If someone else plays this again in the future, here's a tip that might help: When you see glitched adepts move across the map those are actually DTs. We found that out when they arrived. :) Also, do prepare a strategy beforehand, we thought we were supposed not to and just play normally. :)
His apm being double their combined apm is just too funny. And you know they’re both locked in barely talking while harstem is just chit chatting over everything. Poor gamers.
@@gregsalisbury4967 It is still the top 20% of starcraft players, a lot of people just can never reach that level at all. It took me like 8 years to make it platinum, and maintain myself there, which was always my personnal goal.
I'm surprised they're diamond, honestly, when I saw that Senju had 79 apm and Duckier had 109. I'm Diamond 2, and whilst I have met some low apm players that play well before, overall the average apm of Diamond is somewhere around 150.
Hey man, I’ll always appreciate a person I see with 100-ish apm than a person with an obviously inflated 300 apm that they got from spamming hotkey groups while doing absolutely nothing.
I'm so impressed with Harstem's ability to play fast, think clearly, chit chat, and make jokes at the same time. And he makes it feel so casual that sometimes I forget how exceptional it is.
This was really fun to watch! Hopefully, the next pair of challengers will come prepared and put more pressure on Harstem. Looking forward to more such content!
We didn't even know if it was gonna be Archon or 2v1 until we were in the lobby and we agreed to not prepare something that abuses the 2v1 situation.. or we probably would have both cheesed.
@@senjiukanuba5569 That would make sense. Hard to imagine how Harstem stops a proxy 3-gate + cannon rush. (Or better, 2 Terrans proxying 8-rax mareins or 4-rax marauders.)
@@aarondrivesabus that diamonds with map hacks are going to lose 9 probes, thats 18 shots, from 1 adept that can just be auto'd once from any worker. It's early game nothing is happening. I dont believe they were diamonds.
One thing about these challenges is they often play like 1v1 players would, we know from people like uThermal, HeroMarine, and Harstem that it is easy enough for the pro player to hold off and get into an advantageous game state through their skill alone. If you have ever played 2v2 and had an enemy leave right at the start, you might have realized that it is not the time to be playing normally anymore, that one player that is left now has boosted economy and can easily leverage that into a terrifying army. What you need to do in this scenario is not let them take advantage of that economy, how you do this is by taking advantage of their build times through the tech tree, which is not accelerated by that economy. They may have more tech and more production, but they still take the same amount of time to get to any individual tech. The answer is usually to rush them before they rush you. I would bet, in this specific scenario where you are 2v1 against a non-boosted economy, the best strategy is simply to have one player probe rush or SCV rush, and the other player has multiple barracks or gateways proxied. The single player will have a difficult time holding off the worker rush specially in the instance of a probe rush where the rusher can leverage the shield regen for a prolonged aggression, the single player will not be able to mine enough in order to stabilize and hold off the secondary rush.
Playing against 2 diamond players with Map hack isn't _that_ different from playing against two diamond players without map hack. Low- diamond is where players discover the minimap exists and, if they're really focusing, they might even use it occasionally. As a low diamond player myself, I can't tell you how many times I've seen someone get "surprised" by something that they had full vision of or had scouted in advance.
Map hack part looked like it had not impact on the game. Maybe we need the opponents to record as well and we can get some POV shots of them during key moments.
I always wondered why the slower players don't just lock their bases down with cannons in the mineral lines. If you negate the dt and oracle aggression it seems like you could rely on 400 supply vs 200. I might be wrong tho.
Nice series! I'd like to play against you as Zerg...on 2 vs 1. I have been around 3300 MMR on EU. I don't know about the map hack part tho... how can it be done?!
Those are DTs, the mod makes them look like glitched adepts when you don't have detection. It confused the heck out of us in game 1, adept moves across the map and then when it arrives we can't attack it.. because it's actually a DT. :D
It would be how the maphack mod gets around the fact that you can't see invisible units without detection. It "reveals" them by showing another visible unit on top of them
If they had just 4gated both it would have been 2-0 to them, its even a diamond build, but you can mix it in 1with 1 robo and 1 stargate each and make 3units out of it and smash very hard, 2 eco vs 1 eco.
