Lowko, I was sneezing, literally 1 sec before you said "bless you!" to Toby. It freaked me out for a moment 😂 made my day. Also, amazing cast of an awesome series!!
@@kosmosXcannon not only zerg though. He's a whole new level of SC player that there's only he's there. If we have A B C and S tier players, we have Serral at Serral tier, above all.
one of the things he did is he doesn't just a-move his zerglings. He move command them deep into the terren army before starting to attack. This way the back zerglings do not derp around and they all do damage
So its obvious that Oliveira had prepared 8 rax all in to counter Serral strat. But what amazing is that Serral, within spans of 1 series, capable identifying and executed the counter of Oliveira's counter build at perfect timing.
What a banger of a serie! That last game was just insane! Other than Serral's economy, the zergling squad cutting off the reinforcement won him the game.
From the finish lakes into Germany and USA. All the tournaments he came across. Home Story Cups, tons of WCS and ESLs. Dreamhack and IEMs. Shout Joona Sotala’s name The overmind of the hive swarm knows the game Son of Finland and THE GOAT. (Sabaton, Soldier of 3 armies)
@@linuxsauna Haha, thank you! Quite embarassing, especially since "finnisch" and "Finnland" is spelled with 2 "n" in German (my native language) as well...
I feel like in Game 1 it was less that every fight went super well for Serral, his pushes were always expensive, but he had such a massive income advantage for so long that he could afford to do it over and over and by the time Oliveira managed to stop it the damage was kinda done. It felt to me like Serral was staying on Ling-Bane to just continously keep his foot on the gas and pressure Oliveira while stealing him blind.
Pff this was such a great series of games, incredibly close until the last minute! I've come to expect this level of play from Serral, but damn, Oliveira really impressed me here.
With games like these, in a patch/map-pool that seems so pro-Terran, it's a little hard to say if... they need to nerf ling-bane again, or the problem is that they actually need to nerf Serral ._.
It might have been worthwhile for serral to upgrade hatcheries in contested areas into lairs. The lair upgrade costs almost the same amount of money as a nuke and gives as much health as the nuke does damage.
Love you Lowko. Would really enjoy checking in on the units/resources lost tab a little more often especially in G1, 2 and 3. I was super curious to see how efficient Seral is when trying to do the strats he went for. Thanks for the epic videos buddy.😊
bruh... you got over 9000 likes from me for the cat purring into the mic. Sure, UA-cam only registers 1 of those likes, but there's 8999 more floating around that first one for you
It's a shame that you can't choose which one you watch. I would love to see Serral play a game like this. So his point of view. But the fact that you can see it on the map is pretty cool. Oh and yes, you do it very well too, thank you.
I think the difference between Serral and other Zerg players like Reynor or Scarlett is that Serral isn't afraid to lose his army, if they'll accomplish the objective while dying. Scarlett would attempt that attack, but then realize there's tanks and widow mines, and try to back away, and lose all her banelings on the retreat while not getting the planetary. Serral can tell whether he has enough power to just go for it.
That first game was crazy, but I do think that lowko was exaggerating how much splash there was, bc Serral did a great job of not giving Oli the time or money to build enough tanks and libs. Maybe I’m just crazy but I never saw there being more than like two tanks or libs
33:05 "Serral needed a bit of luck that his proxy base wasn't gonna be found" I mean it got found the instant it finished :D On a huge map, i would say it was unlucky for it to be found so fast.
Havent seen a serral game in a bit, and man this guys still terrifying. Imagine you go to fight 10 zerglings in front of you and another army comes up from behind from a secret base, while 2 overlords are dropping in both your bases and he is burrowing and hiding shit in between your buildings.... i would just gg and leave XD
The problem with Zerg is that it has an incredible high skill ceiling. People talking about Zerg being nerfed or has gotten weaker has to realize that most Zerg players aren't that good, Reynor especially. Back then Zerg is just OP, all you had to do is play fast, expand, defend with queens, spread creep etc. Once you out mine your opponent and mass enough bank, you can just mass produce, trade and repeat. But now you actually have to play skillfully, like scouting, pre split, react and micro. Zerg is still powerful, that's how Serral is able to stick with T1 units like Lings and Banes, destroying Marines, Marauders, Mines, Tanks and Planetary while still trading rather effectively. The nerf didn't affect Serral because despite Zerg was OP, he didn't play by just abusing Zerg advantage, he actually is playing proper SC2 by scouting, reacting and counter punishing
Finally, Serral figured out on his own what I was saying Zerg needs to do for years! When ahead, mine one of your opponent's base instead of throwing away the advantage by throwing units to the wall or just sitting and doing nothing.
