I don't have a horse in this race, but honestly that "broken" zerg win still looks pretty shaky to me. To dominate the economy and map so hard and still be unable to close out before a better-than-yours maxed army arrives doesn't really convey much of an advantage, given how well the game was played and how many tools zerg used.
To be fair part of that is a stylistic thing from Serral, he tends to win by backstabbing and slowly choking his opponent rather than headbutting for the win. Compared to someone like Dark, Serral is super methodical and defensive.
Agreed. Terran never die. They can lose half their economy and reboot it instantly with mules which is a persistent problem. Without perfect control and harassment, Serral would've died several times over in those games despite major advantages.
I *LOVE* Serral's approach in Game 1 - it feels like a formalized version of Dark's constant aggression. It will be interesting to see how Zerg shapes up in this patch as players develop strategies for the new balance. I think it may mean they have to be more dynamic in their comps
It feels like Zerg having half its supply caught up in Swarm hosts while he still has 200 army supply in lings, corruptors, queens and ultralisks each. You people are so baked if you think Serral is legit.
Not despair, hax. Watching dozens of these videos and it's like a zerg that's ahead with full ling bane will possibly lose to a Rine rauder medivac stack. Serral? Nah every single marine dies instantly, his lings survive infinitely and he still has enough banes left over to kill 5 command center. Pretty clearly sus, whether it's his units have more HP or something else is going on. Also this "oh Serral's just better" - he isn't. there's no superhumans. His actions clearly show full map knowledge while other zergs play honestly.
@@bricelory9534 You do realize anything and everything online will and can be manufactured at some point. And as long as it passes as plausible, nobody will notice. Yeah well, I'm calling uncanny valley. Am I certain? No. But statistical evidence makes it seem only logical. Serral destroys everyone in ways other players cant. Is it because he's god? Or is it because his games are fishy. Every other matchup on this channel seems like there's some push/pull, but serral seems to do more with his units so the question should absolutely be does he do more with his units, in a way that you wouldn't notice because you trust tourney organizers. (Bad idea, tourneys thrive off of drama so making it is good for them)
You see plenty of games where zerg has a huge eco but gets bullrushed and their production can't Remax fast enough while all their new spawns rally into a meatgrinder. Serral is just great at keeping people occupied away from his bases
29:30 - I'm not sure what went wrong for Spirit. This one's pure meta. He lost momentum. In fact, he gave it up by choosing to play Terran mech which is relatively immobile. He gave up the initiative in order to have a stronger defense and a bigger death ball. Serral recognized it and went raiding for two opposite sides of the map. The death ball can't be in both places at once. Once that started, it was all down hill from there. Spirit could have sacrificed some of his power for better defensive positions by splitting his army. It would have helped him play the traditional attrition game where Terran wins by outlasting the Zerg and running him out of minerals. But he kept the death ball together and didn't punch in with it. Spirit's clearly a very good player, but you can't make slow units move fast enough to chase zerglings around =D
One thing I don't see from pros when using swarm hosts is building static defense when you get value from them. You end up with max supply and a rising piggy bank without a way to spend. Turning drones into static defense can open supply and allow you to gradually grow your army while having something at home to somewhat defend with.
Lowko, I started watching your channel a long time ago. It was the first video you ever did on "they are billions". Glad you're doing well (basing that off the sound of your voice and chipper attitude). I must say you've really and truly mastered the subtlety of the english language and developed your skills to a higher degree. I'm proud of you my friend and I wish you and your family a sincerely Merry Christmas. God bless you my friend.
46:05 I believe that's a parody of CHOAM the intergalactic finance org of dune which itself is probably a nod by herbert towards OPEC an organization that was formed a few year before the books release.
I view this completely differently, in game 1, the best zerg on the planet can't break the terran in half an hour despite doing so much economic damage, the zerg army just can't compete in the late game.
In game 1, Spirit not getting basically *any* damage done with the first 2 BCs was a really rough start, I reckon. Maybe it would not be quite as bad against some other Zergs, but Serral is not someone you can afford to let macro and do his own thing, because he will absolutely wreck you if he has that sort of room for a run-up.
