I love the “standing against overwhelming alien invasion” vibe these fights have.

@LPZonline

Жыл бұрын

why TvZ is my favourite match up~

I think the best part of this vid is how expressive Serral is at the end. I think that's the most expressive, non-angry I've ever seen him lmao

@drewpaiva93

Жыл бұрын

yeah!! I think he lost his virginity, he's looking like a man now

@Caldera01

Жыл бұрын

I don't think I've ever seen Serral angry? Must be a Finnish thing... If anything he has seemed disappointed / frustrated more than angry.

that neural parasite on the ghost, then emp. just wow. well done serral

I love that Serral has adapted his playstyle. His 2018 domination was off the back of insane infestor broodlord control. I think when ghosts become such a strong counter to that he struggled. I saw him lose quite often to Clem. Now he is changing it up so much, even going for early timing attacks and dropperlords and nydus harass. He still uses infestors a lot which I enjoy as they're my favourite zerg unit.

It would also be cool to highlight the final game of ShoWTimE vs Serral, that game was one in a million

@ericxu7023

Жыл бұрын

thanks for pointing this out, I am going to watch this one straight away

@l_ifeefi_l1998

Жыл бұрын

I like how u type out their names proper lol

Finally new content. We missed you dearly

Love the observer in this cast. The pip is super fun to see both perspectives.

Parasiting the ghost to EMP the other ghosts... Brilliant!

has there ever been a maru vs serral game that wasn't a highlight?

Serral has been on a tear lately. It took him a bit to adapt to the zerg nerfs, but he has looked unbeatable as of late. I haven't seen Maru get stomped like this in a while. Literally 4-1 maru and none of the games looked close except for the one he lost which seemed like an early tap.

Watching Serap play is like how I envision Zerg to be like but it’s insane he does this in a competitive setting

That was a lot more one-sided than I thought it would be...

@marcoscuaritegonzales1305

Жыл бұрын

In Marus webcam Maru was rubbing his hand quite alot in between games, he wasnt at his bestself

@Sir_Tomoyuki

Жыл бұрын

@@marcoscuaritegonzales1305 Damn, I hope he is all right.

Im glad you still provide us with flawless cuts

I was really hoping to see another game between these 2 on your channel. You sure do have some serendipitous timing!

Excellent casting of excellent games.

Maru's micro and mental discipline in defending against a superior supply count over and over is legendary. Serral's strategic thinking was something else. Incredible skill from both payers!

There's nothing quite like watching Serral's swarm flood down Maru's defenses, over and over again.

I clicked so fast after seeing “finals” and “Maru ve Serral”. 😂😂

@Caldera01

Жыл бұрын

You should see the Serral vs Showtime series from the same tournament. Serral really showing why he's the GOAT. You can audibly hear Showtime say "WTF dude?!" at the end of one special match between them in the series.

25:07 maru taking a page out of mengsk's book there

I had to take a shower after that seeing Serral doing Maru dirty like that. It was like watching campaign Terran vs Zerg, Terran getting bled dry and eventually overrun. Serral playing really greedy helped so much against Maru.

16:20 commentary here is on point. Might as well take a majority of workers from your well-secured natural expansions and drain the resources from the contested bases that your army already has on lockdown.

@arandombard1197

Жыл бұрын

I'm surprised it's not done more often when you expect to split the map, or even as a threat against your opponent who is trying to go for a late game map split. Zerg often take those outer bases first, then the Terran will fight its way out and retake them. So why not drain those outer ones first, then come back and finish off the inner bases later?

@Tonius126

Жыл бұрын

@@arandombard1197 you risk your workers if you pause your offensive too long for a counter attack probably.

@lordbry470

Жыл бұрын

@@arandombard1197 Cos its a very risky move. Do that and both your army and economy is at risk.

