FAKE GRANDMASTER ALERT?! 

"Terran is the race, kind of by default, for true people. And I'm not saying that to be funny, I'm saying it because I'm braindead" -Harstem 2023. Man i love this edit, good job hamster!

Dear Harstem, I am a Diamond 2 player on the North American server, and am the greatest gift to StarCraft this world has ever seen. Despite this, I frequently find myself losing to my opponent’s units. This is peculiar, because it implies that I might be doing something wrong. Please tell me why all of my opponents are imbalanced.

I had no idea harstem was braindead. Kudos for him to be brave enough to admit it.

Im the terran and the best part is that i got demoted lol

"he is a fake GM" - Dick "He is a GM and you are a prick" - Harstem Headline: FAKE GRANDMASTER ALERT?!

Imagine being a GM, looking at this game and thinking yep this is what I'll send in! attacking into phoenix stalker immortal with vikings and LANDING them will surely get me Harstem's praise for my tactical genius! 😭

Less than 4 minutes in and this is guaranteed to be my favorite IODIS in terms of editing

You can tell just from the intro: "how do I win vs. a late game enemy composition". That just feels like asking "how do I win a game that I already lost in the early-mid game" 😃

The Hamster edits are ON POINT this video. DYING.

26:42 - I teach maths and this really rings true of a lot of conversations I've had with students. "How about you think about it a little bit, mate." I'll try that one next time. Thanks, Harstem.

3:43 😂 geez harstem dont be so hard on yourself (definitely not edited)

15:23 this Barcode reaction to mines killing his probes for a long time remembering me joke about huge Moose suffering from heavy hangover get to the river and start drinking water, while hunter from a distance shot him several times... and then Moose say "i'm drinking more and more, but i'm feeling worse and worse". Is it international joke?

I don't know what's better: 1. Bragging how je spotted mass Phoenixes and made Vikings and then having them fight landed 😂 2. Sending one third of his army at a time to die

"Dear Harstem" should be a requirement for IODIS

i love the terran editors joke 🤣🤣🤣

When you watch harstem, you know an "...Never in my entire life..." is coming 😁 Great stuff as always!

Editing is always on point A+

The tree trunk analogy is actually so funny and perfectly true. Terrans hate having to deviate even if it's obviously not a workable comp vs their opponent.

Starcraft thinks different. Once I got to GM with ~5k MMR Europe, but it doesn’t show up in my achievement in the “highest league reached”. Sad

Dear Harstem, I just started playing and always pick the xenomorph aliens. I make ants and use the blood bath. When they keep playing I use the curvy bat or the spider that does the line of spikes. If I get bored I make the umbrella that shoots ants or the wooly mammoth. I'm only winning 95% of my games in the GM section, how do I win 100% so I can get the best ending?

Your explanation around 5 minutes had my gut laughing. Maybe I'm just a lil high and that's why, but I think your tone and delivery were hilarious.

For TWO YEARS harstem has been putting out IIIODIS saying Terran IMBA but biased video editors have suppressed the facts!

i agree 100 % on the gm claim about the 30 games

Based on the title, I thought for sure you were going to call him out for being a "fake GM." I did not expect such a good take.

I'm a fake GM too! But in the other dead blizzard game

Vikings will always lose to phoenix carrier in a straight up fight. If you are going to play mass viking, you need to snipe single units and then run away repeatedly while covering them with marines or mines so the faster phoenixes don't just catch up and kill them all (watch how maru does it) The only terran unit comp that can fight this head on is mass BC. You could use your bio from the early game to keep the protoss occupied and on as low eco as possible while taking a fast 4th an teching into BC at that point.

