That Raven just strolling in at the end like "Uuuuuh, guys...bug here"

I like these late game stalemates where they regress back to the one-two hero units deciding the fate of the ending. That infestor on the obligatory stealth mission/level...only to be spotted by the first raven to be built ever rallying on the army ball. Such an ignominious death.

@spiritofgoldenday9079

2 жыл бұрын

I think its the second raven (the first one already in the main army)

@IcariumGaming

2 жыл бұрын

He already had a raven with the main group.

@ja-no6fx

2 жыл бұрын

yeah that was fuckin epic

@dkn1055

2 жыл бұрын

@@ja-no6fx it sure was. This was a phenomenal game

The standard lowko SC2 milestones: 1) talking about the players history! 2) draw the line in the middle of the map! 3) the winning conditions!

@falk5068

2 жыл бұрын

4) humming the melody 5) stating that, in fact, pro players are only human too 6) "Man I love Star Craft"

@Logic9Pro

2 жыл бұрын

@@falk5068 7) The winning condition, of course, is destroying all of the opponents structures :D

@nirmalasokan1687

2 жыл бұрын

7) "There is a huge difference in MMR between grandmaster league and pro players" 8) Noticing new things about the map 9) Making puns then apologizing for it

@FPSgamer94

2 жыл бұрын

@@nirmalasokan1687 10) BRENDAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!

@Juice-chan

2 жыл бұрын

@@FPSgamer94 still never getting tired of any of this :D

This game really feels like lore accurate Zerg vs Terran.

@mechadoggy

Жыл бұрын

17:32 “At the very least, it’s lore accurate, I suppose”

Byun maneuvering his army like a war general at the end was amazing to watch. Even using his last resources to make a raven and cinch the game *mwah

11:58 Lowko as Jim imitating Dwight 😆

Once a Terran with good micro gets a Ghost army, I fast forward to the end of video to see if there were any surprises. There has yet to be...

@joe78man

2 жыл бұрын

That's my point when I say Terran is OP. If you got the right even the best can fall against it. Neither zerg nor protoss have that from units

@godhandvoid9795

2 жыл бұрын

@@joe78man There's people calling all three races OP all the time.

@joe78man

2 жыл бұрын

@@godhandvoid9795 So far I never seen zerg or protoss have a particular composition that is hardly beaten as a ghost army. Of course you will find games where players make mistake or take the other by surprise, but straight attack, a ghost army deestroys whatever a zerg or protoss have, because of the characteristics of the units, not players' skill

@vanguard6498

Жыл бұрын

@@godhandvoid9795 Terrans are always OP unless they lose all the time according to zergs

One of the most beautiful matches I've watched ever, and so representative of the two races narrative dynamics: Zerg swarming into entrenched terrans. Such a beautiful narrative and perfectly delivered, down the to the end with terrans tip-toeing around the map very slowly and cautiously, knowing how easily they could be overwhelmed despite the overall advantage they had.

@Fiaw1

2 жыл бұрын

It's obviously fake though. They are just messing around. This is setup.

Even at the end when you subtract the drone count it was like 120zerg supply vs 190terran supply. I think even if tanks were unseiged and did their normal attack, I think he could have won the fight. He also had options of floating buildings over for vision and placing them down to create chokepoints if he wanted. Great match to watch.

@KhoaNguyen-fs6to

2 жыл бұрын

In my opinion, Byun is using Roman strategy at late Republic era. Camp and lay siege to stave the enemy.

That random hero raven at the last play had so much value it was insane! Not only stopped his infestor, but than the huge anti armor splash too!!

The Battle at 26:16 really shows how imba are Ghosts vs zerg... There isn't any lategame zerg unit that can fight a ghost heavy army, even with huge fungal...

@vitorh3568

2 жыл бұрын

At least Terran gotta ghosts, cause Zerg is an OP race in general.

@aziouss2863

2 жыл бұрын

Larva is the cause of units like the ghost. The zerg can pump out a second army to counter your composition super fast. This leads to oppressive units like the ghost that work vs anything the enemy can throw at them.

@OneBiteoftheCherry

2 жыл бұрын

@@vitorh3568 Hardly! They're vulnerable early game, can't wall off, have poor anti-air until at least game, need to fight on creep to win most of the skirmishes. I've been playing SC2 on and off since release and I don't think Zerg have ever actually been OP. There was an issue with Infestors once being a bit too effective but general speaking Zerg have always been playing catch-up with the other races in my eyes. You gotta be a great Zerg player to beat a good player of T or P.

@vanguard6498

Жыл бұрын

@@vitorh3568 Like I say, unless Terran never wins, it will always be OP according to zerg players.

36:00 I think he is holding those mineral in reserve in case of a tie. He can put 1 SCV on it to get minerals to get more time to kill stuff.