Its a niche mechanic unique to zerg. It's done by cancelling buildings at max supply. For example, I have 200 supply, I build 5 spore crawlers which consumes the drones and I'm now at 195/200, i then make ten lings, which puts me back at 200 supply. Then i cancel the spore crawlers which gives me back the drones. Boom, suddenly at 205 supply.
Its the same thing as the extractor trick. If you look at his worker supply, its drops down by 3, and his army goes to 200 and then he cancels whatever they were building to get the drones back. Youll notice workers drop to 72, and then back up to 75 making you have 203 Supply. Theoretically you can do this forever but you lose money canceling stuff
17:56 ganme time first game. Serral may improve his tact at 10k by adding in 4 more marco hatcheries at home, designed to counter terran movements and imdpeed against other structures the problem is at the larva count decline.. can be hard if hte T force is 130 + is tpyically from being trapped on small eco's... so knowing this having extra nat, 16 larva would be helpful... for defesive strike if the T pushes through, but allwos a sac method.. against the enemy.
The sign says: "Irresponsible Interstellar Credit" "The replay(?) is already there" Reprise could mean something other than replay depending on context.
Reprise is when a (often failing) company is bought up so that a new owner can make a similar business without having to go trough the setup of making a company in that sector. Think like if Amazon wanted to make a paper making company, they'd just buy a failing one for cheap, keep the licenses, agreement with suppliers and what employees they want without having to put in the effort. Also the brand name can be useful too.
So in the first game, Serral is dominating right from the start and it still takes him almost 30 minutes to finish Spirit? Isn't that enough proof on how ridiculous the zerg nerfs are?
The only thing that game was an indication off is that zerg needs buffs to their late game units. It's just so much weaker than the terran and protoss. Oh and also let's nerf ghosts again just for fun 😁
although it's a great point that zerg late game isn't good, it's partially because of serral's playstile aswell, as someone has said in another comment in this video.
??? U cant be serious right?? The games in the video lowko posted the other day wereall like 12 minutes so idk what ur saying…It’s more of a stylistic difference where serral approaches the game much more methodically; he would rather have 95% win chance in 30+ minute games than 80% win chance in 15 or 20 minutes
I just lost to mass Thor/liberator twice in a row despite having twice as many bases and twice as much money. I have failed my Plat 1 level Zerg allies again… I hate Terran so much. Half the APM, half the strategy, and they still put out. I cant neural them because my infestors die immediately, I can’t put range them with brood lords, even my crack lings die immediately, hydras melt out of thin air and viper spells aren’t cutting it. WTF are you supposed to do against mass Thor/liberator?
Game one was so much fun to watch. Like a whale juggling its food before eating. It's insane that the game took so long to close out, a Toss or Zerg in that situation would've been bulldozed in half the time.
first game, that ridge where spirit got ambushed showed something terrans don't seem to be taking advantage that they really need to when nydus is a thing in their game. sensor towers, yeah they cost, take time, but you really can't have any fully dark areas around vulnerable units. or a bc just hanging out to keep vision.
46:01 - This is French text. It means "Irresponsible Interstellar Credit" and the black text below means "The [bank] repossession is already on its way". 😂
31:43 This is the same thing in chess. Magnus Carlsen has an insane memory and memorizes tons of chess matches and the positions of the pieces in those games.
Wtf, Simon. If you're going to say the OG intro, don't blue-ball us by not using the original intonation. It's like your girl putting on lingerie and then going straight to sleep.
People in Diamond League are aware of their win condition against Serral: Winning by default because Serral does not show up. People below Diamond might have some illusions about beating Serral. But I doubt that there are many of those above lowest bronce.
I'm not a great SC2 player, but Terran mech vs Zerg just looks so bad. The mobility and ability to harass with bio + medi seems to prevent Zerg from doing what Serral did in game 1 by essentially laying siege to Spirit.
I occasionally wonder just how much of an advantage I would need to beat Serral (or lets be honest any of the pros) - I don't even think it would be a matter of having a huge mineral+gas bonus at the beginning (obviously it would be sufficient for good players, but I am not one of those :D )
One thing I don't understand is: Why don't the Terrans ‘copy’ the strategies that Clem used to beat Serral? Or is it not a question of strategy, but of skill?
