StarCraft 2: SIMPLY AMAZING - Maru vs Dark! (Best-of-7) 

You should have a Lowko Award for actual Game of the Year a GOTY award where we vote on the top 10 videos in the GOTY playlist. That’d be fun. A Lowko GOTY Award!

Around 2-5 “game of the year”s would be ideal.

The last 5 minutes of that last game were bananas.

That infestor ambush really took the wind out of Maru's sails. Feels like he mentally gave up when that happened.

I imagine protoss BM would be mass recall probes to the enemy main base. You can even start a late game cannon "rush" if you are feeling particularly evil that day.

I’ve heard a game mechanic proposed that would change Terran gameplay. Floating structures can only float for so long before their engines overheat. Then they would start taking damage. This would end the base trade advantage they have.

That last game was so beautifully played by Dark. You could just tell that Maru just wasn't able to keep up with alll the agression any more at some point. A wall off would have certainly helped to be fair, though then again, fully upgraded lings really enjoy munching on depots and the like as you could see from this.

My head canon for why Terran structures can’t produce while flying is that while in game they seem to move very smoothly, in reality those big rocket engine cause a lot of shaking and such, meaning that everything inside has to locked down and most activities are not able to performed safely.

1:06:00 this last game is beautiful the way he overwhelms his opponent in 10 different ways - pure psychological destruction

“Get off my lawn biles…” never change Lowko 😂

That last game from Dark regardless of win or loss was an awesome way to play, nice to see something a little different!!

that last one was pretty awesome.

i love this community. after 3 months i can still read the comments and not have the match spoiled.

I approve of a tier list of games of the year

About Protoss BM, I distinctly recall a GSL game (long time ago, probably HotS) where someone was winning and built something like a dozen pylons and a Nexus in the middle of the map, then proceeded to lose the game. Can't remember for the life of me what game it was but that definitely comes to mind first regarding Protoss BM. In LotV that would probably involve a manner Nexus with recall.

THIS YEARS GOTY GOES TOOOOOOOO 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I'd love to see it because he would have so many jokes and funny commentary for every single match in the list.

An end of year look at "did this deserve the title of GOTY?" would be cool/funny

please make the game of the year tier list. I can throw SC2 GOTY party.

Was a great watch, thanks for uploading

Between the cost efficiency of Terran and the mules mining roughly 220 minerals over their life-span, the mules make up for about a 10 worker deficit on 3-base. It takes 3 mules to justify building an orbital. If the Terran has a greater than 10 worker deficit on equal tech, they're usually behind. At a 15 worker deficit they're in trouble. The math changes as the game progresses. At 7-8 orbitals the Terran can be, and usually is, down 20 workers due to how easy it is to run by a Terran late-game. At 12 or so orbitals in the super late-game, the Terran is usually unbeatable. They can mine out the last base or two at such speed that the zerg doesn't have time to do meaningful damage. This rarely happens, however, due to Terran's low mobility in the late-game versus Zerg's speed on creep. Anything beyond 5 bases is nearly impossible for the Terran to hold.

That last game was pure chaos!

Been waiting for new upload all day lowko! 🤙🤙

As a lover of Terran mech, I enjoyed that Equilibrium game. Banshee Cyclone is my current favorite Terran comp. Maybe some Vikings as well. Landed Vikings remind me of Goliaths and I love those bois.

Right on time !!! Not even 1 minutes that this video is uploaded !!!

great series!

He went to Reaper Heaven. It's unusual because that unit belongs in Hell.

Incredible end game and amazing casting. Congratulations to Dark

Whenever I get to see Muta is always a good day

I could not imagine watching another caster than Lowko. U the only one where I feel my personal sympathy matched with. I such like to hear u talk to the Games

4:06 *insert Ducktales - Moon Theme*

We saw that reaper's soul leave his body😂

i like the little Self Burn at the start Lowko :P

Herding dogs come as headers and heelers. One drives livestock and one directs them. Reapers are both.

If you really want to know which maps are better for which race than rather than looking at overall ein percentages you should look at just the top guys: Serral, Clem and Hero/Maxpax and look at their win rates for each matchup in each map. This will tell you which map truly is the best for which race in each matchup.

The Terran mid-air production mechanic exists in coop actually with the commander Han and Horner. They make reapers out of a flying attack barracks (called a galleon)

Baracks producing Teran Paratroopers ... Teratroopers ... That could be a mod Idea for the Wings of Liberty campaign.

I would actually love to see a tournament that undoes every nerf ever done in SC2 so all units for all races are at their most overpowered form. I wonder how today's pros, with their immensely higher skill level than back in the day, would play in such setting.

They are EMBARRACKSED Lowko, it was right there 😭

for map pool my take is it should be finals matches +4 maps, 2 for banning, and 2 to make sure there's a bit of spice even toward the end

That last game was absolutely phenomenally played by the winner! (No Spoiler)

1:12:59 I had a much Dark-er thought about that. Of which I'm unsure if Lowko took into account or not.

Dark is like the 'Dr House' of starcraft, his methods are questionable, but god DAMN does he get results! That last game was absolute pandemonium, and Dark thrives in that kind of chaos, so muhc fun to watch him play! Thanks Lowko!

Last game was really good haha cheeky overload drop ftw

Yes long video, perfekt painting my warhammer figures and watching

Game of the decade !!!😅

I'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite comment to make for the algorithm. Awesome games and casting as usual.