Wait wait. We have powered through half the year and i dont think we have any matches title Game of the Year. Or at least not as many as normal. Petition to change the title of this game to Game of the Year.
You missed the last fight, where Serral obliterated all of Ollie's ground force, even with 4-5 libs in the air. With 1/3 of his army still chewing on the other side of the map
Alright that got a like from me 20 seconds in, "I know the results of this series." then immediately having that hilarious bit when looking for the spawn in had me laughing so hard honestly I am terrible at Starcraft never could get the hang of all the multi tasking and resource management but I loved Protoss because I am a big fan of the Mothership unit and Colossus plus blink was always cool I love warping in stuff and the color is pretty but I love seeing high level long matches they're great to watch dinner to and it popped up in the feed.
I love that no matter if you know the outcome or not, you always cast as if you dont know who wins. It's awesome.
He does it for the fans!!!!!!!
For really good match up, I hate seeing how much time there is left if I need to pause the game
Lowko, I was sneezing, literally 1 sec before you said "bless you!" to Toby. It freaked me out for a moment 😂 made my day. Also, amazing cast of an awesome series!!
That first game was purely Serral doing stuff that only works because he's Serral
For real! It is insane how crazy good he is. And how easy he makes it look.
Yeah honestly that game made no sense
Are you having trouble in your SC2 games? Just be Serral. It's that easy! Just be Serral, do Serral things, and everything will work itself out...
He's got the perfect unit composition and timing is flawless.
Serral : Mules wont save you on this map. ROFL
Best parts of the video is at 28:52 and 30:56
ANYWAYS!
Completely agree. Cat is love, cat is life.
I haven't seen a match like that last one in years. That was so wonderful to watch. What a joy to see them play
What a great interruption from Toby! From now on whenever I'll transition into Ultras I shall yell from the top of my lungs "IT'S CUDDLE TIME!"
I'll just pretend from now on that ultras don't have huge claws but that those are arms and they just want to hug people
29:57 Serral launches the biles before the abduct resolves.
Gotta say, cats jumping up on the desk make the cast even more fun. He's so cute!
"Siege Tanks from the high ground can reach up to the low ground"
- Lowko 2024
45:07
"It's over Serral, I have the high ground !"
*panicked looking around the map* - wth is this map. That was funny as hell. You always make watching starcraft fun Lowko!
Serral once again proving he is the meta
It's not that he makes other zerg pros look bad. It's that he makes them get nerfed! He's literally making every other Z player worse lmaooooo
@@amiablereaper like happy in wc3?
@@amiablereaper Sounds like a mile long skill issue between him and every other zerg player.
@@kosmosXcannon not only zerg though. He's a whole new level of SC player that there's only he's there. If we have A B C and S tier players, we have Serral at Serral tier, above all.
@@kosmosXcannon I mean, the man is just stupidly, scarily good.
"Attacking uphill with just lings and banes, into mines, bio and a fortress" - can one learn this power?
Not from a Protoss
one of the things he did is he doesn't just a-move his zerglings. He move command them deep into the terren army before starting to attack. This way the back zerglings do not derp around and they all do damage
So its obvious that Oliveira had prepared 8 rax all in to counter Serral strat. But what amazing is that Serral, within spans of 1 series, capable identifying and executed the counter of Oliveira's counter build at perfect timing.
What a banger of a serie! That last game was just insane! Other than Serral's economy, the zergling squad cutting off the reinforcement won him the game.
Watched the replay directly from the live stream and it was indeed the best series.
From the finish lakes into Germany and USA.
All the tournaments he came across.
Home Story Cups, tons of WCS and ESLs. Dreamhack and IEMs.
Shout Joona Sotala’s name
The overmind of the hive swarm knows the game
Son of Finland and THE GOAT.
(Sabaton, Soldier of 3 armies)
Very much so - but Finnish (apart from "finish")
@@linuxsauna Haha, thank you!
Quite embarassing, especially since "finnisch" and "Finnland" is spelled with 2 "n" in German (my native language) as well...
Oliveira said he lose to Serral 8 games in a row during their practice
I'm so glad you included the cat cam. I needed a good smile from something cute like that
That last game was insane. Serral scouts the opponent's strategy, counters in time, and *still* nearly loses.
