Something Lowko missed: The reason Charge and Blink were so late in the first game is because Serral sniped the Archives when Charge was almost done. So the Archives had to be rebuilt and Charge restarted. Lowko talks about Serral playing strategy - that was Serral making sure his opponent wouldn’t have the counter to Brood Lords before the Spire even starts.
At 10:40, while Serral is pushing the third, he sends the Dropper Lords back in, sees the Twilight Council is still researching, realizes charge and blink aren't done, and so focus fires the Twilight Council when it's almost done researching, losing more roaches in the process, but utterly preventing charge and blink from when they're needed most. All while keeping up an average of 500+ actions per minute. The man is a Genius. Also, the sheer fact that he's able to take in the light flickering on the building showing that it's still researching, and keep up the multitasking and APM is just damn impressive.
Serral plays a technically perfect game and effortlessly turns back any aggression. And he'll do that all day until you either make a mistake or he finds a kidney shot, like sniping that Citadel, to make one for you. They only way you can beat that is to play just as perfect and get their first, and their are few players who can manage that. It would be interesting to see a highlight reel of Serral v Clem games where Clem wins and see what he does.
I wonder if next video will have Operation Market Garden? But really, the timing on operation overlord is almost perfect. Four days past the start, but still deep in it.
Also, at 11:51, the fact that Serral in those couple of seconds was keeping up a current APM of about a 1000, and peaked at 1327 APM. That's keeping up at least 16 Actions/second for a good few seconds. and at peak, that's 22 actions per second. That's just insane to me.
I've done 14, 14, 14 since 2011. No extractor trick, but it's basically the same. I've got no idea why people enjoy micro battles with reapers and getting pylon blocked. Still doesn't stop cannon rushes unless you park your first overlord or send a scouting drone to your natural.
I see lowko post, I like share and comment to support him. years I think. Love you man. Been going to sleep to your voice since 2012 or something. I don’t know. It’s wild. I hope I meet you before I die.
"Couple" according to the dictionary: An indefinite small number. Example: "he hoped she'd be better in a couple of days" Don't worry, Lowko. Your usage of "couple" is correct.
At 9.50 (When Serral did the first mass drop), Serral could had taken the 4th base with the other army after the recall, that would probably closed the game there. On even the worst case, take down a couple of immortals + some other stuff. Probably cause he's testing stuff he was a bit focused on well, the drop.
21:56 I have noticed your increased variety of words in the "stringing words together until a complete thought formulates" caster (castor? cuz it's magic) thing and every time I'm a little more proud to call you an "Honorary American" lmao
Lowko: the ERRRik opener, erh hem... Me: *takes a mouthful of tea* Lowko: ...sorry going through pubity, Me: pffft *sprays water out of my face onto my keyboard*😆
Look how efficient he traded. Not many zerg players if any, can trade equally with protoss. That is insane. Serral has amazing game sense and snipes what he can units, buildings, while minimizing loses.
How do you take those gold bases on Altitude? I have never seen this map before, the watchtowers are right in the way of where you would put your base.
First you destroy the cooling towers next to them to turn the watchtower into a rubble pile, then you destroy the rubble pile to free up the space for an expansion. It's a lot of steps so usually you don't see it happen in games
its a littlebit sweet that Lowko think that he dont use the same frases in his video. My Wife an i play from time to time Lowko Bingo. "The soft underbelly of the Terran" "69 Probes/Drones/SCV which is pretty nice" ""Unite Name" the dont mass around" "Protos dont have doors"....
Hi Lowko, this is a very odd request but is it possible to extend your videos? Usually for me, your videos kinda spoils itself. Like in this video for example, A best-of-3 between Serral and Creator, Serral won the first game 20 minutes into the video, and at min 25, nothing much happens, while the whole video itself is only 30 minutes, so I know regardless what happens, Serral wins the next game 😅. Probably add a 20 minutes black-screen? Idk haha, just a pet peeve of mine.
i do not like serral casts . why bother watching when the outcome is obvious . using cool tricks is ok but seeing the other guy smashed is no fun for me
Aligulac currently has a 51.54% advantage for Protoss in PvZ at the tournament level. Late game Zerg when controlled close to perfection does seem pretty unstoppable tho. That said, I don’t think we’ve really ever seen any Protoss control their late game army as cleanly as Serral controls his units.
