I absolutly love how harstem was microing 2 roaches to kill 2-3 more drones, while having 2k resourses in the bank in the last game. Maybe he is GM cowboy, but deep in his heart he is our man from diamond.
Words to live by: "I have a new trick which I want to share with you: What you do is, when you go to bed, instead of browsing your phone for 35 minutes, getting angry about some random comment on twitter... What you do is, you just close your eyes and go to sleep."
Dude, it was an EXCELLENT way to start the show. Absolutely perfect. Anything other than that would not have been as good. BECAUSE THAT'S THE EXACT SAME EXPERIENCE THAT ALL OF US HAVE!! And we all feel exactly like that about it. "Oh no. Oh gawd I hate all these stupid all-ins. I have no idea how to fight this." Perfect! Just exactly right. And then you figure it out, and then you show us. And it is glorious to behold.
Dear harstem in the first game when you see drones coming at you you instantly cancel the natural then pull some drones hold position them on the ramp so that he can't get up and build 1 spine and 4 lings when he kills your drones and get up the ramp you should have the lings ready and the spine is half way done with decent micro the game is yours👌🏻
At 14:15 where he was tunneling his roaches into the enemy base: was i the only one who fell really silent? :D afraid to make a sound in case the enemy heard us
There are a couple responses to 12pool dronepull, you can find them on youtube obv. One is to send a single drone to the natural and build a single spine and a queen asap there, then just before his spines finishes you transfer everything to the natural and protect the ramp from the spines. Another is to wall off the ramp with pool, evo and hatchery
@ApolloX44 Pollo If your goal is only Plat 1, you can do that with your eyes closed on all three races. That's beyond noob territory into "We're barely even playing the game" territory
@lalrivunga hnamte When did 12 pool ever require skill? I’d say even a cannon rush requires more skill, because your building placement and immortal micro matter
@@carstrom9032 12 pool is a macro build with light pressure at the start. It's less economical than 16/18/17, but you usually get some light damage in (drone pull or couple workers) so it evens out. The classic zerg 0 skill cheese is ling flood which is standard hatch/gas/pool but you don't get more than 20 drones and flood lings from two base as soon as speed finishes until your opponent dies, or holds and then you die. Nice thing with 12 pool is it counters all cheeses and throws off your opponents build.
The first one cheese, yeah you can try allin too, the first 2 spine drones kill also spine and protect spine with sourrounding. - 800 mins - enemy 11 drones you 19 - looks like 4 ling - all should maybe attack the spines,and your lings maybe too, then protect your spines just thinking...cheers
My favorite part of Zerg is that ZvZ is like just a completely different experience than in similar mirror match ups. The aesthetic is my favorite. Working on the fundamentals of Zerg rewards you with just buckets of T and P tears crying imba
Just a reminder: the Captain said a while ago that he started as Protoss because a friend told him it was the easier race (they're not friends anymore). He then became a part of The Protoss community so it was more a human issue leaving Protoss. The thing is he now considers his style more prone to Zerg since it's a reactive race.
The fact you can commentate or speak your mind so clearly while playing the game at the same time? And I know English isn't your main language " jongkut " is very very impressive my guy.
Zerg only has 2 hard things about them imho : 1. Knowing when to produce drones and when to reserve larvae for other units for defense. If you drone up and at this moment T/P suddenly attacks - you might well be dead. However, with the current map pool's layouts it's easy to safely spread overlords over the map unless T/P makes early air units, creep, and scouting with overseer when Lair is done is hard to prevent, so I don't think knowing when to make army is that difficult to monitor anymore but still takes some skill for sure. 2. Being able to deal with multiple attacks at the same time. In ZvX, especially ZvT, zerg needs to be able to deal with multiple prongs and harassments on different sides of the map at the same time because zerg is the most defensive race focused on getting strong economy most of the time. You might often see in lower leagues that an inexperienced zergs can just send all their army to defend from one marine drop but loses the queen and drones at their main and another hatchery elsewhere. Once you get those 2 things polished to a reasonable extent, I believe that right now Z is by far the easiest race to play - greatest production rate, best capacity to switch army composition very quickly, the least average amount of micro required (except for flanking), the safest map control in the game (creep). Those are my 5 cents.
ill give some weird tips on this series: When a z beginner of any kind make a macro hatch. It should really be refered to as a micro hatch since it buys a ton of time to micro. Just look how your micro is depleting the larvae and has you bank minerals.
