Scarlett TROLLS at a $500,000 Tournament 

even in SC 1 the hydras shot "groved spines", the animation looked very wet but it was spines back then as well, PiG you are so good at tempting me to comment on your video, this was fun to watch

Scarlett: ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED

Hydras can climb cliffs with their blades, according to canon. One can also be seen climbing through an elevator shaft in one of the sc1 cinematics

The hydra spines are venomous in both StarCraft 1 and 2 StarCraft 1 just focused more on the venom and SC 2 focuses more on the spines. The hydra venom is why General Warfield loses his arm on Char.

Finally, a pro Zerg game where I don't yell "where is the anti-air?" the entire time.

Scarlett always puts out entertaining games, win or lose;

They shot grooved spines back in the day. With very strong muscles that could send the spines at supersonic speeds and made them capable of penetrate neo-steel. I would expect some saliva coming out of the mouth after achieving such feat.

As others have said, hydras shoot "grooved spines" in SC1. The green spit splattering out, I imagine, is like a natural lubricant they need to squeeze out the spines at a high speed.

After all these years I still occasionally watch a fun SC2 pro game. This game (as much hate as it has gotten) is truly a masterpiece. I hope a new version comes out in the next 5-7 years.

Hydras always shot spikes, but in SC1 they always spewed out quite a lot of acid when spitting them out. I believe there were some cinematics in the Terran campaign that have shown the spikes being shot out. Also the books about the XelNaga artifacts (that were written long before CS2) described them as shooting spikes.

I'd say it's not hydra that's powerful... it's Scarlett :)

pointing out hydras are bad is...normal though. It is a t2 unit for 2 supply with its own building, 150 resource cost. What is it used for? Turning into lurkers. It isn't like the corrupter where both it and its evolved form are viable and useful. It is basically the broodwar scout where it is so rarely 'good' that it is major news if a top player uses it to be effective in any situation

If she does the opposite of what she says, then that is a stratagem in war.

I think hydras lost their venom whem they fought together with the night elves.

I'd love to see her use overlords to dump creep so queens can aggressively put down tumors on the front and move up to tank. Maybe even dropalords to move the queens forward. She has so many from early game defense, might as well use that banked energy on frontline transfuse. Could make for a nasty push.

> Hydra spitting facts, supersonic munitions, etc. > Overlord: SLAY IT, DON'T SPRAY IT!

3:01 Best analogy ever 😂😂❤

Great Casting Pig. We Should Call Hydra Abilities, From Broodwar "Piggie BBQ Skewlers With Spines "

She played StarCraft Broodwar too much and actually saw a good Hydralisk, now there is no going back :P

“Troll is in the eye of the beholder” - Sarah Kerrigan

Eh... that was always something a bit weird about SC1, but there has always been A LOT of art asset inconsistency in this game. I distinctly remember one cinematic where the Zerglings had Hydra heads; another where Overlords and Guardians appeared to be underwater... Basically, I'd hazard they just told their artists something like "Draw and animate a bunch of cool stuff, and we'll figure how to use it later." I always resent what they did to the Mutalisk. Mutalisks were clearly grotesque, winged moth larvae, with their butts above their heads kinda like a scorpion, but in SC 2 they decided to just give them super boring/sensible body plans. If you want to give a charitable explanation to the green fluid Hydras clearly shoot in SC1, you could view it as the byproducts of the chemical reaction involved in expelling the spines (much like how the anti-air Bugs in Starship Troopers shoot their plasma). Think of it as the discarded shell casings of artillery.

Hydras shot green acid in SC1 because it was originally going to be a Warhammer game with the Terran being the Space Marines, the Zerg being the Tyranids, and the protross being... probably the Eldar. The assets were repurposed when Games Workshop decided not to go through with making the game. In warhammer there is a unit called a ravener which is a snakelike variant of the warrior that is often shown to have an armor piercing ranged attack of acidic toxins. Hell, some variants can even shoot maggots which crawl into armor and THEN explode into acid. It's probably why it was so wet and goopy in the first.

Love the vids Pig, enjoy you casting Scarlett games and talking through what she’s doing. Keep it up mate!

I think the spines had poison on them. Nothing too fancy.

Spirit went out to harass Scarlett's bases just at the right time, when she was transitioning to Broodlords. Did he scout the transition? It felt like he knew it.