DID SERREL... just found out about AN OLD BROODWARS ZERG TACTIC OF MASS DROPS WITH OVERLORDS!!! are you sure he is the best zergy out there... he would get owned hard by the old school broodwars zerg players!!!
Serral is good, but I do admit that BW zergs are in a whole different league. I remember in bw you would have the whole overlord squad dropping the whole army in a base. It was lethal.
@@orangepearlf40 MASS HYdra drops was my specialty... i would hit one of his outpost and when they came to defend... i would pack my hydras back into the overlords and beat them back to their main base and wipe it out!!! it was Unstoppable!!!
I would say yes in sc1 you are limited to move by time frame, means you dont have to focus move, but in sc2 its takes allot to focus, so if old school player play sc2 they would struggle to focus
@@dotathewot390 I'm not sure about that. f2 move command or f2 attack command takes less focus and micro management than 1a,2a,3a,4a,5a,6a attack command or 1-6 move command. Sc1 is manual transmission S2 is automatic transmission.
really stupid how they nerfed the broodlords just because serral was soo good that he decided to target his own units to push out the locusts further to make the broodlords more powerful than they are. i mean they were already slow as F. its not like anyone can do what he can do. its just stupid. if u dont want these spawning units anymore cuz the swarm hosts are not what they used to be as well. just rework it back into a guardian or whatever.
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Something Lowko missed: The reason Charge and Blink were so late in the first game is because Serral sniped the Archives when Charge was almost done. So the Archives had to be rebuilt and Charge restarted. Lowko talks about Serral playing strategy - that was Serral making sure his opponent wouldn’t have the counter to Brood Lords before the Spire even starts.
Thats the twilight council isnt it?
@@snowdrop9810 Possibly. I am not sure on the name of the building.
Operation Overlord was to snipe the Charge/Blink and it was distracting enough that lowko didnt catch it
It could easily be missed by watchers too. The twilight council was sniped at 10:50
DAMNIT LOWKO
At 10:40, while Serral is pushing the third, he sends the Dropper Lords back in, sees the Twilight Council is still researching, realizes charge and blink aren't done, and so focus fires the Twilight Council when it's almost done researching, losing more roaches in the process, but utterly preventing charge and blink from when they're needed most. All while keeping up an average of 500+ actions per minute. The man is a Genius. Also, the sheer fact that he's able to take in the light flickering on the building showing that it's still researching, and keep up the multitasking and APM is just damn impressive.
Serral plays a technically perfect game and effortlessly turns back any aggression. And he'll do that all day until you either make a mistake or he finds a kidney shot, like sniping that Citadel, to make one for you. They only way you can beat that is to play just as perfect and get their first, and their are few players who can manage that. It would be interesting to see a highlight reel of Serral v Clem games where Clem wins and see what he does.
Operation Overlord was a success
I wonder if next video will have Operation Market Garden? But really, the timing on operation overlord is almost perfect. Four days past the start, but still deep in it.
@@taoofjester4113 If the name it that, it will be doomed to fail
@@taoofjester4113 oeration Uranus next? :D
Serral is a monster.
really love how he uses the overlord in battle, mind blowing
Also, at 11:51, the fact that Serral in those couple of seconds was keeping up a current APM of about a 1000, and peaked at 1327 APM. That's keeping up at least 16 Actions/second for a good few seconds. and at peak, that's 22 actions per second. That's just insane to me.
I think it may be rapid action
I love the Erik Opener, it was a crazy innovation out of nowhere and I bet a few other people in the game had done it, just not as well
I've done 14, 14, 14 since 2011. No extractor trick, but it's basically the same. I've got no idea why people enjoy micro battles with reapers and getting pylon blocked. Still doesn't stop cannon rushes unless you park your first overlord or send a scouting drone to your natural.
He gets 15 hatch so that it cannot be blocked by probe. It’s one of his new standards :) Harstem talked about this on one of his Serral casts.
