must have all sort of goodie floating on the surface just imagine all the resource last time u spent making that 200/200 army when they all went up in a nuke :D
would work on me, but no way byun doesn't have that covered, the infestor would get sniped if it got close enough to parasite a ghost. did think that myself tho haha
In game two, I feel like Reynor lost the mind game early and slipped in to an overly-defensive posture. By not pressuring Byun with drops and run-bys he lets Byun pick the timing of the map. Imo, when a terran throws out a nuke to force zoning, a zerg has to respond with a nydus to get terran units off the front line then push the line back and focus on denying infrastructure. Byun's backfield was pretty much never threatened, he didn't have to hold anything back at all. That let Byun have an overwhelming force ready for all engagements. Reynor's micro is awesome, his APM is off the charts, once he gets more deep strategy under his belt he's going to be a terrifying player. I really enjoyed this match.
Ghosts suck against anything cheap and doesn't use energy and isn't light so.... it's like complaining that ultralisk deal too much damage against marines
have u ever seen 3 ultralisks cleave through countless marines and marauders while they are desperately trying to fire back that's the most satisfying moment in ZvT for me. when people doesn't realize ultralisks have 7 armor and trying to engage them on creep with some flimsy terran bio units with their weak weapon that does like 1 damage :D on par with burrowing banes in worker lane
Lowko love your vids and i have to thank you cause you and your videos are the reason why i started playing starcraft.Your vids helped me to get from a totaly noob player who didnt understand anything but enjoyed the game to a decent player. For that i have to say thank you and late happy new year.
After GSL Code S wraps up a few months ago, he barely didn't make it to the WCS Grand Finals, I believe he got 9th out of the 8th qualified spots for Korea. He's still very good.
A really well played matches for a 15 year old, hopefully we see a lot more videos of him playing he will only get better and leave us old farts in the dust lol
I can't believe I've JUSt gotten around to watching this video. Lowko, you're a great caster, and I always learn a lot when you're explaining things and your teaching videos are the best. I've never played as Zerg or Toss, don't think I ever want to, and I really love Terran. Been playing 3 months total now and I'm already Platinum, couldn't have done it without you, man! I wish you did more of these videos still.
I started Starcraft because my friends played and within one week I found one of the best youtubers! You! I love your vids and I am now a Zerg main with pretty low apm (183) and am in silver 2. Thank you lowko, keep up the good vids!
He's prolly spamming something, or clicking random things extremely quickly. I'm in Gold Tier 3 with 80ish apm, though that's because of mass spamming hydralisks :D
The purpose of playing a game is to have fun, not a mental-breakdown. I don't want to play a game where i'm constantly being conditioned to play on behalf of other people's bullshit build. And i mentioned UNRANKED, not ranked, so i could actually have some fun.The purpose of the goddamn game is to harass the workers, expand and build an army, NOT CREATING 12 ZERRGLINGS OR CANNON RUSHING YOU'RE OPPONENTS BASE, ENDING THE FUCK**G GAME IN 3MINS.I'm sorry for my language, but these kind of builds make me shove a revolver in my mouth and pull the trigger.
Thanks by the video. It's been a while since i sae a match and this one deserve it. Byun did really a good job in the last game. The zerg players had for so much time money to go out with everything and remax and Byun still managed to little by little push him out of the mining fields.
It seemed close for a long time and Byun was definitely putting in the work. Ghost control was top notch. When you so good that people cry OP for units that are just fine.
Archibald Doogan I completely disagree. under this new patch maybe, but in 2017, Zerg was by far the master race. So hard for Terrans to stay in the game the longer it goes.
Living Flower TvP is kinda Broken under this new patch, on the Protoss side, even playing against Elite Protoss AI is way harder then it’s ever been. If your struggling, I recommend getting to 200 supply ASAP! With Stalkers, Immortals and Archons, your Terran opponent will fall most of the time.
in the second game, reynor had an overlord over byuns main base for pretty much the entire game. kinda wish for more nydus play when battle lines are drawn that precise with no going back nor forward...
