The Wraith Meta is REAL. | CNSL 7 

valks annihilating mutas never gets old

Terran from being harrased by mutas to harass zerg with wraiths , oh how the tables have turned and i love it

The brilliance of this game is how it can still find ways to reinvent itself this many years later

Can't get enough BishOp wraith play.

ohhh, this is so cool for another reason. Such a refreshement and a break from the ZvT "Build turrets and defend against mutas" meta

8:04 Who's going to win A space starfighter with missiles and invisibility that is operated by a pilot with years of training or A flying colon

Man this was crazzy. To think we could be moving into an erra of SCBW where Zurg cant just blindly build spire and win with Mutas.

Ok legit the best wraith build/execution I’ve ever seen 👏🏻

one thing i love about these matches is that I'm never rooting for anyone in particluar. I just love great plays being made.

10:55 that play was amazing. Using the wraiths as bait for the valks was genius. Gotta love BishOp

"is this broken?! He didn't lose a single unit!" that Terran in me swells with pride witnessing this match.

Starcraft evolves again! Let's go baby!

I know you said he shouldn't build spores, but he should build spores.

Wow. Spoiler alert: … That most the most dominant performance I’ve ever seen in a high level SC match. AWESOME! Bishop’s a BEEEEEAAAAST!!!

I could watch these two games on repeat all day. Holy hell this Wraith build is so fun to watch!

Jaw-dropping wraith play - if you are old enough to remember when mutas were imbalanced like RT said it's glorious.

That first round was very impressive. Love seeing terren own zerg early air game!

Love the air battle. Wraiths into Valkyries with a handful of Mutas and turrets for detection of burrow! Sheesh.

Awesome, so many innovative games in these series.

You had me at wraiths

That was cool!! Exciting and scary at the same time if you had to face it. A quick, powerful attack.

it makes me so happy seeing T throw the air dance domination right back at the Z

Love these casts!

Nice little wraith extension to bait the mutas into the valk trap. The burrow was good to remember. There's a lot of room to play against it, but no counters will involve charging in scourge alone, unflanking, and without a distraction.

DOMINATING!!!!!

Can you imagine if zerg players will stsrt having to turle behind spores at a certain time now? Just as they forces T to do behind turrets for the longest time

Meta change into just a whole new type of unit, basically. You gotta love it.

Glad to see the tables turned on Zerg with air unit micro.

They are so much cooler than the derpy Viking. In fact unit design in Sc 1/brood >>>> Sc2

Gotta say that's some next level micro.

Isn't it possible to place the spore between the minerals and the base like in SC2? Or it messes the mining too much?

"best defense is a good offense"

DOMINATION!

10 10 10 Flash did it in season 8 vs snow

Artosis when casting: Godlike Artosis when playing: pizza man

Wow. Amazing play. Mutabuilds felt.really opressive and like an instawin against Terran, like 2 months back even. Now Bishop is doing some amazing work here.

extra nice series

I sometimes wonder if it would be healthy for Zerg matchup meta in general if Devourers didn't require Greater Spire but just needed a morph research upgrade from the regular Spire, like Lurkers.

long time Melee player. learning to adapt is always more rewarding than waiting for a patch.

2 Wraith meta in 1 video~! Love it~!

Holy fuck Bishop is wild!

Insane chills

Nice job Bishop for winning both games using two port wraith’s strategy. For the first game, if Zerg had built the spore colonies just ahead of time, the Terran player would had a hard time breaking through the base.

I'm curious what BishOp's transition would be against a Hydralisk response. He has to expect that as a possibility and have something ready to counter it.

When a game leaves a man who has played and watched literally tens of thousands of hours speechless.

Incredible games and ridiculously one sided

Ya gotta be a hydra opening, I could see fast 2.5 hatch into spores, but where do you go from there to secure the 3rd base? Hydras lol.

2nd match was like bish0p simply says "no". 1st match I thought "Isn't that too passive for Bish0p? Did Artosis clickbait us again with a thumbnail?" I was wrong... How much was I wrong? Like going 1 carapace against Bish0p.

Really cool strat! I wonder why no static D in response.

Broodwar is amazing, you can find use for any unit - except the Scout

Artosis can you explain what a championchip mind is?

Whooaaaa😮

I fucking love watching wraiths do muta micro to mutas.

