"Dear Harstem. You are the best Starcraft 2 player and TH-camr in history. Your wit and wisdom are second to none. Every video you produce is pure gold. I am a pro Protoss player off-racing as Zerg. In this game, my opponent used a build that shouldn't have worked. He went Ghost into Battlecruiser! I am the godking of making drones, the lord of microing ling-bane, and a pretty good singer. I'm not sure how the last part matters, but I do sing while I play. Anyway...I lost to this Ghost-BC build, and it made me so mald! That build didn't work but it did. So is it imba, or do I suck? Sincerely, The Captain."
You have to be very careful with the ghost rush because the ghosts destroy the queen with the snipe ability, you have to hide them while the zerglings manage the ghost. his goal is to reduce your queen count until the battle cruiser pop out.
If I learned one thing from AlphaStar about Zerg is that you can do Timing-Attacks with Ling, Roach, Ravager and win 98% of the games if you execute that properly. Bonus is that you can do this in all 3 match-ups.
@@0xAdam_ Since we're starcraft players i'm just gonna assume no foul play, but instead a superior brain having watched all of the captain's content but on 3x speed.
Harstem manages to have swag in spite of himself which in turn only gives him more swag. European Software engineer Video game Lanky Monotone Protoss And probably the coolest personality in SC2 what a legend
1:50:00 (+/- 1-2 minutes) to be fair, you can't trust zerg neighbors, or protoss for that matter. terran neighbors are alright though, you just cannon rush them, then they aren't a problem.
Yes I'm still here after three hours, and I'll still be here after 30 more. This is my Costco sized bag of chips. It sits on my desk perpetually. It might take me a week to get through it, but I always make sure I have unopened one in the cupboard. I want to see three more playlists on your docker: "Maintaining GrandMaster with Terran" "Maintaining Grandmaster with Zerg" and "Staying On Top (top 100 GM) with Toss" ..and Maybe "Preparing for tournaments." Maybe save them up and post them after the fact?
"should have gotten ultras lightyears ago" ^^ lightyears is a measure of distance:), but considering I tend to forget to breathe while playing, this is still great casting
first game, if you see that early you need to pull all your queens and spend all energy on transfuse you might as well spend everything on spines. #52:30 he snipes the queens then goes into bc. Everything that cant attack air can just move across the map?
There are just some people that are more equal than others. From one equal to another, you are the literal bomb dude! I love watching you play, it beings me such joy!
I wonder if a nydus would have been the right call vs mutas. I imagine that you send a bunch of roaches into his bases while he tries to break you. Split his attention, like you would with zealots runbies. Especially that he had burrow, you borrow a few roaches in each mineral lines and then watch how hard it is for him to break you while saving his drones.
Preatty Nice Kevin! Good games As a fan i have a sugestion to make, your camera is Nice, we all love it, but, it's on the front of the units menu, with the buildings, abilities, etc... As a viewer experience, we get kinda confused on what you are doing, mostly because of your extremely fast speed of gameplay. Thank you, with love, a daily viewer.
I watched this sure that Harstem would lose to the ghost rush. I enjoyed watching his brain figure out that there was no counter. Why terran don't ghost rush every game v zerg I don't know. Also BC are wildly underrated. They lose to corruptor but you can still yamato and TP away whenever they catch up to you. The best counter against ghost is zergling but you'd still have trouble keeping detection on it. I also think it was funny that he was surprised he lost to ghost bc, when me, an amateur just knew in advance there was no way to stop it. Mass spores and spines might have worked. He thought of spines but then only built one.
Perhaps Jagannatah (? idk what the spelling of this name is) is more zerg-favored than Lightshade (I find it pretty hard, esp. in TvZ) Btw what do you think of the fact we did not get new maps ? Should they make a rotation of the 2020 map pool at least ?
Does harstem know you can stack injects? If you're ever high on energy just inject on the same hatch a bunch and it'll queue them up so you'll always have lava
I imagine Harstem feels the same way about stacking queen larva as he does about queueing up units. If you can actually remember to hit your larva, it's likely more useful to use any extra energy you get to make creep tumors, in the same way that if you queue up units in production structures it'd be more efficient to put the resources taken up into more production, so you can produce faster.