I feel like the big ghost vs broodlord infestor fight around 26:00 really showcase how zerg late game is so awkward against terran. Byun’s army contained several reapers and hellbats on accident. There was even a big fungal that landed on the left wing of the ghost squad. Yet 26 broodlords pretty much melted in comparison. At this point i feel like when im playing T into Z in a game pass 15 minutes i can just blind build some ghost and it’ll be fine.

@snagsTS

2 жыл бұрын

Fair comment really. Yet in this case I wholeheartedly support the wholesale slaughter of mass broodlords 🤣

@Konranjyoutai

2 жыл бұрын

What, you think holding one button for rapid snipe and waving your mouse to kill 10 ultras/broods instantly isn't balanced?!!?! no way. /s

@snagsTS

2 жыл бұрын

@@Konranjyoutai 🤣🤣🤣

@Zergling.

2 жыл бұрын

And there was siege tanks doing friendly fire too, despite ALL of that was said in this comment the zerg got slaughter.

@ricardocedillo1606

2 жыл бұрын

Why wait? There's a Ghost rush build going around that's pretty much a steady targeting win

LOWKO! Always a pleasure watching your casts!

I've been watching professional StarCraft since 2007 at least, the number of times where a map is FULLY mined out is around a douzen, give or take 1 or 2 matches. It always ends the same way though, in one giant clash in the middle. The player with the more mobile army more often than not ends up winning by microing in and out of range to kill a unit here, a unit there, and after an hour, something is gonna give out... making the smallest of mistakes gets punished HAAAARD at that point, so there's even less room for them when there's no more resources available. Byun played that game extraordinarily well, and Reynor got punished for being so greedy, leaving the terran do whatever he wanted. I'm guessing that he tried doing an SC1 build called Ogre Zerg rather than playing his usual style. Amazing game regardless!

@nahruz.w3044

2 жыл бұрын

More like reynor cant even touch Byun rather than leaving the terran alone, its turtle terran. Early game: marine rush Mid: tank def Late: tank, ghost snipe, scan synergy repeat till 25+ minute mark. (scan, snipe, run back toward tanks, dead zerg, repeat)

@tigera6

2 жыл бұрын

@@nahruz.w3044 You do know that Reynor stick with lingbane for like 15 minutes into the game right? then going mass Ultra against Ghost of all thing, while repeatedly crashing into the most fortified defensive location and fail. Its ont that Reynor cant touch Byun, he did but just failed.

I know this game will Byun-believable, but I hope we can Reyn-it in.🤔

@snagsTS

2 жыл бұрын

Hoping Byun can pull this one through.

@jayyrod1

2 жыл бұрын

Reynor shine we gotta watch this together!

@queendiscord5973

2 жыл бұрын

Oh my gosh u didnt just do that 💅

@tomassunaert1300

2 жыл бұрын

I don't know if you're male or if you have children. But you... You my friend you are a dad

@wakka135

2 жыл бұрын

SOmebody infest this Terran

Ultralisks have to be the most sad lategame unit in all of SC2. They really need a buff or something so they can do something other than get in the way and then die. And while I understand snipes do a ton of damage, the ultralisk shouldn't get popped in a single blow after it's defenses have been fully upgraded.

@nustada

Жыл бұрын

I think they should stack with ling bang. Then terran will have to pick between sniping and losing his ghosts or retreating.

Lowko, I love that you upload daily. Every day I look forward to seeing your videos

Coming back and watching these older videos paid off. This was an excellent Byun game.

Even though i do not understand 90% of the strategy talk this is still fun to watch just because of the battles and constant back and forth.

So thrilling to watch. Super entertaining to watch until the end!

0:28 "Likewise, ooghlghouuuh...".

Watching Byun play is like watching someone dance. He plays a very unorthodox style but with superb control. No wonder his nickname is Micro Jackson!

This is definitely one of the best games I've seen this year so far, Byun is always a fun player to watch!

amazing to watch this on 4k, awesome quality =)

Ultra buff Idea: chitinus plating gives untras immunity (or more resistance to) snipe, terran would still have answers, but couldent counter everything the zerg has with ghosts

@asterpw

2 жыл бұрын

I don't think snipe should be so strong against massive units. It doesn't make much sense to me for a Barracks unit to kill an Ultralisk in 3 shots with 10 range. It should take 5 shots at least.

@ferallhamster970

2 жыл бұрын

@@asterpw I agree. Ghosts sod do less dmg, meaning more use in siege tanks, or Vikings for broods. More variety in late gsme

@stixinst5791

2 жыл бұрын

@@ferallhamster970 make the snipe cancel if unit leaves range, make the emp a banshee skill and ghost a light unit....game would be basically the same, but ghost is no longer the ultimite unit

@tigera6

2 жыл бұрын

@@stixinst5791 okay, in exchange, lets make Queen transfusion cost more EN, become a Light unit, and creep spead speed is reduce by 50%, DEAL?

