StarCraft 2: EXTREME Mutation - Portal Power on Brutal! 

YOYO Lowko, will you ever do a QnA again????

That strat you used looks familiar. :B Here's some more info for the benefit of your viewers who also want to beat this mutation: - First set of rifts spawn at 2:20, 2nd set spawns at 3:50, and more spawn every 90 seconds thereafter. - 5 SHOTS from the Spear of Adun is all you need to kill each Void Rift. You were definitely overkilling them and wasting valuable energy. - Orbital Strike, Solar Lance, and Purifier Beam all provide a small vision radius. This is how you were able to kill those Rifts despite losing your Probe. - You can start your SECOND Spear of Adun Upgrade by the time the first Chrono Wave is ready. This provides a lot of energy. The gist is to rush out your tech tree. You can afford to get a Gateway and Cybernetics Core before Forge, and still be able to put Cannons just before the first wave hits your base. - Energizers allow your static defense to hold on for much longer, since they basically stim your cannons. - Try not to waste too much energy on killing the attack waves; that is what your cannons are for. Just snipe key targets like Point Defense Drones, Siege Tanks, Immortals, etc. - Your observers have SURVEILLANCE MODE. It sieges them up and gives them a lot more vision range. Very useful for sniping Void Rifts.

The difficulty of this week's mutation mission is significantly higher than we had in months. I'm a big fan of it! What do you think?

"I've got cannons, Karax! _Cannons!_ Do you even play this game!" -favourite Lowko quote (Lowquote?) of this video

You keep using your energy to help Nova with fights she would have had on her own (even shooting the static and easily manageable thrashers), and then you don't have any left for rifts that open up on the far end of the map where Nova will not be able to help.

You know it is a really hard mission when the first unit you met is a reaper who send a seeker missile to your probe

I like how they called the Mutation Challenge "Especially Challenging."

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1. More chronoboost. Super helpful for upgrading. Also, if you have the mastery, it gives you extra energy. 2. Gotta be more efficient with those orbital bombardments. If your ally has units next to them, don't fire.

Lowko when using Solar Bombardment on the Rifts: *Kylo Ren Meme: "more!" *Rift dies "MOOOOREEEEE!!!!!!"

Abathur/Swann isn't bad. Abathur focuses on spreading creep to spot the nearby rifts, then Swann lasers them down. You really need that laser drill construction time though.

0:31 I love that change of voice you have when you suddenly realize.

Ha! 58 minutes! This will be good *opens a box of chocolates*

A marine hooked your probe and you are filled with determination.

Hope you enjoy this madness lowko

That was a fun mutation, enemies actually put up a fight on brutal for once

was fun to watch :) thnx for the tips ;)

Omg that mission is so insane!! GGGG! :)

Every time you fail makes me happy inside, not because i hate you (Which I love your vids) but because its so funny

nice to see your trys.

as soon as u got coffee I got coffee lowko!

Lowko how do I submit a replay to you where I get rushed by SCVs?

a single carrier floating around on defense would drain the shots on point defense drones. Just a thought for folks. AND DONT be an idiot (:-P) like lowko, send your observers close, not right on top of voids.

32:17 it was at that moment, the probe knew he fucked up

Vorazun/Stukov. I massed DTs and upgraded them as soon as possible and we didn't get our expansions during the course of the match. Stukov set up a very effective defensive perimeter using bunkers and placed them throughout the map as well so that any void rifts that spawn are immediately underfire. Void Rifts above all else, if they spawn, destroy them. Absolutely intense mutation. The hardest one I've done yet.

Hmm Lowko Do you know how to disable the F1 help when game (any game)

i have a single question why put the shield batteries in front of the cannons? instead of behind?

Just at the beginning he is calling "gl hnf" Good luck, have (no) fun!? ^^

daaaaaaaaaaaaaamn that was intense!!!!

Damn that was brutal

Lowko is suffering, a rare case indeed

The enemy units can have any abilities right? So can two zerglings morph into an archon if they both happen to have that ability?

*3 enemy units in sight * Better use my purifier beam now

Can you not chrono boost the solar forge to increase the income of solarite energy?

After like 60 attempts I finally just beat it. One of the hardest ones for sure. Ran Karax/Nova also. Super down to the wire, killed the last thrasher with like 3 banshees and a couple orbitals while our bases were almost down. What a rush!! Feels good :) The only other one that took me this long to beat was that Rak'shir one with the infested waves and super speed. The hybrid nuke on on the escort mission I gave up and just did on hard, though maybe we could've won if I had given it more of a go.

I can't tell if I watch these videos for the pro gameplay or your voice....

Just like most every mutation since his release Stukov makes this mission far easier than it really should be.

I think Stukov is pretty viable here too as you can move your bunkers around and still keep waves pushing.

i have cannons...CANNONS HAVE U EVER PLAYED THIS GAME 😁😁 oh i dont have forge.... ups.... nice vid again! ty

Hey Lowko do you actually play the game at 4K or do you upload an upscaled video?

well .... that one was amazing

Enemy can repeatedly Black Hole, then spam Fungal and Storm. Or Fungal and Seeker Missile. Multiple attempts seems to be mandatory since you can get random 'party wipes' from enemies with the correct skill combos.

I haven't played co-op in such a long time but i feel that swann is better at defense especially his drill after upgrade? Not sure if is he still viable? i hope he is, i only have him maxed :(

I just watched a video where this mission was completed with Raynor & Vorazun, so I think that it may be doable with other commanders as well, though with much more of an effort.