I don't think that their plan should be to macro out of anything, they will lose the long game every time. I'm thinking one hits you hard and fast with an early all-in, which you will hold, and right behind that the other hits you with a slightly later and much stronger all-in, which you may not hold.
The thing woth diamond is that its such a vast range of ranking that diamond 3 is no way near to diamond 1 , so if they both are diamond 1 then it might be real hard of not impossible
I was surprised to hear Harstem say he expected one player to be aggressive proxy 2 gate and the other play 1 gate expand. When I played SC2 I was around 4K MMR peak but usually around 3600 to 3800 and if I was one of the diamond players here I would say there is no way he can hold both of us doing proxy 2 gate zealot or there is no way he can hold both of us going 4 gate. Is that not the case? I feel like you simply don't have enough units. If you have enough sentry energy to hold off the double four gate forever at your ramp we just contain you and expand, and I think the proxy zealot just rolls anything even with Harstem having much better control.
It's possible that they decided to just play normally, that would make better content, but if you just both do an aggressive cheese I'm not sure the micro and build order/mechanics diff is enough to overcome.
It feels like they are lower mmr, or haven't palyed in a while, or they don't play team games at all, or maybe the difference is so big that it make it look like that, lol
These guys are really giving diamond league a bad name. How do they not build a couple cannons and leave a couple units in the mineral lines vs oracles and DTs that they can SEE building and running over! Lmao
Anyone know what's going on with the giant influx of diamond/masters/grand masters being allowed to play in metal leagues to boost their MMR? Its really frustrating as a player who sucks being matched against grand masters, etc. Wtf is going on with this game? They tend to be barcodes too, so they can't be called out via replays for the bs they are pulling
@@Moeron86 i got awarded masters league when playing out my 5 placement games at 2k elo but i should be silver, worth noting that i started olaying this game recently
@@pawlik455 that's unlikely but possible. But the players I'm talking about are grand masters, and/or players with 10k+ games under their belt. I'm not talking about new players. Its obvious they know what they are doing
@kylelochner5686 the players I'm talking about have thousands of games played when I look at their profiles. New accounts of masters players are a problem sure, but these are people somehow using a loophole to boost their MMR. Its obvious when you look at their records when you see 30+ wins in a row and somehow they are playing in silver with 5k+mmr Edit: I am on the NA server
Could be really slow when you're playing or in a region with fewer players? I once played a rank 17 GM (who was also playing unranked) when I was low diamond MMR when few ppl were on the ladder (6 mins+ for each match). I also played like a 1.5k bronze player around that time
These guys are right about at my level. I'm not surprised it's super easy if the game goes more than a few minutes. I'd think they could plan some kind of super fast rush though, when even with inferior macro they should have close to double the units - which even with inferior micro should be enough to win, no? I mean the extreme would be a worker rush, but that'd basically be cheating.
I'm a high Plat / Low Diamond player. 3100 MMR or thereabouts. Average of 80 apm or something. I can attest these boys are my comrades. This game is hard! The skill gap on display here is incredible.
When players face opponents well above their skill level, they will always look worse than they actually are. This also happens in other games btw; for example, a 1900 rated chess player facing an IM will look like a toddler in comparison despite the fact that 1900 is a relatively high rating.
I dont want to sound like a hater but damn... these diamond players are putting bad name on the league. I think it would be harder for you to play vs 2 A.I
WTH, i am so dissapointed in players intelegence, why are they playing like 1v1? maphack is also being used so poorly, i'm 3300 P, and i'm sure that if i have okey partner(even bot that can follow comands) i can destroy harstem. I watch you and Uth. for so long and i feel like in this shows "1 Vs X" players dont have brain at all, no offence
If someone else plays this again in the future, here's a tip that might help: When you see glitched adepts move across the map those are actually DTs. We found that out when they arrived. :)
Also, do prepare a strategy beforehand, we thought we were supposed not to and just play normally. :)
Seniju, you are a legend for participating and organizing so many activities for people to enjoy StarCraft, you fought well in this match
His apm being double their combined apm is just too funny. And you know they’re both locked in barely talking while harstem is just chit chatting over everything. Poor gamers.
