I've been a big starcraft fan for a long long time and I've never really gotten into playing against people but i love watching your content. It really makes me want to do what you do even if i'm terrible at it! Thanks for keeping starcraft in the spot light.
You make everything seem so easy, even in the most intense moments you keep your mind clean about the situation. It’s like watching really good specialist do interesting educational analysis on their practice for students. Most of other SC2-content creators doesn’t have your kind of magical personality and respect for opponent’s play, so you honestly earned a special place in my heart, gj lad, keep it up :D
I fricking love this quote: " what am I supposed to do? Well I know what I am going to do. I am planetery rush him and if I win I print it out and hang it on my vall. That looks like the only resenable thing to do here. "
Man, this game shows How good clem is, he is off Race, beeing cheesed, you got the planetary in a good position, and everything Felt like It was going alright, but he was soooooo Far ahead is Crazy.
Man I love your videos! They are so interesting and fun, and you have a great personality! I notice you put out a ton of content, please take care of yourself and don't overwork.
7:21 Hellion drives up to enemy base. Transforms into Hellbat. Marches away never having fired his weapon. Took shots the entire time. Never addresses it. 😎
Cool to see you are so close to 100k subscribers. I remember you saying you wanted to reach 20k by the end of the year. What a journey its been. Happy to see the channel grew so much with awesome content.
I feel like your insightful and skillful exploration of different SC2 strategies is actually locating some viable strategies in pro play! Thanks for sharing with us your real time exploration
I watched a bunch of your games on Lowko's channel. Didn't realize you had your own channel. It's been so cool watching your fun games. I'm primarily Terran since the SC1 days and you're like the only guy that seems to use bunkers properly. Respect! Just subscribed!
Another enjoyable episode! Well done, QuestionMarc (I just thought of this name for you as I was watching you play Cuku on Harstem channel. He saw CC and he was like "?" and you were like "?") XD
Uthermal: Whatever you do guys do NOT use cyclones against protoss. Every game against protoss: Were going for cyclones! Marines, Seige Tanks, and Vikings: Am I a joke to you?
Mark, I have an idea for the planetary rush. A minor variation. On maps with a gold base, put the command center on the gold base. And then mine from it for a little while. Put maybe 5 or 10 workers there. Then attack with your regular army and move the command center in and turn it into a planetary. You can send the workers home or use them as part of the attack. So obviously this occurs a little later. It's not quite a cheese. It's a mid game attack.
What if you got building armor at the engineering bay? Also would love to see you fully load up a CC with SCVs and mass repair the morphing PF in a protoss or terrain main base.
hello again! new challenge idea: NO-RUSH TIL MAX SUPPLY (opposite to speed-running 😂). I would love to see a BC to gm, in any combo, any style BC centric! I'm a huge protoss fan, and DT's as well so.... DTs! Keep up the great work! edit: VOID-RAYS & TEMPESTS TO GM!
@@eclipseeffigy as a grandmaster myself id like to encourage the inverse of both your preconceived chess mastery. 1 unit can decimate 10 if you understand the frost does not stick to the blade of a templar.
The reason uThermal is doing these cyclone strats is to show that when he says “Don’t use cyclones against protoss” it is generally true. He has gone against his own words multiple times and keeps losing because of it. If uThermal is going to lose then you CERTAINLY WILL.
@@42Lailoken So ignoring that I said “generally” in the case of being against clem what is your point? That Clem is off race while still being insanely technically capable? He is still showing the truth of his recommendation.
Can you copnsider an early structure armor updrade viable? If it finishes in time it can make a difference in how long it survives and also makes a calculation of how many units needed to kill a planetary wrong.
On neohumanity, what if you put your planetary in their hidden expansion so it would hit opponents over the golden minerals when your units kited them back. Or just start mining that base and they wouldn't know about it until they tried to mine the mineral wall?
i don't know if it's because i requested it but in any case thank you for doing your planetary fortress rush challenge it has been extremely entertaining
I was looking at that early cyclone vs phoenix play and I gotta say, one turret early on would have totally made it work. Even at the expense of one cyclone, maybe. Coming from a bronze leaguer, though.
Loving the content. I wonder if you can do one some time with high-sec auto tracking. Maybe against zerg where at first the PF is out of range of the expo, but then high sec auto tracking puts it in range. It really looks like sometimes that's all the difference.
I think i saw your next challenge in one of pigs recent salt mine(? Might have been icyfar). The repair station. Fast thor (repairable unit) with 5 scv's waiting just outside of battle to repair.
