Step 1: Zoom in on Life's face. Step 2: Continue zooming. Step 3: Ultra close up of his pimples. Step 4: His pimple becomes his hatchery. And on with the game.
I believe that in the current meta there is a level of terran play which is impossible to beat for zerg. Good macro, well positioned widow mines, anti-baneling micro, slow transition into thors and ravens. Many zerg strategies are based on catching the terran off guard, which need not succeed: ling run-by, muta run-by, banelings. The only thing that is not is roach-hydra, which I have never seen in pro matches, probably for a good reason. Neither have I seen swarm hosts much, I honestly have no idea why. Still, Taeja excellent player, so is life. Hope Blizz do something to bring more diversity into the matchup.
***** Terran is definitely not easy to play, actually. I have tried, the amount of micro and macro you need to do is not less than zerg. I'd say that protoss is a bit less intensive than terran and zerg.
i have played top diamond on ladder as zerg for many months, it is not possible to beat pro-level toss or terran as zerg without luck on your side, skill makes no difference here, it is only luck. straight up with the right compositions and casters.... there is no comparison and blizzard needs to do something to fix this, i have no fucking idea what, but they created it and they need to make it fair.
its like watching cyborgs dukeing it out. you can tell they are having a really good time with the challenge of playing each other, such incredible skill
7:17 lol at the cameraman crushing on the two blondes. thats about the 4th time camera has focused on them and in this case is even doing so while largely ignoring the massive print banner right next to them xD
proposal: scvs really should not be faster than upgraded banelings. even off creep. letting 10 banelings roll into ones mineral line, that should not be able to be countered by just walking away with the workers.
***** Zerg winrate in ZvT has been >50 % for the past two months, and Lifes win at IEM was late 2013, when widow mines had already been in the game for more than half a year. In fact, Blizzard are currently testing possible Hellbat-buffs at the moment since Zerg is slightly overpowered vs Terran. So yeah.
What annoys me the most about Terran is that hitting their economy does nothing. He killed 60 SCVs to 0! And somehow still had enough money to keep producing units to fight an untouched zerg? That is ridiculous.
wingedarr0w What I don't understand though, if Life had killed no SCVs, Taeja would of had so many more units, it would have been absolutely one sided beyond belief. I don't see it being all that balanced to have to kill 60 SCVs to 0 in order to have a chance..
Amazing decision making for taeja, from 33mins when life was harassing taeja from multiple angles, taeja decided to fly orbitals and kill life's economy as well, life cannot make the fifth base, and the forth base being destoryed
Life threw that second game away. Sooo many mutas died for just a few marines and scvs. Then he lost a lot of banelings in the middle of nowhere. Then Taeja did the rest.
Why is Terran a noob race? In my opinion (I'm a Zerg player) this game is the most balanced game i know. And its not that Terran counters any unit... Zerg got the green rolling mines which are destroying everything. It's like some people in these commands said its a micro battle and Taeja is really sick at the moment at playin SC2. I love his style and i'd say but iam not sure TvZ is his best match up right? So i wouldn't say that terran is a noob race cuz its really micro intense and you have to play quite attentive against all Zerg units mainly against banelings. If you cant split Marines you are lost thats for sure.
Haha Ret the caster is so horrible, good thing Apollo was there to save him the entire series. Ret points out the obvious, Apollo basically give him a pat on the back like a baby getting his first lollipop.
***** I don't follow the professional scene that closely, but from what I've seen, zerg often gets its butt kicked by a terran player who makes nothing but marine, marauder, medivac, with a couple widow mines thrown in. Once terran has 3/3 marines, the dps is too much for anything zerg has to handle. Protoss has collossus, zealots, and storms to handle mass marines. Zerg has nothing, maybe fungals, but they kind of suck. Anyway, thank you for alerting me to life's victory, over a terran no less. I will be watching it now. Toodles.
This is everything wrong with this game. Sure the zerg lost 20+ banes by self detonating but then the Terran loses 5 medivacs (500/500) and something like 50 scvs lost. It is truly sad to me that David Kim still has a job. Edit: Wow...just watched the second game. Taejae has his ass handed to him the entire time and still wins. How fucking pathetic. Zerg kills 70 workers while the terran doesn't kill a single one until the last 5 minutes of the game. Also, that crowd at the end of the video, never seen so much disappointment.
