This Checklist ENSURES FAILURE!! | Is It IMBA Or Do I Suck? 

I appreciate that this series is a lot about teaching people about the game by making fun of people who complain about the game being imbalanced.

I think harstem is absolutely right about how one should use the range of a gun instead of close combat A pistol can be thrown quite some distance

Love the work by Hamster on this one. The gateway efficiency tracker, the zoom in on attacking his own ebay, congratulating Harstem on his math...just brilliant stuff XD

I feel like submitting an IMBA form and opening up with "I suck" is kind of like going into a hospital and saying "I already know I'm perfectly healthy but I want you to check if my leg is broken"

I'm flabbergasted that this entire match went on and he never got blink. Dealing with a tank line and so many stalkers he could have easily blinked on the tanks and let the collosus do their thing.

I think we should officially refer to Raven turrets as “110 year olds” from now on. 16:31

"Dear Harmstem, I know that I suck, can you tell me if I suck or it is indeed imba?"

Did they remove blink from stalkers? So many times I was just imagining if he had blink in that situation..

bgmwss idea, use this guy's build order

I am so sad you didn't notice he never researched blink because I know the metaphor would have been elite

Blizzard should make an announcer with the voice line advice and boom.. automatic in-game coaching 👌🧠

36:30 "You spend your money quite well" while the replay shows Solari has absolutely nothing in production with 2500+ resources in the bank XD

Waiting for the 6K MMR IODIS on carriers

as usual, great editing! Loved the additon of how much the gateways were being used :D

big props to hamster for editing in the tournament features like upgrade timings and workers killed

That reaction to BC's is some classic Plat: at the point where you have been reduced to 17 workers, get a battery in a base. Bronze to Diamond is a numbers game. Get more stuff, get to 200/200 and run over the opponent.

A real big thanks Harstem of talking me trew the game, i heard a lot of intresting things i didt even knew. Like the slow pylon and the fast pylon, this i never notice. so big help in here. also the explaning of the gataway makes sense, i gonna use it the next time in my 1v1

Hamster is absolutely on fire in this one. Tips everywhere! Great video quality and format from both of you.

Idk if you can say his spending was good when he didnt make anything from his 6 gates from 4-8 min....

Every time I thought, why aren't they blinking the stalkers, or they should build templars, I end up screaming at the screen. There was never a twilight built. 20+ minute game and no twilight. One building (or lack thereof) got to me way more than the lack of scouting and fighting inside the tank radius, those moves would have ended up fine if they just researched blink!

Excellent job on the efficiency counters Hamster! That they just slowly crept into view cracked me up. Well dissected as always my Captain!

By just watching this and listening i went to Gild Div 1 with Protoss. Very informative and shows that i can still learn, i am ususally Zerg and am Silver, now my Protoss play is better than my Favorite Race

As another plat, I aspire to be roasted this hard by Harstem someday.

35:30 The stamps have different ink distribution each time. Wow, I'm impressed!

Need a harstem voice pack for multiplayer

Great video as always! Both Harstem's commentary AND Hamster's production are top-notch, thank you! Also, I must say I am happy to see the notification sound gone. I generally like most of the additions Hamster makes to the video, this one thing was a bit annoying.

Imagine going almost pure stalker and never getting blink...

I gotta admit the warp in tip was quite useful :). Didn't know that there was a difference.

Just out of curiosity, what kind of army compositions are best for taking head-on engagements as Terran? MM/MMM is my comfort zone and it certainly feels decent at fighting head-on so long as you maintain vision, but I'm wondering if there's something better, or if Terran just isn't built to fight the enemy on their terms.

loved the stuff about sensory overload of bad play

Heh I actually played against ElGrEeEn on the ladder :). Against me he was pretty damn good for Plat, used abit weird build orders, but he was very fast and did never ending harass. I was wining till the middile, then he slowly killed me with the never ending harass, loosing a few probes every time

24:40 I had to learn that. I used to just mass stalks and then learned having charge lots with them to wreck everything else while I micro the important units, I'm good.

I absolutely love this segment. I also like that among us segment you did awile back

Honestly love the daily videos where I play them everyday on my lunch breaks I don’t even play StarCraft anymore but I just love you as a brilliant gamer/content creator

10:45 Shocking under utilization of warp gates!

Hamster been killing it lately with the mini notations.

Harstem, this was a great video, I really enjoyed your breakdown and I think it will legitimately help me with my TvP. That being said wtaf do you mean he used his disruptors well, he had them in almost every engagement and legit Amoved them in without even using them. I saw one time he actively moved his nova AWAY from repairing SCVs, and as a bio ball terran main this actively pains me, knowing that this protoss has the power to instantly smite the opposing bio and repairing SCVs out of existence, and absolutely refuses to use it, I think this is what honestly caused me to cringe the most in this game.