Call me crazy, but I think that Spirit could have a much easier time, *...and maybe even **_WIN_** ! :O...* ... as long as he had *ONE* simple thing... : **NEO-STEEL ARMOR.** *ALLOW ME TO EXPLAIN:* Notice how *A LOT* of Scarlett's game plan revolved around quickly-in-quickly-out base raids and sniping buildings ?? All that with only *LOW-DMG* units, but MANY of them. (i.e.a playstyle of... _harrassing QUANTITY_ *OVER* _hard-hitting QUALITY_ ...) *EVERY TIME* it would happen, Spirit would arrive to their defence *JUST* as Scarlett was done with the raid and was about to leave. ... Now, IMAGINE that Spirit had Neo-Steel armor researched ?? Well, then in *EACH* of te cases where Scarlett was attempting QIQO base snipes, then Spirit would have actually been *ON TIME !!!* ...So that even if Scarlett did finish off some buildings, he would have done so at the cost of a loss of a considerable size of his force each time he made an attempt... INSTEAD, Spirit NEVER made that upgrade, so each time Scarlett did the base snipes *FOR FREE.* . *That's some real FOOR FOR THOUGHT, eh ? :P* . *P.S.* Actually PiG himself *_DID_** comment* on Spirit's *LACK of Building Armor* at some point in the game around the ... ~15-minute mark or so... :P .

Hey @PiG I mean this in the most constructive way possible. In general, you are a great caster, no doubt, but here is some feedback that can result in some improvement. What I dislike here in this one, that for me, would make it better, is that you let me know what I'm gonna see, before I see it (almost). Pros: - You set a cool expectation early for me to continue wanting to see it with some level of excitement. Cons: - You remove the "WOW experience". When I haven't watched SC for some time, and I come to watch this one, I experience that I'm too prepared for what's gonna happen, rather than be surprised and WOW'ed. - Also, experiencing this, lowers the excitement that was there a bit for me. Possible solution: Build the excitement, with a bit more cryptic statements. For example, "This game is really cool, and very unlike Scarlett", or along those lines, rather than, "She will do this, and she is going to do that, before it has happened" Hope this is received well. Keep it up!

500 grand for a SC2 tournament is crazy i've never seen this much in the pot before

I think that SC1 had text indicating they where spines, I guess it's just covered in some kinda goop?

I wonder if the reason she didn't just max out her army cap was to allow for instant reinforcement in case something got to her back lines? Idk. Or she was just distracted. Probably that. Lol

i know it's different hydra, but still, Hail Hydra

If you afford a ghost, it's likely to be a good unit. It doesn't need a lot of help from other units to be useful, but it can be countered.

Hydras not only shot acid in SC1, their attack was also instant, not a projectile like in SC2 making them much more mocroable... like the marine. Hydralisk attack was the stupidest nerf they introduced in SC2.

Scarlett thinks Hydras are bad? She needs to hang out with Meomaika :)

is ok, she just thought she was playing kerrigan in coop

You might be thinking of venomancer when they used the hydralisk model for a hero on dota 1 on frozen throne warcraft 😝😝 all the ogs know dota 1 players rise up

So you say it's an extremely greedy build but also safe against anything, hmm

saw a couple comments, it seems like hydras need a venom debuff that can be upgraded at t3 and an upgrade at t2 that can jump cliffs like reapers do at t1 no upgrades. thats one way to make them slightly better... fungal + hydra venom = big combo. hydra+fungal+parasitic bomb = bigger anti air. but yeah.. we'll never see that. blizz can't balance hydras. they're either op or up. much like a couple protoss units and terran units. this is the problem with making a game with 2 expos. there's just too many units

6:32 how tf does she put down all those creep tumors at once? Even at .25 speed it's like 5 at a time. Multiple hotkeys and just spam them or something?

that creep spread.. the entire map is creep !!!

Ok, stupid question, but I haven't followed SC2 for a long time. What happened to hydras? Why are they bad? I remember they were a very popular unit when I still played the game. Edit: Ok, just got to the part where you explain it (6:25 if anyone else needs that)

An entire almost 22 minute video on tactics. You make ONE COMMENT at the end about lore and every post is correcting you. Lol

Your thumbnail is missing a word

It was roaches that spat acid in SC1.

Hydralisks have been a meme unit for so much of SC2... only Zerg "standard" ground unit that shoots up but awful against air armies, literally lost to landed Vikings back in WoL with their original godawful stats before they got buffed over and over up to just being kinda bad, tons of weird restrictions on their use throughout their development life like needing to stay on creep, and takes like three to four counter units to make an entire core of them utterly ineffective for a quarter of the cost. But I guess they can win when Terran decides to barely defend their first two tanks after parking them on creep.

