It's pretty amazing that serral, in the past, was the player that played somewhat timid in ZvZ with standard builds, not really committing either way (eco or aggressive) and getting rolled time and time again by other zergs who committed way harder, especially rogue. This now turned exactly the other way round with dark playing somewhat standard builds, sometimes with a bit of early aggression but not very committed. And when serral DOES play standard, he just play better than the opponent, constant scouting, insanely good unit movement, does not forget the upgrades, amazing player. I'm a fanboy my god.
If there was any sc2 player to fangirl over, it's serral Maru was respectable in his day at the top, Bly and Zest and those kinds were always fun to watch, but Serrals not only the one you want to be, but given his realistic apm, he's the one you could fool yourself into saying 'I have a chance'
Yesterday, I watched the finals between Serral and Maru first on ESL Archives (I wanted to see their faces ... Maru's smile after receiving the 4th fungal growth in a row was impeccable), and then here, and now I've realized that I am indeed addicted to watching SCII matches again :D
That third game was pretty amazing with Serrals roachwall, I have never seen someone doing it quite as dedicated like that. He even had a double roach wall on the ramp to his main (you dont see it in this cast, but in the original IEM cast it was shown, 2x3 roaches with some space in between them) so if banes were to breach the first wall, there would still be a wall to fall back to. Simply amazing!
I've been watching these casts for the last month or two, and I'm coming back here purely because I've seen Winter fanboy over both Dark and Serral so hard that I am now caught up in the infection, and are ridiculously excited to watch both the gaming and how much I believe you'll enjoy this. Love what you do 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Serral is so superior to everyone else that it seems like he's playing another game, he's a monster. He defeated Dark so badly that it's almost impossible to describe...
Hilarious matchup and beautifully chaotic Love how after a few games they kinda stop the early super micro aggression so not to short-circuit their own brains
It was in this match, not against Maru, Serral showed he was the ultimate champion. ZvZ is luck multiplied by micro, but Serral turned it into chess. That's when he became the GOAT.
@@tondekoddar7837 That definitely looked very well thought out - building placement, how many roaches are needed to block the space between, queen blocking the back door... beautiful. At one point he even pulled out a roach, and the space was blocked by an egg in the meantime.
Fun Fact: Dehaka, a Heart of the Swarm Zerg story character, is the only Zerg specimen that is known to have hair - a scraggly beard on his chin. Some might consider Sarah Kerrigan's Zerg form to have hair, but all references I could find to her transformation canonically describe it as segmented stalks or tendrils, mostly believed to be the mechanism by which she exerts control over the Zerg.
While the box art of SC1 and campaign of vanilla SC2 highlight the terrans, the zerg are unquestioningly the legacy of starcraft. You can say X zerged Y, and people who have never played starcraft know what you're talking about (citation required, because there's probably not very many that never played starcraft). The Toss are cool and made a mark in cards against humanity, and the terrans do a good job of not just being "average", but the zerg introduced an entirely new and wonderfully creative thing to the world of sci fi.
Serral may start a series with "pretty standard business", but after that i imagine him thinking in Abathur's voice: *Design must be simple, elegant. Implementation less so. Sequences must change. Intent static. Product fluid* *Work harder. Better. Make faster. Stronger. Evolution never over.*
In game 2, something happened to Dark's +2 ranged upgrade. It started, then went back to 0 and stayed there for a while, then jumped back and continued, but very delayed. That must have been a contaminate. I didn't know the production tab showed it that way, so it confused me for a while, but there was an overseer around, so that must have been it, right?
I feel like StarCraft 2 is less about what race you want to play, and more about what race you can’t stand the mirror match against. I gotta say I love Zerg but it’s the most stressful mirror match to play!
If Serral decided to master other races he'd still win IMO maybe his random isn't so goated in a pro level but who knows, maybe if they all played random perhaps.
