing clones of this build on the ladder.
I think I play with this guy once, in a TvT. It is very difficult to scout into this build since most of the time terran will open with double gas, therefore they will not scv scout and will scout around their base for proxy first. when the time reaper reached his base cyclone will just kill them and we have no information. So unless you just build blind tank you have to be very precise with your reaper to counter it in TvT.
I think the key actually is to just give up the natural and pull up the ramp more than the tank. I've held this twice at this point and that was the most important part. You're just so hard to break up the ramp.
@@robertmiddlebrook5505 How many and what unit you have when this hit?
I mean you can't just hold this with just scv.
For one of the games, I think I'd lost my reaper but I had I think 4 cyclones total with the last two just finishing as the attack hit. SCV's are key though. You definitely need to pull SCV's. But you generally can chew though a bunch of their scvs on the ramp up and then when they break through you pull. @@owenthailand
Pull scvs for defense too?
It seems to me, you are facing normal difficulties of facing terran. They bunker and you cannot scout. I could have never imagined
What a cool interview - a great show of sportsmanship and respect. Love it.
Gm players've been real silent since this dropped
Harstem just met his hero.
title: This StarCraft II Player is incredibly BASED
I can confirm that as of today, the ladder is essentially 80%+ TvT games and it's hilarious 😂
I love how harstem checks this kind of things out. I love all content of this channel.
this guy sounds absolutely lovely lmao this is fantastic
Wow, I loved this video.
You two guys were so happy and you had so much fun, it was absolutly contagious.
I was grinning and laughing all the time :D
This guy is an absolute genius - he analysed his weaknesses and adpoted a perfect strategy to circumvent these weaknesses.
I salute you!
This guy was the hero we didn't need, but the hero we deserve
I'm not scared of a man who trains 10,000 punches. I'm scared of a man who trains one punch 10,000 times.
The most incredible part of all of this is that it was probably the first time that he faced a poxy hatch, judging by his reaction
...in gm league, against an offracing pro, and he still won
Excatly😅
That call was so much fun!
What a legend, this guy is fucking great
Wholesome interaction lol
It was only a matter of time after the last patch which boosted Terrans. There are probably many similar examples, but havent come up to attention...yet.
And remember - this guy does it with 1 base all in (in other words, in fast and short games that end early), in a patch that was supposed to "stabilize the Protoss in the early game".
This is a gem. The guy deserves all the praise.
Evidence we should nerf the cyclone
Nah its just a highly specialised build that will probably get figured out in the next week how to beat. It reminds me of the proxy voidray from 18mo or so ago, although that one was around for quite a while at the lower levels.
@@joshuadalton6063 you mean the one which got triple nerfed because terrans kept crying about it? It wasn't figured out, at least the reason its no longer a thing is not because it was figured out, but because of the nerfs. So it is pretty reasonable to nerf the cyclone, but since we are talking about a terran unit and not a protoss one, it is probably not gonna get nerfed.
@@norberthiz9318 I believe that was figured out by simply scouting towards your third, but maybe the response required was still difficult, maybe you remember better than me. IDK how you nerf cyclone to prevent this all-in, a small increase in build time maybe, but tbh its on people to scout lack of expansion and treat it as a 1base all-in the same way as every other 1base all-in.
@@joshuadalton6063 I have a pretty good sulotion. Just revert the cyclone back. There was no reason to rework it at all and the rework failed anyway. It would be 100% better for the game
I belive uthermal made a guide on how to defend the proxy voids, but it was still very difficult, cause you had very little room for error. It was certainly insanely op, even at pro level it was commun.
The man, the myth, the legend
If it's stupid but it works then it isn't stupid.
lmao I really enjoyed this video nice shout out to a well deserved player. Well Done Harstem :D
Balance council: Lord, if the new cyclone we created is imbalanced, give us a sign
The Lord:
This guy become SC2 GM with one simple trick! The regional GMs hate him!
2:05 Avarage APM of 69.... NICE!
So... will we see one of these matches from the OTHER side in an upcoming IODIS?
SC2 ladder in a nutshell. Whoever goes for the easiest, laziest strategy almost always wins.
Nice "buff protoss" patch we have.
You dont need buffs. You never did. You need Maxpax to play offline and Zest to come back from the military. Watch how Parting easily cracks top ten within the next few months.
@@kaiser2261still waiting
This guy did this to me 6 times in a row and I beat him every time. Didn't know I knocked him out of GM. LOL
What did you do to counter it?
@@joshuadalton6063 The first time I lost but its a really easy hold if you just scout he doesn't have an expo. Drop two spines, go roaches off a half saturated natural and make sure you let the scvs attack in first so you can go behind them and attack the cyclones with the roaches.
I find the cyclone really funny because if you where around in late 2000s, waiting for SC2 to finally drop, you may have watched some of the trailers Blizzard dropped showcasing the SC2 Alpha at the time. In the video showcasing the Terran, they showcased a little unit called the Cobra, a unit with a railgun that did high damage to armored units, but more importantly fired on the move. This unit was eventually removed from the multiplayer during the alpha and made it's way into the Campaign, most of you would recognize it as the Diamondback. This unit didn't make it to the multiplayer because it was extremely difficult to balance. The ability to fire on the move made it easy to micro to the fullest with little effort. If it was overturned it could basically be an unstoppable death machine. If they tried to nerf it to compensate for the ease of use, it would be basically useless. And so I found it very funny when the cyclone was added because it's lock on wasn't exactly like the diamondback/cobra, but the idea was very similar. And so it's no surprise that the cyclone has had such a turbulent balance history.
