This series in a nutshell: Game 1: Serral: "Hey, I've prepared this roach-ravager into ling-bane into viper into ultras timing attack for you. Let's see how you defend." Maru: "O.O" Game 2: Maru: "Ok, you've got me there, but now I'm going to have my ghosts ready for that." Serral: "Riiiight...I knew you'd adapt to that, so I adapted to your adaptation, skipped vipers and got my ultras 1 min earlier...your ghosts aren't ready yet." Game 3: Maru: "Ok, ok, got me again. I'm gonna throw a cyclone-liberator curveball at you, derail your plans, and make an unexpected 3-base push on a map you're expecting me to go turtle." Serral: "Nice! Too bad I've totally tricked you with my scouting pattern and now I know everything you're doing." Game 4: Maru: "Damn, that didn't work either. I'm just gonna cut all the corners, no scouting at all, just hope you're not rushing any lings and make a big push." Serral: "Your bet actually worked...it's an even game now. Here's a nydus worm for you" Maru: "Oh crap. Wait...there's nothing inside it." Serral: "I know...check your front door. P.S.: your factory is contaminated." Maru: "O.O"
Keep in mind that the Military he is from is not something to joke about, these guys are professionals! If he is in their command he must do it as everybody else on his rank. So kudos to Serral that he can keep both up running on 100%
mili-service for someone like serral is absolutely ridiculess and wastefull... but brain is nothing people "in charge" has; if only they had the tiniest amount off their absurd wealth made into some form off intelligence it would all be saved ;)
He cares about winning only, apparently he's really good at terran too but only plays zerg because he knows it is the strongest race because of how it works. The biggest flex would be switching race and still dominating everyone, that would make him the greatest PC competitor of all time in any game.
@@theacehd1742this is such a dumb comment. if Zerg being op is the reason Serral’s winning everything, why isn’t every pro gamer a Zerg? And why does every Zerg other than Serral lose relatively frequently? Maru’s playing these games for the sake of winning, too; if Zerg truly was the best race, there wouldn’t be any pro gamers that weren’t Zerg.
Legend says that Serral will leave humanity for a century to allow us time and room to become better players. Then after hundreds years he shall return to judge us worthy of Starcraft.
It is mostly the missing Widowmines, that Zerg can atack without much fear. Serral's scouting was great. Maru's Scouting was pathetic for this level of play. Without Widowmines there is no surprise anymore, that can ruin a Zerg/Protoss Plan out of nowhere.
@ichbinschuscht3611 he's not even faster he's just... better Scarest part of him is that his apm is usually similar or lower than other top zergs but he just makes more use out of them.
So apparently he's in some kind of special military unit for world-class athletes. So he's still practicing but now he has the added structure and discipline of a trained military mind and body. He may never lose another tournament.
@ 4:16 I can't believe this; I come to Lowko for the hard-hitting details on Finnish military service, and he keeps showing off some game about robots and roaches or something!
@@TheRoelbrijs @TheRoelbrijs Don't read the comment section that is designed for people to COMMENT ON THE VIDEO AFTER BEING WATCHED if you don't want to get spoiled. Watch the video first like a >normal human being< and then go to the comment section. After doing so, you might think that magic is also real, jfc. Edit : Its like reading the 20 last pages of a book and then complaining you spoiled yourself and the author is at fault. Start with the beginning.
No, Artosis lives in his own world of illusions and does not care about anything else whatsoever. He is just looking for proving his korean worshipping mindset to be correct. He has had it since he was a little kid and he will keep it until he dies. It's kinda what he is all about.
Holy! the last game was so one-sided, the tank that defended the nydus worm was critically needed to defend the front lines but was fooled to go and defend against the nydus with no army inside of it (almost became useless). Also the contamination on the factory on top of that! What a masterpiece of a game. (and look at the end there were two overseers! if the contamination ends there would most likely be another! )
Its those little things, that Serral does better than anyone else. Like the scene here, i wondered why Lowko didnt mention that in the cast: 3:05 We often see evochamberblocks to keep units out of the mineralline, but to trap them in the mineralline? Thats rare and it basically made Marus early game falling flat on its face. 2 out of 4 reapers gone, the 2 left are too few to put on pressure. A big early game invest rendered useless.
damn it is impressive how Serral makes even someone as good as Maru look bad. The calculated approach he has is far less funny then dark, but it feels like what darks style ultimately would evolve into controlled chaos were you pop a Nydus just to mess with your opponent for that second to snipe a tank and follow it up with an infestation just to crush the moral. damn
don't worry, I'm sure that serral will find a way to still win matches with drones costing 8 supply! (I imagine, he will do a lot of extractor tricks) But maybe if they really wish to avoid serral wining, my recomendation is: eliminate the larva, only let him play with the initial drones!
