Hey Pig! Thanks so much for another terrific cast. You are easily my favorite caster and one of the main reasons I still tune in to pro SC2 matches. Just wanted to offer one comment. There are so many tournaments that it's hard to keep track of what's at stake, where they're playing, what happens if either player loses, etc. Any info you can share to help frame the tournaments would be greatly appreciated! (PS my fiancé just saw me writing this and is giving me all kinds of shit lol but I stand by my fandom!)
it's one of few matches where zerg and terran look balanced and only the skills of the player is making them win or lose. great match ! great commentary, i always wondered why they never repair the medivacs and you just answered !
The younger generation showing the oldies whats up. Can't wait to see how the likes of Clem/Reynor/Maxpax evolve in the coming years. They;re hitting their prime and it's going to be awesome.
Spoiler alert Last game Clem didnt forget his armory, he wanted to go for a 1-1 push first with the 2 tanks so he delayed his armory, then went into 2-2 with drilling claws behind it. Its a pretty standard build.
Top tier Ts from Korea stands little chance against Serral, at least in 2023. I wonder what Clem does differently that helps him have square results against Serral
heavier focus on window mines instead of tanks. mines require much higher awareness/micro/trigger reflexes to use than tanks which are "auto attack" mostly. Since clem is micro/attack focused, he uses mines a lot more. They are less expensive than tanks and fit into his playstyle.
Constant attack and being aggressive to forcefully put serral out of his comfort zone, slowing down the creep spread tremendously by keep attacking and not let him take control of the map, dude didn't even have time to repair his medivacs lol
I wonder if Serral left that one overlord in the middle out on purpose as bait so Clem would push down the center. And if the bait didn't work, hey he had a free ovie out for vision conveniently placed to poo creep up a tough to contest ramp.
@@pokerchannel6991 I'm the first one to say zerg is broken, but Clem should've made a raven, plain and simple. In fact I would argue you should always make a raven because it shuts down some of zerg's strategies which makes their actions a little more predictable. And now you've got a defensive raven building energy so you can have some defense in case of runbys or pushes.
it too hard ot keep raven alive. therefore, t is broken and need help a lot.@@SolarisKane otherwise you will see t lose like in game 2. And that is unfairl
Just my opinions: Problem is Serral always let his guards down in undecisive matches and always win decisive matches. I notice this again and again in several tournaments. Serral always lost in the game that can be lost (except Solar recently and Reynor, Dark last two years). At this point, in decisive matches there is no way to win Serral without Zerg. Terran is close to Zerg and Protoss has no chance in the professional scene right now. Serral is probably the best SC2 right now but let us not pretend that it is not because of Zerg at all. Morever, people can disbelieve it but the time zone difference plays a huge role in any professional and international competitions either in chess, physical sports or video games. You cannot perform at your best at your sleeping time routine. That's why the athletes normally go to the olympic host country for at least one to two weeks to get used to the new time zone (even 2-3 hour difference make huge impacts). All these small factors make Zerg, and especially Serral, look imba over years. We can look at how Reynor got eliminated in GSL first round right after winning the world championship (not mentioning Astrea here). Well, I can feel Reynor being a bit cocky during that time contributed to the fact too. However, Reynor lost two straight games with Protoss to Dark with absolutely no hope. The professionals don't always put their best efforts into the game as long as it is not a decisive money match. Why should they put all efforts when they can save the best strategies, energy and focus for later? Imagine this game is the semi-final or final (no upper or lower brackets), there is no way serral played like this. For example, we could see Buyn won small to medium tournaments but there would be no way Buyn could win big tournaments where all big guys will put their best efforts. The professional players are essentially outliers in the whole SC2 community. We cannot use the SC2 statistics across all the game levels to apply to them. One professional player can almost always beat a grandmaster with less efforts they normally put into professional competition if they way. They understand the game, the mechanics and strategy, in general, better than the rest of the community.
usually only in extreme lategame when they get +3 attack and blueflame and 1-shot them. Hellbats do great vs lings but they tend to get blown up by banelings very quickly in fights before they can get much done, and they lack the giant explosive firepower of widow mines or the long range of siegee tanks
38:46 serral can expand and drone up.. and hold for about a minute there, as the worker count is still pretty low... I always think 44 is a good number... Serral shoudl of weaved in worker every 3 roaches...... so an all in isn't an all in.. I always havea bakc up plan, tpyically in my first attackis damage.. and macro behind it,,, but then i invert my mind and drone, and create 1 roach.... so if yo ufail.. you split your larva working...
