Scarlett's NEW Mass Hydralisks! (StarCraft 2) 

Lowko: "In this match, Scarlett goes for a very strange Zerg Strategy" Me, watching a video called Scarlett's NEW Mass Hydralisks!: "Oh wow, I can't wait to see what she goes for"

Jesus, the creep spread on that first map. I know Scarlett is known for being good at spreading creep, but that was insane!

"Some of you may be painting Warhammer figures" Me painting a tyrannifex 😲

I loved Hydra in OG SC and BroodWar. Gah the juicy noise with the green animation when they shot .. like they were spitting... was the best xD

46:20 the shadow of the space marine centipede in the water looks awesome

I loved all the casting combinations at IEM K! You & ZG sounded sooooo good together and Pig does such a great job hyping up big moments. I'd love to see a tiny hydra buff as they are my favorite zerg unit from the lore.

I suck at SC2, but as a Starcraft1 veteran, I can safely say that's Starcraft1 strategy. Which is what I was doing when I was trying zerg in SC2 and... yea didn't work out for me. SC1 was Hydra, ling Defiler using the dark swarm and later Guardians.

Watching Scarlett's POV at 2x speed is quite the sight.

I am really enjoying the "technical review" today, Lowko. I wouldn't mind more of this!

The "Pro View" style in game 2 was cool! It's interesting to see what they see so you can talk more about exactly what they are thinking.

Mass Hydra was a common strategy in the OG StarCraft 1 !!!! It rocked.

Man you look away then back at the game and Scarlett already rolled out the red carpet of creep all the way to the terran base 😮.

I have been waiting 14 years for mass hydralisks to become a thing.

Thanks for the upload Lowko. I missed this match from the tournament.

hope you cover that crazy dark game with the 50 mutas. the whole tournament was an absolute banger

Nah, old intro is better 😂😂

always wondered. i play with my Razar Naga mouse where my hot keys are on my thumb (1-12/SHIFT 1-12). is that allowed in competitive play? or is it standard mouse?

25:00 lol, how did you know? I was preparing a map for our dnd campaign

I do like to see the pro's POV. TY Lowko keep up the great work, I am viewing from Colorado:)

I feel like Harstem showed in recent video that even if there are tanks shooting at your hydra its not that scary. Hydra worked wonderfully for him.

"for 14 years now, ever since 2010" Oh god, I am getting old

Silly me was wondering if you were going to cover Katowice at all. This is going to be awesome! 🎉

Marc (uThermal) was quite successful with fast ling/hydra drops in the opponent's main base, in his Zerg cheese series, hydra's dps is insane.

0:01 Ok, i know Lowco is there BUT Who is Lowco?!

Don't know who won Katawce.. All my SC news comes from lowko usually 😅😂

damn, those photoshoppers were putting in alot of overtime hours on that thumbnail.

I love watching videos about games that I don't understand at all, listening to the narrator, reading the comments and trying to understand what's going on

Lowko: "peak nerdy life-style" Me, listening before going to sleep: *vigorous giggles*

The Queen of Blades can reach the hotkey 9 with her long fingers.

Loved the 1st person view in the 2nd game

Do someone knows what are the 3 symbols in the top right of the start of every vídeo?

What do the symbols mean on the top right at the video start? 6, punch, spider?

Focusing on one player at a time is excellent for educating new players on the game. It's a great idea to help show what the player sees and has seen regarding their decision-making and what they missed in relation to their mistakes. You should do it more often.

Where can these games be downloaded for personal viewing locally?

Love the Vsauce tribute intro lmao

I liked the player POV on the second game. I think it's valuable when used sparingly, but seeing the screens of various top-level players and giving a more in-depth explanation of timings on supply, upgrades, various buildings, and so on for different Build Order Strategies is handy for gaining better insight into some of the more granular aspects of the game that we don't get from a broader "bird's eye" view of the replays. Probably not something that should be done often, but a great bit of variety in your already quality casts.

Very nice. Thanks!

Nailed it *looking down on all the paints and miniatures*

I love using hydras in just about every situation, even if they get countered. I feel hydras are under utilized in a lot of the videos I see. but hydra zergling lurker is such an iconic combo for me.

Im expecting an attack upgrade timing hydra build, seen a harstem vid some days ago and it seemed strong

44:23 10 banelings = a couple to LowKo.

9:34 thats what magnus carlsen does in championships of chess. He throws his oponent off with unconventional openings so they dont know what to do in early game.

Lowko: "Your probably painting you Warhammer Figurines" Me: How tf did he know that??? *scans the room for cameras*

7:36 that tumor placement speed, damn!

I actually liked the Scarlett-view analysis!

One of the major changes I hated back when SC2 launched was that one of the most iconic units of the zerg suddenly became a minor support unit. I'm so glad there are still some players who can surprise opponents with them.

I want to see Lowko have a series where he plays Day9 or older players that haven't been in the SC2 scene in a while

@23:22 Actually I'm grinding out Job classes in Final Fantasy Tactics: Nice easy no time limit about anything RPG

how old is this replay? i though they had merged the hydralisk range/speed upgrades

25:08 I feel personally attacked.

I theory crafted this like 8 years ago. Hydras have twice and hp, and twice the supply of a marine, so if they had the same amount of damage they would go 1 for 1 against a marine, but they actually have twice the damage as well. So 50 hydras > 100 marines of same supply. Hydras are also faster. The only difference is the support. Marines have medivac for healing, and tanks for backline splash damage. I guess you can micro infestor for splash to replace tanks? Thats really hard to do though, and hydras are only faster if on creep.... Plus hydras cost a lot more than marines, and theres no way to heal them up. Queens are inefficient on bunches of small units. So on paper its great! But only someone like scarlett could hope to pull it off. On the other hand. Hydras are the only unit that ghosts don't counter! lol

I still remember lowko's old intro of "hello everyone, my name is lowko and welcome back to another match of starcraft 2"

Hyrda's melt so fast, but the marines usually had med-evac and tank support. I'm curious how the hydra's would trade if they had lurkers and queens supporting them.

