I have been playing Starcraft for many years, understand the game well, but it just amazes me how good Marc is. The awareness is just incredible, realising he lost 2 DTs just looking at the supply might looks like a small details, but for me these are the things that elevate his game to Godlike level 😃
It really illustrates the large gulf between 'merely' grandmaster (from someone that never got passed plat) and professional (even former professional).
@@boreduser12 nah, I love him but he isn't a champion reynor,serral,dark,Her0 and more beat uthermal 7/10 times at the least he is great, but they are built different.
I basically only watch uthermal on RUclips these days, nothing else is as interesting and I seem to not enjoy them as much as your content, I've been watching your older stuff and I'm slowly getting through all your videos and I look forward to your videos every day. You can hear how much fun you're having these days just in the difference in your voice. Love your stuff.
Yes, I've been watching some older content too and, though it is good, the unmitigated joy in the way he talks and plays now is palpable. I look forward to it every day. I'm actually very excited for the try-hard content!
How to get to GM in 2 simple steps: 1. Watch all uThermal content 2. Practice defending the current uThermal strats, this is all you will find on the ladder. The DT's, they are coming.
I'd love to see something around mass immortal. We so rarely get to see mech-toss that isn't focused around disruptors or colossus. A 4-immortal drop does almost 200 DPS against structures, so the potential for trolling is high. Bonus if you open with a glaived adept timing attack in PvZ so they build a bunch of roaches. The goal of the adepts isn't to kill drones, but to force roaches, then shield the immortals from zerglings, while the immortals kill the roaches.
What about that you only can use units that are transformable into Archons - so basically you only can use HT, DT, Archons. Especially against the zerg with the mass mutas you might have a funnier defense if you can storm. Also you may have more minerals to expand faster and/or build more cannons. Maybe even proxy-cannonrush with HT,DT, Archons against some outer bases.
i am thinking more and more about it. So what if the challenge might be something like you try to harrass the zerg with dts while you are building the cannons right in front of his base. Cause if he doesnt have spores like the 1st zerg you can feedback the overseers with 1-2 HTs and kill them with the cannons if the zerg is a bit careless of losing his only line of detection at some point. My MMR is too low to know if this might be playable :D
I've never been good at SC2 & I haven't played SC2 in a decade but the way you engage with your audience is amazing. Nothing like it and it keeps me coming back day after day. I wish SC2 was more popular so you'd get the recognition you deserve
Great stuff thermy!! I think this idea is the best content you've made! Hydras was amazing! DT's were awesome!!! You get to punish GMs with a single unit, but have enough freedom to make other units to counter! KEEP IT UP!!
i would love to see another dedicated tempest episode, the way you play tempests is so fun to watch. if you do, can you also put the builds/replays in the description?
I dunno I love tempest but they're too specific and kinda bad void rays in mass with some tempest as long range snipers works best with good ground support
besides a yt-video titled "i accidentally created the borg collective" made by a guy dressed like jean-luc picard, this is definitely one of the most 'so clickbait it's not clickbait'-videos i have seen on yt recently...
Phoenixes/immortals please! I love watching phoenix micro, it's so satisfying. And immortals are _technically_ all you need to deal with massive units. It'll be a joy to watch! Or, immortal/prism micro. Protoss golden age. Someone has to revive it.
8:30 Me: Dang, uThermal is so amazing, pre-emptively placing his probes in front of his cannons to prevent the zerglings from surrounding it! Effing genius. 8:40 uThermal: I was wondering why my probes were being so stupid. Oh :(
lmao love the strat in game 1, planning to take a fast 3rd to bait them into attacking you, so you can ambush them with your tech. Freaking brilliant dude lol. Am loving these videos!. I wonder if you will use any of your really weird strategies against your tournament opponents
I think the resources lost on the first game is interesting. Shows that if you're aggressive and can consistently get some value out of your attacks, you don't have to be particularly efficient.
