I think whats changed with Clem is his defensive play. His micro and pressure have always been god tier but lately he seems more than comfortable to take the back foot and defend his bases perfectly. Against Serral and Dark I think this is what really separated him and gave him the extra edge.
Because serral always defend and win at the end. It is boring to watch serral against good player. In défense : Zerg win, terran ans only protoss can't have a good defense
uh... u mean the thing that changed was baneling nerf? clem has always done widow mine/marine/medivac. for the majority of games. now dark is attempting to avoid banelings in general.
He was already powerful against Serral then. What would destroy him were Korean players like Zest and Dark, players that would often upset his playstyle by doing very weird stuff he wasn't accustomed to.
@@Icytouched1337 Yes. glass jaw clem with his "get 3 bases and attack non-stop with marine/mine/medivac" strategy for half a decade. He got countered by people who played more aggressive openings, attacking him before that timing. Why should he get rewarded for completely static unchanging gameplay via nerfs?
*Me, a 30 year old viewing from the couch after pulling my back at work* Why did winter have to go do that isn’t the pain bad enough without him going there
idk who remembers. but just a few months back clem started to get coaching by lambo. I'm going to take an educated guess here and assume that lambo has really honed in his ability to micro like a demon back at his own base. I would bet that with clems godtier mechanics, and lambo's ability to theory craft has created this monstrosity.
I think dark is so much fun to watch. Serral is the cinematic Zerg. The Zerg you play against in the campaign and it seems so clean and unbeatable but fair. "I think that infestor was spawned in on location because that was so perfect!" kind of thing. Dark is the fan made difficulty mod. Chaotic and seemingly unfair. Sometimes it doesn't work right and gets walked over but most of the time insane. I really wish that Dark could keep playing professionally instead of the military service but it is what it is.
Clem got better, his defensive play is much better, he utilises much more libs than before, overall his understanding what he needs to do and what he doesn't need to do is way better now.
I know what a cassette tape, a cd rom, an eight track tape, a reel to reel tape, a punch card, a film strip, a zip drive, and a thing maker is... and I still play Starcraft and watch Winter's videos. I am the equivalent of a toddler fighting against the karate instructor. Hot keys are for youngins who like to win, I like to lose with maximum low APM. 😂
The funny thing about Terran in moments like 16:58 is that while their supply is higher, most of it is in production (and medivacs/vikings). Part of me wonders what would happen if herO just a moves into the 2 libs there. The ground force actually on the field was so small.
SPOILERS: game 1: toss chooses to try to out dps terran bio ball without storm game 2: toss is forced to try to out dps terran bio ball without storm success? none
In game one toss went into trades with terran during timing window when terran have an edge. Not the great idea. In second game toss lost too many zealots for free that did absolutely nothing. You can really see in this game how much better MaxPax is.
I kind of like the idea of Hero and Dark being like a tag-team in SC2, there should be more team-oriented tournaments and events that take advantage of this sort of thing
25:30 "putting all your buildings on one pylon that could potentially be depowered [clip of artosis. 'who does that']" Your subtlety is exceeded only by your wit, I kneel
@22:30 god DAMN i know what a cassette is and I'm watching this to pass the time while my back is thrown out. Why u gotta call me out like this man. xD
In my forties, my back pain is ok most of the time, thanks for asking :D I owned a cassete, cleaned CDs was a thing, and it "worked", in the sense that before it didn't and now it does, but it could be for any number of reasons, we just like to think it was that. AoE2 was amazing, yeah. But so was Manic Miner in my spectrum, not that anybody cares ... this young punks!
Sick games ^_^ Like first game vs Dark, fought for 10 min with ling/bane only with 50 supply less, all the way until clem was like, if you don't have a pool you cant make lings... and then gg ^_^
If you know what a cassette tape is? How’s the back pain? Remember CD rom drives. Did your disc ever get too scratched? lol did you ever blow on it. Nostalgia checking in with ya winter!
@@primary2630 Good question. I like most of SCII but EMP just spoils the whole thing, so I only watch occasionally. As soon as I see it used, it's pretty obvious there's no point watching any more of a given match. It's not always used though and there's no way of knowing up front. I guess casters could put up an EMP trigger warning. I don't think they'd appreciate the extra work to discourage people from watching their videos though.
Do you actually come up with those funny quips off the fly or are they prewritten. Either way i have liked and subbed and ill watch the next series anyway.
can someone explain to me why you dont upgrade shields first as protoss? i get that zealots have more HP than shields and ghost EMP screwing them, but in PVZ why not upgrade shields frst, you regenerate them again, this would be especially good for herO with stalker micro, no?
1. attack upgrades usually serve you better than defense, save for very specific cases 2. armor upgrades increase your effective HP for singular fights. A lot of ground units don't get to survive many fights and you prefer them to be at top performance for the one fight they'll be in (think zealots). 3. most ground units have more HP than shields, so the increase in effective HP is more noticeable when you increase armor first. The only case in which shields should be prioritized is with units that you can reliably retrieve alive from combat and quickly regn their shields. You'd need some sort of blink stalker+ shield battery + enough time to regen all shields setup for that. Which is unrealistic. Armor upgrade is a simple clean way to upgrade all your ground forces reliably without any need for specific tactics
you would have to comment on backpain after I had to defrost the pipes in my house next door and slipped and fell down the stairs out of my house. but I remember 8 tracks and floppy discs.
