StarCraft 2: STATIC DEFENSE BUDDIES! (Co-op) 

those scientists in those shuttles are so crazy, like "umm, captain, there are a bunch of Zerg in our way, shouldn´t we turn back?" "nonsense, we must research those damn relics, even if we die!"

You said anticipated more often than I had anticipated

Something I have wanted to try in Coop for a long time is: use Raynor's drop pods to spawn units in the enemy base/at the objective point. With the drop pod attack speed increase and stim they should be able to deal tons of damage in no time flat. You could try something like this with Artanis' warp in and Raynor's drop pods. Don't build up a force, just spawn units exactly where you need them when you need them. Once they are no longer needed at that location "a-move" them towards the enemy base (to their deaths). It could be a fun challenge, you would probably need extra production structures and some static defenses. Keep up the great videos Lowko! Have an awesome day!

Straightfoward mutation this week, it went pretty smoothly after the first attack ( I could've defended that a bit better :x ). All in all it was pretty fun, gg! Also thanks everyone for the happy birthday's :D.

Sees Zerg and makes Blasters instead of Flaming Betty's... *slaps forehead*

Happy birthday Sushi! Everyone have a nice day!

It's been mentioned a few times, but lurkers(kerrigan) and impalers(dehaka) would be very amusing, probably most effective on train robbery levels.

not deploying your gas drones triggers me so bad

Did anyone else watch the minimap for the last Research Vessel? The poor thing was getting yoinked back over and over XD

Times the word "anticipated" were said in this video: 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000. Totally acurate.

For those who are having trouble with Aggressive Deployment, the extra waves always spawn near your army, so make sure to keep your army on the map to prevent economic and infrastructure damage. Other tips: - It's always better worth to go for vespene drone mastery over laser drill mastery. The 700 minerals you save in the early game goes a long way into things like static defense and saturation. - Best economic opener for Swann: 14 Depot, 15 Factory [Use 4SCVs], 17 Blaster Billy at expansion [x2], salvage after breaking rocks, then use 8 SCVs to make your expansion. - Flaming Betties should go in front because they have less range. - Swann's static defense has area damage. Not sure why you thought Karax would deal more damage. - You should go for a single Hercules with 8 Sieged tanks inside, to pair with mass Goliath. It's basically mass goliath with a "hero unit".

I stopped playing StarCraft about a month ago but I still love watching you play lowko, keep up the good work! :P

I'm triggered because Lowko didn't use the vespene drones to harvest extra free vespene for him and Karax, specially for Karax since he's in the need for too much more vespene. >_< Lowko I expected today the SC1 Remastered continuation!

!Happy birthday Sushi/Azure

9:37 lets just all appreciate that one hero broodling trying to take down the evil laser drill

Love all of your videos lowko! Keep up the good work :)

Hey, a strat I suggested! Along with a hundred others, probably. And happy birthday, Sushi! You are the unsung hero of the channel. Except when Lowko sings your praises, which is pretty often.

This is way more than I had antecipated!

"I have a lot of idle workers" has one idle worker 👌😂

great anticipation LowKo, keep it up!

17:28 look at the mini-map, the bonus research vessel is pulled back by a viper hahahaha

Haha, I love how excited you are that you are repairing his stuff. But don't forget he has a repair beam that repairs ALL mechanical structures and units. Including yours. So you're helping eachother in jolly co-op. Also Happy Birthday Sushi.

It's nice that Lowko is thinking of how to play this game one-handed.

That brood war terran music was so fitting!

You are not good at anticipating. We get it. lol, keep up the content.

Lowko would be perfect in a court. Why? Because he is ALWAYS completely honest with everyone :D

I love your content... all of it! Keep up the good work

Hey Lowko, As you asked for feedback (also for other players): - Dont build "military" buildings in your base that can shoot ! In this mutation this attracts enemy spawn drops. Both your expansions would have been perfectly safe without the static defense buildings near your base (except you let the normal waves slip through your defense line of course). Clear the expansion rocks with the airdrop or sell your static defense after the rocks are down. - If this would have been an enemy baneling/Scourge combo , you could have used swanns air transporters. It will tank a lot of scourge hits while its cheap and easy to replace (or warp away at low hp). This also prevents scourges to gather over your buildings as you dont have air units around to attack and then drop a ton of broodlings/explosions right in the middle/behind of your defense line when your anti air tower shoot it down. In some cases, scourges just keep flying into your base eco when there is nothing to attack, which causes you to return to base and attract even more enemy drops in your base. - Build your defense buildings more to the front under the cliffs were the waves walk along and some betties along the passages to low ground. This way you can avoid the massive explosions from the broodlings on your buildings and block melee units. The broodlings get taken care by the betties. Use Karax spotters or swanns transport ships on hold positon to keep vision of high ground - As Zerg player (especially Kerrigan) you can use nydus canals right next to your lair, so produced units dont walk all the way through your base and immediately dissappear from near your drones. This greately reduces the chance of enemy spawns near the eco and prevents intercepts of freshly produced units on the way to the front. - This mutation is finally perfect for Abathur with mass queens and tumorskills play. You just have to get a Brutalisk out until the second wave. Was able to solo it on brutal against protoss heavy ground. - You should have used the vespine drone skills. In general its better than the laser drill update time, since you will be able to update the drill earlier as more gas is availabe so same timing effect as with the other skill that you cant trigger without enough gas for the update. But in addition, this also helps your allies and you will get more gas heavy units earlier. Just try it once and you wont go back :) - Also you should have used the vespine at your expansion. Even without SCVs the drones would have helped Sushi a lot as Karax´ upgrades are very expensive and the Obelisks cost a ton - Maybe it was due to the strategy to only build static that you and sushi used, but as Karax he should use energizers. This also buffs up Swanns building a lot and turns your anti air into machine gun rocket apocalypses for enemy shuttles..

