StarCraft 2: Reynor's EPIC PROTOSS vs Serral! 

Wow! I don’t think I’ve ever seen Serral lose to a Protoss. Reynor is a true champion! 👏thanks for casting.

Reynor: "to beat the enemy, you must think like the enemy"

best game of the year and NOT tagged best game of the year?! could possibly be the best game of the year!!

Absolutely insane, Reynor defeating Serral in Serral's best matchup, with Reynor's off-race!

That was kind of crazy, guess all the top players should start playing other races to see if their skills transfer favorably. Could be really wild to see.😊

Reynor keeps serral on a 5 base contain by expanding directly outside of his bases.... what a mad man I love him

Never played SC2, but i still love the casts.

Serral losing?! To a Protoss?! What a day. Thank you Lowko!!!

Reynor is an absolute beast. Playing two races at the highest level is insane, though it would be interesting to see him go up against Clem or Maru as Protoss. If he can hold his own in TvP as well, he might become an absolute matchup nightmare in the future.

This is one of the craziest games ever wow how many times has Serral even lost late game PvZ

Thank you for recasting this game, this channel is my only touch point with StarCraft 2. Though it's all that I need as you do a perfect job of blending explaining fundamentals of the game, rankings, and current events. I appreciate that you make your casts in YT format verses just reuploading a twitch stream, that's not a slight against those that do it's just my preference. You're top tier Lowko.

That was cool! Probably one of the most interesting matches I've seen in awhile

The best Protos is a Zerg !!!

Ok this has gotta be game of the year!

This is really mind boggling to watch Reynor beat Serral in late game PvZ. Truly a phenomenal game. I’d love to see more games like this in the future or other Protoss players adapt these strategies!

Yep, game of the year confirmed. That was stunning

-/!\SPOILER WATCH THE VIDEO FIRST-The fact that reynor has beaten serral today with protoss when losing yesterday as a Zerg actually smashes my head

This was amazing game. All respect to Reynor, it really put a smile on my face, that someone won over against such a best player with an off race. Love this style of protoss. Something like MaxPax way of playing made up into perfection.

Absolutely wild. I love this race tech cross-polination, I hope if continues. Anybody else think it's funny that Reynor plays everything except Terran?

Wow, this was just an amazing game! Thx 4 sharing it!❤

Its so interesting to me how many more workers reynor had than any other protoss player you normally cast.

That was a fantastic match. Kudos to both of them. I really enjoy watching them play their off races.

Thanks for the great cast! ^^

the art in these games are so beautiful to me, thank you-

Zerg & Protoss: (Fights with units that have counters) Terran Marines: MY GUNS GO BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Love this match One of the best I've seen

I've been thinking lately that I haven't seen much of Reynor, then to see him and Serral go at it two days in a row has been a real treat, especially with the switch to Protoss. Also wanted to say that you aced the commentary on this one, Lowko - really well balanced between the strategy of the map pool and race selection, the strategy of the game, and the calling of the action - absolutely spot on mate.

That was really good and enjoyable to watch.

What a game! Is always fun seen someone trying something different 🎉

What a win for reynor. True masterclass

Insane game Loved it!

One of the best yet

Never played sc2, but absolutely love watching these casts.

That was sick. I can't remember Serral ever losing late game ZvP

Reynor is so damn good at this game.

This was hands down one of the most enjoyable games of SC2 I’ve watched in a long time

It's so ironic that Reynor had to switch to Protoss in order to beat Serral despite Serral's ZvP being vastly superior to his ZvZ. Still, great job by Reynor for pulling it off.

I love it when players apply strategies cross-factions

Man....protos winning and that being against serral....iam so impressed....haven't play a single game of starcraft but I've learned alot from this channel....❤❤...starcraft is one awesome game

@lowko I’m not gonna lie, when you said that you already casted it along with a bunch of other nerds.. i laughed harder than i should have lol.

Reynor's protoss vs maxpax or herO when? :D

Awesome game!🎉🎉🎉

I’d love to see a tournament where all pro players have to play random.

13 mins ago! didnt realise ur upload time was 4am for me xd, will watch in next showah

Wawawiwaw! I think that kind of play from Reynor could actually be revolutionary for protoss gameplay!

There should be a tournament... random only (all players).