Thanks editor for reading my previous comment! The notifications are less intrusive now :)

21:20 , that attack was painful to watch , a handful of zealots would had solved so much issue in that fight ! plus hugging the enemy with your own stalkers isnt the best to keep your army alive XD

Honestly the way Solari plays I actually do believe he'd have an easier time playing terran. He constantly had his robo producing, and made enough production to support infinite unit production. His probe production sucks but terran is pretty forgiving on low eco.

@20:39 ... holy crap. I had no idea there were fast and slow pylons. Has that always been an SC2 thing?

23:43 That high templar is pretty tanky.

WOW! your content has become amazing recently. Keep it up!

Who does Harstem's video production? I'm noticing the in-video comment regarding diamond players near the 23min mark.

this one sounds like an open and shut case if he's saying he knows his micro, macro, build order, and game knowledge are all bad right at the start

I think you need to start featuring Toss replays my guy. When's the last time a toss player won a major tournament? You're a toss player. What's more likely? Every toss player sucks? Or the game is slightly imbalanced towards Protoss.

37:10 "Sun Tzu says..." - seriously: a bit of Sabaton while playing SC2 cannot hurt :D

30:26 i love this disruptor shot.....

The TLDW of this video I cant just attack up a ramp into siege tanks?! terran so imba omg.

I keep screaming "blink" in my mind watching this guy play

I’m genuinely curious how hamster managed the gateway efficiency tracker.

23:50 A high Templar with a stats of an archon. NICE

I'm gunna have to find the BGMWSS called "static offense"

25:12 "which means having a couple of zealots tanking is always helpful" but cant you focus fire with marauders? Just dont click the zealots.. I dont understand this advice.

lmao "Ideally you wouldn't make decisions either" solid gold.

How do play mass stalker for 26 minutes, and not get blink?

The voice recording suggestions killed me LOLOL

Many useful tips for low level Toss players like me, thnx Cptn!

The second sentence of the report already solved this case, hahaha.

It sems like people in lower leagues have way more fun. Thats where you're wrong my friend!

Beating grandmaster with stupid stuff random idea: play using only "light" Khalali side protoss units or "dark" Nerazim side protoss units, determined randomly at the start of each game. So if you roll Dark, you can only build stalkers, dark templar, voidray, etc..

i did not know what attack move was until i was in plat

24:17 it's the first time I've ever seen a bc die to a cannon lol

The problem I see is over infrastructure... without the assets ... so... two warp gates is worth three zealots or about 2 stalkers.... minus the gas... As soon as his enemy had a raven... He could of dropped to star ports which is more forgivable, and build some air ot kill teh tanks or remove the raven/ harrass.. Plus.. Protoss air except observor is so good at scouting nav/path routes... in quick succession. At the 11 minute mark... Terran has isoalted himself in his base... this is where he could use his robitics bay and build some observors for watching if Terran ever expands super cheap.... wit hthree obs... or keep building and army, cycle the north and east lanes otwards center, then patrol and keep the terran boxed in with simpyl a patrol snipe retreat method... and cycle the obs ot the lateral sides ofr possbile sneak medivac,s but at the eleveln minute mark... The opponenet is super turtling and struggling... and half as many probes.... but terran might invest those extra thousand minerals into say, military units.. SO taht is somethign ot be aware of.. if you stop/ force a player not to expand... they potentailly can win if you keep building probes and expand, simpyl becasue they could end up having 2/1 army in whihc yo ucan't build enough units to coutner the force... a 2/1 ratio in a battle typically the player with more units comes out Way ahead... like at most a 1/3 of their army is neutralized... so it stil larger then the later.. becasue colelctive firing is elimianting units at a faster rate... Then he never had blink... when using a stalker.. in my mind if I have x of a certain unit, I jsut upgrade all of that unit, just because.... typcally it all adds a benefit, to somethign I am using as a primary at the moment...

I cant endure life anymore

play mass stalkers and not use blink o_O genius

16:46 Engergy

U are wrong Utermal is wright protoss suck and terrans can easy win with mass marine A move and siege tanks

I haven't gotten past the opening email yet and I already see something that drives me nuts. 'I already had a third when he started his natural mining'. that smelled dishonest to me. then a sentence later suddenly he's on '2.5' bases, whatever that means. very curious to see what the actual truth is when the terran starts mining at his natural. edit - here I sit, in utter shock, that the line about when the terran starts mining at his natural is a complete lie.

22:45 Does this mean we'll see the Harstem B2GM series soon?