T imba, but Serral is more imba
I didn’t think much of olivera before, but I have to respect him for pushing serral that far
Toby making a cameo appearance was priceless. Also, he didn't seem impressed! Just taking ownership of what's his,... Lowko.
I feel like in Game 1 it was less that every fight went super well for Serral, his pushes were always expensive, but he had such a massive income advantage for so long that he could afford to do it over and over and by the time Oliveira managed to stop it the damage was kinda done. It felt to me like Serral was staying on Ling-Bane to just continously keep his foot on the gas and pressure Oliveira while stealing him blind.
"Surprise, it's cuddle time!" is what Zerglings say when you send them on attack.
Cat's purring into the mic? Best series so far xD
Pff this was such a great series of games, incredibly close until the last minute! I've come to expect this level of play from Serral, but damn, Oliveira really impressed me here.
I admire the fact you let us see correction cuts, it feels more natural. We are people and we make mistakes. Even Lowko does, with smile, as always.
The tittle was NOT click bait. Awesome series!
With games like these, in a patch/map-pool that seems so pro-Terran, it's a little hard to say if... they need to nerf ling-bane again, or the problem is that they actually need to nerf Serral ._.
Last game was wild, reminds me of Slayers Boxer vs Mike Tyson match back in 1998
An absolutely nail-biting series.
Hats off to both players for really innovating and challenging each other.
Game 4, both Serral and Oliveira are playing the 'keep unit list under 200 by 8 min' challenge
It might have been worthwhile for serral to upgrade hatcheries in contested areas into lairs. The lair upgrade costs almost the same amount of money as a nuke and gives as much health as the nuke does damage.
i think its time we all agree on a new set of matchup terms, TvS, ZvS, and PvS, all of these standing for "versus Serral"
55:28 - "It's oozing confidence". Your rants can be so interesting, man!
love the Toby (Tobi?) Cameo, perfect co-host for these casts. And fantastic professional content as always, Lowko.
Game #1 was the most ridiculous games i also have ever seen.... gg wp glhf fam and
lowko as always thankyou for your hard work and dedication!!!
31:04
highlight of this series
21:19 that silence, palpable pain
Skip to 30:55 for cat
I'd like to see an impaler lvl up for the spine crawler with extra damage and range but slow
You know, Lowko is a master of another thing too: mimicking the Terran scan
Love you Lowko.
Would really enjoy checking in on the units/resources lost tab a little more often especially in G1, 2 and 3. I was super curious to see how efficient Seral is when trying to do the strats he went for.
Thanks for the epic videos buddy.😊
This has to be one of the best games I've seen, 20 minutes+ of non stop and laser thin margins for Serral
That pause on the map name was *chef's kiss*
If it has serral, then i m watching
What a wild series
1:08:56 serial's and Oliver's level of avoiding commitment is on fathers level.
I think we can see a dip in Serral's army supply graph from the widow mine shot at 59:18
once again a perfect introduction :D 1st try :) - LOVE your comment !
I was waiting for this one. Faithfully waited.
There was an old poster where it says that mutation into a building is "incredibly painful" for the drone.
That is a Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger and that, all by it self, is Schwere Panzerabteilung 502!
Using the Nydus worm as a broodwar Nydus Cannel. Bravo GOAT Serral!
Awesome execution on game 4 for Oliveria, The final engagement was almost enough for Serral, and not a bad engagement.
bruh... you got over 9000 likes from me for the cat purring into the mic. Sure, UA-cam only registers 1 of those likes, but there's 8999 more floating around that first one for you
7:41 Serral transfuses a wounded drone
Cares more than the Overmind ever did ❤
It's a shame that you can't choose which one you watch. I would love to see Serral play a game like this. So his point of view. But the fact that you can see it on the map is pretty cool. Oh and yes, you do it very well too, thank you.
1:27:40
Lowko: "It looks like Oliveira has discovered a vulnerability in Serral's play."
Music: *DRAMATIC AND INTENSE MINOR CHORDS*
Someone stop Serral he can’t keep getting away with it!
Hew Lowko! I've been watching your content for years man. Just want to say thanks for doing these awesome casts. Great video!
Toby just being a delight and even giving us some purring asmr 🥹
Open the door for that cat at once ^^! Wow! He's a beautiful cat
I think the difference between Serral and other Zerg players like Reynor or Scarlett is that Serral isn't afraid to lose his army, if they'll accomplish the objective while dying. Scarlett would attempt that attack, but then realize there's tanks and widow mines, and try to back away, and lose all her banelings on the retreat while not getting the planetary. Serral can tell whether he has enough power to just go for it.
