Holy crap what a crazy game, reminds me of a game I watched where there was a crazy base race and seemingly the only unit left on the map was a Zealot, all he had to do was kill the enemy structures. There was a spawning pool and two evolution chambers, he killed one building, and the broodlings that spawned got the zealot to 1/4 HP. The protoss player knew that when he killed the next building, the broodlings would kill the Zealot and the zerg would still have one building left, ending in a draw. So the protoss started attacking both buildings alternating, so that he could kill one building, and then the other building right after, before the broodlings could kill him. He did so, but the zerg player had one drone left and right before he killed the evolution chambers, he started building an assimilator somewhere on the map, so the game had to end in a draw.
Finished watching it and gotta tell that was the best game i have experienced in ny life! Awesome casting lowko keep up the good work tysm for this cast lowko!
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The initiatives these pros use is amazing! Blocking surface area with changelings and obscurring vision with overlords is not something I would have thought of at the time.
17:44 Creator empties his sentry of energy by summoning two hallucinated pheonixes before sacrificing it. It's the little things like this that I find so interesting at the pro level
Lowko man, thank your for that Intro. I missed it so much! Sidenote: i actually kept watching your video because of that energetic intro during a time that was quite hard for me to motivate. I never played SC2 but find myself sometimes watching replays. Lately especially yours. So keep up the great work buddy :).
@@Tonatsi Thank you for your suggestion. I actually started playing the campaign after watching the matches again :D. And it is indeed a good story, really cool game. I'm glad that at least a the main game and a part of the campaign is free to play now. Nevertheless competitive 1v1 in a RTS is always a whole different experience.
As you said many times, this match is a great example of unexplored territory and that's what I found most fun about. Unorthodox methods and tatics made for fun time
Your commentary is literally the best. F Starcraft was a popular game, then you would definitely be creator of the year. I hope you always make SC2 content. I’m literally a bot, but I love watching your videos.
I call the Tempest ability, 'Orange Ammo", lol...and Lowko...'Orange Ammo' hits both ground units and structures, not just structures, XD. That ending was insane!!
It is awsome to to see how someone who saw thousands of variations, still can get hyped after al these years without faking it! (And yes, I also was dibbydabbing my feet for the last 10min)
37:11 I almost feel like leaving was worse because the tempests still can get their shots off and now you've abandoned them, whereas staying means you still take the shots, but maybe can save one from the corruptor cloud or at least get some kills of your own especially given the resource situation would have been favourable.
@@slavicman-bd7jn The way it grabs and pulls capital ships like they are ping-pong balls doesnt seem balanced at all. I wouldnt change much, but tweak its Abduct so that in order to pull massive ships like Carrier, Mothership or Battlecruiser, it would need to get closer. It would still have its pull, but in order to just yoink mothership, zerg players would have to use tactics, either by using multiple vipers in a chain on having to pull their army closer.
rewatching this 1 again.. that last match was just insanity.. can only imagine what woulda happened if Dark had either 1 or 2 more lurkers.. or 1 or 2 more broods
Wow I thought this game was over so many times and I thought it was because of creator punting it with fighting with his split up army, but no, there was much more left. Definitely a great game!
At that time Zerg might've had bank to counter zealots. I think that's why he hid them later, to run Zerg dry on other units over time and check if the switch will happen again. Since protoss couldn't take out air army and couldn't reliably have detection with last pushes Zerg missed last chances of adding lurkers.... :/
@@goatfish480 However as said Lowko, it's kind of balance late game between zerg and protoss right now (after many buff for protoss), if you add a buff for the zerg late game, then the toss are back to not being able to win anything past a certain point.
Just before Creator remaxed on stalkers i thought "hmm what does Dark actually have to defend vs. stalker zealots?" I think Creator waited so long because he didnt knew how Darks bank looked like.
Zerg building that costs 30 minerals, it's invisible mine in the ground which on impact spawns broodlings, as every Zerg building after destruction... that could make that function a bit useful even in "not clutch cheesy early" games...
