StarCraft 2 best-of-3 series between Rogue’s Zerg and Classic’s Protoss from the Korean Starcraft League 66 tournament.
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Yet another example of the stuff up of the balance council, when lings are viable in the late game
Yeh well played Rogue (game 2)
I am not playing this game , but i was always thinking why ppl not playing phoenix instead of voidray . My thoughts was exactly what classic did to lift queen and oracles can start shooting drones . It also eliminates mistakes like beam into queen with oracles because its extra drone you could kill . Also when you open with phoenix you have better scout options or you can follow the aggressive play style to do phoenix into 2 oracles into mass phoenix and mass shading guy and pretty much destroy whole economy and win game on the spot (blink upgrade 6-9 gateways and all in with third nexus as option)
Classic plays like a noob
we don't have many huge moments in starcraft these days but rogue running in the corruptors and ultralisks with the dark swarm cover and obliterating the protos deathball was awesome
What a game! enjoyed it:) Love Rogue's gameplay.
Archons get smashed so hard by Ultralisks
Is there going to be a starcraft 3?
Lowko: Sees Ultralisk Cavern starting No, cancel that!
Rogue: Oh ye of little faith.
Rogue said "4 spore and 7 queens ago…"
Rogue`s just so cool. Banger of a match.
I like to imagine Dark telling Rogue and Shin to play in everything when he takes a break so Lowko will continue to have a supply of Zerg Games to cast.
I hope that this Ultra strat becomes meta. This unit deserves its time to shine.
Yeah
Council really screwed up with “reduce turtling”
9:24 I thought Protoss didn't struggle when they got to late game. More like they just struggled to survive to late game. In that sense they were better off before than the Zerg is now post patch. At least Protoss still had a chance at winning late game pre patch.
"tHiS iS wHaT hApPeNs WhEn PrOtOsS dOeSnT pLaY a PeRfEcT eArLy GaMe"
can you ever just say someone got out played instead of letting your biases show dude? I hope to god you have nothing to do with the balance council….
Best match of the year.
So far, of course. But zerg did phenomenally towards the end in all matches.
idk i feel uktra infestor corruptor viper is still gud. yes you cant abduct chonc mama anymore, but the tempests. and if toss wants to force and play into you, fungal parabomb and dont have you ruptors over the ultra heads. leave 12ish suply open for a stream of crackling runbys and that should be alright.
is that disproportionally hard to do compared to deathball? yes. but as a zerg player one kinda made that choice already didnt we
You can leave the"my name is Lowko" out by now
It would be smoother
Man, I can't wait to hear about lowko complain about zerg late game
Thanks for the video, Lowko. Appreciate the hard work and dedication to bringing us all these entertaining games. ❤
1st game thrown away by retard Classic. He should go in retirement. Maybe diamond league is the right place for him.
That never pushing by Classic makes me angry 😀 10% on defense – 90% forward, Zerg would have to defend instead of sneaky attacking
As someone who hasn't played starcraft competitive in a decade and never particularly well, I would have won that game at any time from 10 minutes onwards. Repeatedly getting dropped by the same overlords?! Not reacting to Nydus at all? No attempt to shut down the zerg economy? Even just all armying the north side of the map and deleting the zerg economy after every bad recall.
Wasn't there a map with 4 levels of depth?
If you don't cast another classic game, I wouldn't be mad.
i think classic is checking his bank balance for the incoming payout for the scheduled losing game.
BigGabe has always preached the way to beat Protoss is generally just to make them look in two places at once
The problem there was the recall. Everytime Zergs starts the wack-a-mole strat . It means it’s time for the SkyToss to push and destroy the main base of Zerg.
Zerg cabal
There's something wrong with zerg if they play late game near perfect like Rogue in game 1 and can't capitalize on the massive amount of mistakes their opponent makes, like in Classic's example, to get a decisive victory. We see it in TvZ but it's especially highlighted in TvP.
Classic died a death of 1000 self inflicted cuts.
Chintoss
It was definitely the counter in brood war
Protoss players: We cant win tournaments, we need buffs!!!!
also protoss players: have biggest number of players in GM
also protoss: Ihave supporior army with supperior size, over 40 supply more! I can recall it around with nexus and mothership!!! lets just wait in the middle of our bases, let zerg expand as much as he wants, and attack as much as he wants, no expanding, kinda doing nothing just die, slowly…. 0 play, if this is one of the best protoss, I can see why protoss cant win tournaments… literaly skill issues
"Its a beautiful place, you can bring your whole family; Be sure to bring your swimsuit because this place is GORGEOUS.
…Now, spawning in the lefthand corner, is a Zerg infestation–"
Lately I played a 2v2 and was using skytoss. Carriers really only tickle ultra's. You really need immortals and archons to buffer. I don't know how effective tempest are against ultra's?
nice
After watching so much her0 and maxpax, game 1 was extremely frustrating to watch. That was such sloppy unit and map control.
I didn't even watch game 2 because I felt it wouldn't be worth my time to just get annoyed by Classic's play.
It was the intro…
but it wasn't the intro…
Sorry for your neighbors Lowko, but if you don't shout, it's just not the same.
That's a skill difference there. There was no reason for Classic to lose that first game. i would have hunted down those Droplords with EXTREME prejudice and then made a push across the south side of the map.
Wasnt there a 3rd game with these two, and classic won it ? So 2 to 1 to rogue.
Rogue has become one of my favourite zerg, with dark.
Another thing that rogue did amazingly was after pulling the protoss army out of position pouncing on it when it moves back into place and pulling one to 5 big units out of it. Drastically improving how much damage the runby or nydus did. Death by a thousand cuts…and Ultras
"cuz Rogue keeps backstabbing him" got a chuckle out of me 🙂
Rogue is the ULTRA MASTERMIND to finally build more than 1 spore in a base instead of losing 105+ drones in like 15.4 seconds.
zerg supposed to have a weak late game as a compensation of all rush ability , in early and mid game, but its not, they have a powerful late game, only weakness is fewer building to destroy, in exchange of full map control with creep…boring game play, spend all time to inject, and cast creep tumors, in compensation of better win chance
29:35 had to rewatch this engagement 30 times
I only recently started watching SC2 again after about an 8-9 year break, but I don't recall a time in which Protoss wasn't the ultimate late-game faction. From archon toilets and immortals with hardened shields, to psionic storms, feedback and units like the colossus destroying bio armies in seconds, it was rarely possible to win a head-on collision against a Protoss death ball as Zerg. The solution was always to be aggressive and prevent the Protoss from reaching their desired end-game, or, failing that, outmaneuvering their units using your superior mobility.
On the subject of the double phoenix build, I wonder as well why it's fallen out of fashion. Phoenixes are super good at preying upon overlords, and a handful of them can easily deal with queens and deal devastating damage to a mineral line as well. But maybe they were nerfed? Or was the spore crawler buffed?