This was great Marc!! Lmao I request mass disruptor for next week. Pig teaches this build for lower leagues where you rush an observer prism speed and disruptor. And try to catch his army clumped. Prob works better at the lower level but might be fun to see mass observers, disruptor, prisms.
Ever tried mass phoenix, zealots and darktemplars? vs zerg? so fun, keeping overseers alive is a nightmare xD , then just lift up everything with phoenixes and attack with zealots and dt's. superfun xD
only uThermal could look at a single frame of fogged out Terran base setup 2 minutes in and be like "yep i dont need a gateway unit, he wont be attacking." GOAT
I'm surprised this went as well as it did, beefy damage did it's job though! Would love to see some Adept shenanigans as it's such a cool unit and seeing the damage Maple did with +1 Glaived adept timing makes me wonder how lethal they can be.
“My openent is soon gonna hit me with his big attack and I’m sitting here with 92 probes being supply blocked” This sums up every PvT I play. I usually lose though
I would love some commentary or breakdown of how you control the camera. Sometimes you are attacking three places, with armies not hotkeyed, and flipping back and forth so fast. Are you constantly resetting the camera hotkeys to your attack/focus areas? Amazing gameplay and content as always. Thank you.
I have a ridiculous suggestion. Call the challenge Blockade or something. You make your main target their supply and resources not their army. So the whole goal is to eliminate supply depots, pylons, and overlords as well as workers and set up ridiculous defenses at home like the 5 cc set up. Any unit is allowed. Maybe you’d want to take waves of cloaked banshees to eliminate pylons and keep tanks and Vikings at home with your planetary to stay alive. The goal would be to make them quit because they keep getting supply blocked and are tired of running into the meat grinder at your base.
New fear unleashed: Marc playing mass sentry+disruptors. GMs running to hide in allyways only to be force field blocked and seeing "the light at the end of the tunnel" ... Locking enemy victims in with the sentries and bowling them to wet spots all over the maps ❤
Man, you should do random in the 500k turney u mentioned u wanted to try for. have you thought of joining turneys as random to test what it would be like if you played random? Cuz ur protoss is lookin pretty damn good: 28:00+ (that game!) Peaking!? your micro gets top tier (ive ever seen) "what is going on, am I a protoss God?!" Classic Uthermal. Admittedly work on less probes (117 heh nice), more army? But then again, if u had no limitations, an ability to switch/afford any path quickly..
An hour and 7 minutes of mass DTs and not 1 archon. This was awesome! Also, the only player that didn't GG out was the last Terran player; and most of the rest also added well played also.
I love how the giant whale shadow always causes a slight pause or hesitation to players, when it comes in, like, "Alert".. lmao... then continue.... its funny, because the players speech always changes slightly.
Dont be sorry in your last game Marc ! It's fabulous content even when you make Blunder-moves ! Plus you obliterated these GM ! Thanks to you I am adding DTs more and more in my compo army !
Honestly watching this do you think you could do or possibly consider DT's to GM but just like your mothership challenge it is more of a theme than a hard rule. I really just wanna see a double prism play where you are haunting your opponent with DT's and then have a casual mass zealot warp in on the other how far you could take DT's with double prisms, proxys, comboed with other units like that insane stalker, phoenix DT army you ran. I'd be willing to bet you'd get so into it and be so unexpected you would get close to 6K.
This gives me an idea. How about a "protoss bio" series, where you can only make regular protoss-looking protoss units. No big spaceships, no big machines. Just adepts, templars and zealots.
About units to focus on, what about drones/scv/probes for maximum resource making & production at the cost of smaller army (maybe like 100 to 120 drones vs 100/80 army?). With big production and money in bank, you can always build and rebuild your army, and always harass your opponent. Is this possible?
A super troll comp you can try is zealot DT. People will assume zealots will do the damage, but they are in fact just bait. Loved to do it during WoL lol.