@@gregsalisbury4967 It is still the top 20% of starcraft players, a lot of people just can never reach that level at all. It took me like 8 years to make it platinum, and maintain myself there, which was always my personnal goal.
I'm surprised they're diamond, honestly, when I saw that Senju had 79 apm and Duckier had 109. I'm Diamond 2, and whilst I have met some low apm players that play well before, overall the average apm of Diamond is somewhere around 150.
Hey man, I’ll always appreciate a person I see with 100-ish apm than a person with an obviously inflated 300 apm that they got from spamming hotkey groups while doing absolutely nothing.
@@hetaresgaming7771 I'm 3.1k, as low as it gets for Diamonds. :D
I'm so impressed with Harstem's ability to play fast, think clearly, chit chat, and make jokes at the same time. And he makes it feel so casual that sometimes I forget how exceptional it is.
This was really fun to watch! Hopefully, the next pair of challengers will come prepared and put more pressure on Harstem. Looking forward to more such content!
We didn't even know if it was gonna be Archon or 2v1 until we were in the lobby and we agreed to not prepare something that abuses the 2v1 situation.. or we probably would have both cheesed.
@@senjiukanuba5569 soneone going aggressiv isn't abusing 2v1.
@@senjiukanuba5569 That would make sense. Hard to imagine how Harstem stops a proxy 3-gate + cannon rush. (Or better, 2 Terrans proxying 8-rax mareins or 4-rax marauders.)
Guys I’m sorry for this atrocious performance I might have been a little washed😂
should of just built gateways on his side of the map, constant pressure would of folded him after 5 minutes. unless ur teammate is afk
hes gonna beat most of us but 1 guy tickling the captain the entire time would do so much
I'd go for a Cannon contain, keep his expansions down
Sorry mate, but do you lose to the first oracle or dt in your regular games as well?
@@travelingbee1779 We agreed to not try to take advantage of the 2v1 situation so we both didn't cheese. :)
Thanks for taking part Senjiu and Duckier, enjoyed it. As a coop fiend you guys could beat 3 of me fo sure
7:47 soul of an adept coming back to the terrain.
a 5hp adept getting 9 probe kills is WILDDDDDDDDD
diamonds with maphacks though... suuure
@@vexienroe what's this reply meant to even mean lol?
@@aarondrivesabus that diamonds with map hacks are going to lose 9 probes, thats 18 shots, from 1 adept that can just be auto'd once from any worker. It's early game nothing is happening.
I dont believe they were diamonds.
@@vexienroe They were, just clearly a little rusty as you can see from their comments. But I agree, it was WAY too much damage
@aarondrivesabus yeah on that day they were silver to gold.
The long awaited comeback of the One-Man-Army series!
One thing about these challenges is they often play like 1v1 players would, we know from people like uThermal, HeroMarine, and Harstem that it is easy enough for the pro player to hold off and get into an advantageous game state through their skill alone. If you have ever played 2v2 and had an enemy leave right at the start, you might have realized that it is not the time to be playing normally anymore, that one player that is left now has boosted economy and can easily leverage that into a terrifying army. What you need to do in this scenario is not let them take advantage of that economy, how you do this is by taking advantage of their build times through the tech tree, which is not accelerated by that economy. They may have more tech and more production, but they still take the same amount of time to get to any individual tech. The answer is usually to rush them before they rush you. I would bet, in this specific scenario where you are 2v1 against a non-boosted economy, the best strategy is simply to have one player probe rush or SCV rush, and the other player has multiple barracks or gateways proxied. The single player will have a difficult time holding off the worker rush specially in the instance of a probe rush where the rusher can leverage the shield regen for a prolonged aggression, the single player will not be able to mine enough in order to stabilize and hold off the secondary rush.
In theory it seems that 2 diamonds should win, for example by both doing an early all-in, which should overwhelm forces of one player. Harstem OP ))
I like his comments about "Oh, they found this and that" throughout the game. Surprising.
Playing against 2 diamond players with Map hack isn't _that_ different from playing against two diamond players without map hack.
Low- diamond is where players discover the minimap exists and, if they're really focusing, they might even use it occasionally.