Great series, mirror or not. More ZvZ? Idk, if it's like this, YES PLEASE. More Serral vs Dark anyday. More Dark vs anyone anyday. More Serral vs anyone anyday. I love what these people are doing, and love how you present, mate, big thank + have a nice day
I don't play the game, but really enjoy to watch. But I havet 1 question; If it is zerg vs zerg will both have movement speed on eachother creep? Thanks for the content🙈☺️
So, for me, it works very easy: 1: the video pops up on my notifications 2: i click it 3: click on like on the video 4: just enjoy the game and the cast Easy isn't it?
~~spoiler~~ _____________________________________________ "this is a not protectable gold base" serral: walls it anyway, skips ling phase completely, owns the place
Great casting and love watching the games. Please remove the part at 30:25 about divorce. You'd be surprised the pain it brings. I ask, as someone who had faced the pain and heartache it brings of growing up with a single mother and a dad who loved drugs more than this family.
It's pretty amazing that serral, in the past, was the player that played somewhat timid in ZvZ with standard builds, not really committing either way (eco or aggressive) and getting rolled time and time again by other zergs who committed way harder, especially rogue.
This now turned exactly the other way round with dark playing somewhat standard builds, sometimes with a bit of early aggression but not very committed. And when serral DOES play standard, he just play better than the opponent, constant scouting, insanely good unit movement, does not forget the upgrades, amazing player.
I'm a fanboy my god.
Watching him is like watching any goat in any other sport. Plus in offline tournaments he gets powered up.
If there was any sc2 player to fangirl over, it's serral
Maru was respectable in his day at the top, Bly and Zest and those kinds were always fun to watch, but Serrals not only the one you want to be, but given his realistic apm, he's the one you could fool yourself into saying 'I have a chance'
Dark: wins the first game
Serral: And I took that personally
Only map he lost the whole tournament
Serral, the Air Jordan of SC2.
@@empirate100I'd say him playing those keys makes him more of a Beethoven 😂
Amazing how the SC2 pro scene has lasted to 2024.
It's growing. The finals had ~70k live viewers
i just got into it....
Best esport IMO makes it look like these guys are generals in the 25th century.
these kids today are so smart they want sc2 not dumb cod
amazing how blizzard dropped the ball
Yesterday, I watched the finals between Serral and Maru first on ESL Archives (I wanted to see their faces ... Maru's smile after receiving the 4th fungal growth in a row was impeccable), and then here, and now I've realized that I am indeed addicted to watching SCII matches again :D
That wall in game 3 tho… 🔥
Not just a wall, but an entire golden castle.
Showing all them Protoss how to wall off against Zerg, and doing it on an exposed gold base no less!
I imagine Serral's every idle braincell just going: Bass line: "Doo do do do! Do do! Do do! *can't touch this!*" on repeat! :D
Dark was the only one who made Serral bend on the last tournament. Bend, but not break.
Serral showing all the Protoss how to properly wall off against Zerg, and he did it on an exposed gold base!
The ZvZ stress is real.
That third game was pretty amazing with Serrals roachwall, I have never seen someone doing it quite as dedicated like that. He even had a double roach wall on the ramp to his main (you dont see it in this cast, but in the original IEM cast it was shown, 2x3 roaches with some space in between them) so if banes were to breach the first wall, there would still be a wall to fall back to. Simply amazing!
A consulting firm for larvae does sound like a pretty standard business.
I've been watching these casts for the last month or two, and I'm coming back here purely because I've seen Winter fanboy over both Dark and Serral so hard that I am now caught up in the infection, and are ridiculously excited to watch both the gaming and how much I believe you'll enjoy this.
Love what you do 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Serral is so superior to everyone else that it seems like he's playing another game, he's a monster. He defeated Dark so badly that it's almost impossible to describe...
It takes Dark to make serral look so brilliant
Serral just dug in his couch cushion and found some extra drones
Serral wall off his base as zerg better than HerO against Dark.
hero is known for his aggression, but his defence is suck
2 of my favourite zerg players against each other, this is a dream come true....again!
This might be the first ZvZ that I thoroughly enjoyed watching. As always, thank you Winter for the insight.