I hate how zerg doesn't have a real answer to marine medivac. It's the only build terran does! Marines melt mutas, hydras, corruptors so sniping medivacs is a no go unless you have vipers and even then they can just boost to safety. And what counters marines? Banelings are too slow even on creep. Burying them is a crap shoot hoping terran will walk over without scanning or having a single raven. Ultras are way late game and also melt pretty quickly against stim marines especially with marauders to slow them down. Fungal is useless. Brood lords die so quickly to marines. I feel like brood lords should have a speed boost ability like the medivacs. Either that or they shoot banelings, something with splash damage, something to stop these terrans building marines and medivacs! It's driving me crazy to see the same shit every tournament.
MrBlondieZero I've been using a good build that starts you off with 4-5 queens, you take your third and defend the hellion/banshee/reaper push if it comes. If not you just drone up until you have your three bases fully saturated. I usually take my lair around 7 min a long with my bane nest and upgrades. Make lings as you see fit to defend any harassment until your lair is up. Then you get bane speed and drop your spire. This is very key because Mutalisks are the only thing that will save you in this game vs a terran. Once you've pushed off his constantly 3 base aggression while spreading creep you need to drop your infestation pit and move into your lair (usually around 14 minutes) and transition into ultralisks. I know it seems hard but once you get the idea of how much a Terran can throw at you on three bases you won't feel behind 3 base vs 3 base. It sucks because the terran is going to be WAY ahead of you in econ but you can usually take your fourth and hold it as he is getting his fourth. This leaves you with ling, bane, muta, ultra to counter tier 1.5 units. I know it sucks but it is possible and I've gotten a good win rate out of it so far.
I would really like to know how not to waste banelings in TvZ, maybe you can teach me. If your opponent can split, banelings will not do shit, only keep freaking him out. I play gold/platinum zerg, and I still don't understand how to do this right. If I send 5-6 banelings, they get shot by marines before they connect, even if I attack with lings at the same time. If I send like 12banelings, 1 stupid widow mine ruins my day. And splitting banes wont help. Marines just back off until they squeeze into a chokepoint
Step 1: Zoom in on Life's face.
Step 2: Continue zooming.
Step 3: Ultra close up of his pimples.
Step 4: His pimple becomes his hatchery.
And on with the game.
10 years on life is remembered very differently then they expected 🤣
Still no one micros lings like he did ✌🥳✌
Can't believe what we saw from TaeJa so far, even if Life was good too, TaeJa's both macro and micro were just insanely good !
I believe that in the current meta there is a level of terran play which is impossible to beat for zerg. Good macro, well positioned widow mines, anti-baneling micro, slow transition into thors and ravens. Many zerg strategies are based on catching the terran off guard, which need not succeed: ling run-by, muta run-by, banelings. The only thing that is not is roach-hydra, which I have never seen in pro matches, probably for a good reason. Neither have I seen swarm hosts much, I honestly have no idea why.
Still, Taeja excellent player, so is life. Hope Blizz do something to bring more diversity into the matchup.
***** Terran is definitely not easy to play, actually. I have tried, the amount of micro and macro you need to do is not less than zerg. I'd say that protoss is a bit less intensive than terran and zerg.
i have played top diamond on ladder as zerg for many months, it is not possible to beat pro-level toss or terran as zerg without luck on your side, skill makes no difference here, it is only luck. straight up with the right compositions and casters.... there is no comparison and blizzard needs to do something to fix this, i have no fucking idea what, but they created it and they need to make it fair.
28:45 - Baneling whiff
He did the same at 58:25 but was never mentioned by the casters. life TT
Life giving me chuckles he he,
10:30
44:03
1:07:53
wow the best tvz i have ever seen
I still can't believe how that 2nd game ended, wow...
its like watching cyborgs dukeing it out. you can tell they are having a really good time with the challenge of playing each other, such incredible skill
Wow, killing all your own banelings to distract your opponent, hadn't thought of that one
oh my god, life played so good and still lost... I hope he will be more lucky in gsl!