@@estrayk Clem's strategies revolve around him being able to click 10-15 banes in 2 seconds. While those banes are 1. rolling to his marines with a huge number of speedlings, 2. split into several groups. When anyone else tries to do what Clem does - they just lose the bio army instantly. He's THAT much faster and more precise...
I mean Serral won that first game, but the survival capacity terrans has is so sickening, I doubt any other race would survive that much in the same situation
Serral seems like someone you beat with your build order, if at all To out-micro Serral seems unlikely; he'd have to be off his game, or you would need to be running at 110% To out-macro Serral seems unlikely; I don't know that I've seen someone cleanly out-macro Serral without doing solid damage first Cheesing seems rough to pull off, given the real solid scouting, prediction and micro Getting siege tanks, well placed mines, and marines with medivac support up in his face double time when he is droning up fast seems like the only reliable option... if you can get the timing right, don't take too much harassment damage, approach aggressively enough to smother Serral's economy ramp-up but also not so aggressive that you get surrounded on creep and killed off. Best of luck with all that.
Your comment about Serral knowing games is precisely why I binge StarCraft with huge gaps in years. Watched a bunch in 2020 and now in 2024. This is a big issue I have with strategy games and how they can become stale. In chess, many of the top pros merely play enough games and memorize their way to victory, on autopilot. StarCraft 2 can be the same in many ways. I think it’s why so many people find Uthermal, Has, and Florencio strategies so entertaining. Serral and many of the other pros are following a distinct pattern. When they deviate, they lose. As seen when Serral tried to proxy hatch Has - the only time I’ve ever seen him innovate on the fly. The rest of the time, he’s making predicable moves. Flawlessly much of the time and, arguably, beautifully, but still predicable. It’s like watching two players play match the squares until one person makes a mistake. He, and many other pros, copy strategies because they are a known quantity and provide success. It makes his games boring to me after awhile. Some people enjoy watching the same iterations of the same executions over and over, with small improvements, but I don’t think it’s a majority. Elazer and the other builds you’ve shown have been interesting though. Honestly, that’s been the best part of the patch updates and I wish they would radically change the game more often cause seeing the same builds and the same metas over and over again is super boring. I don’t know how Serral or MaxPax do it without getting super bored. I couldn’t do it. But there are people out there that like tiny refinements that inch towards perfection, so, maybe that’s why. But, just saying, the first game was super boring. As soon as I saw mech, it was obvious who was going to win. There wasn’t even a question. And that takes the fun out of it tbh.
How does serral have lots of supply in swarm hosts and spirit has superior army and never commits to anything? I feel like he had to commit to a fight Serral does the same sh*t as all other zergs, his units literally just seem to survive anything. Other ling bane zergs that are ahead? can lose to marine rauder splits. Serral? Runs right into the best splits possible and still has 100 lings and banes left over. Kills 5 bases with banes alone. Serrals games exclusively are suspicious.
its just clem look a serral vs every other teran like maru, olivera and buyn and he always wins. I think protos is a little to overtunded vs zerg but thats it
@@kieranjackson2715 Maru cant perform in any LAN event unless its GSL, and buyn cant build ghosts to save his life all he does is mass marine and wish for the best
@@kieranjackson2715 because clem is by far the best terran. If you watch serral matches vs those guys you can clearly spot some major mistake in some point of the match. Clem doesn't do those mistakes, so he win all the time bc terran is broken. The only way to zerg win against terran in the highest level is by cheesy strategies like the mass overseer. The late zerg army is so bad and the terran bio ability to deny bases is so good that is basically impossible.
No other zergs are this OP, Serral is pretty clearly a hacker. I'm not an SC2 player but my god, watching dozenso f these videos it becomes bleedingly clear Serral has map knowledge. You can't just "oh wow I knew you were going to do that" every single fking match while also having zerglings that are seemingly 5 times more powerful then other players. Serrals banes insta blow up CC's like they're confetti. Other players banes don't do that for sure.
