Never seen Serral so visibly shaken. He's very disappointed in himself; at this level of play he feels he can't be making those mistakes. Guess what Serral, you're human. It's ok. You're still a great player
@@AKA.SV9 I mean I used to do that out of frustration just talk shit but I'm starting to realize I'm really only mad at myself looking to take it out on someone else to admit the problem so yea I am not so good diamond 2 zerg trying to hit masters, no more blaming others only myself.
@@manny100pips9 i used to grind a lot in dota 2 so i kno i can get tilted and very angry even at the smallest mistakes my teams make. But that was a long time ago. I still get tilted but under control of my emotions and try to be positive. Definitely translated when i play sc2. I dont think ive ever got mad just more frustrated cause i didnt know how to win.
The level they play on is insane, it looks easier than it is I mean I’m gold league but I sit back for about 10 minutes at least, and they start pressure so early and it never ends, insane
I know I'm not the best to say it, but at gold as good as 5-6 mins should be a good time to apply a bit of presure, 10 minutes gives the rival way too much time to scout your tech and prepare countermessures
The hallucinated colossus mindgame was truly next level. Zest knew that Serral would figure out that it was a fake. Because he had denied all of Serral's scouting information with his phoenix play, and because of how this map is laid out, the only scouting information Serral was able to get was from the robo at the front. You can see him checking to see if its cronoboosting or not and checking to see what comes out. Serral sees colossus (indicates late game), figures out it's a fake (indicates a bluff for space, ie tech development), and then gets blindsided by an attack that doesn't rely on robo at all. Pretty masterful work by zest, he deserves the win
At 50:23 there was a weird adept shot starting from the top right corner of the screen and hitting a roach at the bottom right corner. That must be the longest ranged hit of the series.
wow i'm just shocked. I can't believe he actually lost. The comments here... smh... people are calling him bad. Dude lost in the semifinals, 3-2. It was very, very close. The guys been playing PERFECT games for the past couple years, roflcopter stomping the biggest names, barely loses, and now people call him bad.
Just one year of domination. MC, Polt, and many other greats dominate for more than 3 years. Serral is just a patch zerg during an OP zerg era. Once zerg gets balance to what it should be. Bye Serral.
@@acidosis1985 Ah yes, an "overhyped" player with the 2nd highest earnings of any sc2 player ever. Why are you so upset at another player's success? Are you okay man?
@@JoshT4life I agree that about zerg, but I hope you know that 'at that time' is actually now - this match was 'new', played on 1st March 2020. Zest makes it look ez playing toss vs Serral, but still Rogue won the tournament.
Lol, serral was never that good, everyone was jus hyping him cos he had an OP race and his zvz was pretty good meaning he dominated in the only fair match up in Starcraft for about a year and a half of Zerg imba patch. New balance patch and he is right out that door
@@WingZeroCustom001 Dude, he has the best win/lose ratio from the pro matches, and there're plenty of zerg players out there. Nvm, what I meant is that for the first time I saw him playing like a human, making mistakes. Usually, he plays like a computer, calculating everything and even if he loses, it seems like he plays very optimal. In these matches, he made a lot of mistakes I feel.
After saying your "UNBEATABLE" & the best in the world in an interview during this tournament, I'm glad serral lost. Even though I'm a fan & would like to see him in the gsl. Zest was on fire up to this point & it showed.
@Tristan Han Lmfao I'm not talking about the team event of GSL vs the World dumbass, I'm talking about the MAIN EVENT, which is a ro16 1v1 individual tour with bo5 matches up until the bo7 final, which he won 2 years in a row. Do you even watch pro sc2 or do you just like making a fool of yourself in the comments section?
@Tristan Han uh, u do know that gsl vs the world has individual competition too right? liquipedia.net/starcraft2/2018_GSL_vs._the_World it's not only bo1 team event...
As someone who tries to achieve the best in everything, being a bit below expectation is super frustrating. Back when I was a kid, showing my parents a 70 when I almost always get above 90 is so crushing. Maybe the reason Koreans are always at the top of competitions is partially because of the type of support they get in situations like these. There’s no one to belittle you in times of failure. I’m not familiar with Korean culture, but I simply hate it when some people start saying Serral is no longer as good as he was before and then start disrespecting his efforts. If people are willing to express this publicly against anyone who performs below expectations, I’d say we don’t deserve more winners like Serral.
LOL, Serral was up 2 -1 and I was about to write that it ruins the result when you know the video length because you can predict from the score who will win, and just as I'm about to type it Zest wins 2 games in the final 10 minutes when for sure I thought serral had this, brilliant.
id like to see people utilize Overseers more often, theres so much value to them using Contaminate and slowing down production and economy during early and mid game.
I hope Zest doesn't get speed run in the finals like he did vs. Maru in GSL and lost 4 matches in under 30 minutes. I'm sure like most people, I really wanted to see a Serral vs Maru finals. We can all keep hoping!
