i dont know where Serral is doing hes military service and what are rules there, but when i was at army (in finland) the last half year many of my room mates had computers on there and they played them at evening free times so its possible there is mad audience watching the champ play live
@@HenriqueRJchiki Urheilukoulu (Finnish Defence Forces Sports School) in Santahamina. Used to give about half the time off for sportsmen to play in tournaments and to train but apparently they have had to increase actual mandatory military training hours recently.
Being the GOAT Serral in Saudi Arabia, might just have been too much of an evironmental problem for him. The man was clearly struggling with the intense heat. Back home playing in a bunker of ice, and he is right back to his godlike level of destroying anyone that had hopes he had fallen by the wayside.
@@Caesar-- Saudi Arabia would have a lot more people than he's used to as well. At home, his closest neighbor would be 50km away, and it would in fact just be a bear. At least that's what my Finnish relatives tell me.
13:33 Loko trying to describe Seral's first game strategy "erm ... there's no other real example..." .... while he inadvertently describes Seral as a whole :) 34:00 ... [describing players who are too rigid] "...you have to make at least minor variations just to keep your opponent guessing, because Seral is playing exactly what the perfect response is, that's the problem...." Yes, it's a problem for them that Seral is too perfect🤣
In chess where there is a lot of theory, top players like magnus carlsen play sub optimal lines to throw off opponents of their preparations. Maybe this will come to SC2 too
In the not too distant future, these pro gamers on military service are going to be playing real life starcraft using drone squadrons, and I'm terrified
I immediately thought about how there were probably going to be multiple people controlling the drone squadrons - which begs the question, is team starcraft battles a thing? Where multiple people operate the same side of a game. Could be really cool.
Saw a video yesterday or a drone in Russia dropping liquid thermite from 400 feet up. Dropping liquid magma along a quarter mile tree line where soldiers were hiding. If they didn’t get melted initially. The wild forest fire burned them or they were flushed out and shot.
Tbf terran has literally always been either the best race or second best. They're very stable due to the fact they have the best core units. With zerg and protoss either being equal with terran with a few great units or just worse
I remember like 5+ years ago terran would play the mass marine+medicvac style where they'd hit a midgame timing like this and then just put their foot on the gas and never let up (Clem in particular was famously good at applying relentless pressure this way). It seems Serral is now doing this with ling+bane....amazing to see (reminds me of Reynor's Protoss game v. Serral where he played a 'swarmy' style with Protoss which we don't really see from actual Protoss players at the highest level).
Fantastic games as usual and an incredible cast as well! It would just have been great to take a closer look at the dropalords at 9:36 again and see how that was executed, but maybe that was just an oversight
13:58 very true, since ghosts are just kinda great against literally every late game zerg comp, Terrans mindlessly transition into them, so the ling catches them off-guard
wow, I am impressed....that was a great series, so to speak. Serral really is great, maybe at the world cup, he was off his game? loving the muta play, lol The circle is now complete, first tier units (Zealots/Stalkers, Lings/Banes, Marines/Marauders) have finally won games at the pro-level exclusively!
I just realized that Zerg can counter widow mines by burrowing all targets, removing the lock-on, then unborrowing one and forcing the widow mine to target wherever it goes. Without burning a scan or having it nearby detection, Zerg can more deliberately use the mine to kill the Terran. Or, with really cute micro, use borrow/unborrow/burrow to just waltz by without getting locked onto at all.
It's not actually a counter. Counter means it's strong against. If i was a terran and my widowmines forced the zerg to burrow his entire army, even for a couple of seconds, i consider that value for the widowmine. Same thing with the burrow/unborrow zigzag movement. The widowmine essentially becomes a massive slowing field. In other words, it benefits the widowmine more than the zerg player to avoid being hit, so it's the opposite of a counter.
The last game was not an Ace match. If Maru would have won, they would have played on another map. Ace match only happens when the series is tied at the end of the allocated map count.
Its probably a language barrier but you kept saying that "the jury's not out yet". The phrase is that "the jury is still out." Meaning they have not returned to give their verdict yet.
@@mho...Nah, as an English colloquialism, it's "the jury's still out" - that's just the way it is, even if you can logically argue it in different ways. Language is about convention more than logic or consistency.