@ 11:40 "It can be so difficult to play against mutas" Yeah especially when you haven't dropped a single creep tumor all game :) Sincerely, Salty Platinum Zerg who (sorta) spreads creep but A + moves ling bane all day.
Is it possible Harstem doesn't know how to spread creep up ramps? It seems crazy, but at 34:49 he seems to just give up, like he thinks you can't. Either way 10/10, this was hilarious. Looking forward to this series.
Setting aside a little time to play offrace seriously is actually bigbrain... There are always fine details that are best understood by doing, rather than studying/observing.... is what I would say if I played SCII, but I don't, so f*@# if I know... :D That being said, this seems fun, thanks for the longer vidya!
Feedback time, schipper aan de wal: 1) hovering 1000 mins for about a minute while killing 3rd base.... 2) no creep spread?? 3) no scout in main base for tech 4) maybe underestimating muta...
2:16 this why i always go pool first, You would have a queen, then you just surround your queen with your drones ands let the queen defend. Same of you have a spine, just surround it with drones.
Good job Harstem. Zerg might look very hard below master level. But for highmaster and gm protoss players can play zerg very strong . Terran is another story.
for the first match you saw he was pushing you with his drones I would have put some static defence on my creep before he did and that would pretty much null his all in
There was a Bly vs Lambo series (I think) and Lambo did 16 pool to counter blys 12pool. I'm not good at this game but if I remember correctly it doesn't put you too far in a disadvantage
You don't go overlord first in ZvZ... If you get 4 drones, hatch, ovi, pool. You have around 80 more minerals at the minute mark = faster pool. You basically lose one larva due to supply block, but cannot be cheesed.
i’m in no place to judge but, my gut response when i saw the drones coming in game 1 was ‘why isn’t he adding spines immediately?’ i feel like you waited til the VERY last second to throw them down? unless this was strategic for saving minerals or something..?
I think zerg is harder to pick up but is pretty OP at a high level. You're probably good enough to make zerg "easy." Thanks for the entertainment. Your banter is great.
Guys I figured out why Harstem keeps his game setting so low. It's because its lowers are standards to such a point that when he puts in a minimal amount of editing its makes videos look like a Hollywood block buster movie in comparison.
I just finished hitting diamond with all 3 races. Protoss took about 150 games and was my first. Zerg took about 40 games and was second. Terran took about 320 games... Terran is easily the hardest race to consistently win with but the easiest to drag games out to 20 minutes
Harstem I dont know about the other viewers but I would prefer it if the videos were cut up into shorter pieces and uploaded more frequently. So I would prefer the same footage to be cut into 2 videos and uploaded weekly.
Beating GM's with stupid stuff idea: every time you say a unit or structure of the race you're playing as, you must build 5 of them before you can do anything else. If you don't have the tech for them yet, you must cut probes and tech into that unit/structure as soon as possible before doing anything else
I need to know the secret to spending minerals when going Ling bane muta lol 😆 I swear I'm hitting injects Nd pumping out units and I always end up floating 1700 minerals with that comp
i love the WE part of it. i am a grown man who's a CEO of a Company I founded and I am living my life through a 20 something computer geek... welcome to 2021 :)
I fav zerg because I've long viewed them since their creation as the weakest of the other races. Its like picking mages over a tank warrior. I tend to like playing glass canon style
What's with the picture of guy in the back? I'm so puzzled, always look at that when you're off the game explaining a scene with your witty jokes (are these Dutch jokes or just your genius on the spot?)
I absolutly love how harstem was microing 2 roaches to kill 2-3 more drones, while having 2k resourses in the bank in the last game. Maybe he is GM cowboy, but deep in his heart he is our man from diamond.
Man I dont even play Starcraft. I'm just here for your humor. Hidden Gem man. Love your games.
You might like to check out harstems co-op gameplay
hes a better streamer comedian than he is starcraft 2 player lol
RLLY? lol
Zerg should be easy. I mean, if an amateur mini golfer who also plays Starcraft in his spare time can do it, then so can you!
Lol you made my day great joke that only legends understand.
Truuueee haha
You're talking about midget golf?
45:45
"What does he think he is"
Dude it is literally written in his name
you should have an MMR counter on these so we can visualize progress.
Words to live by: "I have a new trick which I want to share with you: What you do is, when you go to bed, instead of browsing your phone for 35 minutes, getting angry about some random comment on twitter... What you do is, you just close your eyes and go to sleep."
timestamp?
