Against protoss its decently possible since you just need a probe for a few second to build a nexus and other buildings. Against terran is almost impossible because you need multiple neurals to finish the build, the terran easily spots what you are doing in between the neurals (meaning you have to guard it way better) and you need to ensure your own units and defenses dont kill the scv.
This has to be the best yet hardest challenge by a lot, ever. Love it, want to see it! :D Edit: What would that actually mean, realisticly? Infestorrush so quick that you can intercept the worker at the natural? Is this even possible? The more I think about it, the more exited I get :D
Yeah, there are very sick combinations, like Thors in a nydus or recalling banelings with a mothership or dropping ultras with a medivac. I would LOVE to see all that, but these kind of strategies are almost impossible to pull of.
Cheese idea: Rush burrow. Burrow zerglings in a circle around where they're going to expand without blocking it, wait for their nexus/hatch to finish, then unburrow pre-surrounded and take it out.
I think nydus swarm host is quite good. Very fun to watch. I think nydus lurker would also be fun. I'm not sure if lurkers can be built fast enough though, to do a cheese. I envision of nydus popping into his main base and 12 lurkers popping out and then boom all his buildings are destroyed in about 5 seconds.
as an ex semi-pro zerg for Psistorm Gaming, I will enjoy seeing what uthermal's brain, and zerg cheese can come up with ! 17gas 17pool is decent at causing disruption. But if you get blocked you need to take your third, which is annoying. I personally think that another opening will give you more chaotic options: 15pool (before ov) 14gas, 15ov, (make one single drone when ov pops) put only 2 drones into gas. Make 6 lings, drone to 22 supply, take natural, take ling speed (with 2 drones it should line up perfectly after you take your nat) 22 ov, leave 2 drones on gas to take a fast lair, or very fast burrow, or fast bane next, or ect. 36 supply ov and burrow tech. 44 ov and lair, and 2 spores, 52 take 3 more gas, and choose your tech. furthermore, 2 base tech expand will likely allow you to come up with the most random cheese builds. including 2 base swarm host, 2 base hydra lurker drops, ect ect.
I have a fun strategy that I would love to see uthurmal do which is lurker drop. Kinda bad tbh but who cares A different one that actually works super well that i think dark used inspired by erik is you rush lair and get ovi speed with roaches. What erik did was queen drop tumors to block expansions but instead you can use the queens offensively make a lot more roaches It completely decitmated stargate and banshee openings since their unit count is rather low and you actually have good anti air. Tbh I did this cheese myself before I saw dark cause I messed up the build but nvm that.
That last game almost felt like Day9 and Apollo mind games chat. 'So you build your natural, and you transfer ALL your drones to it, so you can hude lings in your main. But your opponent doesn't scout so doesn't see your natural saturation... and then you just go all in anyways. MIND GAMES.'
I’ve always wanted to see someone utilize overlords as a way of messing up someone’s micro somehow. Just take a cloud of overlords with speed and make it difficult to either target your units or perhaps to control their own units? I imagine someone splitting marines vs banes for example and having a hard time seeing properly to click to kill banes because there’s an overlord cloud above the battle.
For a zerg build vs zerg: go up to 14 drones, double extractor trick, then send a dron for the second hatchery, another dron for the extractor, and the pool as soon as you have the minerals. One more dron to go back to 14, as soon as the extractor is done 3 drones there to harvest 100 gas asap. Time to build two overlords Your second hatchery and the spawning pool should finish around the same time, as well as you getting 100 gas, now you have to start lings speed, build a queen and take off all drones from gas Fron now on you build only lings and when speed finish you go for a ling flood. Main advantage is limgs speed 15-30 secs earlier than the other guy and massive army. You'll have to dance with banes tho
I think you might have destroyed the ladder with that swarm host build.😂😂 Since this video came out, I've had so many zerg players nydus swarm hosts. Props to you
cheese challenge idea: Blot out the Sun In honor of a classic, make an absurd amount of overlords, fly the giant mass over the enemy base, and drop an army on their heads while generating creep. any units allowed except flyers, seers allowed, obv you need drops. The idea is they cant micro at ALL because of how many lords you have, and their units get too caught up shooting overlords instead of the actual army eating their base. WarOwl did it first, coined the phrase "all your base r belong to me" and it was legendary
Great video. Love the way you explain the flow of the game. Would love to see you try infestor fungal drops on their mineral lines. then finish with what ever unit you want.
I believe the Zerg player Lorimbo has some of the best Zerg ladder cheese builds out there. I remember an hilarious video about his builds on Harstem's channel.