I was like, you know protoss has shitload of minerals so zealots will come. Turtle up in a corner blocking a patch with evo chambers with queens behind them. + Transfuse to keep them allive. Use corruptor to destroy the buildings slowly.
Am I the only one who got chills when the zealots charged the mighty QUEEN horde ???? And them bad boys just sliced right through them !!! INCREDIBLE !!!!
I think if he burrow micro'd the weak queens once he was out of energy for transfuse he would have won. That was the turning point in the game. He only saved like 5 queens or something with burrow long after the battle.
At 25mins you were wondering why he used Prismatic Alignment, and I think I know why: If the Hydras chose to engage and not run back like they were, there was a chance he could have sniped some Overseers in the process. However, by turning on the alignment he basically guaranteed that the Zerg wouldnt stick around with his Overseers, and since Momma wasn't far that meant Hydras had to run as well.
12:48 How would it have anything to do with how they are queen injecting? Swarmhost is on A, next to both S and Z so it's just an easy miss-click to make.
I love the craziness of the late Late LATE game tactics. Hiding, obscuring, changling blocking and just outright swamping his last building was sensational. Can't kill him if you can't click on him, or see him, or even A move. Way to fight right down to the very last second.
I just like to point out the insane power levels Zerg still possesses, where they can be equal in Supply maxed out and the protoss can have a 10,000 mineral lead on the Zerg and it can come this close...
This was such an entertaining game and didn't want to start with balance whine but...yeah, Creator had control on 3/4 of the map and Dark almost came back with spore crawlers and queens? I know I suck in SC2 but I kinda feel like zergs has many small abilities that pile up and snowball (like being able to move static defense and repair it with only energy or getting "free" energy on vipers)
@@carepot6671 in the interest of balance Zerg should be very fragile minions which are efficient and can be replaced rapidly, you can't have a stout Army which take efficient trades and can Remax rapidly, there is no balance in that
I think it's just a matchup thing, minerals mean very little for a protoss player fighting a flying army, I do think that queens are very extremely cost efficient, specially for a minerals only unit, transfussion's nuts, and as we saw in that serral vs protoss game that Lowko casted, queens make for a stupid efficienct end-game mineral dump
What a game!! definitely one of the best games of seen recently. ggwp! glad creator took that one, by the skin of his... zealot blades? Dark was in hard Call of Duty camp mode in that ending haha!
I'm wondering about something. How effective do you think Dual nydus worm would be for base defense on wide maps? The main draw back for nydus worms is the load unload time required Need to get back to base? Take the subway A small hit squad is attacking your 4'th? Take the subway
Idea for why activate Prismatic something on Void Rays vs Hydralisks: to make them slower, so when Hydras retreat Voids Rays are too slow to catch up and end up in ambush, meaning they all would die.
Wicked game but I think it was trumped by TY vs. Maru from the GSL finals the other night. That whole series was just like... Holy shit... I'd say this was probably a solid second, though. The games this year, in general, really have been top notch, like you said.
I believe Creator might be activating prismatic alignment vs the hydra ball to deal bonus damage if a void ray was to focus an overseer instead, killing it faster since it s armored
Damn if dark would have realized earlier that he has burrow or that one lurker left he might have had a chance cause there wasnt any detection around and that one lurker could have done a lot if there are so many zealots in its path. also Lowkos input at the end to created some kind of wall off with spores could have done s.th. cause there was one brood still left which could have sieged all protoss buildings until they eventually get destroyed
The zergling attack at 48 minutes was painful. Creator only had one pylon but Dark didn't attack that pylon and lost a lot of zerglings to the photon cannons.
Creator has become a much better player. Last year he looked pretty weak against other top players, but now he took this beatiful fight against Dark. Thanks for the cast Lowko.