It's always a good idea to try and play like Serral until you realise your not Serral
For the phone watcher, go to the cogweell on the top right, then go to quality, advenced and select at least 1080p
That first game was crazy, but I do think that lowko was exaggerating how much splash there was, bc Serral did a great job of not giving Oli the time or money to build enough tanks and libs. Maybe I’m just crazy but I never saw there being more than like two tanks or libs
World champs always deserve the "You know em, you love em" intro!
Hello Toby! It's a pleasure to meet you, you have a beautiful purr :3
33:05 "Serral needed a bit of luck that his proxy base wasn't gonna be found" I mean it got found the instant it finished :D On a huge map, i would say it was unlucky for it to be found so fast.
Petition for Lowko to co-cast with Toby more often
Seconded!
i could have saved probably a year of my life by playing lowko's video at 1.25 speed sooner
Lowko should show his cats more, or even feature him in a single video. The cat looks so pretty
Havent seen a serral game in a bit, and man this guys still terrifying. Imagine you go to fight 10 zerglings in front of you and another army comes up from behind from a secret base, while 2 overlords are dropping in both your bases and he is burrowing and hiding shit in between your buildings.... i would just gg and leave XD
Thanks for the video, Lowko. Happy Friday! ❤
Serral is just too good
This is the Real Final which we deserve.
The problem with Zerg is that it has an incredible high skill ceiling. People talking about Zerg being nerfed or has gotten weaker has to realize that most Zerg players aren't that good, Reynor especially. Back then Zerg is just OP, all you had to do is play fast, expand, defend with queens, spread creep etc. Once you out mine your opponent and mass enough bank, you can just mass produce, trade and repeat. But now you actually have to play skillfully, like scouting, pre split, react and micro. Zerg is still powerful, that's how Serral is able to stick with T1 units like Lings and Banes, destroying Marines, Marauders, Mines, Tanks and Planetary while still trading rather effectively.
The nerf didn't affect Serral because despite Zerg was OP, he didn't play by just abusing Zerg advantage, he actually is playing proper SC2 by scouting, reacting and counter punishing
My cat like yours, seems obsessed with StarCraft, she cries to come in when playing and wants to sit on the desk.
Serral is inevitable
I am bad af in this game but i love it to watch the pros play 😁
Lmao that drone just continued to mine and then got promoted 😂😂😂
@30:59 - Lowko wearing a Speedmaster!
awesome game!
Toby is such a gorgeous cat! And a gentlemen. Purring to the audience :)
great series!
Finally, Serral figured out on his own what I was saying Zerg needs to do for years! When ahead, mine one of your opponent's base instead of throwing away the advantage by throwing units to the wall or just sitting and doing nothing.
Toby appearance? Best series cast ever.
Wait wait. We have powered through half the year and i dont think we have any matches title Game of the Year. Or at least not as many as normal.
Petition to change the title of this game to Game of the Year.
Honestly, Toby videos would also do great in the algorithm.
Serral and Oliveira?!!
huh.....this will be interesting
wow....it was interestingly epic!
You missed the last fight, where Serral obliterated all of Ollie's ground force, even with 4-5 libs in the air. With 1/3 of his army still chewing on the other side of the map
"Everybody has a plan until they get into the game of StarCraft" -Mike Tychus
'not that fast'
10 times the apm I had when I played, though I had pretty efficient moves..
How come MULES don't show up as unit lost?
1:09:30 beautiful hellbat tanking
If Serral is persisting in the ling-bane, I think blue flame hellbats would have been a hugely valuable investment.
Alright that got a like from me 20 seconds in, "I know the results of this series." then immediately having that hilarious bit when looking for the spawn in had me laughing so hard honestly I am terrible at Starcraft never could get the hang of all the multi tasking and resource management but I loved Protoss because I am a big fan of the Mothership unit and Colossus plus blink was always cool I love warping in stuff and the color is pretty but I love seeing high level long matches they're great to watch dinner to and it popped up in the feed.
They're about to nerf zerg again, aren't they? 😢
I have to stand up for Toby here - when I met Lowko irl and shook his hand I too had to lick myself clean for hours
10:53 wh0000t?! Going down a ramp holding hands. 🤝 how?