StarCraft 2 - MARU vs SERRAL! - King of Battles 2 | EPIC Finals & SERIES OF THE YEAR! 

Note: The "Grand Finals" overlay is fixed at around the 5 minute mark.

Maru is the main reason I'm still watching Starcraft after so many years.

This was the BO7 we waited 2 years for, and it did not disappoint.

Best SC game I’ve seen in years. Truly a battle of the ages!

Maru will always be my favorite player its just a plus when he shows up in a big way like this!

The maru comback on game 5 is amazing

Nobody else but Maru could've come back from that far behind against Serral in game 5

It's really hard to explain just how good Maru is. It's a shame that non starcraft players will never understand how hard it is to play like he does.

The event of the century! You were so lucky to be the first ones to have these two in a grand finals! Thanks for putting it all together and uploading it so fast!

Maru: "I'm not trapped in here with you; YOU'RE trapped in here with ME, boy" 🤖👊🏽🇰🇷

After seeing 8-9 minute games, or shorter, 2 hours of this is glorious.

Game 5 was the greatest game I've ever seen, of anything. What a comeback, and he really fought for it. These two are absolute madmen!!!

Maru always amazes me. Many times when Serral won, I always thought about how to fight the insane BroodLord + all Z spellcasters, which are the Zerg's golden armada.

Some info for Maru fans on the head to head topic. Serral beat Maru every time on bo3, except once, but always with little impact. One qualifier in which Maru qualified anyway, and both of them end up losing in the semifinals (3-2 Maru to Dark, 3-0 Serral to Classic) so I would say Maru got the better end of that tourney slightly. 3 times Serral beat Maru 2-1 in group stages, Maru qualifying second place all those 3 times, Maru winning 2 of those tournaments, and placing third on the other, Serral being eliminated in the first game of the playoffs each of the 3 times. And once and the best one for Serral was a 3-0 against Maru, Maru fell in the lower bracket, reached the semifinals and managed to be beaten by Dark with a close 3-2, the same Dark that will end beating Serral 4-0 in the finals later on. Maru instead eliminated directly Serral every time he won 3-0 Wesg, 3-0 Asus Rog and this finals 4-2. I would say that Maru got the better end of these encounters, and definetly the better torunament results. Source: Liquipedia h2h

Thank you for dropping the overlays during critical fights. No other casters have that confidence. We can see so much better.

This is the greatest matchup and the greatest series of ALL time! Its like Rock vs Austin, Nadal vs Federer, Lebron vs Jordan, Ali vs Frasier. For the first time ever we get them at their full glory. Maru is the king of starcraft right now

Game 5 is why they say when Maru is behind its level, when he’s level he’s ahead, and when he’s ahead you’re already dead. One of his best ever games. Against fucking Serral.

Best series in a long time for sure

No need for a dislike button on this set of games. Great games!

Fun fact: KoB1 is the first tournament to have Maru vs Serral ever since GvW2018. KoB2 is the first tournament to have Maru vs Serral finals.

Wow, what a great series. Maru and Serral are so good. Edge of my seat the entire time.

After not missing ONE game of SC2 pro games. This is the best SC2 I've seen so far. Best. Wow.

This is a physics experiment every single time Maru and Serral play: The Unstoppable Force vs. The Immovable Object

Every time I hear a castor call a queen 'Brenda' I feel Lowko's contribution to SC2.

Great match!! It was exactly what I want to 👀 🙌🏽 Ty for production 👏

That was absolutely epic. Thank you so much for hosting these, AlphaXsc2!

This is what a grand final suppose to be look like seriously well done by both players

25:18 you will see 20 army supply disappearing as magic! That was a perfect setup for Maru. Hellbats at front, mines and Marines. Perfect defense.

Round 5 just shows what 2 goats can do in a long scrappy game. That is the greatest round ever played. Counters after counters, very tactical and at the same time durable game.

Thats a big boy upload right there! Thanks!!

truly a battle of the ages, Maru is undoubtedly the best player

Now im agree there are four races in starcraft: protos, zerg, terran and MARU

the first 2 matches already blew my mind. That was insane army control

God of Terran!

2:02:00 Caduceus Reactor was a medivac upgrade in Heart of the Swarm. It increased the Medivac's starting energy by 25.

Been waiting for this.

We've waited 3 years for this match. It did not disappoint.

Happy seeing mass thors and helion are played :)

That game 5 was the Maru/Serral match the world has been waiting for.

30:46 look at insane maru liberator micro. Things like this is why he is one of the best.