Lol. Do you even understand what the word GOAT means? One does not become the Greatest of all Time simply by winning one World Championship and winning a couple of matches versus Serral. Serral is by far the best player in 2024 as he only lost matches to two players (Maru and Clem). The match against Maru was an insignificant group match, where Serral ended up winning the tournament and if it wasn't for Clem Serral would have won not only 3 out of the 4 Premier Tournaments he participated in, but all each and every one. The one he did not win, he ended up in 2nd place. The guy won each and every professional match (Zerg, Protoss and Terran...) that he played since 5th of May 2023, except against Clem and Maru - this is absolutely insane :D Hhe currently has 27 consecutive wins against Koreans, blasting his own world record of 18 and 19 by an insane amount. No one has ever been more dominant... if it wasn't for Clem, Serral would have won everything for 1.5 years despite not being able to practice normally. Clem on the other hand lost to several opponents. Just looking at Premier Tournaments: He couldn't get out of group stage at MC7, was kicked out of the quarterfinals by Serral in Katowice and didn't make it to play-offs at ESL Spring losing to herO. Meaning Serral won more in quantity and quality, has better game and match win rates as well as tournament-participation-win-ratios (75% versus 40%).
I don't have a horse in this race, but honestly that "broken" zerg win still looks pretty shaky to me. To dominate the economy and map so hard and still be unable to close out before a better-than-yours maxed army arrives doesn't really convey much of an advantage, given how well the game was played and how many tools zerg used.
To be fair part of that is a stylistic thing from Serral, he tends to win by backstabbing and slowly choking his opponent rather than headbutting for the win. Compared to someone like Dark, Serral is super methodical and defensive.
Even as black Magnus Carlsen has a positive winrate.
He doesn't have to win quick. I don't see why that makes it somehow worse or more shaky tbh
@@flrn84791It's not the game length itself.
Agreed. Terran never die. They can lose half their economy and reboot it instantly with mules which is a persistent problem. Without perfect control and harassment, Serral would've died several times over in those games despite major advantages.
Serral: "You are already dead."
Any Terran that is *not* Clem: *dies violently*
Omae wa mou shindeiru
@@TheMightyNaryar NANI!
I can't watch! So brutal.
I *LOVE* Serral's approach in Game 1 - it feels like a formalized version of Dark's constant aggression.
It will be interesting to see how Zerg shapes up in this patch as players develop strategies for the new balance. I think it may mean they have to be more dynamic in their comps
See Zerg just needed serral to come back and show them what to do XD
@@YoungbloodEric we'll see what he has against Protoss!
I wonder if it would still work against bio. All the value he got was mainly due to the lack of mobility of the terran army
@@theorochocz6735 true, but I'm hopeful it represents a bit of a shakeup in the matchup. It's just nice when things feel freah
It feels like Zerg having half its supply caught up in Swarm hosts while he still has 200 army supply in lings, corruptors, queens and ultralisks each. You people are so baked if you think Serral is legit.
"Surely he can't be cost efficient anymore.......
Oh he's actually more cost efficient......"
The quote of true despair!
😂😂😂
Not despair, hax. Watching dozens of these videos and it's like a zerg that's ahead with full ling bane will possibly lose to a Rine rauder medivac stack.
Serral? Nah every single marine dies instantly, his lings survive infinitely and he still has enough banes left over to kill 5 command center.
Pretty clearly sus, whether it's his units have more HP or something else is going on.
Also this "oh Serral's just better" - he isn't. there's no superhumans. His actions clearly show full map knowledge while other zergs play honestly.
@@rhythimrt9970that’s it buddy, phone and internet privileges are on timeout. It’s time to pet the grass.
@@rhythimrt9970 d e l u s i o n a l
@@rhythimrt9970 you realize this is an offline tournament match right?
@@bricelory9534 You do realize anything and everything online will and can be manufactured at some point.
And as long as it passes as plausible, nobody will notice.
Yeah well, I'm calling uncanny valley.
Am I certain? No. But statistical evidence makes it seem only logical. Serral destroys everyone in ways other players cant. Is it because he's god? Or is it because his games are fishy.