@arandombard1197

Жыл бұрын

@@lordbry470 Yeah, it's a difficult thing to balance. But eventually you will have to move your economy to the outer bases anyway, so now it's at risk but you have no alternatives. A lot of Zerg - Terran/Protoss games seem to favour Terran in these situations so it feels like it might be worth the risk. Especially as the Terran/Protoss often just turtles knowing they will win due to efficiency, while the Zerg throws wave after wave at them. Use that defensiveness against them by draining the outer bases quickly, then when it transitions to the more attrition based end-game, none of your economy will be on the frontlines and they won't be able to push you back to take a base, as they will all be empty. Meanwhile, they're opening themselves up to be vulnerable as they start saturating their outer bases. I'm not saying they should do it every time, just that's it an option. It's a bit like deciding to heavily drone up and neglect on your army, on the basis that you don't think your opponent will launch a powerful early attack and you can just out-economy them. If it works, it pays off but it can also be punished heavily.

@tiktac69

Жыл бұрын

@@arandombard1197 Lowko will be very happy when he'll see that ^^

Finally, an upload. I was starting to get worried.

Love seeing an expression on Serral's face that isn't deadpan. XD

That neural on the ghost in game 4 was beautiful

ZG has improved so much on commentary, really great this match.

for some reason the purple theme HUD/UI made memories of my childhood flow in my brain.

That was the first time I’ve ever seen an unmorphed changeling. 26:30

Watching The Best vs The Best is remarkable. Normally both these players make SC look easy vs mostly everyone. But these 2 going at it just looks awesome! This is coming from mostly watching Maru own with Terran and rarely really watching Serral. So seeing him represent that Zerg Rush vs a very good Terran almost looks cinematic. I really love watching these 2 fight.

Great to see Serral get a much deserved win, hope Maru isnt being held back by his injury anymore

Zerg, the only race to change its weakness to a strength

Serral is so good

23:49 All it takes to deal with the ghosts that fought all game for him was one good neuro parasite... scary.

I feel like maru mightve held a bit better with some blue flame hellbats possibly in the backline for when the lings get thru, amazing games tho!

Damn, Serral is looking strong.

Glad to see they are still doing great after that pandemic break. Starcraft dead game ? Never, as always

Zerg swarm. How it should be played. Exciting to watch.

its like war of Starcraft Gods

i will insist creep+banelings killed the fun in starcraft

@iambrett333

Жыл бұрын

nah, this is literally the best player in the world. they only seem busted because his economy is so insane that he can re-up his baneling army 10 times

@sebastianpalominos3706

Жыл бұрын

@@iambrett333 dont get me wrong, he is indeed the best player in the world....but this doesnt change the fact that creep+banelings killed the fun in starcraft, just Attack command and make everything dissolve

@Tonius126

Жыл бұрын

@@sebastianpalominos3706 Ghost killed the fun in ZvT. Counters infestors, vipers, ultralisk, Brutelords and lurkers becaue if EMP and Snipe. Nerf ghost, no variaty because of that stupid OP units obliterates everything.

@sebastianpalominos3706

Жыл бұрын

@@Tonius126 except for the fact that 1 infestor can neural and turn them deadmeat also, extremely expensive nothing compared to attack move and then replenish and another attack move

does anyone know why are there gems in random locations on screen?

Is it not worth it to use an scv at 11:20 to repair the hellions. Seeing them back at base i saw that raven was repaired but hellions went back out after still damaged. I wonder if the mine time was worth more then the repair time?

i like the ling/bane spam then just use gas to build specific things to counter whatever maru is doing.

Hate how they cut half of the video out for KZread

@DFGdanger

Жыл бұрын

This is a highlights channel. Go look for the official VOD if you want to see the full thing.

los ataques de serral son brutales, literalmente no de dejaba estabilizar su 5ta base :o

To those of you who watched these highlights: watch the full thing too, it's worth every second.

YES UPLOADS ✅️

Hard to believe Maru is only 25. He's already been in the league for over a decade.

Serral giving off alphastar vibes like the roach all ins

Congratulation Serral

finally someone uses infestors to easily counter ghosts, even worse for the terran if they get the EMP upgrade (which they sould never research vs Zerg)

Gold ending 32:55

Those abduction makes me smile to the ears

I’ve taken about a year break from watching Starcraft but man idk if Maru’s age is showing or what, but he did not look on form from how I remember him while Serral looks as strong as ever

@MrFarlarzia

Жыл бұрын

Maru has health issues, causing pain in his hands amongst other things.

