Almost definitely some of the other grand masters you play against get you as an opponent and have that "Oh no is he playing for real or doing something stupid" moment, and I love it.
That first protos probably saw you killing off his 2 pylons, realised what you were doing, then overbuilt pylons to componsate. Thats very clear after you hit his artosis pylon and shut down the 4 gates.
I believe that's the shirt he was wearing while streaming earlier today, so it's not beyond the bounds of possibility that this is fresh off the ladder content.
I mean, that's about 1h of recording for this video (i'd assume). He probably does 2-3 episodes each day (would be 3-4h of recording) and then is golden for 2-3 days of uploading.
You should use the sentries to fake a really common attack. Like 3 Oracles, do a fly by without attacking and then leaving the opponent paranoid about the possible presence of 3 oracles in the corner of the map for the rest of the game.
I was thinking the same thing. With zerg it costs a larvae, minerals, and maybe an inject. And the overloads are relatively easy to snipe since their air units.
Matriarch Vorazun has been impressed with your recent run and has appointed you Dark Prelate Harstem with control of the Nerazim. Beat your opponents with void rays and dark templar. You may build any combat unit you wish up to 6 min but after that only voids, dark templar, warp prisms, and observers.
I think it would make it too much like a regular game. Originally I wanted to call this build NA douchebag. But I thought the Nerazim would add a nice narrative.
"Sometimes in order to kill more pylons in the future, you need to be happy with less pylons right now" That`s how civilization was born. You unlocked delayed gratification
Hey cap, I’ve got an challenge for you, I’ll call it “capture the base” or something. This is when you build multiple warp prisms and doom drop your opponents main, then build cannons and batteries using the prisms, and take it from there. Maybe some force field on the ramp, or anything you find fancy.
@@alpha-cf2oi would surely work against p with some disrupters i think Especially because the stalker disrupter comp is played so often, and these units are exactly what you want when you want to take over someone's main
I have an idea for a challenge: Open Source You have to write in the in-game chat everything important that You are planning to do. Like changing unit composition, proxing, dropping and attacking in general (including directions!), building 2'nd 3'rd etc base and so on. Inform enemy at the moment when You come up with an actual idea.
Have a race-specific challenge for each of the 3 matchups you could have. This would allow you to hit some challenges that you would not be able to otherwise. Zerg: target tech buildings so they can't build anything useful. Alternatively, you can do a challenge where you snipe queens Protoss: somehow kill that one worker that stops the adepts from shading in, and then shade adepts in. Terran: Terran players think they're so tough with their drops? Doom drop the Terran player
This is one of my classic favorite strategies since the earliest days if SC1. Best against Zerg as doing so also takes away a lot of larvae. Supply block isn't also necessarily limited to the early game - once you've got an even or upper hand mid or late game it can be used to really stunt someone in many circumstances... I've watched so many casts where it could've been done to crushing effect. Wonder if we'll see if in more high level matchups in the future. Thanks for the lovely stuff !
Must say even though you lost in the semi's vs Clem, you made us proud Captain. On top of that none stop high quality content you put out each day much appreciated.
I feel like focusing down supply structures or even Overlords if they're piled up is really underrated. Protoss builds a lot of Pylons of course, but they aren't often going to be crazy over supplied and sniping a few pylons to prevent production can often supply block as well. Terran often has their supply depots in easy to hit locations such as part of walls or on the edges of the main bases. Overlords are a bit weird because if the Zerg has larva they can easily build Overlords again, but they're still 100 each and can be EASILY sniped with the right units. I am a lot lower MMR, I'm sure if I enjoyed 1v1s I could be plat or diamond, but I've won games against players in these ranges by not overlooking the opportunity to snipe say 3 overlords, or if I do a drop and pick some workers, instead of chasing down 2 or 3 more workers I take the chance to just blast 3 or 4 supply depots instead since they're even further from the units coming to defend.
