Starcraft II World Championship: SERRAL vs. MARU 

Yep, it was crazy, multiply , multiply, attack the humansssss....!

That banneling roll in at the end, pure Zerg

> I have more bodies than you do bullets Just like in Starship Troopers (the book), "they expend warriors just like we expend ammunition", see e.g. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Zku8e-8SCTo.html.

the golf claps they add in (6:50) lol...wtf. really weird to hear during a videogame where the casters are basically shouting at some times.

His playstyle honestly does embody the horrifying nature of the zerg. The swift horde of unrelenting bloodthirst

If juicy means poorly balanced and designed, you couldn't be more right.

@@tomsetberg4746 name one game that is superior to sc2, other than Pokemon.

@@nicolaslalonde2807 Elden ring

@@jesselukes3956 aha! No.

@@tomsetberg4746 no, in fact I'd say that's because you don't know how to play :/

And the creep! sooooo much creep that it was literally in his third base omglll

banelings: they see me rolling they hatingg~~

I've seen serral win late games being down in supply against terran or protoss.

@@tyrellwreleck4226 serral is very good at late game zerg. not many player are good at late game zerg.

@@Eirocina true it requires deepest understanding of army composition, attack timing and proper execution. Reynor and Dark has the same qualities but only serral has the comeback characteristic in his games.

Overmind: You're hired

Let's be honest with ourselves, it's just the ghosts that are late-game king.

well decently mainstream, just not the biggest one

id say its mainstream since i havent seen any new rts's really that compare to sc2

It's mainstream, but the new games are on a whole new level of mainstream that didn't exist when SC2 was new

I think Serral has more wins on record than Maru before this game

Maru also dropped off a cliff

@@lunanasushistax6692 What? He went to the mandatory military service in South Korea...

He never left. 😐

@@henryviiifake8244 don't be so annoying, I'm talking about regular videos after 1 month of break

I did the same thing. There's just something so satisfying about Battlecruisers.

Ну да все так и было

Yeah, Maru for whatever reason can't bring back a trophy when he's overseas. He smashed Serral in the last tournament they played (Winterhack I believe).

@@kommisar. It's presential tournament now... Yep, Maru smashed Serral online, but person to person it's another history

@@tytp001 I truly think in my admittedly uneducated opinion Maru possesses more skills than any of these other guys, but just chokes or is a head case or whatever when he is competing offline. He's doing more innovative stuff than all these other players and showcasing stuff that requires more skill than these other players. Zerg mid-game against Terran is basically broken and that's where Maru struggles the most, along with surprise builds. The only time Terran can comfortably dominate mid-game is if they either kill a ton of workers early or create some very successful early pressure and capitalize on it. Otherwise, if the Zerg is able to establish bases it can just keep spamming Lings and Bane run-bys until they get their T3 units out. The funny part is it used to be late-game TvZ that was impossible to win for the Terran. Either way, Zerg is still OP. The Aligulac rankings say it all.

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It's kinda neat having both him and Reynor seemingly back in championship form at the same time. Honestly wasn't expecting 3 of the 4 semifinalists being non-Koreans (and not even Clem in the mix), but it's good to see. Hope they can sustain their success.

I hate how people shat on Serral all last year for not winning as many tournaments as they thought he should have. The guy was at the top of Aligulac for most of last year.

well he definitely was one fo the buggest, but thsi tournament in particular was an absolute dominat form like hadn't been seen for long

@@kommisar. People were shitting on Serral because he lost to cheese. 4x cheese actually. 2x from Rogue and 2x from DRG. Then we see that he trained so hard to fight against cheese that when Dark tried to cheese him in this tournament, it just bounced off.

Thats the only terran favored map in the pool, so serral went for cheese.

Always

That's why they have Roaches, Ravagers and Swam Hosts. I definitely hope to see more Mech/Ghost comps though. That seems nigh unbeatable.

Generally, they don't have the money for it. Every mineral you spend on static defenses, is money you're not putting in your army on the front line. For Terran, the race that normally has to be aggressive in the match up, that means you're less likely to put damage on them if you don't have your full army there. What you're getting at is why Terrans will start building Planetary Fortresses at expansions after a while. They're harder to kill and can defend against small run byes. But bunkers require 275 minerals and 4 supply, which starts to add up and make your army noticeably worse.

incredible apm and strategy-

Which ones are the major events?

I do feel that Terran needs more diverse that work in the highlevel game like improve hellbates and maybe somehow Thor, make battlecruser better somehow but still keep it fair, Bec it seems like Zerg have more option hydra, roach ravenger, viper, mutas, lurkers, infestor. But Terran is always like marine Maura mauradeur medivac & tanks, and late game is ghosts. So we can have games w more diverse units that Terran can use to keep high level Zerg players guessing idk just my observation

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@@caprisoda9106 ohh okay those type of events

Yeah, go look up the top 10. One to two week ago 6 were Zergs and 4 out of 5 in the top 5 were Zergs. Currently it's still 5 Zergs, 4 Terrans and 1 Protoss in the top 10 and 3 Zergs, 2 Terran and 1 Protoss in the top 5. The last 4 winners of Katowice have all been Zergs too.

right!!

xD

Nha it isnt but zerg is just op if serral playing with it

@@crismunchrestrepo3113 or reynor or rogue and sometimes Dark as well. I forget who it was but someone in the group stage of this tournament basically said his first playoff opponent was going to be a zerg, implying that Terran and Protoss aren't strong enough to top their groups atm. Sure he wasn't completely correct but it gives some insight into how the pros see the current power balance of races. I want to say it was Dark that said that, as he was runner up of Group B behind Serral.

Play against me, then you won't think Zerg is op.

there's a reason this channel is called SC2HL - SC2 "highlights" lol.

@@TurnOnTheBackburner I’m dumb. I didn’t realize that was what the acronym stood for. I have no position to complain :/