bruh my friend was roasting me the other day telling me i just go mass stalk every game every matchup. i thought for a second and i realized while he wasnt spot on, he was lowkey not far off lmaooo
BGMWSS suggestion: protoss 1:1:1:1 build, so for every additional gateway, you also build an additional stargate, robo, and nexus. If that's too hard, just a "macro nexus" build, where every expansion nexus has to be followed by an extra nexus in the main (or on the map for recall tactics, or just as part of a wall).
BGMWSS suggestion: The need of having one more building of a higher tier to be allowed to build units. Units : Condition Zealots : needing Cybernetics core Sentry, Stalker, Adept : needing Twilight Council High Templar, Dark Templar : needing to have both Templar Archives and Dark Shrine Immortal, Observer, Warp prism : needing Robotics Bay Oracle, Phoenix, Void Ray : needing Fleet Beacon Colossus, Disruptor, Carrier, Tempest : needing to have both Robotics Bay and Fleet Beacon Photon Canons : needing 3 Forges Forge Upgrades : For each researching Upgrade at least one Forge needs to be idle
10:00 , Harstem, as a native speaker, no one says "and then the circle was round", we like to say something "has come full circle" or "the cycle is complete" :P I like that you are using so many phrases though, your English is insanely good.
Just for the record, without other upgrades, it takes 3 adrenal gland speedlings to kill a stalker. With an additional 3 attack/armor difference for zerg it takes two.
BGMWSS, “Shield Station”: choose an aggressive build where you can take advantage of map control. Build a “shield station” at your opponents 5th, and keep poking with units that are mobile (blink stalkers maybe?) the goal is to attack and micro units out once they lose their shields, go back and refuel shields, than do another wave of attacking. Important Note: this should not be a contain, and the opponent shouldn’t know about the shield station. The goal is to attack in waves, but hit frequently enough that your opponent can’t keep up. Goal: the goal is that with better micro and regen of shields, you will be slightly down in eco, but because you make better use of your units, you will win out. Must have less resources lost at end game by a decent margin to demonstrate the power of shield batteries. Mid game optional strat: build a nexus and mine from there, giving you the option of battery overcharge to quickly and efficiently refuel
Hi Capt'n! I am a silent long time watcher who recently discovered Mana's and uThermal's YT channels. And althou i love the content, i do believe you would excel in these "1-2 units to grandmaster". I would love to see you go GM with Zealots only. Just to compare the different approach you would take.
BGMWSS suggestion: Ask the AI for help. Let "chatGPT" generate build orders for you. Just tried it and chatGPT knows SC2 and can create build orders. Even for specific races and if you ask for timings and worker it will provide them too! If the build orders are useful is a different question, it recommended roaches to fight battle-cruisers to me, but i described myself as a gold star zerg asking for help so what do I know... and hey that's the challenge and the stupid stuff we want to see, isn't it.... ?
BGMWSS suggestion: Hey, I have a stupid challenge and not sure if you read this, but my suggestion is every 5 minutes you must move out with everything, and you have to pull all probes when moving out. Edit: You don't have to rally current probes in production to the attack.
I'm watching this video 3 months past its release, and I don't particularly want to see protoss games. But I enjoy your commentary. You should have your own podcast cowboy. 🤠
BGMWSS Idea: Play toss, on the start of the game, send two probes, one places a pylon on one of the third base location and then blocks the other, the first probe, blocks the natural
It's unfortunate how much mass stalkers suffer from overkilling, due to their slow fire rate. AIs with no APM cap have shown how insanely good mass stalkers can be if you're essentially playing at the speed of chess. Individual blinking away, and perfectly target-firing at enemy units with no overkill makes them so strong. 30 stalkers all shooting the same zergling is just such a massive hit to your army's DPS. I wonder what the tipping point in stalker count is where it's more effective to "play worse" and avoid target firing. It would be interesting to see a mod where stalkers have the same DPS, but it's a steady laser like the Void Ray. Then you could experience their true potential without having to have god-like AI micro.
I mean some years ago the stalkers got a rework where it got more damage, but with a slower attack, maintaining the same dps. It was so you could snipe medivacs and the sort with less stalkers. Tho, overall, i think it was a nerf to it. Stalker simply need more dps in general.
I have so many questions.... seriously. Have you had a hair cut? Does Raynor sing in the shower? How tall is 6'1 in inches? I expect no answers because they're innane questions.... but I still have them.
i dont know why it frustrates me, but the earth is round! people say its not perfectly round, but its damn near. 10:18 th-cam.com/video/1IM3c059dEQ/w-d-xo.html (around the 5 minute mark) Also another great video captain, I love watching the cheesiest man alive beating grandmasters to rank one.