I think Australians like to put Rs on words that don’t have it. Like Oh No becomes Orrr Norrr. I know becomes I knowrrr. And I think heard you say go horrrm for go home. 😅
Damn. Clem plays Terrain like Serral plays Zerg. Clem's Marines move like they just did an eightball with a shot of Redbull with no sex in 3 weeks. Muthafu*kers are aggressive.
Because when youre playing bio generally you dont tech lab starports unless you trying to go early banshees for harass or a bc cheese. Your medivac production is way too important to give up so you just build up a surplus of orbitals because its more efficient.
Pro Terrans typically say it is a trade off to continue making medivacs. You have to either have an extra Starport to tech lab, or swap a starport over to a techlab used by another building, meaning the starport can't be used for medivacs during that time (several minutes) and whatever was using the tech lab can't be making tech lab units (tanks, marauders, cyclones, ghosts). They want to spend that 400 minerals on a CC to make it an orbital instead and save on gas, plus the orbital gets a lot of value over time on its own, let alone if it needs to fly around to replace a destroyed cc or start up a new base. Personally I think at least one raven is worth it, but I'm certainly nowhere near a pro level Terran to be arguing against their strats. I'm sure they've run the numbers plenty of times.
maru just won his 7th gsl beating a zerg in the final, a tournament which was totally dominated by terran, just like worlds was in which we have a terran world champion after a tvt final..
Does anyone else think it's unrealistic that a burrowed zergling would prevent a massive building from landing on the ground? Annoying zerg game exploit that compounds economic advantage by forcing scans instead of mules. Seems more likely that the terran command center should kill anything burrowed underneath it when it lands.
Dark does crazy aggression strats like no other Zerg. Clem always seems to have Serral's number; even in cases where Serral manages to win, he has a very hard time vs Clem.
Raven is the most underused unit in TvZ IMO. It could save so many scans to clear creep e.g. And since 1 scan = 200 minerals, that seems quite strange to me. Maybe you delay medivacs too much for your first attack, but how often do you see Terran scan twice early game? That is a full CC that could have been build instead...
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Spoiler shield! Wassup
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Thank you! We need one more if these @pig we can still see it
Just about 2 get some McDonald's
Well, it didnt work unfortunately
When clem is at the top of his game he's my favorite Terran to watch against zerg.
Yes, I also chose the team, the one that is winning )
Perfect high-speed, high-energy, high-precision play-by-play commentary. Thanks mate!
Hey Pig! Thanks so much for another terrific cast. You are easily my favorite caster and one of the main reasons I still tune in to pro SC2 matches. Just wanted to offer one comment. There are so many tournaments that it's hard to keep track of what's at stake, where they're playing, what happens if either player loses, etc. Any info you can share to help frame the tournaments would be greatly appreciated! (PS my fiancé just saw me writing this and is giving me all kinds of shit lol but I stand by my fandom!)
Awesome series, PiG's commentary was fantastic!
it's one of few matches where zerg and terran look balanced and only the skills of the player is making them win or lose. great match ! great commentary, i always wondered why they never repair the medivacs and you just answered !
I think Clem has been 'Darked' too many times and has adapted to Zerg shinanigans marvelously. Huge Serral fan, but hats off to Clem.
Such a good series. I’m so impressed with how well both of these guys play the game. Really enjoyable to watch
"France holding strong for the first time in 100 years"
When you went back to Clem’s natural and he had put tech labs on both barracks. So sick
At this point, I'm convince Clem is the only one who can take on Serral on TvZ convincingly..
The younger generation showing the oldies whats up. Can't wait to see how the likes of Clem/Reynor/Maxpax evolve in the coming years. They;re hitting their prime and it's going to be awesome.
too bad he loses against koreans all the time while Serral beats them
Window mine plays a key role in this series
@@fixpontt yeah what's up with that
Oh did you said that before watching the match?
Spoiler alert
Last game Clem didnt forget his armory, he wanted to go for a 1-1 push first with the 2 tanks so he delayed his armory, then went into 2-2 with drilling claws behind it. Its a pretty standard build.