31:10 😆oooOOOeee big boi fungals!!!

As a casual viewer I can say that I don't care how many maps are in the map pool. As long as the caster points out the highlights of the maps (like you did on game #2 about the likelihood of zerg expanding to gold early) then a new map every game would be fine with me.

i never thought in my life i'd see a pro player snipe zerglings banelings? sure, but zerglings? the meta has truly advanced and so is the speed of pro players

In a protoss game with BM where you have map control, make every pylon on the opponent's 5th base spelling out GG

Billy going off to heaven..... 3:53

“I must go! My people need me”

Is it just me or did the variety of builds and pace at which they vary increase a lot since the "new" balance team is in charge?

For us relatively experienced SC2 watchers, we can tell how much of a banger a match will be simply based on who is playing. :P Edit: Mirror matches are good too, imo. My favs are ZvZ and TvT. Some good PvP matches would be like Maxpax vs Showtime or Parting, or even Astrea recently has looked nutty. Any of those 4 toss players in a mirror would be sick.

I love seeing nasty Zerg dying 😂😂😂

we can have game of the year of the week

Mass warp-in Sentries to a prism, maybe.

The infestor also used to be able to cast fungal growth while burrowed. But it may actually be cool to see current pro-gamers playing WoL on the WoL maps. Just to see how much has changed in tactics

Maybe there should be a Bane Hive upgrade wich reintroduces the hp buff

I don't know if youtube reduced the quality, but I have the feeling that 4k was much sharper than now...

You know when cyclones are before marines, they will target the banelings first. So the mix should be hell bats in the front, marine in the middle and cyclones at last.

“That man clickbaits every video” projecting !

Will you do IEM finals commentary?

Protoss BM would be a nexus in the enemy main base and then making a mothership with it if it finished

love the Z V anything games...

2:22 Would be amazing!

That single fungal growth in game 7 won Dark the game. That spell is ridiculous. Dark set it up perfectly though.

No hard feelings on the click bait nails. I come for the gameplay and stay for the commentary 😉

I listen to starcraft 2 0ST at work all the time

I wonder if a hive baneling upgrade would keep things reasonable while letting zerg not feel so restrained in the late game. Maybe a +2/3 dmg to light units and structures?? Honestly i enjoy watching sc2 and have done so for probably 5 yrs but i never played competitively its just too overwhelming for me so i don't have a good perspective other than how i see pros play to speak on how they feel lacking. That being said theres definitely something necessary to bump them at least in the later stages i feel

playlist GOTY for each map set cycle.

Can't blame Winter for wanting viewers on his channel, I don't see it as clickbait, and His titles are normally really good. Every caster does multiple game of the year titles.

Just make it "The monthly game of the year"

Maybe you should make a candidates of Game of the Month and, on december, we vote for the Game of the Year. You can analize with a groups of experts LIVE at LowkoTV twitch channel, get a pick from some pro players to add and we finally can decide wich is "Viewers Choise Game of the Year of SCII"

Even if you have no title I will check your videos 🎉

Dark vs Rogue will be amazing

You should watch the accountant haha, it’s a actually a good movie

The key is to add the question mark. Game of the year? Then youre good.

pretty sure reverse-shepherds would be wolves

Bro their games look at Min 7 like mine never ever did, like wtf are they doing simultaneously

yeah, 11 maps is too much, imo. I wonder that if in a few years, there will be Bo9 series in the finals of IEM Katowice.....although, it might make it too long, idk, just thinking out loud... 1:21:22 Plus three barley gets shut down!

Feels like everytime we complain about late game Zerg or that they have been nerfed I find myself always seeing the Zerg win

Pretty sure a "reverse shepard" is just a wolf

37:34 the scv should just mass repair the liberator and tank afterthat

i really can't see why winter would call this series of the year?

A meeting between Serral and Dark: S: Your builds suck man. D: Why so serious?

The reason beracks cannot produce while flying is because the marines would drop to their doom while it’s flying. lol it be funny. You produce 10 marines and find a pile of corpses under it because you forgot to land it.

I wanna see 3rack terratrooper now lol

I am no pro, but the more I watch, the more I feel that there has to be an easier way of dealing with medivacs and marines instead of units that dont shoot up. maybe 5-6 mutas or corruptors in the mix so the medivacs dont boost off with all the units. IDK

2-5 maps would be best. That way you wouldn't die to flying units

Dark avoids lategame bc the situation against ghosts now with the bane nerf is even more dire than it was before. ghosts too OP

Winter and lowko are best casters of all time! Winter pulls it off by being funny about his clickbaiting lol

I've never seen Maru lose so often.. do so poorly. Guess it's Clem's time to shine. MaxPax too, maybe. I wonder how PartinG will do once he reacclimates.

Final game is an absurd!

Lowko doesn't see accountants jumping out of buildings... Lets hope another stock market crash like the early 1900's doesn't happen.

ling and baneling it good against everything but air units terrain puts out.

Best games ever.

Why is Dark afraid to play late game with Maru? Because it's Maru. Best Terran when it comes to late game, making a comeback, and playing behind in supply.

1:03 "I heard from Winter that this is his favourite series that he has seeing in a long time". Checks the end of the game: zerg won. Whatever winter likes oughta be bad for terran.

Please, do a tier list GOTY!