@@pedropepe90908 th-cam.com/video/jzxwQqy7Lr4/w-d-xo.html
Dude, it was an EXCELLENT way to start the show. Absolutely perfect. Anything other than that would not have been as good.
BECAUSE THAT'S THE EXACT SAME EXPERIENCE THAT ALL OF US HAVE!!
And we all feel exactly like that about it. "Oh no. Oh gawd I hate all these stupid all-ins. I have no idea how to fight this." Perfect! Just exactly right.
And then you figure it out, and then you show us. And it is glorious to behold.
I love how you pronounce mOOtalisk.. In the states we pronounce it mYOUtalisk and it just makes me smile for some reason
Dear harstem in the first game when you see drones coming at you you instantly cancel the natural then pull some drones hold position them on the ramp so that he can't get up and build 1 spine and 4 lings when he kills your drones and get up the ramp you should have the lings ready and the spine is half way done with decent micro the game is yours👌🏻
Losing mutas to a mine because you're distracted with baneling burrow is peak Zerg content
At 14:15 where he was tunneling his roaches into the enemy base: was i the only one who fell really silent? :D afraid to make a sound in case the enemy heard us
yeah sure william
Looking forward to seeing you hit GM with Zerg and Terran! Cheers
That first game made me lol. Welcome to ZVZ
9:20 nice wall kevin, maybe you should try playing protoss, that'll help you practice building walls versus zerg
Lambo's gonna get an aneurysm when he sees you taking the gas on 3rd before on 2nd base :D
Welcome to the Swarm, Captain!
Just wait until you go on a ZvZ vs. TheCowboy and then you'll know how hard Zerg is.
IMBALANCED
15:03 I guess the captain also doesn't realize that lurkers don't damage air
There are a couple responses to 12pool dronepull, you can find them on youtube obv. One is to send a single drone to the natural and build a single spine and a queen asap there, then just before his spines finishes you transfer everything to the natural and protect the ramp from the spines. Another is to wall off the ramp with pool, evo and hatchery
“I want the real op race”
*switches to terran*
“I said the real op race”
*switches to zerg*
“Perfection”
@ApolloX44 Pollo If your goal is only Plat 1, you can do that with your eyes closed on all three races. That's beyond noob territory into "We're barely even playing the game" territory
@lalrivunga hnamte When did 12 pool ever require skill? I’d say even a cannon rush requires more skill, because your building placement and immortal micro matter
@@carstrom9032 12 pool is a macro build with light pressure at the start. It's less economical than 16/18/17, but you usually get some light damage in (drone pull or couple workers) so it evens out. The classic zerg 0 skill cheese is ling flood which is standard hatch/gas/pool but you don't get more than 20 drones and flood lings from two base as soon as speed finishes until your opponent dies, or holds and then you die.
Nice thing with 12 pool is it counters all cheeses and throws off your opponents build.
@ApolloX44 Pollo the kind of player say toss is micro intensive and skilled, is toss player
@ApolloX44 Pollo It's a fact, toss are the less skilled race.
I think 2-3 infestors can be huge when playing Hydralisk vs Mutalisks, especially since you already had burrow for the roaches
The first one cheese, yeah you can try allin too, the first 2 spine drones kill also spine and protect spine with sourrounding.
- 800 mins
- enemy 11 drones you 19
- looks like 4 ling
- all should maybe attack the spines,and your lings maybe too, then protect your spines
just thinking...cheers
46:30 "Don't think twice, it's alright." You're so cultured, Harstem.
The poster behind him is Bob Dylan's i guess.
@@kozatas Oh, didn't know Bob Dylan wrote or covered this song. I know johnny Cash/Waylon Jennings' versions.
My favorite part of Zerg is that ZvZ is like just a completely different experience than in similar mirror match ups. The aesthetic is my favorite. Working on the fundamentals of Zerg rewards you with just buckets of T and P tears crying imba
BGMWSS: broodwar zerg, no queens allowed. Go!
Whitelisted your channel in Adblock, enjoy the support, Captain.
Just a reminder: the Captain said a while ago that he started as Protoss because a friend told him it was the easier race (they're not friends anymore). He then became a part of The Protoss community so it was more a human issue leaving Protoss. The thing is he now considers his style more prone to Zerg since it's a reactive race.
Here we go! The Captain has finally got to the Zerg. Total domination upon European ladder
Well I mean, he has already been GM with zerg before.