Hilarious matchup and beautifully chaotic
Love how after a few games they kinda stop the early super micro aggression so not to short-circuit their own brains
It was in this match, not against Maru, Serral showed he was the ultimate champion. ZvZ is luck multiplied by micro, but Serral turned it into chess. That's when he became the GOAT.
Exactly this was a pure chess match and Serral destroyed Dark with class like the best Carlson does against any opponent. Innate class.
Thank You
Om nom nom
The only one to make Serral bleed
To me it looked like gold wall-in was in pocket for long time, but at last played now. Just amazing.
@@tondekoddar7837 That definitely looked very well thought out - building placement, how many roaches are needed to block the space between, queen blocking the back door... beautiful. At one point he even pulled out a roach, and the space was blocked by an egg in the meantime.
Fun Fact: Dehaka, a Heart of the Swarm Zerg story character, is the only Zerg specimen that is known to have hair - a scraggly beard on his chin.
Some might consider Sarah Kerrigan's Zerg form to have hair, but all references I could find to her transformation canonically describe it as segmented stalks or tendrils, mostly believed to be the mechanism by which she exerts control over the Zerg.
While the box art of SC1 and campaign of vanilla SC2 highlight the terrans, the zerg are unquestioningly the legacy of starcraft. You can say X zerged Y, and people who have never played starcraft know what you're talking about (citation required, because there's probably not very many that never played starcraft). The Toss are cool and made a mark in cards against humanity, and the terrans do a good job of not just being "average", but the zerg introduced an entirely new and wonderfully creative thing to the world of sci fi.
I really appreciate you sprinkling in mirror matchups as I have other top players outdo each other with the same tools. Keep up the good work!
25:52 this is literally .. GOLD xD
yes. Both physically and metaphorically
Dark was the only person who won ONE map against Serral. He went 20-1 in his journey to be world champion.
20-1 what a monster...
Winter's confusion and amazement at Serral's roach/evo wall amuses me.
26:20 winter got a zergasm and was so fullfill he didnt wanna talk no more ! 😂
Just wall as Zerg is sometimes I didn’t think I’d see, what a view.
Serral isn’t even old enough to know what a phone book is Bahaha 😅😅 great casting
I watched the game live and I'm thrilled watching it again with Winter casting it
The only person makes serral look mortal 😂
ooooh the first time i see a professionnal zvz, thank you for casting it !!!
Serral just casually making a better wall than most Protoss using roaches lmao
Great games & witty commentary.. thx!
I concur, this mirror is dope.
The zerg have discovered wall technology.
“The lions sing and the hills take flight. The moon by day, and the sun by night. Blind woman, deaf man, jackdaw fool. Let the Lord of Chaos rule. "
You can't get over that wall? You're in good company; neither could Dark.
Serral may start a series with "pretty standard business", but after that i imagine him thinking in Abathur's voice:
*Design must be simple, elegant. Implementation less so. Sequences must change. Intent static. Product fluid*
*Work harder. Better. Make faster. Stronger. Evolution never over.*
love the "the other side" intro.
I love dark’s confidence to say he’s the best. I’m not even kidding. Believe in yourself, dark. You’re absolutely goated.
Serral:
The Colgate of SC2
We sure Serral isn't borg?
And Happy Valentines Day to you!!! ❤
That picture of the power rankings is killing me bro.
The Dark is Darkest Before the Dark.
I'd love to see more mirror matchups!
25:50 for The scene
Oh boy what a treat
In game 2, something happened to Dark's +2 ranged upgrade. It started, then went back to 0 and stayed there for a while, then jumped back and continued, but very delayed. That must have been a contaminate. I didn't know the production tab showed it that way, so it confused me for a while, but there was an overseer around, so that must have been it, right?
Yeah, it actually got contaminated several times, at least twice.
Getting around to this video today. Always love me some Dark but man am I excited to watch some Serral as well.
That third game was something else
Dark: Tell me, do you bleed?
Serral: ....
Dark: You will.
Then he put some Maru paste on the wound, and everything was ok.