Maru: The best terran in a terran meta, suddenly cant play worth sh*t, making mistakes left and right that are uncharacteristic. Man, this seems more rigged then the superbowl
I Love the Classic Intros wehre Lowko introduce us to the game and give some back story Wihle you can watch that the Minerals "plopp" from the workers hand when they Reached the CC´s Hatches Nexai somewhat satisfying (yes in my mind they do like little ploop sounds) ☺
Something just seems wrong here, ngl. Like meta shifts towards Terran, Terran seems to not even be able to kill a single one of Serral's units, Serral just has a million queens, zerglings, etc, and they win ego fights pushing into tanks (which normally seem to obliterate units). Like you're not telling me there was just a 4-0 knock out and that Maru's just suddenly a noob. I'm not starcraft 2 player but I'm also no longer going to be watching - this is passing into uncanny valley territory.
@@rhythimrt9970 It might be a bit of a Serral complex for Maru right now. In the last 2 premier tournaments Serral played, he faced Maru in both finals. Won both 4-0, with only ONE map in Katowice even being close. Serral's scouting is always close to perfection, and he always seems to know where the breaches in Maru's turtle armor are...breaches that all the other players (regardless of race) seem to struggle so much to find.
@@rhythimrt9970 I don't think balance is the issue here, or at least not to the extent that you portray. The number 2 and 3 best Zerg players in the world, Reynor and Dark, were eliminated by Terran players, Reynor by Oliveira (3-1) and Dark by Maru (3-1). Furthermore, Serral was almost eliminated by Oliveira in the semi. Had Oliveira not messed up the split map scenario on Oceanborn (which looked unlosable to me) he would have advanced to the final with a comfortable 3-1 score. Serral is simply a truly exceptional player, a cut above all others imo, and it seems that he has completed figured out Maru's style. I understand that it's frustrating to always see the same player wins every tournaments but if the game were to be balanced around Serral there is a good possibility that no other Zerg player would even have a chance to compete at the pro level, which would be devastating for the game.
@@marcelbenner993 they're fool of sht. Once the widow mine was nerfed of course Serral was going to win. That was the intention all along. The balance team (aka Europe & Scarlett) love him and they've ruined the game to get him to undisputed GOAT status. Not that he doesn't deserve it...but anyone who doesn't think the 5-3 opening eco advantage Zerg is afforded at this level, isn't broken, is a moron.
@@marcelbenner993the most impactful change to Zerg has been the baneling nerf, but there’s also the brood lord changes and a map pool that strongly favors Terran.
Serral went to the military and got better. I guess learning how humans fight wars transfers well in how zerg win wars. Been watching a lot of your videos of zerg struggling but Serral makes it look easy.
We honestly dont know how the military service in Finnland looks like. In Germany, after the first week, we could already go home on weekends and unless there was some exercise, you basically had your day off after 16:00 or so. Plenty of time to potentially get a number of games in, though in dont think that Serral even played before his service that many games anymore. He dosent need too, he needs to keep his skills sharp, but i am sure most of the time he is thinking about new builds or how to counter builds. And guess what, if the military is giving you anything, than its time to think while marching or having guard duty :p
Something just seems wrong here, ngl. Like meta shifts towards Terran, Terran seems to not even be able to kill a single one of Serral's units, Serral just has a million queens, zerglings, etc, and they win ego fights pushing into tanks (which normally seem to obliterate units). Like you're not telling me there was just a 4-0 knock out and that Maru's just suddenly a noob. I'm not starcraft 2 player but I'm also no longer going to be watching - this is passing into uncanny valley territory.
Can someone clip Lowko saying "Its hard to balance Zerg, Serral might just come back and dominate..."(From past videos) With "Another clean win from Serral!" 🤣
I can't deny it: When Lowko started to point out how Maru seemed to be intimidated by Serral and how Serral always seemed unaffected by playing offline, I had to think of John Wick (mashing together some of the dialogue here): "Serral is a man of focus, commitment, sheer will. They call him "Baba Yaga." He is the one you sent to kill the fucking Boogeyman. "
I mean, Dude beats everyone without much problem, then he meets Serral and gets destroyed everytime. Can't even take a game most of the time. I would be surprised if he wasn't getting in his head.
Serral: Guys i need to go and beat the number 1 its only going to be 4 games i'll be quick Military: okay go ahead, we go for a coffe break while u do it
31:50 I think I've seen that in the SC2 campaign once Edit: 11:2110:549:188:28 The games getting shorter and shorter against one of the strongest player from SK is just crazy
Best of 7, but the video is only 41 minutes? Guess it's time for a slaughter. Edit: Serral once again proves why zerg is balanced around him playing the game. It's gonna be really awkward when he finally retires and Zerg needs to be balanced back around not-perfect play.