The fact you can commentate or speak your mind so clearly while playing the game at the same time? And I know English isn't your main language " jongkut " is very very impressive my guy.
Zerg only has 2 hard things about them imho :
1. Knowing when to produce drones and when to reserve larvae for other units for defense. If you drone up and at this moment T/P suddenly attacks - you might well be dead. However, with the current map pool's layouts it's easy to safely spread overlords over the map unless T/P makes early air units, creep, and scouting with overseer when Lair is done is hard to prevent, so I don't think knowing when to make army is that difficult to monitor anymore but still takes some skill for sure.
2. Being able to deal with multiple attacks at the same time. In ZvX, especially ZvT, zerg needs to be able to deal with multiple prongs and harassments on different sides of the map at the same time because zerg is the most defensive race focused on getting strong economy most of the time. You might often see in lower leagues that an inexperienced zergs can just send all their army to defend from one marine drop but loses the queen and drones at their main and another hatchery elsewhere.
Once you get those 2 things polished to a reasonable extent, I believe that right now Z is by far the easiest race to play - greatest production rate, best capacity to switch army composition very quickly, the least average amount of micro required (except for flanking), the safest map control in the game (creep). Those are my 5 cents.
This is beautiful. Always enjoy this. Thanks for sharing ❤️
Love the longer videos, thanks for everything!
28:50 This game on Romanticide was amazing ling/bane/muta stuff =)
ill give some weird tips on this series: When a z beginner of any kind make a macro hatch. It should really be refered to as a micro hatch since it buys a ton of time to micro. Just look how your micro is depleting the larvae and has you bank minerals.
I hit the like button even before the video started
Captain of many talents. You find treasures on every island.
@ 11:40 "It can be so difficult to play against mutas"
Yeah especially when you haven't dropped a single creep tumor all game :)
Sincerely,
Salty Platinum Zerg who (sorta) spreads creep but A + moves ling bane all day.
Killing mass mutas is the perk of being a z player
5 parasitic bombs and 40 mutas just explode after 10 secs
Usually instant gg
Is it possible Harstem doesn't know how to spread creep up ramps? It seems crazy, but at 34:49 he seems to just give up, like he thinks you can't.
Either way 10/10, this was hilarious. Looking forward to this series.
Setting aside a little time to play offrace seriously is actually bigbrain... There are always fine details that are best understood by doing, rather than studying/observing.... is what I would say if I played SCII, but I don't, so f*@# if I know... :D That being said, this seems fun, thanks for the longer vidya!
Playing offrace makes your main race better as it forces you to learn not only new skills, but also learn the counters to your main race.
@@seankrolyk5814 Ty, that means I actually made a good point... Noice!
Protipp: Give your banelings circles to run in. It gives you more time in which they don't waste themselves.
ZvZ is such a high-octane matchup, I love watching it.
Feedback time, schipper aan de wal: 1) hovering 1000 mins for about a minute while killing 3rd base.... 2) no creep spread?? 3) no scout in main base for tech 4) maybe underestimating muta...
2:16 this why i always go pool first, You would have a queen, then you just surround your queen with your drones ands let the queen defend. Same of you have a spine, just surround it with drones.
YEEEAAS!!! I've been waiting so long for this :D gl to you, ill be watching!
You can take overlords at 13 - 27 - 33 - 36 in ZvT, so your overlord wasn't late @28:58
Oh good I thought we had gotten to gm with Terran already and I was at more behind than I thought 😅
Good job Harstem. Zerg might look very hard below master level. But for highmaster and gm protoss players can play zerg very strong . Terran is another story.
how you do, the pc datas to the upper left corner? (after 31:07) is some program? and then what is this program?
1:11:59 His faucet leaks, it triggers me a little bit
defend worker rush zvz: build defense, pull drones, let enemy drones not reach your creep to deny building if possible
for the first match you saw he was pushing you with his drones I would have put some static defence on my creep before he did and that would pretty much null his all in
There was a Bly vs Lambo series (I think) and Lambo did 16 pool to counter blys 12pool. I'm not good at this game but if I remember correctly it doesn't put you too far in a disadvantage
LOCO loved your first game too
Go Gas pool Hatch in ZVZ. It lets you defend yourself by responding with spines as soon as you see drones.
you just close your eyes, and go to sleep. good for everything except my hairline. fucking awesome
You don't go overlord first in ZvZ... If you get 4 drones, hatch, ovi, pool. You have around 80 more minerals at the minute mark = faster pool. You basically lose one larva due to supply block, but cannot be cheesed.