Banelings, Swarmhosts and 20 alternate unit army supply to GM. Pick whatever you want but only one per game and only 20 supply. More excited for uThermal to become a baneling monster.
Cheese idea, Nibus highways. Just create like tons of nibus worms all over your base and map, so you can move your entire army across the map very fast.
Really glad you're back producing your best type of content. The other stuff content wasn't as engaging without the challenge process of build development and refinement. That's a big element of what makes your content work for me at least - innovation, exploration, refinement. I still watched videos but definitely not as consistently.
Factory-in-their-base variant: Dropper lord a queen into the corner of their base, poop creep, and start planting down creep tumors. Spread as much creep as you can in their base without being spotted.
So this is extraordinarily silly, but hear me out... Overseers, obviously, don't cost supply. So in theory, you could make an insane amount of overseers, and use mass changelings on hold command to really mess up your opponent's ability to move their units. I've always wanted to try to mess with it to troll, but I don't have the mechanics uThermal does of course. Would love to see this!
I want to see a whole nydus rush only run. You're the only one crazy enough to pull it off. Games with a lot of nydus become very chaotic and fun. You get a subway system when the opponent has to walk like a noob.
Fast burrow, can you put a ling on every base on their side of the map (except main and possibly nat)? Then if you manage to kill the nat, burrow a ling there too and sit back for a bit
I main Swarm Host nydus builds when playing team games for the lols. Been doing it for years and recently people have been doing it more regularly. Need to micro it a bit more than what's happening here. Multi Nydus, pull them in and out partially launching, individual hold positions on locust etc. and can do massive damage. Also, yes, you would have killed that Nexus 100 percent if you targeted.
I don't know if it is possible, but I want you to burrow 6 or so slow banelings at opponent's likely 3rd mineral line before that base gets taken, then put heavy muta pressure on natural to chase even more workers to 3rd. Kaboom.
Hey Mark, thanks for the games. I wonder if you could make this work: use the overseer ability in a cheese that stops production and research to maintain opponent at no upgrade while you take 1/1 and 2/2 ! Or a contaminate to grandmaster serie :)
ZvZ I like to start out standard and then make an evo chamber after the spawning pool and rush out +1 melee and then speed after. If you hold against the initial wave of lings, you win.
Hows about you make a video where you infest scvs and probes and build a zerg hybrid race I know if anyone can make it happen, its you. I assume making a terran-zerg-hybrid army is kinda difficult
Delicious Zerg cheese. I would suggest dropping 4 infestors in 2 mineral lines and killing most workers. Don’t know if the new patch will make it non viable. The other one must involve ultras and queens for transfuse, with burrow for extra micro power.
I want 2 base muta rush, Bly inspired shenanigans, a roach rush, baneling dropper lord, 12 pool and maybe a 6 minute hydra all in... (less cheese and more just disgustingly unexpected the hydra all in)
Is it a viable strategy to have 1 or 2 prism full of high templar, and you use your main army to occupy enemy army to position the prism from side or behind so you can unleash a full storm on the enemy army? Haven't watched enough of pro protoss match to know if this a often used tactic
I would like to see some ultralisks, I have seen many of your videos and there were no ultralisks in any of them. It would be nice to see you cheese or simply play with ultralisks
Hopfully this helps but 26 drones in minerals off 2 bases allows you to constantly produce units otherwise you simply can’t afford to spend your larva.
I want you to take control of their probes/scvs then build a protoss/terran army as zerg. That would be the most funny yet difficult challenge.
Against protoss its decently possible since you just need a probe for a few second to build a nexus and other buildings. Against terran is almost impossible because you need multiple neurals to finish the build, the terran easily spots what you are doing in between the neurals (meaning you have to guard it way better) and you need to ensure your own units and defenses dont kill the scv.
I’ve had that done to me on the ladder lmao definitely should do it
That would be beautiful
This has to be the best yet hardest challenge by a lot, ever. Love it, want to see it! :D
Edit: What would that actually mean, realisticly? Infestorrush so quick that you can intercept the worker at the natural? Is this even possible? The more I think about it, the more exited I get :D
Yeah, there are very sick combinations, like Thors in a nydus or recalling banelings with a mothership or dropping ultras with a medivac. I would LOVE to see all that, but these kind of strategies are almost impossible to pull of.
