ABSOLUTE BANGIN' GRAND FINALS! Reynor vs MaxPax | EPT EU 239 (Bo5 ZvP) - StarCraft 2 

SPOILER SHIELD: Who do you have winning the $1 million Esports World Cup 14-18 August?

D town (I got you piggy)

Such a beautiful ending! Cancelled warp in, exploding overseer and Zerg swarm destroying everything in its path. I'd easily paid 5-10$ for this screenshot in max settings, without overlay panels. PiG you should open screenshot section in your merch store 😁

"Why is your zergling off the leash!? You're an irresponsible zergling owner!" 😂😂😂

At 4:00 that's an interesting interaction. The oracle revelates the creep tumors, and the rocks get caught up in that giving maxpax a little bit of extra vision on the zerg

12 pool proxy hatch has to seal the wall completely so that the zealot has to be rallied inside or outside of the wall. Inside the wall, the zerglings are free to kill the gateway. Outside the wall, the zealot is easy pickings with no chokes to hide in, allowing the zealot to die & the gateway to then fall. They usually pick inside, and that allows the queen to pop in a safe location as well, making creep tumors very difficult to deal with. Even if the attack fails, toss will be allin because the creep blocks his nexus & he needs detection to clear it, which gives zerg a viable transition path.

@28:30 My jaw is on the floor

You cant just tell us that you thought its the wrong map order after a Raynor win in the beginning of G5 , spoilers!! Love all your casts , keep up the awesome work

May the best one win. I'm hoping for some breaking-the-standard-games games and plays.

Hey pig! Been watching for some time but don’t play much. I wanted to ask if there is a reason why Protoss doesn’t make colossus against Zerg? I feel like the aoe vs lings and hydras would be great!

13:20 is some of the funniest commentary ive ever heard. maybe you need to take your zergling to zergling obedience classes

Hey mate, any idea why quality is locked at 480p (I think)

Reynor macros out another drone during the middle of that micro at 28:40.. crazy.

Imagine if Forrest Gump took up sc2 with his g*d daaayam IQ of 260 vs these guys instead of playing table tennis. SC2 would be in trouble

random comment but I don't know who in america says "lair" as "layer" - I think most people say it the way you did, rhyming with "snare"

maxpax really did take reynor to pg13-non-penisrelatedville city, texas, in that game 2 :O

Love high level StarCraft II😊

Hey Pig, have you ever tried watching a new match that has been edited so you do not know which pros are playing and trying to see if you can determine who is playing who? I only ask because I would be very interested in seeing that content if you were to have it. Please upvote my comment if anyone else feels me on this

As long as Toss doesn't get a good late game upgrade for Zealots like Zerg get for Lings and Terran for Marines there will be no balance

Is Reynor maturing as a player 😮❤

Oh man, looking like this a week before worlds... but he's second round will be Serral, crap.

27:00 this statement .. you cna't win them all. Not entirely true... The key factors to winning is: KNowing what your enemy is doing. Effective unit and defence and control for net gains. That being said late game and mid game are entirely different, but essentially the top two statements are red critical line for surviving the early game. A big thing in attacking or defending in teh early game is knowing your cost relations. Typically deviance of about 15-45 minerals because of frames and other weird border issues in mining which doesn't effect anything to much.. There is time to move across a distance, this is defensive buffer in teh early game, a proxy, attempts ot shorten or remove that defensive buffer that gives people time. weakens their position in their own base allowing entry, but they oftne block off their ramps completely in these modes. Use of loss and fodder. Drones used as defense before 3-4 bases is typically not a great idea, since you ahve no recovery... that kind of goes for all species. If you observe no secondary base. Typically only zerg can get away with it... however, if there is no second base, spine crawler, and walling off and cancelling your other base is reasonable, if you can wall off your natural area you will awlays be ahead if its a large map typically easier to do.. Knowing how many lings and about the time for ligns to take down walls... Stalker range of 6 is better defence behind a wall, asl ike a single photon cannon at your forward ramp or wall, gets free kills against lings and low range units... making tehir attack less cost effective.... If zerg goes roach... having a banshee or a air unit can be an effective means of defence... Mutas not so much.. in z verse z, roaches are better against themselves in the early game... rapid regernation in a raoch fight with good micro works extremely well.. I don't know.. knowing is half the battle... effective control... that being said sure you can lose... but knowing what to do when you do it.. what I like most about zerg is you never have to over commit to a specific unit you can have alrva to hatch a counter... problems of that is rally points etc... only problem with zerg is overlord and drone production can use excessively more rss and be considered greedy.... whcih puts zerg in a weakened position if doing so.... meh

Why have we gone pg13?!? The kids can fing scram

best Zerg unit = zerlings

I'm not good at this game at all. I'm scared to play the ladder. But does it seem like Protoss lose often? I don't think I've seen a Protoss player win any big tournaments. Does Protoss need buffs?

Are you sure this isn't #239?

Gg

Second match... you need one spine crawler per two adepts in an early rush this allows you to block off the top ramp. Probably lose your second hatcher,y you may need a primary hatchery, Zerg can use one hatchery... the most important thing as zerg is larva when defendingnad defendign well. A lot of z players I have seen can't defend well they play in teh throw away style, but zerg is and can be one of hte most cost effective species in sc2. There is some simple quick math... its called tiem framing.. you predict your drone loss of say, 5-6 so building more psine crawlers, wit hthe intent nad lbocking off. The top ramp side can range should be enough... the entire point is to block access to the top. adepts are glass cannons... and typically ineffective on buidlings.. like reapers, but yo uget enoug hat a rave shit happens. Zeg can bounce back with tech upgrades and one base, nto stating go brood lords but I do think brood lords are better than battlecruisers, for damage out put, and range and blocking... if its early adept typically blink will be behind because of hte gas, or hte army will be weaker, the primary thing is to not lose drones, the point of hte psine crawlers top ramp is to secure a mining area, and even allow more drone production, range untis are important, maybe into roach right away... but you should be able to then move the psine crawlers to your forward natural and hten stuff a hole with a queen making it a blocking place below. This type of defence only works if your like, if I don't block off hte top and remove this threat, I could lose all many workers, verse.. taking a loss for building an attack unit.. defensive structures for zerg act like mobile untis and since zerg is limited to larva... defensive style zerg is effective with defensive early buildings, but oftne z just doens't use its mobility of buildings to defend, since offensive z is often what we see, so maybe peopel don't have neough practice in coming back from a awkward deficit... not a minerla deficit, but a military unit deficit that is effective at removing the problem.. Typipcally in a defenisive stance you then will spy, and if you defend well be ahead miltiary but equal or behind eocnomically... the use of drone loss predication into defence gives you a better recovery chance. Two base zerg form defence wit ha macro hatch.. can power up their economy quite fast.. and if z has a minute after a failed early rush... you can try to cheat out more eoc becuase you have those spine crawlers... all you need is 40-60 seconds of worker time, to get all that investment back. which allows z to get out of control... With those spines you can move them into your third later on and hten ramp out a repsonsive army, as long as you are larva counting well and monitoring your enemy. lurker defence is great early as a comeback, using lurkers in specific places and eco damage... but against protoss typically going ot see air.. and some protoss will early attack, and hten turtle and go into air... which should give you time to get corruptors and expand anywhere on the map... interceptor range is 16... but the cloud that effects damage, is super effective at nullifying any air attacks early with zerg. Microbial shroud, is super op... with armor upgrades.. hydras can make protoss have debt based carriers... meh..

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Raynor isn’t better than Maxpax. He shouldn’t win this but he does cause of Z

I see max pax? I click. 🫡