@stixinst5791

2 жыл бұрын

@@tigera6 that is a bit of an overkill don't you think? I just moved a spell and made ghost more in line with other spell casters. I can give you queens as armored and 50% more transfuse cost But if you wish to reduce ammount of creep by 50% you need to compensate zerg to stand a chance.....one scan can remove area of up to 4 creep tumors or you can spawn a mule. Therefor 4 creep tumors of creep should equal a mule in minerals output.....or you know. Make the scan cost twice as much and loose to anything that burrows Or make the creep give bonus supply cap (like + %of total tiles covered= if a zerg has control of 60% of the map he has 260 max supply)

Man, Byun is just unstoppable vs. Zerg with these recent games. When I see him in the title, I just go, "let's see how he wins vs. this zerg player."

Lowko be like "a couple of hellions", while there're 8 of them. "a dozen of liberators", while there're 4. hahaha, my man!

Love your vidsss, right on time for breakfast!!

0:29 this is the exact sound I make every time I see a cannon rush

Still cant believe that they didn't balance the ghost, crazy OP unit.

@vitorh3568

2 жыл бұрын

If they did that they would have to do the same with lots of zerg units. Those banelings for example... just attack move for a lots of damage and gg.

@qball1212

2 жыл бұрын

@@vitorh3568 but banelings can be split against and forced to have low efficacy, The issue with Snipe is that it cost very low energy and has a massive range, its not like zerg can just dodge it, so ghost are always extremely cost efficient. ex: Byuns 26 ghosts(3900 minerals, 3250 gas) easily destroyed raynors 16 brood lords(4800 minerals, 4000 gas) even though brood lords are supposed to be zergs long range cost effective siege unit. I'm not saying ghosts are so OP that their the reason Byun won, but snipe is entirely too strong

21:48 totally! Don't get why this isn't more part of the meta

I think this is my favourite game I saw from the tournament... Definitely "game of the year" material (for the 10th time this year) ;)

great game, you got my like and subscribed again!

Imagine if byun actually used those reapers for thier grenades to give the Z army disorganization, like it won't work on ultras but for banes and lings? It would probs blow them off to give enough time for the T army to gun them down more. The ability to move an enemy unit has alot of potential. The late game meta would change so bad if that actually happened.

@jasonlynch282

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe in archon mode meta. But it's just to much for one person to micro so many units abilities.

Love you videos they always make me smile. Keep up the good work!

Oh lala! What a game. As long as there is minerals to be mined, the zerg has an additional advantage over terran and that is "how fast can I re-make my army". There only needs to be one engagement where both players loose the majority of their forces and zerg is gonna come out on top because they can, what, pump units out of 5 bases? Especially in this game, I was waiting for that because there was creep everywhere, which allows a freshly formed zerg force to do crazy rushes right up into terran bases. Loved the gameplay. A cautious terran and a zerg who has to play it cautious too.

Thanks for putting in the effort to add the white arrow into the thumbnail Lowboy helps a lot. :)

what a game! I'll watch it again, definitely

You should really cast Creator vs Rogue whenever you have time. If not the whole serie, literally any game from this finale was amazing

Lowko: Can we please make some marines? Byun: OK

THAT WAS AN EPIC BATTLE!!!

That single Raven at the end was the absolute MVP

Terran be like: ghosts goess brrrrrrr

I have never seen a zerg making ultralisk while in a massive lead win a game

Wow what a game!!

The minerals did get mined in the end! Saw it on the minimap.

That was fabulous!

40:30 Is the moment that Derpfestor knew, he fucked up.

Beautiful

That was amazing!

Ridiculous how OP the ghosts are, lol.

Amazing cast amazing game

That was quite enjoyable. :D

I think mixing in a few Reaper against mass Baneling/Zergling is a great idea.

I feel like Ghosts are too good, though I do think they are probably necessary under the current balance. There are very few situations in which a terran player should not go ghosts late game, I don't think there is ever a build in a TvZ game, and even in most TvP games should go ghosts. They just answer too many things at once.

@kubm4s915

2 жыл бұрын

The weakness of ghosts is they need the micro. They are expensive, and can be easy killed by protos units(zealots, stalkers)

@phsycresconquest6636

2 жыл бұрын

@@kubm4s915 not to forget ling bane rips them a new one.