He had an equal economy, there were roughly on the same footing, Zest lost almost all his expensive units which is much harder to recover from as a toss. I think Serral is uncomfortable playing unless he has built up an advantage - he is so used to dominating that he cant scrap out wins from behind.
@@faridmk3707 Doesn't look like equal footing to me. At the moment of the GG, Serral was at around 40 army supply while Zest was at 30. The difference is that half of Serral's army supply is on units still in eggs while Zest's entire army supply is already at his front door knocking. Yes, he can probably still clean those immortals up with his ravagers but the reinforcing zealots and the healthy archon make it nearly impossible. If the game went on Zest could and would definitely pull those immortals back until the ravagers are cleaned up and they would have regenerated shields by the time Serral's 20 supply of roaches starts hatching. The 3 ravagers and handful of lings wouldn't stand a chance against that wall of zealots and a healthy archon. Don't let Serral's 43 army supply fool you. Look at the production tab during the moment of the gg and figure out yourself how little Serral actually had at that time. Even pulling all his drones wouldn't have worked because, again, there's a healthy archon he has no answer for.
@@faridmk3707 Don't worry, I thought the GG was too early as well when I watched it live. Only after I rewatched it just now did I notice that half of Serral's army supply is on newly queued roaches.
I think Serral overthought since his great defeat against Hurricane, and he might thought his playstyle was apprehended. That's why he got ahead so far on 4th game (pretended Zest would do DT rush but actually adept rush), and chose a wrong 'macro' build on 5th game (Zest is really good at macro, better than Stats. And 5th game Zest didn't even macro at all.). It seems that Serral has a slump now. I hope he could mentally recovered on next tournament :)
Personally, I’m kinda ticked. He lost game 2 to a premature GG and got tilted by game 4. It wasn’t even a top tier protoss, it was zest who, while not bad, isn’t exactly in his prime.
@@misspurdy27288 Not in his prime? Zest is definitely in the top 3 Protoss right now. His 2019, I agree, was meh, but in what we've seen of him so far this year, he is definitely one of the top Protoss. He is by far the highest rated Protoss on aligulac.com (we do have to take Aligulac ratings with a pinch of salt, but the fact that it thinks Zest is the best, probably suggests that he is among the best Protoss). No hate though, just wanted to point out that Serral, although he probably still should have won, he did still go down at the hands of one of the current top Protoss.
He was in a bad form that day. I'm so sad for him, he is a player of very rare strength, but indeed he is also a human being. And as we know, shit happens with everyone when we less expecting of it.
I think sometimes the commentary has a gap to leap over to understand the level that the players are on and(game 2 end for example) it leaves the people who don't understand what's going on with a gap in their understanding of what actually took place. They can perceive that something took place that wasn't actually going to. The wizards aren't afk like the announcers are...
No, this was back in the WCS system, not the current EPT system. And Zest was like No.15 in the KR ranking at the end of that season, he didnt even make it to Blizzon that year.
had the same thought as you but as others have mentioned, the supply is deceiving because half of it was in eggs and Zest would have had around 20 seconds of free rein over Serral's 4th. Supply tells the story 90% of the time but this is the 10% of the time where it doesn't ig.
yeah, i too thought that Serral had a bad habit of gg too early. Maybe he should play for a bit longer. I suppose Serral did not see the enemy's supply or army size?
I cant believe how cool in general these guys are when they lose the game. If I was Serral in this situation computer would be in at least 25 pieces and all the parts would be flying to the different parts of the hall. At least fiftieth row.
Zest just never let it get to late game where Serral always dominates with brood/infestor micro, I've noticed almost every single one of Serral's ZvP losses are early-mid game matches
@@KillerHurdz i think 化3 means 化境第3重, from XIAOSE's poisons before the match said that this year serral made it to the Ascending 3 a very superior level of the game, take ahead of other players a lot, they could be in 化2 or 化1 that cannot compete with 化3 , and then serral was defeated by zest... funny chinese meme lol
@@qweewq-h7p yes. Just saw it too. In game 4 and 5 zests army of immortal stalker sentry loses to mass roaches while also rouge has 50 supply to spare on swarmhosts sniping nexuses as well. All I saw was a clear case of imbalance. I dont care how good ones micro is, a mass roach army must never beat an equal supply army of higher tier units designed to counter said roach army. Not to mention how both the stalker and immortal are trashed by lings as well, the most basic zerg unit
Jay Es the ling part is due to a lack of archons, a necessity for a protoss army, and losing to roaches was solely due to inferior micro. That army beats or pushes back those roaches 9 times out of 10, but rouge was simply better than zest who, frankly, only reached the finals because his semifinal opponent willingly threw game 2.