Every other matchup on this channel seems like there's some push/pull, but serral seems to do more with his units so the question should absolutely be does he do more with his units, in a way that you wouldn't notice because you trust tourney organizers. (Bad idea, tourneys thrive off of drama so making it is good for them)
Serral had the income to replace his ultras 21 times i was not worried at that point
You see plenty of games where zerg has a huge eco but gets bullrushed and their production can't Remax fast enough while all their new spawns rally into a meatgrinder. Serral is just great at keeping people occupied away from his bases
52:15 "I've not seen a series be this one-sided in a while" Yeah... not since the EWC when Clem beat Serral 5-0 in the finals T_T
Lmao
29:30 - I'm not sure what went wrong for Spirit. This one's pure meta. He lost momentum. In fact, he gave it up by choosing to play Terran mech which is relatively immobile. He gave up the initiative in order to have a stronger defense and a bigger death ball. Serral recognized it and went raiding for two opposite sides of the map. The death ball can't be in both places at once. Once that started, it was all down hill from there. Spirit could have sacrificed some of his power for better defensive positions by splitting his army. It would have helped him play the traditional attrition game where Terran wins by outlasting the Zerg and running him out of minerals. But he kept the death ball together and didn't punch in with it. Spirit's clearly a very good player, but you can't make slow units move fast enough to chase zerglings around =D
One thing I don't see from pros when using swarm hosts is building static defense when you get value from them. You end up with max supply and a rising piggy bank without a way to spend.
Turning drones into static defense can open supply and allow you to gradually grow your army while having something at home to somewhat defend with.
Serral took the concept of "Death by a Thousand Cuts" literally
Lowko, I started watching your channel a long time ago. It was the first video you ever did on "they are billions". Glad you're doing well (basing that off the sound of your voice and chipper attitude). I must say you've really and truly mastered the subtlety of the english language and developed your skills to a higher degree. I'm proud of you my friend and I wish you and your family a sincerely Merry Christmas. God bless you my friend.
Serral's nimble fingers in the retirement home got me ;D Great imagination, Lowko!
46:05 I believe that's a parody of CHOAM the intergalactic finance org of dune which itself is probably a nod by herbert towards OPEC an organization that was formed a few year before the books release.
I view this completely differently, in game 1, the best zerg on the planet can't break the terran in half an hour despite doing so much economic damage, the zerg army just can't compete in the late game.
This exactly, terran skill ceiling is too low
17:24 protecting the brood lords with infestors is a god-tier move.
In game 1, Spirit not getting basically *any* damage done with the first 2 BCs was a really rough start, I reckon. Maybe it would not be quite as bad against some other Zergs, but Serral is not someone you can afford to let macro and do his own thing, because he will absolutely wreck you if he has that sort of room for a run-up.
In the first game how did serral manage to get 203/200 supply?
Its a niche mechanic unique to zerg. It's done by cancelling buildings at max supply. For example, I have 200 supply, I build 5 spore crawlers which consumes the drones and I'm now at 195/200, i then make ten lings, which puts me back at 200 supply. Then i cancel the spore crawlers which gives me back the drones. Boom, suddenly at 205 supply.
Its the same thing as the extractor trick. If you look at his worker supply, its drops down by 3, and his army goes to 200 and then he cancels whatever they were building to get the drones back. Youll notice workers drop to 72, and then back up to 75 making you have 203 Supply. Theoretically you can do this forever but you lose money canceling stuff
Elf magic
extractor trick
The power of friendship
how to become broken as zerg..
step 1: be the best sc2 player of all time
Step 1: be a hacker and on blizzards payroll at the same time. but it's also starcraft so people won't ever suspect.
Thanks for the video, Lowko. Appreciate the excellent content as always! ❤
17:56 ganme time first game. Serral may improve his tact at 10k by adding in 4 more marco hatcheries at home, designed to counter terran movements and imdpeed against other structures the problem is at the larva count decline.. can be hard if hte T force is 130 + is tpyically from being trapped on small eco's... so knowing this having extra nat, 16 larva would be helpful... for defesive strike if the T pushes through, but allwos a sac method.. against the enemy.
The sign says: "Irresponsible Interstellar Credit" "The replay(?) is already there" Reprise could mean something other than replay depending on context.
Reprise is when a (often failing) company is bought up so that a new owner can make a similar business without having to go trough the setup of making a company in that sector. Think like if Amazon wanted to make a paper making company, they'd just buy a failing one for cheap, keep the licenses, agreement with suppliers and what employees they want without having to put in the effort. Also the brand name can be useful too.