In the amount of time it takes me to click on the minimap one time Marc can blink his dts forward, fire 3 disruptors, and pull immortals back, all while explaining what exactly he's doing and why.
idk if this is something you'd ever consider but if your looking for some varity content id love to watch u do any of the campaigns on like either the hardest difficulty or like a self imposed challenge like how you do in ranked matches.think it'd make for good content.
116 probes floating 2k+ minerals. You may not like it, but this is what peak protoss looks like.
i laughed so hard when he showed the unit tab
32:45
116 probes, enemy has 117 supply total
I have been playing Starcraft for many years, understand the game well, but it just amazes me how good Marc is. The awareness is just incredible, realising he lost 2 DTs just looking at the supply might looks like a small details, but for me these are the things that elevate his game to Godlike level 😃
Yeah he is good enough to be world champ but he gets intimidated too easily by looking at the names of his opponents when in tournaments.
he can also count really fast without clicking units
It really illustrates the large gulf between 'merely' grandmaster (from someone that never got passed plat) and professional (even former professional).
I don't think people comperhend his level. The plays he does maybe a handful of people on Earth can do. Definitely do not try to imitate him.
@@boreduser12 nah, I love him but he isn't a champion reynor,serral,dark,Her0 and more beat uthermal 7/10 times at the least he is great, but they are built different.
I basically only watch uthermal on RUclips these days, nothing else is as interesting and I seem to not enjoy them as much as your content, I've been watching your older stuff and I'm slowly getting through all your videos and I look forward to your videos every day. You can hear how much fun you're having these days just in the difference in your voice. Love your stuff.
Yes, I've been watching some older content too and, though it is good, the unmitigated joy in the way he talks and plays now is palpable. I look forward to it every day. I'm actually very excited for the try-hard content!
"imagine if terran also had reapers" ya that would be so OP xD
Classic mixup it’s his calling card now. 😂
How to get to GM in 2 simple steps:
1. Watch all uThermal content
2. Practice defending the current uThermal strats, this is all you will find on the ladder.
The DT's, they are coming.
Unironically have been getting ling dropped a lot more since he started the zerg cheese series
Everytime I use proxy hatch I blame uthermal
@@Tesswrench111if I proxy hatch and they get salty I blame uthermal 😂
32:12 "Don't run little immortal we don't bite, hahaha he is running away." "Anyway let's go home" "Oh fuck"
Just seeing him smiling makes this video better already. although the many grandmaster suffering of chaotic reactions is a must watch. well done.
I'd love to see something around mass immortal. We so rarely get to see mech-toss that isn't focused around disruptors or colossus. A 4-immortal drop does almost 200 DPS against structures, so the potential for trolling is high. Bonus if you open with a glaived adept timing attack in PvZ so they build a bunch of roaches. The goal of the adepts isn't to kill drones, but to force roaches, then shield the immortals from zerglings, while the immortals kill the roaches.
The second game is the most impressive game I’ve seen. Sc2 is way more complex than chess and it’s mind bending seeing you play
What about that you only can use units that are transformable into Archons - so basically you only can use HT, DT, Archons. Especially against the zerg with the mass mutas you might have a funnier defense if you can storm. Also you may have more minerals to expand faster and/or build more cannons. Maybe even proxy-cannonrush with HT,DT, Archons against some outer bases.
I like the power overwhelming build
This would be a cool one!!
i am thinking more and more about it. So what if the challenge might be something like you try to harrass the zerg with dts while you are building the cannons right in front of his base. Cause if he doesnt have spores like the 1st zerg you can feedback the overseers with 1-2 HTs and kill them with the cannons if the zerg is a bit careless of losing his only line of detection at some point.