Game three was fun to watch!
how did all his baelings just explode? I have never seen that before
7:17 lol at the cameraman crushing on the two blondes. thats about the 4th time camera has focused on them and in this case is even doing so while largely ignoring the massive print banner right next to them xD
That first game is amazing.
Is there delay on the spectators? Otherwise the players should hear when the say for example: Life is going 15 pool, or TaeJa going proxy barracks?
TvZ matchup is the most interesting matchup nowadays
proposal: scvs really should not be faster than upgraded banelings. even off creep. letting 10 banelings roll into ones mineral line, that should not be able to be countered by just walking away with the workers.
Last time I saw Life winning was in IEM New York 2013. Did he win any other tournaments in the mean time?
***** Zerg winrate in ZvT has been >50 % for the past two months, and Lifes win at IEM was late 2013, when widow mines had already been in the game for more than half a year. In fact, Blizzard are currently testing possible Hellbat-buffs at the moment since Zerg is slightly overpowered vs Terran.
So yeah.
Life should have won this series.
What a great match!
what is the music in the intro????
pls name of song 0:00 - 0:10
darude-sandstorm
Childish Gambino - Heartbeat (Proper Villains Remix) IEM Theme
what is the mouse TaeJa uses?
Can anyone tell me which is the track at the start of the video?
Childish Gambino - Heartbeat (Proper Villains Remix) IEM Theme
Thank you man!
What annoys me the most about Terran is that hitting their economy does nothing. He killed 60 SCVs to 0! And somehow still had enough money to keep producing units to fight an untouched zerg? That is ridiculous.
It's mostly balanced, zerg has hatcheries+queens which means they don't need to build multiple production structures.
wingedarr0w What I don't understand though, if Life had killed no SCVs, Taeja would of had so many more units, it would have been absolutely one sided beyond belief. I don't see it being all that balanced to have to kill 60 SCVs to 0 in order to have a chance..
wingedarr0w sure, but each hatchery has to choose beteen drones or other units.. designated buildings make it easier - hence why zerg is hard to play
Jon Jonathan Zerg race offers what is a vital thing i suspect for pros. Control.
in game 2 Life cancelled burrow or just forgot to use it? :/
Amazing decision making for taeja, from 33mins when life was harassing taeja from multiple angles, taeja decided to fly orbitals and kill life's economy as well, life cannot make the fifth base, and the forth base being destoryed
max 360p WHY?
Probably because it's an hour long and TH-cam needs some time to process it?
finally 1080p
22:15 HERO TURRET
wtf? 240p?
Love how Terran can lift off ther entire base whenever they feel like it...NOT!
"The hardest skill in the world is controlling zerglings." YMMD 😁
Life threw that second game away. Sooo many mutas died for just a few marines and scvs. Then he lost a lot of banelings in the middle of nowhere. Then Taeja did the rest.
Life had both 1st and 2nd game, but concentrated too much resources into killing terran economy.
he also whiffed a shitton of banes in both games.
life hits 700 apm at 25:30, crazy
Tell me that late ZvP is balanced.
It is not my friend
Simonas Morkūnas indeed, it is heavily in favour of the zerg
that's gotta be so hard on life.
Terran is f*cking ridiculous...
I am the only one who notices that most Terran players have glasses? (like Polt)
Why is Terran a noob race? In my opinion (I'm a Zerg player) this game is the most balanced game i know. And its not that Terran counters any unit... Zerg got the green rolling mines which are destroying everything. It's like some people in these commands said its a micro battle and Taeja is really sick at the moment at playin SC2. I love his style and i'd say but iam not sure TvZ is his best match up right? So i wouldn't say that terran is a noob race cuz its really micro intense and you have to play quite attentive against all Zerg units mainly against banelings. If you cant split Marines you are lost thats for sure.
omg.. the commentating!
"there are lings all over the map... marines being microed all the time!" etc.
wow!
Haha Ret the caster is so horrible, good thing Apollo was there to save him the entire series. Ret points out the obvious, Apollo basically give him a pat on the back like a baby getting his first lollipop.
no ret is super awesome
Probably i am wrong, but i cant undestund how people can consider this match balanced..... i think that there are no reason to play zerg in hots.
No reason besides it's fun. You're right though, it isn't balanced.
which is why Life won WCS as Zerg.