The new bugs life movie is looking great
wtf is that terran at 37:17, thats some diamond 2 stuff right there
Ouh, Karate Kid quote. Nice. Strike first, strike hard, no mercy -Cobra Kai
480 likes and no unlikes so far... has to be a sign. The most expected Road to GM. Best wishes, Capt.
Also I wish for game 2 you got some infestors, FG the muta clump and the lings/banes.
You can stack on queen larva injections when there is more than 50 energy available
GM casually floating 1k minerals
You should do the weekly tourney as random race and make sure not to tell your opponent to throw them off.
i’m in no place to judge but, my gut response when i saw the drones coming in game 1 was ‘why isn’t he adding spines immediately?’
i feel like you waited til the VERY last second to throw them down? unless this was strategic for saving minerals or something..?
Didn't have the pool up. The moment that it finished he started up 3 spines.
Rusher had a wayyyy faster pool than harstem cause they prob 12 pooled.
What is the name of the application used for the data in the top left corner?
Military Harstem
Your sink's leaking. Think of all the poor children!
"I never know how to defend against these early game all-ins"
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em? xD
Game 2 hydra response without any creep spread to mutas... that was hard to watch
14:07 his face is priceless
harstem looks like logic
It’s the big head
Why do most people not creepspread in ZvZ? Isn't the biggest reason for creep the vision and not the speed?
15:14 “This is good I think.”
I think zerg is harder to pick up but is pretty OP at a high level. You're probably good enough to make zerg "easy."
Thanks for the entertainment. Your banter is great.
Guys I figured out why Harstem keeps his game setting so low. It's because its lowers are standards to such a point that when he puts in a minimal amount of editing its makes videos look like a Hollywood block buster movie in comparison.
I just got one question: since when I creep in zvz outdated? :D
Anyhow, amazing content! Happy that another favourite streamer delivers zerg content
I was angry when he didn't connect his bases with creep. Sure you maybe don't need the same creep as in a ZvT.... but... arghhh
I just finished hitting diamond with all 3 races.
Protoss took about 150 games and was my first.
Zerg took about 40 games and was second.
Terran took about 320 games...
Terran is easily the hardest race to consistently win with but the easiest to drag games out to 20 minutes
i was not asking for this but boi i am excited
I love how he laughed about the first game
Harstem I dont know about the other viewers but I would prefer it if the videos were cut up into shorter pieces and uploaded more frequently. So I would prefer the same footage to be cut into 2 videos and uploaded weekly.
WHERE IS THY CREEP SPREAD
There is no going back now, get some geeks to build you a new PC 🎉🎉
Got absolutely called out by the close your eyes and sleep comment.
Gas 18 Pool 17 hatch 18 might have gotten some lings out quicker against that first game cheese
TheCowboy from Is It Imba kinda spoils the excitement
shouldn't you steal a protos worker every time? O.o or with any chance you get
Beating GM's with stupid stuff idea: every time you say a unit or structure of the race you're playing as, you must build 5 of them before you can do anything else. If you don't have the tech for them yet, you must cut probes and tech into that unit/structure as soon as possible before doing anything else
Go Zerg!!
I need to know the secret to spending minerals when going Ling bane muta lol 😆 I swear I'm hitting injects Nd pumping out units and I always end up floating 1700 minerals with that comp
Even pros make macro hatches to have some room for muta micro.
does harstem have a P.O. box or a phisical ADRESSS? would like to send some good shit....
I SMASHED that like button!
So basically there's just 3 people in GM and the rest are the smurfs of those 3... Intredasting...
ZvZ is good micro IMBA?
i love the WE part of it. i am a grown man who's a CEO of a Company I founded and I am living my life through a 20 something computer geek... welcome to 2021 :)
I fav zerg because I've long viewed them since their creation as the weakest of the other races. Its like picking mages over a tank warrior. I tend to like playing glass canon style
What's with the picture of guy in the back? I'm so puzzled, always look at that when you're off the game explaining a scene with your witty jokes (are these Dutch jokes or just your genius on the spot?)
Wow harstem beating poor dragon girl in the last game.
5300mmr with Terran after many weeks of practice...and already 5235 zerg... Is it Imba?
He's been GM with zerg before
How do you get the info display in the top left?
The region and fps and such? Ctrl alt shift
@@mar_sh4617 tyty