You said “this is way more than i inticipated” way more than i inticipated!

Put the gateways on the front of the static is the KEY!

When my friends and I played Starcraft brood war the new players (me) would build tons of static defense. So we called them the blob players welcome to the blob family Lowko haha

hope you enjoyed the strategy loko keep up the great work

On something like this, I've found you clean things up even faster with less danger if you just set a few blockades/distractions out in front of your buildings. For example, Build your defense, then put some quick supply depots or pylons in a wall to stop the wave of exploding death minions, so the defense can safely fire stuff down. You'll have to keep rebuilding the wall, but it's cheaper on most commanders than the defense buildings. Just can't built it too far out or the defense won't have the range. Alternatively, on the shuttle map, if you build up defense at the base of the cliff and get vision up top you can kill a lot of stuff before it can reach you to damage you--works great with Karax's towers since they have such a long range. I just put a few pylons up top, because they give vision and the enemy will ignore the pylons and run along the cliff to get the defense at the bottom (if placed right) giving lots of time to shoot them down en route.

R E G A R T L E S S :"D Lowko

Happy birthday Sushi! :D have a good one!

I love how unoptimal Lowko's turret placements are!

Hey since I just heard you say that you try to read all of your comments (and therefore you'll probably read this), I thought I'd leave you one. I love your videos! I used to play starcraft 2 quite a lot, and was like a platinum-ish zerg player. I used to watch HuskyStarcraft all the time but then he fell off the planet or something. I discovered your channel a few months ago and sort of re-kindled my starcraft obsession. The game has changed quite a bit! Anyway, keep up the good work Lowko!

17:42 "I can play with one hand if I needed to" And how Lowko explains it for that make me laugh so hard. "Er, I have to hold shift some time you know" lol. clearly Lowko was thinking of something else

Lowko using static defense? Heresy

Before Dehaka, Karax and Swann were *easily* my favorite commanders, so this video is really a happy dream come true.

Happy Bday Sushiii!

Alright, the drink game for this video. Sip a beer when Lowko says "anticipated". Taste a wine when he says "shenanigans" Drop a shot everytime you hear "snap"

New drinking game: drink every time Lowko says "____ than I anticipated" or "at the very least".

Thank You for zooming in on upgrades you read.

This week Lowko put the team on his back.

Crazy scientist sending out research teams in the middle of a war zone 😂

Wuhuuuuuuu finally Co-Op

"My face is back in action" Lowko's face, most powerful unit in all SC.

Lowko has anticipating addiction!

17:29 on the minimap you can see the research shuttle get yanked back by a viper. I didn't know they could do that to those.

Lowko, I swear every time I fall back into SC2, I end up spending more time watching your videos than playing the game

karax is great for this muta but baneling is just broken

Previous mutation on the shuttles map with the infestation and disease mutations. Karax and swann together made it laughably easy. Karax massacred hybrids and swann swept away the infested swarms. Both were an impassable wall for the shuttles

Happy birthday Azure!

Happy B-Day Sushi! :D btw another grat vid Lowko, pls keep it up :) i just wish i could find competent person to play brutal coops, and many random coops end up on hard or normal, because brutal cant be found :(

Go Lowko!!!!

What?? Lowko using static defense? Impossible!

17:46 Viper juggling the bonus objective ship :D

I randomly skip across the video and keep on hearing anticipated lol

Hey, either this is new or I just notice it now(20:18) that is quite actually a nice touch. Also the Campaign, just waiting for it.

happy birthday sushi!!

Watched all your Videos

Those nukes did more damage than he had anticipated. 17:10

Hi Lowko! I think Zagara could be a good options in this mission! Or at least could be funny to try it ;) I have completed the mission with her. You could make Banelings and Scourge. They can clean all enemies easily! It was a piece of cake!