***** I don't follow the professional scene that closely, but from what I've seen, zerg often gets its butt kicked by a terran player who makes nothing but marine, marauder, medivac, with a couple widow mines thrown in. Once terran has 3/3 marines, the dps is too much for anything zerg has to handle. Protoss has collossus, zealots, and storms to handle mass marines. Zerg has nothing, maybe fungals, but they kind of suck. Anyway, thank you for alerting me to life's victory, over a terran no less. I will be watching it now. Toodles.
28:50 XD
I love tvz too much action
i dont remember when i see so funny game like this
life miss click and detonate all banelling and that face taeja and lost 5 medivac for free
This is everything wrong with this game. Sure the zerg lost 20+ banes by self detonating but then the Terran loses 5 medivacs (500/500) and something like 50 scvs lost. It is truly sad to me that David Kim still has a job.
Edit: Wow...just watched the second game. Taejae has his ass handed to him the entire time and still wins. How fucking pathetic. Zerg kills 70 workers while the terran doesn't kill a single one until the last 5 minutes of the game.
Also, that crowd at the end of the video, never seen so much disappointment.
I hate how zerg doesn't have a real answer to marine medivac. It's the only build terran does! Marines melt mutas, hydras, corruptors so sniping medivacs is a no go unless you have vipers and even then they can just boost to safety. And what counters marines? Banelings are too slow even on creep. Burying them is a crap shoot hoping terran will walk over without scanning or having a single raven. Ultras are way late game and also melt pretty quickly against stim marines especially with marauders to slow them down. Fungal is useless. Brood lords die so quickly to marines. I feel like brood lords should have a speed boost ability like the medivacs. Either that or they shoot banelings, something with splash damage, something to stop these terrans building marines and medivacs! It's driving me crazy to see the same shit every tournament.
MrBlondieZero
I've been using a good build that starts you off with 4-5 queens, you take your third and defend the hellion/banshee/reaper push if it comes. If not you just drone up until you have your three bases fully saturated. I usually take my lair around 7 min a long with my bane nest and upgrades. Make lings as you see fit to defend any harassment until your lair is up. Then you get bane speed and drop your spire. This is very key because Mutalisks are the only thing that will save you in this game vs a terran.
Once you've pushed off his constantly 3 base aggression while spreading creep you need to drop your infestation pit and move into your lair (usually around 14 minutes) and transition into ultralisks. I know it seems hard but once you get the idea of how much a Terran can throw at you on three bases you won't feel behind 3 base vs 3 base.
It sucks because the terran is going to be WAY ahead of you in econ but you can usually take your fourth and hold it as he is getting his fourth.
This leaves you with ling, bane, muta, ultra to counter tier 1.5 units. I know it sucks but it is possible and I've gotten a good win rate out of it so far.
I'll definitely try this. Thank you for the tip.
it's very clear to me this game was fixed........willing mistakes and issplays everywhere
Accidentally exploding a few banelings can happen to anyone. On cam he also looked very frustrated. Of course it's not fixed
cantfindaname123421 Not agreeing with him, but esports games have been fixed before, i wouldn't have absolute faith in such things.
You guys are morons if you think this is fixed.
Anyway, this should have been the finals instead for the silly sOs cheeser.
Connor Smith how would fixing it boost the popularity of starcraft it wouldnt
Life wasted a lot of banneling that never connected anything. Instead of chasing marines, he should have just hit first target on its path.
I would really like to know how not to waste banelings in TvZ, maybe you can teach me. If your opponent can split, banelings will not do shit, only keep freaking him out. I play gold/platinum zerg, and I still don't understand how to do this right. If I send 5-6 banelings, they get shot by marines before they connect, even if I attack with lings at the same time. If I send like 12banelings, 1 stupid widow mine ruins my day. And splitting banes wont help. Marines just back off until they squeeze into a chokepoint
wtf speed medivacs are bs
Terran is obviously OP, thank you Blizzard for imbalanced races.
korean can micro suply depot-D
Terran noob race
you noob for any race
Taeja is GM for ALL 3 races. Explain how he's a "noob"
Plus, he's on the big screen, and your here being a huge cynic.
Ewww mules...
omg wtf^^
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I wanted to see that HUGE Terran banner... wtf MR Camera man?!