The whispered commentary is killing me. I would love to have seen a split screen of Reynor's commentary at the same time. I bet it's just pure shit talk on both sides.
this never works for me never never never if it's terran dam the tanks and ghost, if it's zerg banes+ultra shreds and against protoss high templer and void rays
I want to like stalkers but the are so weak...I always end up going zealot and immortals into sky-toss depending how long the game goes on...I used to go stalkers, but they get destroyed so easily
I started playing this game in late December 2022. I uninstalled this game mid January 2023 and will never play it again. I enjoyed playing Big Game Hunters but I would get hate speech and racial slurs and got sent whispers of occasional death threats because I was a noob. The SC2 player base is very toxic.
Sorry you had that experience bro, sadly there’s a small portion of VERY toxic individuals on ladder. I had to learn how to block people mid-game to protect my mental health lol
I think the large stalker game, could work with better micro, and better laser cycling with stalker unit. There is an arcade game by blizzard to teach cylcing fire of the stalker, its about attacking micro'ing effeciently... and there is hte blink management one also for damage micro... but attack micro with range units are key to expressing their lower dps then typically melee units. Blinking cna set upt rotational fire. As an exmaple in the match you shot with 14 stalkers... 2 drones... I think tis 3 shots to kill a drone.. so you could of if you were a god at micoring... killed lamost 5... in that one instance.. maybe you had 20 there but it was interesting... a few times ravagers had one health... it is hard ot do a single unit type because you are missing cpmplientary units, and his infestors jtting the field just means your going to lost. The eaiest way if you plan on single unit head type is, building attack and retreat nodes, which for protoss is probably the most powerful thing.. So I htin if you built a souther shield and battery position could of made a pinch point andaloowed easier tiem taking bottom left and mid. It was weird you never went mid.. .The best tiem to build a retreat gate is when your forwardi nteh field micoring against his army.. and then retreat ot it as it finsihes or loop back.. and then bam he gets surprised and it ends up dividing their army, but you get super good trades if they attempt to go through. Which better trades llow you to build a few more retreat bases, which again aloow your untis to be more aggresive and gives you better map control as protoss.. mini recharge and photon bases, with pylong and a couple gate ways jsut for static HP pool defence, which adds to your warp in, but not crucial... you cna build warp and apth nooks forcing derp walking... depending on how and what your opponenent moves or attacks with.. its actually on of the only legit exploits is pathing errors, created by exploiting how untis path and move, you cna even juggle units because of their path determination programing, having it fritz out.. lol making it a free kill, lol.. but meh. hmm, nice try..
I would ocutner that simply state, mass murders create good times for eplxoiters and off of booty, and celebreate all their pillaging and the ndie off, and the civlisatio nthey attacaked typically dies off but may recover but never ot its former glory. So strong is a vague term... Meh.. I think Law and stabiltiy give tiem to abudance and all. SO openness amongst friedns nad communicatio and devleopment keep all doing great and good works. psyhcolgoists and nazis behind doors and govenrmetn clubs and financial crime make hard times for al lwithout it.
I'm pretty sure it is "and than the circle is completed." It's not a circle until it goes all the way around! Also.... you try to find a way to throw that eminem song in there with crappy lyrics every 3rd video.... you need to stop it is always terrible.
It's legit until high GM, even mana had to switch to gateway units only. Imagine if Harstem warped in zealots to deal with lings at some point, that would've been clever stuff. Edit: Didn't think about PvT and PvP, in those stalkers are meta in many situations, I guess that in PvT you can't defend all ins with them and you have to win quickly, and PvP is what it is.
just coming back from a shit day at work, ... and my most beloved youtuber release a 50 minutes video beating gm with stupid stuff .. i love you harstem and yes im a guy :) i still love you :) wish u all the best in your life captain !
Ive been playing this mass stalker challenge all my life.
Alphastar knows
same they’re just such cool units
They shoot up, they shoot down. Who needs other units?
bruh my friend was roasting me the other day telling me i just go mass stalk every game every matchup. i thought for a second and i realized while he wasnt spot on, he was lowkey not far off lmaooo
winter always shit talks stalkers but he just doesn't know them like i do, they are one with the shadows, who doesn't like shadows?!
I love how the captain is upset at 11:05 because he got 12 pooled , cause he is on the receiving end of the cheesiest man alive ;)
I mean, playing vs braindead cheese may upset people.
