"Lowko, you're so funny, I'm going to subscribe." and the realization of you already casting this game was hilarious. It's pretty amazing how you keep so many matches and commentary so refreshing and hilarious is great to see.
I don’t think those ultra was mis-rallied, their sacrifices had bought just enough time for the following corrupters and brood lords to join the final fight. Epic battle, Harstem fought a good fight. 👍
With protoss late game it seems that you need to get everything in the right formation and just keep pushing. The moment you turn to retreat its all over, the zerg just rips them apart.
I think Harstem got the idea for that void ray maneuver from one of his "Is it Imba or do I Suck?" episodes. I believe it's the one titled "highest ranked amateur Chinese Starcraft player." Cool to see him putting into action against THE Serral.
Harstem played phenomenally well against Serral. Even tho Serral won it felt like Harstem made him work for it and there was a bit at the end where it felt Harstem had him on the ropes and if he had pushed a bit harder he would have won. Fantastic game from The Captain. o7 Harstem did a cast the other day where he seemed very impressed by a Protoss' use of the Mothership. Lowko might be worth having a look at that game as well since Harstem said in his cast it was inspiring him to use the Mothership more aggressively.
Amazing! Harstem saw that move with skipping the easy to get overlords in an IODIS or Rank Roulette and found it a brilliant idea to not alarm the Zerg and get more value. And he immediately implements it in his own play. Cool to see
Curious if you are transitioning to more individual games? While I love watching the back-and-forth of a series, sometimes just watching 25-35 minutes intense, individual games is perfect.
Wow, what a great game. I really enjoyed that late game. It feels like it was my dynamic than it's been for a while. They traded positions a few times and when one would attack on point the other would pivot to counter attack another. I feel like the tweaks to the temples, brood lord and mamaship have helped. Seems like players are actually moving their armies around instead of just having a grid locked stalemate with batteries and spores. In particular removing the invis passive from the mothership lead to some great moments here. Harstem can activate it if he notices there is a lack of detection and target it down right away. Awesome cast as always Lowko!
Sat on santa's lap Santa: what do you want for Christmas young man Me: i wish lowko will give us the chessessyesst viewers submitted games on Christmas day
It wasn't a nearly perfect game and he didn't throw it. He lost because he steadily kept bleeding resources until the gap in the bank was so big he would invariably lose to the subsequent waves of zerg coming out after the fight. It was a great game, but Harstem kept getting out skilled just a little bit at all times which mounted up to losing.
So this is a video about a game one year in the future - at least according to Lowko's description: "...from HomeStory Cup 24, played in early December 2024." Pretty sure we only have December 2023 right now.
At 7:11 when the Phoenix spawn from the gateway and moved into the path of the Overseer, why didn't it attacked? Or is it because units that can move and attack at the same time, like the Mamaship, doesn't attack right after spawning even if that's one of their abilities?
units (no matter what) need to be A moved to attack enemys on their way, so yes, it didnt attack because it was just spawned moved, not a moved, to the location, but thats with every unit.
Don't listen to prezz, this looks more like a bug to me. Phoenix on move commands would aggro on overseers. I guess the spawn rally has some special code that makes them ignore units on the way?
He answered your question almost yet don't listen to him. Honestly it's because Harstem probably didn't want to attack it. Would've gave away any surprise he had left even if Serral saw it. And thaats my theory. The fact is he moved the spawning location when he was creating the Phoenix, and no it won't attack if it's being spawned somewhere. Then he switched the spawn location when he built the next unit. Harstem would've had to physically stop the Phoenix and make it attack . Which he ain't gonna do all that. Even if he caught it. Unless it was in that second and even then I doubt it.
"I upload 10 games of the year every year." I don't mind the click bait titles, I've never been disappointed when watching a game lowko called "game of the year"
The next patch should be you can't fungal interceptors. Since aduction can take out, 4+ at a time with enough corruptors, at least let the intercetpors go to work.
or give Toss viable ground to anti-air like an upgrade for immortals...templar/archons are just dogshit against a gazillion corruptors...zerg is just broken tbh but then they take away ranged dragoons from protoss so there's that.
Storm can work but the area it covers is small, you need to stack three just to kill lings and hydra. Up the damage by 15-20 pts, increase the area by .5 (so total is now 1.5 times the size) and increase cast energy by 10 all while giving templar 50 more energy. Also have storm last 4 more seconds... @@cavemantero
Please go take a look at PvZ winrates on Aligulac. In the two years since January 2021, PvZ has only been Zerg favoured two times, one of them only barely, and overall PvZ balance is more Protoss-favoured during most months than PvT or TvZ is in the favour of whichever race is winning that month. Basically: It's not Zerg. Serral is broken, is all. If you made that change, you'd just delete Zerg from the ladder even more.
Lowko, I hate to be this guy but... The fact you decided to be a random streamer rather than the #1 Starcraft II player, calling Serral your besto friendo & brother, that is STILL your responsibility. The question of how much of a "random" streamer you are, and what were the odds of you becoming the #1, and how much that would have cost you (mostly in commitment, therefore in mental health) is a totally different story 😛 And still has something to do with responsibility. As in: "in the end, the responsible decision probably was to...". Fill the dots as you want, that's your responsibility 😜
Protoss has nothing on Serral. He gets blue balled from a gold base and still gets 13k to bank. Toss ground anti air is non-existent and can't compete. Those storms did paltry damage.