I once claimed that zerg sometimes drones up too much and gets vulnerable. Some a hole got on and wrote a multi page comment about how I was wrong, and now I just watch a 60 drone zerg beat an 80 drone zerg
I don’t think you don’t under stand where he can follow up with the Ghost push. He can either done Ghost and Hellion like you said + widow mines to assist, Ghost and Cloak Banshee, or Ghost and BC. The early Ghosts are to just pick off tour queens. No Queens no larva for you hatches.
The main difference is that Zerg doesn’t have walls to hide behind, so you can actually attack at any time. You’re micro is better than your Zerg opponent, which means you should be the one putting on the aggression, not sitting back and droning like it’s ZvT or ZvP
Each creep tumor generates a certain amount of creep. When the tumor dies, the creep it has generated will slowly recede - but other creep might be on top of it, generated by another tumor or structure, so in that case there will still be creep in those spots.
You should try lambos german autobahn build. It's a 30 drone 4 queen roach speed +1 missile all in starting on your opponents third. According to lambo it beats almost everything except for other early pressure builds that are a bit greedier than you
1:43:15 Map Pillars of Gold sux. Only map in this map pool that you have crap saturation in main and low income. Why they don't make proper position of crystals ?! :( My precise builds don't work there, map banned.
Watching this gives me anxiety because I’m rooting for Harstem but I also hate Zerg with every fiber of my being And I want protoss to win. I’m beyond conflicted.
You are musician, so I guess you have metronome... could you play the game with like 5 actions per second constantly, no spikes alowed? maybe even go lower?
5 APM 5 Actions Per Minute How the hell do you saturate your first base making only 5 actions per minute. 2 base full saturation would take half an hour, the more bases the more actions needed to simply queue probes The starting 10 seconds has more than 5 actions there'd be so much time with your hands literally off the keyboard and mouse lol
bro im not gm but hydras are trash in zvz just get go pure roach don't waste gas on ravagers either they absolute trash in zvz listen: you max on roaches then you get a couple of vipers that's it undefeatable comp lmao zvz is easy get a hydra den tho just in case but always max out on roaches and then make some hydras with the supply you lose in case you need to like shoot up some how also if they somehow mine twice as much gas as you do and have a pure hydra army they will win but that won't happen to you ever right?? ROACH. VIPER. GGEZ. go get rank 1 np bro
47:00 here’s the ghost rush game you’re looking for
thx
Not all heroes wear capes
Top man
@@anthonykellen3494 Yep, some are wearing nigh-vision-googles and carrying sniper rifles.
THANK YOU lol
"Dear Harstem. You are the best Starcraft 2 player and TH-camr in history. Your wit and wisdom are second to none. Every video you produce is pure gold. I am a pro Protoss player off-racing as Zerg. In this game, my opponent used a build that shouldn't have worked. He went Ghost into Battlecruiser! I am the godking of making drones, the lord of microing ling-bane, and a pretty good singer. I'm not sure how the last part matters, but I do sing while I play. Anyway...I lost to this Ghost-BC build, and it made me so mald! That build didn't work but it did. So is it imba, or do I suck? Sincerely, The Captain."
No one roasts the captain on this channel!
Ok sarcasm is fine.
he says "making me molt" not "mald"
I mean duh that you are going to lose to ghosts, you are zerg so...
You have to be very careful with the ghost rush because the ghosts destroy the queen with the snipe ability, you have to hide them while the zerglings manage the ghost.
his goal is to reduce your queen count until the battle cruiser pop out.
lurkers against mech - Harstem my friend, I remember how much roast Lowko got for it......
#defnotLowko
The main difference is that Thors don’t out range lurkers, and lowko was fighting against tanks
We all remember most choose to forget
Harstem: It's basically over
23:40/2:39:36
47:37 it looks as if hes seen a ghost
Beating grandmasters with stupid stuff : Ghosts + BattleCruiser edition ! 47:00
That BC game. I'm crying.
lost to a ghost rush into bc, pain was real.