Hey Harstem! I have an idea for stupid stuff: upgrade hunter/hunt for enemy's upgrades. Just destroy enemy's upgrade building. When enemy's upgrades are processing, you will say hello and your army destroys/cancels opponent's upgrades. I think it's easy to do if your race will be protos or terran. At the end of game opponent's attack /armor upgrades should be 0/0 P. S. Sorry for my English
Has there been a worker rush BGMWSS? I don't really play multiplayer but I would imagine this would entail proxying your 2nd Nexus/cc/hatch close to your opponent to reinforce. Might not satisfy the "beating" requirement but it certainly qualifies as stupid stuff
Hey Harstem, hear me out... Reapers are secretly OP beyond the first few minutes. Why? Reaper + medivac drops! Not a single grandmaster player will expect a strategy that was secretly OP all along, but never used. Get the medivac upgrade for extra harass potential and have some fun blasting enemy workers to bits. Think it's a good idea for BGWSS? You can call the challenge: Reapers creepers. I don't know why, but that's the first thing that popped up in my head.
What about building macro nexai for supply instead of pylons. Only build the Artosis Pylons and wall everything off the macro nexai. Then make a gas heavy army like archon oracle and high Templar. You can’t build another pylon until the last pylon is completely full of buildings
what yall think: Shift clicking every move (amove and skills too) theres no undoing, if you missclicked move into enemy you cannot undo so you have to be careful and move your units with small movements
This one put a smile on my face. Its just such a stupid idea. I wonder if it would be possible to get a passifist win with this strat, just by annoying your opponent to tab out
"get out of jail" card basically means u have the "connections" to the people in power like politicians and so on, thus judges too so u wont get sentenced even if everyone knows ur guilty, esp in 2nd world countries and works very well there to say the least lol
Yeah, we have lots of jail-free people of Erdogan in Turkey. I guess we can safely call Turkey 180th-world-country, considering how many criminals the minister of domestic affairs has photos with.
So, I've been wondering when watching this game: Wouldn't a battery in that "T" intersection between the natural and third base make a lot of sense? It would protect your army while still being close to both bases, and heavily hinder the opponent from attacking into that intersection, since they either have to get by the battery (and standing army), or rotate around to attack from the south, leaving the natural more protected.
Not gonna lie, I had so much trouble with your base skin I kept thinking you were playing starcraft 1 not 2 and it took me way too long to relise it was just a skin lol
20:28 Yeah, the stupid Terrans have a get out of jail FREE card (Command Center energy obviously is worthless, not like you could call down a mule with it or anything) and the other races can spawn countless supply simultaneously (infinite pylons for Protoss and spawning as many larva as you have for Zerg). Wonder why you lost both games vs Protoss and won vs Terran, must be a coincidence... Brilliant observation, I think you're so unbiased!:P
BGMWSS: You announce to your opponent that this is a "Beating Grandmasters With Stupid Stuff" episode. After that you fake something very, very stupid, forcing them to react. After that you beat them as usual
the get out of jail free card in real life is money if you have enough of it you can get out of jail and if you have that much money it is pocket change
I was looking for a comment of this kind before making the same joke. He would need a pie to the face when he loses to complete the bill gates strategy
Well in regards to the "Get out jail Free" card just look at California, New York City and Seattle where they don't charge shoplifters anymore. That is working out really great for them.
Thats really not all that difficult, 100 APM maybe, but 150 is super easy, I'd say more than 50% of GMs dont have more than 150 EAPM anyways. Back in the day Goody would routinely shit on ppl with like 80 APM lol
I suggest you make a challenge in this series where the whole game is mind games. So for example your factories get scouted> you cancel and build barracks, drops with empty medivacs, proxy base far on the map ...
Loved Harstems play this last tournament, did not know he was that good with his stalker and pheonix micro; as well as the disruptor micro and vision being good as always. Crazy good macro games in PvT too (something I am absolutely terrified of and try to never reach as a toss who sucks with air).
harstem rly has top notch stalker and disruptor micro, unfortunately players like clem and serral also have such a perfect split micro so disruptor play gets quite canceled by them. see the difference heromarine to clem
@@alpha-cf2oi Yea Clem really dismanteled Harstem a couple times despite there being a game that was pretty close in my mind; I think Clem is too good for most people in a game where the momentum is not seized from him early, he just does too much damage while expanding off of it in my opinion. Serral is in the upper part of the top 3 players in the world (Clem not being far behind) being the world champion, no shame in that loss of course.