@@bricelory9534 Arguably, language is more about communicating ideas than anything else. So long as people understand what he means, it doesn't particularly matter what he says.
"Remember Innovation the Terran player?" - wow, my intro to youtube years ago was watching Lowko commentating Innovation as a champ. How the mighty have fallen!
Cool to hear, it's my main style in all matchups! to me it's the most fun and wins feels more rewarding because it takes a lot of speed and finesse. Since you played a lot of Muta Ling maybe you can relate to what I'm going to say : Do you remember playing ZvP right before they introduce Phoenix range? Protoss was completely hopeless, I just build 10 then 20 then 40 Mutas with lings and erase P at any time lmao Now it takes a lot of effort vs Terran, they have so many counters, Protoss you kind of need to surprise them or mislead them and Zerg vs Zerg it is still and always has been a great strategy.
Of course Zerg is angry, they have gotten nothing but nerfed into oblivion. Just because Serral can make it work because he's the GOAT doesn't mean the race is good, in fact quite the opposite is true. Zerg struggles a lot
I really want someone to start using the phrase "Mr. Rogers strategy" for Crimson Court when one player builds a base just to mine out the yellow minerals and attack their opponents "neighboring" base ;)
Innovation was the first top level player, who had an extreme focus on macro. With that, showing everyone how important macro was. Therefore he was quite innovative, back then.
That game 2 gives me hope that we'll see more Ling Bane Muta again in ZvT. It's so much more exciting to watch (and play) than Hydra/Bane, Ravager/Bane or Hydra/Lurker.
Stephano style! He could beat anyone using mass lings and he had amazing surrounds, Serral is overall better of course. Zerglings are underrated in SC2, I think it's the best unit in the game; very high speed, high DPS, low cost... yes they have low health but if you can save them with good multitask it becomes irrelevant, with high skills Zerglings are devastating!
Who would’ve thought using cheap easy to mass produce units with high mobility to overwhelm your opponents was the way the SWARM was meant to be played
As I've grown a bit bored of the iron bank style Terran gameplay being the standard go-to Terran play, I'm all for the strats Lowko has been showcasing in ZvT the last few days. Hopefully it will force Terran to stop being so turtly all the time. I'm happy when it's a strat that comes out now ans again, but not the default.
God dang it, Serral is gonna get lings nerfed now.
Iings now die of age
@@Kazuhiro-i lol I hate this might be a reality
All because Maru forgot Missile Turrets exist and can be used outside a mineral line...
its the only thing left. They nerf all the fkng race because serral was inmortal
Meanwhile Clem going to get Terran nerfed.
When pro players learn the secret builds of Platinum and Diamond Leagues.
Adding a new square to the Lowko Bingo grid. Free space in the middle, "10 Minute No Rush"
" you suck.... you suck....you suck...zerglings?! hmmmmmm" LMAO. Love you you Lowko.
Blizzard only recourse is to remove Zerg from Serral's race choices :)
i dont know where Serral is doing hes military service and what are rules there, but when i was at army (in finland) the last half year many of my room mates had computers on there and they played them at evening free times so its possible there is mad audience watching the champ play live
1:50 lowko literally says serral is in a special military branch that allows him plenty of time to play practice and participate in tournaments
@@HenriqueRJchiki Urheilukoulu (Finnish Defence Forces Sports School) in Santahamina. Used to give about half the time off for sportsmen to play in tournaments and to train but apparently they have had to increase actual mandatory military training hours recently.
Dude that plus 2 attacks got double denied damn...
almost 3ple, he sniped the Armory after and +3 couldn't get started
Oh no Lowko, Maru did not forget plus 3. Serral just denied +2 AGAIN and then killed the Armory so +3 again delayed
Being the GOAT Serral in Saudi Arabia, might just have been too much of an evironmental problem for him. The man was clearly struggling with the intense heat. Back home playing in a bunker of ice, and he is right back to his godlike level of destroying anyone that had hopes he had fallen by the wayside.
That honestly makes a lot of sense
@@oshawott4544are you able to explain it to those of us who may not be crazy?