@@misspurdy27288 I saw that game. Kind of unfortunate. However, if indeed Serral would have won assuming Zest would not have thrown game 2, it would have been a repeat of 2019 with a final ZvZ. My concern is that while I agree with you that archons combined with immortals, zealots and stalker/sentry will push back a zerg army 9/10 times, the toss is required to produce high tier (archons) and medium tier (immortals) to be able to fend off mass low tier zerg units. This is where the imbalance lies. The roach is simply too good for its cost and the ling hard counters 2 of the core early and mid game toss units. ZvP right now is extremely imbalanced towards zerg. Mainly Toss are winning through either cannon rushes or timing pushes with their opponents unaware or tunnel versioned into macro game. An equal skill level toss player will never beat a zerg player in a standard macro game. Toss still has no proper answer to swarmhost/nidus play. This Is mainly because the toss army is too slow to move and its partially by design but still, its a bit too strong
Jay Es I don’t think this is an issue with zerg being stronger, I think this is a problem with how immobile and high-tech toss are. PvP for example, your only real option is pheonix (is that still a thing, or did it change?) And PvT, well that’s a bit more interesting since adepts are pretty okay vs the core terran unit (marines). PvT toss generally have an advantage, just like in TvZ terran generally have the advantage (even if players like serral make it look like that isn’t the case) Personally, I think the immortal needs a slight buildrate buff and/or the toss need a new unit for early AOE. Toss lategame when you have that ball is nigh-unstoppable unless you’re way better than the protoss. Though I will admit they have more trouble reaching it than they should.
@@Loysekiu Serral has no crown at all during 2019. I like Serral but it is true he had an overconfidence nevertheless many Non-zerg professional players still think Zerg-Op.
He could potentially get pass Rogue; "Maybe even Serral" - Wardi during Maru vs sOs Damn, all talk, no results. Serral has not won any IEM, Dreamhack, WESG, Code S. He has only won a bunch of foreigner-exclusive WCS junior leagues, couple of showmatches and a BlizzCon win.
What are ugly comments. Looks like everyone in comments are pro players and were in semifinals. Some one tells, that it is just luck for Zest and someone that Serral is overrated? What a hell. Both players are great, but Zest did a better game and decisions this year, I guess he made more effort in training last year than Serral. Check other sports and competitions, you can not win all your life, specially each time or something is very inbalance. Even Kepchoge runner is not winning all Marathons, but nice prepared for German path. I Serral want stay in ST, I sure he will change way he play next time and make new show. I have experience to beat 1st player in Cossacks 2 (milord) in my teenage time. It took me a lot of training and practice, sure he was not practicing too much and I was in top 100, not top 10, but each time we played I started win and he was very angry ) I feel same for Zest, he had tartget to go and got it, very nice catch!
What I can't understand is even when both players are good, theses commentators won't shut up about how good serrals is. For them he's the best player ever, even when his ass is handed to him. Feels like these commentators are racially biased, and comments reflects it too.
@@HarshaSuranjith the commentators were saying how great both players were playing the entire time, and serral was the favorite. I dont know why you are complaining.
Rotterdam's commentary going down, comes off as 'the authority', which he isn't, he is just a half-way decent commentator; it breaks the good-dynamic with the other commentator, puts off discussion and commentator inter-play, and salts to me the viewing experience. He used to be not-like-that, now, much prefer the other commentator combos, my opinion
I just used that Adept push(Game 4) to beat a Diamond Zerg. A little different I did not have a prism. I just used a well placed pylon to warp in from. At 5:25 I hit with 10 Adepts with glaives and attack 1 and a few seconds later warped in 8 more. He had Zerglings and 2 Queens.
Zest made more effort, as he just want to be better than Serral, Serral is already Serral and did not make more effort to be better ) How you can be better than yourself if you are the best, now he has reason to make more effrot to be better.
Sometimes giving up and getting onto a fresh, new game is a good play in a tournament setting... It can be detrimental mentally to linger on losing games. That's probably why. Plus Zest was on 4 bases and probably wouldve kept reinforcing.
the missmicro on the banelings that just pooped out when zest attacked him last game was painfull :/ i think he could have defended that attack maybe if he used the bains that pooped out on the first wave of zealots. that would have been all zealots instantly gone maybe even some bainling damage on the archons too. the zerglings / raoches would kill the archons that are like 1/2 dead and than its "only" zealots and phenix.
Never seen Serral so visibly shaken. He's very disappointed in himself; at this level of play he feels he can't be making those mistakes. Guess what Serral, you're human. It's ok. You're still a great player
Yea at least he knows he fucked up unlike players online that talks shit to opponents when they are losing lol i never understood that. Salty
@@AKA.SV9 I mean I used to do that out of frustration just talk shit but I'm starting to realize I'm really only mad at myself looking to take it out on someone else to admit the problem so yea I am not so good diamond 2 zerg trying to hit masters, no more blaming others only myself.