The queen popping in and out of the nydus to kill the oracle was hilarious 🤣
Yep that was priceless :D
Cheese idea: Rush burrow. Burrow zerglings in a circle around where they're going to expand without blocking it, wait for their nexus/hatch to finish, then unburrow pre-surrounded and take it out.
An even better variation is to burrow banelings next to the mineral line. Wait for them to expand and transfer their workers, then boom!
@@WhitePointerGamingburrow bonanza cheese! Expect the unexpected
Sooo many options with burrow, defensive, offensive, traps, roaches, investors... Ideally combined with a targeted destruction of detection.
I think nydus swarm host is quite good. Very fun to watch.
I think nydus lurker would also be fun. I'm not sure if lurkers can be built fast enough though, to do a cheese.
I envision of nydus popping into his main base and 12 lurkers popping out and then boom all his buildings are destroyed in about 5 seconds.
While I'm not an SC2 player myself, I was drawn in by the man, and I must say, he truly delivered beyond expectations.
as an ex semi-pro zerg for Psistorm Gaming, I will enjoy seeing what uthermal's brain, and zerg cheese can come up with ! 17gas 17pool is decent at causing disruption. But if you get blocked you need to take your third, which is annoying. I personally think that another opening will give you more chaotic options: 15pool (before ov) 14gas, 15ov, (make one single drone when ov pops) put only 2 drones into gas. Make 6 lings, drone to 22 supply, take natural, take ling speed (with 2 drones it should line up perfectly after you take your nat) 22 ov, leave 2 drones on gas to take a fast lair, or very fast burrow, or fast bane next, or ect. 36 supply ov and burrow tech. 44 ov and lair, and 2 spores, 52 take 3 more gas, and choose your tech.
furthermore, 2 base tech expand will likely allow you to come up with the most random cheese builds. including 2 base swarm host, 2 base hydra lurker drops, ect ect.
uThermal you are amazing to watch! And the way you approach the game so chill, helps us normal players just to give things a try!
The" burrow around future ccs and surround when completed" suggested by someone else sounds really cool
Zerg Rush IDEAS:
-- 12pool into Hive: adrenal-upgrade zerglings, vipers!
-- Mass Baneline Mine, Infestor + Burrow + Dropper-Lords (hide infestors in dropper-lords AND burrow...)
The Neural challenge is still my #1 request. Has been for ages....would love to see you do it!
"I don't know how the hell that's gonna work, but let's begin"
mood tbh
I would like to see overlord-related cheese.
overlord rush ftw!
wouldnt it be cool ifyou could burrow airzerg
I have a fun strategy that I would love to see uthurmal do which is lurker drop. Kinda bad tbh but who cares
A different one that actually works super well that i think dark used inspired by erik is you rush lair and get ovi speed with roaches. What erik did was queen drop tumors to block expansions but instead you can use the queens offensively make a lot more roaches
It completely decitmated stargate and banshee openings since their unit count is rather low and you actually have good anti air. Tbh I did this cheese myself before I saw dark cause I messed up the build but nvm that.
Is it possible to make so many overlords and move them in over your army so they can't see what's happening or click on thier units to micro?
The GOAT is back! Uthermal2 has been holding me over while waiting for these new cheesy series.
I notice how he send two workers to the gas at the beginning because Marc is so Terran.
I’m loving the Zerg and Protoss cheeses. Keeping the content fresh
Burrow banes at your opponent's third or 4th mineral line. Wait till he saturates, then detonate! :D
Intentionally failed cannon rush at natural to mask dark templar rush with secret main base pylon
Soooo happy to see the X to GM back online! You're the man @uThermal
Yay you're back! So much fun to be had. Hope you enjoyed the time off. I know we will all enjoy youre time back =).
That last game almost felt like Day9 and Apollo mind games chat. 'So you build your natural, and you transfer ALL your drones to it, so you can hude lings in your main. But your opponent doesn't scout so doesn't see your natural saturation... and then you just go all in anyways. MIND GAMES.'
I’ve always wanted to see someone utilize overlords as a way of messing up someone’s micro somehow. Just take a cloud of overlords with speed and make it difficult to either target your units or perhaps to control their own units? I imagine someone splitting marines vs banes for example and having a hard time seeing properly to click to kill banes because there’s an overlord cloud above the battle.
sadly this doesn’t rly work cus just attack move automatically targets actual attacking enemies first :c
@@MrFancyGamer you can’t attack move against ling bane with Marines. You either have to split to minimize damage, or focus fire the banes.
For a zerg build vs zerg: go up to 14 drones, double extractor trick, then send a dron for the second hatchery, another dron for the extractor, and the pool as soon as you have the minerals.