Didn't stand a ghost of a chance.
Harstem teaching people on his main account :3 What a legend - Keep it up harstem :3
Idea for a video: you and your girlfriend play 2v2, but every 3 minutes you have to switch PCs
We call it the Winter-Lowko challenge ;)
@@TheHUEZOX yeah haha but it'll be more interesting considering the much much larger difference in skill level
actually a great idea
If I learned one thing from AlphaStar about Zerg is that you can do Timing-Attacks with Ling, Roach, Ravager and win 98% of the games if you execute that properly. Bonus is that you can do this in all 3 match-ups.
54:08 "this is making me mald" Hahahahahahaha
"Look a cat!
"He has no idea what just happened to him."
I laughed out loud.
For some reason, watching The Captain lose for the first hour was riveting.
2:39:01 I AM STILL HERE CAPTAIN. One does not abandon his Captain when the duty calls.
That's impressive, as this video has only been up for 1 hour when you wrote this.
@@gielos
@@0xAdam_ Since we're starcraft players i'm just gonna assume no foul play, but instead a superior brain having watched all of the captain's content but on 3x speed.
@@gielos I learned my micro mechanics of watching Captain's content from Clem himself. 2x speed is for newbies. 4x is where the ascension begins.
@@0xAdam_ Use the hyperbolic time chamber to go even further beyond
Welcome to a new episode of "Beating Harstem with stupid stuff"
Man that meets the legend (toss that play as a Zerg). Wonna more of such videos.
If you're pushing yourself for 2.5 h vids, if anytime you don't feel like doing them so love, nobody would be angry I think. Thanks for this still.
I would be vewy angwy
Most if not all is from stream so it' not "youtube bonus"
Lol he's not pushing himself he plays 9 hours of SC 2 everyday I think he can handle 2.5 hour vids
Harstem manages to have swag in spite of himself which in turn only gives him more swag.
European
Software engineer
Video game
Lanky
Monotone
Protoss
And probably the coolest personality in SC2 what a legend
hes not monotone bro he has a melodic dutch accent
1:50:00 (+/- 1-2 minutes) to be fair, you can't trust zerg neighbors, or protoss for that matter. terran neighbors are alright though, you just cannon rush them, then they aren't a problem.
GHOST RUSH game at 45:40 (i don't know how to put time as a link)
Oh, Its the Ruff Ghost build. I just allin with Roach ravager everytime I see it.
Yes I'm still here after three hours, and I'll still be here after 30 more. This is my Costco sized bag of chips. It sits on my desk perpetually. It might take me a week to get through it, but I always make sure I have unopened one in the cupboard.
I want to see three more playlists on your docker:
"Maintaining GrandMaster with Terran"
"Maintaining Grandmaster with Zerg" and
"Staying On Top (top 100 GM) with Toss"
..and Maybe "Preparing for tournaments." Maybe save them up and post them after the fact?
"should have gotten ultras lightyears ago" ^^ lightyears is a measure of distance:), but considering I tend to forget to breathe while playing, this is still great casting
einstein does not apreciate this coment.
I loved the wink at the start of that ghost game 😁
first game, if you see that early you need to pull all your queens and spend all energy on transfuse you might as well spend everything on spines.
#52:30 he snipes the queens then goes into bc. Everything that cant attack air can just move across the map?
after 2.66hrs of watching Harstem zerg, the last 3 seconds made it worth.
"He's taking care of me." translation: He sent me chocolates and flowers. 1:32
You can chain injects by shift clicking a bunch of times into the hatchery. I do that when I accumulate too much energy with my queens.
26:03 That felt like a diss :D
1:42:12 ... that face when you look on chat and someone curse on you :)
There are just some people that are more equal than others. From one equal to another, you are the literal bomb dude!
I love watching you play, it beings me such joy!
14 worker into extractor cancel to overload your supply comes out even at least. There are zergs (me as well) that play it as normal opening.