In the 2nd match vs 20+ ghosts, simply go medieval and max out all zergling and baneling. What would tank/viking/ghost do? Also, the cost of ghost vs siege tank makes it worth to abduct ghosts.
My dude, I was just playfully messing with you man - keep up the great work; you can feel free to drop the "Just a matter of seconds" any time you like! New tagline, man!
maybe a nnydus network would have worked to catch byun out of position or make him move his army but idk, this seemed like a really difficult army to beat
Ghost always appeared somewhat OP, because they are the jack of all trades. Powerful long range attack on cooldown(?) only, EMP against spellcasters and readied up with cloak. The corrupter on the other hand feels worthless at times.
Is there any way we can think of that Raynor could counter Byun's endgame in the second game? I feel like lingbane with either hydras, mutas, or corruptors to deal with ghosts and libs? But I can see ByuN countering it too easily too. Is there anything Raynor could've done at that point?
From the perspective of someone who is really bad at this game, I can't see any way for Zerg to deal with Ghosts when used properly. Like, what is zerg supposed to do when ghosts are in the enemy's army? Ultras are a no-go because of snipe, and Broodlords face a similar fate. casters lose their energy to EMP's. Zerglings stop being viable in late game, and Roach, Hydra is something i haven't seen pros do in a while.
Great best of 3. Got really puzzled to what zerg can do in a situation like this one? Guys do you think that a Nydus was worth a try? Going behind the heavy defense of the terran sound good but on the other hand brood lords cannot join the fight.
Стоян Костов The mistake is usually too many high tier units. I see zerg making this mistake a lot and to an extent protoss and Terran as well. High tier units require basic tier units to protect them. If you have too many tanks and no marines, the tanks will die easily. If you have a lot of Archons and colossus but no charge lots or stalkers, they will also die easily. Reynor is up against ghosts, which is a massive counter to all these high tier units. He should have had a more balanced army consisting of ling bane to protect your infestors and have the ghosts micro around the ling bane instead of getting free Snipes and emp. Instead, he had 99% of his army supply in all high tier vipers ultralisk and infestors. Imagine if all byun had was tanks and liberator and no bio to support it, corruptor + ultralisk can just rip through that army.
loving byun, hes incredibly strong, raynor, going for double time late game as zerg, plus his beloved units could be his end, not changing to smth like muta middle game or early aggressions, pushing with only brutlords and hydras, favoring just 1,1 on hydra... but his queen defenses are superhuman i let him this and he ist interesting in ways of improving great games
I feel like the ghost army is a little bit overpowered with no counter aside from the controlling mistake...I'm sitting here what should I do to counter that 20+ ghosts and I can think of none.
EMP should either take a lot more energy or it shouldn't have an AOE. So much value, more than 10 ghosts garuntee no T3 units from the zerg can have a use.
I dunno Lowko, you should check out Runescape now, some of the high-tier bosses require some serious APM. Certainly more than was needed 10 years ago 😁
I think the counter to ghost is overlord... think about it, would you pay 1000 mineralz to cover your baneling and potentially wipe out 2000+ worth of ressources in an instant?
As an terran player im gonna try by my very best to use the same build order byun used. raynor is very good and is gonna keep improving and probably gonna use new strategy's but as an terran I hope players such as byun will still win.
What if he had tried to do nydus worm harass or more droperlord play, Byan's strat seems really strong but if he gets one bad engagement where he lost all his ghosts that could be the game
Am I the only one wondering how the surface of that sea looks at the end?
Horst Uellendahl looooooool
Alexis th3 great ikr
I don't get it ._.