How does nobody else sense anything rigged/wrong here? Maru shreds most players but suddenly a zerg can push into his heavily tank covered areas and just walk through with T1 units? Is this a joke? IS the entire internet AI?
Ive heard Broodwar pro gamers talk about how Falsh is so dominant because hes considered to be smarter then the other players leading to faster/better in game decision making. I really feel that it may be the same case with Serral. Even after all the nerfs if your just better at reading the game, scouting, and strategy your going to keeo winning.
No guys, it is a misstranslation. Maru never said: "Next time I'll face Serral I let my little sister play. She'll give Serral a better fight than I do."
From the finish lakes into Germany and USA. All the tournaments he came across. Home Story Cups, tons of WCS and ESLs. Dreamhack and IEMs. Shout Joona Sotala’s name The overmind of the hive swarm knows the game Son of Finland and THE GOAT. (Sabaton, Soldier of 3 armies)
It's so funny having had weeks of talk about terrans being favoured by the maps and by the balance changes (things which are likely true), and then Serral just popping up and showing Blizzard that if they want him to stop winning they're gonna need to do a lot more nerfing
How so? I see people repeat this over and over but it makes no sense. Terran spellcasters are weak compared to Zerg. Ravens aren't even played. BCs and Thors can be trivially shut down. Terrans can't switch strategies at the drop of a hat, if you imagine they have more than one that is even viable. Maybe in mid-level games where Zerg can't handle the myriad of option they have but at the top all I EVER see is Zerg winning. And usually pretty trivially.
@@freedomisntfree7851 The ghost is basically a spellcaster and an attack unit, by far the most powerful unit in the game. Lategame they have infinite scans, sensory tower and if you manage to kill workers they can just call down mules until they get back on track. All thier units can fly and heal with the medivac/repairs, even thier buildings, and they have so many more units that can attack both air and ground which is a huge advantage. I play terran, im terrible at the game lol, but they are far more userfriendly than zerg, hell, even I can make use of mines. Zerg has some crazy units as well, like the viper and lurker, but they are both hard countered by ghosts. I would like to see the ghost nerfed and other units buffed to increase play variety.
@BergmanJ yeah I get Terran is more user friendly but Zerg is higher ceiling. I don't see how the ghost can be considered op when stacked against a viper or corrupter. Nukes are nearly non-existent, emp is useful but doesn't shut down or straight up kill models like neural, blinding cloud or the yank. All Zerg objects heal and queens can do so as well plus they're super cheap(mostly because Zerg can expand economy much faster and isn't dependent on a mechanic like mules) and can be replaced much easier because of larva flexibility. Zerg have overseers which stack up pretty well against scans(because they are temporary and limited based on energy and mean less mules). So you have snipe which is a channel and the ghost can be interrupted. I guess if you are coming from a PoV of the game as a whole at all levels, I see your point but at the top, Zerg is just so much more forgiving than Terran.... And we haven't even gotten into the retarded transforming mechanic. If I have to watch one more tank die to biles while hurdy durdy switching modes.... 😄
@@freedomisntfree7851 butt mah ghost!!! They say it every time when its literally Terran's only hope against modern day zerg...because if the timing attack gets scouted and defeneded its over. Zerg just bane nukes and wins the eco war of attrition anyways.
@@freedomisntfree7851 its not a higher ceiling in difficulty than Terran its literally easier to play AND has superior units for this type of game where speed is king. Clem had to almost have his arm amputated after winning the greatest TVZ tourney run I've ever seen. He beat serral, solar, and dark and only dropped 2 games. That's why they nerfed the widowmine...so Serral could win again.
Serral IS the swarm, what a monster... oh and amigo, you out-do yourself with each cast "my girlfriend tells me 10 seconds is a long time" 💀💀💀🌻 Seriously wish you the best with your ear operation though mate, I'm sure they will nail the build-order, solid macro, no cheese. Thanks again for the vid and take care, Cheers!
Ok Lowko, since you mentioned military people sleeping in sub optimal conditions, I have 15 years of military background and I'll tell you that there's no healthy way to handle it but options include: Abuse and overwork yourself to the point that you collapse from exhaustion. Learn to hide the pain and pretend you're fine when you aren't. Drink coffee until you're on a first name basis with your dentist Whatever pills make you sleep. Some people respond to melatonin tablets, for others it's muscle relaxants, etc. Everyone's body is different. Change careers so you're not constantly jet lagged. I hope this helps!
I think the main issue here we saw vs Clem is the lack of medivac play. All the games where Terran gets ahead they are constantly abusing the medivac drops and killing off kings for essentially free and I didn’t see any of that in these games.
