Clem gets CANNON RUSHED in a StarCraft 2 Tournament! 

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Indeed!

Seriously. No one wants to watch turtle terran

This is more mike a micro game

100% normal games can be stale

I would say that Bonaan didn't really 'realise' it so much as he knew that from the start. Bonaan is a cannon rush-only player, and he does not do any other strat. He has various variants of cannon rushes, but they are all cannon rushes. He is around Rank 50 to Rank 25 GM, and if his cannon rush fails he loses to the same level of player, so he already knows he cannot possibly defeat a pro, especially one of the best players like Clem, in a normal game.

Trust me if there's one thing you learn cannon rushing it's how to micro your workers

​@@ProbeScout versus Clem?

@@SaltpeterTaffy wdym?

@@ProbeScout I doubt anyone learns how to micro against Micro Jackson just from cannon rushing. You're not going to say it's easy, right?

@@SaltpeterTaffy I was talking about the context of workers. There's certainly things to be said, but in general cannon rushing you learn more micro techniques than most other people do, like most of the people I trust to say adept shade dodge mines are cannon rushers, over many pros, and there are some specific micro stuff many I know practice with. I think many cannon rushers likely have less practice with large scale battle micro.

Yeah, most likely that would have been the better option. Really the problem was earlier when boanaan wasn't committing to overwhelming the bunker in range or using cannons to outrange, and that caused a lot of trouble. Personally, I think using range on the bunker would have been the better call there, and his tech just got delayed

Bonaan is an only-cannon rush player. He has invested heavily into the art of cannon rushing, and if the cannon rush fails he might as well give up because he's never beating another player on his level in a macro game, lest of all Clem.

The EVERYONE after HELLO is missing. :(

@@WeItenspinner good point. Edited. 😁

My eye twitched when he didn’t say it.

In the last years he prettimuch never does the full intro...

More likely the first one

Both.

They're just really bad, can only work with the cannons and batteries, even still it's in unfavored match up for the tempest. The only thing you can really do is keep the distance and use vision to pick off

I've never hear anyone higher than Platinum league scrub saying Vikings are OP 😂

@@hivetech4903 That still stands; I dont play StarCraft. I have watched competitive gaming since 480p. I am an analyst and have a propensity in picking up patterns. I have watched enough StarCraft in the last 20+ years to recognize a potential balance contention point. There is an argument for the Viking in PvT considering most Protoss units are mechanical. Few Protoss low and mid tier units are incapable of shooting up. And the "siege mode" of vikings allow it to be a ground and and Air unit, attack ground and air units. AND be picked up by a Medivac. They can be produced quickly and en masse and 2 at a time from a single structure. Despite this, I did offer the suggestion that Tempests are severely underpowered and/ or have utility issues. Im not sure if you intentionally missed that, or if youre just one of those keyboard warriors.

incidentally storm is good against about everything that is good against tempests. Then again, just about everything is good against tempests

@@ProbeScout psi storm is a hell of a drug

@technodrone313 thank goodness we don't have 160 damage psistorms anymore

And yet, some week ago protoss got something like 53% winrate at pro lvl against Terran

I was kinda wondering what would happen if protoss started their expansion base where the rush is staged, or much closer. There's an undiscovered element to make this cheese a real strategy.

@@eddiekalista3222 Nah its been tried a million times - it only works at low level play. Proxy Nexus is so expensive that it delays units by a huge amount, pretty much ending the cheese. A better way is making a Nexus as the first proxy building in the opponents main, then probes and zeolots are recalled to it. Unfortunately its countered by a bunker next to the CC, also doesn't work at high level.

@@hivetech4903 But Bonaan expanded behind in all three games. Since he is to build a Nexus anyways, why not proxy it so super batteries can be an option? His play style is all-in anyway, too committed that it's virtually impossible to back to a normal game and eventually win after his opponent cleared all his proxy buildings.