What I was thinking. Two racing powers have exhausted the resources of a map for win. For us humans on Earth there is no win if the other player loses and the winner is left with depleted wasteland.
"Today we retake our homeworld!"
And with it our legacy
WITH OUR NEW VOID RAYS!!!
Ik! Vote
POWER OVERWHELMING
@@eduardocaca9142 sc2 legacy of the void coming 2016
"all you need is void rays, gold league players have known this for years"
never have I felt so called out and properly offended
Subscribed, this was epic!
If it works, it works ;)
Holy crap what a crazy game, reminds me of a game I watched where there was a crazy base race and seemingly the only unit left on the map was a Zealot, all he had to do was kill the enemy structures. There was a spawning pool and two evolution chambers, he killed one building, and the broodlings that spawned got the zealot to 1/4 HP. The protoss player knew that when he killed the next building, the broodlings would kill the Zealot and the zerg would still have one building left, ending in a draw. So the protoss started attacking both buildings alternating, so that he could kill one building, and then the other building right after, before the broodlings could kill him. He did so, but the zerg player had one drone left and right before he killed the evolution chambers, he started building an assimilator somewhere on the map, so the game had to end in a draw.
*sees video length*
“This must be quite a crazy best of 3”
Nope
Finished watching it and gotta tell that was the best game i have experienced in ny life! Awesome casting lowko keep up the good work tysm for this cast lowko!
For the first time, the main objective has been completed
The upgrade is: Master Leggy Lighting Shield!
damn.... i wanted a microwave
Close!
@@LowkoTV It wasn't Special. It was Creator.
@@LowkoTV Well if not your microwave, could I have your blender?
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8:44 hell yeah it did
The initiatives these pros use is amazing! Blocking surface area with changelings and obscurring vision with overlords is not something I would have thought of at the time.
this was the best starcraft2 game I've ever seen!
Incredible game! Final move with changelings and overlords was nuts, thank you for casting this, Lowko!
Maybe blinding cloud too them zealots just for delay lololol
17:44 Creator empties his sentry of energy by summoning two hallucinated pheonixes before sacrificing it. It's the little things like this that I find so interesting at the pro level
Lowko man, thank your for that Intro. I missed it so much! Sidenote: i actually kept watching your video because of that energetic intro during a time that was quite hard for me to motivate. I never played SC2 but find myself sometimes watching replays. Lately especially yours. So keep up the great work buddy :).
SC2 is free, you should play the campaign if nothing else, it’s got a good story and isn’t hard on easy difficulty!
@@Tonatsi Thank you for your suggestion. I actually started playing the campaign after watching the matches again :D. And it is indeed a good story, really cool game. I'm glad that at least a the main game and a part of the campaign is free to play now. Nevertheless competitive 1v1 in a RTS is always a whole different experience.
The upgrade is: Majestic electric boogaloo
Hahaha. Actually its Reforged Archmage fire-deathball
@@GorastMK mmmm im pretty sure its Experimental tazer water baloon.
@@GorastMK yeah, it makes it makes the attack of the tempest filled with fire!
Holy insanity! This honestly is one of the best games of SC2 I watched all year!
The fight for that one base shows how amazing Starcraft can be. The game became a resource war at that point and I loved it
Incredible game
Incredible casting, your commentary actually made me laugh out loud
That was an incredible match to the bitter end and I like it! XD
Thanks for the incredible casts and back to catching up. ^^
Who would win, a giant flying Protoss city or one grabby boi
Glad you mentioned this on Twitch today!! I've been hyped since then!
creator making 60 zealots at the 50 minute mark: ENTARO TASSADAR! FOR AIUR!
also lowko like button has been hit
This game was incredible. Thank you Lowko for the great job casting. Hope we'll see more like this!
I just want to point out that 1 probe survived. Could it be the legendary Probius?
It was the probe from the legacy of the void cinematic trailer.
You can tell because the game was won by a hoard of zealots with charge.