Can't say it is a Serral mental block maybe a Grand Final block with the 4-1 loss to Olivera and well the Dark one was close but that could be because Dark is a Korean player maybe.
I wish there was three exact the same copy of serral to check out which race is the strongest one. Who knows? Maybe Protoss in Serral’s hands would be op? 😂
This series in a nutshell:
Game 1:
Serral: "Hey, I've prepared this roach-ravager into ling-bane into viper into ultras timing attack for you. Let's see how you defend."
Maru: "O.O"
Game 2:
Maru: "Ok, you've got me there, but now I'm going to have my ghosts ready for that."
Serral: "Riiiight...I knew you'd adapt to that, so I adapted to your adaptation, skipped vipers and got my ultras 1 min earlier...your ghosts aren't ready yet."
Game 3:
Maru: "Ok, ok, got me again. I'm gonna throw a cyclone-liberator curveball at you, derail your plans, and make an unexpected 3-base push on a map you're expecting me to go turtle."
Serral: "Nice! Too bad I've totally tricked you with my scouting pattern and now I know everything you're doing."
Game 4:
Maru: "Damn, that didn't work either. I'm just gonna cut all the corners, no scouting at all, just hope you're not rushing any lings and make a big push."
Serral: "Your bet actually worked...it's an even game now. Here's a nydus worm for you"
Maru: "Oh crap. Wait...there's nothing inside it."
Serral: "I know...check your front door. P.S.: your factory is contaminated."
Maru: "O.O"
thats not a 'timing attack' thats just an attack
At this point I'm convinced that Serral didn't go to the military service to learn; he went there to teach.
lmao
Serral 🗿: I must go my hive needs me
Military:🤨
Already mind controlled with infestor.
Serral is essentially Andrew Wiggin from Ender's Game if he decided to switch teams.
@@SSpirite you mean serral mind controled his military boss? then he is a ghost, like kerrigan, maybe that is why he is so good with zerg.
Keep in mind that the Military he is from is not something to joke about, these guys are professionals! If he is in their command he must do it as everybody else on his rank. So kudos to Serral that he can keep both up running on 100%
mili-service for someone like serral is absolutely ridiculess and wastefull...
but brain is nothing people "in charge" has; if only they had the tiniest amount off their absurd wealth made into some form off intelligence it would all be saved ;)
As I predicted!
Serral: *Comes off the military base. Shows up to a tournament. Dominates the tournament. Refuses to elaborate. Leaves.*
He faced Maru in the finals of his last 2 premier tournaments. He won 8-0 on aggregate.
Serral is a monster. Military service or not, he's just on another level. Love to see it
He cares about winning only, apparently he's really good at terran too but only plays zerg because he knows it is the strongest race because of how it works. The biggest flex would be switching race and still dominating everyone, that would make him the greatest PC competitor of all time in any game.
It's just nuts watching absolutely dominate while most zergs have been struggling. His game is so flawless
@@theacehd1742this is such a dumb comment. if Zerg being op is the reason Serral’s winning everything, why isn’t every pro gamer a Zerg? And why does every Zerg other than Serral lose relatively frequently? Maru’s playing these games for the sake of winning, too; if Zerg truly was the best race, there wouldn’t be any pro gamers that weren’t Zerg.
@@Cwm02 his games are boring to watch, camp,camp, camp, camp then win. Its just dogshit.
@@theacehd1742 Aint no way in hell He gonna switch race and dominate. He wins so much because zerg is so freaking easy
Legend says that Serral will leave humanity for a century to allow us time and room to become better players. Then after hundreds years he shall return to judge us worthy of Starcraft.
Dude, Serral is an ancient xel-naga, there is no strong one for him :)
Maru checks under his bed for Serrals at night.
hahahahahahh, Dude.. 10/10 :)
I guess Maru isnt the only one, watching for Serrals
Other zergs must be pissed off thinking another nerf is coming
Just because Serral is faster 🥲
😂😂😂😂😂
It is mostly the missing Widowmines, that Zerg can atack without much fear. Serral's scouting was great. Maru's Scouting was pathetic for this level of play. Without Widowmines there is no surprise anymore, that can ruin a Zerg/Protoss Plan out of nowhere.
@ichbinschuscht3611 he's not even faster he's just... better
Scarest part of him is that his apm is usually similar or lower than other top zergs but he just makes more use out of them.
Can someone elaborate what the Zerg Nerfs were?
Serral came, Serral saw, Serral conquered
Serral can came anytime he wants 🥵🥵, im ready
For some reason this has a "Translate to English" under it. It should probably be "Translate to Latin".
My 8 month old daughter laughed when you did you intro, she thought it was really funny. So thank you for that.