@@eddiekalista3222 uThermal tried it once and won the game by this way. So I can't help wondering if it can be used in higher levels.

@@kittyflier8338 Its still the delay. On most maps like Game 1 for example there's no space to build a proxy Nexus as well as all the support structures - unless you don't build as much production / defense until later which means instant gg before the Nexus is up. Game 2 he didn't expand & failed early. Game 3 he has enough space but there are still problems: he couldn't mine from it meaning marginally less production. Also it would mean he is committing less to the cheese if he is spending energy on Overcharge, which only lasts 14 seconds & the Terran can just back off from it, as opposed to spending energy on chrono to get more units faster. Ultimately if it worked it would've been done, at this level these guys practice strategies 12 hours a day.

Is that the Harstem series? Because Bonaan actually tutored Harstem in cannon rushing at least twice. I'm not sure if he watches the series, but I doubt it was an influence to his cannon rush decision which he had been doing since the start of the game.

@@hetaresgaming7771 i don't really remember if he coached harstem but yeah i know, it was a joke, as a bad protoss i consider him the hero who punishes zergs for their 12 pools and terrans for their all ins

agreed. clem was a misclick or two away from losing 2 and 3. I really wanna see if Boanaan can refine cannon rush enough to crack top 50 or top 25.

It's not Has. Additionally, Has uses various different protoss cheese, but Bonaan is a strictly only cannon rush player, and arguably the most successful only-cannon rush player at the moment.

@@hetaresgaming7771 You mean Bonaan only play TR even against other players?

@@kittyflier8338 Cannon Rush. Yes, he plays only cannon rush and nothing else. He is of a handful of players that do only cannon rush builds; instead of learning normal build orders and so on, they have dedicated their time into refining and perfecting cannon rush. When new maps comes out, the first thing they do is to explore cannon positions on the map. I believe the most famous of this group of people is printf, though he has taken a step back in the scene, and bonaan is the most prevalent top GM ranked player at the moment.

@@hetaresgaming7771 Wow thanks. That's something new to me.

And he loses as Terran, who have quick tools to deal with : I wonder what Serral would do.....

When you go for the bunker, you have to go all in for it. Really I think Boanaan actually had a very middle of the ways bunker response which put him behind

Not vs Terran, for a lot of reasons. On some maps could be an ok thing to really put your opponent off guard, especially with pros being unpracticed vs cannon rush in my experience. Honestly I prefer cannon rushing a pro- toss player rather than a high GM NA toss

@@ProbeScout Dude 100%. We kind of deserve it - our worst cheese works best on eachother lol.

What do you mean "what if it turns out"? These guys play 12 hours a day for years so they can win money lol, you really think that wouldn't be the standard by now if that was plausible?

@hivetech4903 any cannon rusher will tell you as much, particularly when talking about Terran

He's onto something. Clem was very close to losing games 2 and 3, and saved it through some insane decision making and micro. I think he would've closed either of those games against anyone not in the top 3 of each race. A cheese strategy that works that well against the top Terran who is expecting that cheese needs to be explored more.

@@eddiekalista3222 Game 2 & 3 were not even remotely close, not sure what you're talking about... just because Clem can't instantly win doesn't mean his eco & army supply wasn't ahead the whole game (which they were). Clem was easily winning and the cheeses were massive failures. There is no refining a weak donkey build. Clem was not expecting it in game 1 so made several mistakes in not dealing with the probe and missing a bunker. Taking a map by surprise is about as good as these players can get, but they've been refining those cheese builds for years & there's a reason they can't close out the whole match and never win money.

yes of course, he probably just got lucky by hitting top 1 World Terran :D

Not another clown like this...

It’s a fun change of pace. There’s dozens of standard games to watch from each tournament. Seeing new styles of cheese is refreshing.

You've been cannon rushed alot, haven't you?

Feeding the troll i have only one thing to say: as are you

@@rogue-null this isn't new styles of cheese.

@@lordlopikong6940 no. but people do it for easy mmr.