He had sand in his eyes
@@IcariumGaming hes Finnish, used to being in the cold and decent humidity. Saudi Arabia is a giant desert. math haha
@@Caesar-- Saudi Arabia would have a lot more people than he's used to as well. At home, his closest neighbor would be 50km away, and it would in fact just be a bear. At least that's what my Finnish relatives tell me.
13:33 Loko trying to describe Seral's first game strategy "erm ... there's no other real example..." .... while he inadvertently describes Seral as a whole :)
34:00 ... [describing players who are too rigid] "...you have to make at least minor variations just to keep your opponent guessing, because Seral is playing exactly what the perfect response is, that's the problem...." Yes, it's a problem for them that Seral is too perfect🤣
In chess where there is a lot of theory, top players like magnus carlsen play sub optimal lines to throw off opponents of their preparations. Maybe this will come to SC2 too
In the not too distant future, these pro gamers on military service are going to be playing real life starcraft using drone squadrons, and I'm terrified
plug serral into a neuralink and with his mind control 1000 drones that drop banelings onto enemy targets...
I immediately thought about how there were probably going to be multiple people controlling the drone squadrons - which begs the question, is team starcraft battles a thing? Where multiple people operate the same side of a game. Could be really cool.
Archon mode?
Ender's Game. Good read, alright film.
Saw a video yesterday or a drone in Russia dropping liquid thermite from 400 feet up. Dropping liquid magma along a quarter mile tree line where soldiers were hiding. If they didn’t get melted initially. The wild forest fire burned them or they were flushed out and shot.
Yes, punish those greedy Terrans. They've had it too good for... *checks calendar* two weeks
Two too many
Man Terran is OP af... Are you mad?
To be fair, Clem was the only one who won agaisnt Serral in the world cup. Terran did not have a good day, only Clem did.
Being fair, Aligulac shows that even WITH Serral, Zerg has had a negative winrate against Terran for a full year.
Tbf terran has literally always been either the best race or second best. They're very stable due to the fact they have the best core units.
With zerg and protoss either being equal with terran with a few great units or just worse
Thanks for the video, Lowko. All-In's are always exciting! ❤
I love watching games like that first one, reminds me a lot of the campaign
When I went through basic training in Canada about a decade ago, the only video game they sold in the garrison was Star Craft 1.
we put some war in your war son
Smart
on brand sir ^_^
Brilliant play from Serral!
I legit had to rewatch this series because it was so beautiful
9:40 Second cast in a row where you missed the overlord drop in the main
Top level games I have seen recently:
Serral plays Maru = "Zerg IMBA!!!"
Clem plays Serral = "Terran IMBA!!!1"
Reaynor plays anyone = "Great game!"
Well, after Raynor managed to take the only two games off of Clem with Mutas... it seems logical to see the Zerg Cabal experimenting with them.
Bugs be schemeing hard rn
37:45 has to be one of the most satisfying things you can do as zerg, that splashing sound is cathartic!
Jesus. Serral is angry fr
You are a legend lowko
At 25min mark the musik kicks in and suddenly it´s like I´m watching the intro to Heart of the Swarm. Love it!!!
I remember like 5+ years ago terran would play the mass marine+medicvac style where they'd hit a midgame timing like this and then just put their foot on the gas and never let up (Clem in particular was famously good at applying relentless pressure this way). It seems Serral is now doing this with ling+bane....amazing to see (reminds me of Reynor's Protoss game v. Serral where he played a 'swarmy' style with Protoss which we don't really see from actual Protoss players at the highest level).
Fantastic games as usual and an incredible cast as well! It would just have been great to take a closer look at the dropalords at 9:36 again and see how that was executed, but maybe that was just an oversight
13:58 very true, since ghosts are just kinda great against literally every late game zerg comp, Terrans mindlessly transition into them, so the ling catches them off-guard
wow, I am impressed....that was a great series, so to speak.
Serral really is great, maybe at the world cup, he was off his game?
loving the muta play, lol
The circle is now complete, first tier units (Zealots/Stalkers, Lings/Banes, Marines/Marauders) have finally won games at the pro-level exclusively!