BGMWSS: Intel offline- this is a very wide open and fun one, and each game can vary wildly. The whole goal is simply to confuse your opponent to the maximum, making them think you are doing one thing when really you’re doing another. Anything goes when it comes to this trickery. Here are some basic ideas: Hallucinations Tech switching Fake proxy/Fake cannon rush Fake warp prism Fake all in Fake macro into real all in with perhaps a fake 3rd expansion Perhaps one real Phoenix with a fleet of fake ones, then warp prism and blink stalker all in, blocking your opponents base Anyway, you get the picture. Trick your opponent into scouting one thing, then do another. Get creative captain, make it a good one 🥳
The supply block challenge ironically gets self countered when you are winning and kill enough stuff to un supply block them
lol my thoughts esp in the first game
The victory condition is to kill all your opponents buildings. Killing units is for chumps.
Love how after sniping 18 pylons your opponent was still only 5 seconds supply blocked longer than you :) nice challenge keep it up :)
Indeed! ;) Please subscribe to my challenge, I upload once every 5 years!
Sure, but how many minerals did they have to dump into constantly keeping their supply up that they otherwise could have allocated to their army?
@@jordananderson2728 not enough obviously lol ;)
Since the pylons were needed to produce, it was a production block instead...
Almost definitely some of the other grand masters you play against get you as an opponent and have that "Oh no is he playing for real or doing something stupid" moment, and I love it.
That first protos probably saw you killing off his 2 pylons, realised what you were doing, then overbuilt pylons to componsate. Thats very clear after you hit his artosis pylon and shut down the 4 gates.
I can't believe the content keeps pumping out even with the deep Valencia run. This man doesn't sleep
Keeping the routine might help with the mental state in tournament play?
I believe that's the shirt he was wearing while streaming earlier today, so it's not beyond the bounds of possibility that this is fresh off the ladder content.
Or maybe he recorded this video before the dream hack?
I think he has a good team around him that help also!
I mean, that's about 1h of recording for this video (i'd assume). He probably does 2-3 episodes each day (would be 3-4h of recording) and then is golden for 2-3 days of uploading.
You should use the sentries to fake a really common attack. Like 3 Oracles, do a fly by without attacking and then leaving the opponent paranoid about the possible presence of 3 oracles in the corner of the map for the rest of the game.
I always wondered if things like this work. Would be awesome to see :D
Make one real oracle to do some damage and make him belive they are actually real
@@1.-ulysses334 yeah that would be more convincing but then you'll need a whole stargate while he's probably massing blink stalkers.
@@Trazynn All protoss go skytoss eventually so It isn't really a problem.
Would love to see this against Zerg and see balloon poping the entire time
same here, plz repeat challenge till hit at least one or even 2 zergs
Protoss probably the worst to do this against. No worker commitment to rebuilding supply
I was thinking the same thing. With zerg it costs a larvae, minerals, and maybe an inject. And the overloads are relatively easy to snipe since their air units.
Matriarch Vorazun has been impressed with your recent run and has appointed you Dark Prelate Harstem with control of the Nerazim. Beat your opponents with void rays and dark templar. You may build any combat unit you wish up to 6 min but after that only voids, dark templar, warp prisms, and observers.
And what about stalkers?
And what about stalkers?
I think it would make it too much like a regular game. Originally I wanted to call this build NA douchebag. But I thought the Nerazim would add a nice narrative.
"Sometimes in order to kill more pylons in the future, you need to be happy with less pylons right now"
That`s how civilization was born. You unlocked delayed gratification
Hey cap, I’ve got an challenge for you,
I’ll call it “capture the base” or something.
This is when you build multiple warp prisms and doom drop your opponents main,
then build cannons and batteries using the prisms, and take it from there.