@@manny100pips9 i used to grind a lot in dota 2 so i kno i can get tilted and very angry even at the smallest mistakes my teams make. But that was a long time ago. I still get tilted but under control of my emotions and try to be positive. Definitely translated when i play sc2. I dont think ive ever got mad just more frustrated cause i didnt know how to win.
reloadingdontshoot1 yes
because freaking Gay-toss is OP
I love how calm and collected Zest is. Never broke his cool
Cool and collected except for that weird thing he does with his neck 14:09 42:00
his water bottle was shakey. You can't be a human being and not feel the nerves in a situation like this
The level they play on is insane, it looks easier than it is I mean I’m gold league but I sit back for about 10 minutes at least, and they start pressure so early and it never ends, insane
@IhateECHOES That is one of the evilest things I've ever read
@IhateECHOES Holy crap, dude, you are an evil genius
@@shinjukim8576 rather evil loser
@John Smith playing the campaign will not make him improve his rank in the ladder
I know I'm not the best to say it, but at gold as good as 5-6 mins should be a good time to apply a bit of presure, 10 minutes gives the rival way too much time to scout your tech and prepare countermessures
Man, this was intense. Truly high-level plays.
I have a final exam in the morning and I’m watching star craft at 3 am. I don’t even like starcraft.
Certified Fresh I know this feeling. good luck!
dude, check this out th-cam.com/video/arj7oStGLkU/w-d-xo.html
@@magneat Best comment ever
LOL. Thanks for the laugh and I hope you did well on your exam!
3:16 here 10 minutes in and I’m already hooked
war.. war never changes... the eternal finno-korean hyper war continues..
2024, Serral is still dominating them
this stage looks really great doesn't it
The comment section is full of the best SC2 players LoL
Tricky why thank you
wrr, cepux, say any nmw and any s ok
Wait, mom comebacks are are thing again?
mom
Better than serral
The hallucinated colossus mindgame was truly next level. Zest knew that Serral would figure out that it was a fake. Because he had denied all of Serral's scouting information with his phoenix play, and because of how this map is laid out, the only scouting information Serral was able to get was from the robo at the front. You can see him checking to see if its cronoboosting or not and checking to see what comes out.
Serral sees colossus (indicates late game), figures out it's a fake (indicates a bluff for space, ie tech development), and then gets blindsided by an attack that doesn't rely on robo at all. Pretty masterful work by zest, he deserves the win
I’m loving this comment section.
So much salt.
Makes me wanna start playin sc again
Did you even read the comment section or is this your standart attention comment? Doesnt look like you read it
Zest was on another level this series, GG
too bad he got smashed by Rouge in the Final.
he was so happy and relaxed at the first games and after them so frustrated, unbelieveable
At 50:23 there was a weird adept shot starting from the top right corner of the screen and hitting a roach at the bottom right corner. That must be the longest ranged hit of the series.
Wow, good eye! I guess the animation was just starting as the Adept shaded, and the firing sequence began from the new location. Very weird indeed!
I like Zest as interesting toss. I also really like Serral as amaizing zerg. It does not matter for me who wins. It is a great battle!
Good to hear your voices again, awesome commentators :-).
What a legendary clash. Serral did quite well but Zest played at a masterclass level. Bravo amigos both fought well
wow i'm just shocked. I can't believe he actually lost.
The comments here... smh... people are calling him bad. Dude lost in the semifinals, 3-2. It was very, very close. The guys been playing PERFECT games for the past couple years, roflcopter stomping the biggest names, barely loses, and now people call him bad.
dont get mad dude, the peaple normally are ignorant
Just one year of domination. MC, Polt, and many other greats dominate for more than 3 years. Serral is just a patch zerg during an OP zerg era. Once zerg gets balance to what it should be. Bye Serral.
@@acidosis1985 Damn dude you're really on here posting like 50 angry anti-Serral comments on one single vid LMAO yikes, get a life
@@thesoundofsilence77 more like spreading the truth of over hyped zerg player
@@acidosis1985 Ah yes, an "overhyped" player with the 2nd highest earnings of any sc2 player ever. Why are you so upset at another player's success? Are you okay man?
Zest is the man of miracle....... He could beat anyone and can also be beaten by anyone
Definitely can't be beaten by anyone lol
@@TheDba82 Really? Cause he lost the finals right after this.
@@DemBigOlEyes does it mean that he can be beaten by anyone?
@@DemBigOlEyes to rogue, the best player in the world. Hardly anyone
Man, Serral's human after all...
Yeah he was showing too much humanity i think its getting on his way
Remember zerg was also op at that time
@@JoshT4life I agree that about zerg, but I hope you know that 'at that time' is actually now - this match was 'new', played on 1st March 2020. Zest makes it look ez playing toss vs Serral, but still Rogue won the tournament.
Lol, serral was never that good, everyone was jus hyping him cos he had an OP race and his zvz was pretty good meaning he dominated in the only fair match up in Starcraft for about a year and a half of Zerg imba patch. New balance patch and he is right out that door
@@WingZeroCustom001 Dude, he has the best win/lose ratio from the pro matches, and there're plenty of zerg players out there. Nvm, what I meant is that for the first time I saw him playing like a human, making mistakes. Usually, he plays like a computer, calculating everything and even if he loses, it seems like he plays very optimal. In these matches, he made a lot of mistakes I feel.