I just realized that Zerg can counter widow mines by burrowing all targets, removing the lock-on, then unborrowing one and forcing the widow mine to target wherever it goes. Without burning a scan or having it nearby detection, Zerg can more deliberately use the mine to kill the Terran.
Or, with really cute micro, use borrow/unborrow/burrow to just waltz by without getting locked onto at all.
Exactly. Buff Widow Mines!!!
hmm that doesn't sound like it'd work very well in an actual fight
It's not actually a counter. Counter means it's strong against. If i was a terran and my widowmines forced the zerg to burrow his entire army, even for a couple of seconds, i consider that value for the widowmine. Same thing with the burrow/unborrow zigzag movement. The widowmine essentially becomes a massive slowing field.
In other words, it benefits the widowmine more than the zerg player to avoid being hit, so it's the opposite of a counter.
37:35
All the other lings
With the pumped up wings
You better run, better run
Otrun my rush
I can't believe how good SC2 and this channel remain year after year after year. I'm turning 30 in a few weeks 😅
37 here and still watching. :) Was Diamond back in the day, didnt play for years but love to watch pro games. Even occasional bronze league heros. :)
The last game was not an Ace match. If Maru would have won, they would have played on another map. Ace match only happens when the series is tied at the end of the allocated map count.
Its probably a language barrier but you kept saying that "the jury's not out yet". The phrase is that "the jury is still out." Meaning they have not returned to give their verdict yet.
can be used in both directions tho!
the jury is not "out of their debate room", or still "out of the courtroom" , context matters
@@mho...Nah, as an English colloquialism, it's "the jury's still out" - that's just the way it is, even if you can logically argue it in different ways.
Language is about convention more than logic or consistency.
"the verdict's not out yet" would work though. as in I thought that's what he was trying to say.
@@bricelory9534 Arguably, language is more about communicating ideas than anything else. So long as people understand what he means, it doesn't particularly matter what he says.
@@grimmingpitb461he has mixed the two sayings. Common occurrence, look up ‘Rickyisms’ for examples lol
"Remember Innovation the Terran player?" - wow, my intro to youtube years ago was watching Lowko commentating Innovation as a champ. How the mighty have fallen!
I never stopped playing muta-ling. Banes are optional. ever since SC1 days in fact.
Cool to hear, it's my main style in all matchups! to me it's the most fun and wins feels more rewarding because it takes a lot of speed and finesse. Since you played a lot of Muta Ling maybe you can relate to what I'm going to say : Do you remember playing ZvP right before they introduce Phoenix range? Protoss was completely hopeless, I just build 10 then 20 then 40 Mutas with lings and erase P at any time lmao Now it takes a lot of effort vs Terran, they have so many counters, Protoss you kind of need to surprise them or mislead them and Zerg vs Zerg it is still and always has been a great strategy.
love this playstyle, feels like classic zerg from SC1
Clem > Maru, for almost a year now
Right? I had to check if this was posted in 2021.
Of course Zerg is angry, they have gotten nothing but nerfed into oblivion. Just because Serral can make it work because he's the GOAT doesn't mean the race is good, in fact quite the opposite is true. Zerg struggles a lot
I've watched this series three times at this point but I'll watch it again. Seeeeeeeeeeerral 🐐
Damn I remember watching Serral's control of Muta-Ling-Bane and this brought me back to those old days.
26:53 - Maru didn't forget +3 attack... he was unable to research it because Serral sniped his Armory.
When he said, "normal starcraft" at 4:20, I can't be the only person who thought of Marc and immediately started laughing
Serral probably needs something after that Clem matchup
Hot damn, seeing Serral play Zerg is the purest from of art…
Serral with Zergling is like flood washing Terran army away 🤣
I really want someone to start using the phrase "Mr. Rogers strategy" for Crimson Court when one player builds a base just to mine out the yellow minerals and attack their opponents "neighboring" base ;)
Innovation was the first top level player, who had an extreme focus on macro. With that, showing everyone how important macro was. Therefore he was quite innovative, back then.
Serral want revange . He is savage , that is the Serral we want!! great video , Thank!!!
Serralesque is definitely a word
Serralisk
Serral letting drones get hit before sending the defense zerglings in the early game is interesting
Great video!!