Serral with my favorite death drop Brood war tech.
Serral looked really unstoppable here.
Hes half human half robot
Serral is amazing to watch. So strong.
That overlord march from Serral blew my mind. Absolutely genius to creep up the frontlines, I hope he does more of that!
Dayum good time to refresh RUclips
7:30 JIMMY, CUE THE FLIGHT OF THE VALKYRIES
i like this version of serral much more
Serral trading equally 15 minutes into the game against protoss is absolutely mental
Its fun to see Serral, who is considered the best player in the world, be such a big fanboy for Erik
That "Welcome back" sounds soooooooooooo COOL!!
Terran's classic built: stympack, shield, +1 timing attack.
Serral: roach speed, overlord speed, +1 missile attack.
Serral becomes terran? Serral is infesto terran?
I see lowko post, I like share and comment to support him. years I think. Love you man. Been going to sleep to your voice since 2012 or something. I don’t know. It’s wild. I hope I meet you before I die.
so this is how i make my bug balloons fight
Duuude that first game felt sooo alive!
I like watching viewer games and such too, but honestly nothing compares to a Serral game.
That first game with the Erik variant and Serral on only about 60 drones, all played on a map with 60% PvZ. Big Ouch.
"Couple" according to the dictionary:
An indefinite small number.
Example: "he hoped she'd be better in a couple of days"
Don't worry, Lowko. Your usage of "couple" is correct.
One of your best casts ever, keep singing, we love it ❤
At 9.50 (When Serral did the first mass drop), Serral could had taken the 4th base with the other army after the recall, that would probably closed the game there. On even the worst case, take down a couple of immortals + some other stuff.
Probably cause he's testing stuff he was a bit focused on well, the drop.
Even thou iam a terran at heart, I consider Serral to be the best
21:56 I have noticed your increased variety of words in the "stringing words together until a complete thought formulates" caster (castor? cuz it's magic) thing and every time I'm a little more proud to call you an "Honorary American" lmao
Commentary top notch👌
Imagine Erik seeing Serral doing his build. Maybe he is flattered :D
Lowko: the ERRRik opener, erh hem...
Me: *takes a mouthful of tea*
Lowko: ...sorry going through pubity,
Me: pffft *sprays water out of my face onto my keyboard*😆
21:28 relatively smart
Serral won that first game while having much less workers most of the game 😲
Look how efficient he traded. Not many zerg players if any, can trade equally with protoss. That is insane. Serral has amazing game sense and snipes what he can units, buildings, while minimizing loses.
@@RMJ1984 yeah I agree
I want to hear more about the eric opener. is there a dedicated video on it? and I'm not just talking about a casting with the eric opener in it.
Wanted to see Creator's reaction to this
Serral #1
@xThe_LowkoTv jump in a deep lake with a lead belt buddy
How do you take those gold bases on Altitude? I have never seen this map before, the watchtowers are right in the way of where you would put your base.
First you destroy the cooling towers next to them to turn the watchtower into a rubble pile, then you destroy the rubble pile to free up the space for an expansion. It's a lot of steps so usually you don't see it happen in games
@@DreamyAileen So essentially the watchtowers are destructible? I have never heard of a map where you could actually destroy a watchtower before!
@@JaggedJack1 Yeah there's usually at least one "weird" map every time there's a new map pool release
Woohoo! New Lowko
its a littlebit sweet that Lowko think that he dont use the same frases in his video.
My Wife an i play from time to time Lowko Bingo.
"The soft underbelly of the Terran"
"69 Probes/Drones/SCV which is pretty nice"
""Unite Name" the dont mass around"
"Protos dont have doors"....
Can you play Silica Lowko? I think it's a good RTS and FPS Hybrid
Final raid boss! Hahahaha So true
5+def powered by one pylo´n bc the 200 extra min was not used to safe the 1500 investment^^
'Fair Enough'
This guy is SO GOOD!
does contamination work on shieldbattery while their overcharged =?