Lowko, you Have to try They are Billions. It is an RTS survival game where you protect your steampunk colony from infeste- I mean zombies. It is addicting.

I did this on brutal with Artanis mass Tempest and Karax as my buddy. Worked great, even completed the bonus objective.

Happy bday sushi, its your big day!

In my opinion Swann is one of the most badass guys in the st2 lore and i want a campaign based on him. Your opinion lowko?

Yay I wanted to see such a game xD, nicely done by the way. Oh hey, happy birthday Sushi (sorry if I misspelled your name). Bravo to you both xD

Swann before: GOLIATHGOLIATHGOLIATH... Swann now: DIZZYBILLYDIZZYBILLY

Happy belated birthday, Sushi! (Also, Lowko focusing on static defence? The end times must be near... =P )

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SUSSHHHIIIIIIIIIIIIII!

17:44 “I can actually play this thing with one hand if I need to” OGC

Heh, don't know if you've really done this, but bunker/overseer/siege tank on Dead of Night can be seriously powerful; once you line up 3-4 bunkers, back them with 3 siege tanks, and an overseer to provide vision. It does have a weakness though; spotters, or Tempests can take them out without getting in range of the bunkers, but an ally with solid anti air can cover.

do broodlings spawn if corrisive bile is in effect on the unit? (arbathur)

Along with abathur, Matt Horner is my favourite StarCraft character. What do you think of the new commander. I like it but from the way winter's video went, you don't really get Matt's units. What was your experience with the commander?

I had a huge sucess with Alarak / Karax on this one. Alarak's ability to push everything out while dealing damage is great vs. these minions that are being spawned after u deal with the basic units. Shield batteries can regen alarak unit's shields and ascendants deal with everything that basicly exists. GG.

You can take this strategy further, by loading 25 scvs into a hercules, and using tactical jump to brings your scvs to the front line and mass building turrets as offense. Also, if you mass build turrets without using shift, the leftover scv's will automatically help build structures in progress, allowing you to build frontlines really quickly

Lowko, for more of such ideas, continue doing "odds and ends" setups! I caught your video with Zagara on Temple Of The Past, and nothing but Bile Launchers. Also stuff like Swann and just Cyclones, Stukov mostly mech. In fact, you could try reversing the mastery point allocation for each power set and trying to utilize the "polar advantage"

happy B day Sushi!

Happy Birthday sushi (^,^)

Gas drones. Not as important for this strat, but if you or your ally were going for mass science vessels or observers, (reveal the entire map strat) they're good. Mass idle workers for Swann. It seems counter-intuitive, but having lots of idle workers makes building construction, and repair, almost instantaneous. Good win. Buildings everywhere.

More games than not, the shuttles get intercepted and destroyed far before the transport points. Nice to give them a "fighting chance" in this game, and let towers shine more!

Everyone else is too busy being triggered by the lack of Vespene Drones while I'm too busy being triggered by how spaced out those turrets are... It's like he's never even placed two turrets down before.

Lowko we want to see you play, cast your own games more

Happy Bday Sushi

Happy birthday to Sushi! ^.^

what happend to the 3 research vessel? it moved backwards a few times

I think a Zagara going only Scourge and an Artanis going only Aiur/Whirlwind Zealots would be challenging but entertaining to watch. Probably would work best on Sgt Hammer's Mission or the one in Augustgrad where you kill the Towers.

your vespene drones would've been real helpful for karax' static def

Do you have a video from blizzcon with Han and Horner?

Lowko, what about a Queen only strategy? That would be hilarious.

Oh. More fun. Zergling. Just more zergling.

"normally i just play maxed out shenanigans" same, every time every hero

Hey Lowko, big fan, I love your stuff! :) If I might ask, why don't you and other people in the Lowko clan use voice chat when doing co-ops?

Lowko, I suggest you try Raynor's SkyTerran of Banshee Viking. Banshee and Vikings get splash upgrades And they can get Medivac Boost upgrade. They are Really maneuverable and very powerful as Vikings can kill Overlords and Obs while the Banshees can 1 shot turrets. Maybe get Horner for full Terran Calling of the Fleet.

Mutation I did a while ago with Swann was. Korhal Rifts. With Rift Stones and Mines. I just made all 4 bases safe. And my ally stomped the rest. Support from Swann was the Laser Drill and a few Sci Vessels. Ally was Han and Horner. It worked great on Brutal. I would just spot mines take the hit and heal my vessels with each other. And Rift Spawns got obliterated by Swann static defenses with Tanks. It was glorious.

Not sure which of your previous ones it was. But i left a large post on an older video of yours about compositions i hope youve read

Hey guys, can anyone tell me how to get different looks or color in co-op?

if u could buy only one commander c=wchih one u would pick?