Lumania Nilin The map plays under water and all the corpses are floating towards the surface
must have all sort of goodie floating on the surface
just imagine all the resource last time u spent making that 200/200 army when they all went up in a nuke
:D
i wonder what coudlve happened if reynor used neural parasite on a single ghost then emp the rest .... that wouldve been an epic play
Vladimir Camangyan kind of tricky to pull off but would have turned the tides greatly
would have been awesome, but realistically, ghost would have probably been insta killed by surrounding unit before reynor could use EMP
would work on me, but no way byun doesn't have that covered, the infestor would get sniped if it got close enough to parasite a ghost. did think that myself tho haha
I saw the NP research and wondered what the plan was for that.
It works. Quite good. You just need a bit of luck.
What can Raynor do? Neural Parasite an SCV and re-max with Terran units. Or drive to byun's house and unplug his computer. That's about it.
Only 15 can't drive to his house :((
In game two, I feel like Reynor lost the mind game early and slipped in to an overly-defensive posture. By not pressuring Byun with drops and run-bys he lets Byun pick the timing of the map. Imo, when a terran throws out a nuke to force zoning, a zerg has to respond with a nydus to get terran units off the front line then push the line back and focus on denying infrastructure. Byun's backfield was pretty much never threatened, he didn't have to hold anything back at all. That let Byun have an overwhelming force ready for all engagements. Reynor's micro is awesome, his APM is off the charts, once he gets more deep strategy under his belt he's going to be a terrifying player. I really enjoyed this match.
wow ultralisks never semmed so squishy
Honestly ultralisks just melt now a days. If you don’t bring them as a surprise to finish off opponent they are countered way too easy for their cost.
Ghosts suck against anything cheap and doesn't use energy and isn't light so.... it's like complaining that ultralisk deal too much damage against marines
actually 10 ghost = 120 lings if not counting gas or larva so...
I hate that ultras just come out and die immidiatly to ghosts. It needs to be tuned. Ultras are already clunky and huge..
have u ever seen 3 ultralisks cleave through countless marines and marauders while they are desperately trying to fire back
that's the most satisfying moment in ZvT for me. when people doesn't realize ultralisks have 7 armor and trying to engage them on creep with some flimsy terran bio units with their weak weapon that does like 1 damage :D
on par with burrowing banes in worker lane
Lowko love your vids and i have to thank you cause you and your videos are the reason why i started playing starcraft.Your vids helped me to get from a totaly noob player who didnt understand anything but enjoyed the game to a decent player. For that i have to say thank you and late happy new year.
Thank you for watching! Happy New Year to you too.
Same for me too 👏👏
same, great vids man!
"I almost forgot how to english" ~Lowko (for this time being)
Nice to see Byun's still killing the game, haven't heard a whole lot about him for a few months
After GSL Code S wraps up a few months ago, he barely didn't make it to the WCS Grand Finals, I believe he got 9th out of the 8th qualified spots for Korea. He's still very good.
I miss seeing his ultimate micro skill savage his opponents. ByuN will always be my favorite player.
15 years? OMG.. I am getting old
We all are. :)
Kas vs Snute was pretty good one. One game - 50 minutes. You should check it out if you can.
Hi again Lowko, goddamn, I love that you are from the Netherlands, you upload at the perfect time for me to watch your videos right as they pop out
I hate it cuz he streams at 4 am where I live lol
same here, greetings from Austria
A really well played matches for a 15 year old, hopefully we see a lot more videos of him playing he will only get better and leave us old farts in the dust lol
Amazing! Great commentary. Looking forward to seeing raynor get better
To me he played flawlessly, but zerg just doesn´t seem to have a respone to this Mass pro controlled Ghost Composition with backup
Lowko, wanna see some real TvZ insanity? Go down and watch (or cast) the 50-minutes game between Snute and Kas from WCS Leipzig Qualifier
I can't believe I've JUSt gotten around to watching this video. Lowko, you're a great caster, and I always learn a lot when you're explaining things and your teaching videos are the best. I've never played as Zerg or Toss, don't think I ever want to, and I really love Terran. Been playing 3 months total now and I'm already Platinum, couldn't have done it without you, man! I wish you did more of these videos still.