We saw so much of this with the short stint of protoss gateway centric play what was.. I can only imagine was atleast a year ago at this point and I was quite sad to see how it never really caught on, but I definitely think theres so much lost potential in deviating from the general race playstyles that are so entrenched in the meta at the moment. Seeing Reynor really push the flexibility of protoss units to the limit and play so agressively into the lategame gives me so much hope for breaking some of the more boring macro game habits. It also makes you think, how much of matchup is playstyle as much as actual race. This game in particular gives me serious 'I hate ZvZ' vibes, purely because Serral did not seem very happy with the relentless agression from reynor. (Although it was a ton of fun to watch! Lovely cast!)

This was great match. A long time ago you casted a match from a Protoss who played similar to this but lost. I forget who it was, but it made me think that Protoss should play more like Zerg and I think confirmed it.

Don’t worry Lowko I got my finals done. No longer is it procrastinating!

What a game!

i really love reynors playstyle here.. of course the map allows it and you cant play it like that on every map, but i love the upgrade heavy style he played here.. it allows him to switch constantly without arriving with sub-optimal units. often protoss goes either ground or golden armada leaving out a vital point of their army line up. as we can see with terran, going from bio to a mech-switch with mixed in bio works out really well, so why not do it with protoss. having 150APM more than the average toss-pro definitly helps as well. i hope some of the toss-players are looking at that and will go "darn, i need to step up my game ASAP"

Serral's match is just incredible, he make the death ball, he make the best cust/efficiency fights and he GGs out when has 150 army supply, more than the opponent. Love it! Details.

1:05 is there a vod somewhere of you casting this? I've looked up Homestory Cup 24 but haven't found anything.

Swarm hosts are so fun to watch, I miss em

loving these reyonor vs serral games

What a match! nice to watch, and here we clearly see Zerg is the better Protoss!

what a game!

I really liked how reynor played the protoss there. Unreal skill.

where to watch live casting?

The early game "cheese" is what won the day. Protoss is all about doing anything that is unexpected. Once late game rolls around the zerg came back hard when the cheese was running out. Good thing Raynor kept up the lead.

LOWKO WHAT'S THE TITLE OF THE RU-vid LIVESTREAM OF THIS FULL BEST OF 5 OF THIS PARTICULAR MATCH? I WANT TO WATCH IT THIS MATCH IS REALLY EPIC... IT'S IN THIS CHANNEL RIGHT?

Reynor’s going for the “Dark Voice” portrait

GAME OF THE YEAR

What is the point of interceptors if they climb back inside the carrier as soon as the carrier starts flying away, leaving any pursuit free access to weaponless carriers?!

Serral game with a plot twist He doesn't wipe the other guy for once.

Question, will drone become faster on creep?

Just came back to the game after many many year. Did they remove battery overcharge?

Im grateful that you cast cool games like this again since at this point I can say that I watch lowko rather tham starcraft

watching these two juggernauts is so damn entertaining. Im a big serral fan boy and think he is the best player ever, but raynor is making it hard to keep saying. incredible game from both of them

I see so many comments on reddit about how inflated Zerg APM is, then there is Reynor offracing with 550 APM [insert skull emoji]. Reynor's Protoss is quite unique, what a great game!

=+ for game of the year.

I saw that serral cancelled the hive at 6:47 so he could start it up again at 7:48 can i ask why?

There should be an only off-race tournament.

Reynor is a Beast. He can play any race and dominate. His Zerg style is like the Clean and Jerk of SCII: It transfers well to other disciplines/races

Where was that live session?

Now this game is actually my game of the year, one of the best PvZ matches I've ever seen... Between 2 zerg mains

"Terran and Protoss trade more cost efficiently in split map scenarios" - Not necessarily true. Zerg is the only race that has free units - the locusts and the other small bugs of the flying flap-flaps, forgot what they're called. Zerg can wear down T or P without spending a single mineral in the late game. Ask Lucifron, that's how he lost the world finals.

Hilarious. Serral playing Zerg like a Terran and Reynor playing Protoss like a Zerg.

incredible...

Is there an option to see the original cast?

This really was a beautiful game. I also think we will never see pure protoss players do this, reynor plays protoss very zergi, just with a portoss twist a player who primerily plays protoss has a totally different viewpoint and I think mindset which makes it hard to copy reynors Playstyle or adapt it.