So in the first game, Serral is dominating right from the start and it still takes him almost 30 minutes to finish Spirit? Isn't that enough proof on how ridiculous the zerg nerfs are?
The only thing that game was an indication off is that zerg needs buffs to their late game units. It's just so much weaker than the terran and protoss. Oh and also let's nerf ghosts again just for fun 😁
@@potatonator343 You are right, that's what i should have written. The zerg late game is the problem here!!
although it's a great point that zerg late game isn't good, it's partially because of serral's playstile aswell, as someone has said in another comment in this video.
??? U cant be serious right?? The games in the video lowko posted the other day wereall like 12 minutes so idk what ur saying…It’s more of a stylistic difference where serral approaches the game much more methodically; he would rather have 95% win chance in 30+ minute games than 80% win chance in 15 or 20 minutes
Terran's submitting game 1 as proof that Terran's are weak so needs more buffs and Zerg needs to be nerfed
Clem the man the myth the legend holding the terran balance council back by himself.
I love how Serral lands what should be a killing blow and just thinks "excellent, now I can get even MORE ahead"
It is called sunken cost fallacy, lowko 8:00 . The feel to invest in air after making an spire that is no longer usefull comes from it.
"Serral's macroing for game 2." Bwahahaha :D
I just lost to mass Thor/liberator twice in a row despite having twice as many bases and twice as much money. I have failed my Plat 1 level Zerg allies again… I hate Terran so much. Half the APM, half the strategy, and they still put out.
I cant neural them because my infestors die immediately, I can’t put range them with brood lords, even my crack lings die immediately, hydras melt out of thin air and viper spells aren’t cutting it. WTF are you supposed to do against mass Thor/liberator?
Well if you watch game 1 serral shows you what to do.
Dw serral's just a hacker clearly.
@@rhythimrt9970 username is ScaryCanary, lets 1v1 so you can show me what to do.
I'm just gonna put it out there. If you're at plat, I think the best advice is to improve your macro
If you think you cant beat it. Avoid it then go mass ling bane viper and go for base race.
If they plan to go back run away.
Game one was so much fun to watch. Like a whale juggling its food before eating. It's insane that the game took so long to close out, a Toss or Zerg in that situation would've been bulldozed in half the time.
first game, that ridge where spirit got ambushed showed something terrans don't seem to be taking advantage that they really need to when nydus is a thing in their game. sensor towers, yeah they cost, take time, but you really can't have any fully dark areas around vulnerable units. or a bc just hanging out to keep vision.
46:01 - This is French text. It means "Irresponsible Interstellar Credit" and the black text below means "The [bank] repossession is already on its way". 😂
12:22 I think you wanted to say "the bread becomes the ham"
No no no, he clearly meant the sandwicher becomes the sandwichee, which is much more historically and linguistically accurate
The video title should have an asterisk that reads
* unless he's playing Clem
31:43 This is the same thing in chess. Magnus Carlsen has an insane memory and memorizes tons of chess matches and the positions of the pieces in those games.
They should really nerf this Serral character in the next balance patch -and buff Clem-
Game was already over before it started. Serral is back.
They need to nurf the orbital scan. Give it a global cooldown. 30sec. Vision is so important, and it is crazy how terrain can have unlimited scans.
i think its cool
Yeah force terran to build some ravens.
2:20 they should add in a chair for the Overlords to chill on the pillar
Wtf, Simon. If you're going to say the OG intro, don't blue-ball us by not using the original intonation.
It's like your girl putting on lingerie and then going straight to sleep.
Swarm Host buff, viper range buff, brood lord buff, and improved anti-structure capabilities for Corruptors please
People in Diamond League are aware of their win condition against Serral:
Winning by default because Serral does not show up.
People below Diamond might have some illusions about beating Serral. But I doubt that there are many of those above lowest bronce.
Clem should make a masterclsas course on how to beat Serral
I'm not a great SC2 player, but Terran mech vs Zerg just looks so bad. The mobility and ability to harass with bio + medi seems to prevent Zerg from doing what Serral did in game 1 by essentially laying siege to Spirit.