Loved it. But maybe provide some filler material at the end to prevent predicting/spoiling?

Done it with Karax on the second attempt on hard difficulty. The instant canons held easily the line on the main base, while the units hunted down the trashers. Not even used upgrades.

I know that this was a while ago but I'm thinking.. and Karax is pretty essential but nova was a bad idea cause her eco builds fast but her units are sooooo expensive.. but abathur would be amazing here because the void rifts give you more units to give biomass. Please tell me if you think of any reason this would be bad..

Lowko, you should try stukov next time. his mechanic/air units are much stronger than before. take mastery points to mechanic units' attack speed and try!

Stukov and Vorazuun mass bunkers + dts and dark archons was not that dificult with that comp :)

We have not enough minerals, boys.

Will you ever do custom mutation vids?

hey lowko you help me whit my day to day Life ty :)

Imagine all these broken features in professional tournament

I wonder if enemy units will still have abilities if Vorazun's DAs capture them.

*marine voice* This one'll be good.

Beat it on the 2nd try as karax w/ a Zagara ally. I basically used orbital strikes and pylons/defense all around the map (w/ support of observers spread out) and the Zagara ally rushed the thrasher spawning pts. I had to follow w/ a probe building defense on the final push.

I have to wonder, would High Archons be most effective here? Feedback in addition to a powerful main attack.

Deploying the sentries gives them a power field do they don't get disabled. They are a great back up source plus increase attack speed of the static defense :)

Why do u not get any units

Pretty sure you can cheese this with zagara + karax. Zagara herself and free banelings can deal with the first thrasher no problem. Unless you are unfortunate enough to meet parasitic bomb and your splitting is terrible; you can just fly around defenses and scourge all the thrashers. Meanwhile, karax can just go 1 base static defense and ignore his expansion. Karax fort is strong enough to hold even despite leaving all the rifts alive; with support of zagara herself and the free banelings.

You know its hard when Lowko battery dies

is a nuke a spel to?

Karax Zagara is another Great combo on this muta

When in doubt, just Artanis + Zagara (or Raynor, actually Raynor is really helpful for matches like this).

Lowko if you look the Minimap and you kann see creep your enemiy is zerg

Nova / Karax seems to be the only viable build. You could try to cheese it with Raynor, OC, scan. Just hit objectives. I think you'd get overwhelmed by randos spawning. Another thought: use Vora's Dark Archons or Karax's reclaim to control enemy units. Use the enemy's OP units to take objectives and use sim city to defend.

Watching it now ain't Zagara + Stukov just perfect for it?

how coma that ZAGARA massive banes is almost the answer to every mutation ^^

can you chrono boost a turet

I think Karax's energizers would have helped the static defense here.

Vorazun would own in this mutation.

block ramp with vorazun extended range range pylon and karax cannons and just worry about the main push with detectors. The minions dont have detection

And here I thought Nova shouldn't be used due to the glitch that allows enemies to stun her army.

Reminds me of Dawn of War III's 16th mission.

I know it's a bit late, but why didn't you just use artanis with archons. They have the feedback ability and since all of the enemies have energy that means they all get effected.

remembered this annoying one just now the winning pair for me was vorazun and karax invisible static defence makes this very easy and the high dps units of vorazun can do enough damage and even if they cast spells the zerg cant hit what they cant see

it seems what matter is where the rifts appear at. if early 1~2 rifts appears inside void thrasher's base, it would be unbeatable.. I have cleared this mutation by stukov + kerrigan. in the beginning, kerrigan destroyed the rifts around and middle/later of the game, stukov' diamondbacks did. once you have cleared rift ASAP, this mutation will be much easier. (though, it is hard one because of "power overwhelming" :(

2:35 good luck, have no fun.

Lowko, one of the mistake you did in this game that is very glaring is that you keep using your abilities on the void rift that nova herself is nearby (and can kill it with no problem). Your abilities are strictly for those that are far away from Nova or the one that she can't get to. Using it near Nova is just a waste of energy.

What does ds countering meab?

can i know what is your headset? and what mirco are u using :(

I hope Blizz will give us more mutations at this level of difficulty, loved this. Good game :D.

Immortals with vessel shield... pure cancer xD

1:54 How come lowko has coronavirus floating in the background. So the super hard mission is to fight COVID-19? Even the power of zeratul might not be a match.

Feedback the thrasher! Drop assault!

Done it with Kerri/Stukov. I kept the rifts under control while he was killing the void thrashers. Still close though.

Done this at 20th try. Me Kharax random player Vorazun. Super hard!

People pls. Just use nova's ghost emp

I Wonder if Doing the Bonus is Even possible, this one is so hard

Spider marine!

oh hey i played with azure a couple days ago

played this mutator with a very toxic stukov couple of days ago, spent half the game throwing insults at me even after i've managed to completely secure our bases and spent every energy i have supporting the offense. i mean what does he expect me to do, send carriers? on the bright side, i won.

those planetary defense? can`t block monolith you know

camera ran out you have to do it again it doesnt count

BRING YOUR BASE , ATTACK IS A BEST DEFENSE

anyone else screaming in their heads USE THE CHRONOSURGE when they were pushing the last 4 thrashers?

Chrono the colony for faster waves of infested. It helps a lot.

Artanis: Chargelot+Pheonix+tempest and Stukov

i thought of Stukov for it

think raynor would have been better than karax since they shut down pylons though the spear of adun powers might be to strong to not have pretty sure i would fail hard no matter what commander i picked xD