Maybe some force field on the ramp, or anything you find fancy.
sounds fun, like drop into main forcefield ramp and takeover base, vs Z and T obv ofc
@@alpha-cf2oi would surely work against p with some disrupters i think
Especially because the stalker disrupter comp is played so often,
and these units are exactly what you want when you want to take over someone's main
@@haruks7633 I meant bc of recall, unless u snipe nexus very fast ofc
@@alpha-cf2oi I think you could easily hit disrupter shots in that case, and that should kind of get you into an ok position I believe
I have an idea for a challenge: Open Source
You have to write in the in-game chat everything important that You are planning to do. Like changing unit composition, proxing, dropping and attacking in general (including directions!), building 2'nd 3'rd etc base and so on. Inform enemy at the moment when You come up with an actual idea.
Chat challenges are considered by Harstem as bad sportsmanship
Have a race-specific challenge for each of the 3 matchups you could have. This would allow you to hit some challenges that you would not be able to otherwise.
Zerg: target tech buildings so they can't build anything useful. Alternatively, you can do a challenge where you snipe queens
Protoss: somehow kill that one worker that stops the adepts from shading in, and then shade adepts in.
Terran: Terran players think they're so tough with their drops? Doom drop the Terran player
Doom dropping with Protoss sounds awesome!
And then shade adepts in adepts shade
You lost at 24:35. As soon as you kill the critters, you get cursed. It's super bad luck.
The classic panda bear guy curse.
When you say “stalker stalker” instead of “2 stalkers”
Regardless of how the games go, you're a winner for wearing that shirt!
hahaha my thoughts lol
This is one of my classic favorite strategies since the earliest days if SC1.
Best against Zerg as doing so also takes away a lot of larvae.
Supply block isn't also necessarily limited to the early game - once you've got an even or upper hand mid or late game it can be used to really stunt someone in many circumstances... I've watched so many casts where it could've been done to crushing effect.
Wonder if we'll see if in more high level matchups in the future.
Thanks for the lovely stuff !
"Please, please, PLEAAAASE! I'm sorry for screaming; it won't happen again."
Kevin Koning 2022
get out of jail free card exists, it's called a presidential pardon.
20:50
In the US you have a presidential pardon that is literally the equivalent of them get out of jail free card in monopoly
Must say even though you lost in the semi's vs Clem, you made us proud Captain. On top of that none stop high quality content you put out each day much appreciated.
Great video Harstem. Really needed a Zerg matchup though
Bro, I salute you for still playing this game. Thank you for your service.
the real life "get out of jail card" is called being filthy rich
"So, we're just going to start the pissing off back home project already right now."
please do that one again lol; was fun to watch
I feel like focusing down supply structures or even Overlords if they're piled up is really underrated.
Protoss builds a lot of Pylons of course, but they aren't often going to be crazy over supplied and sniping a few pylons to prevent production can often supply block as well. Terran often has their supply depots in easy to hit locations such as part of walls or on the edges of the main bases.
Overlords are a bit weird because if the Zerg has larva they can easily build Overlords again, but they're still 100 each and can be EASILY sniped with the right units.
I am a lot lower MMR, I'm sure if I enjoyed 1v1s I could be plat or diamond, but I've won games against players in these ranges by not overlooking the opportunity to snipe say 3 overlords, or if I do a drop and pick some workers, instead of chasing down 2 or 3 more workers I take the chance to just blast 3 or 4 supply depots instead since they're even further from the units coming to defend.
Captain is a mustache away from being the Dutch Magnum PI
Hey Harstem! I have an idea for stupid stuff: upgrade hunter/hunt for enemy's upgrades. Just destroy enemy's upgrade building. When enemy's upgrades are processing, you will say hello and your army destroys/cancels opponent's upgrades. I think it's easy to do if your race will be protos or terran. At the end of game opponent's attack /armor upgrades should be 0/0
P. S. Sorry for my English
The free card metaphor lol
Has there been a worker rush BGMWSS? I don't really play multiplayer but I would imagine this would entail proxying your 2nd Nexus/cc/hatch close to your opponent to reinforce.
Might not satisfy the "beating" requirement but it certainly qualifies as stupid stuff
At 26:30 i thought i was watching Diablo 1 and he talked to Gharbad the Weak.
Hey Harstem, hear me out...
Reapers are secretly OP beyond the first few minutes. Why? Reaper + medivac drops! Not a single grandmaster player will expect a strategy that was secretly OP all along, but never used. Get the medivac upgrade for extra harass potential and have some fun blasting enemy workers to bits.
