Oliveira's 75+ MARINE SWARM vs Solar! (StarCraft 2) 

Imagine being a marine pushing on to creep. You're walking over unnatural goo while having to attack invisible organs in the ground that [whoever sends the mules] is telling you about. Occasionally being told to run up ahead of the safety of your tanks to lure hordes of lighting-fast bug-dogs or giant cockroaches - where at least and handful of your comrades will die. All the while reports come in of your bases back home being overrun by hordes of the bugs - a swarm bigger than any that you may have never seen by that point. And you keep going - pushing further and further in - until you see a wave larger than before charge you... Your squad falls back in waves, shooting as you go, returning to the safety of your tanks. But as you get closer, no blasts from your distant artillery come, no holes in the enemy lines appear -- as you reach the fortified positions, you see that it is covered in a dense fog. You might even see the massive insect slithering around in the sky... and receive cool orders from above to prioritize its life over your own. And as you fight for your life, no order to retreat comes... The tanks are torn to shreds by a sea of insects and those standing ahead of you are disintegrated in seas of acid and volleys of spines. You may even find a virulent fungus growing in your suit - eating away at your flesh. Eventually, if you're lucky, you might find a place on a medical dropship - watching the last of your army become engulfed in a sea of shell and claw.

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It could be satellites in orbit to support and it explain mules, supply drops, and scans.

4:37 The Brood War opening cinematic answers this question. Huge battle cruiser above a battle "Admiral, the colonist space will be overrun in a matter of minutes. Shall we intervene?" "Take us into orbit Mr. Maalmsteen, we've seen enough." Battle cruiser then abandons the ground forces. Yeah pretty morbid

4:37 let's just imagine that the war happening all over the planet and nearby terran army busy helping other terran bases and only can send you mules, scans and depo addons

I always assume there is a space station in orbit supporting the guys on the ground for the supply drops and stuff. I always picture the station in that one SC1 cut scene where they plant a nuke in in the infested science station

Interesting fact. Load landed Vikings into a medivac with an SCV on auto repair. They get repaired in the medivac.

There is almost no reason for Interstellar armies to clash on planetside unless the Navies are in Stalemate. There are probably huge Zerg and Terran fleets in orbit just daring the other to attack. In this case, a naval battle would destroy them both, so they deploy armies instead in a sort of involuntary mutual agreement taht the winner of the Ground battle takes the planet. Plus, whoever wins will definitely make groundside defenses which will make a naval battle disadvantageous for the loser.

@LowkoTV - Thanks for another great recap! If I might make a small request: there have been a lot of times recently where you are focusing the camera on base building for an extended period of time while significant fights are going down elsewhere on the map. I'd love to see more of those fights rather than trying to guess how they played out.

2:15-2:22 I didnt realise hatcheries can now be made in 9 seconds!😂

Probably the orbital command center calls the mules that are built in a space station that serves the role as a satellite as well and just floats around the orbit.

The Hyperion in orbit doesen't help because this platform woulden't be anywhere near a priority target. There's less than 200 zerg here, so they would focus their efforts on locations with like thousands or millions of zerg.

4:40 - "If there's a massive Terran army nearby, why aren't they helping!" That's YOUR army, though! The troops you train on the ground is the cost to build their equipment and suit them up so they can go out and fight, and you need supply to keep them well-fed and well-equipped while they're on the ground because it's too inefficient and time-consuming to ferry supplies back and forth from the Hyperion.

10:19 Oliveira lost both of those full medivacs at the six o'clock, I just wish I could have seen how. Probably hydras though.

They're fighting the big space battle while the low tier commanders battle to secure a location. You can't expect Raynor to micro every single unit in a massive fight. Raynor as in the lore hero, not the player. You can definitely expect Raynor the player to micro everything in a big battle.

Creep spread was nuts

those widow mines in the end hit nothing but overseers xD

It's quite a trick to push a rabbit out of a hat

the ones creating and dropping mules also scanning is the science vessel that has cloaking ability 😅

4:47 I assume bc there’s also an equally powerful Zerg or Protoss force. Like you’re just the ground part of a larger engagement

Landed Viking inside medivac is how you know they are messing with you

Due to the new draft system with 9 maps you get to pick a map after the first pair of bans so I guess terrans ban radhuset as first ban and then zergs pick equi as first pick (could be wrong tho)

Olivera games are awesome because they are so funky.