I occasionally wonder just how much of an advantage I would need to beat Serral (or lets be honest any of the pros) - I don't even think it would be a matter of having a huge mineral+gas bonus at the beginning (obviously it would be sufficient for good players, but I am not one of those :D )
Clem might be the reason zerg gets 300 supply again.
Serral triggering my OCD for 17:24 minutes before he got 10K minerals in the bank :)
One thing I don't understand is: Why don't the Terrans ‘copy’ the strategies that Clem used to beat Serral? Or is it not a question of strategy, but of skill?
Clem too fast
@@bengoloitachi2565 do you think that's the only explanation?
@@estrayk Clem's strategies revolve around him being able to click 10-15 banes in 2 seconds. While those banes are 1. rolling to his marines with a huge number of speedlings, 2. split into several groups. When anyone else tries to do what Clem does - they just lose the bio army instantly. He's THAT much faster and more precise...
@estrayk for me, yes.
Maybe i'm wrong but for me, clem isnt a strategical player
He's playing fast and really aggresiv
isnt this strategic as well? a choice to counter a macro playdr with tempo
Spirit may hit like a truck if he gets the right fight but he will have to do it 3 or 4 times.
Fusion core feeling exposed there xD
Serral macroing for game 2 right now.. Lowkey's commentary is master class xD
Serral the only one that can make Zerg look good this patch
And against an opponent that isn’t in his league at that
23:43 WHOA LOWKO kids are listening! Keep it G!
He may have lost the series, but at least he had spirit
Can you please find a way to get Serral to play 1 vs # of players, like uThermal does! That would be so fun to watch.
Thats why zerg is beeing nerfed so much ...
Because Serral keeps playing with his food
Happy holidays lowko hope your doin better then me! here's a view and comment
52:10 or so, what Lowko, you haven't watched a Clem/Serral matchup lately :V
I mean Serral won that first game, but the survival capacity terrans has is so sickening, I doubt any other race would survive that much in the same situation
spirit micro control = omegalul
Serral makes zerg look OP, unless he plays Clem, then he looks like just any other zerg out there.
Im a simple man. I see Battlecruser, i click
A little late to suggest closing our eyes. Lol
Playing with his food
23:20 I think he was waiting for their cooldown to finish
If the roles were reversed terran would have won at minute 13.
Serral seems like someone you beat with your build order, if at all
To out-micro Serral seems unlikely; he'd have to be off his game, or you would need to be running at 110%
To out-macro Serral seems unlikely; I don't know that I've seen someone cleanly out-macro Serral without doing solid damage first
Cheesing seems rough to pull off, given the real solid scouting, prediction and micro
Getting siege tanks, well placed mines, and marines with medivac support up in his face double time when he is droning up fast seems like the only reliable option... if you can get the timing right, don't take too much harassment damage, approach aggressively enough to smother Serral's economy ramp-up but also not so aggressive that you get surrounded on creep and killed off. Best of luck with all that.
Stupid RUclips, I hit like and it says I hit dislike and on a vid with the great opening!
Heya fellow Dutchman. Quick English language thing for you: you say "whether or not" terribly often. You don't need the "or not" 🙂
Because of serral cast i will like and comment😂
I still miss the old Helloooooo Evvvveryone!
Who else?
it just takes 5x the amount of skill then other races.
Your comment about Serral knowing games is precisely why I binge StarCraft with huge gaps in years. Watched a bunch in 2020 and now in 2024. This is a big issue I have with strategy games and how they can become stale.
In chess, many of the top pros merely play enough games and memorize their way to victory, on autopilot. StarCraft 2 can be the same in many ways. I think it’s why so many people find Uthermal, Has, and Florencio strategies so entertaining. Serral and many of the other pros are following a distinct pattern. When they deviate, they lose. As seen when Serral tried to proxy hatch Has - the only time I’ve ever seen him innovate on the fly. The rest of the time, he’s making predicable moves. Flawlessly much of the time and, arguably, beautifully, but still predicable. It’s like watching two players play match the squares until one person makes a mistake.