I also laugh like a baby when lowko goes into his high voice
mine too, i guess thats universal-8-year-old-girl-laughter-maker
It's too late now you have to sing it to her as a lullaby every night.
My tummy vomits everytime I hear it.
bro dont fucking encourage himm
Good. I missed Serral games.
WTF, 3 minutes in and he is already being insane.
You can tell he indeed can by the fact that this video is a best of 7 that is 40 minutes long.
I just commented that, means an average of ten minutes per game, which means Maru doesn't take any maps.
So apparently he's in some kind of special military unit for world-class athletes. So he's still practicing but now he has the added structure and discipline of a trained military mind and body. He may never lose another tournament.
healthy body, healthy mind. no doubt his training has made his mind even faster.
@ 4:16 I can't believe this; I come to Lowko for the hard-hitting details on Finnish military service, and he keeps showing off some game about robots and roaches or something!
Was there in dallas... it was so neat to see irl!!. Serral was super humble to meet after the match.. Was shaking hands and signing autographs
SPOILERS !!! 😢
Oh crap lol like u didn't know already
Edited no spoiler
@@TheRoelbrijs @TheRoelbrijs Don't read the comment section that is designed for people to COMMENT ON THE VIDEO AFTER BEING WATCHED if you don't want to get spoiled. Watch the video first like a >normal human being< and then go to the comment section. After doing so, you might think that magic is also real, jfc.
Edit : Its like reading the 20 last pages of a book and then complaining you spoiled yourself and the author is at fault. Start with the beginning.
@@zealotsforaiurYeah but we're in an era where ppl just want to comment or like before the vid even started.
5:50 "you can't really compare Serral to Rogue" Artosis on SUICIDE watch
No, Artosis lives in his own world of illusions and does not care about anything else whatsoever. He is just looking for proving his korean worshipping mindset to be correct. He has had it since he was a little kid and he will keep it until he dies. It's kinda what he is all about.
The timing attacks Serral does and the prep work he does to do it is so cool
Holy! the last game was so one-sided, the tank that defended the nydus worm was critically needed to defend the front lines but was fooled to go and defend against the nydus with no army inside of it (almost became useless). Also the contamination on the factory on top of that! What a masterpiece of a game. (and look at the end there were two overseers! if the contamination ends there would most likely be another! )
Its those little things, that Serral does better than anyone else. Like the scene here, i wondered why Lowko didnt mention that in the cast: 3:05
We often see evochamberblocks to keep units out of the mineralline, but to trap them in the mineralline? Thats rare and it basically made Marus early game falling flat on its face. 2 out of 4 reapers gone, the 2 left are too few to put on pressure. A big early game invest rendered useless.
@@Daniel-rd6st Its amazing how high of a ceiling Serral's knowledge and skill for the game
damn it is impressive how Serral makes even someone as good as Maru look bad. The calculated approach he has is far less funny then dark, but it feels like what darks style ultimately would evolve into controlled chaos were you pop a Nydus just to mess with your opponent for that second to snipe a tank and follow it up with an infestation just to crush the moral. damn
Lowko: "And Serral goes back to DRONING?"
Serral: "This isn't even my final composition!"
To combat zerg's (Serral's) dominance at the tournament level, the next balance patch will make all drones cost 8 supply.
And they will remove the Infestor and Queens, then maybe Maru has a chance to take a map from Serral.
don't worry, I'm sure that serral will find a way to still win matches with drones costing 8 supply! (I imagine, he will do a lot of extractor tricks) But maybe if they really wish to avoid serral wining, my recomendation is: eliminate the larva, only let him play with the initial drones!
Thank god you uploaded it, I was waiting for the replay and really wanted to watch it with your commentary.
I have already watched it with the commentary from the event, and now I'm watching again for Lowko's reactions, analysis, and jokes.
Absolutely awesome to see these juggernauts battle. Serral fan boy for life!!! Great casting lowko thank you
Maru: The best terran in a terran meta, suddenly cant play worth sh*t, making mistakes left and right that are uncharacteristic.
Man, this seems more rigged then the superbowl
I Love the Classic Intros wehre Lowko introduce us to the game and give some back story Wihle you can watch that the Minerals "plopp" from the workers hand when they Reached the CC´s Hatches Nexai somewhat satisfying (yes in my mind they do like little ploop sounds) ☺
Looking at the run time for the video, I thought this was going to be just a single game. Leave it to Serral to win a best of 7 in 41 minutes.
4-0 in 41min :(
I genuinely felt pain for Maru when I watched it live.
He had it comming tho xD
Something just seems wrong here, ngl. Like meta shifts towards Terran, Terran seems to not even be able to kill a single one of Serral's units, Serral just has a million queens, zerglings, etc, and they win ego fights pushing into tanks (which normally seem to obliterate units). Like you're not telling me there was just a 4-0 knock out and that Maru's just suddenly a noob.
