StarCraft 2: WHY?! Harstem HATES Carriers! 

The OG Lowko intro always makes me smile :)

HE DID THE THIIIING

"HRELLOO everyone my name is lowko and welcome back to starcraft 2" - Lowko Always bring me tears and joy. Love your casts bro

The Scarier = Carrier The Scariest = Tempest

Keep calling him HAMSTER. We're here for it! 🤣🤣

The INTRO and the funny Harstem face. Insta like.

Damn Harstem AND Lowko, what a time.

the scarriest unit for me is tempest. tempest oracle combo can destroy buildings faster. while carrier's intercepter needs minerals to rebuild. that's for unit vs buildings only for me

This is probably the most effective use of the of the mother ship I've seen in a long time. It's impressive when used by someone who is proficient with Protoss.

I see my favorite pro being casted by my favorite caster I have to watch! Work can wait... I'm sure there won't be a ling flood this morning lol

I like the use of tempests. Unlike carriers, their attacks are absolutely free, costing no minerals, unlike interceptors. Crazy, right? Great cast as always. Maybe Harstem's idea was to save minerals by using the tempests, then use everything up at the right moment to get and use the carriers, which certainly was how it worked out. If he had the carriers earlier, the interceptors would have cost many more minerals over time. Not sure if this will catch on, though!

As a platinum zerg player, I can't even think of the last time I saw tempests on the ladder. If I lose to protoss it's usually to mass carriers.

I secretly love whenever you and harstem do anything together even if its just you casting his ganes

it'd be interesting if you cast the UTermal vs Hamster match from a week again.

Star craft 2 fact #53 The tempest unit fires off a reverse form of energy that is similar to the energy the shield generator creates to recharge shields. It isn't psionic damage or electric in nature like how it looks. It is more like getting hit by a rapidly expanding force field. Protoss engineers found out that if the shield energy is compressed, it can stay in a stable form that can travel a long distance. When it impacts a target, it instantly expands and causes massive damage.

In most cases, the carrier is the harder one to deal with, but I think this play style is an exception from Harstem. The extreme range of the tempest makes it very difficult for the broodlords to handle the archons and HT, which is a must in order to overwhelm the Protoss. They are also less prone to viper abducts and infestor spells because of their range, and with that many archons you can't jump the tempest. I do think that it's easier to kill this army if you set up the engagement properly, but it's harder to set up against the tempest. It's kinda like snipe from ghosts

"CARRIER HAS ARRIVED" sends chills down my spine

That's it... I am calling Harstem, Hamster from now on 1:32

I'm more worried about tempestuous. Carriers are usually easy for me to deal with (Parasitic bomb/corruption lowko maneuver). I can usually keep interceptor count super low to where they aren't an issue. (This is low masters btw)

In Lowko speak, "Rahdder dan" = Rather than

If you wanna tease him back, type his name as Harmstem and other gems from his IODIS series in the overlay when you cast him. It'll rile him up good when he notices

I love the Lowko harstem “rivalry”

Outstanding commentary Lowko, you had me following until the end!

Wake up babe, new Lowko vid just dropped a min ago!

Nice game by Captain. In the last minutes I started to get worried though xD

Dat moment dat je favoriete caster de game cast van je tweede favoriete caster. Feels good man ❤

In 2023, DRG is still playing

The comment about "carriers do not cause damage" ... I remember that trivia show. - Nice one Lowko!

I dunno who's been casting his last several videos but it's good to see Lowko is back! :P

Great cast Lowko! Controlling tempests efficiently looks a bit APM intensive, but it looks like it could be powerful if done correctly.

harstem is the type of player that is afraid to lose more than wanting to win. if he can change that mindset i think he will level up since his mechanic is incredible

I was genuinely confused for several seconds when I saw Harstem in the thumbnail with the Lowko logo underneath. It was like seeing the word RED written in blue and being confused which color actually is written there.

What a fascinating game to watch

Classic 38 minutes carrier transition, never fails!

as a protoss main, here is my 2 cents after the carriers got nerfed recently, the tempest have rose higher in popularity now your army will prioritize the carrier itself instead of the intercepters… basically the carrier is the first thing your army will auto attack. since the carrier is so easy to hunt down, the tempest is a better skytoss unit

Yeah, Harstem is known for hating the carrier and he tried to avoid it all costs until he couldnt anymore lol

This threw me off at the beginning! I saw the thumbnail, I also watch harstems RU-vid, figured it was an imba video or something and then here's the handsomest man in StarCraft with the old school intro. Me being super smooth brained, thought "wow that's funny harstem used a recording of lowkos intro!" And then I remembered, he is a pro player so it makes sense that he's in a video like this at some time. 😅 Btw I love the collab stuff you guys have done, good vibes :)

Yeah lowko keep up the intro, we love it

Hard for me to compare carriers and tempests; they perform different functions in my head. It'd be like asking, "What's scarier, Siege Tanks or Thors?" Thors are like carriers, siege tanks are like tempests. Carriers are great at fighting opposing armies, tempests are great at sniping production facilities or key targets from a long distance. But both of them fall apart without the proper supporting units underneath them. Tempests without archons/high templars under them are like Siege Tanks without Marines or Marauders in front of them. D E D.

Great job hamster!

How have I never heard anybody call Harstem Hamster before?? 😂😂😂

Man the old into. Dang thats good

great game

Well the Tempest is more dangerous than the Carrier but Harmstem only had enough of them to oneshot one Broodlord at a time. So he deliberately tricked DRG by pretending to priotize ground units. However the Carrier goes well with splash damage, all those bruised units can be taken down more efficently with Interceptors instead of the Tempests big guns.

great game!

As a very low diamond player, archons are the scariest skytoss unit for me. How does a zerg even kill those huuge hp pools

Hartsem replays, good replay choice. Looks like a replay from "greediest man alive" series too.

what a game!