Thanks for uploading so fast
1:00:45 Serral shaking hands is so painful to watch
thats the adrenalin doing its work
wrr, relaxed nmw
51:08
Got a taste of his own medicine, getting destroyed :D
Byun Champion ✌️☺️
After saying your "UNBEATABLE" & the best in the world in an interview during this tournament, I'm glad serral lost. Even though I'm a fan & would like to see him in the gsl. Zest was on fire up to this point & it showed.
@Tristan Han he won Blizzcon in 2018 and GSL vs the World in both 2018 and 2019 lmao, what a dumbass comment
@Tristan Han Lmfao I'm not talking about the team event of GSL vs the World dumbass, I'm talking about the MAIN EVENT, which is a ro16 1v1 individual tour with bo5 matches up until the bo7 final, which he won 2 years in a row. Do you even watch pro sc2 or do you just like making a fool of yourself in the comments section?
@Tristan Han uh, u do know that gsl vs the world has individual competition too right? liquipedia.net/starcraft2/2018_GSL_vs._the_World it's not only bo1 team event...
As someone who tries to achieve the best in everything, being a bit below expectation is super frustrating. Back when I was a kid, showing my parents a 70 when I almost always get above 90 is so crushing. Maybe the reason Koreans are always at the top of competitions is partially because of the type of support they get in situations like these. There’s no one to belittle you in times of failure. I’m not familiar with Korean culture, but I simply hate it when some people start saying Serral is no longer as good as he was before and then start disrespecting his efforts. If people are willing to express this publicly against anyone who performs below expectations, I’d say we don’t deserve more winners like Serral.
Koreans parents are quite harsh when their offspring fails.
@Tristan Han in korea its true and the 1st gen's in the states
These guys are both amazing.
Well one thing I love is people outside Korea are doing so well..... this helps starcraft grow ..... great match well done zest .... amazing serral
Serral v Maru will never happen unfortunately T_T
It has happen back in 2018, it was a best of 3. geez...
Sadly it does not happen very often, I would be ok with a Serral vs TY/Cure though
I saw it live
It happened Maru wiped the floor with drug boy!!
Based on Maru's performance against Dark, i'd say it would be epic, but my money is on Maru.
Zest outplayed him, gg !
@John Smith some people are stupid enough to read the comment section instead of actually watching the video first.
noob
Zest superb strategies, honestly can't believe he won, congrats!
LOL, Serral was up 2 -1 and I was about to write that it ruins the result when you know the video length because you can predict from the score who will win, and just as I'm about to type it Zest wins 2 games in the final 10 minutes when for sure I thought serral had this, brilliant.
Well, that was rather twatish of you.
id like to see people utilize Overseers more often, theres so much value to them using Contaminate and slowing down production and economy during early and mid game.
yo... i think zest works out... you see his arms and back?@!
haven't seen the finals yet, but zest is already the champ in my eyes. amazing game.
I hope Zest doesn't get speed run in the finals like he did vs. Maru in GSL and lost 4 matches in under 30 minutes.
I'm sure like most people, I really wanted to see a Serral vs Maru finals. We can all keep hoping!
Is this the first time Zest beat Serral?
Yea
Be strong serral, you are still the champion to me. Learn from your mistake and prepare better for next time.
Just realized how giant Serral's hands are... my goodness
Everything in Scandinavian region is Giant :D
Am Scandinavian, can confirm. ;)
Better to play sc2
Serall gave the series away when he gave up in the second game when he still had a chance to win.
how big is his chance though ? Not very much I think
He had an equal economy, there were roughly on the same footing, Zest lost almost all his expensive units which is much harder to recover from as a toss. I think Serral is uncomfortable playing unless he has built up an advantage - he is so used to dominating that he cant scrap out wins from behind.
@@faridmk3707 Doesn't look like equal footing to me. At the moment of the GG, Serral was at around 40 army supply while Zest was at 30. The difference is that half of Serral's army supply is on units still in eggs while Zest's entire army supply is already at his front door knocking. Yes, he can probably still clean those immortals up with his ravagers but the reinforcing zealots and the healthy archon make it nearly impossible. If the game went on Zest could and would definitely pull those immortals back until the ravagers are cleaned up and they would have regenerated shields by the time Serral's 20 supply of roaches starts hatching. The 3 ravagers and handful of lings wouldn't stand a chance against that wall of zealots and a healthy archon. Don't let Serral's 43 army supply fool you. Look at the production tab during the moment of the gg and figure out yourself how little Serral actually had at that time. Even pulling all his drones wouldn't have worked because, again, there's a healthy archon he has no answer for.
@@WatchPripara I guess I don't understand zerg as well as I thought I did, thank you for this in depth analysis!
@@faridmk3707 Don't worry, I thought the GG was too early as well when I watched it live. Only after I rewatched it just now did I notice that half of Serral's army supply is on newly queued roaches.
zest打得真是好！
these players are StarCraft monks of wisdom
Is it just me or since the last patch the ratio of a game going into late game is soooooo rare?