2:55 I'm a bit behind with my player knowledge, but what about Serral? Isn't he the best player in the world? I know Clem is absolutely incredible, but wasn't Serral an absolute undefeated menace?
Clem makes Terran look imba right now. (Maybe it is) Thinking about it, I'd say that any asymmetrically balanced mechanic is going to suffer from flavor of the patch, syndrome. Especially when those patches are based on polls/trends, ignoring unrealized potential, and superior players make one of the available asymmetries appear unbeatable. (ae: Serral getting Zerg repeatedly nerfed) Swinging things wildly, due to sentiment and not objective numbers.
For the pros the micro battle of Ghost vs High Templar favors the Ghosts so the Pro Protoss don’t usually build them as part of their standing army. In Diamond league Ghost vs High Templar micro battles are very common.
I’m usually rooting for the Terrans, but I can’t help but root for the final boss all the time. Also is it just me or are marines without stim defending better than stimmed marines?
Ok, Ok. Yes. I did Buy the original. And yes I did have to buy a book size 5 gig hard drive for space needed, cost $349 for 5 gig hard drive. And yes my back hurts.. vision is good. But neck surgery tomorrow.. yes we worked hard for a living... and played harder.. die Zerg.. lol
I thought Hero was doing fine in game 1 until he made Disruptors, then he got noticeably less cautious and seemed to care only about landing the next big hit on the bio. Guardian shields stopped completely, and he was just wading in as if every fight should be the last one.
Disruptors feel like a trap in PvT, like Terrans train to avoid baneling swarms from multiple angles while target firing and seiging up, a couple of giant glowing bombs are never gonna land unless the Terran straight up falls asleep at this level. Sure Templar can get EMPd, but at least storms are harder to dodge entirely. Plus archons are always good anyway.
"This was more one-sided than a möbius strip", how do you come up with these 😂
he's as good at find clever jokes as my lol player friend at finding hilarious insults
I think whats changed with Clem is his defensive play. His micro and pressure have always been god tier but lately he seems more than comfortable to take the back foot and defend his bases perfectly. Against Serral and Dark I think this is what really separated him and gave him the extra edge.
Because serral always defend and win at the end. It is boring to watch serral against good player. In défense : Zerg win, terran ans only protoss can't have a good defense
uh... u mean the thing that changed was baneling nerf? clem has always done widow mine/marine/medivac. for the majority of games. now dark is attempting to avoid banelings in general.
He was already powerful against Serral then. What would destroy him were Korean players like Zest and Dark, players that would often upset his playstyle by doing very weird stuff he wasn't accustomed to.
@@Icytouched1337 Yes. glass jaw clem with his "get 3 bases and attack non-stop with marine/mine/medivac" strategy for half a decade. He got countered by people who played more aggressive openings, attacking him before that timing. Why should he get rewarded for completely static unchanging gameplay via nerfs?
why you hating lol@@alexCh-ln2gw
"Hows the back pain"
I feel personally attacked
*Me, a 30 year old viewing from the couch after pulling my back at work*
Why did winter have to go do that isn’t the pain bad enough without him going there
@@DeanCaruso 27 y.o construction worker here, that was really unnecessary
I can't remember the last time I saw this much FREEDOM in one game. That game 1 was insane by its end.
idk who remembers. but just a few months back clem started to get coaching by lambo. I'm going to take an educated guess here and assume that lambo has really honed in his ability to micro like a demon back at his own base. I would bet that with clems godtier mechanics, and lambo's ability to theory craft has created this monstrosity.
hero needs a coach that shows him how to do the basics too, then hed truly be the protoss we need
@@Phoenix-zu6on toss still needs a back line ranged unit...*ahem*...dragoon....to compete with T&Z
what does that have to do with what i said lmao @@cavemantero
I think dark is so much fun to watch. Serral is the cinematic Zerg. The Zerg you play against in the campaign and it seems so clean and unbeatable but fair. "I think that infestor was spawned in on location because that was so perfect!" kind of thing. Dark is the fan made difficulty mod. Chaotic and seemingly unfair. Sometimes it doesn't work right and gets walked over but most of the time insane. I really wish that Dark could keep playing professionally instead of the military service but it is what it is.
one could say that Clem is Terran through his opponents.
Clem ate the absolute fattest bronze league hero nova ever in game 1 and continues casually rocking Hero's shit for the rest of the game, what a boss
Clem got better, his defensive play is much better, he utilises much more libs than before, overall his understanding what he needs to do and what he doesn't need to do is way better now.
"If you know what a cassette tape is..."
I feel attacked. I also know what the save icon in most programs
Doom was on a floppy disk originally :(
I feel you.