Think it's a good idea for BGWSS?
You can call the challenge: Reapers creepers.
I don't know why, but that's the first thing that popped up in my head.
Great idea for a video. In the last game if you kept the two Immortals alive I think you could have won. But then again the hole plan is a gamble.
I played only the campaign and didn't touch multiplayer yet i like to watch your content / pros games
I really loved the first 8 seconds of the video haha idk why but I found that hilarious
The moral victory and embarrassment afterwards after sacrificing an immortal/stalker to kill that last pylon 😂😂
I can't believe there was no joke at all about wearing a condom
Missing the PiG level of energy
Haha it's been too long since I watched your shenanigans Harstem
What about building macro nexai for supply instead of pylons. Only build the Artosis Pylons and wall everything off the macro nexai. Then make a gas heavy army like archon oracle and high Templar. You can’t build another pylon until the last pylon is completely full of buildings
24:33 are you doing that intentionaly to provoke lowko? coz if you are it's hilarious 😂
It seems like taking out pylons is really good - Harstem, 2023
Yeah, if you de-power 5 gateways during a push, it's pretty good 🤣
love the shirt cap. a true ocean man
Proud of you keep at it love watching you play.
what yall think: Shift clicking every move (amove and skills too) theres no undoing, if you missclicked move into enemy you cannot undo so you have to be careful and move your units with small movements
NO RUSH 10 MINUTES! You have to announce it at the beginning of the game.
I love this series.
Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face
So basically assume you are being proxied, and just build a robo anyway.
I really want to see the mine walk cheesiest man alive again
I know this isn't the series to suggest it, but I'll start consistently requesting it
What about building structures on opponents mineral lines to block them from mining?
Being supply-blocked just forces you to spend your money on upgrades...
This one put a smile on my face. Its just such a stupid idea. I wonder if it would be possible to get a passifist win with this strat, just by annoying your opponent to tab out
"get out of jail" card basically means u have the "connections" to the people in power like politicians and so on, thus judges too so u wont get sentenced even if everyone knows ur guilty, esp in 2nd world countries and works very well there to say the least lol
Yeah, we have lots of jail-free people of Erdogan in Turkey. I guess we can safely call Turkey 180th-world-country, considering how many criminals the minister of domestic affairs has photos with.
So, I've been wondering when watching this game: Wouldn't a battery in that "T" intersection between the natural and third base make a lot of sense? It would protect your army while still being close to both bases, and heavily hinder the opponent from attacking into that intersection, since they either have to get by the battery (and standing army), or rotate around to attack from the south, leaving the natural more protected.
A battery there wouldn't be near a Nexus, which means no Super-battery and worse starting energy. It doesn't contribute enough to actually defending.
It would be funny to see harstem play 4v4 ladder
Not gonna lie, I had so much trouble with your base skin I kept thinking you were playing starcraft 1 not 2 and it took me way too long to relise it was just a skin lol
PvZ and PvT definitely, 2/3 matches PvP is unfortunate as it's most obvious as you pointed-out early game that it's unlikely to matter in this matchup
Waz the deal with the dog walking around?!?!?
This was unironically how I used to think was the best way to win games when I first started playing against the AI and in the solo Campaign.
being in monopoly jail is actually good for your econ
Hello, everyone..? Oh, there we go 🤣
Didn't know Pete Davidson plays SC2
I love that Harstem is a big Eminem fan 😂💯
I mean..what do u thought showtime is "die mauer" :D
It's called a Pardon :P
Damn Pete Davidson is into sc2?? That’s wild xD
20:28 Yeah, the stupid Terrans have a get out of jail FREE card (Command Center energy obviously is worthless, not like you could call down a mule with it or anything) and the other races can spawn countless supply simultaneously (infinite pylons for Protoss and spawning as many larva as you have for Zerg). Wonder why you lost both games vs Protoss and won vs Terran, must be a coincidence... Brilliant observation, I think you're so unbiased!:P
you must destruct additional pylons
That shirt is grandmaster ⭐️
Can you beat GM by walling in as many workers as you can to block them from gathering?
Well that's a nice shirt!