Did anyone else see Solar make a hive and then cancel his infestation pit at 28:10?

Aggressive killer instinct bio play is how olivera took down reynor in the world championship

Please make a video with a brief explanation why that particular and another maps are bad/good for each race?

They really wants to help. But the energy from minerals, is nedded to teleport them down.

Perhaps Oliveira likes getting a delayed hit of minerals hehe

Does anyone else keep thinking that with the name of Oliveira, the dude is from Brazil or South America? Just throws me off everytime! Haha

Idk if I have seen a cast of Olivera winning any games since he became world champ

As a competitor he might be playing equilibrium just to challenge the meta

I think Oliveira refuses to stop practicing Equilibrium for future tourneys. I think he’s playing for the late game.

To be able to load a landed viking into a medivac is just ridiculous and imbalanced. Instead of risking to loose my vikings I load them into a medivac instead of transforming back and flying away. Also it just takes 2 places in the medivac, what the hell is this? Why is Terran the only race that has abilities from the other races (self-healing, burrow, blink/teleport) but Z and P don´t?

i know the answer is likely to be 'cause its inefficient' but is making zerg hactheries just for extra unit production really that bad of a move?

Orbiting terran command craft sends MULEs down in exchange for terran players boosting the reception for their TVs.

Woooooo!!

what does macro play mean?

The only Terran win rate Oliveira cares about is Oliveira's. Statistics be damned!

So reapers can heal themself now?!

Thumbnail says 75+ but title says 60+?

Gods it feels like Terrans are always in such a sorry state. The only way to win is to take control of the game from minute 0:00 and put on so much pressure that you never lose control of it. Widow mines kill your own shit. Tanks kill your own shit. Banelings don't kill your own shit. Fungals don't kill your own shit. Disruptors don't kill your own shit unless you are very, very bad. Storms kill so much more of their shit that it isn't even worth mentioning. All of our tools for dealing with deathballs and swarms are so lackluster, that in a 1 to 1, the enemy gets a split, and terran loses, or the enemy is protoss, and terran loses. Cause protoss units are chonky and strong, except stalkers. The only time Terrans can win is when they never let the other race get off the ground.

pro-gamers are sensitive to small changes, and statistics are tricky things. shaving a few seconds makes a huge difference for pro-gamers. for statistics there are nuances that are missed by most people, one well known one is gun violence. banning guns lowers gun violence, but violence in general goes up when it is banned and people typically argue using general violence stats then when a ban happens use gun violence stats without realizing that those are two separate stats. a UK set of stats was used for a long time which showed a drop in violence after banning guns, however when looking at the more granular statistics there was a short lived spike after guns were banned which corresponded with the increase in police which followed shortly after the ban on guns, and we know that more police means less crime. we could talk about false accusations of rape or any other subject in which statistics are often used to show how statistics are nuanced and used incorrectly. we probably don't need to get into silly things pros do to give themselves a small edge, like the extractor trick, that most end up using because they work and make a big difference in the long run. this is why when a pro does something that isn't backed by statistics there is a 50-50 shot that they know something the statistics aren't showing.

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Lowko bro please stop putting endings in titles. Love your vids

Lowko could take these noobs 2v1.

LowKo eats a COUPLE of boogers for breakfast 🍳

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The maps are terran penal colonies, so the terran army in orbit oesnt WANT to help.

You have to take statistics with a grain of salt. Yes, the average win/loss percentage is bad for terrian, but that is based on the average player. Some players' abilities are above that average. If Oliveira wanted to be practical about it, he should consider the stats. However, every pro player in any category will do their own analysis because the statistics aren't as clear-cut as many might believe. For example, I wonder why pros are fighting for gold bases. Wouldn't it be ideal to just grab those minerals with your workers and rally back to a safer drop-off? I'm sure this concept doesn't work in every scenario, but you have to admit that there are at least a few where this approach makes more sense. I mean, you are getting twice the minerals. In a way, it does pay for the delay.

so bullsh*t

22:18 but you where right, if not bc z got so over extreme nerfed and t constantly gets buffed this wouldn't have happened, and honestly when you fail so hard on your first all in that you lose everything except 1 medivac and some marines then it should be gameover, but no, T just push, stem 3 times before the engage even happens and still win fighting surrounded on creep outnumbered outplayed, against their counters, outresourced and out supplied, ow and outmicroed as Z is microing two fronts... honestly its hard to watch