I mean, mainly dark bled in those games lul.
serrals dad has flown across the ocean
I feel like StarCraft 2 is less about what race you want to play, and more about what race you can’t stand the mirror match against. I gotta say I love Zerg but it’s the most stressful mirror match to play!
Serral showing terran and protoss how to wall off open gold expansions against zerg there
If Serral decided to master other races he'd still win IMO maybe his random isn't so goated in a pro level but who knows, maybe if they all played random perhaps.
@@MarlonSolisFallas Apparently he has already said that he finds playing Terran "boring".
omg game 2 was great, Zerg mirrors are actually fun to watch sometimes but dark and serral is a treat. Great job Winter on that game2!! loled so much
hahaha indeed, the numbers dont lie.
Dark is the Final Boss of the game, but Serral is the main character.
Serral vs Reynor, (when Reynor is on top of his game), is the most exciting mirror match.
A phone book is a book that looks like a phone dur.
I love the expression, a knife fight in a phone booth”. However, for the younglings maybe we should change it to a knife fight in a bath stall?
A boxing match in a steel drum
@@MarlonSolisFallas
Thunderdome
Funny, I thought that one person out of 10 top players in the world who didn't agree to that Serral is the GOAT could only have been Serral himself.
"like a knife fight in a phone box"
that guy is on top for how long now? its insane hes probably outperforming moon from wc3 at this point no?
Great series, mirror or not. More ZvZ? Idk, if it's like this, YES PLEASE. More Serral vs Dark anyday. More Dark vs anyone anyday. More Serral vs anyone anyday. I love what these people are doing, and love how you present, mate, big thank + have a nice day
Serral is a fucking monster
Serral the GOAT
If Serral were the Final Boss, we probably would never won the game
"I've never been so excited for a mere match-up", hmmm?
I dont usuually watch mirror matches..but serral and dark??? Lets gooo
Watch, the roach wall becomes new meta
game 3 was really something.
I don't play the game, but really enjoy to watch. But I havet 1 question; If it is zerg vs zerg will both have movement speed on eachother creep? Thanks for the content🙈☺️
Yeah, creep doesn't care whos units they are and will boost opponents movement speed as well
@@raestlin86 thanks alot for the answer🥰
I watch these videos because the commentator is so good.
Woooow, game 3. Guess he finally started taking ZvZ seriously after last year.
As an 81.35 IQ Normie I can't wait to copy Serral on the Ladder
ZVZ is wild
So, for me, it works very easy:
1: the video pops up on my notifications
2: i click it
3: click on like on the video
4: just enjoy the game and the cast
Easy isn't it?
I love ZvZ its just chaos and I love it
It's like a sophisticated ant war
I main Zerg, was master for some years, but man zvz is so stressful... Got to end it quickly... Find the damage or die trying XD
I mean, anyone not watching ? Both go BRR
1. Jimmy ..how mutch likes...1k blah blah...but i cast an other one anyways.
2. Brenda... get of my Ceeeeep :D
3. I blacked out for a second :D
4. ?
More mirror matches!!!!
Hey my favorite matchup is PVP mirror matchup on top 🎉😢❤😮
Winter asking for likes and subscribe is so smooth and not more than a week he already got 1k subscribers
~~spoiler~~
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"this is a not protectable gold base"
serral: walls it anyway, skips ling phase completely, owns the place
OMG Zerg OP... Oh wait... its just Serral, nvm guys.
Woo
Serral or serial killer rhymes the same.
I hate ZvZ more than Reynor. But Serral vs Dark? Oooh yeaaa...
Keep up those shamless plugs for likes dude! I'd forget otherwise!
Love all your videos
Nerf Serral !! :)
Great casting and love watching the games. Please remove the part at 30:25 about divorce. You'd be surprised the pain it brings. I ask, as someone who had faced the pain and heartache it brings of growing up with a single mother and a dad who loved drugs more than this family.
Ricky does not approve this series.
Easy
it is clear that zerg is easy mode.
Yeah, if you ignore the hardest macro mechanics and flimsy army that can't trade well until late.
You make every day just a little bit better! 🫡