My MMR is too low to know if this might be playable :D
@@Bortschtthis would only work if the zerg is already dead from the dt
Better yet: Marc converts to the Protoss Religion and can only build religious units: Zealots, Adepts, Templars, and Archons
I've never been good at SC2 & I haven't played SC2 in a decade but the way you engage with your audience is amazing. Nothing like it and it keeps me coming back day after day. I wish SC2 was more popular so you'd get the recognition you deserve
I like these challenges. You're aiming for mass something, but staying flexible enough to use what you need to survive.
This is my favorite video you've ever uploaded. THANK YOU. This was so much fun!!
i would like to see you do only banelings. I love watching those things roll around
impossible to win games like that lol
@@s4bc that makes it a perfect Marc challenge, and it’s not like he has to use only banelings just focus his build around them.
ok that makes sense ofc but i replied to a guy who said only banelings :)@@davecolwell725
@@s4bc If you can win against a GM opponent with sentries only, you can win with banelings.
I was so worried about the adept at 3:40, fingers crossed, a very dramatic death, another second and he would have been alive 😭
Man.. even after 10 years, SC2 is still exciting to watch. He is so good and I enjoy his commentaries.
Such a classic game that has such good mechanics and makes for a really entertaining esports kind of game.
Would be amazing to one day see sc3.
Great stuff thermy!! I think this idea is the best content you've made! Hydras was amazing! DT's were awesome!!! You get to punish GMs with a single unit, but have enough freedom to make other units to counter! KEEP IT UP!!
Insanity inflicted via Thermy torture. Glizzy is lucky he tapped, if he'd faced this he would have fully snapped.
i would love to see another dedicated tempest episode, the way you play tempests is so fun to watch. if you do, can you also put the builds/replays in the description?
Yes!
I dunno I love tempest but they're too specific and kinda bad void rays in mass with some tempest as long range snipers works best with good ground support
besides a yt-video titled "i accidentally created the borg collective" made by a guy dressed like jean-luc picard, this is definitely one of the most 'so clickbait it's not clickbait'-videos i have seen on yt recently...
"Everytime he scans he is gonna lose a scan" C Absolute Chad
Phoenixes/immortals please!
I love watching phoenix micro, it's so satisfying. And immortals are _technically_ all you need to deal with massive units. It'll be a joy to watch!
Or, immortal/prism micro. Protoss golden age. Someone has to revive it.
Opponents build lings or marines 2/3 of the time and you'd have no answer.
Edit: to be clear, I'd still definitely watch it! xD
@@nathanpetrich7309 Glaived adepts trade decently against both, especially if there's prism micro against terran bio.
Storm drop, that's peak Toss golden age, right?
@@MeesterG Reaver drop :)
@@nemou4985 true, that is even goldener :p
8:30 Me: Dang, uThermal is so amazing, pre-emptively placing his probes in front of his cannons to prevent the zerglings from surrounding it! Effing genius.
8:40 uThermal: I was wondering why my probes were being so stupid.
Oh :(
lmao love the strat in game 1, planning to take a fast 3rd to bait them into attacking you, so you can ambush them with your tech. Freaking brilliant dude lol. Am loving these videos!. I wonder if you will use any of your really weird strategies against your tournament opponents
I think the resources lost on the first game is interesting. Shows that if you're aggressive and can consistently get some value out of your attacks, you don't have to be particularly efficient.
This was great Marc!! Lmao
I request mass disruptor for next week. Pig teaches this build for lower leagues where you rush an observer prism speed and disruptor. And try to catch his army clumped. Prob works better at the lower level but might be fun to see mass observers, disruptor, prisms.
I find it impressive that you are commenting and playing the game at the same time. I would be so focused on the game that I couldn't say a word.
That micro in the 2nd game with the DT+Disruptor combo was absolutely insane. You are brilliant!!
Ever tried mass phoenix, zealots and darktemplars? vs zerg? so fun, keeping overseers alive is a nightmare xD , then just lift up everything with phoenixes and attack with zealots and dt's. superfun xD
Those games were absolutely bangers !