Would not have expected Reynor to be playing Protoss, I wonder how his Protoss stacks up against MaxPax or herO

WOW game of the year for sure, we in december lol. serral getting beat in a macro and not a cheese/? feels good

There should be a tournament that only allows the most vetoed maps

I enjoyzed it

Did they fix the trick that you attack your own spawns with the Brood Lords and thus you double their attack range?

Wonderfull played by Reynor 😮

What a birminghan banger of a game!!!!!!!!!

Surely there must be a better title than "game of the year", when multiple such games crop up each year!

love it

Like button always pulled out any time someone topples Serral...

At what point do we give SoS the controls and say "take this and make it dirty, like building a nexus in Bunny's base kinda dirty". Also like how Serral kept harassing Reynor and killing his bases over and over to keep him from getting out of control.

Usually it's Serral teaching protoss to be a zerg ... Looks like Reynor has plenty to teach protoss too... hell yea what a game

Wow what such a good cast 🎉. Not a bot lol, just enjoyed seeing A. A top tier player play an off race. B. Play it like a zerg, or C. Have that off race be good, D. Spoiler watch it!

Reynor is insane!!

The economic difference was staggering at the end

I think I'm gonna start sc2 again

Another thing I started to see at Pro Level Zerg play is the absence of Banelings. Even though I am currently a Protoss player, I acknowledge that the Baneling had a huge impact on the evolution of the Zerg race in the 25 year old Starcraft. I think that everyone agrees with me that taking away that +5 HP upgrade was a blunder made by the Balance Council, and it should be repaired ASAP. I recently tried early game Adepts in PvZ. It's not even allin. You literally destroy Baneling openers for Zerg. You take the 3rd and the 4th without suffering any harassment and kill the Zerg 3rd at the same time. By the time the Zerg swithes to Roaches or Mutas, it's practically game over. Two rounds of Stalkers warpins are just the cherry on top (if needed). Idk if Serral ever considered Banelings in this match, but it looks like he didn't. Baneling play was already struggling in ZvT before the Balance Council nerfs. So I completely understand Reynor and the other Zergs' complaints. They are absolutely justified. PS: Nerf the damn Widow Mines!!! WTF I was so looking forward to patch 5.0.12, and I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the outcome. Cyclones? Really? That was the problem that needed urgent solving and reworking? Not the extremely low trade efficiency for Protoss in early game? Many times, you are broke in modgame with 66 workers while the Terrans sit back on 2 base with 30 workers + MULES and pumping units. I like the Hydra buffs. Maybe now they are more useful, not just Lurker eggs. I like the Protoss faster upgrades, the Immortal buff (which I still think is not enough, but it's better). For e.g. 60 army supply of chargelot - Immortal can't kill an undefended Planetary being repaired by SCVs, which is absurd. How can you actually split the Protoss army and at the same time defend 2 Terran drops + 1-2 Libs mineral line harass? Cannons? You have to invest in Cannons? Like why? A Cannon is a Gateway worth. If you have 3 bases 7-8 mins into the game, you expect a Protoss invest 450 minerals in 3 Cannons instead of 3 Gates? That's beyond absurdity. So many agreed that Protoss needs increased vision. Either the Pylon or the Observer vision range. And another thing I don't actually like is the race-favoured maps. I agree that we should have map diversity, I totally like having 9 maps instead of 7, but does it actually show the skill. So Reynor went for Protoss considering that Protoss would be favourite vs Zerg on this particular map, which is odd and interesting at the same time. It's interesting because if it wasn't for this situation, we wouldn't have had the privilege of witnessing this epic game. I just hope this is food for thought. Idk of I'm right and I hope it's not all wrong. About the game, what can I say. 550-600 APM Protoss vs 400-450 APM Zerg and we're talking about Serral. Some of us think he's the GOAT (some of us think that about Maru) and so far he has proven to be the GOAT ar least in EU. The last thing I am obliged to say is why this feedback. Because just as Byun got Reapers nerfed, Serral got Banelings double-nerfed. And the fact that Serral is starting to play without Banelings is a statement in its own IMHO. In conclusion Give the Baneling back the +5 HP upgrade. Thank you for having the patience to read. Best regards.

I see Reynor I click. I see Reynor playing Protoss I smash that click button 😃

Tbh I would like to see more from the homestory cup. I can't watch it because I'm working u til the evening and I'm not gonna search for vods 😅