Nobody wants to go into lategame vs Zerg. Toss and Terran will try to finish it no matter what
@@finrodfel06 well i think this is bas for the audience
Nah you just dont want to go late game against the best player in the world
@@trixzify He means Zerg as a race specifically though. They have a stronger lategame than Protoss at the moment, even after the nerfs.
@@ZC.Andrew Funny how things change in about a year. Now Zerg does NOT want to do late game against Skytoss and want to finish it before mid-game.
I think Serral overthought since his great defeat against Hurricane, and he might thought his playstyle was apprehended. That's why he got ahead so far on 4th game (pretended Zest would do DT rush but actually adept rush), and chose a wrong 'macro' build on 5th game (Zest is really good at macro, better than Stats. And 5th game Zest didn't even macro at all.).
It seems that Serral has a slump now. I hope he could mentally recovered on next tournament :)
i can t believe zest won !!!
Awesome play of Zest
The moment, when you don't get up but someone else comes congratulates you first time. 1:00:25
Oh yes that's his sweat of fear in my hands 1:00:40
damn gg, not the biggest fan of serral but kinda sad to see him lose finally against a worthy opponent
Personally, I’m kinda ticked. He lost game 2 to a premature GG and got tilted by game 4. It wasn’t even a top tier protoss, it was zest who, while not bad, isn’t exactly in his prime.
Knock knock. Here to mine some salt from serral fangirls
JK Kim fanboy but yeah plenty of salt from me.
@@misspurdy27288 Not in his prime? Zest is definitely in the top 3 Protoss right now. His 2019, I agree, was meh, but in what we've seen of him so far this year, he is definitely one of the top Protoss. He is by far the highest rated Protoss on aligulac.com (we do have to take Aligulac ratings with a pinch of salt, but the fact that it thinks Zest is the best, probably suggests that he is among the best Protoss).
No hate though, just wanted to point out that Serral, although he probably still should have won, he did still go down at the hands of one of the current top Protoss.
Shinju Kim ohh he’s doing amazing this year, but i meant that he’s been around awhile and he’s getting towards the end of his run.
Poor Serral :\ he looked so upset at the end
Serral got involved in Zest's psychological warfare.
He was in a bad form that day. I'm so sad for him, he is a player of very rare strength, but indeed he is also a human being. And as we know, shit happens with everyone when we less expecting of it.
@Tristan Han typical gamer being a dick to someone in comments :p
@Tristan Han toxic comment
@Tristan Han You negatively stereotyped him based on one statement and denigrated the discussion into senseless name calling.
Serral can just never catch a break.
I think sometimes the commentary has a gap to leap over to understand the level that the players are on and(game 2 end for example) it leaves the people who don't understand what's going on with a gap in their understanding of what actually took place. They can perceive that something took place that wasn't actually going to. The wizards aren't afk like the announcers are...
just unbelievable seeing serral lose...like FINALLY!!!
hmm i found the handshakes at the end a little short to be honest, but i saw this in many games, tho
it's called "being Korean" lol
Zest, finally on his best form! I was so sad about Zest's performance ever since KT was gone. Fuck Life for that.
Zest was #1 on EPT rank at this point. I think serral maru and rogue tied for #2
No, this was back in the WCS system, not the current EPT system. And Zest was like No.15 in the KR ranking at the end of that season, he didnt even make it to Blizzon that year.
They were so even on supply in 2nd game, why did serral gg'ed ?
Bcause he saw zest eye of the tiger
The supply was eggs that were in production not the army that were out and ready to fight
had the same thought as you but as others have mentioned, the supply is deceiving because half of it was in eggs and Zest would have had around 20 seconds of free rein over Serral's 4th. Supply tells the story 90% of the time but this is the 10% of the time where it doesn't ig.
yeah, i too thought that Serral had a bad habit of gg too early. Maybe he should play for a bit longer. I suppose Serral did not see the enemy's supply or army size?
Also zerg early and mid-game army can lose to toss army at even double supply. Not cost efficient at all
I cant believe how cool in general these guys are when they lose the game. If I was Serral in this situation computer would be in at least 25 pieces and all the parts would be flying to the different parts of the hall. At least fiftieth row.
nice timed push from zest in game 5 after all
Serral is actually a patch zerg, finally revealed.
Zest just never let it get to late game where Serral always dominates with brood/infestor micro, I've noticed almost every single one of Serral's ZvP losses are early-mid game matches
Doesn't matter how great your macro/micro is if you can't use it. XD
今年的serral已到化3
Can somebody translate? 🙂
@@heoj1N This year Serral made it to 3rd (place).
@@KillerHurdz i think 化3 means 化境第3重, from XIAOSE's poisons before the match said that this year serral made it to the Ascending 3 a very superior level of the game, take ahead of other players a lot, they could be in 化2 or 化1 that cannot compete with 化3 , and then serral was defeated by zest... funny chinese meme lol
@@heoj1N i woult like to have a 3some wich serral
@@KillerHurdz nope bro, 化3 is a new meme in China from SCBoy XiaoSe which means a very very high level. That's the poison milk from xiaose.