Losing to brainless is even more brainless like the comment
You started talking about the smell of old books and my brain instantly "smelled" that smell. Great video keep it up king.
I had an Uber driver whose cologne smelled like old books. I asked him what it was and ordered some for myself. Kalimat Surrati Attar = 10/10.
BGMWSS suggestion: protoss 1:1:1:1 build, so for every additional gateway, you also build an additional stargate, robo, and nexus. If that's too hard, just a "macro nexus" build, where every expansion nexus has to be followed by an extra nexus in the main (or on the map for recall tactics, or just as part of a wall).
BGMWSS suggestion: The need of having one more building of a higher tier to be allowed to build units.
Units : Condition
Zealots : needing Cybernetics core
Sentry, Stalker, Adept : needing Twilight Council
High Templar, Dark Templar : needing to have both Templar Archives and Dark Shrine
Immortal, Observer, Warp prism : needing Robotics Bay
Oracle, Phoenix, Void Ray : needing Fleet Beacon
Colossus, Disruptor, Carrier, Tempest : needing to have both Robotics Bay and Fleet Beacon
Photon Canons : needing 3 Forges
Forge Upgrades : For each researching Upgrade at least one Forge needs to be idle
Maybe just tier 1 and 2 minions to have tier 2 and 3 tech respectively
"If I die before my upgrades finish then I'm dead" truly the wordsmith of our generation
And then the circle was round
I love books "So u read then ? ..Nah ,just sniffing the pages
i guess its not just clothes that come back in style over time.
mass dragoons never fails
Dragoon are decent stalkers sucks!
so basically you played as every diamond protoss
that book story at 11:14 really made my day! :D
You started to talk about going out and getting that feeling that something bad is going to happen and i instantly felt that feeling.
10:00 , Harstem, as a native speaker, no one says "and then the circle was round", we like to say something "has come full circle" or "the cycle is complete" :P I like that you are using so many phrases though, your English is insanely good.
Just for the record, without other upgrades, it takes 3 adrenal gland speedlings to kill a stalker. With an additional 3 attack/armor difference for zerg it takes two.
BGMWSS, “Shield Station”: choose an aggressive build where you can take advantage of map control. Build a “shield station” at your opponents 5th, and keep poking with units that are mobile (blink stalkers maybe?) the goal is to attack and micro units out once they lose their shields, go back and refuel shields, than do another wave of attacking.
Important Note: this should not be a contain, and the opponent shouldn’t know about the shield station. The goal is to attack in waves, but hit frequently enough that your opponent can’t keep up.
Goal: the goal is that with better micro and regen of shields, you will be slightly down in eco, but because you make better use of your units, you will win out. Must have less resources lost at end game by a decent margin to demonstrate the power of shield batteries.
Mid game optional strat: build a nexus and mine from there, giving you the option of battery overcharge to quickly and efficiently refuel
Harstem's rant at 22:00 is based. Terran is 100% a squeaky wheel (idiom)
I’m sure how many layers of irony I’m missing here 😂😂😂😂
16:55 this is why i watch harstem.
Hi Capt'n! I am a silent long time watcher who recently discovered Mana's and uThermal's YT channels. And althou i love the content, i do believe you would excel in these "1-2 units to grandmaster". I would love to see you go GM with Zealots only. Just to compare the different approach you would take.
Kevin with regards to the Earth, it IS like a pear!
BGMWSS suggestion: Ask the AI for help. Let "chatGPT" generate build orders for you.
Just tried it and chatGPT knows SC2 and can create build orders. Even for specific races and if you ask for timings and worker it will provide them too!
If the build orders are useful is a different question, it recommended roaches to fight battle-cruisers to me, but i described myself as a gold star zerg asking for help so what do I know... and hey that's the challenge and the stupid stuff we want to see, isn't it.... ?
BGMWSS suggestion: Hey, I have a stupid challenge and not sure if you read this, but my suggestion is every 5 minutes you must move out with everything, and you have to pull all probes when moving out. Edit: You don't have to rally current probes in production to the attack.
9:55 I assume that "round" is acting as the participle in this sentence, as in "we've rounded a circle". Circle has been round
"he's just as dumb as i am" a truly horrific realisation
I'm watching this video 3 months past its release, and I don't particularly want to see protoss games. But I enjoy your commentary. You should have your own podcast cowboy. 🤠
20:00 I'm definitely eating while watching this.
BGMWSS Idea: Play toss, on the start of the game, send two probes, one places a pylon on one of the third base location and then blocks the other, the first probe, blocks the natural
The saying is "The circle is now complete."