3 minutes in and I hate this Terran player

Lol platinum is the new bronze 😂

The reason tin league players like me add a lot of production is because we cannot for the life of us constantly produce out of a production building. We can't consistently constantly do anything! "Oh crap I'm not producing out of that building!" we realize, after 20 or 30 or 40 or 60 seconds of wasted potential production time. So the only way to end up with any kind of army while we're young is to make a bunch of production and stick them all on a hotkey then quick queue up a bunch of units all at once when we finally remember to produce units at all.

love the gateway efficiency chart lol

I am confused, he said in a previous video to never chrono warp gate 🤔

I don't play the game, only watch it, but based on my viewing experience I have the same opinion about Terran as the guy who sent the replay 😂

I’m actually really surprised the Protoss wasn’t submitting an IODIS form complaining about Terran battlecruisers! Those BC’s absolutely dismantled his economy single-handedly!

I think Harstem was correct, but also wrong at one point. SPOILER: At 10.30 Solari decides to walk his stalkers into 3 auto-turrets, rather than pulling his probes. However, IF he had pulled his probes I bet they would all have died to the mine which shoots just after. Now, this is obviously not something Solari considered, and my point is actually... pointless. ;)

What the fuck. I've been playing SC2 (on and off) for 14 years and this is the first time I've heard of "slow" and "fast" warp in pylons

wow Episode spoils itself at 0:07

I think he faked a one based all-in knowing that the enemy reaper sees his gates. The 6 units stopped the enemy expo from mining for a long time without over extending, he saved supply to boost econ without building any unit after first 6 that were not warped in. He was so far ahead that he should retreat after forcing out the enemy natural for the THIRD time, It looks like his build was totally fine, but it was the decision making that was at fault. He should have an observer or hallucinated unit to check what was up the ramp, because taking tank shots with the colosi is not the way. That's all I'd asked for. I think you can do a BGMWSS using similar build as his (6 units from gateways, 3 gates fast warpgate, stop the enemy expo and expand after it). It has potential because that looks like a one-base proxy 4 gate all-in while it really isn't. And you can't really die if the enemy move out as two waves of warp is going to save you from a counter attack. After the terran rushing out units to anticipate the onslaught the protoss was so far ahead that he made really bad fight but was still ahead for a long time.

I played someone yesterday who made a bunch of cannons and shield batteries at his 3rd. I decided to skip his 3rd and went straight to his 2nd and main base to destroy his production lol. It was funny on the reply watching from the guy's prospective when I did that, it was like "why the !@#$ you not attacking my 3rd?!?!!" haha

Part of the reason I stopped playing SC2, I just can't take a good fight to save my life, playing as zerg, it felt like your army had to be perfectly tailored to counter your opponent. Protoss late game felt unbeatable, and Mech felt unbeatable.

If you lose against a guy who is on the level where he adds random Thors and Battlecruisers to his army because they are cool robots and therefore have to be great, the problem might actually be you and not imbalance. I wouldn't be surprised if some of those people complained that a single thor with 0/0 upgrades in the mix with the terran army is super OP if they lose to it after making 20 mistakes in a row

he nailed it about having fun being bad lol. It looks like abuse to play the way pro plays.

"I have no real build order, my macro and micro are bad and often don't know what to do in situations..." The audacity of this guy reporting an IOTIS lmao

Hamster man, add some bing effect or idk a little sounds when your comments pop up, for example, 0:29 i didn't notice your comment, it was my gf on the second watch of the video that did

Lol, a protoss player complaining that a single terran unit like a siege tank has too much impact on the game. Having one tank or even a few is mostly useless, doesn't synergise or do that well when one disruptor can do a massive amount of damage. Same goes for templars with storm or even a colossus, especially in those low league games. Terran is the opposite of having a single unit that has a huge impact on the battlefield on its own, in fact if anyone is that it's protoss. Some major projection from the guy

I think this guy's German, given that he tries to literally translate from "abgesehen davon" to the incorrect "besides of that" (it's "besides that,").

Is it weird that one my first day of playing Sc2 (the ladder I mean…I’ve beater the first campaign) that I got straight to plat? Idk if that’s common or not…maybe it’s just due to the fact that I watch a lot of casts…

Harstem IIODIS announcer pack when

That prerecord thing i actually do in LoL, i forget to look at the map in small fights and then iften go in even tl the enemie jungler comes. So i use a video in the back where a guys says "Map" for an hour

this match made me angry

The warp-ins efficiency Tab is very nice. How I can get this? Or is this only created for the video and no feature included at Starcraft II?

Does this guy just never research blink? At least I am 28 minutes in and I am positive he has never casted it. edit: Hamster with the save on my question 1 minute later

This video was really helpful for me. I have a duel with a 110 year old next week, I’ve postponed for the week after

he never got blink btw

wait a minute... if a pylon is near a gateway, it will have the super warp-in? I never knew this, I always use to thought there was some sort of chain reaction with other super pylons.

22:57 Speak for yourself, Hamster. ;)