@@flappy7373 Yeah it probably is
thumbnail looks like something straight out of the campaign
Long but awesome. Love the Mineout makes your decisions so much more intense and impactful.
As you said many times, this match is a great example of unexplored territory and that's what I found most fun about. Unorthodox methods and tatics made for fun time
I don't know how to play SC2 but I keep watching these videos.. this game is fun to watch! I'm learning how the game goes by watching these videos
Started following today but met the channel three days ago! just started in starcraft weeks ago and seeing these videos is such a good time :3
Your commentary is literally the best. F Starcraft was a popular game, then you would definitely be creator of the year. I hope you always make SC2 content. I’m literally a bot, but I love watching your videos.
Two packages of popcorn were eaten during this match. Thx for the video! That was absolutely great :D
I call the Tempest ability, 'Orange Ammo", lol...and Lowko...'Orange Ammo' hits both ground units and structures, not just structures, XD.
That ending was insane!!
It doesn't get any additional damage against units.
@@NuminorChanel then why does it activate/turn orange when the Tempests auto-attack a ground unit--just for visual effect?
@@Spartsou Just for visual effect. The upgrade changes the anti-ground attack of tempests to have +40 damage vs structures and become orange.
@@rytan4516 hmm...I'm going to have to get used to that, lol! Thanks for helping me understand the upgrade. :)
Spoilers
I thought Creator was gonna throw his army away with that last fight, I didn't realize the last spore was also hiding there xD
Had he had one disruptor or a bunch of templars it would be a different story ;)
I've said it before, but I am so happy to see void rays come back into the meta! Those have been one of my favorite units in the whole game since WoL.
Tectonic destabilazers, tempest anti ground upgrade, increases ag damage by 40. From tectonic plates, the Earth's crust, and what makes continents.
Amazing game, amazing cast
It is awsome to to see how someone who saw thousands of variations, still can get hyped after al these years without faking it! (And yes, I also was dibbydabbing my feet for the last 10min)
37:11 I almost feel like leaving was worse because the tempests still can get their shots off and now you've abandoned them, whereas staying means you still take the shots, but maybe can save one from the corruptor cloud or at least get some kills of your own especially given the resource situation would have been favourable.
"So they buffed up those protoss units" ... instantly 3 carriers get yoinked and killed
The yoink and neural parasite make no sense and shouldn't be in the game lol.
@@chamber20projects viper is a really cool unit tho and i think its balanced
@@slavicman-bd7jn The way it grabs and pulls capital ships like they are ping-pong balls doesnt seem balanced at all. I wouldnt change much, but tweak its Abduct so that in order to pull massive ships like Carrier, Mothership or Battlecruiser, it would need to get closer. It would still have its pull, but in order to just yoink mothership, zerg players would have to use tactics, either by using multiple vipers in a chain on having to pull their army closer.
That was absolutely insane
rewatching this 1 again..
that last match was just insanity.. can only imagine what woulda happened if Dark had either 1 or 2 more lurkers.. or 1 or 2 more broods
It's pronounced Jagannatha :P
Thanks Ian!
@@LowkoTV if you looking for a real answer its jug-un-naath
:) good cast
Of course it is lol
I thought it was pronounced jacuzzi?
Thanks for you'r legendary start! That made my day much better!
That game was something special!
I just love your casting Lowko! Keep up the good work!
What the heck dude! This game was awesome, that last move by the zerg; the changeling block :D
14:28 you're not fooling _anyone_ with that edit, Mr. Lowko!
Wow I thought this game was over so many times and I thought it was because of creator punting it with fighting with his split up army, but no, there was much more left. Definitely a great game!
I was yelling for like half the game. "Kill the broods and make a ton of zealots!" It took way too long to get there
It only works after zerg's completely broke on gas, so yeah it wouldn't have been a good idea 80% of the game.