I started Starcraft because my friends played and within one week I found one of the best youtubers! You! I love your vids and I am now a Zerg main with pretty low apm (183) and am in silver 2. Thank you lowko, keep up the good vids!
He's prolly spamming something, or clicking random things extremely quickly. I'm in Gold Tier 3 with 80ish apm, though that's because of mass spamming hydralisks :D
21:24 "And keep in mind, this was only game number one" i never felt so happy. Keep up the great work Lowko!
Who isn't Lowko favorite player? Me? Maybe...
Tem br em todos os cantos da internet , wtf
Avilo and Idra
What the movie is finished?! Aww, I was just starting on my popcorn!
I want tto experience games like these.Unfortunely i only get cheddar cheese each time i click unranked -.-
I get swiss. still cheese, but full of holes.
if you get cheese, prevent the cheese. then only after that you macro play
The purpose of playing a game is to have fun, not a mental-breakdown. I don't want to play a game where i'm constantly being conditioned to play on behalf of other people's bullshit build. And i mentioned UNRANKED, not ranked, so i could actually have some fun.The purpose of the goddamn game is to harass the workers, expand and build an army, NOT CREATING 12 ZERRGLINGS OR CANNON RUSHING YOU'RE OPPONENTS BASE, ENDING THE FUCK**G GAME IN 3MINS.I'm sorry for my language, but these kind of builds make me shove a revolver in my mouth and pull the trigger.
Simao Rodrigues then stop playing
Click ranked instead :D
yo lowkS! Thanks for being so consistent man. We appreciate this!
Good match. Especially the second one. Zerg were up by so much but couldn't push.
Been playing and watching SC2 since 2011 and I have to admit that these are some of the best games I've seen
Holy cow , that was a tough as Nails Game and a blast to Watch and of course hear
Thanks by the video. It's been a while since i sae a match and this one deserve it. Byun did really a good job in the last game. The zerg players had for so much time money to go out with everything and remax and Byun still managed to little by little push him out of the mining fields.
Reynor's definitely a very scary prospect, He's gonna be YYUUUGEE for sure but as talented as he is, his inexperience really caught him in this game.
24:30
he stopped the mule from mining ; he knew it will destroyed before returning minerals and loose them
Best cast I have seen in a long while. Thanks Lowko you always impress
Finally sat down to watch this. WOW!!! Outstanding game and great cast Lowko.
Really liking the ZvT matchup right now. At least Blizzard got 2/3 races right.
Alex Margaris now they need to buff protoss.
Except it's largely watching Terran win with relative ease unless the Zerg player plays absolutely out of his or her mind.
It seemed close for a long time and Byun was definitely putting in the work. Ghost control was top notch. When you so good that people cry OP for units that are just fine.
Archibald Doogan I completely disagree. under this new patch maybe, but in 2017, Zerg was by far the master race. So hard for Terrans to stay in the game the longer it goes.
Living Flower TvP is kinda Broken under this new patch, on the Protoss side, even playing against Elite Protoss AI is way harder then it’s ever been. If your struggling, I recommend getting to 200 supply ASAP! With Stalkers, Immortals and Archons, your Terran opponent will fall most of the time.
This was probably the most intense SCII game I have ever seen
I cant stop watching your videos. You are everything I could wish from Starcraft 2 youtuber.
in the second game, reynor had an overlord over byuns main base for pretty much the entire game. kinda wish for more nydus play when battle lines are drawn that precise with no going back nor forward...
What a game! I was worring about ByuN last time, but now I see he is in a great shape!
This is certainly one of my favourite games so far
You are the best Lowko! the way you comment on those videos...so great!
