The Greatest Starcraft 2 Defense Ever: Maru vs. Reynor 

For obvious reasons, maybe next time, don't upload finals > quarterfinals

Where is tastosis!? Haha

please some RagnaroK games from GSL He got some cool proxy hatchery builds and fun games.

I think you should let the end game screen settle a bit on these long games just so we can digest before getting thrown into another awesome game

I'll watch seniors' netball if Artosis and Tasteless cast it.

yeah, and the winner still have to play 2 more series after this.

This was insanely good.

@@tigera6 yup poor Maru had to play two more series within a few hours, with the finals against Dark. Amazing stamina

It’s the thrill.

@@tigera6 holy, feel like you have to go like 10 ot in csgo

If you watch a lot of GSL you only know two casters < 3

I personally like lowko casting more

@@lordlopikong6940 nah he’s so annoying and bad

@@aimwell7089 The goats 🐐

Tasteless/Artosis is the best duo.

sounds like sarah kerrigan quote

@@jaynguyen8777 You either die a terran or live long enough to become the zerg, and then back to terran again, but then back to zerg again, maybe a little bit of xel naga

@@jaynguyen8777 Unbeknownst to her, she lived long enough to become a literal God as well.

Imagine thinking you could die as terran.

@@bobzombie2710 coop fan vs 'playing like maru' enjoyer

No one gonna believe him in Joey bars when he's gonna tell his story.

The one marine a few seconds earlier who got picked up and then kicked back out to stand alone against the swarm of zerglings, which then immediately retreat when he alone starts firing at them.

he stared death in the face and lived to see another day

That part was actually quite epic when looking at it from your perspective!

Yeah the marauder survived the battle, but did he survive the war?

Its so cool cuz most TvZ start off with terran hopelessly holding on and then turning the tides and hard slam the zerg. Like a literal movie about never giving up

Me too

same

With fresh coffee :)

Lol. Same but for Reynor

Same

He is the best in the world. Now Zerg is never easy to play who ever says they are doesn’t know S. But they tend to be better than Terran. You can tell because Terran tend to win based on skills. Ghost are great maybe the best unit on the whole game but it takes a lot of skill to make them work. Everything terra. Takes so much work.

@@lvluptoaverage52 that makes sense. Terran is a bit like a mobile glass cannon. One bad disruptor hit or zergling surround and Terran is in deep trouble. So it is a very unforgiving race to place but can do incredible things if in the right hands that can avoid disaster consistently.

@@LiveWell6 exactly I feel like at anytime you can get KOed. Like a skilled boxer that you know is better than the opponent but that at anytime one hit one mistake and he is out

@@lvluptoaverage52 I agree, terran is infact the hardest race to pull off. You can see most of the wrist injuries are from terran pro players

@@lordbry470 I thought it was because we can’t get a girlfriend but you do have a point there

Turning off his emotions like a machine to fully embody mech-play.

Maru is an ice cold killer.

True Korean

he can turn his head and everythink but the last match was a win.

Yeah, and when you make ghosts in game and they don't do that much without Maru's control lol

@@januszkurahenowski2860 foken banelings mate, why they don't want to wait till I pack mine ghost to medivacs, barbarians without manners.

Because they are

@@Pzychosis this, 'oh reynor makes zerg look so broken'

Maru always Use that upgrade especially in the late game Tvz

it improves medivac afterburn a lot and maru likes using his medivacs to dart in and out, but its still not good enough to be early in a build when you have other priorities.

It was... liberated

Gangsta's paradise started playing in my head

DATA-C is an "underwater" map like 2000 atmospheres is. Perhaps they are on the same planet?

Agreed, trims the fat and what’s left is pure delicious A1 meat

Because Dark never let him play this style. Dark went straight into early double Evol, 3 macro hatch and start printing lingbane while keep smashing it into Maru base before he was ready for it. The only time they really go late game, which is map 4, Maru almost took Dark down but he was a bit short on army at the end of the push.

Dark is aagressive player in yhe beggining so it stops the whole ghost mech play

Yeah the defense of Maru is awesome, but I imagine it cost so much energies to play like that.

@@tigera6 not too sure what you are talking about. Ling banes early game are only good if you can surround or do run-by when your opponent is out of position, which is exactly what happened game 1 and 2 in the Dark vs Maru series. That wouldn’t happen if Maru just turtle up at home instead of trying too hard to look for drops. Once the Terran turtle, the Zerg need to fast expand instead of just making more lings banes with not enough worker since you need big money to break through Terran defense.