Great cast and my favorite outcome :)
Top tier Ts from Korea stands little chance against Serral, at least in 2023. I wonder what Clem does differently that helps him have square results against Serral
heavier focus on window mines instead of tanks. mines require much higher awareness/micro/trigger reflexes to use than tanks which are "auto attack" mostly. Since clem is micro/attack focused, he uses mines a lot more. They are less expensive than tanks and fit into his playstyle.
Constant attack and being aggressive to forcefully put serral out of his comfort zone, slowing down the creep spread tremendously by keep attacking and not let him take control of the map, dude didn't even have time to repair his medivacs lol
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I sometimes feel like it's a rock-paper-scissors: Serral beats everyone, Clem beats Serral, and everyone beats Clem 😄
GGs, great casting, as always. PIG should make a masterclass training video/series on casting SC2.
I'm so proud of Clem for not panic-F2'ing.
I was pounding the f2 the whole game trying to get clem's army to respond to the lurkers in his main, his expo and his third, and the droppoer lords.
"france holding strong for the first time in 100 years" lmao
Reynor may be the Italian stallion, but Clem is the French Phenom 🇨🇵🇨🇵
french rooster.
‘France holding strong!… for the first time in 100 years…’ i hurt myself laughing at this
I'm sorry to my french boys n girls out there, couldn't resist on this one 😂
2:30 Skillous got angRRRrRry over this. He got the most insane R's. I fear them.
I wonder if Serral left that one overlord in the middle out on purpose as bait so Clem would push down the center. And if the bait didn't work, hey he had a free ovie out for vision conveniently placed to poo creep up a tough to contest ramp.
Game 2 is why I constantly scream at terrans to build a defensive Raven.
game 2 was bs. that was some bs. clem shold have won but z is bronken as af
@@pokerchannel6991 I'm the first one to say zerg is broken, but Clem should've made a raven, plain and simple. In fact I would argue you should always make a raven because it shuts down some of zerg's strategies which makes their actions a little more predictable. And now you've got a defensive raven building energy so you can have some defense in case of runbys or pushes.
@@SolarisKanesounds good but they know the game and study it at a much higher level than us. For reasons we can't see it's not worth it or too risky.
it too hard ot keep raven alive. therefore, t is broken and need help a lot.@@SolarisKane otherwise you will see t lose like in game 2. And that is unfairl
hmm wonder why all the top tier world class best terrans wont listen to all these smart guys on YT who tells them to build ravens vs Zerg.
Heard about this series.
clem (terran) faced of against Zerg(Zerg) I LOVE IT!!!
Haha Mexican guy here , we go hard on our R’s .
"we don't use hahhd ahhs in Austarlia"
who let serral wear that hat tho :O
Just my opinions:
Problem is Serral always let his guards down in undecisive matches and always win decisive matches. I notice this again and again in several tournaments. Serral always lost in the game that can be lost (except Solar recently and Reynor, Dark last two years).
At this point, in decisive matches there is no way to win Serral without Zerg. Terran is close to Zerg and Protoss has no chance in the professional scene right now. Serral is probably the best SC2 right now but let us not pretend that it is not because of Zerg at all. Morever, people can disbelieve it but the time zone difference plays a huge role in any professional and international competitions either in chess, physical sports or video games. You cannot perform at your best at your sleeping time routine. That's why the athletes normally go to the olympic host country for at least one to two weeks to get used to the new time zone (even 2-3 hour difference make huge impacts). All these small factors make Zerg, and especially Serral, look imba over years. We can look at how Reynor got eliminated in GSL first round right after winning the world championship (not mentioning Astrea here). Well, I can feel Reynor being a bit cocky during that time contributed to the fact too. However, Reynor lost two straight games with Protoss to Dark with absolutely no hope.
The professionals don't always put their best efforts into the game as long as it is not a decisive money match. Why should they put all efforts when they can save the best strategies, energy and focus for later? Imagine this game is the semi-final or final (no upper or lower brackets), there is no way serral played like this. For example, we could see Buyn won small to medium tournaments but there would be no way Buyn could win big tournaments where all big guys will put their best efforts.