@marco_219

Жыл бұрын

It's not like it takes incredible macro and micro to even compete against zerg :). /s

Ruthless.

It's like survival game :)

I know they skip most of the opening minutes in these highlight videos, but it's still insane to me how quickly Serral takes over entire maps. Even Maru can't turtle when he's down 3 bases to 7.

10 bases vs 4 bases, wow

GG

Serral makes Zerg look so broken...And thats 95% his insane skill ofcourse. But infestor burrow + spell casting feels a bit op.

Why did you skip the first three and a half minutes of the match?

the way Serral engage off creep is just insane. Maru trying to go for the exhaust game doe not work against Serral lol

🔥

That's what happens if you don't go CC first like in the current GSL group stage B, vs. both Reynor and DRG.

what's with this video starting in the middle of match?

Serral is insane

Damn u should build defense systems against alien..

Serral el mejor zerg de todos los tiempos

Would Maru have made a comeback if he sent one medvac full of units to just one of Serral's proxy bases?

@mbdevilmaycry

Жыл бұрын

No, becouse queens and zergling movespeed 100kk

I feel like the struggle with the casting in this is real lol.

Massacre

Serral looking like jaedong in this 😉

Who are these 2 commentators? They are good.

"roaches bussin' open them walls"

Neural parasite 1 ghost -> instant EMV the ghosts -> instant victory

"You don't split your army correctly it's an unfortunate situation for Maru" Welcome to Zerg 24/7, Terran keeps zooming drops left and right and if Zerg splits wrong he's dead while Terran can just zoom out if overwhelmed.

does someone know why Serral surrenders in the 3rd match?

Wow 😮 That was just…wow 🫣

Zerg player's still feel ghosts need nerf. The state of Terran vs zerg is horrible. Zerg imba

@harrymaxwell8489

Жыл бұрын

Zerg got too good at defending drops. This turtle style the terran is forced in seems to be fading. Nothing really to change the meta, ghost counter like 80% of zerg army, mass ling bane is the only way

@uberculex

Жыл бұрын

@@harrymaxwell8489 If they lose ghosts then they lose all late games against zerg. They have nothing that can compare to zerg late game units and are able to deal with zergling run/bys

@harrymaxwell8489

Жыл бұрын

@@uberculex I 100% agree. Just it's impossible to change the meta, but I've seen the terran win by having the zerg run out of minerals/gas

@uberculex

Жыл бұрын

​@@harrymaxwell8489 If they don't have ghost, they can't defend with favorible trades against things like ultralisks and brood lords with viper support. The viper negates seige tanks, liberators, thors with energy that can be recharged on a spore crawler.

@lapphoRa

Жыл бұрын

it's not zerg that's imba, its serral... also, if the race was OP it wouldn't be the least played race in the world by a largeeee margin lol.

Was this GSL

WHERES THE VIDS

Bring back the Warhound unit for Terran. Might help them not be bottom tier all the time.

@avo616

Жыл бұрын

💀🅱️

Ffs, can Maru please win a final?? For the Terrans out there..

@donhartfield

Жыл бұрын

I swear, everytime I see these, as awesome as Serral is, Maru just gets curb stomped. Time and time and time again...

@reftu7856

Жыл бұрын

@@donhartfield by ling bane infestor combo. this comp is like an auto win against Maru or any other terran players.

@elsuperjoe2006

Жыл бұрын

It is not balance game.

I found the first person really cool

Serral showed emotion? As a fellow Finnish person, I regret to inform you that he will be exiled.

32:13 TTours

Maru v Serral is like Federer v Nadal.

I hate how good Is serral. Congratulations

banes so fucking OP; banes need to deal friendly damage to be fair

What about the first game?

@sjbuttonsb

Жыл бұрын

Serral won the double elimination bracket so he gets to start the final with an extra win. Maru lost to Showtime in round 2 and then clawed his way back up the lower bracket.