Hey uThermal, I'm curious why don't you go Hellion + Siege Tank with the PF contain in TvZ? That seems unbreakable without Hive tech to me. (With missile turrets if they go Spire.)
pretty good content for a dutchman i have to say they usually mess up,, anyway i think you should come up with something no one has done before and we gona call it THE UTHERMAL RUSH
Given you are doing a lot of cheese. Have you considering using mules for midgame to late game to soak up baneling attacks and to gum-up the enemies resource lines?
Hey Marc not sure if this truly is spicy or not but I played a game recently where I went mass Phoenix Adept opener into a secret golden armada transition and it ended up being wild would love to see you try it.
Why not make mass marines when fighting against void ray & phoenix combo? Also "I'm just gonna stay with cyclones" when preaching not to make cyclones vs protoss, why?
I feel like reactored marines might have done better against the phoenixes in that protos match to hold the planetary longer at the start but i dont know
In game 1 I would have loved to see you drop an early nuke on natural. He had all overlords grouped. You would have forced his army into the main or push into your planetary.
Reynor just uploaded a 15 min review video of him losing against oliviera.. Could it possible to react objective to this? Explain some additional? Would be cool.
Have you considered starting your challenges on your existing Masters League or low GM accounts? The higher MMR matches like these are where these series really get good IMO.
Well, granted it is entertaining, but he still has to figure out the build(through multiple games) for the challenges. On a learning the game and improving skill standpoint… it is better to play against better players so you can remember-not-to-make-mistakes more often.
Is there a reason why you don't use air units with your planetary rushes? Why pick cyclones as the primary anti air? Love the content, this is one of my favorite challenges you've done.
I've been a big starcraft fan for a long long time and I've never really gotten into playing against people but i love watching your content. It really makes me want to do what you do even if i'm terrible at it! Thanks for keeping starcraft in the spot light.
pretty sure there are still plenty of people hanging out in bronze and silver league just doing their thing
@@bigsmoke4592 they havent discovered shift right click for time travel
@@StevenHanover How do you know? Are you a time traveller? ...Dad?
Don’t be scared we all are terrible it’s so much fun though
Just don't have expectations of winning the game. Pick goals you can achieve and go into it with the mentality that losing is fun too.
You make everything seem so easy, even in the most intense moments you keep your mind clean about the situation. It’s like watching really good specialist do interesting educational analysis on their practice for students. Most of other SC2-content creators doesn’t have your kind of magical personality and respect for opponent’s play, so you honestly earned a special place in my heart, gj lad, keep it up :D
well said! respect for opponents play, this really hits home. The multiplayer gaming community as a whole could benefit from this
I fricking love this quote: " what am I supposed to do? Well I know what I am going to do. I am planetery rush him and if I win I print it out and hang it on my vall. That looks like the only resenable thing to do here. "
Man, this game shows How good clem is, he is off Race, beeing cheesed, you got the planetary in a good position, and everything Felt like It was going alright, but he was soooooo Far ahead is Crazy.
Man I love your videos! They are so interesting and fun, and you have a great personality! I notice you put out a ton of content, please take care of yourself and don't overwork.
7:21 Hellion drives up to enemy base. Transforms into Hellbat. Marches away never having fired his weapon. Took shots the entire time. Never addresses it. 😎
Drives up, transforms while taking enemy fire, doesn't elaborate, leaves.
The Misfire Bat.
Cool to see you are so close to 100k subscribers. I remember you saying you wanted to reach 20k by the end of the year. What a journey its been. Happy to see the channel grew so much with awesome content.
I feel like your insightful and skillful exploration of different SC2 strategies is actually locating some viable strategies in pro play! Thanks for sharing with us your real time exploration
Marc's reaction when he realizes its Clem is hilarious!!! Could not make it through his usual spiel of introducing his opponent.....
I watched a bunch of your games on Lowko's channel. Didn't realize you had your own channel. It's been so cool watching your fun games.
I'm primarily Terran since the SC1 days and you're like the only guy that seems to use bunkers properly. Respect! Just subscribed!
Another enjoyable episode! Well done, QuestionMarc (I just thought of this name for you as I was watching you play Cuku on Harstem channel. He saw CC and he was like "?" and you were like "?") XD
Uthermal: Whatever you do guys do NOT use cyclones against protoss.
Every game against protoss: Were going for cyclones!
Marines, Seige Tanks, and Vikings: Am I a joke to you?
Mark, I have an idea for the planetary rush. A minor variation.
On maps with a gold base, put the command center on the gold base. And then mine from it for a little while. Put maybe 5 or 10 workers there.
Then attack with your regular army and move the command center in and turn it into a planetary. You can send the workers home or use them as part of the attack.
So obviously this occurs a little later. It's not quite a cheese. It's a mid game attack.