I think serral might be hitting peak performance
So uhm what is the current percentage of protoss losing? against everything? :D
All hail lord serral
Simon hating on our beautiful language from the fatherland is really recognizable 😁
Did you see serrals apm spike just above 900?
Charge got snipped
great games!
don’t Protoss structures that are building at the start look like a blue eye of Sauron
Serral!
Why is it named the Eric opener?
I like how Lowko is still saying the same things about saying the same things here a decade later. xD
2:36
Lowko: it said B-O-5 on the scoreboard
Me: well, now you've given me a reason to go back 5 seconds :P
I would love to see Lowko cast a ai vs ai game with the base sc2 ai but pretend like it's a legit match.
Droplord contaminate yeah!
"Voiz over"
Does anyone else miss the old Lowko intro?
Lowko your go to word is "either" But you say it as "eeyther" And I think it's cute. No homo
On your next video give us your opening in your native a tongue of Dutch.
4 is a couple of couples
Starcraft is strategy indeed. best argument for this is protoss Genius which is grandmaster with average apm around 100. really low
Woooow a rare serral win. How exciting.
4 = a couple of couples :)
Can you make one video in french PLS lowko
Chinese balloon attack !!!!!!
swag
Hi Lowko, this is a very odd request but is it possible to extend your videos? Usually for me, your videos kinda spoils itself. Like in this video for example, A best-of-3 between Serral and Creator, Serral won the first game 20 minutes into the video, and at min 25, nothing much happens, while the whole video itself is only 30 minutes, so I know regardless what happens, Serral wins the next game 😅. Probably add a 20 minutes black-screen? Idk haha, just a pet peeve of mine.
Hello! I’ve had this request many times and while I do agree it’s a good idea, it would destroy my watch time for the algorithm.
@@LowkoTV Winter recently started padding his faster series with bonus games.
He won't, thankfully
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i do not like serral casts . why bother watching when the outcome is obvious . using cool tricks is ok but seeing the other guy smashed is no fun for me
PvZ just seems so one sided. Zerg spell casters really are just op. Only spell caster protoss has is the Templar and storms are all they got.
I skip the video to the end, if protoss wins I go back to the video and see, it rarely happened
Definitely in high level play. Those fun gals seem to just get mega value when the game turns macro
Aligulac currently has a 51.54% advantage for Protoss in PvZ at the tournament level. Late game Zerg when controlled close to perfection does seem pretty unstoppable tho. That said, I don’t think we’ve really ever seen any Protoss control their late game army as cleanly as Serral controls his units.
As lowko said he just made the wrong units in the first game. Blink stalkers, arcons and carriers are a nightmere
Surely it wasn’t the Protoss mispositioning and slow tech 🙄 no Zerg is just OP
DID SERREL... just found out about AN OLD BROODWARS ZERG TACTIC OF MASS DROPS WITH OVERLORDS!!! are you sure he is the best zergy out there... he would get owned hard by the old school broodwars zerg players!!!
Serral is good, but I do admit that BW zergs are in a whole different league.
I remember in bw you would have the whole overlord squad dropping the whole army in a base. It was lethal.
@@orangepearlf40 MASS HYdra drops was my specialty... i would hit one of his outpost and when they came to defend... i would pack my hydras back into the overlords and beat them back to their main base and wipe it out!!! it was Unstoppable!!!
I would say yes in sc1 you are limited to move by time frame, means you dont have to focus move, but in sc2 its takes allot to focus, so if old school player play sc2 they would struggle to focus
@@dotathewot390 I'm not sure about that. f2 move command or f2 attack command takes less focus and micro management than 1a,2a,3a,4a,5a,6a attack command or 1-6 move command.
Sc1 is manual transmission
S2 is automatic transmission.
@@orangepearlf40 auto then fast pace....can you really play it while processing the strategy? Sc1 are 2D means limited move can be aplied
really stupid how they nerfed the broodlords just because serral was soo good that he decided to target his own units to push out the locusts further to make the broodlords more powerful than they are. i mean they were already slow as F. its not like anyone can do what he can do. its just stupid. if u dont want these spawning units anymore cuz the swarm hosts are not what they used to be as well. just rework it back into a guardian or whatever.