StarCraft 2: AMAZING Grand Finals - Dark vs Maru! (Best-of-7)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- Best-of-7 series of top level StarCraft 2 between Dark and Maru. This Zerg vs Terran is the Grand Finals of the AfreecaTV Champions Cup, a $15k tournament that recently took place.
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These cast have become a regular part of my life. I’m extremely grateful lowko is putting out consistently quality casts. This was a game I once gave up on but I’m so glad lowko has helped rekindle the magic.
i reinstalled the game after watching Lowko casting.... really enjoying it now more than before
At this stage I even have them on like a podcast while walking because I can visualize what is happening to an extent
exactly my thought !
same here, I always save them up for the time when I eat. And big casts like this will get split over several meals :D
I usually watch a whole episode in one sitting with partly eating or some coffee and a breakfast bar, but sometimes it makes me want to play so much I have to pause it once I get a match loaded up and ready.
Every single time I eat food, I instantly go to TH-cam and turn on Lowko casting amazing Starcraft games. I dunno what I would do without you. Deepest thanks for bringing the best Starcraft content.
Lowko, thank you for posting sc2 consistently :)
As much as I love watching Serral's strategic play or Reynor's relentlessness, watching Dark is always a good time because of how much he breaks the mold. Seeing Dark play some comps or strats I've wondered about and making them work is always cool to see, makes me wonder if Dark is secretly Bly & Serral playing archon mode.
Same I really like dark because he’s like I’ll play the macro game but if your just gonna leave yourself wide open for an attack..
Dark is the man!
I think this match helped me determine my favorite Korean Zerg player.
Marines try to mask their fear with chemical stimulants as they stand guard in their bunkers, while Executors shift uneasily in their capital ships. Peering out from their 'strongholds' into the shadows beyond the perimeter and into the void of space; The Swarm is coming and it's Dark outside!
great series, i really liked the banshees busting up nyduses and then dark countering with that final fungal growth
Maru in 1st game: I'm not trapped in here with you, YOU are trapped in here with ME! I'm wondering of those bio upgrades were a bait for Dark to expend a lot of resources to kill them. Although if Dark wasn't so greedy afterwards and did a roach all in he probably would have won.
What amazing players these pros are. Thx for ANUDDER excellent cast Lowko.
7:32 "not a lot of randomness in SC2: not quite chess levels, I suppose..."
I'd argue that getting the bad spawn location in chess (black side of the board) has a bigger impact on the game than Terran's having exposed add-on placements. You could argue its not random, but we're talking about map symmetry and balance, and pretty much every competitive strategy game either has uneven spawn locations or one player getting the first turn.
randomness is huge in chess, first move advantage is massive
Dude you’re the best. Keep it comin
"Writers of the Starcraft Universe..." *coughs*Tyranids*Coughs*
36:50 Dark going for the legendary 420 gas build
great fights man
Lord have mercy I’m about to baneling BUST🎉
10minutes in and Maru does still do Maru-things hahahaha I don't think you can NOT love this dude
I'm pretty sure, there's no randomness with what side of the Barracks the detachment appears. You just have to remember, that the building itself is "turned" to one particular side.
He means randomness with regard to your spawn location. If you spawn top left on that map, a double barracks wall is much more vulnerable than if you spawned bottom right and the add-ins are inside the wall.
@@Komatik_ I
Oh, I see. That makes sense. But you know where you have spawned, if it's vulnerable, why go for it ?
@@AlexCatable You'd have to ask Maru that.
game 7 is much more inresting to watch beacuse it is intresting to you to commentate....
...same as all Serral and Bly games
15:05 Ehm, about that whole no producing, what do you think the destroyed wall was made of?
omg, that worker kill...
no clue why they don’t wall with bunkers instead of labs
I love u my boy keep it up 🙏
Sounds a bit different. New Mic?
Maru is terrifying!
best videos
15:02--maru finally recovers from supply block caused when dark took out depot wall
15:04--"maru, why aren't you producing?"
Love your casts, I could NOT do your job, but that just makes it all the more frustrating when I notice something you (seem to?) miss
The games really turned dark all of a sudden.
GG
2-prong infestors you say? Let me grow a third arm first.
third tatchury
Blizzard time to nerf zerg some more.