One more dron to go back to 14, as soon as the extractor is done 3 drones there to harvest 100 gas asap.
Time to build two overlords
Your second hatchery and the spawning pool should finish around the same time, as well as you getting 100 gas, now you have to start lings speed, build a queen and take off all drones from gas
Fron now on you build only lings and when speed finish you go for a ling flood. Main advantage is limgs speed 15-30 secs earlier than the other guy and massive army. You'll have to dance with banes tho
I think you might have destroyed the ladder with that swarm host build.😂😂 Since this video came out, I've had so many zerg players nydus swarm hosts. Props to you
cheese challenge idea: Blot out the Sun
In honor of a classic, make an absurd amount of overlords, fly the giant mass over the enemy base, and drop an army on their heads while generating creep. any units allowed except flyers, seers allowed, obv you need drops.
The idea is they cant micro at ALL because of how many lords you have, and their units get too caught up shooting overlords instead of the actual army eating their base. WarOwl did it first, coined the phrase "all your base r belong to me" and it was legendary
this would be fire
"You do need to accompany the cheese with something."
Some nice wine would be favorite :)
- I messed up
- Ok, that's a pretty honest assessment of the situation here
Excellent comment xDDD
going for second army by stealing your opponent's worker is always sick. Wish it was like brood war where it gives an extra 200 supply
Great video. Love the way you explain the flow of the game. Would love to see you try infestor fungal drops on their mineral lines. then finish with what ever unit you want.
Long time Zerg fan, love watching a skilled player push the boundaries of viable alternative strategies.
12:12 that's just like slapping them in the face xDD
Anything uThermal tries is crazy because it’s uThermal
Should do one where you only build burrowing units. Roaches, infestors, lurkers, swarm hosts.
Second one I'd love to see is a rush to broodlord
Merci d’avoir repris les uploads, t’es un roi ❤
I believe the Zerg player Lorimbo has some of the best Zerg ladder cheese builds out there.
I remember an hilarious video about his builds on Harstem's channel.
Banelings, Swarmhosts and 20 alternate unit army supply to GM. Pick whatever you want but only one per game and only 20 supply. More excited for uThermal to become a baneling monster.
I've been excited for Ultralisk to GM for months! :)
Our prayers have ben answered, the X to GM series is back !! And even better... Zerg strategies >:-)
Yo thermy, what if you tried the overlord/drone into spine crawler rush that Mixu pulled on you?
Cheese idea, Nibus highways. Just create like tons of nibus worms all over your base and map, so you can move your entire army across the map very fast.
Man, u are definitely the most chaotic GM player in SC 2 lol....there's cheese and there's uThermal cheese, which is a whole Mozzarella cheese.
Really glad you're back producing your best type of content. The other stuff content wasn't as engaging without the challenge process of build development and refinement. That's a big element of what makes your content work for me at least - innovation, exploration, refinement. I still watched videos but definitely not as consistently.
Factory-in-their-base variant: Dropper lord a queen into the corner of their base, poop creep, and start planting down creep tumors. Spread as much creep as you can in their base without being spotted.
So this is extraordinarily silly, but hear me out...
Overseers, obviously, don't cost supply. So in theory, you could make an insane amount of overseers, and use mass changelings on hold command to really mess up your opponent's ability to move their units. I've always wanted to try to mess with it to troll, but I don't have the mechanics uThermal does of course. Would love to see this!
Nydus rushes is always really fun. For extra style points, do Nydus rush and Drop-lords at the same time.
Uthermal AND swarm hosts?!!?!‽
This is gonna be a treat!!!!
I want to see a whole nydus rush only run. You're the only one crazy enough to pull it off. Games with a lot of nydus become very chaotic and fun. You get a subway system when the opponent has to walk like a noob.
Yes! I asked for swarm host for like 20 episodes after you used it in ep 2 of proxy hatch
Fast burrow, can you put a ling on every base on their side of the map (except main and possibly nat)?
Then if you manage to kill the nat, burrow a ling there too and sit back for a bit
Missed you Thermy :D the cheese strats are the fave!!
Love seeing you play Zerg!!
Hello uThermal, in witch region are you playing? greetsand i like your stuff man.i learn a lot
I have a weird minichallenge. Neurosuicide infestor just for a fun short moment, neuro parasite ghost and snipe the infestor controlling the ghost.
So excited for this series!!
I've been watching Marc for like 2 years and I don't think I have ever seen a single Ultralisk.