@@teddanville6996 Maru army composition wasnt able to turtle against the mass lingbane style from Dark, he would just hit Maru 4th and 3rd over and over again until he dried up while Dark slowly taking more base on the map. What Maru did "wrong" was that he had too many workers, not enough army, and he didnt put down the 2nd Factory to make Mines/Tanks non-stop. Maru instead still went for his usual build with Bio into Ghost, which is not good against Lingbane,

Match: Maru vs. Clem Tournament: ESL Pro Tour 2021. Take a look when Maru absolutely decimates Clem.

@@krispywater I guess I should specify that I was thinking about TvZ. We all know Clem had always had issues with TvT and Maru has been the #1 T over the last few years. But I meant that the offense of Clem in TvZ is just unparalleled. Maru on the other hand is not as successful in TvZ offense, sometimes relying on impeccable defense to turn games around.

@@krispywater Maru is the best TvT player. No doubt about that but in TvZ, Clem can be quite better in offense while Maru is better in defense.

well it's not like it easy for terran to control his army. Hellbats must be microed to be in the front of the army and defend the Thors, he has to use very expensive ghost when they can easily die from bannelings, snipershots must be microed as well. There is enough micromanagement that Terran must do nearly perfect to have the higher ground.

that's what terrans have to do against every race every build lol

.-. Terran is the race that receive the least benefits from rapid fire to be fair ....

not when Terran, it is when Maru hit maxed out ghosts.

@@Cti4er was not trying to imply it is easy job for Terran. Ive seen plenty of infestors neural a ghost and emp the rest of the ghosts for the win. It does speak to the ghosts power that one of the best counters to it is itself tho

It was before this lmao.

@ Oh haha, poor Reynor, having to face against this annoying style of Maru.

I wanted to see him commit them, they're all dead no matter what he does at that point. might as well use the DPS and finish off the battlecruisers.

my thoughts exactly

Near as I can tell, Ogre Zerg Gaming left Reynor way down in resources lost, and then once Maru 1) cleared most of the army and 2) got the mules on that top left base it was just doomed since Maru had the units to defend pure BLs (and they'd take a year and a half to get across the map so he probably felt pretty safe with that big army trade) Even so, idk how he actually does it. Too good.

@@missbelled6700 thanks for your insights

Dreamhack

.-. depend on the build thou and the playing style too :I They are used a lot more in PvZ . Hydra-lingbane is still great against some medivac drop

1) they are very fragile 2) they're rather expensive 3) they're not particularly fast 4) only unlocked at lair tech, so that and being expensive means getting them is tied to the build 5) they don't seem to have a specialty except to morph into lurkers; defensive AA is queen/spore, dedicated offensive AA is corruptors That being said, they're a bit more present in the meta now than when this tournament aired. I hope it's not annoying that you're getting a reply 3 months after you posted lol

iem valencia

Marines vs xenos is a clássic

man vs bugs

Just a very dynamic matchup. Protos versus terran is significantly less dynamic, just because of the way the tools each race has interact, kinda the same as protos versus zerg. Mirror matchups are then typically very boring and slow, just because of how thin the margins are when you're headbutting the same units together.

@@Santisima_Trinidad That makes sense, thanks

Starship troopers lol

I think Reynor try to make it a point that he can beat Maru in lategame. Serral also tried to do the same last year, but didnt work neither, so he changed his approach to beating Maru in mid-game which work pretty well in IEM.

Pros practiced strategy like 1000s times before they use it. It is not like they can do another build on the fly. Maybe he still have a few other cheesy build up his sleeves, but that doesnt work in pro levels.

@@ML-oe3oy that inflexibility got him wrecked.

@@Kingofredeyes yes, of course he should have practice more strategy beforehand. I just meant doing some on the fly will not work on this level because they need to do most of the stuff by muscle memory to keep up the apm and that need a lot of practice. We can only say Reynor doesn't practice enough

@@ML-oe3oy if we are honest Reynor hasn't spent 1000s of hours at the game only playing brood/infestor. He has used every possible combination of units and who knows how many strategies. There is no justifiable reason why he wouldn't be able to adapt or try something different. Edit: Of course thinking about what do you really do against Terrain in the late game as zerg. Thor's counter air/roach, Hellbats counter lings/bane, ghost counter ultra/infestor/viper. Terrain has perfect counters to zerg in late game so about all you can do is what Dark did to Maru, beat them early before Terrain get/s access to all those tools.

it is not, one fungal and they are dead. Maru makes ghosts look so broken. Ghosts are not broken at all, look at all other Terran plays. You can even try to use them yourselves.

just remove rapid fire and it's fair for both race =))