At that time Zerg might've had bank to counter zealots. I think that's why he hid them later, to run Zerg dry on other units over time and check if the switch will happen again. Since protoss couldn't take out air army and couldn't reliably have detection with last pushes Zerg missed last chances of adding lurkers.... :/
Neh far from game of the year. PvZ to me is boring and seems stale. Zerg really need a true late game unit buff. The mine the whole map gets old.
@@goatfish480 However as said Lowko, it's kind of balance late game between zerg and protoss right now (after many buff for protoss), if you add a buff for the zerg late game, then the toss are back to not being able to win anything past a certain point.
Just before Creator remaxed on stalkers i thought "hmm what does Dark actually have to defend vs. stalker zealots?"
I think Creator waited so long because he didnt knew how Darks bank looked like.
The best game of this year
Zerg building that costs 30 minerals, it's invisible mine in the ground which on impact spawns broodlings, as every Zerg building after destruction... that could make that function a bit useful even in "not clutch cheesy early" games...
30:13 - maxed out supply, 11,000 minerals, and all units clumped up in a single grand armada, yet no canons for base defense? can someone explain why?
Jagannaananatha. One day we’ll get that name down.
I think imma stick with “Looooooonnnnngggg Map”.
Ma-ha-pa-jit ✖
Ma-pa--ha-jit ✖
Ma-ha--ja-pit ✖
Ma-ja-pa-hit ✔
I think map will be removed before the name will be learned....
16:25 lowko I believe that upgrade is called pyroblast.
Thanks for the cast!
I was like, you know protoss has shitload of minerals so zealots will come. Turtle up in a corner blocking a patch with evo chambers with queens behind them. + Transfuse to keep them allive. Use corruptor to destroy the buildings slowly.
33:05 this is the commentary I watch these video for.
Great game! Very nice cast. Many thanks!
Am I the only one who got chills when the zealots charged the mighty QUEEN horde ???? And them bad boys just sliced right through them !!! INCREDIBLE !!!!
I think if he burrow micro'd the weak queens once he was out of energy for transfuse he would have won. That was the turning point in the game. He only saved like 5 queens or something with burrow long after the battle.
no, you are not the only one
At 25mins you were wondering why he used Prismatic Alignment, and I think I know why: If the Hydras chose to engage and not run back like they were, there was a chance he could have sniped some Overseers in the process. However, by turning on the alignment he basically guaranteed that the Zerg wouldnt stick around with his Overseers, and since Momma wasn't far that meant Hydras had to run as well.
Unbelievable game of Starcraft! Probably my favourite game I've ever seen!
Great game! Thanks for your casting good sir
12:48 How would it have anything to do with how they are queen injecting?
Swarmhost is on A, next to both S and Z so it's just an easy miss-click to make.
I love the craziness of the late Late LATE game tactics.
Hiding, obscuring, changling blocking and just outright swamping his last building was sensational.
Can't kill him if you can't click on him, or see him, or even A move.
Way to fight right down to the very last second.
Yeah! With an emphasis on "to the very last second"!
I just like to point out the insane power levels Zerg still possesses, where they can be equal in Supply maxed out and the protoss can have a 10,000 mineral lead on the Zerg and it can come this close...
This was such an entertaining game and didn't want to start with balance whine but...yeah, Creator had control on 3/4 of the map and Dark almost came back with spore crawlers and queens? I know I suck in SC2 but I kinda feel like zergs has many small abilities that pile up and snowball (like being able to move static defense and repair it with only energy or getting "free" energy on vipers)
@@carepot6671 in the interest of balance Zerg should be very fragile minions which are efficient and can be replaced rapidly, you can't have a stout Army which take efficient trades and can Remax rapidly, there is no balance in that
I think it's just a matchup thing, minerals mean very little for a protoss player fighting a flying army, I do think that queens are very extremely cost efficient, specially for a minerals only unit, transfussion's nuts, and as we saw in that serral vs protoss game that Lowko casted, queens make for a stupid efficienct end-game mineral dump
This is the best Starcraft match I’ve ever seen. Insane
The thing I miss about the Mothership is the black hole ability, and the Archon Toilet. That was my alltime fave strat.