I will throw money at you to do Uktralisk cheese! 🧀🙏❤
Mass hydralisk all in... with lurkers 🤔
Heeeeey, finally some Zerg gameplay... thanks for this :)
Yay new off race series! Also inspiration.
Zerg cheese is so chaotic, with creep and lings and Nydas... Never know what'll happen next
I main Swarm Host nydus builds when playing team games for the lols. Been doing it for years and recently people have been doing it more regularly. Need to micro it a bit more than what's happening here. Multi Nydus, pull them in and out partially launching, individual hold positions on locust etc. and can do massive damage.
Also, yes, you would have killed that Nexus 100 percent if you targeted.
I don't know if it is possible, but I want you to burrow 6 or so slow banelings at opponent's likely 3rd mineral line before that base gets taken, then put heavy muta pressure on natural to chase even more workers to 3rd. Kaboom.
Best cheese ever! I love swarm host! Please more of that 🙂
Is it possible to do a Infestor Fungal Growth on workers harassment, army can only be used for defense/clearing detection for infestor protection?
Hey Mark, thanks for the games. I wonder if you could make this work: use the overseer ability in a cheese that stops production and research to maintain opponent at no upgrade while you take 1/1 and 2/2 ! Or a contaminate to grandmaster serie :)
Love your videos ❤
ZvZ I like to start out standard and then make an evo chamber after the spawning pool and rush out +1 melee and then speed after. If you hold against the initial wave of lings, you win.
I would love to see an old school 3 base hydra all in with lurker follow up.
some kind of cheese involving dropperlords would be cool to see. Or maybe some fast burrow.
i never see you use lurkers, so could you please try a lurker cheese?
simultaneos tripple battlecruiser cheese
You should end videos with “adios” when you’re in Mexico, and “peace” when you’re in the Netherlands ✌️
Zvz, is it possible to take over their worker then create a spine?
Oh hell yes! Bring us the broodlords baby!
Hows about you make a video where you infest scvs and probes and build a zerg hybrid race
I know if anyone can make it happen, its you. I assume making a terran-zerg-hybrid army is kinda difficult
doing protoss and zerg at the same time goes against everything uthermal taught me. dude needs to focus on just one race.
Mass muta to bait Phoenix into mass viper could be fun to watch haha
Delicious Zerg cheese. I would suggest dropping 4 infestors in 2 mineral lines and killing most workers. Don’t know if the new patch will make it non viable. The other one must involve ultras and queens for transfuse, with burrow for extra micro power.
Here's a cheese that I've never seen: Wall off using creep tumors. Why don't I ever see that?
The goat
I can't wait to see the Ultralisk drop!!!
Rush lurker drops, I've done it myself and it's pretty fun
Can you do pf and missle turrets in mass
I want 2 base muta rush, Bly inspired shenanigans, a roach rush, baneling dropper lord, 12 pool and maybe a 6 minute hydra all in... (less cheese and more just disgustingly unexpected the hydra all in)
at some point can i suggest a nydusworm ultralisk cheese? very unusuall
Is it a viable strategy to have 1 or 2 prism full of high templar, and you use your main army to occupy enemy army to position the prism from side or behind so you can unleash a full storm on the enemy army? Haven't watched enough of pro protoss match to know if this a often used tactic
Yes, that's definitely a strategy the pros use. They use them for drops as well for worker harassment. Two storms shred an entire mineral line
Amazing 🙌
Is it possible to cheese ZvZ by building on opponents creep?
I love the games, stay humble and stay happy :) :) :)
Remember when swarm host didn't need to be microed to spawn locust
PLEASE do the Ultralisk drop. 🙏🙏🙏
Can you try a bainling drop?
Can overlords drop ultralisk? 😅
I would like to see some ultralisks, I have seen many of your videos and there were no ultralisks in any of them. It would be nice to see you cheese or simply play with ultralisks
you need 5 swarm to kill an undefended nexus. the greediest i go with it is in 4s, hatch first, no queen, i can hit at 4:05 with 6 swarm
Bring some hommage to Broodwars.. an old fashion lurker rush! xD
How about siege to grandmaster? Tank liberator
So cool to see zerg cheese!
I suck at starcraft but i love watching these builds 😂
12 pool, 14 hatch, scarlet build for mass speed ling timing att, it looks like standard build
Hopfully this helps but 26 drones in minerals off 2 bases allows you to constantly produce units otherwise you simply can’t afford to spend your larva.
Nydus burrow roach . The health regen I think is decent