I guess you cant A-Move mass roach ravager and win everytime huh?
Props to Zest. Incredibly well played
Cool, but I saw his finals. It was embarrassing...
@@qweewq-h7p yes. Just saw it too. In game 4 and 5 zests army of immortal stalker sentry loses to mass roaches while also rouge has 50 supply to spare on swarmhosts sniping nexuses as well.
All I saw was a clear case of imbalance. I dont care how good ones micro is, a mass roach army must never beat an equal supply army of higher tier units designed to counter said roach army.
Not to mention how both the stalker and immortal are trashed by lings as well, the most basic zerg unit
Jay Es the ling part is due to a lack of archons, a necessity for a protoss army, and losing to roaches was solely due to inferior micro. That army beats or pushes back those roaches 9 times out of 10, but rouge was simply better than zest who, frankly, only reached the finals because his semifinal opponent willingly threw game 2.
@@misspurdy27288 I saw that game. Kind of unfortunate. However, if indeed Serral would have won assuming Zest would not have thrown game 2, it would have been a repeat of 2019 with a final ZvZ. My concern is that while I agree with you that archons combined with immortals, zealots and stalker/sentry will push back a zerg army 9/10 times, the toss is required to produce high tier (archons) and medium tier (immortals) to be able to fend off mass low tier zerg units. This is where the imbalance lies. The roach is simply too good for its cost and the ling hard counters 2 of the core early and mid game toss units. ZvP right now is extremely imbalanced towards zerg. Mainly Toss are winning through either cannon rushes or timing pushes with their opponents unaware or tunnel versioned into macro game.
An equal skill level toss player will never beat a zerg player in a standard macro game.
Toss still has no proper answer to swarmhost/nidus play. This Is mainly because the toss army is too slow to move and its partially by design but still, its a bit too strong
Jay Es I don’t think this is an issue with zerg being stronger, I think this is a problem with how immobile and high-tech toss are. PvP for example, your only real option is pheonix (is that still a thing, or did it change?) And PvT, well that’s a bit more interesting since adepts are pretty okay vs the core terran unit (marines). PvT toss generally have an advantage, just like in TvZ terran generally have the advantage (even if players like serral make it look like that isn’t the case)
Personally, I think the immortal needs a slight buildrate buff and/or the toss need a new unit for early AOE. Toss lategame when you have that ball is nigh-unstoppable unless you’re way better than the protoss. Though I will admit they have more trouble reaching it than they should.
Zest made my day, the most stylish and highly effective eSports player
Whats the name of the song in the breaks for example min 43:00 - 44:20
That is what happens when you despise your opponent before the battle ends! A difficult lesson.
who tf chose the music for them walking out lol
Yeah that was embarassing
were there no audiences becuase of the virus or becuase sc is just losing fans ?
Hayden It's because of the virus. Whole IEM Katowice event is without a crowd.
Losing fans because no more new korean players, the game is dull/boring with no new changes and Zerg OP for the last two years.
@@acidosis1985 bro XD crowd wasnt allowed because of the coronavirus
People commenting Serral's humanity
Me still starting to watch the match: I guess he lost then, finally a race other than zerg potentially winning
Zerg still won the tournament, but Terran has been strong since then.
I missed this game let’s go season 7
42:42 He's looking into your SOUL. If you want to know what happens after you die, watch this most intense minute of your life, from 42:42 to 43:43
Looks like a ggg poster moment instead
Dude, chill!
looks more like a pale sickly boy to me.. but whatever have your dreams :)
What Keyboards are they using???? Thanks
Serral already believed he is unbeatable. After 3rd map even after he won he started tilting and it is all finished after that.
Overconfidence (because zerg op) and ignorant thinking that everyone else is shit (cause zerg OP)
@@acidosis1985 youre just a serral hater, u just gave so many stupid comments
@@Loysekiu no one cares what u think mate. Serral is meh
@@Loysekiu Serral has no crown at all during 2019. I like Serral but it is true he had an overconfidence nevertheless many Non-zerg professional players still think Zerg-Op.
@@YJKim-ys he's still the best player in the world, even most of the pros say that. U have no idea. :D
Those commentators tears were delicious!
Tristan Han you are so correct! They only focus on Serral like Zest didnt even exist.
@@supertony4708 Because all Zest can to do win is rush all in. In the real macro games Serral looked much better.
Starcraft 2 tournament! Exciting.
whats the songname at 3:34 before every game? thank you
i want to know too
It's probably a custom guitar rift made just for esl. It sounds really easy to make. Copy right stuff
It's called random guitar noise.
He could potentially get pass Rogue; "Maybe even Serral" - Wardi during Maru vs sOs
Damn, all talk, no results. Serral has not won any IEM, Dreamhack, WESG, Code S. He has only won a bunch of foreigner-exclusive WCS junior leagues, couple of showmatches and a BlizzCon win.
what we want in finals will never happen :( maru vs. serral
Also, where is the match of Serral vs Hurricane? Not gonna post it because Serral got utterly destroyed in that match?