As a low diamond player myself, I can't tell you how many times I've seen someone get "surprised" by something that they had full vision of or had scouted in advance.
that was awesome, good job Harstem. new viewer love the content and your games. they are wild brother ahahaha
Harstem needs to do a 10 vs 1 vs gold players!
I rather see 1 vs 2 from masters 3 bracket.
these guys have never seen an adept in their lives😂😂😂
Imma need another video like the one with the guy who played you with infinite gas. One of my fav harstem vids
I really didnt think this would work out so well.
What the hell, why is there a flying adept at 18:36?? HARSTEM HACKER!!
It showed up in the first game too
Map hack part looked like it had not impact on the game.
Maybe we need the opponents to record as well and we can get some POV shots of them during key moments.
You play so hard! Well done!
Let this be a lesson to all the diamond gamers trying to tell harstem how to play
It truely is the year of Harstem!
What I would love to see is uThermal and Harstem vs 3 grand masters!
You smoked em
Oh, I thought maphacking was like, 'mothafackin diamonds!'
great video!
The reason you won, was because I a gold to plat player was not in that game. I'd have cannons in all those mineral lines :D
I always wondered why the slower players don't just lock their bases down with cannons in the mineral lines. If you negate the dt and oracle aggression it seems like you could rely on 400 supply vs 200. I might be wrong tho.
It would just mean death by disruptors a bit later.
Nice series! I'd like to play against you as Zerg...on 2 vs 1. I have been around 3300 MMR on EU. I don't know about the map hack part tho... how can it be done?!
If they pull all 24 workers at spawn, you're fighting with only ~16-17 when they arrive? Idk what 2v2 rush distances are usually like though.
let's do harstem and uthermal vs a bunch of master/diamonds
So, to be good at this game at 10 minutes you should have 5 bases, 150 supply, blink, charge and +1 weapons.
Did the 2 Diamonds know each other and are they allowed to rush?
lol that observer adept glitch at 9:36 8:22 7:46 and 6:27
Those are DTs, the mod makes them look like glitched adepts when you don't have detection. It confused the heck out of us in game 1, adept moves across the map and then when it arrives we can't attack it.. because it's actually a DT. :D
@senjiukanuba5569 it seems to be moving in straight lines over cliffs with the speed of an observer?
@@erkistan Seems like any cloaked unit does that.
Interesting quirk of the mod lmao
It would be how the maphack mod gets around the fact that you can't see invisible units without detection. It "reveals" them by showing another visible unit on top of them
I'm a Diamond Protoss and I promise 2 of me can beat Harstem with maphack lol
sick games
can you do a reverse impossible to win? Where 2 good players take over these 2 players replay and try to win against you?
If they had just 4gated both it would have been 2-0 to them, its even a diamond build, but you can mix it in 1with 1 robo and 1 stargate each and make 3units out of it and smash very hard, 2 eco vs 1 eco.
I don't think that their plan should be to macro out of anything, they will lose the long game every time. I'm thinking one hits you hard and fast with an early all-in, which you will hold, and right behind that the other hits you with a slightly later and much stronger all-in, which you may not hold.
What does he do at 2:52 where he gets air without a Stargate
Hallucination ability of the sentry. Commonly used by Protoss for early game scouting and doesn’t need a stargate as you pointed out correctly
4:50 "adepts have been spotted" ... well they have maphack ...
Terran worker rush + cannon rush. Could he hold it 🤣
they are getting torn apart by harassment, which keeps them busy. Maybe just 1-2canons in each base, they have double income at the beginning.
if harstem is not one of the two maphackers, who are the pros?
just like, double void ray cheese to win, right?
What are the chances you'd run into 2 map hackers at the same time? Anyway, good luck getting out of diamond harstem!
The thing woth diamond is that its such a vast range of ranking that diamond 3 is no way near to diamond 1 , so if they both are diamond 1 then it might be real hard of not impossible
I was surprised to hear Harstem say he expected one player to be aggressive proxy 2 gate and the other play 1 gate expand. When I played SC2 I was around 4K MMR peak but usually around 3600 to 3800 and if I was one of the diamond players here I would say there is no way he can hold both of us doing proxy 2 gate zealot or there is no way he can hold both of us going 4 gate. Is that not the case?