I'm not starcraft 2 player but I'm also no longer going to be watching - this is passing into uncanny valley territory.
@@rhythimrt9970 It might be a bit of a Serral complex for Maru right now. In the last 2 premier tournaments Serral played, he faced Maru in both finals. Won both 4-0, with only ONE map in Katowice even being close. Serral's scouting is always close to perfection, and he always seems to know where the breaches in Maru's turtle armor are...breaches that all the other players (regardless of race) seem to struggle so much to find.
@@rhythimrt9970 I don't think balance is the issue here, or at least not to the extent that you portray. The number 2 and 3 best Zerg players in the world, Reynor and Dark, were eliminated by Terran players, Reynor by Oliveira (3-1) and Dark by Maru (3-1). Furthermore, Serral was almost eliminated by Oliveira in the semi. Had Oliveira not messed up the split map scenario on Oceanborn (which looked unlosable to me) he would have advanced to the final with a comfortable 3-1 score.
Serral is simply a truly exceptional player, a cut above all others imo, and it seems that he has completed figured out Maru's style.
I understand that it's frustrating to always see the same player wins every tournaments but if the game were to be balanced around Serral there is a good possibility that no other Zerg player would even have a chance to compete at the pro level, which would be devastating for the game.
Maru is predictable player, his play is perfect but predictable... so bang... he is dead. I so miss SOS that guy had real talent for innovative play.
Those emotions at the end, a mark of someone who puts it all on their shoulders and a play to win attitude. This was awesome to watch!!
Serral once again proving that he is him
Zerg has been struggling in the recent map pool and balance patch, but nobody told the Finnisher
Do you know why exactly? How was Zerg nerfed?
@@marcelbenner993 they're fool of sht. Once the widow mine was nerfed of course Serral was going to win. That was the intention all along. The balance team (aka Europe & Scarlett) love him and they've ruined the game to get him to undisputed GOAT status. Not that he doesn't deserve it...but anyone who doesn't think the 5-3 opening eco advantage Zerg is afforded at this level, isn't broken, is a moron.
Baneling was needed, lost damage to light and hp @@marcelbenner993
@@marcelbenner993the most impactful change to Zerg has been the baneling nerf, but there’s also the brood lord changes and a map pool that strongly favors Terran.
@@alexw4482
Thanks for coming back!
Baneling nerf was the patch before this one, right?
And what was nerfed about Broods?
Serral in the military has been working on his mindset. Now hes unstoppable
Serral went to the military and got better. I guess learning how humans fight wars transfers well in how zerg win wars. Been watching a lot of your videos of zerg struggling but Serral makes it look easy.
We honestly dont know how the military service in Finnland looks like. In Germany, after the first week, we could already go home on weekends and unless there was some exercise, you basically had your day off after 16:00 or so. Plenty of time to potentially get a number of games in, though in dont think that Serral even played before his service that many games anymore. He dosent need too, he needs to keep his skills sharp, but i am sure most of the time he is thinking about new builds or how to counter builds. And guess what, if the military is giving you anything, than its time to think while marching or having guard duty :p
The Return of the King 🦾
Mistake that Maru’s made in this game is facing Serral
Something just seems wrong here, ngl. Like meta shifts towards Terran, Terran seems to not even be able to kill a single one of Serral's units, Serral just has a million queens, zerglings, etc, and they win ego fights pushing into tanks (which normally seem to obliterate units). Like you're not telling me there was just a 4-0 knock out and that Maru's just suddenly a noob.
I'm not starcraft 2 player but I'm also no longer going to be watching - this is passing into uncanny valley territory.
Wow this was dominant. I liked the mind games analysis between these 2 Lowko. Good luck with the ear surgery!
Game 2:
The roach spawn timing in game two, so insane.
I was surprised Maru didnt react to the broken rocks.
Game 3:
That overlord scout so funny.
he did react to the broken rocks he build a CC infront of the broken rocks..
That was honestly painful to watch. Serral is a machine
I don't understand why maru kept doing marines vs roaches all along
I love it so much when you do the thing. You're the best to ever spit your shit on the mic.
Can someone clip Lowko saying "Its hard to balance Zerg, Serral might just come back and dominate..."(From past videos) With "Another clean win from Serral!"
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I can't deny it: When Lowko started to point out how Maru seemed to be intimidated by Serral and how Serral always seemed unaffected by playing offline, I had to think of John Wick (mashing together some of the dialogue here):
"Serral is a man of focus, commitment, sheer will. They call him "Baba Yaga." He is the one you sent to kill the fucking Boogeyman. "
I mean, Dude beats everyone without much problem, then he meets Serral and gets destroyed everytime. Can't even take a game most of the time. I would be surprised if he wasn't getting in his head.