The idea is that as soon as your opponent discovers the gold base, that puts you on a timer. You then have to launch the attack shortly thereafter.
Salt cannon. A salt cannon. Assault cannon... I got it!
What if you got building armor at the engineering bay? Also would love to see you fully load up a CC with SCVs and mass repair the morphing PF in a protoss or terrain main base.
hello again! new challenge idea: NO-RUSH TIL MAX SUPPLY (opposite to speed-running 😂).
I would love to see a BC to gm, in any combo, any style BC centric!
I'm a huge protoss fan, and DT's as well so.... DTs!
Keep up the great work!
edit: VOID-RAYS & TEMPESTS TO GM!
Just casually getting matched against top 10 player in the world on your planetary rush -only account, nbd
Hopefully Marc you take that pressure to win off your shoulders. It's fun to watch, win or lose 👍
30:04 "BAM" lol
The best part of the first game was that the guy whiffed with almost every single bile in the final engagement
Love you channel bro, keep up the good work we need more quality SC2 content to keep the game alive :)
Hi uthermal, do you think that you have actually gotten better at starcraft with the amount you play every day and these weird challenges games?
I think you underestimate how much practice goes into playing at the pro level
He's undeniably a better PF rusher now than he was before though 😁😇
@@eclipseeffigy as a grandmaster myself id like to encourage the inverse of both your preconceived chess mastery. 1 unit can decimate 10 if you understand the frost does not stick to the blade of a templar.
He's said in previous videos he has gotten better with specific units, don't believe he's said anything in relation to overall though.
That 1st 1v1 is epic. Nail biter. great work!
Park the hellions in front of the larvae and do them with the lair behind getting splashed, nice.
@uThermal I'd like to see you try and climb with the "Noob Challenge", no using any hotkeys, and no micro, all attack move.
Now the best player in the world! Congrats Clem!
The reason uThermal is doing these cyclone strats is to show that when he says “Don’t use cyclones against protoss” it is generally true. He has gone against his own words multiple times and keeps losing because of it. If uThermal is going to lose then you CERTAINLY WILL.
TBF he did say cyclones are good until protoss get blink.
That logic doesn't entirely hold when he is playing against Clem
@@willynebula6193 Which games were won because of blink? (Opponent side reference)
@@42Lailoken So ignoring that I said “generally” in the case of being against clem what is your point? That Clem is off race while still being insanely technically capable? He is still showing the truth of his recommendation.
I was watching a Winter cast of Lambo vs. Byun and he was joking about Byun loooooooooving marines.
So I thought.
Maybe "No marines to GM?"
Hey Marc, absolutely love this series! One question I've often wondered: why don't you get Hi-Sec Auto Tracking when you do PF rushes?
pf usually dies immediately
It takes quite a while to finish and the gas cost would mean basically no reapers and delayed factory
That first game, you built a 2nd factory by mistake but I think it was genuinely good! In that deciding fight the 4 tanks did insane amount of dmg
holy moly: hammer-games!!!
Can you copnsider an early structure armor updrade viable? If it finishes in time it can make a difference in how long it survives and also makes a calculation of how many units needed to kill a planetary wrong.
On neohumanity, what if you put your planetary in their hidden expansion so it would hit opponents over the golden minerals when your units kited them back. Or just start mining that base and they wouldn't know about it until they tried to mine the mineral wall?
PF rushing just feels so satisfying
Never stop this series
one of the uthermal videos of all time!
Marc dont fforget you can HIDE your workers INSIDE the planetary... and if they are in AUTO repair mode, they will repair each other in safety!
12:50 Omg, that's Clem? I mean... Clem's Clem? Holy cow I cant believe it, Clem is one of the guys Im always watching on pro games hahaha
"GET THAT SHIT IN A NEWSPAPER" -thermy 2023
These guys that beat you have 2 plus bases on you. They expand like wildfire.
“Is this the Destroy uThermal episode” 😂😂
i don't know if it's because i requested it but in any case thank you for doing your planetary fortress rush challenge it has been extremely entertaining
I was looking at that early cyclone vs phoenix play and I gotta say, one turret early on would have totally made it work. Even at the expense of one cyclone, maybe.
Coming from a bronze leaguer, though.
Win or lose, your content is so captivating! Thank you!
Loving the content. I wonder if you can do one some time with high-sec auto tracking. Maybe against zerg where at first the PF is out of range of the expo, but then high sec auto tracking puts it in range. It really looks like sometimes that's all the difference.