"jury is still out" is the correct expression. "jury is not out" means that they are out and have concluded their verdict.
18:14 If Lowko is a member of the Zerg Cabal, how come he only casts Reynor losses? ;P
2 2 adrenal overdrop viper targeting medvac is insane. Targeting the enemy armory is also key as his lingz are always better upgraded
With that intro I thought this was a match between Dark and Dark.
"The number one ranked player by Dark.. it's.. it's Dark" - Winter
@LowkoTV Please keep the music and sound at higher volume, I like to hear a bit of the game 😊
the best channel recently discovered by myself :) greets !
its weird to think about but ive been watching lowko since i was 16, im now 26. Time hits hard.
The snipe at 23:28 was hillarious!
There is no such thing as the Zerg Cabal and I am not a changeling. For the Swarm!
18:58 - I believe the word is _Serralicious!_
Watching Serral do this to Maru is as painful as watching Clem do this to Serral.
28 kills one widow mine shot. What a good and balanced unit
They have learned how we used to play zerg on 90's
That game 2 gives me hope that we'll see more Ling Bane Muta again in ZvT. It's so much more exciting to watch (and play) than Hydra/Bane, Ravager/Bane or Hydra/Lurker.
You have to wonder if his military superiors catch some of these games are just like.... "Ahh fk... that's nasty!"
You may be able to upscale the resolution of the adrenal glands icon with AI, it'd look a whole lot better in the thumbnail!
Nah let it be pixelated
when i last watched a sc2 cast, Dimaga was THE guy
So I see serral has been taking notes from uthermal challenge builds...
I'm just lower league but Im pretty sure "mass widow mine" is the counter to Serrals strat & Maru was dominating w/ it back then 😊
"The jury is STILL out."
Burrow Zerglings forcing scans then the ones in the mane base unburrow is evil
GG but second game, if the terran starts doing a lot of wideomines, it's not easy to make runbis.
That ling timing felt like something Harstem would do, that didnt feel like a serial thing to do.
Finland mentioned!
To all of my fellow finns:
Torilla tavataan!
We need to see serial and Clem run it back again
Long form videos showing up in shorts feed: awesome!
No easy way to switch to regular view for landscape viewing: TH-cam, be better. Seriously.
That's just good, honest zerg right there.
"It's a zergling Lester smaller type of zerg"
First game in summary
Stephano style! He could beat anyone using mass lings and he had amazing surrounds, Serral is overall better of course. Zerglings are underrated in SC2, I think it's the best unit in the game; very high speed, high DPS, low cost... yes they have low health but if you can save them with good multitask it becomes irrelevant, with high skills Zerglings are devastating!
This has been my strat since brood war lol
Serral, Evolution Complete
just WOW.. Nice game
@Lowko it’s a Hivemind not a Kabal. Terrans just don’t understand.
Incredible!
"Look Lester a Zergling"
Every single time i get back to SC2 and i see a blinding cloud my appetite for the game immediately disappears
HIii, just dropping by to ask, how much gas did your vision cost? 6:04. Why is protoss the only race race that cost gas? just sayyyyin
And the forgotten terran tech is....blue flame hellions
Muta, Ling, Bling were so great in starcraft II.
I guess it is still possible if you have 1million APM.
Watching top players will always feel uncanny
I can’t prove it, but I just know Serral let Clem win one. God cannot bleed.
Would have been arguable if he had won at least 1 map out of 8 played.
They should add Serral to a fighting game, like Tekken.
Who would’ve thought using cheap easy to mass produce units with high mobility to overwhelm your opponents was the way the SWARM was meant to be played
very nice games
Leave it to Serral to pull magical lingz out of his ass that apparently counter flying units
Who knew extremely fast, easily expendable, high dps units being rushed on mass would be strong?
As I've grown a bit bored of the iron bank style Terran gameplay being the standard go-to Terran play, I'm all for the strats Lowko has been showcasing in ZvT the last few days. Hopefully it will force Terran to stop being so turtly all the time. I'm happy when it's a strat that comes out now ans again, but not the default.
the floor is Zerg!
8:18 Maru is like 20 years old now, kinda old, cut him some slack !