Both players in a Final playing seriously is what we be waiting for a long time....

Fabulous ! The Nirvana of SC2 ! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

This. Is. EPIC.

These are at such a high level, it's so entertaining

I cannot believe how much this series lived up to the hype.

Great series. The both of them are legends

I'm a big Maru fan. It's so much fun to watch him play the wonderful game of SC2.

Epic series. Great casting with the insight.

That 2 hour game felt like less than an hour. GG!

good games Alpha, keep uploading these successful videos greetings from Peru

I love how in Game 1 Serral just kept on blindsiding the commentators and Maru, was great fun!

What a series indeed 🤯🤯🤯

Insane series

I'm looking forward to this match , Maru is best player Terran to me , this is super classic match , between two player the best

i haven't seen a comeback that impressive since Mvp vs Innovation at wcs s1 finals 2013 on akilon.

great casting thank you!

Maru is the GOAT!

That was awesome!

Serral and scarlette are so fun to watch you too Mr. Maru.

You guys are great commentators. I desire analysis and you brought it

Serral bias in game 6 is impossible to hide

What's an insane battle!

Maru is the most talented sc2 player ever, being able to play late games against the best zergs and win, when zergs have so much going for them in late games

great game, great cast!

Good cast guys

best ever

1:22:19 medevacs: empty and 7 ghosts picked up 1:22:25 Rushi: 'the ghosts had nowhere to go and the medevacs were already full so no lift-off available there'

Whos the higher-pitch voice narrator? He definetely got a great sense of humor, love it!

One of Greatest Battle Ever! Congrats MARUUU!!! (y)

Maru vs Serral is always the best TvZ. The most classic StarCraft battles.

This is game with great value!

Damn the ghosts are utilized efficiency!

That game 2 was insane

Wowwwwwwww best serie ever

F*ck. Kudos to these 2 players for being absolutely inhuman. Peak SC2. Long live the Terran Dominion!

Thank u so much for the Entertaining,u have a sub. wanted to play sc2 by myself,but i have corona and cant play. atleast i can watch it

Awesome series! The commentary suffered from a bit of "Serralitis", e.g. Game 3 1:00:55 questioning whether Maru can survive, predicting a "massively superior" Serral army, thinking it's okay (even preferable?!?) for Serral to lose his 4th with the hope of establishing a gold base instead, etc. Within 2 mins Maru has a 20 army supply lead and a major eco lead . The rest is history. I guess the question was whether Serral can survive...

Rare to see so many amazing games with so little errors, ridiculous

the ultimate mech composition: the macedonian phalanx, or mechidonian phalanx, or mech phalanx And the bio/hellbat comp is the spaniard tercio formation.

What unit can kill tier 3 units with energy superbly fast?

Even the pop corn won't last 10 minutes after watching this 😭😭🤣🤣

These guys from alpha x so excited to upload the Grand Finals they forgot to upload the quarter finals! lol

MARU IS A GOD. Zerg is a broken race and he still dominates...technical and mechanical mastery. The only reason the Maru of 2018 vanished until now is that his injury stopped him being able to grind to this kind of level until rfecently...that and the broken zerg and moreso protoss situation.

Jesus, those Ghosts and Thor Spam. How can he do that?

1:33:40 is a battle of the ages

I'de really like to see a more destructible environment in sc3. .. imagine a Planetary crashing into the ground and creating a crater or destroying what it lands on?.. or siege tanks actually changing the map .. basically like the destructible rocks but on a full map scale.. another idea would be unit corpse memory.. they don't disappear.. you just got dead stuff everywhere XD

Rogue says this was basically a 6-0 for Maru EZ :P

i was in stadium seats yelling Dee fense ....Dee fense! for Maru in game 5. This guys strong hold is best

the EMP was so damn sick

Game 4 3rax build by Maru originates from Byun. Maru talks to Byun about what he should do against top tier Z quite often. In an interview, Maru jokes about he should stop listening to Byun's recommendation because lately it's been all wrong and should just play the game like Clem (more traditional/safer builds). I feel like because Pride of Altaris is such a Z favored map, Maru just went into the game with the mindset that he'd most likely lose, so he gave Byun's build a try lmao.

2:08:38 he has done it again THE MARU NUKE

Maru god best in the world atm hands down

this is madness

nice casting

omg game 5 !!! WOW

1:35:12 Genius timing!

those ghost splits are inane

Maru squashing the bug army under his boots, epic final, serral always forces people to bring thier a game,

How much time did it take for them to meet in such a big match..!

OMG that Game5!!!