As a Canadian, the explanation of hockey was perfect 😂😂😂

I think this combinations works until diamond 1 or maybe lower master 3. Concept are When Terran core bio units are not spread Before engage colossal really performs like siege tanks with higher splash range. Marine will auto shoot Phoenix Because they are faster and therefore closer to marine with same hostile priority like colossal. And when marine fail to kill all Phoenix before colossal killed them. Kiss goodbye to marauder And medivac Where both heavily countered by Phoenix. But if flank attack is done. Marauder tank colossal shots And trade with other toss ground unit or maybe get lifted by Phoenix where in reality is protecting them from colossal splash And minimize charge zealots damage. And marine bad stab from behind kills colossal Because due to their fire range they are always the most further back unit in the toss ball. The GM clearly knows the right answer is flank attack,but he just did it so poorly that the results is negative micro , even worse than whole army stim A move. Maybe this army composition create more advantage by fewer micro requirements with better results for protoss than Terran. But i think when you are a GM you shouldn't try to use that as a excuse to cover up. Quit complaint against a unit is platinum graduation. Quit army composition complaint is diamond graduation. For GM player it's unreasonable to say it's IMBA because you know the answers anyway.😂 But i think we all like to see that if even gm think it's IMBA. It added more credits for lower leagues player with the same point. This is a great game and great IODIS episode. I would rank this my top 3 episodes of the series.

Yeah protoss playes are really strategy masterminds, if they see bio the make splash. If the see mech they mass immortals and skytoss. While in any case being up in bases. 👍🏻 Protoss units are so bad that you only need to control the spellcasters while a moving the rest, so hard😅

If my opponent was going straight into cariers I would build extra marines.

That's cause these bio players never have tested late game mixed bio mech compositions of even fully transition to mech vs that kind of army Thor viking raven ghost would shit on that

As terran player i think so little Terran players realize Battlecruiser is only direct counter to carriers in late game especially viking dont do the job when is enough carriers especially with bad vehicle armor upgrade when is 3 attack carriers vikings dont do the job anymore .Bc in this will be good call in this game :direct counter to carrier, Phoenix not even scratch and so much supply will be dead in collsouss.And when Prottos player swith to tempset just go back to vikings is comicall but paradoxly terran had air superiority over toss and so much Terran losing to skytoss, especially in lower leagues where game dynamic is relative low or games are slow, where they can easily setup BC, raven composition ..

That toss was getting away with muurdah

Dude kept focusing on canons. Take out the single pylon and take out the base and GTFO.

Can you please put IODIS after the title? i almost miss some episodes because of no clear indicator.

As a terran Player now i know why i enjoy defeating protoss players the most 😂😆

EMP and missile armor and protoss shouldn't have a chance

Yes, Puck!

How do you climb to GM and then go "How do I beat this comp" Huh?

At 5.6k MMR I think you can only legitimately call GSL winners playing their main race "smurfs", that's some hard Copium that guy was on.

Brutal

Give teardrop a break, 4.8k is pretty decent mmr for diamond league

through in 3 immortals and some zealots then it really is unbeatable except for BC.

15:00 it never feels right to me that the graviton beam can pick up and stun vikings. Is that really lore accurate? the vikings can fly themselves, being in the air should not bother them. I think the graviton lift, should trigger their transformation sequence and make them airborn, and leave them in fighter mode.. Could you change that in the next balance patch?

He's a fake GM regardless because he's on NA

only since you spent the first 3 minutes talking about it, if you cannot hold a rank the entire season and finish with it ont he account then while YES you were a GM no you are not of GM level in terms of mmr and thats okay... you can call it being a dick, but not flat out wrong, they are not "fake gm" they were just temporarily GM and if you reach 4.7k GM or not that's a massive achievement.

It’s not every day you get a grandmaster asking Harstem if they suck!

Dear Harstem, please make the report card a more night friendly color. (Yellow, gray…)

I don't understand a single thing about star craft. I watch this only for the shit talking.

Why not making your face taking up 50% of the window? Too humble.

I was glad to hear a protoss player admit teran has no real options in tvp

DEAR Hamster, these viseos would be less interesting or funny without you !!! Thnx

first

First IODIS where I straight up disagree.

Wow… low GM Protoss is crazy OP. Holy crap. Terran didn’t even throw. Protoss units were just stronger the entire timez

It's pretty grating to hear you call people pricks and then call Terrans braindead, I think I'm skipping this one captain