I think that neo steel armor could help in the last game, because there would be 6 marines instead of 4 in the bunker
I think i saw your next challenge in one of pigs recent salt mine(? Might have been icyfar). The repair station. Fast thor (repairable unit) with 5 scv's waiting just outside of battle to repair.
get that shit in the newspaper
Would it be possible to pull off a simultaneous 2 PF timing attack?
Hey uThermal, I'm curious why don't you go Hellion + Siege Tank with the PF contain in TvZ? That seems unbreakable without Hive tech to me. (With missile turrets if they go Spire.)
maaan, you should start buildings streinght and range right after pf starts, it will buf surrounding turrets too
wondering if earlier building upgrades would be useful, or maybe a bit delayed, so that the planetary trades better or even cannot be broken🤔
Random worker rush to Grand master? Would be interesting to see probes scvs and drones finish the whole thing.
I wonder if you could do mass bunker to GM 🤔
pretty good content for a dutchman i have to say they usually mess up,, anyway i think you should come up with something no one has done before and we gona call it THE UTHERMAL RUSH
Given you are doing a lot of cheese. Have you considering using mules for midgame to late game to soak up baneling attacks and to gum-up the enemies resource lines?
Mules take too long to drop so it doesn’t really work. Plus most zergs move command banelings anyways
Hey Marc not sure if this truly is spicy or not but I played a game recently where I went mass Phoenix Adept opener into a secret golden armada transition and it ended up being wild would love to see you try it.
Three engineering bays for the win! I wanted building armor from that proxy engi bay so bad.
Mass cyclone in TvP after putting it on No.1 on Don't Do list himself.
Why not make mass marines when fighting against void ray & phoenix combo? Also "I'm just gonna stay with cyclones" when preaching not to make cyclones vs protoss, why?
I feel like reactored marines might have done better against the phoenixes in that protos match to hold the planetary longer at the start but i dont know
Do players get mmr losing against such high players? Or was the count in the end (+12) after 3 matches?
Would be pretty cool to have you cast one of your games in your native language
It may have been a disaster of a game but 29:53 was very very funny.
“Is this ‘Destroy uthermal episode?’” lmao
There is a 100% chance Lowko will comment over that clem match 👀
incredible episode!
Please make more terran content, i watch you videos everyday and terran videos are my fav.
Even though he lost he still showed how strong his PF rush is.
Love the series. Keep going. Hi sec planetary rush to GM next.
You played clem well but the little bugger had 5 bases by 10 minutes owow
uThermal is Killing it! Please more WidowMine + PF action! God Bless You!
14:30 wait, out of revenge against Protoss you have to annoy your Terran brothers?
I think the biggest losses are your cyclones vs Protos stop breaking your own golden rule
Damn, you only lost to Protoss…shows how easy and op that race is 🥴🤣
In game 1 I would have loved to see you drop an early nuke on natural. He had all overlords grouped. You would have forced his army into the main or push into your planetary.
Reynor just uploaded a 15 min review video of him losing against oliviera.. Could it possible to react objective to this? Explain some additional? Would be cool.
Have you considered starting your challenges on your existing Masters League or low GM accounts? The higher MMR matches like these are where these series really get good IMO.
Well, granted it is entertaining, but he still has to figure out the build(through multiple games) for the challenges.
On a learning the game and improving skill standpoint… it is better to play against better players so you can remember-not-to-make-mistakes more often.
gg wp. I think losing that reaper early threw you off g3
This may be my favorite challenge
That game again Clem!
So many good games with the saltcanon
i would love to see you win agains one of the best with a seely chalenge ^^ GG
Honestly guys, the only way I'm gonna win is if he walks like six stalkers over these widow m-... BOOM!!
you killed a queen at his 3'de, and still didn't register that he had it 🤣
Maybe marines in the second game instead of cyclone spam
Is there a reason why you don't use air units with your planetary rushes? Why pick cyclones as the primary anti air?
Love the content, this is one of my favorite challenges you've done.
Marc using an F word at 23:30 You're welcome
I think he said frikking
you and LS making me more and more interested in SC2, coming from classic Wc3
I want to see a series of only PR on every base haha.. Please! Like if you might enjoy. Maybe he'll see it..
Very good!
Is that your planetary in my base, or are you just happy to see me?
I want to think it would pay to use widow mine against that void rays
The Phoenix just pick them up sadly
Your worst games are worth 500 of my best games.
Why don't you call down Mules if the Planetary is in danger of being destroyed and repair it. Would have saved it at 8:30
Hard games mean good games
I like episodes where you lose most.
incredible
THE BOYS!!!!!!
had to walk away from the vid. got frustrated. i kept hitting f10 so i could pause but it wasnt working!
I'm not able to change the video quality, anyone else?