@Harstem
Can you grab a disrupter orb with a viper?
Could you avoid there dmg by "catching" them with a viper?
I find it very pleasant, that you are upload gameplay were are you loosing. A lot of casters don`t do this.
singing tenacious d? i knew harstem was my favorite starcraft player for a reason
That ghost BC build was NASTY
Haha. Love his reaction when he exclaims: "a GHOST!".
Shame SC1s ghosts are wank on a stick in comparison.
I really love that Kevin's starts hating on Protoss units
I guess at the end of this series he will hate every race and unit in the game
I wonder if a nydus would have been the right call vs mutas. I imagine that you send a bunch of roaches into his bases while he tries to break you. Split his attention, like you would with zealots runbies. Especially that he had burrow, you borrow a few roaches in each mineral lines and then watch how hard it is for him to break you while saving his drones.
2:08:40 a lightyear is a measure of distance not time
Preatty Nice Kevin! Good games
As a fan i have a sugestion to make, your camera is Nice, we all love it, but, it's on the front of the units menu, with the buildings, abilities, etc... As a viewer experience, we get kinda confused on what you are doing, mostly because of your extremely fast speed of gameplay.
Thank you, with love, a daily viewer.
I watched this sure that Harstem would lose to the ghost rush. I enjoyed watching his brain figure out that there was no counter. Why terran don't ghost rush every game v zerg I don't know. Also BC are wildly underrated. They lose to corruptor but you can still yamato and TP away whenever they catch up to you. The best counter against ghost is zergling but you'd still have trouble keeping detection on it. I also think it was funny that he was surprised he lost to ghost bc, when me, an amateur just knew in advance there was no way to stop it. Mass spores and spines might have worked. He thought of spines but then only built one.
Perhaps Jagannatah (? idk what the spelling of this name is) is more zerg-favored than Lightshade (I find it pretty hard, esp. in TvZ) Btw what do you think of the fact we did not get new maps ? Should they make a rotation of the 2020 map pool at least ?
Does harstem know you can stack injects? If you're ever high on energy just inject on the same hatch a bunch and it'll queue them up so you'll always have lava
I imagine Harstem feels the same way about stacking queen larva as he does about queueing up units. If you can actually remember to hit your larva, it's likely more useful to use any extra energy you get to make creep tumors, in the same way that if you queue up units in production structures it'd be more efficient to put the resources taken up into more production, so you can produce faster.
I once claimed that zerg sometimes drones up too much and gets vulnerable. Some a hole got on and wrote a multi page comment about how I was wrong, and now I just watch a 60 drone zerg beat an 80 drone zerg
I don’t think you don’t under stand where he can follow up with the Ghost push. He can either done Ghost and Hellion like you said + widow mines to assist, Ghost and Cloak Banshee, or Ghost and BC. The early Ghosts are to just pick off tour queens. No Queens no larva for you hatches.
Youre my favorite SC player, its crazy how good you are
32:56 “what the hell is this garbage” indeed. Lol
The main difference is that Zerg doesn’t have walls to hide behind, so you can actually attack at any time. You’re micro is better than your Zerg opponent, which means you should be the one putting on the aggression, not sitting back and droning like it’s ZvT or ZvP
IMBA report inbound: I was playing better than my opponent in every way and then the battlecruisers showed up...
Ghosts into battlecruisers vs zerg. This mans' playing sc3 while everyone still stuck on legacy of the void.
Love your 3 hour videos keep it up :)
Terran player in the 1:50:00 game: "This is my obligatory negative damage hellbat timing for today"
Holy shit Harstem won literally every battle and still lost.
1:21:00 That's what you get for not saluting back... Karma! ;-P
If your zerg and terran have improved, challenge beastyqt to a random match, bo15 or something, it'll be a lot of fun!
"im in a good mood" *builds 2 overlords*
I hate being alive.
I'd love to see you build and defend a base in someone's main while you are attacking them in their main. Think you could pull that off?
Neebie here, what is added value of that EXP for units etc?