In the 2nd match vs 20+ ghosts, simply go medieval and max out all zergling and baneling. What would tank/viking/ghost do? Also, the cost of ghost vs siege tank makes it worth to abduct ghosts.
My dude, I was just playfully messing with you man - keep up the great work; you can feel free to drop the "Just a matter of seconds" any time you like! New tagline, man!
Lowko, you're so good at commentating these games.
Ok wow! LOVED that ghost play. Thanks Lowko!
I'm not into competitive and haven't played sc in a while but you always make these very entertaining to watch! Thank you for the great content!
Amazing match!!! One more incredible video, Lowko!
33:25 what was so good about that split? Bailing hit everyone of the marines...
It would have been a good split but Reynor mikroed that single banling perfect into the mid of the marines.
best set of matches involving a pro gamer that i have seen yet.
Could a Nydus to somewhere into ByuN's backyard have helped there? Maybe even only as a bluff...
maybe a nnydus network would have worked to catch byun out of position or make him move his army but idk, this seemed like a really difficult army to beat
wow, that ghost squad was so fun to watch.
2016 Byun: Microring Marines
2018 Byun: Microring Ghosts
Ghost always appeared somewhat OP, because they are the jack of all trades. Powerful long range attack on cooldown(?) only, EMP against spellcasters and readied up with cloak. The corrupter on the other hand feels worthless at times.
Is there any way we can think of that Raynor could counter Byun's endgame in the second game?
I feel like lingbane with either hydras, mutas, or corruptors to deal with ghosts and libs? But I can see ByuN countering it too easily too. Is there anything Raynor could've done at that point?
Im subbed to winter, falcon paladin, and lowko and theres my daily supply of starcraft
That ghost micro was soooo insane! Keep up the great work lowko!!
I thought Byun might retire after having a rough season last year but I guess he will give an another shot on Blizzcon final.
From the perspective of someone who is really bad at this game, I can't see any way for Zerg to deal with Ghosts when used properly. Like, what is zerg supposed to do when ghosts are in the enemy's army? Ultras are a no-go because of snipe, and Broodlords face a similar fate. casters lose their energy to EMP's. Zerglings stop being viable in late game, and Roach, Hydra is something i haven't seen pros do in a while.
Fungal + banelings
11k resources? Mass nydus!!
Great best of 3. Got really puzzled to what zerg can do in a situation like this one?
Guys do you think that a Nydus was worth a try? Going behind the heavy defense of the terran sound good but on the other hand brood lords cannot join the fight.
Стоян Костов The mistake is usually too many high tier units. I see zerg making this mistake a lot and to an extent protoss and Terran as well. High tier units require basic tier units to protect them. If you have too many tanks and no marines, the tanks will die easily. If you have a lot of Archons and colossus but no charge lots or stalkers, they will also die easily. Reynor is up against ghosts, which is a massive counter to all these high tier units. He should have had a more balanced army consisting of ling bane to protect your infestors and have the ghosts micro around the ling bane instead of getting free Snipes and emp. Instead, he had 99% of his army supply in all high tier vipers ultralisk and infestors. Imagine if all byun had was tanks and liberator and no bio to support it, corruptor + ultralisk can just rip through that army.
Ling+Bane is hard shut down by tanks and Fortresses, though
Are there playlists of the viewer games you casted?
i got to imagine the loss of handspeed is due to carpal tunnel and tendinitis
Those units weren't going down, they were going up! Cool map. Anyone else very distracted by the upward floating units?
2 of the most incredible matches I’ve ever seen!
6.600 + 3.000 = 11.000 quick mafs
Math. Not even once.
What is the damage of the ghost's snipe?
He transfused the drone out of death actually. :D
loving byun, hes incredibly strong, raynor, going for double time late game as zerg, plus his beloved units could be his end, not changing to smth like muta middle game or early aggressions, pushing with only brutlords and hydras, favoring just 1,1 on hydra... but his queen defenses are superhuman i let him this and he ist interesting in ways of improving great games
How would thors do, instead of the tanks, agianst the hydra, broodlord army?