Thats my fav strat!
Worked well in low leagues!
The earth itself is round but the oceans that are pulled towards the moon make it appear oval.
Yes I was eating when you told that snot story.
Harstem
"Exceptional analysis and 4D chess observations talk"
Aaaaaaaand he's dead 😊❤️
10:30 it was a globe that looked like an old poop and smelled a little bit
9:34 I've heard the saying suffering builds character- maybe that what Harstem was going for?
Perhaps you should call this series “cheesing grandmasters with stupid stuff”? “Facing grandmasters with stupid stuff”? ❤
Just sat down for lunch, see a brand new Harstem video.
Perfect break ❤
I am always amazed at just how bad the gateway units are in straight up fights.
pretty sure Harstem only ever builds stalkers. Even in the mod where all units get blink, he still just built stalkers.
Oh yeah, that was hilarious!
20:10 Yes I was eating during that story :)
20:20 yehp. can confirm, was eating, skipped the last 3 seconds of the story lul
What kind of snakes do you guys have in the Netherlands where your entire head fits inside their mouths??
Bufff the STALKERS
“Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.”
I was indeed watching while eating..
It's unfortunate how much mass stalkers suffer from overkilling, due to their slow fire rate. AIs with no APM cap have shown how insanely good mass stalkers can be if you're essentially playing at the speed of chess. Individual blinking away, and perfectly target-firing at enemy units with no overkill makes them so strong. 30 stalkers all shooting the same zergling is just such a massive hit to your army's DPS.
I wonder what the tipping point in stalker count is where it's more effective to "play worse" and avoid target firing.
It would be interesting to see a mod where stalkers have the same DPS, but it's a steady laser like the Void Ray. Then you could experience their true potential without having to have god-like AI micro.
I mean some years ago the stalkers got a rework where it got more damage, but with a slower attack, maintaining the same dps. It was so you could snipe medivacs and the sort with less stalkers.
Tho, overall, i think it was a nerf to it. Stalker simply need more dps in general.
where reynor interview at?
Stalker is the only unit that building them is a syndrome. They are so bad, yet so tempting.
Beating Grandmasters with Stalker Stuff
bormal harstem composition : stalker, , just a little bit more
An oval is 2 dimensional. The earth is an oblong spheroid.
I think you mean oblate ...
I have so many questions.... seriously.
Have you had a hair cut?
Does Raynor sing in the shower?
How tall is 6'1 in inches?
I expect no answers because they're innane questions.... but I still have them.
Submit this video to IODIS
BGMWSS suggestion: ghost harass, except you are not trying to kill workers, you just emp nexi, orbitals or queens
"The circle is complete"
Oh my god that earlygame
i dont know why it frustrates me, but the earth is round! people say its not perfectly round, but its damn near. 10:18
th-cam.com/video/1IM3c059dEQ/w-d-xo.html (around the 5 minute mark)
Also another great video captain, I love watching the cheesiest man alive beating grandmasters to rank one.
That's another solid proof that stalkers cannot beat a single chicken🤣
Why is it bad when the probe grabs minerals? Is it getting slower with minerals?
because he can't keep mineral harassing his opponent once the probe takes the minerals
The whispered commentary is killing me. I would love to have seen a split screen of Reynor's commentary at the same time. I bet it's just pure shit talk on both sides.
23:35 Reynor
23:52 Hahahaha 😂😂😂
No way yr 6.1XDDD
i am eating but somehow dont care, great tissue story alsmost made me spit out the food from laughter :)
u r the best Kevin :)
Ever tried playing zerg by double hatching every base instead of injecting?
Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times. @Harstem
Tough times create tough people, tough people create good times, good times create weak people, weak people create tough times,
Hello Harstem! Please sing Skeletor vs Beastman in your next show. Love you 😘
So you're telling me the only reason mass stalker didn't work for me was because I needed more ?
well it didn't exactly work for him either.
mass archons may be interesting with the new size buff
The buff only affects collision with buildings. Mass archon would still be exactly the same.
Hello Hamster, great video as always, can you do a challenge that can help me talk to women?
I like this challenge
I feel a new IMBA video is on the way.....
Harlem getting high off old library books confirmed... Hate to see SC2 players using performance enhancing drugs.
Thanks!
do the mass archon challenge again, now that they are skinnier!
