Serral vs Maru - $500,000 SC2 Grand Finals! (StarCraft 2) 

Next balance change will just be ip banned Serral

I mean yeah it COULD be serral, but in all honesty zerg has been dominant for a long time. Even after a ton of nerfs they're still dominant. I think the outlier is the race here, not the players.

@@lnfectious-iv7qo From the round of 12 onward every match with a Terran was won by a Terran, unless they faced Serral. No exceptions at all.

​@@lnfectious-iv7qo Ye u right that's why out of all the 24 participants only 6 were Zerg players, because it's such a dominant race, right??? lol, just accept Serral is _that_ good, especially knowing that out of all three races (specially now with nerf after nerf) Zerg is the one that takes the most _hands_ to fully use its potential within the pro stage.

​​​@@lnfectious-iv7qoThe problem is that it actually takes certain skills to play Zerg effectively. Which eliminates most players. If people wanted to train and practice with Zerg, they could theoretically reach Serrals level, but they chose Terran or Protoss. Zerg has a high advantage, if you have the high skill to take advantage. Which you could argue is unfair, but Serral is an outlier. You don't nerf the entire race, because one person is able to dominate. Protoss has a much lower skill cap, and Terran has a higher skill cap. You might as well advocate for nerfing Korean players. It makes the same amount of sense.

Lmao

I guess Serral can move his units merely by the power of his mind.

@@chessx6847 he is the hyvemind

Watch him reveal he can play with his feet. He's just been using his hands on the keyboard because he likes the noises.

Typical Progamers: Lose Tournaments Extreme Programers: Lose Maps (Plural) Serral: Loses Fights

He was such a beast the whole Tournament. Well deserved win

Year that was Serrals strongest performance yet. Its just crazy how good he is when you look at his unit movement, his ability to give every action that happens just enough attention it needs. People are screaming now from all corners that zerg is op, but (as Harstem recently said) Serral is just an outlier, he is in a league of his own right now. Personally i am sure, if Serral were to play Protoss, he would be just as OP, because (save for Max Pax) we dont have a Protoss player right now that even gets close to Serrals skilllevel, be it mechanically or tactically. @@DarsusD

@@Daniel-rd6st 100% agree Though my favorite game was that Dark game where he built 50 mutas. His matches where super entertaining

@@Daniel-rd6st Where did Harstem say this?

Serral could've helped Sam Altman out for all the chips he wants with his bank

Considering they both dropped down to less than 100 minerals at the end, those banelings DID become expensive ^^

That's his point Terrans have the solution It's right there If they can just reach out and use it...

Yeah but why use mobile detection when you have instant, unlimited range and uncounterable detection ? Scan is too powerfull, nerf the scan and we'll see ravens.

​@TyphoonJig here is the thing , and i am not saying anything about how powerful the scan is, but the scan is not all perfect , needs energy and to be correctly used and as we saw this game a pixel short of the right spot and the scan is useless. I think lowko's point is just too good , maybe the terrans became too dependant on the scans and yeah might be because how good they are , but just because something is played in a certain way at the moment doesnt mean the other option is not viable , and i think for how the game went the mobile free detection would have made a difference

That's why Blizzy switched to do microtransactions on their diablo3 clone

@@LeonItsMe What game is that?

Just searched blizzard microtransactions and see their "revenue" thanks to those microtransactions.@@JDivinorumVideo

SC2 is a good game but it's death to RTS genre. It's too complex. Casuals want to look around with WASD and spend all their time controlling army instead of macroing. That's what casuals want. As long as we cater to RTS fans RTS will remain niche as heck.

@@F4c2a I largely agree with you. I haven't played SC2 in probably 10 years or so, but I still enjoy watching high-level games for the sake of entertainment and nothing else. When I say "masterpiece", I just mean it's really well designed, almost as an art form. It is incredibly difficult, and for that reason, it will remain a niche game

Saw your comment in the live-stream. o/ Serral is about to leave for military service, and IIRC Dark is going to the military too, so SC2 will see another year of Terran dominance with the likes of Maru, Clem, Cure, ByuN, Oliviera, etc. still in, just like we saw 1 season ago, during the 2022-2023 season. SC2 players have short memories 🙂

@@HaploBartow Oh right I forgot about the military service. That's a bummer, it's gonna be an all terran season. Can only hope MaxPax keeps improving so we'll at least get some toss in online tourneys.

He could pull a Flash and play off-race or random as a challenge.

@@HaploBartow When is the military service? I hope he can still attend the esports world cup that's said to have the biggest prize pool ever

But every Pro SC2 player does that. Serral must remember games to an unusual degree for Reynor to specifically point it out like that

@@DreamyAileen that's what I'm saying.

twitch - ESL_SC2 there are even VODs of whole streams from each day, so you can watch it like "live"

Just a reminder - Terran has no ground turret / defence - putting marines in bunker equal to less attacking army. The same with Raven. It cost 2 supply. Overseer doesn't cost supply. Zerg player can have as many overseer they want. The more Raven you have, the less army you can own. The less army you have, the worse the engagement you have. Terran also need medivac because they don't auto heal unlike zerg ( or protoss shield). This also lead to less army, which lead to worse engagement.

we talk about having ONE raven......... and you can simply putting it on order to follow a medivac@@RealFableFox

Ravens do not hard counter infestors... they are just detector-spellcasters. They need attacking units to kill the infestor.

they detect them !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!@@Bumbaugh1

Apm

Threat of neural is a good reason not to make too many or to fly a raven w/ max energy into a fight, but it's probably still worth it to have one raven available for spot detection, especially early on when orbital energy is better saved for other things. If nothing else you can just place auto-turrets (which AFAIK can't be neuraled anyway) whenever your raven gets 50 energy to make sure any neural is more or less a waste of energy. IMO ravens actually get _less_ useful in late game v Zerg (e.g. 20min+) when Terrans have what Lowko calls the Iron Bank (7+ orbitals) and start pushing out with mass missile turrets.