Really enjoyed the video. Thank you

Quite honestly @PiG, all the whining about hydras is probably mostly strategic by her, i feel. Hydras are bad vs. marines + medivacs, but they're pretty solid vs. most other T units if T is not set up perfectly. Tanks are really not that good vs. hydras because they aren't armoured and thus get no extra damage and they don't clump as badly as marines, so the AoE is not quite as significant for them. I never understood the whining about hydras, because their DPS is silly high, to the point they almost can compete in base trades (certainly vs. protoss).

It's not that Hydras are good, it's just that Zerg didn't suck against air.

i mean she is using queens hydras and infestors together this isnt trolling except she had complained about hydras but other players arent thinking hydras are useless

Makes sense that Pros like to use Mines and Drops as a way to harass and lower Zerg income, and mass Hydra negates all of that better than Muta/ling/queen could ever do.

scarlett is best zerg pro to watch imo

The moment when spirit donated 2 full medivacs I knew the game is over.

Done watching now … I enjoyed that a lot! Again, thanks for the great work, PiG! Just one more thing: I also read the comments. Mostly interesting, funny, insightful, as one would expect on this channel. But what if, hypothetically, there was also some arsehole spammer spraying ville hate-speech all over the comment section? Last I checked, the channel owner can remove individual comments, and also ban another account of commenting on their videos altogether by just banning them. (Or is it called blocking?) Is that still a thing? I know, I'm essentially saying, you're doing a kick-ass job, but could you do even *more* work? It's just … seeing too much mean-spirited trolling can be upsetting. And I don't have great confidence in RU-vid moderation dealing with that, given that most of us viewers here don't pay anything for Premium. (Oh, and I just realised that you offer the option of becoming a member of your channel, and I'm not doing that either at the moment. Please forgive me, my current income is quite on the low end.) I dunno, maybe it would help to tell viewers to use the ‘Report’ feature when they see troll spam? Honestly got no idea whether that feature does anything or is just a placebo. Like I said, I don't have much faith in RU-vid staff helping with that, but if I can, I'd like to do _something_ to make this place more civil and respectful.

Ultras is such a troll unit

$500,000 USD?

3:09 It has nothing to do with what you described. You're mixing the patronus spell which summons an animal that represents you VS A Boggart, a creature that turns into your fear.

This looks so scuffed without drops

sweetness! I love hydras even though they suck. LOL

Yes, I'm very disappointed that hydras shoot spikes instead of acid

I want a pet Hydralisk. Or a pet Lurker.

Baneling zergs late game unit. 😂

Needle spines.

I miss ICYFAR 😢

Hydra's are pretty good, but that engage at 9:10 was just bad.

Never use hydras vs Terran

PIG, I love your casting and coaching videos, been a fan for a while now, but I gotta say: I find this overlay to be like the hart of my Ex - might seem colorful and fun, but in the end it's just ugly o.o

Here is your comment. ;D Great cast.

Yes, we all love Scarlett, but the commentator must be a real creep. He only talks about her and her strategies and how great she plays. Zero commentary about Sprit's play. Basically bad casting.

wtf is bde?

Thank you so much for this! There were _so many_ matches during those four days; I barely managed to mostly watch the “important” ones on Saturday and Sunday, so unfortunately I didn't see much from Scarlett. In fact only a few days ago I finally got around to re-watching the final, because when I saw it live, I'd been already *so* tired, I missed a lot of detail. But now I'm *totally* ready to spend 20 minutes watching a cool game hand-picked and narrated by you!

Big fan of that hero zergling going to town on refineries. That's gotta be so annoying to see/hear the alerts.

And we love her for that

i only mass hydra

Women just game better

lol bro called scarlett a 'HE' lmao

its always the zergs that socially crack

Playing Zerg take way more micro and focus. Scarlett is the greatest SC2 player ever. Fight me.

He...... please use your eyes and brain.

what did you expect from him xD

🙄 'promo sm'

Well, pretending that cats are dogs is already trolling in itself.

BDE :D :D :D :D :D

I like Scarlett he is one of the best players

First my friendo.

holy f zerospace looks like garbage^^

Is commentator trolling when he calls that guy a girl?

Dang these guys are both so good.

why everyone says hydras are trash? They are so fucking good dps, also wrecks all protoss gateways units

Anyone else beat off 2 Scarlett’s?

This looks like a bronze match.

SC1 was a better game

That’s a shim

HE