I absolutely love how invested you are getting into the strategies and how much you enjoy it 🥰
only uThermal could look at a single frame of fogged out Terran base setup 2 minutes in and be like "yep i dont need a gateway unit, he wont be attacking."
GOAT
Very nice!
Consider placing a few observers in critical intersections to have more map vision. Same function that creep also serves lol
3:50 big LOL hahaha, the pleads
Marc saying about a Zerg: Theres not so much creepspread ^^
I woke up hungover so I’m glad too have a 1 hour video from you to enjoy
I'm surprised this went as well as it did, beefy damage did it's job though! Would love to see some Adept shenanigans as it's such a cool unit and seeing the damage Maple did with +1 Glaived adept timing makes me wonder how lethal they can be.
U - "I will make archons!" - thermal
So wonderful to see how Uthernal is destroying GMs with all kinds of units.
“My openent is soon gonna hit me with his big attack and I’m sitting here with 92 probes being supply blocked” This sums up every PvT I play. I usually lose though
I would love some commentary or breakdown of how you control the camera. Sometimes you are attacking three places, with armies not hotkeyed, and flipping back and forth so fast. Are you constantly resetting the camera hotkeys to your attack/focus areas? Amazing gameplay and content as always. Thank you.
I have a ridiculous suggestion. Call the challenge Blockade or something. You make your main target their supply and resources not their army. So the whole goal is to eliminate supply depots, pylons, and overlords as well as workers and set up ridiculous defenses at home like the 5 cc set up. Any unit is allowed. Maybe you’d want to take waves of cloaked banshees to eliminate pylons and keep tanks and Vikings at home with your planetary to stay alive. The goal would be to make them quit because they keep getting supply blocked and are tired of running into the meat grinder at your base.
New fear unleashed:
Marc playing mass sentry+disruptors. GMs running to hide in allyways only to be force field blocked and seeing "the light at the end of the tunnel" ... Locking enemy victims in with the sentries and bowling them to wet spots all over the maps ❤
Man, you should do random in the 500k turney u mentioned u wanted to try for. have you thought of joining turneys as random to test what it would be like if you played random? Cuz ur protoss is lookin pretty damn good: 28:00+ (that game!) Peaking!? your micro gets top tier (ive ever seen) "what is going on, am I a protoss God?!" Classic Uthermal. Admittedly work on less probes (117 heh nice), more army? But then again, if u had no limitations, an ability to switch/afford any path quickly..
110 probes, 16 DTs, literally nothing else in units tab. What a Thermy ending
This is peak uthermal.
1 hour dt slice sounds to relax/study to
Man, stuff like that second game is why you're my SC2 icon
I love watching my favourite Terran mentor doing some tasty Protoss cheese! Seeing these DTs made my day!
An hour and 7 minutes of mass DTs and not 1 archon. This was awesome! Also, the only player that didn't GG out was the last Terran player; and most of the rest also added well played also.
I love how the giant whale shadow always causes a slight pause or hesitation to players, when it comes in, like, "Alert".. lmao... then continue.... its funny, because the players speech always changes slightly.
One hour of builds around Thermy having to spread creep!
DTs always look super strong when people use them when I see the lokow games casted
"if you want to wall off, and that's what you enjoy, feel free to do that to your hearts content..."
Legend of Fatslob crossover coming?
Remember when Immortals had that unique shield that reduced damage above ten to ten?
Pepperidge farm remembers
I have been waiting for this…
Just insane on the last game. 1:06:00
This reminds of what Zest used to do!!!! As actually strategy!!
Tactical drone strike, pixel stack 20+ drones and rush the enemies
Love seeing multi drops and doom drops on weird mixes of units. Disruptor colossus drop or DT drop into archon
"Idle" is the word 😇✌️
Just yesterday I was thinking, that I missed uThermal's DT-rushes, and here they are!
This is the series I've been waiting for!