I love everything about the Captain's reaction to this lmao. And I mean, learning that the cheese is adapted from a video he posted... hahaha
Oh Captain, My Captain! After years of failed IODIS submissions, you took it upon yourself to brew a cocktail of abomination of a build that even a low ranked Terran player can throw at the veterans of the game and laugh as they hopelessly lose. A thing of beauty.
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
-Bruce Lee
Fair to say that Akrij is a one kick pony. And a deadly one.
I'm either switching to Terran, or staying the fuck away from the ladder for a month.
Get this guy on the next season of rank roulette!
Will we see this build at Katowice?!?!??
This is hilarious. I took 23000 games to get to GM. So much watching videos on how to improve, etc, etc.
This guy hit the same achievement far more efficiently & mined some nice salt along the way xD
This might be the greatest sc2 content piece of all time
One of my friends got really into SC2 because I showed him a marine/scv pull build in WoL and he made GM with it before any of our friend group just by jamming that build every game. It's kind of amazing what works for people sometimes, especially cool hearing this player improved in macro games to such a degree too.
That's some solid micro - curious to know how the build fares against itself.
This is interesting, I didn't realize this was such a rarity. Honestly, anyone who is diamond or platinum level can achieve low GM if they try hard enough. Research builds and timings for all matchups, and practice constantly. The only time you get hardstuck is when you keep doing the same things over and over and nothing changes.
This is amazing. Props to Akrij.
This guy is a fucking legend!
Is Akrij czech? I can hear my countrymens accent there
This build is not that easy to play. It's only easy against Protoss. Tanks shut it down. Zerglings with speed shut it down. Try it yourself.
That is so cool. Nice guy, great story. I hope a gaming publication picks this up and gives him the credit he deserves
Congratulations. BTW the accent. He must be fellow Czech. EDIT: Alright he said it in the video. I was right.
Watching this after the cheesiest man alive with this guy and it just brings smile to my face
Same haha. This is the ultimate cheese! lol
While I think this is a rare occurence, it isn't that rare in other games, it is only rare in SC2 becasue the player base is so much lower than many other competetive games thus the sample size is lower as well.
I float around Diamond in league every season all around, people may say that is where I belong but any time I decide to take the game seriously, I hit the highest ranks and remain there all season. I think there are a lot more cases like that, if you play a game competetively for 10+ years, you are bound to be among the best even if you don't take the game seriously.
MMR doesn't matter if said people are just not taking the ladder seriously.
There are also cases like the professional LoL player called Fudge. He was stuck in Platinum for 7+ years and then just made it into the pro scene in 2 years. I am guessing he was the same as me or this guy.
Conclusion: If you can't hit the highest rank after playing for 10 years when you take the game seriously, you are likely not the smartest, quickest, most sharp tool in the shed and you are likely struggling at other parts of life itself. It is okay tho, get coaching, stop trying to invent builds even the smartest people learn from each other, or just get a new hobby.
I'm sad. Learning this build got me to D1, but now everyone has seen it and no one really falls for it anymore.
Yo, I just wanted to say thanks for this video! I've utilized this build on the ladder and am 9-1 in Diamond 2 right now! lol. Quite fun!
As a diamond 3 Terran, this dude is my hero lol
I knew his English was Czech or Slovak, hello fellow Czechoslovakian, you completed my dream
Hallo m8 :)
@@akrij1211 ❤️ krásna stratégia inak, pôjdem ju skúsiť tiež
this guy is a legend
Classic case of "if it's dumb but works, it is not dumb." Love it. :)
this is madness. I love it
in the first match against SiFu, he could also land the barracks to block stalkers, and produce 2 marines there xD
And then they have audacity to say proxy sg - void rays in void ray meta used to be a braindead build...
This is IMBA. We found it.
Imagine if in chess, instead of 64 squares it's 262,144 squares (64 x 64 x 64), and instead of 6 unique pieces, there are 66. If you change how the knight moves by 5 squares per turn to make it better and change the rook to lose 10 squares per turn, you would break the current play styles. I'm not surprised at all that someone figures something out a month after the change happens. Newsflash- Terran broke, and no one's complaining because the complainers play Terran.
League of legends GM is no joke tbh. He has a lot of natural talent.
I don't want to be rude to the guy, but you can see on sc2pulse that he was at platinum/diamond all the way from 2018 until october, notably when the last patch hit, then his MMR magically went up.
@@lillian8307 this is well known information, not magically, patch sucks. the community has always had quite shit balance ideas but now that its actually in their hands we get shit like this happening.
@@lillian8307 that's the subject of the video 😭
@@eclipseeffigy Step by step. This commenter brings up natural talent as a possible explanation. Thus, I point out the correlation between the patch and use of the featured build, and point out that the sudden rise relative to his entire history of SC2 is probably not a coincidence, especially relative to the amount of time playing SC2 over the years. It is a response with an implication suggesting that it is not, in fact, natural talent that got him to where he is, in response to the original comment. I know exactly what the video is about.
@@lillian8307 he played what, 1000 games of starcraft 2? From 2018? Let me say this is really far from actually grinding anything. Also sometimes smth just clicks with some build (sc case) or champ (in league). I myself was stuck in gold in league until I picked up tryndamere and got to mid diamond (s3). But friends of mine who were silver-gold couldn't climb with him at all.
Edit - checked time graph and indeed saying that he was in plat/diamond since 2018 is technically true but doesn't show full picture. And full picture is that he played like 1-7 games/month there and only since middle of last year he actually started to play actively.
No wonder he started to climb, lol.
I'll give them credit for climbing if they stay GM AFTER Terran gets the nerfs it deserves. He will be the litmus test for how OP Terran actually is.
What an absolute legend, this guy was probably the sweatiest diamond Terran in history and then his mind was enlightened and he found the path to success
What are you talking about? Probabyl the first terran over 70 IQ you have ever seen. Terran are that OP
most entertaining episode of all time
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