@rudybaran

Жыл бұрын

@@sjbuttonsb oh, thx man!

Serral !!!

Having watched alot of these TvZ, it seems to me the problem is the zerg remax. Terran can fight cost effectively in any given fight, but in these late games players tend to build huge banks and zergs first wave trades good enough that terran just cant come back from the remax later in the game. All I could really thing, is try to harass even harder. Split medivacs in multiple different bases, try for small and efficient runbys with hellions? But the zerg units move so fast on the creep it seems like he is always able to react to any harass attempts in these games. I dont really have enough experience to give a good answer, but it looks like trying to play into this straight up in the late game isnt very good.

@markmark.marcial

Жыл бұрын

Serral is just that good

@m.helazior9932

Жыл бұрын

Not a problem, the game is well balanced.

@billytran6570

Жыл бұрын

You're right, the dynamic of a lot of TvZ matches is that the Terran has to push aggressively with siegetanks and marines + medivac drops to severely weaken the growth of the zerg. In these games Maru wasn't able to do enough dmg so the zerg grows too fast and overwhelms

game 4, thats what u talk about when u say "zerging" someone down! more grind than helms clam!

Серрал красавчик! Ты забрал у меня 4 рабов? НО забрал без уважения... за это я заберу у тебя игру.

Zerg OP

can terran even actually win this matchup without relying on a fuckup by the zerg? I swear everytime i see these games all the terrans are trading 50% more efficiently, winning defensive holds and even doing good drop damage and then zerg just remaxes in 30 seconds for the 100th time just to w key them again and again until terran runs out of units that can shoot.

@stillwatersrundeep001

Жыл бұрын

I've said it before, when the zerg is halfway competent terran can't win

@WARGARM

Жыл бұрын

Nope brain-dead ling bang is too balanced

@meggot5831

Жыл бұрын

Serral makes this matchup look easy, this playstyle is very inefficent and on a timer. Is totally reliant on holding forward bases

@Santisima_Trinidad

Жыл бұрын

Yes, very much so. One of the more important things is early damage. The more drones you can kill early on the easier it is later, as the zerg just can't grow as fast whilst you build up to do duel in the mid game. The next item is mech. The ling bane style you usually see in these very A movey endgames is very bad versus thor hellion, with ghosts dueling spellcasters. Lings die to hellions, banes detonate on single thors and gain 0 value. The longer the terran stays on bio the better for zerg, as bio is matching the tech of the zerg whos on a higher economy, as opposed to besting it. Mech also has the added advantages of dealing well with zergs higher tech stuff (broods, vipers, ultras) and not requiring anywhere near as many medivacs, which are a big supply sink. Mech is susceptible to multi pronging, but whats worse, loosing a base you weren't defending very heavily, or loosing a base you were defending heavily. And the final item is, as it always will be, battlecruisers. Even with neural parasite, BCs force corrupters, stuff other than ling bane, and keep the zerg at home a bit to defend. I do personally think the ling bane style serral used to win in a lot of these games is a bit overpowered, but a good terran can certainly beat it.

@swage8566

Жыл бұрын

@@Santisima_Trinidad it feels like it’s a lot harder to succeed with the Thor hellion mech comp in the mid game tho it’s so slow that Zerg can just constantly harass with runbys and you can’t easily respond with cross map plays of your own that you can do with bio or something. Then with mass Thor hellion you’re so immobile that Zerg gets more map control anyways and can just keep throwing units at you while teching up while Terran have to deal with constant pressure to maintain their army supply and tech up. It feels like the matchup is entirely based on Zerg keeping the map pressure which while I’m sure is super difficult at this high level Zerg just had more options compared to terran. I’m kinda just talking by what I’ve seen, I don’t really play so this is just kinda how it feels seeing all these games

God I would love a Serral video that is not just roach spam

Hail Caesar Serral!!!! 💪💪💪

Omg... The amount of ads put onto this video is just baffling 😠😠😠

Serral,GG

Wp Serral

T IBMA vs Z IMBA Maru need more Fire Car, or 詭雷