I remember that TY vs Creator game, now Creator brought up another exciting game. One of the most interesting games so far
17:41 "Your services are no longer required."
"Beep boop" in sad robot
This match is probably the most insane that I have ever seen in my years playing Starcraft
Creator: why should win so easily when I can make it exciting.
:) Excellent remark!
What in the fuck was that conclusion, that fight, Queens vs Zealots. Jesus Christ what a roller coaster of a game.
What a game!! definitely one of the best games of seen recently. ggwp! glad creator took that one, by the skin of his... zealot blades? Dark was in hard Call of Duty camp mode in that ending haha!
This was an insane game!
24:35 not how I expected lurkers to sound
I'm wondering about something. How effective do you think Dual nydus worm would be for base defense on wide maps? The main draw back for nydus worms is the load unload time required
Need to get back to base? Take the subway
A small hit squad is attacking your 4'th? Take the subway
I have to agree. This is the best game I have seen. Like that was ridiculous and I loved it.
Idea for why activate Prismatic something on Void Rays vs Hydralisks: to make them slower, so when Hydras retreat Voids Rays are too slow to catch up and end up in ambush, meaning they all would die.
Absolutely best game of 2020, confirmed yet again after watching again
Wicked game but I think it was trumped by TY vs. Maru from the GSL finals the other night. That whole series was just like... Holy shit... I'd say this was probably a solid second, though.
The games this year, in general, really have been top notch, like you said.
It makes the beam THICCCCC!
Incredible!! I think that sums this up
thats why i set all unit buildings to 6 and tab through and all bases to 0... 1-5 for units. sometimes u need to crazy micro
I believe Creator might be activating prismatic alignment vs the hydra ball to deal bonus damage if a void ray was to focus an overseer instead, killing it faster since it s armored
Damn if dark would have realized earlier that he has burrow or that one lurker left he might have had a chance cause there wasnt any detection around and that one lurker could have done a lot if there are so many zealots in its path. also Lowkos input at the end to created some kind of wall off with spores could have done s.th. cause there was one brood still left which could have sieged all protoss buildings until they eventually get destroyed
i really think this is the best game of SC i've ever seen
Wow, I wish I knew it's starting with the canonical intro: I'd find time to watch it instantly! ;D
16:30 - Lightning ballz
The zergling attack at 48 minutes was painful. Creator only had one pylon but Dark didn't attack that pylon and lost a lot of zerglings to the photon cannons.
That was SICK!
That game was pure madness!
I'm so bad at this game, but damn it's always beautiful to watch pros!
16:24 oh I know that one, Its called the Tempest Fireball upgrade
Finally a good game! Zerg had a lot of chances to win but damn nice mistakes for the Protoss to do the Zealot strategy.
Creator has become a much better player. Last year he looked pretty weak against other top players, but now he took this beatiful fight against Dark. Thanks for the cast Lowko.
That is ez trivia this time:
Tempest ground damage: Tectonic Destabilizers, Kinda like that name that’s why I remember it
"Ja -ga - na - nat - nath - nath - nath - ta" - Best starting quote 2020
What a masterpiece game, so many new situations. Perfect.
WHAT!? Tempests now go FireBall Pew pew!?!? Lowko!? what is this?!
What I was thinking.
Two racing powers have exhausted the resources of a map for win.
For us humans on Earth there is no win if the other player loses and the winner is left with depleted wasteland.
Haha you sarcasm is next level fun!
Lowko.. is there a reason that the overseers "contaminate" ability isnt really used? would shut down photon cannons wouldnt it?
Think it only halts production in a structure for a short time
@@williammilne8012 pretty sure it also halts static defense for a short time
That was an amazing game. Just amazing. Great casting Lowko. I would hit Like twice if I could.