Serral vs Maru - Master's Coliseum | StarCraft 2 Tournament 2023 

Yeah, wacky. I was really impressed by his ability to *commit* to a big fight, where I'd go "okay, he's decided to go", but then decide exactly where in the middle of the fight to **pull back**, and save basically all his valuable units...really impressive.

Spellcasters. Zerg have fungals, abducts, blinding clouds, parasitic bomb. Terran have snipes. As soon as the chaff have been whittled down and the spellcasters are all that's left, that's when Serral launches his (last) round of spells and retreats. Get the spellcasters away and let what chaff survives to follow after. That he keeps his strategy means he is fighting on one flank only, but it IS still an impressive strategy that he pulls off to perfection - squeezing out every last spell he can before the chaff get chewed up. 🫡😁

I think thats the reason why he is more consistent as players like Reynor for example. When Reynor sees an opportunity for a quick kill, he will usually go for it, while Serral will invest a lot more time to deconstruct his opponent. On the other hand i feel he is missing that killer instinct of Reynor in his ZvZ, which is why he struggles a lot in this matchup. You cant play too carefull in that match up. @@DustinHorvath1987

*Against arguably the best Terran in SC2 history aka the GOAT of GSL, and someone most would have on their proverbial "Mount Rushmore" of SC2 players. For someone who mains a species of insectoids, Serral is a goddam _machine_ 🥶🥶🥶

yeah I think that's special ability of him. He's a good example of the phrase 'may lose battles but win a war'

"babe, wake up! Now I know he just posted yesterday, but Winter posted AGAIN today!"

This is the entire argument against him and its pretty dumb; specifically he needs to fight in GSL. Serral beats the top players from every region anyway (especially Maru, who i consider #2), and wins in worlds. He beat GSL vs the world, twice. Why would he waste his time fighting in GSL when he already beats the best GSL has to offer?

@@wmzer0mw Exactly.. I never understood this argument either. If he did not play against these players at all then it would make sense to say it, but its not the case, he just reks them like anybody else..

Next Blizzard balance patch: all unis used by player Serral get HP reduced by 30%.

Vipers

Watching games like the first one in this series is frustrating. Terran simply cannot win. Maru is playing incredibly well controlling his ghosts but he has too few tools at his disposal compared to Serral's zerg. Infestors and Vipers have such a large toolkit of incredibly effective spells that past a certain level of skill, which admittedly is beyond what us mere mortals can even dream of, it's impossible to play against them. Terran has what? EMP and snipe which is a single target moderate damage ability. Nuclear missiles are a meme, they are useless at higher levels maybe they can qualify as a distraction but that's about it. Compare that to the viper. Abduct alone is basically is a one shot on any unit. On top of that Viper has blinding cloud which is extremely effective and parasitic bomb too. It's too much. Sure, when average or even good players use vipers they will have trouble using even 25% or 30% of their potential. But at the highest level zerg is simply too flexible and has too many tools. Vipers, Infestors, permanent invisibility with burrow, the ability to switch from ground units to air units by building a single structure, it's just too much. Zerg should win by volume not quality. This is actually true at lower levels but at high levels the spell casters of the zerg make it a formidable late game army that can trade evenly with any race if not at an advantage. That's not how it should be.

I would say the only totally broken thing from Zerg is the abducts which fucks up Protoss and Terran badly on high level plays.

End game zerg played like a limitless computer with endless time is basicly an auto win, sure only maybe 2 or 3 people can actually play zerg like that but it matters. The game has it's design limits, set the scenario in the early game and terran wins every time, it's just the nature of their race. Protoss is just left crying honestly, they've never felt right in all of SC2 and their trophy wins tells that whole story, from the days of MC and SoS (his 2015 wcs win)but after that the game was figured out and protoss never rose again. The game should have had a rework of several things most notably a ghost-raven rebalance, terran having one usuable spellcaster is laughable, ravens are an early game gimmick and nothing else while ghosts are a much needed deal with everything late game. It's beyond absurd. While protoss need a total rework and zerg needs some toning down on it's spellcasters, they simply do too much, single target abduct or neural, long range area of attack damage infestors even both ground and air. Even range denial. With an iconic unit not even touched by most zerg pros, the ultra.

😂

Greatest Of All Time.

jimmy is winters assisant/sidekick/AI/Alter ego/imaginary friend

Jimmy is real to winter.

Jimmy is a running joke lol.

You've heard of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde?

Submit to melee supremacy!

Just a troll unit :)

It's Blizzard reminding us Protoss where we are in the state of things. Edit: "Hahaah!! Then we'll 'BUFF' the Mothership lololol"

@joethestrat they just need to remove the recall ability from the mothership and give it something actually useful. Like a shield which can be activated to shield itself giving it some counterplay do abducts.

Winter said something like this. "He didn't mess up his attempt to go over 200 supply. He definitely wanted to get those units out 6 seconds earlier".

@@Gredddfe where? all i see is that he said he messed it up oh nvm found it

The number at the top left of the profile card is "MANA". It was a referrence to the game Hearthstone.

@@llwydwyn5255 What about the bottom left and right?

@@captaindo7679the left is how much damage the card has and the right is the HP.

Search it up in the french dictionary.

@@midweekcentaur1050 i did not know that, thank you

GSL

It has now been updated

Precisely.

imagine thinking a game has to be balanced by one race getting over 1/3 more income per game than the others...

Nah, Terran has so much anti-air it's bs. Zerg need those spores.

I hate lowko xD

Lol guys like you who think it’s so simple to use ghosts 😂 it’s so easy for Zerg to simply wait for a Terran to unsiege and just a move roll in with ling/bane and insta win a game. Alls it takes to lose as a Terran is to leave one depot down when you move out and that’s a wrap in most games 😂

@@IsaacFNghostIs it simple to use ghost? No. Is it much simpler to mass ghosts than to have six hands to control a full late game Zerg army? Yes. You're seriously discounting how good Serral is and putting it on balance. If to win against Terran late game a pro needs to be Serral, then there's obviously something wrong with Terran.

@@N0noy1989 Serral is a master of sc2. And I do agree that controlling infestors and vipers at the same time as the main army is probably insanely hard.

@@N0noy1989 but I’m referring to play below pro level as well

Serral didnt even use that many banelings or lurkers. He won the game mostly with broodlord infestor hydra ling.

Yeah always suprised me how lurkers are so fast... If they unborrow in full view of a terran they should get a 10 seconds not invisible bug, and the same should go for mines aswell. A unit attacking a burrowing mine or lurker suddenly not seeing the unit is just the gamey-ist of silliness and would rebalance a siege tank that sieges twice as fast, also does area of effect albeit less, moves 33% faster and even 66% faster on creep and unborrows near instantly.

Hey the important thing is they both destroy Protoss, my race.