It's amazing, the blogger is really creative and worth watching
If some one gonna look there they should be the world champion - uthermy 2023 (love these games)
Dont see often DTs in games. I forgot that they can blink. Do you must research it like for stalkers?
Tank drops next! Great content Marc
This was epic. Especially the game that went for 13m53s. This would be a good entry into rank roulette.
That last game… you didn’t get a formal PvP but his ID did have the name “Protoz” in it 😅
I once got stomped by DTs when I thought I was winning, and ever since I know to build turrets in mineral lines and entrances
It's a lesson you learn exactly once lol
So the lesson of this is support your buildings with more than one pylon ever
Reapers. I know it won't be that powerful but it would be fun to see mas Reapers in the early game and see how far they can go.
Dont be sorry in your last game Marc ! It's fabulous content even when you make Blunder-moves ! Plus you obliterated these GM ! Thanks to you I am adding DTs more and more in my compo army !
I'd love to see vikings. They seem like a versatile unit you can do a lot with using micro and positioning, with built-in drop-style gameplay.
Artosis would be proud :)
For the next 1 hour, I'd love to see Phoenixes. My favorite Protoss unit (as a Random player) even though I absolutely suck with them.
Honestly watching this do you think you could do or possibly consider DT's to GM but just like your mothership challenge it is more of a theme than a hard rule. I really just wanna see a double prism play where you are haunting your opponent with DT's and then have a casual mass zealot warp in on the other how far you could take DT's with double prisms, proxys, comboed with other units like that insane stalker, phoenix DT army you ran. I'd be willing to bet you'd get so into it and be so unexpected you would get close to 6K.
love the thumbnail, so accurate!
"I think we are running out of anti air, guys" - says the man who never had anti air units. love it!😛
if you don't know what you're doing, neither will your opponent - Sun Tzu
"NormalPlayer"- haha, when you see this, you can expect special tactics.
This gives me an idea. How about a "protoss bio" series, where you can only make regular protoss-looking protoss units. No big spaceships, no big machines. Just adepts, templars and zealots.
Woot! Day off. Great start to it.
Watching how much fun you are having makes me want to play rts again although not on the same level as you 🤣
great episode dude I was grinning the whole time my face hurts now (please do the archon mode content too pls pls)
About units to focus on, what about drones/scv/probes for maximum resource making & production at the cost of smaller army (maybe like 100 to 120 drones vs 100/80 army?). With big production and money in bank, you can always build and rebuild your army, and always harass your opponent. Is this possible?
I'd love to see DT/Phoenix!
A super troll comp you can try is zealot DT. People will assume zealots will do the damage, but they are in fact just bait. Loved to do it during WoL lol.
Only units that can be microd with a warp prism please - and the attached warp prison :)
Do a spine drop in the corner of their main base
That was beautiful
In the amount of time it takes me to click on the minimap one time Marc can blink his dts forward, fire 3 disruptors, and pull immortals back, all while explaining what exactly he's doing and why.
we're gonna need to see how far this and mothership can get your protoss rank up
I would like to battle cursers and or void rays.Keep up the good work uthermal.
Clearly you need to destroy your opponents with mostly ravens. Seems like such a strong unit with your level of micro
oh its only 8 hours old. can you do a fun video using stalkers only? or widow mines, but uThermal isnt known for his terran
Thermies strat at the next big tourney has to be to cast himself. He will be unstoppable.
Against Zerg and Protoss you can try the same DTs but also try to snipe their detection lol
I feel that vs Zerg some phenix would allow you to kill overseers and abuse cloak
Everyone else is playing 3d chess uThermal is playing football. He's doing disruptor hail mary's from downtown.
I've seen many of your cheese 'only these unit' videos. Have you done a video where you use every single Unit?
idk if this is something you'd ever consider but if your looking for some varity content id love to watch u do any of the campaigns on like either the hardest difficulty or like a self imposed challenge like how you do in ranked matches.think it'd make for good content.