Week 15 of asking Harstem to harass workers with colossi
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He has done previously
What if you used early ghosts on terran like dark templar to kill workers, maybe even throw in a nuke or some snipes
commenting to boost supply
Get out of jail card? You mean like money?
Sure you get alot of suggestions but how about this for a real challenge. Beat GM with only 1 supply depot! will force mega expanding! :)
Beating grandmasters with that shirt :)
BGMWSS:
You announce to your opponent that this is a "Beating Grandmasters With Stupid Stuff" episode. After that you fake something very, very stupid, forcing them to react. After that you beat them as usual
the get out of jail free card in real life is money if you have enough of it you can get out of jail and if you have that much money it is pocket change
Thumb up for the shirt.
But pylon and overlord build faster than supply deapot.
im not sure if he is actually playing or this is a replay
I love the shirt!!!!!!!!!
nice
15:04 uwu
Get out of jail free. Being rich with connections in America!
CCP needs your talent
HI HARSTEM
Ahhh the Bill Gates episode.
I was looking for a comment of this kind before making the same joke.
He would need a pie to the face when he loses to complete the bill gates strategy
Well in regards to the "Get out jail Free" card just look at California, New York City and Seattle where they don't charge shoplifters anymore. That is working out really great for them.
You remembered to check supply capped time this time!
New stupid goal. Win a match with Apm under 100 or 150 :D . I think it helps in optimising actions .
he did that before iirc
@@josefanon8504 ah would like to see
Here you are:
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@@Kurkora_ haha amazing he already has it :)
Thats really not all that difficult, 100 APM maybe, but 150 is super easy, I'd say more than 50% of GMs dont have more than 150 EAPM anyways. Back in the day Goody would routinely shit on ppl with like 80 APM lol
Is there any reason why your games graphics looks like ass? It's so much harder to read what's going on, you can barely even see forcefields...
Why scream
I suggest you make a challenge in this series where the whole game is mind games. So for example your factories get scouted> you cancel and build barracks, drops with empty medivacs, proxy base far on the map ...
Great way to lose some more mmr xD
@@radovancertik8421 nvm, sounds rly funny tho, great idea. esp harstems commentary will be great lol
Nuke some random corner of the map multiple times to scare the opponent.
Nuke your own army to confuse the enemy
How do I watch every one of his videos despite the fact I haven't played StarCraft in like a decade.
Popped up for me after not playing for a decade as well. Now I'm stuck watching again.
I’ve never played post WoL yet here I am
@@mghi5416 you missed out
@@mghi5416 I only startrd 3 months ago, but I just tried old maps vs ai, game has changed a lot. Much better now.
Loved Harstems play this last tournament, did not know he was that good with his stalker and pheonix micro; as well as the disruptor micro and vision being good as always. Crazy good macro games in PvT too (something I am absolutely terrified of and try to never reach as a toss who sucks with air).
harstem rly has top notch stalker and disruptor micro, unfortunately players like clem and serral also have such a perfect split micro so disruptor play gets quite canceled by them. see the difference heromarine to clem
@@alpha-cf2oi Yea Clem really dismanteled Harstem a couple times despite there being a game that was pretty close in my mind; I think Clem is too good for most people in a game where the momentum is not seized from him early, he just does too much damage while expanding off of it in my opinion. Serral is in the upper part of the top 3 players in the world (Clem not being far behind) being the world champion, no shame in that loss of course.
BGMWSS:
Intel offline- this is a very wide open and fun one, and each game can vary wildly. The whole goal is simply to confuse your opponent to the maximum, making them think you are doing one thing when really you’re doing another. Anything goes when it comes to this trickery.
Here are some basic ideas:
Hallucinations
Tech switching
Fake proxy/Fake cannon rush
Fake warp prism
Fake all in
Fake macro into real all in with perhaps a fake 3rd expansion
Perhaps one real Phoenix with a fleet of fake ones, then warp prism and blink stalker all in, blocking your opponents base
Anyway, you get the picture. Trick your opponent into scouting one thing, then do another. Get creative captain, make it a good one 🥳
might as well call it 'fake it till you make it'
Ya true, I like that name a lot!
Stellar shirt my friend!