I remember back when infestors could cast fungal growth from underground, with no projectile time and root (instead of slow).
I would like to see Nydus Worm late game. Four worms all over the place could split the Terran and the whole Zerg army can be in the best location.
Zerglings vs Ghosts is probably money efficient.
I feel like the ghost army is a little bit overpowered with no counter aside from the controlling mistake...I'm sitting here what should I do to counter that 20+ ghosts and I can think of none.
Ultras/Corruptor/Broodlords is one of the comps I just can't beat... Kuddos to this Terran !
The moral of the story is: 9000 resources in the bank as lategame zerg doesn't matter if you only have 900 gas.
Match #2, what about to use infestrors fungus against ghost? Would it be option?
15? Well that's when I've been enjoying Starcraft 1 for three years. Me fucking 34 this year and still loving Starcraft and Starcraft 2!
I am just diamond but i think that a sorpressive mass of zerglings and banelings complete upgraded could do the job of overwhelm the terran.
Lowko doing Lowko things again. Ready fo a new round of a drinkin game!
**ends up sober because Lowko's English too good these days**
OMG! The first game was on point! What a amazing match.
the thing if you're still new at this, they read your trick and counter you, and you don't have any experience to counter their counter yet
EMP should either take a lot more energy or it shouldn't have an AOE. So much value, more than 10 ghosts garuntee no T3 units from the zerg can have a use.
I dunno Lowko, you should check out Runescape now, some of the high-tier bosses require some serious APM. Certainly more than was needed 10 years ago 😁
Hory Sheet! I held my breath for like minutes at game 1! That was insane!
"all of a sudden ghosts!" after like 5 minutes XD
All respect to Raynor definitely a great future waiting for him... but Byon still got it... WOW one of the most epic game in a while
shiiiiit !!! he's 15 !!!!
I love esports such a Starcraft, where age, sex or physical form/problems don't matter at all.
That's the beauty of videogames.
thanks for vids i have just started playing because of your vids, do Mules add to your stats of SCV kills? as it seemed he was targeting Mules.
I think the counter to ghost is overlord... think about it, would you pay 1000 mineralz to cover your baneling and potentially wipe out 2000+ worth of ressources in an instant?
Lowko. You have excellent commentary!
was it possible for Raynor to use lurkers early game?
holy crap how that kid is handling byun so good is beyond me! crazy good!
tbh i thought ByuN was gonna lose round 1. This match was really crazy.
“Reynor will be one of the best” this sure did age well. But seriously it did. Good call.
Please only a quick question, anyone knows what is the name of soundtrack around 4:50? thanks
WOW Byun the Machine! Still Raynor could have tried with mutalists to attach Byun bases, there is no thing to scare Byun here!
Amazing cast
AT LAST! A TERRAN HAS WON!!!
Awesome vid man!!!
As an terran player im gonna try by my very best to use the same build order byun used. raynor is very good and is gonna keep improving and probably gonna use new strategy's but as an terran I hope players such as byun will still win.
I saw "56 mins" and thought "Yeah, a best of seven".
Oh boy, I was wrong.
why does terran not use battlecruisers? is it unreasonable?
How is reynor GM at 15? The highest league I got so far is diamond and I'm 14:( I need to gain those skills.
you got it man. play more and you will be pro :D
STAR MAN a hell of a lot of time dude. You almost have to ignore all other aspects of life to get that good.
stealthy doughnut Does he not go to school? I also play random.
STAR MAN I would guess he got some online classes or something at least.
stealthy doughnut Oh.
Hey lowko love the videos but dont you have webcam on when you commentary?
"I forgot how to English!" lololol, love it :-D
What if he had tried to do nydus worm harass or more droperlord play, Byan's strat seems really strong but if he gets one bad engagement where he lost all his ghosts that could be the game