He, and many other pros, copy strategies because they are a known quantity and provide success. It makes his games boring to me after awhile. Some people enjoy watching the same iterations of the same executions over and over, with small improvements, but I don’t think it’s a majority. Elazer and the other builds you’ve shown have been interesting though. Honestly, that’s been the best part of the patch updates and I wish they would radically change the game more often cause seeing the same builds and the same metas over and over again is super boring. I don’t know how Serral or MaxPax do it without getting super bored. I couldn’t do it. But there are people out there that like tiny refinements that inch towards perfection, so, maybe that’s why. But, just saying, the first game was super boring. As soon as I saw mech, it was obvious who was going to win. There wasn’t even a question. And that takes the fun out of it tbh.
Capitalism at its's finest 19:31. Look at that monies
These zerg smurfs make me mad.
How does serral have lots of supply in swarm hosts and spirit has superior army and never commits to anything? I feel like he had to commit to a fight
Serral does the same sh*t as all other zergs, his units literally just seem to survive anything.
Other ling bane zergs that are ahead? can lose to marine rauder splits.
Serral? Runs right into the best splits possible and still has 100 lings and banes left over. Kills 5 bases with banes alone.
Serrals games exclusively are suspicious.
Serral makes Zerg look broken.
In other shocking news: Water makes stuff wet.
soooo nothing new on the Koprulu sector front then
Soon Blizzard left only zergling for zerg, and Serral still will be champ, and lone zerg in world )))))))))))))))
SERRAL!!!!!
Haven't watched it, but lemme guess: Serral wins. What a surprise.
Indeed he won
SPOILER PROTEKTION
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Zerg looks good against a meh terran!
Let's be honest Terrans are beyond broken at this point.
its just clem look a serral vs every other teran like maru, olivera and buyn and he always wins. I think protos is a little to overtunded vs zerg but thats it
@@kieranjackson2715 Maru cant perform in any LAN event unless its GSL, and buyn cant build ghosts to save his life all he does is mass marine and wish for the best
@@kieranjackson2715 because clem is by far the best terran. If you watch serral matches vs those guys you can clearly spot some major mistake in some point of the match. Clem doesn't do those mistakes, so he win all the time bc terran is broken. The only way to zerg win against terran in the highest level is by cheesy strategies like the mass overseer. The late zerg army is so bad and the terran bio ability to deny bases is so good that is basically impossible.
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Zerg so op its wild
No other zergs are this OP, Serral is pretty clearly a hacker. I'm not an SC2 player but my god, watching dozenso f these videos it becomes bleedingly clear Serral has map knowledge. You can't just "oh wow I knew you were going to do that" every single fking match while also having zerglings that are seemingly 5 times more powerful then other players.
Serrals banes insta blow up CC's like they're confetti.
Other players banes don't do that for sure.
Omg first 🎉
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Boring watching serrel
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serral gets rekt with clem. so clem will be the GOAT of starcraft.
Lol. Do you even understand what the word GOAT means?
One does not become the Greatest of all Time simply by winning one World Championship and winning a couple of matches versus Serral.
Serral is by far the best player in 2024 as he only lost matches to two players (Maru and Clem). The match against Maru was an insignificant group match, where Serral ended up winning the tournament and if it wasn't for Clem Serral would have won not only 3 out of the 4 Premier Tournaments he participated in, but all each and every one.
The one he did not win, he ended up in 2nd place. The guy won each and every professional match (Zerg, Protoss and Terran...) that he played since 5th of May 2023, except against Clem and Maru - this is absolutely insane :D
Hhe currently has 27 consecutive wins against Koreans, blasting his own world record of 18 and 19 by an insane amount. No one has ever been more dominant... if it wasn't for Clem, Serral would have won everything for 1.5 years despite not being able to practice normally.
Clem on the other hand lost to several opponents. Just looking at Premier Tournaments: He couldn't get out of group stage at MC7, was kicked out of the quarterfinals by Serral in Katowice and didn't make it to play-offs at ESL Spring losing to herO.
Meaning Serral won more in quantity and quality, has better game and match win rates as well as tournament-participation-win-ratios (75% versus 40%).
Serral doesn’t MAKE Zerg look broken. Zerg just IS broken
wait, I thought terran was broken? does it change depending on the weather? 🤣