The one you sent to kill the Maruman.
Serral: Guys i need to go and beat the number 1 its only going to be 4 games i'll be quick
Military: okay go ahead, we go for a coffe break while u do it
Serral felt unstoppable. And it's against Maru. One of the best players in the world. Probably top 1 or 2 terran. Truly amazing
What a feint with that Nydus.
31:50 I think I've seen that in the SC2 campaign once
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11:21 10:54 9:18 8:28
The games getting shorter and shorter against one of the strongest player from SK is just crazy
what is his position in the army?? DRONE PILOT?? :D
I was crying for 2-3 minutes with this... Thank you!
Best of 7, but the video is only 41 minutes? Guess it's time for a slaughter.
Edit: Serral once again proves why zerg is balanced around him playing the game. It's gonna be really awkward when he finally retires and Zerg needs to be balanced back around not-perfect play.
How does nobody else sense anything rigged/wrong here? Maru shreds most players but suddenly a zerg can push into his heavily tank covered areas and just walk through with T1 units? Is this a joke? IS the entire internet AI?
@@rhythimrt9970have you just not watched Serral in the last 6 years?
Nothing warms my heart more than seeing The Swarm feasting on some terrans
"Oh my God, he is droning!"
Heh, seems that even Serral has PTSD from unkillable terrans :P
I thought serral would show up slightly rusty and instead he waltzed in with a scalpel and cut Maru to ribbons.
Ive heard Broodwar pro gamers talk about how Falsh is so dominant because hes considered to be smarter then the other players leading to faster/better in game decision making. I really feel that it may be the same case with Serral. Even after all the nerfs if your just better at reading the game, scouting, and strategy your going to keeo winning.
At this point I'm convinced that Serral doesn't make mistakes, he forces his opponents to do so. On purpose.
No guys, it is a misstranslation.
Maru never said: "Next time I'll face Serral I let my little sister play. She'll give Serral a better fight than I do."
Am super surprised to see serral , and he is a monster.
I love seeing a good old Serral smash
Maru first of his name
House Vitality
Words: Serral is coming
From the finish lakes into Germany and USA.
All the tournaments he came across.
Home Story Cups, tons of WCS and ESLs. Dreamhack and IEMs.
Shout Joona Sotala’s name
The overmind of the hive swarm knows the game
Son of Finland and THE GOAT.
(Sabaton, Soldier of 3 armies)
10 seconds is a long time. My girlfriend tells me that. - Lowko (lol, everyone else missed that joke)
Serral vs Maru? check
41 intense minutes in a bo7? check
Hello everyone my name is lowko? heckin check!
How does his ass taste?
Maru heard it was Serral and just wanted that runner up money as soon as possible.
For real: good luck on the ear operation. Surgery is never a joke. Prayin' for ya, bro.
Disgusting how good serral is. Still the GOAT
It's so funny having had weeks of talk about terrans being favoured by the maps and by the balance changes (things which are likely true), and then Serral just popping up and showing Blizzard that if they want him to stop winning they're gonna need to do a lot more nerfing
That was disgusting and I loved every single minute of it lol I guess Serral had to pee or something and he rushed it a little lmao 😂
Thanks for the video, Lowko. Always a pleasure to watch your videos.
Truly the goat, he knows Terran endgame is OP and adjusted accordingly.
How so? I see people repeat this over and over but it makes no sense. Terran spellcasters are weak compared to Zerg. Ravens aren't even played. BCs and Thors can be trivially shut down. Terrans can't switch strategies at the drop of a hat, if you imagine they have more than one that is even viable. Maybe in mid-level games where Zerg can't handle the myriad of option they have but at the top all I EVER see is Zerg winning. And usually pretty trivially.
@@freedomisntfree7851 The ghost is basically a spellcaster and an attack unit, by far the most powerful unit in the game. Lategame they have infinite scans, sensory tower and if you manage to kill workers they can just call down mules until they get back on track. All thier units can fly and heal with the medivac/repairs, even thier buildings, and they have so many more units that can attack both air and ground which is a huge advantage. I play terran, im terrible at the game lol, but they are far more userfriendly than zerg, hell, even I can make use of mines. Zerg has some crazy units as well, like the viper and lurker, but they are both hard countered by ghosts. I would like to see the ghost nerfed and other units buffed to increase play variety.