I will always root for Maru (fellow Terran myself) will always cheer, pray, and hope he wins. But lately it’s been discouraging watching him lose a lot. He normally outplays people but he’s been getting outplayed left right and center. 😔
he just swept the GSL finals and took 2nd in this tournament...?
@@heat76ers I’m not saying he’s doing bad. He’s still a phenomenal player and by far my favorite. I’m just saying that once he gets to the top, the players who he normally beats are beating him. Idk maybe I’m just being super critical. I’ll never be as good as him haha don’t mind me
ggwp
It painfully obvious Lowko fan boys over any zerg player it kinda gets old after a while.
Just hate seeing zergs win
salty
@@ZerglingLover yea lol
Just love watching good players play
SPOILERS BRUH
One of the best sets I've seen. Seven games with some wildly different game play from both players.
Why is bunker not used as much in TvZ. The trade off in destroying an upgraded bunker with plus armour should be favourable to Terran
"Before Zerg players figured out Queens were good units."
No. They didn't just magically figure it out. Queens got a monstrous buff to their anti-ground range (3->5), turning them from slowroaches that shoot up (and so made mostly as extra Barracks equivalents) into something like a tanky version of the Stalker that doesn't need to research its Blink equivalent, while doubling as a Barracks.
That one patch alone ushered in gasless Zerg openings, took down I don't remember if it was Hive or Greater Spire timings down to 11min from 17min, and pretty much broke the last days of WoL. It's why IPL got renamed into the Hyun Club.
Haven't seen florencio in a while, anybody miss that guy? I do -- that cheeky spicy star crafter
This game is going to be a banger of a game. Godspeed on your flight to the match Lowko.
Dark plays a really enjoyable zerg! So agressive and technical! Insane games!
My favourite Terran and my favourite Zerg clashing in the finals. :D Thanks for casting a fabulous best of 7!
btw...ur prounciation is close to be perfect...dont mind of it...be YOURSELF...it's not a shame to be stupid =D...we all like you ^_^
1:08:45 Dark and Maru truly know this game inside and out.
If anyone does, I'd expect top 5 world players to xD
Dark is one of my favorite players to watch. He plays some super fun styles of Zerg. Bly is another Zerg that comes to mind who is super fun to watch.
High level starcraft is indeed a thing of beauty.
I really dislike the term cheese though.
These players are playing for a living.
If you know your opponent is weak to something, use it.
It's up to them to learn how to defend against it.
Same with macro hatches.
One of the reasons people try to guilt you against something, is to take away your power.
Even the very best players in the world can miss injects when the heat is on. A macro hatch here or there can help alleviate the problem and they're not free so I say again, if it works, use it.
Great games and cast, thank you Lowko
I haven't seen the whole series yet, but since when do like all SC 2 games end before 10 minutes? Have they really changed the game that much?
51:00 Maru a ghost of a chance as the future looked quite dark.
Dear Lowko, thank you so much for presenting us the very best games (and maybe the very best casts even) - every of your videos makes me happy, so I don't forget to smile ;-) Really man, great work, thank you so much!
2 fungal growth away from victory damn.
Wow lowko i really love how you cast
1 hour 20 min of Dark vs Maru? Yes please.
Sorry Lowko, watching yesterdays video as you uploaded this one. Gotta go finish the royal blood map games then ill watch this 😂. Super awesome map with a great cast
46:35 never do math in a video Lowko!
Not. Even. Once.
This is such a good match series! Holy crap! Dark must be super scary to play against, he can do anything and everything - sometimes at once!
Edit: Series of the year? xD
I've been watching these videos for a few weeks here, and i'm ngl, I'm kind of agreeing with the whole "Zerg Is OP" thing you mentioned that people complain about. There was just nothing Maru could do against these cheese units that Zerg has. Tank? It gets snatched and dies instantly. Marines? stupid crazy AOE units. It's literally a matter of Dark waiting for Vipers to have enough energy to insta kill any chance the Terran has of fighting against them.
I'd like to watch more of this shit but Zergs number of stupid OP units with Niche unique abilities (Infestor, Viper, Brood Lords). Its forcing me to stop watching now, just no longer enjoyable.
The entire game is decided by two fungal growths? like what? Cringe.
80 minutes of loko talking sc2 to me.....day cant get better
Difference between Darks and Serrals Zerg is comparable like watching Prottos play pre-balance style (Serral) vs post-balance style (Dark). I personally dont enjoy Serrals game anymore even he has epic skills and he is semigod in SC2 world, Dark Has ideas, killer instinct, and his game are so enjoyable. After watching Serral I hate the zerg, after watching Dark, I want to play that race! Great day to all!
