StarCraft 2: THE BEST OF THE BEST - Serral vs Maru, WTL Finals! (Best-of-3) 

Haha, like an arctic fox jumping into the snow

Lurker tried to burrow under CC, but his borrowing claws hit the building and it jumped because of that.

Agree and I think they should chuckle while they burrow too.

In the WoL campaign, Kerrigan's burrow is like that. She just puts her hands at her sides like and sinks right in she's 12 y/o me diving into a pool without knowing how to go head first.

No no no A BACKFLIP!

Maybe a problem of S.Korean players playing too much in their own bubble.

i think the jump comes from trying to burrow on the command center and the jump is done to repositionning the burrow default place when the first place is wrong positionning or something like this.

koreans wake up early in the morning to train to be better at starcraft. it has been like that since 1997 its was a sport to them that was streamed on korean TV before esports existed. they are at whole other level in starcraft compared to westerners, especially starcraft brood war.

and he did it again with the lurkers in the main base at the end! Impressive.

@@Shiki88 Tell me you didn't watch the video without telling me you didn't watch the video.

@@Shiki88 You win against maru by doing that then lmao

@@Shiki88 if thats all it takes for a zerg to beat the #2 player in the world.. surprising there arent more zergs ahead of Maru on the board.

@@Shiki88 Why? You are the one reducing what it takes to beat maru to A moving banelings lol

​@@Shiki88 But that's not all serral is doing. He needs to do many other things well to beat maru. If "just A move with banelings, win the match" is not dumbing that down then idk what is lol. What an unnecessary comment. I guess I just fell for your bait lol, good luck.

The reason is, that you would be able to land two production structures on a single reactor/tech lab.

@@WeItenspinner if either hardcoded not to let you do this or takes double (debatable) the money then it won't be OP

I wanna see Bly with every update, he always has ideas

36:54 What if you wanted to unload a drop but God said "Spines."

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0. Expensive. 1. Usually nothing worth casting an Interference Matrix upon. 2. Zerg units are too fast for casting Anti Armour Missiles without nerfing your own units with firendly fire as well. 3. Auto Turrets are fine but your APM is already completely consumed by splitting your bio. 4. Ghost deals way more damage. 5. Constant aggression, common in highest ranked Terrans, prevents active Creep spread in the early to mid game and infinite scans help in the late game. That's why Raven is a nice-to-have and not must-have.

@@cyberkekosis Thank You for your reply. I've asked bout Ravens mainly in context of detecting creep tumors and controling creep spreat by Zerg players. But You've given me a bunch of good points :)

@@TheDuckHasArrived you're welcome m8

@@cyberkekosis how many mules are wasted by just scanning ? one raven just to clear creep seems worth it. also why don't Terran ever sneak bases you never see them do it in pro games always the predictable base which usually gets run-by anyway. terran could sneak a far away base and mule mine it, if it gets discovered later fly it elsewhere. plus the fact that you're drawing your opponents mineral pool down it's doubly efficient. seems like all terran players are stuck doing the same thing.

@@theacehd1742 I’ve seen tippity top terrans sometimes attempt everything you just said. They lose.

math is here. Spore Crawler is 75 minerals per se + 50 minerals per drone which makes it (125 minerals in total) + invested Larva + lost mining time + APM. 125 minerals is 5 Zerglings, almost the whole Queen. It also just means if you're on point with your APM you can afford only using Queens as your air harassment demotivators, saving money both by not building and by not losing mining time for more army/tech/upgrades. This risk becomes less and less worth it if you go down through the Ladder to the metal leagues. APM count of players there is so low they definitely need a one or maybe even TWO additional static defence units so they don't die to anything stupid. Players of Serral's calibre don't need this safety from dying from something stupid, they need more cash for their eco and army development. spamming static defence on the highest levels of play is viable though. sometimes you get into situations when you got underwhelming army but stellar economy so you shitpost several stat defence units and lure your opponent to them or just use them passively in order to buy some time or outright kill some opp's units if they don't pay enough attention to their runbies. that's it.

@@cyberkekosis thx for ur answer. 5 lings are an anti-air-tower? (in very early game, ok) they waste lings like...(with no micro) i know, that u are right. really.

@@mke7 they're equal in mineral cost but you could've used 5 lings more to kill your opponent. and instead, you made yourself faux safe by losing your firepower and raising your stat def amount. pro players are usually a couple units short when they lose. they squeeze units from every possible scenario. that's why losing 5 lings to build a Spore is OK in Silver and is a complete weirdo move in higher GM.

Its more than that for a proper response Pull the scv move the ghosts over and then scan and snipe and put the scv back to mining. With the lurker you can also shift queue it up

hehe

good point

Idk could be a bit much since you essentialy bring back tankivac drops if the speed upgrade is really fast and if it isn't it will probably end up like hyperflight rotars.

@@gabrielreinalter2269 but lurkers Are fast and Invis. Tanks Are still vissable

@@Dasperhue2 Yes but tanks do more dps to the target and have a higher range. By the time lurkers hit you are supposed to have detection anyways. Sure for lower leagues this is argument but SC2 is and always has been balanced around GM and above. And besides that Medivacs are faster then dropper lords so the speed isn't that significant especially because lurkers off creep are kinda slow.

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It's truly amazing how he makes everything seem so easy but it's sooo hard

Thats not exactly the same. Protoss robo time is crucial so if they start making observers then they can’t make something else Terran has no excuse. Anti armor missile is super strong and the starport has a lot of down time

@@Name-ru1kt Pro Terrans have no excuse? Yeah, once you get out of Plat league and learn the absolute basics of the game, like what a build order is, you'll realize that Reactor timings are a thing.

stop pretebdubg that you can take anything serious below high grandmaster.. @@hivetech4903

The amazing thing is how an inferior player could play equally against Serral for such a length of time because of the broken race he uses.

@@OnigoroshiZero broken….the queens are broken.

Inferior, lol. Maru has already become a champion multiple times, when no one even knew about serral@@OnigoroshiZero

you mean the first game where Serral was 2 bases up on Maru the entire game?

Zerg always has more bases than terrans, thats the basic design of the game@@dontcallthemliberals3316

He was playing Bio🤣Just because Hellbats have the Bio tag doesn't mean they aren't utterly worthless in comparison to the tanks or mines you could be making out of that Factory.

@hivetech4903 notice how I said nothing about not producing tanks or mines. I'm just saying that one shot on lings to keep them off of the seige tanks could have been useful it's not impossible to put an extra factory into your build

​@@grittytheg5077 If you don't want to lose yes it is totally impossible to put an extra Factory into your build... that really tells me you haven't played Terran. With Bio literally every pro Terran only has one Factory until the super late game. Then they can add Factories for a Mech transition, but that's not part of their build. Or they add a Starport (Vs Protoss). Bio keeps the lings off the tanks very well, if they leave them unsupported they took a bad engagement.

Serral was stomped by Solar.

ZvZ is his only weakness, since he does not have race advantage in ZvZ. but he stomps everyone else. @@llwydwyn5255

Serrral's zvz is often funky at times. If it's almost boring to watch, I wonder why you are here watching this? Especially it's in the title that it's Serral.

The worst 😢

But Terrans have Mules which means that in game 1 Maru arguably had the advantage? Like don't get me wrong Serral plays reliable over exciting but especially game 1 was not one sided and game 2 was a bit sloppy atleast for Marus insane standards

Stfu, zerg is broken

What is GSL? Whose the winner?

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