Highlights from one of the best series of the year, this series was played a hours ago at IEM Katowice 2021 If you want to buy me a coffee, check www.buymeacoffee.com/sc2hl ;)
The level of control Clem is displaying is just insane, that marine spread at the very end is godlike against zerg. Still seeing how Serral came back from brink with those two wins just cements his position as one of the very best players ever. Crazy stupid that they both needed to face off in such early stage of IEM, this is grand finals material
Marines alas seem to be the dominant meta in 99% of pro terrans I see :/ Marines are just too good overall in good hands. Clems is definitively a specialist of marine spreading x)
@@Abandon-art Marine spreading and marine sniping. The way he kills banelings without allowing them to get even close to his army is absolutely stunning.
The new round of Medivacs: hey friends! We've got a bunch of energy, how are the rest of you doing - Clem's last round of Medivacs, which haven't gone higher than 10 energy for the last five minutes: HELP
@LowLinK hope so, but his road to get there wont be easier. Zest is on fire and PvT is not Clem strongest matchup. Then its either another crazy PvT or the rematch with TY.
Insane series. Game 1 I said "Serral is effed" and then 2 minutes later I'm saying "Clem is effed". Really, the ability of both players (esp. Serral) to make a play while behind is just off the charts.
THIS. Clem has figured out that you don't have to run in and destroy the base ASAP then run, better strat is to make the opponent waste their banes on a few of your units, then you can mop up easily. I think I saw like 20 banes kill 5 marines. If anything, the zerg has to presplit their banes to counter the presplit marines. But I think serral was panicking in this battle and just sent everything cuz he was way down on army supply.
@JM Coulon Also one could split the banes on the move, but they clump again like 2 seconds later, is like trying to catch a reaper with slow lings, is of no use.
@@RoseGold-Playa Not really, Clem is up by 20 army supply, Serral has run out of bane, and was only able to make some lings which take more time to morph into bane. By then, Clem would have taken out the 4th, or even the 3rd from Serral. In addition, all the Queens were about to die which mean creep spread will be horrible for Serral. Clem can just stay outside of the creep and harrass non-stop.
@@RoseGold-Playa I don't think so, that was more Serral respecting Clem's ability to finish him after such an advantage, and not wanting to waste energy on this game imo
Wow at the end I think Clem is making command centers just to keep the mutas occupied. At first I was like "why the hell is he throwing away minerals?" but the man is a genius.
Clem is one of the few Terran players I respect, his nonstop agression and in your face attitude while fighting is such a breath of fresh air from the mech turtleing and the nonstop drop harass that you typically see from most Terran play.
@LowLinK Technically Serral could have gone with LingbaneHydra and techup into Lurker Viper composition. Thats just not his build, unlike Reynor or Dark. Serral usually so great with lingbane control that he can play lingbane all game long and win quite efficiently. Unfortunately, Clem micro with Bio is so amazing that he beat Serral at his own game, forcing Serral to lose more and more lingbane everytime they fight. And at the end, Serral just couldnt get out enough unit to fight and is forced to tap out.
Those were such insane games!!!The ability of both these players to even the odds is crazy, their trades back and forth had me on the edge of my seat, especially in that last game. Amazing play from both sides!
That's because the pros are actually playing a different game. You're playing checkers, but the pros are using those black and red chips to play chess.
(24:41) That was severely cool ! Queen facing pack of marines, and gonna die. But she still have energy, and before she was consumed by the brutal machine of war, she manage give one last infuse ! For the Swarm !! )
Clem's individual unit positioning truly is disgusting. His widow mine play, defensive siege tank positions, defensive cloaked banshees(?) even; amazing to watch. What series this was, those were some really tight games for both.
Oh ya? And what's good in your opinion? Words flood? Good caster use words when its needs not throw words like a machine gun. Its so stupid cast. Damn.
i absolutely love serral,i thinkhe is the best player that has ever played starcraft...but god damn clem in this particular series was just AMAZING...his marine splits was phenomenal...brilliant brilliant brillinant young man...good job
@@shayden6995 Clem is better suited at beating Serral than Maru, and thats it. Remember how Solar just beat Clem up a couple days ago. And Clem lost to Maru head-to-head as well.
@@shayden6995 whilst Clem is defiantly in great form i'd argue Maru is a stronger overall had longer and stronger success (4 gsl's prologue etc)) tougher opponents Kespea during its prime inno and TY constantly.. I'm not saying he won't get there but he has long while to go before he is on even footing
This series is an example of why I play Zerg and Protoss but not Terran. EVERYTHING that Terran does is that much harder than the other two races: they have the same building-based limitations of Protoss while having to also build "at home" like the Zerg (no warp-in at Prisms or remote Pylons). They have a ridiculously fragile army like Zerg but can't re-max anywhere near as quickly. The are as weak in the early game as Protoss with no god-tier unit like Queens, which means they have to be the aggressor early on to keep the opponent from running over their early base. And then there's the mechanical control necessary to actually play Terran bio. One misstep and you lose your entire army to two Banelings. Lose focus for a second and Banelings or Mutalisks can evaporate an entire mineral line of SCVs. Playing Terran just seems like choosing to play an already difficult game on Nightmare mode.
I was at work and had to leave as soon as this game ended, and unfortunately, the esl_sc2 channel ends at the same point as this video, but i suspect there was an interview. FeelsBadMan
Im just a greenhorn but i have a hell of a time against widdow mines. They put them everywhere and it seems unless i just scan in front of my army non stop they end up smashing my army. If i build ravens they kill the damn ravens.
That was impressive from Clem. Only thing I was wondering is, why he doesn't build any sensor towers? Is that building deprecated now? I feel like he would've had an even more commanding victory if he could react against the baneling run-by before it hits.
Holy shit clem has put serrals larva efficency to shame xD zerglings rallying into clems army, half baked flanks on clems sieged position and clem just eating banes with mules and siege tanks... I mean microing zerglings is insanely hard, because you are not able to focus attack on single units... and I'm not even sure if serral could have turned it around with better army control. He couldn't even tech up and had to defend with only his queens and ling/bane, because of the amount of pressure clem applied in the second game :o Maybe commiting the resources from some of the unsuccessful counter attacks on clems 3rd to break clems sieged up position could have helped him win that.