I feel like you simply don't have enough units. If you have enough sentry energy to hold off the double four gate forever at your ramp we just contain you and expand, and I think the proxy zealot just rolls anything even with Harstem having much better control.
It's possible that they decided to just play normally, that would make better content, but if you just both do an aggressive cheese I'm not sure the micro and build order/mechanics diff is enough to overcome.
They just don't have any experience in team games, so they played cursed kind of 1v1 bo's. Also their mmr summed up is less than Harstem's, I believe
peak content.
if you lose you can just call your contact at blizzard and have them banned.
It feels like they are lower mmr, or haven't palyed in a while, or they don't play team games at all, or maybe the difference is so big that it make it look like that, lol
All of the above.
The not playing team games at all part is the biggest reason why I think they lost
These guys are really giving diamond league a bad name. How do they not build a couple cannons and leave a couple units in the mineral lines vs oracles and DTs that they can SEE building and running over! Lmao
Diamond league is a huge range. Bronze 1 to Plat 1 is about the same range. We were both from the bottom of diamond league.
They are Diamond PROTOSS players, as you can see by the 70 APM and the 70 IQ.
Maphack is not so useful, if you never pay attention to the minimap anyway 😂
Is this an accurate level of a diamond player?
Bottom of Diamond 3, yes. Plus we were both pretty washed. :)
Anyone know what's going on with the giant influx of diamond/masters/grand masters being allowed to play in metal leagues to boost their MMR?
Its really frustrating as a player who sucks being matched against grand masters, etc. Wtf is going on with this game?
They tend to be barcodes too, so they can't be called out via replays for the bs they are pulling
@@Moeron86 i got awarded masters league when playing out my 5 placement games at 2k elo but i should be silver, worth noting that i started olaying this game recently
It's easy to create a free account. Seems to happen more often on NA server
@@pawlik455 that's unlikely but possible. But the players I'm talking about are grand masters, and/or players with 10k+ games under their belt. I'm not talking about new players. Its obvious they know what they are doing
@kylelochner5686 the players I'm talking about have thousands of games played when I look at their profiles. New accounts of masters players are a problem sure, but these are people somehow using a loophole to boost their MMR. Its obvious when you look at their records when you see 30+ wins in a row and somehow they are playing in silver with 5k+mmr
Edit: I am on the NA server
Could be really slow when you're playing or in a region with fewer players? I once played a rank 17 GM (who was also playing unranked) when I was low diamond MMR when few ppl were on the ladder (6 mins+ for each match). I also played like a 1.5k bronze player around that time
frensh.... p vs wee wee
My understanding of your videos is that f2 must be the worst hotkeys ever
These guys are right about at my level. I'm not surprised it's super easy if the game goes more than a few minutes. I'd think they could plan some kind of super fast rush though, when even with inferior macro they should have close to double the units - which even with inferior micro should be enough to win, no? I mean the extreme would be a worker rush, but that'd basically be cheating.
I'm a high Plat / Low Diamond player. 3100 MMR or thereabouts. Average of 80 apm or something. I can attest these boys are my comrades. This game is hard! The skill gap on display here is incredible.
Soooo. 7v1 harstem stomp when? Find out what rank you can handle.
How in the world are these 2 guys diamond?
When players face opponents well above their skill level, they will always look worse than they actually are. This also happens in other games btw; for example, a 1900 rated chess player facing an IM will look like a toddler in comparison despite the fact that 1900 is a relatively high rating.
they're protoss.
Wow!
Why is playing turtle bad idea? Just playing defensive and then do 2 limits of sky toss iare not beatable
Aww so sad you even had a hack to give them.. that's how the disease spreads..
Honestly youre too fuggin cute 😍
I dont want to sound like a hater but damn... these diamond players are putting bad name on the league. I think it would be harder for you to play vs 2 A.I
WTH, i am so dissapointed in players intelegence, why are they playing like 1v1? maphack is also being used so poorly, i'm 3300 P, and i'm sure that if i have okey partner(even bot that can follow comands) i can destroy harstem. I watch you and Uth. for so long and i feel like in this shows "1 Vs X" players dont have brain at all, no offence
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a Diamond could beat any gm in 2010 .fake fake
Another fake.