These K players have the best handles...Zest, Special, Innovation, Stats, Classic and of course Maru....
Why is the game's OST being played twice at the same time in the first game?
Please What's the name of songs name on beginng of the match? Thank you
Music during pauses like at 42:50, what's dat? Can be found somewhere?
Whats the soundtrack on the start of game 2
Poor Serral...wait..the freakin guy is rich!!! Maru is out too...I really wanted to see Maru vs Serral.
It was meant to be the world finals in 2018, then stats and SoS fucked it up.
We all did
Nice spoiler
What are ugly comments. Looks like everyone in comments are pro players and were in semifinals. Some one tells, that it is just luck for Zest and someone that Serral is overrated? What a hell. Both players are great, but Zest did a better game and decisions this year, I guess he made more effort in training last year than Serral. Check other sports and competitions, you can not win all your life, specially each time or something is very inbalance. Even Kepchoge runner is not winning all Marathons, but nice prepared for German path.
I Serral want stay in ST, I sure he will change way he play next time and make new show.
I have experience to beat 1st player in Cossacks 2 (milord) in my teenage time. It took me a lot of training and practice, sure he was not practicing too much and I was in top 100, not top 10, but each time we played I started win and he was very angry ) I feel same for Zest, he had tartget to go and got it, very nice catch!
What I can't understand is even when both players are good, theses commentators won't shut up about how good serrals is. For them he's the best player ever, even when his ass is handed to him. Feels like these commentators are racially biased, and comments reflects it too.
@@HarshaSuranjith human nature is racially biased
@@HarshaSuranjith the commentators were saying how great both players were playing the entire time, and serral was the favorite. I dont know why you are complaining.
I died on the inside trying to read that
Anyone understand what this person is saying?
Remember when we could watch and have lan tourneys
I hope there's a battle for 3rd!
Ty
Rotterdam's commentary going down, comes off as 'the authority', which he isn't, he is just a half-way decent commentator; it breaks the good-dynamic with the other commentator, puts off discussion and commentator inter-play, and salts to me the viewing experience. He used to be not-like-that, now, much prefer the other commentator combos, my opinion
I've never found Rotterdam's commentary beneficial to a match. It's not insightful nor humorous.
I just used that Adept push(Game 4) to beat a Diamond Zerg. A little different I did not have a prism. I just used a well placed pylon to warp in from. At 5:25 I hit with 10 Adepts with glaives and attack 1 and a few seconds later warped in 8 more. He had Zerglings and 2 Queens.
Omg i cant belive, Serral lost. Really i See zest skills are insane. Two games of serral was very poor
Zest made more effort, as he just want to be better than Serral, Serral is already Serral and did not make more effort to be better ) How you can be better than yourself if you are the best, now he has reason to make more effrot to be better.
@@BuzzyManSport Only way for Serral to go is downhill and downhill he shall go and stay there.
@@BuzzyManSport Stop overthinking stupid shit.
T v Z? What's the point of this match? Just give Serral the thing.
Zerg is not OP. It's finally balanced.
Why did Serral give up so fast in game 2? I thought he was still in the game.
Sometimes giving up and getting onto a fresh, new game is a good play in a tournament setting... It can be detrimental mentally to linger on losing games. That's probably why. Plus Zest was on 4 bases and probably wouldve kept reinforcing.
@@TD-yx8yo no that wasn't why
I think the Zerg nerf hurts him so hard.
Obviously, even so zerg is still OP. Once gets balance out, bye Serral.
@@acidosis1985 Oh no, could it be? Serral is a *patch zerg* ?????
@@shinjukim8576 still is. zerg still op
Goddamn it's satisfying to watch a zero get the living shit beat out of them.
My fans say that Serral has a hostkey error that cannot buy Roach 19: 04- 19:28. Game no GG. I like Serral Vs Stats
@Tristan Han Why so emotional? I mean you're right but letting yourself get fired up like that over a random internet comment is silly.
serral keeping zest in trouble :)
Serral's cockiness got the best of him. If he went into this one with a cool head, he would have easily taken the guy out
If you think he was cocky and didn't prepare for Zest you don't follow StarCraft well enough...
@@brentwilson5512 I'm not saying he didn't prepare I'm saying I don't remember him losing in such short games in the same match-up
the missmicro on the banelings that just pooped out when zest attacked him last game was painfull :/
i think he could have defended that attack maybe if he used the bains that pooped out on the first wave of zealots.
that would have been all zealots instantly gone maybe even some bainling damage on the archons too.
the zerglings / raoches would kill the archons that are like 1/2 dead and than its "only" zealots and phenix.
Zest dropping some dope walls in Game 2
Zest está tão gostoso e ainda derrotou o (quase) imbatível Serral...
1:00:47 I felt that bro! 😑
Go protoss !!!!