You're a content MACHINE!
not sure if listening to harstem ramble increases or decreases my iq.
this never works for me never never never if it's terran dam the tanks and ghost, if it's zerg banes+ultra shreds and against protoss high templer and void rays
If you lose with stalker against templar and voidrays you are doing something really really really wrong, stalker counter both of these.
What about Mass Among us content though?
I don't understand why your playing 3 nexus stalker only, shouldn't you just rush 8 stalkers?
Thi s is just a standard Has build :D
No Reynor loser interview?! :(
nice :D
I want to like stalkers but the are so weak...I always end up going zealot and immortals into sky-toss depending how long the game goes on...I used to go stalkers, but they get destroyed so easily
Not a good day...
idk about "beating" them ..
I started playing this game in late December 2022. I uninstalled this game mid January 2023 and will never play it again. I enjoyed playing Big Game Hunters but I would get hate speech and racial slurs and got sent whispers of occasional death threats because I was a noob. The SC2 player base is very toxic.
Its toxic on the lower level but its honostly kinda funny how mad they get
Sorry you had that experience bro, sadly there’s a small portion of VERY toxic individuals on ladder. I had to learn how to block people mid-game to protect my mental health lol
Arcade is hardly representative of the sc2 playerbase.
He lost 955 lings
I think I've seen almost all of your videos XD how can I meet you?
I think the large stalker game, could work with better micro, and better laser cycling with stalker unit. There is an arcade game by blizzard to teach cylcing fire of the stalker, its about attacking micro'ing effeciently... and there is hte blink management one also for damage micro... but attack micro with range units are key to expressing their lower dps then typically melee units.
Blinking cna set upt rotational fire.
As an exmaple in the match you shot with 14 stalkers... 2 drones... I think tis 3 shots to kill a drone.. so you could of if you were a god at micoring... killed lamost 5... in that one instance.. maybe you had 20 there but it was interesting... a few times ravagers had one health... it is hard ot do a single unit type because you are missing cpmplientary units, and his infestors jtting the field just means your going to lost.
The eaiest way if you plan on single unit head type is, building attack and retreat nodes, which for protoss is probably the most powerful thing.. So I htin if you built a souther shield and battery position could of made a pinch point andaloowed easier tiem taking bottom left and mid. It was weird you never went mid.. .The best tiem to build a retreat gate is when your forwardi nteh field micoring against his army.. and then retreat ot it as it finsihes or loop back.. and then bam he gets surprised and it ends up dividing their army, but you get super good trades if they attempt to go through.
Which better trades llow you to build a few more retreat bases, which again aloow your untis to be more aggresive and gives you better map control as protoss.. mini recharge and photon bases, with pylong and a couple gate ways jsut for static HP pool defence, which adds to your warp in, but not crucial... you cna build warp and apth nooks forcing derp walking... depending on how and what your opponenent moves or attacks with.. its actually on of the only legit exploits is pathing errors, created by exploiting how untis path and move, you cna even juggle units because of their path determination programing, having it fritz out.. lol making it a free kill, lol.. but meh.
hmm, nice try..
Lmao Toss units suck so hard
Nice try
I would ocutner that simply state, mass murders create good times for eplxoiters and off of booty, and celebreate all their pillaging and the ndie off, and the civlisatio nthey attacaked typically dies off but may recover but never ot its former glory.
So strong is a vague term... Meh.. I think Law and stabiltiy give tiem to abudance and all. SO openness amongst friedns nad communicatio and devleopment keep all doing great and good works. psyhcolgoists and nazis behind doors and govenrmetn clubs and financial crime make hard times for al lwithout it.
I'm pretty sure it is "and than the circle is completed." It's not a circle until it goes all the way around! Also.... you try to find a way to throw that eminem song in there with crappy lyrics every 3rd video.... you need to stop it is always terrible.
Stalkers are so bad
Harstem's mass stalker vs Reynor's mass hydralisk. For science!
Is this really stupid stuff? Mana did stalkers only to grand master and it looked like a legit strategy.
It's legit until high GM, even mana had to switch to gateway units only. Imagine if Harstem warped in zealots to deal with lings at some point, that would've been clever stuff. Edit: Didn't think about PvT and PvP, in those stalkers are meta in many situations, I guess that in PvT you can't defend all ins with them and you have to win quickly, and PvP is what it is.
Yes, because Harstem is not smurfing. A pro can play a bunch of nonsense and get to GM, it's not that meaningful.
The circle is round
just coming back from a shit day at work, ... and my most beloved youtuber release a 50 minutes video beating gm with stupid stuff .. i love you harstem and yes im a guy :) i still love you :) wish u all the best in your life captain !