GG, nice Stukov ally you got there. He was basically everywhere where he was needed without much need of pinging. That game kinda remedied my opinion on Stukov for this muta. I thought that I would play this muta a couple more times, but on my second game I encountered a Stukov ally that removed all my aspirations to further play this muta lol (at least on solo queue). He was P0 and playing "bio", but in a strange way - he barely ever had any marines/troopers out for half of the game. That wasn't because of supply since I haven't made any units before mid-late game and that was usually around 20 mutas, since I know he needed supply more than me so I didn't build much more unless I lost my current ones. We faced skyzerg and his main AA for about half of the game was Apocalisk (lul), he was always late to the party and thus causing some crystals to get burned and also me sustaining some losses. Thankfully I was playing P3 Kerri so I did not need much army, plus I could always Crushing Grip stall enemy polarized air while waiting for my ally to arrive 1-2min late. We won, but the price was high. The game was such a chore that I immediately dropped any and all future plans to play it, even though I thought of maybe trying out Artanis, Zagara or Dehaka. WIth allies like this who needs enemies lol, especially on Polarity.
I know the feeling man, I got burned before I finished the Vorazun video. With this mutation it is kind of hard on solo queue. Besides the 2 mutators you also have the 3rd mutator which is your ally. In this particular game, my ally was playing exceptional well. I had a game where I played with Vorazun and Stukov, that got dragged to 40 min in game timer. 40 min... He wasn't picking up crystal, not around when needed. As you descried tho he was playing marines from rax.
18:00 You didn't need to add anything after "Zeratul P3 is quite amazing". There are very few things that can stop him then, he can just solo almost anything (most mutations included) while you also have topbars, mobile turrets and strong army units. I like playing him and the ideas behind his mechanics, but at the same time I find him disgusting - the most clear pay-2-win commander in the game. While some others like P2 Tychus or P2 Stetboy may be a bit stronger at least they require a lot more micro/macro to make it happen, while with this one after finding second artifact you just keep pressing spin button until the end of the game (and optionally build and a-move the army/shade in cannons). Not that I would want him removed, but either increasing some micro/macro needed or slightly nerfing his hero unit and/or other stuff he has would be in order. As it stands - the easiest "strong" commander to play in the game.
And to think he was far more powerful at release... He got a big nerf and still is top of the line commander. His cannons where so broken. I don't really remember all the nerfs, but he definitely can handle things really well. I was going into the game thinking that maybe I should make army on the back if, Enforcers mainly. Then I saw my ally use Stukov and I taught, I could actually play Mor Cannons lol.
@@kage-rts nah you were fine the way you played. At most you could have build just a couple of shieldguards to quickly restore shields on cannons in the base, since you were floating so much gas and they cost 1 supply anyways.
GG, nice Stukov ally you got there. He was basically everywhere where he was needed without much need of pinging. That game kinda remedied my opinion on Stukov for this muta.
I thought that I would play this muta a couple more times, but on my second game I encountered a Stukov ally that removed all my aspirations to further play this muta lol (at least on solo queue). He was P0 and playing "bio", but in a strange way - he barely ever had any marines/troopers out for half of the game. That wasn't because of supply since I haven't made any units before mid-late game and that was usually around 20 mutas, since I know he needed supply more than me so I didn't build much more unless I lost my current ones. We faced skyzerg and his main AA for about half of the game was Apocalisk (lul), he was always late to the party and thus causing some crystals to get burned and also me sustaining some losses. Thankfully I was playing P3 Kerri so I did not need much army, plus I could always Crushing Grip stall enemy polarized air while waiting for my ally to arrive 1-2min late.
We won, but the price was high. The game was such a chore that I immediately dropped any and all future plans to play it, even though I thought of maybe trying out Artanis, Zagara or Dehaka. WIth allies like this who needs enemies lol, especially on Polarity.
I know the feeling man, I got burned before I finished the Vorazun video.
With this mutation it is kind of hard on solo queue. Besides the 2 mutators you also have the 3rd mutator which is your ally.
In this particular game, my ally was playing exceptional well.
I had a game where I played with Vorazun and Stukov, that got dragged to 40 min in game timer. 40 min... He wasn't picking up crystal, not around when needed. As you descried tho he was playing marines from rax.
@@kage-rts maybe the same guy lol.
would be funny though lol
15:31 I heard that Mor Cannons are even better than regular cannons, not sure why you didn't go for them heh.
I didn't have the knowledge to create Mor Cannons, legend says you need to average 500APM to unlock 5% of it's requirements. :D
18:00 You didn't need to add anything after "Zeratul P3 is quite amazing". There are very few things that can stop him then, he can just solo almost anything (most mutations included) while you also have topbars, mobile turrets and strong army units. I like playing him and the ideas behind his mechanics, but at the same time I find him disgusting - the most clear pay-2-win commander in the game. While some others like P2 Tychus or P2 Stetboy may be a bit stronger at least they require a lot more micro/macro to make it happen, while with this one after finding second artifact you just keep pressing spin button until the end of the game (and optionally build and a-move the army/shade in cannons).
Not that I would want him removed, but either increasing some micro/macro needed or slightly nerfing his hero unit and/or other stuff he has would be in order. As it stands - the easiest "strong" commander to play in the game.
And to think he was far more powerful at release... He got a big nerf and still is top of the line commander. His cannons where so broken. I don't really remember all the nerfs, but he definitely can handle things really well.
I was going into the game thinking that maybe I should make army on the back if, Enforcers mainly. Then I saw my ally use Stukov and I taught, I could actually play Mor Cannons lol.
@@kage-rts nah you were fine the way you played. At most you could have build just a couple of shieldguards to quickly restore shields on cannons in the base, since you were floating so much gas and they cost 1 supply anyways.
I could have build a solid plan before diving into it. But it all worked out in the end.
Building shieldguards didn't even cross my mind lol.