That wraith micro was CRAZY

you love to see it

Love to see tech terran tactics

Love the series, great games

Hate the new format but hey... thanks for casting this awesome tournament!

The big issue here is needing to go one-base. You really need to do massive damage to not lose here. It does look almost impossible to beat without Spores tho (and Wraiths have enough range to micro against Spores pretty well).

If z/p revolves around the corsair it makes sense that t/p will revolve around the wraith

Sweet!

Love me some air battles.

Awesome seeing both wraiths and burrow being used in a real game

Not gonna lie, I sit here with great amount of smugness, after years of being on the receiving end of muta harrass, watching zerg taste their own medicine. Tables have turned indeed.

Sometimes broodwar feels as new as all the new RTS coming out.

bishop for president

Man, I remember when everyone would just laugh at wraiths as useless annoyances. They can easily supply block a zerg :D

Holy cow

Why this is not being used in ASL then?

Wraiths....chef's kiss.

There are just a few of those units in BW that you feel like are underused (for good reasons). But dang, a frickin composition like that in game 1? Yeshhhhhhh.

Most of the time, Terran gameplay can get a little stagnant, or feel unexciting to someone who doesn't play the race. But OH MY BISH0P. Its ridiculous.

Terran never has had their meta phase

Cnsl been wildin

Are you sure spores are bad? arty_?

love that terran player

broooo valks mixed with the cloaked wraiths shred any air

I understand 2 port wraith can be situational but Bishop made that look like using any other build is dumb.

forgot, how much energy does it cost to initiate cloak, 25?

gg

I believe hydra's explosive damage are way more effective against wraith's. Not that i play as zerg tho, but clearly going mutalisk agaist wraith is not a good plan. I believe that sometimes this type of play, that no one use except some expert or a experimenting guy, tend to confuse the oponent. I mean here we are talking of pro's but even then, i suppouse not many terran go for this build, so probably not a lot of zergs know exactly how to beat it. The ensnare is a good counter but for it depends on a lot of factors to be succesfull, like hiting the timing of having the queen with energy before getting reck, not missing the spell shot wich will be challenging with that type of micro. I still believe going hydra and aiming for a longer game is the way to deal with it, becouse with that level of micro, you would never beat the wraith + valkyrie with only mutalisk + scourge its just too much splash damage and movement unless you have the numbers wich again with that harassment of the drone's even if it dont get killed, you get way behind in resourses, resourses that you need to have more units if the plan is to overwhelm the enemy with scourges and mutalisk. The few times i did manage to use the really dificult corsair + reaver tactic back when i did play all day this game, i think many zergs are not use to deal with it, and end up not knowing what to do. And when you have your opponent in a defensive position for too long, that give you a window for getting more bases, more resourses, more production in general. And im not for sure a genious at shuttle+reaver micro, but when you strike zerg's with that flexibility they just crumble really fast. You go drop, kill all within seconds with 3 shuttle full of reaver, and get out before they can counter you. I love that strategy for that, but its really hard to manage so many shuttle in direct fight with the zerg army. I feel like this wraith strategy is doing kind of the same effect, zergs that are not really prepared for that kind of harasment tend to crumble really fast, they are so use to be the harasers, that when they get harass indeed have a hard time.

wooo!

I think Yoon researching overlord vision would have got him a better chance against the wraiths. Also the wraiths zone out the scourge making it easy to the valks

hahahah, it's funny how he doesn't even have to chnage his strategy. Zergs will have to come up with sth :D

The Wraith attack is NOT a double attack btw. The animation has 2 missiles, but it is treated as a single attack, so armor isn't actually all that useful against them.

Bishop avenges every Terran that was forced to gg by quick mutas.

"He lost ZERO units" before panning down to the marine splatters with mutalisks sitting overhead got a laugh out of me. Environmental storytelling.

Wriaths air attack is a single attack, even when they shoot two rockets, they are a single hit.

Are Whyman and Yoon twins?

What about hydra Man with uogrades

Bishop is the wraith goat

Valkyries obliterating flocks of mutas = [neuron activation]

ggs

This is why I just build 120 hydralisks. Nothing beats 120 hydralisks.

juicing the algo

Kudos to BishOp he knew that zerg is rushing to Mutas gets countered by wraiths and Valks

I fucking love it, zerg getting wrecked by air units in early game zvt

Why do terran never do this??

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time for zerg to learn spore placements in their mineral line.