I get the feeling that this game was the way it was because Harstem is Harstem. It looks like a "Greediest Man Alive" challenge combined with a "No Carrier" challenge. However, you also get to see how difficult it is to actually force an established Zerg out of the game, even when really far ahead. There really is no army that can push into Brood Lords (the best air-to-ground unit in the game), Corruptors (the best air-to-air unit in the game), Infestors (the best offensive spellcaster in the game) and Vipers (the best defensive spellcaster in the game). What Harstem did was wait for DRG to get frustrated and attack into static defense -- something Harstem always builds a lot of (it's one of his best qualities; he never leaves a base without static defense). He used that to equalize the power differential between his army and the significantly more powerful Zerg units, and then leveraged the fact that Brood Lords can't run away from a losing fight to win the game. With the Brood Lords dead, he could use the Archons and Immortals to clean up all the bases.

I love the intro

Harstem has a video of him beating serral on the ladder in a late game.

I Fear the tempest more than the Carrier in most cases. When they use the tempest correctly they can't even be reached! Just my two cents.

Wow! they might not be the very best players in the world, but this was certainly one of the most exciting rounds i've seen in a while! ^^ So much actual strategy going on and great demonstration of all the unit counters and combinations! I really do feel the tempest deserves a small buff tho! because it makes for very exciting games, but as we could see here, it hardly deals any damage for it's super slow attack speed, and movement for that matter.

Lowko at 39 minutes, did you make a reference to "Gargoyles"? The cartoon from the 90's or is gargoyles healing while turned stone a myth thing people know?

Such a cool game by Harstem. Makes my little dutch heart make a tiny proud jump.

INTROOOO

I don't understand. Why does Harstem not build Void Rays? They would have been the perfect counter to everything in that match.

The old intro! Was kinda hoping the thumbnail arrow was pointing to a sneaky zealot

hamster is my favourite deer!

The og intro made my week

hydra+marines should be vastly better vs. carriers interceptors, but carriers should have vastly increased range on them; it's so stupid carriers need to hug stuff to hit it and so stupid a tiny interceptor takes so much effort for anti-air specialist to take down.

oracles are so good you could have 5 in your army no prob and they would always make their price home :P

zealots and prisms are the scariest thing ever instant death at the hive

As Protoss you only need enough tempest to one shot broods and the rest should be carrier ( 12 carriers ideally )

Ah man. I can't help but auto like videos with the old intro. It literally makes me grin like a pumpkin😅

My day has been made 😊

he did the original intro for Harstem

dat intro!😍

As a toss player, tempest are so hard to micro i basically never make them.

Hamster is my new favorite player/caster from now on :))

I swear that intro has to be turned into a dJ Remix

I think the carriers where important and better than if they had been tempests but the biggest thing was Harstem was able to get DRG into a fight in a poor position against a comp he had no time to properly prep against, and that's what the carriers really did. You can't really split or hit and run attacks with corrupters against carriers like you can against tempests, and before the fight DRG couldn't know that the carrier count was so high. So DRG dove in to try and get the carriers and realized too late the carrier count was to high to snipe. Which was a huge play and mind game from Harstem by never going really insane with skytoss for most of the game DRG kept too many ground units and so the moment Harstem went all in on skytoss DRG didn't have the army comp to fight it and he didn't have the money to sacrifice all the corrupters for max damage and then remax before the slow skytoss force could get to his bases. It was an epic game played by both sides but I really want to know how long Harstem was planing that mass carrier checkmate or if he just saw an weakness and went for it. Also interestingly enough DRG might have been able to pull off the win or at least prevent Harstem from attacking him after the fight if he had employed the Lowko maneuver :D

If there was a protoss/Zerg battle where the armies close together and the Protoss side has a mothership cloaking the army. If an infestoe neural parasites the mothership, does the Protoss army get revealed and the Zerg army is cloaked?

Harstem is just so good dude

2023: the year of harstem

I THOUGHT IT WAS A VIDEO FROM THE CAP HIMSELF 🤣🤣🤣

HELLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOO EVERYONE

"Two balls of Protoss are too big for the expansion." - Lowko 😏 -

Thé scarrier is more scary than the tempest imo

From the other game you casted! PROBIUS! The probe, the hero, the legend You will be remembered for NOT JUST five years You will be remembered for ETERNITY! P.s. And will be always avanged in every game!

I thought the mothership toilet flush got removed from game. But if you do this ... oh momma ...

Wait his name is lowko?

the thumbnail is creeping me out 😆

Isn't Hamster the editor ? I think it would be insulting to hamster if you use the names interchangable :P I've also seen so many games lately where the protoss makes a bunch off carriers and the corruptors just fly through and kill every single one. I greatly prefer harstems approach with the tempests and just rely on the ground army for hardhitting damage. It feels far less vunerable to the corruptors flying in and killing all the expensive air units.

"DRG"? ROCK AND STONE!!!

"HELLLLLLOOOOOOO everyone, my name is LOWKO" :')

Long time since we don't see a maru game. What's going on with him?

Is Harstem using GMA builds in tournaments now?

Hell yeah old intro

@Harstem Hamster :D

Why didn't Harstem make anything for 2 minutes around the 36min mark?

I'm a simple man. I hear best intro at RU-vid, I click like.

Back when I played with my cousin and brother, I'd just mass Tempest 😂. I'd destroy their bases but they would destroy mine first, if they ignored my army😅😅

isnt hamster harstems editor?

Scarrier!

Tempest because they don't run out of energy like Carriers do with its interspectors. Not only that, it's long range. YAY.

Hamster time!

Lets GOOO caiptn!

Is a Carrier really a unit or just a floating building?

Next video: Are Tempest OP or do I suck =w=