One hell of a series, was made better when I was sitting on the couch eating chips
LOWKO! You make the best SC2 content on TH-cam! Your the ONLY channel i watch when it comes to SC2...why watch another channel when you can get all ya need right here :)
Sorry to say! Young generation wont appreciate job like this!! Thats why more of the young ones goes for office jobs or factory! Trades are slowly dying of people!! Where am at we need young bucks to pick up more on the flied than office jobs!! Everyone have talents but people are afraid of chasing there talents, people are scared to challenge their fares!!
It's crazy that zerg can out expand the other races while still staying ahead on workers, making enough army to pressure the opponent, and not have to sacrifice any base defense.
No wonder Zerg has won almost everything in the past few years.
Im a brood war guy, but i really enjoy ur cast, keep up the good work.
"Brenda? Brenda you are suppose to inject.":D :D :D :D Lowko you are straight the best.
The stim outside Maru's natural is the most nooby thing I've ever seen.
Edit: I stand corrected - not building a tank in game 2 wins.
Love the Brenda and Jimmy comments just those little touches bring alot to your vids. Thanks Lowko
Yooo, been a while since i watched your casts but every so often i find myself back here.
That quality though, yoooooo
Remember to hit the Subscribe button, it will increase your APM +1a/sec. ;)
If that first game happened to me i wouldve just conceded the entire match and went home to eat icecream.
Just...yikes.
I don't see this game on the afreecaTV YT channel. Are you sure this is from the GSL?
Suddenly these SC2 vids keep me more entertained than any TV series or Anime lol. Thanks Lowko, truly amazing work done
Thank you for all these videos lowko, Love them!
Havent watched pro starcraft in ages. uThermal's fault I guess..
I used to be an avid starcraft brood war player. Now I play alot of halo wars 2 but I've always wanted to get good at starcraft 2.
9 minute stimpack time and Maru wins???jesus that guy...fml
Not taking anything away from Maru but he won off of Dark's mistakes
lets me sub to you ur commentating is funny as hell. you have a niche for this.
At 420 Dark lights one up? Oh Lowko xD
Nine buttons pressed per second is simply CRAZY!
i thought Maru lost that game 5 times already, that's crazy
StarCraft is Not as fun to watch as StarCraft I, Real micro control pros are at StarCraft I
Lowko has a potty mouth in this episode!
I've never seen someone use swarm hosts like that. Amazing. Good pick, L
Is it cheating if i watched the whole video at 1.5x speed?
Since your last video where Maru is no-matching lower ranked players with 1 hellion and 2 repears, I have a lot more respect for others high level players in general.
I think the first reaper that a Terran makes should have a name, such as Brenda the Queen, Jimmy the Marine, Otto the overlord. Leave your suggestions below, mine is Rick the Reaper
I am at 0:04 and if Dark wins, I am going to be piszed :) because if that thumbnail and him holding the prize - I realize it could be from some old contest, but who knows :)
game 6 is like WoL where u hunt nyduses in all in
Nice spoiler in the thumbnail btw. ;)
Hi Lowko ! It's been a while since I've started watching your replays and you've seem to be a good commentary buddy from the start. Moreover, I'm not an native english talker and your diction is so clear and easy to listen to. So for all of that and for all your work, thanks a lot and continue !
19:20, I would of started a low ground bunker...
Why are bainling not counted in resources lost?
Epic games! Infestors MVP!
ty lowko for all your work!
without you, I would be probably done with sc2.
Btw I find the competitive map pool has pretty good look and diversity!
best regards from france!
Just stumbled across your channel the other day and I'm absolutely hooked and half watched half of your videos in that time! Stopped playing StarCraft a while back but you are an amazing caster that's resparked my love of the game! Thank you for all the amazing content!!
I have watched dozens of your cast and I just subscribed to day. I was wondering why i didn't do that earlier. Keep up the great casts, Lowko!
When are we going to watch you going against Serral/Maru/Dark etc? :D
Didn't watch the game yet, but just seeing the names of the two guys playing I already pressed the like button :D
Am I missing something... how tf do you win in this?
Love the long cast... haven't watched it yet, but I'm reorganizing my day to make time for it. :P