@zant1566

2 жыл бұрын

@@kubm4s915 The thing is that I feel what makes them unbalanced is the EMP. The EMP is just seems so absurd, you can do that dropship thing with the Ghost and EMP and that's like half the army of the Zerg not being able to do anything

@kubm4s915

2 жыл бұрын

@@zant1566 half army of zerg? Maybe protos army? EMP effects to spellcasters(vipers, infestors, quenns). And what about infestors. One shot and half army of Terran moves like turtles. And what about storm? One storm and half army of Terran /Zerg is dead

@zant1566

2 жыл бұрын

@@kubm4s915 I mean yes, Ghosts having EMP is necessary, but one ghost completely negating almost every spellcaster with a well placed EMP is absolutely ridiculous, especially considering that once infestors and high templar have no energy they are completely worthless, while Ghosts can cloak, snipe and do good damage even outside of snipe. Not only that, but when you are hit by an infestor or a high templar, you can at least move out of the way and even still shoot, while EMP just fucks up one type of unit for the entire battle plus in the case of Protoss does massive amounts of damage as well. EMP just needs a nerf, it's way too strong as it is rn, just like how Infestors were nerfed and made so that their fungal slows and not just grounds units

That raven came out like, "sorry I had some spicy food and had to drop an anti-armor missiles but I'm back."

damn that slow terran gameplay is really fun to watch ngl

Interesting, has there been a consideration for maps without the dead-space to prevent hiding of terran structures and flying units?

The colours, THE COLOURS! sir, you just made my day.

31:50 SCV would win against drone lowko, cant really blame Reynor

I thought that was a leviathan for a moment!

Lowko i think that Raven was build using those last few minerals you mentioned.

Byun was mining the 3rd near the end. What's the final count for the resources!?!? I have to know!!!

At 14:00 mark I was like “if Reynor lost I am sending it to IODIS” At 30:00mark I was like “damn Reynor really managed to throw this game” It was a pain to see Reynor tried repeatedly to blast through the choke point and through away his army again and again

@creeperkingdom3190

2 жыл бұрын

What else was he supposed to do. What for the terrain to mine out then move out and lose the game.

yo that was a sick game

Hope Byun plays more like this, heard his wrist issues were getting worse so this play style might be best for him. I guess Turtling for Terran's gonna be a play style we'll often see.

@soligaming5729

2 жыл бұрын

Anyway, I think it is the best idea. When T army is busy in zerg area, usually zerg sent a bunch of ling kill some mineral lanes to kill your eco.

Heck of a game!

Reynor vs Byun is my personal favorite matchup

I wonder why he was surprised about the hellbats. If the zerg goes broodlord they are a life saver one shotting broodings ( if upgraded)

I feel like I'm watching Maru more than ByuN tho , but I love it.

@snagsTS

2 жыл бұрын

Both Maru and Byun just play so cost effectively. They trade really damn well.

@ZRyuCh

2 жыл бұрын

@@snagsTS Those SimCity CC as well , LOL

@snagsTS

2 жыл бұрын

@@ZRyuCh I've started modelling my game after theirs to some success but I suck at micro. Must say the SimCity CCs work so well because its like Zerg and Toss players can't resist trying to crack it 🤣

Lowko! Check the 15 minute. At 15:03 starts QUEEN massacre. That moment changes the game

I feel like there could have been another like half base; 4 min patches and a rich vespene or something; there's so much space in the top and bottom

Whata a sick game!!

Byun: There was an infestor there?!?!

Amazing game!

Incredible game

ultralisks woudl benefit from a leaping pounce like charge style move similar to zealot charge ability that would allow them to gap close once their pathing determines a valid target.. maybe make it do a burst AOE damage to give ultras a bit more balance against the onsluaght of nonstop snipe spam?

thanks

@LowkoTV forgot to mention something related to the lore, in the end, humanity survive.

fantastic game

My experience with Starcraft is 95% custom games on Brood War as a teenager, yet I find myself fascinated by this. The micro skills required in high level RTS competition is truly remarkable.

It might be unpopular but I really like the slow methodical super endgame. Feels very strategic.

@jasonlynch282

2 жыл бұрын

End game is like chess each piece that falls never comes back.

From time to time I have a feeling like play some games again in sc2. But watching this I remember why I dropped this game in a first place

Brilliant game!

Such a grind by byun, awesome game :D

ByuN's gonna write a book: The Art of Turtling

@Lyn_Mercy

2 жыл бұрын

His playstyle definitely changed since his injures, sad that terran's prime last so shortly due to their micro mechanics.

Nice, 4K of SC2 😂

Did they add more colors. Or change greens. Its off green but just enough to notice?

What. A. Game.

I loved it!

How can I know which match it is?

the forward base was waiting for reinforcements that never came.

Marine marauder and ghosts with tanks and sim city.

Lowko, I wonder if u can play some custom campaigns like GGG, or do some collab with him. It would be fun to see that kinda stuff

I'll even leave a comment for the great work you do👌

What a game....

Awesome game, but the next balance patch should make static defense more expensive.

The reapers were not a mistake , it was a pro move

ayy new vid.big pog