The professional players are essentially outliers in the whole SC2 community. We cannot use the SC2 statistics across all the game levels to apply to them. One professional player can almost always beat a grandmaster with less efforts they normally put into professional competition if they way. They understand the game, the mechanics and strategy, in general, better than the rest of the community.
why don't pros build firebaths againts lings?
usually only in extreme lategame when they get +3 attack and blueflame and 1-shot them. Hellbats do great vs lings but they tend to get blown up by banelings very quickly in fights before they can get much done, and they lack the giant explosive firepower of widow mines or the long range of siegee tanks
long time no see clem...and kid ain´t kid anymore
Serral should have gone in and traded completely so many times...
Clem won, but see how many ways zerg can hit the opponent. its crazy
38:46 serral can expand and drone up.. and hold for about a minute there, as the worker count is still pretty low... I always think 44 is a good number... Serral shoudl of weaved in worker every 3 roaches...... so an all in isn't an all in.. I always havea bakc up plan, tpyically in my first attackis damage.. and macro behind it,,, but then i invert my mind and drone, and create 1 roach.... so if yo ufail.. you split your larva working...
wow great games and cast.
ザーグリングにも空に届く遠隔攻撃が欲しい。リキャストが3分でも良い。
I think Australians like to put Rs on words that don’t have it. Like Oh No becomes Orrr Norrr. I know becomes I knowrrr. And I think heard you say go horrrm for go home. 😅
We don't even hear the Rs the rest of the world does. To us they just sound like "!!!!" :D
Damn. Clem plays Terrain like Serral plays Zerg. Clem's Marines move like they just did an eightball with a shot of Redbull with no sex in 3 weeks. Muthafu*kers are aggressive.
whooooo that game 3 was #dicey
I really wonder why clem doesn't just build one raven to detect all those roaches.. How much money could have been saved is unreal.
Because when youre playing bio generally you dont tech lab starports unless you trying to go early banshees for harass or a bc cheese. Your medivac production is way too important to give up so you just build up a surplus of orbitals because its more efficient.
that game 2 was complete bs. clem should have won, but blizzard is bs. They force t to never build raven due to raven is bad.
Yes but he had 14 medivacs did he not? Lol could have switched for a min to build just one. @@drunkenfury100
GREAT CLEM MAKE TERAN BIG!
That was sick! 😊 nice
medivacs + marines GG
If clem was a zerg main, he would never lose a series
incorrect. T is a better z. so incorrect.
622 or 2 base thors
I don't understand why Terran don't produce ravens for detection, like that's what its for. Jesus christ
Pro Terrans typically say it is a trade off to continue making medivacs. You have to either have an extra Starport to tech lab, or swap a starport over to a techlab used by another building, meaning the starport can't be used for medivacs during that time (several minutes) and whatever was using the tech lab can't be making tech lab units (tanks, marauders, cyclones, ghosts). They want to spend that 400 minerals on a CC to make it an orbital instead and save on gas, plus the orbital gets a lot of value over time on its own, let alone if it needs to fly around to replace a destroyed cc or start up a new base.
Personally I think at least one raven is worth it, but I'm certainly nowhere near a pro level Terran to be arguing against their strats. I'm sure they've run the numbers plenty of times.
damn they look cute in the thumbnail
LiquidClemancy
Oh nooooo :)
terran actually wins vs the op z? that is crazy. not even maru could do that. wth
maru just won his 7th gsl beating a zerg in the final, a tournament which was totally dominated by terran, just like worlds was in which we have a terran world champion after a tvt final..
Does anyone else think it's unrealistic that a burrowed zergling would prevent a massive building from landing on the ground?
Annoying zerg game exploit that compounds economic advantage by forcing scans instead of mules.
Seems more likely that the terran command center should kill anything burrowed underneath it when it lands.
I thought Clem had fallen off... I was wrong!
Crazy how he seems struggles more against Dark than Serral.
what are you talking about? clem is literally ranked #6 in the world as t. You call that fall off? ??? wth
Dark does crazy aggression strats like no other Zerg. Clem always seems to have Serral's number; even in cases where Serral manages to win, he has a very hard time vs Clem.
The last hope for Terran, great job Clem!
a raven would have saved him in game 2
Raven is the burden that T hate to build the most, they would rather throw a game than build a single one
Raven is the most underused unit in TvZ IMO.
It could save so many scans to clear creep e.g.
And since 1 scan = 200 minerals, that seems quite strange to me.
Maybe you delay medivacs too much for your first attack, but how often do you see Terran scan twice early game? That is a full CC that could have been build instead...