I had this, but between ghosts and BC 8 hellions raped my mineral line...
"Now we press burrow and win the game" That exactly what happens when I play Protoss as well Sadge
Know when you’ve watched so much harstem you start to think in his voice?
Hello?!?!
This comment gets a thumbs up from me, Kevin.
2:09:00 thats the intro to pick of destiny haha
1:55:50 Vrachtwagenchauffeurs bep bep
If a creep tumor dies, does the creep recede to the nearest tumor or other structure?
No it just dies.
Each creep tumor generates a certain amount of creep. When the tumor dies, the creep it has generated will slowly recede - but other creep might be on top of it, generated by another tumor or structure, so in that case there will still be creep in those spots.
i platonically love Harstem
How am I supposed to watch this whole video? Lol 😂. I will, even if I fall asleep trying
1:55:35 fire
Finished 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼.
42:35 whats the song?
You should try lambos german autobahn build. It's a 30 drone 4 queen roach speed +1 missile all in starting on your opponents third. According to lambo it beats almost everything except for other early pressure builds that are a bit greedier than you
Ghosts casts confusion ;P
1:43:15 Map Pillars of Gold sux. Only map in this map pool that you have crap saturation in main and low income. Why they don't make proper position of crystals ?! :(
My precise builds don't work there, map banned.
Proxi 3 Rex is how I consistently beat elite AI. ☠️ Thanks for letting me know I have zero skill. 😂
3 rax requires some skill, especially against human opponents. It's very all in.
1:42:01 Showing SeppiaPigra (whoever that is) calling Harstem an idiot lol
Thanks for rubbing it in with that 2.5 hours comment
Watching this gives me anxiety because I’m rooting for Harstem but I also hate Zerg with every fiber of my being And I want protoss to win. I’m beyond conflicted.
Learning something is always worth the time.
38:46 This is a warning about doing exercise. You tend to screw up more after trying to be healthy.
99% sure IIIIIIII game at the end was AlphaStar.
Looks like a Ruff build
Whoever reads this, all I want to say is have a blessed day.
In another life, I would be happy. But for now, P A I N
It’s night
You are musician, so I guess you have metronome... could you play the game with like 5 actions per second constantly, no spikes alowed? maybe even go lower?
5 APM
5 Actions Per Minute
How the hell do you saturate your first base making only 5 actions per minute.
2 base full saturation would take half an hour, the more bases the more actions needed to simply queue probes
The starting 10 seconds has more than 5 actions there'd be so much time with your hands literally off the keyboard and mouse lol
@@sean-michaelconroy7686 oh, I thougt per second... :D that makes it 300apm
Make creep autospread, no?
if it's hot garbage that still means it's hot
I'm still here after 2 and a half hours.
It's funny how you can tell that he is trying to say something in Spanish but is not saying anything xD
Ghosts are best for rushing anything.
What a RuFF game :)
Made it to the Love Potion #9. Soon as you figure out the ZvZ 50/50 strat you mentioned, you're set. hah
Think you should make a macro hatch
getting GM just got harder ^^
7:57 if u accidentally go 14 drone, u can just go overlord after, make a extractor, make a drone and cancel extractor. and play standard after that
I wanted to play some sc2 but seeing you smashing so much buttons at one time kinda make me feel like staying with league of legends...
Look at the blooooock
2:38:28 ? What happend there ? ! 😄 This game can be so erotic.
totes worth mah time.
I knew it was BCs :D
When I saw the first part of the title, I hoped it's Getting Grandmaster With Terran.
Who know
Arctic monkeys fan i hear?
bro im not gm but hydras are trash in zvz just get go pure roach don't waste gas on ravagers either they absolute trash in zvz listen: you max on roaches then you get a couple of vipers that's it undefeatable comp lmao zvz is easy get a hydra den tho just in case but always max out on roaches and then make some hydras with the supply you lose in case you need to like shoot up some how also if they somehow mine twice as much gas as you do and have a pure hydra army they will win but that won't happen to you ever right?? ROACH. VIPER. GGEZ. go get rank 1 np bro