@BergmanJ yeah I get Terran is more user friendly but Zerg is higher ceiling. I don't see how the ghost can be considered op when stacked against a viper or corrupter. Nukes are nearly non-existent, emp is useful but doesn't shut down or straight up kill models like neural, blinding cloud or the yank. All Zerg objects heal and queens can do so as well plus they're super cheap(mostly because Zerg can expand economy much faster and isn't dependent on a mechanic like mules) and can be replaced much easier because of larva flexibility. Zerg have overseers which stack up pretty well against scans(because they are temporary and limited based on energy and mean less mules). So you have snipe which is a channel and the ghost can be interrupted. I guess if you are coming from a PoV of the game as a whole at all levels, I see your point but at the top, Zerg is just so much more forgiving than Terran.... And we haven't even gotten into the retarded transforming mechanic. If I have to watch one more tank die to biles while hurdy durdy switching modes.... 😄
@@freedomisntfree7851 butt mah ghost!!! They say it every time when its literally Terran's only hope against modern day zerg...because if the timing attack gets scouted and defeneded its over. Zerg just bane nukes and wins the eco war of attrition anyways.
@@freedomisntfree7851 its not a higher ceiling in difficulty than Terran its literally easier to play AND has superior units for this type of game where speed is king. Clem had to almost have his arm amputated after winning the greatest TVZ tourney run I've ever seen. He beat serral, solar, and dark and only dropped 2 games. That's why they nerfed the widowmine...so Serral could win again.
Serral in the military is real life Enders Game.
Serral IS the swarm, what a monster... oh and amigo, you out-do yourself with each cast "my girlfriend tells me 10 seconds is a long time" 💀💀💀🌻 Seriously wish you the best with your ear operation though mate, I'm sure they will nail the build-order, solid macro, no cheese. Thanks again for the vid and take care, Cheers!
When can we get a tournament where we can see SC1 and SC2 races from the EVO Mod?
Yeah please do the vid's from dallas before the old ones. Also, Astrea vs Scarlet was a fun one from this tournament.
The fact that i've already watched this game. but still watch it because of lowko's cast. 😂
Serral can't get enough war, war on earth and now war in space
I think the only way Maru can really prepare to play against Serral is just get them cheeks ready. 😅😅😅
12:40 is it normal for zerg to be supply blocked for 50 seconds at the start of the game??
a 40 min Bo7?!
*with* Serral *while* he's doing his mandatory military service?!?!
*faints from thinking too hard*
Ok Lowko, since you mentioned military people sleeping in sub optimal conditions, I have 15 years of military background and I'll tell you that there's no healthy way to handle it but options include:
Abuse and overwork yourself to the point that you collapse from exhaustion.
Learn to hide the pain and pretend you're fine when you aren't.
Drink coffee until you're on a first name basis with your dentist
Whatever pills make you sleep. Some people respond to melatonin tablets, for others it's muscle relaxants, etc. Everyone's body is different.
Change careers so you're not constantly jet lagged.
I hope this helps!
"10 seconds is a lot of time... at least that's what my girlfriend tells me"
Absolutely ded 😂
ive been waiting so i can watch you cast this!
Serral's scouting is from another world. The guy literally knows every Maru's step, makes him look like a mediocre player. Sick.
I think the main issue here we saw vs Clem is the lack of medivac play. All the games where Terran gets ahead they are constantly abusing the medivac drops and killing off kings for essentially free and I didn’t see any of that in these games.
bad play with those vikings at 10:07
4/0 ZvT at grandfinals is wild
Alrigjt man i didnt know you were gonna cast these ones. Im gonna wait them out
Any Suggestions how we can nerve Serral instead of Zerg?
This honestly looks like somebody else is playing under Maru's nick. Serral, how??
He's not in service, he's just providing consultation services for high command
Lowko is the only caster sounding like a program who does not annoy me because he actually is a program.
This was insane. Apparently his military service isn't hindering his performance.
Can't say it is a Serral mental block maybe a Grand Final block with the 4-1 loss to Olivera and well the Dark one was close but that could be because Dark is a Korean player maybe.
How long a minute really is, depends on wich side of the bathroom door you are standing. So yeah, even 10 secounds can be a long time😅
This is the first time I see a contamination spell used. Didn't even know it existed.
Love Serral playing. He’s the only one who can make Zerg look even with Terran. Zerg is really underpowered in general, except in the hands of Serral.
Man.. Maru just.. gave him 100k that easily. Like holy crap.
Again with the Korea))
Did u mix up saying serral and maru a few times or am I going crazy ?
The tactical goo in the last game bruh
I watched this live streamed, but... it's a pleasure to watch again Serral kicking Maru's ass...
Is extractor trick legal at this level??
Serral goes to military service to learn some art of war just to apply it in sc2 game❤
Serral: "Nah I'd win"
I wish there was three exact the same copy of serral to check out which race is the strongest one. Who knows? Maybe Protoss in Serral’s hands would be op? 😂
Serral the GOAT.