I hope you'll cover the Bunny/Clem series from Katowice

So to counter this as Terran. Would mixing mines in with the tanks help? Place the mines out front of the main force in the chokes. Try and soften the waves. Or is that not cost effective enough, then Zerg just switches strats, or trips mines early

Painting my World Eaters while running this Video on my macbook. Lowko: "you might be painting your Warhammer Figures"

Keep mixing in first person view, it's a fun variation :)

I like to watch the pro side, but I usually slow it down lol. Real nice seeing how they control the insanity

I like the strategy analysis from a player POV! Ty lowko

I'm not convinced her Hydra gameplan is as bad as Raynor thinks. Honestly, had she just gotten even a couple more Vipers she probably would have overrun that front door in the first game much sooner since it was only really the tanks that were giving her grief. The ultras were absolutely a mistake, more Vipers and maybe a few more drones to keep the mining up. Impressive map control as usual from our local legend ❤ nice to see Scarlett still on top of her game.

Would Hydras be imba if they weren't light units?

Literally painting my WH minis and I did not expect to get called out like that

Harstem made a video recently on how strong fast hydras +1 are

The player perspective is fire. Love the POV.

Can you do the POV thing with other casts like with Clem or Reynor?

I love hydras. It is a bit unfortunate that they are so high on the tech tree for what they do, and that they need support from other units (ling/bane early, later infestors and vipers) in order to be viable against most regular compositions.

I don't play competitively but why is APM a metric? clicking the same thing over and over and click moving the same thing back and forth to get APM means what? I'm genuinely curious.

Fantastic cast. Between a live cast and analysis. Love the choice of using Scarlett's point of view.

Look, you don't need to call out my Mechanicus like that. *Is painting Cawl*

Lowko, you bastard. 25:15 I literally had to turn around from my Warhammer painting to post this. I feel spied upon and called out.

I think it's likely we see roach-ravager-hydra again soon if this proves effective.

As someone who off-races Zerg, I love Hydralisks! It might be because of SC1. Out of curiosity, what would you do to buff or fix the Hydra? What do they need in order to stop being so "bad"? Do they need more health? Damage? Range? Lower cost?

also mass hydra+bane is the only units you dont auto lose vs. 5+ghost at top play. so yer obv. if its a game with T that goes beyound the 5-8 + ghost then its mass hydra banes ^^

"Some of you may be painting figures or drawing anime" Me, having just opened photoshop: ....

"Sometimes people are like, oh yeah, higher APM equals better skill. Not neceSERRALy!" I see what you did there! :D

What happened why is teh Hydra considered weak now? I remember a year ago they were a core part of every matchup?

lowko i do fr paint warhammer 40k while watching you videos :))

No arrow on the thumbnail? What’s going on?

honestly I love this, and it's really cool.

Lowko: I'm going to cast this game in Scarlet's POV this game me: *Serral's match versus MaxPax PTSD intensifies* lol, not as bad though

Cool idea with the second game in 1P.

Old school Starcraft/Broodwar strategy , hydra+defiler (hydra+Infestor)

Harstem made a video about this a little over a week ago and it was OP as shit. Hydras do so much dps and Harstem was just bullying his way through everything.

Hydras are bad!? U can create them really early in the game and they deter early air unit build - i had no idea. Especially cause u can choose lurker - ive never had issues with this combo. Awesome video tho i learned alot!

yes lowko, thisis what i wanted to see

great game!

Woooohoooo! Always Exciting :)

I needed to take a motion sickness pill before watching that 2nd match.

NEW mass Hydralisks oh my! Something she's done before!

I just noticed Scarlett has 'GRAVE' as all army hotkey...

After that intro, I am 100% sure that this video is a government AI project! hahaha

Dans le premier jeux Scarlett a asphyxie l économie de spirit et elle avez un contrôle de la cartes quasiment impossible a battre pour spirit qui perdait c'est base des qu'il voulait sortir avec la propagation incroyable du Creep ❤❤❤

C'était vraiment une magnifique games

Scarlet is always so entertaining. Not always the cleanest games, but always keep me on the edge of my seat.

The creep spread of Scarlett always and still fascinates me!

Just wanted to say that the way you showed off game #2, while not what I want to be the standard, was definitely interesting and fun from a strategic point of view. Hope you do it again!

@Lowko IDK what I just watched... Scarlett's strategy is old; I played against it on Korean servers and thought it was the norm for them but I'm from the US and the ping was too real. Maybe the build order was different but definitely seen that before; to be fair about 8 years ago. Agreed on her panic... game 2 was reactive and flawed on micro; could've pushed forward on hydras as some were dancing in the back towards the end making them useless but she had already given up. game 3 she didn't commit when she could have and would've won like 5 minutes sooner at least. Towards the end didn't fungal the medivacs - maybe she didn't have the energy but it looked like she did? Even then she F2'd pulling back from the third with all her forces she could've pushed into the second and likely won then. Especially if she made more banes. Also; when your prod gets killed for your main unit IMO the best thing to do would be gas up and try to get the structures back so that your bank is well placed. I had fun yelling at my screen though.

scarlett always playing home court with that creep spread hhah

Occational PoV games are good, though maybe video PoV only and perfect vision only. Personally i quite like the PoV especially if it is a Serral or something (though that might be too good content for PoV games)

Honestly if they just gave hydras a bit more hp, there would be a lot more play for that units outside of just using them for lurkers.