Fun fact the US military uses floppy disc to transport important information here and there.
I know what a cassette tape, a cd rom, an eight track tape, a reel to reel tape, a punch card, a film strip, a zip drive, and a thing maker is... and I still play Starcraft and watch Winter's videos. I am the equivalent of a toddler fighting against the karate instructor. Hot keys are for youngins who like to win, I like to lose with maximum low APM. 😂
The equivalent to blowing into a cartridge for CDs/DVDs is to rub them with a slightly damp white-tee
I rewinded cassette tapes with a ball pen when I was little, and I had the original cd-roms for SC1 and it's expansion, good times!
My back pain is killing me, thank you 😂
16:45 holy shit. I felt that. I literally cringed seeing no reaction hahahaha. Clemont is one of us!!!!
the cd-rom polisher thing with the crank you spun that was the go
toothpaste
The funny thing about Terran in moments like 16:58 is that while their supply is higher, most of it is in production (and medivacs/vikings). Part of me wonders what would happen if herO just a moves into the 2 libs there. The ground force actually on the field was so small.
Starting to feel a bit sorry for everyone else but watching clem play is just majestic. Katowice champion in coming? I hope so!
He won in Atlanta.
Seems to be the only person who reliably beats Clem is MaxPax.
Ah, the irony...
clems gonna be the goat if he gets over his fear of people in live events
introverts be like dis bro
" more one-sided than a Mobius strip" has to be one of the dopest lines that I've heard from my Starcraft 2 commentator
SPOILERS:
game 1: toss chooses to try to out dps terran bio ball without storm
game 2: toss is forced to try to out dps terran bio ball without storm
success? none
In game one toss went into trades with terran during timing window when terran have an edge. Not the great idea.
In second game toss lost too many zealots for free that did absolutely nothing. You can really see in this game how much better MaxPax is.
I kind of like the idea of Hero and Dark being like a tag-team in SC2, there should be more team-oriented tournaments and events that take advantage of this sort of thing
In the second game Hero donated so many Zealots to Clem for free that if he somehow won than Protoss would get nerfed LOL
25:30 "putting all your buildings on one pylon that could potentially be depowered [clip of artosis. 'who does that']"
Your subtlety is exceeded only by your wit, I kneel
The sound of Liberator entering in Siege Mode is like: Ohhh shiet! No No No NO!
It's absolutely crazy how good he is now
@22:30 god DAMN i know what a cassette is and I'm watching this to pass the time while my back is thrown out. Why u gotta call me out like this man. xD
In my forties, my back pain is ok most of the time, thanks for asking :D
I owned a cassete, cleaned CDs was a thing, and it "worked", in the sense that before it didn't and now it does, but it could be for any number of reasons, we just like to think it was that.
AoE2 was amazing, yeah. But so was Manic Miner in my spectrum, not that anybody cares ... this young punks!
I thought the world as we knew it would change when CD ROM scratch cleaning machines appeared, which cut off a layer of the disc's scratched surface.
wait, it existed??
@@motan7864 Yes! those are still sold on ebay.
I love the little humor talks between games.
Do you know what a casette is? How is your back pain?
Brilliant ❤❤❤👍
God that thumbnail tells me everything I need to know for this casting. I can't wait to watch
We are all Brenda. Ouh my back.
Sick games ^_^
Like first game vs Dark, fought for 10 min with ling/bane only with 50 supply less, all the way until clem was like, if you don't have a pool you cant make lings... and then gg ^_^
Clem has really sailed up. At this rate, he will rival Serral in less than a year as "the player who just wins".
"How's the back pain?" Got me.
Thank you for being my favorite caster!!
Wow at 22:00 the age 35+ and up dis track starts pumping hard. It hit close to home and had me lmfao
"butt clem" is said an alarming number of times
How to make pocket money in high school:
Put in the cd
Put in the floppy disk
Wait
Type 'cd d:'
Type 'setup'
If you know what a cassette tape is? How’s the back pain? Remember CD rom drives. Did your disc ever get too scratched? lol did you ever blow on it. Nostalgia checking in with ya winter!
My back is perfectly fine thank-you. I had to make a copy of my Brood War disk because it got so much use.
Toothpaste always helped fixed those scratched discs
Que máquina el Clem, como ha cambiado este jugador, lo versátil que es ahora. Saludetes
It’s neck pain today and thanks for the content. 😂
clem the new fastest gunslinger, congrats to "clem the kid"
CLEM MAH BOIIIIIIIII
Remember Write Protect Notches on Floppy Disks?!? ;)
"If you know what a casette tape is" -- feeling old :(
I felt that squint and back pain comments😂😂
Only difference with Clem now is confidence! He trusts his reads
Smashed that like button after the casette reference.
Clem is the best of both Maru and Byun its crazy what he did in the WTL
The question is not "2024, when did that happen?" it is "2024, what the FUCK happened?" Kudos to those who know the answer. ;)
16:45 This is what you came for.
Is this post cyclone nerf? Clem makes them look great in early push
There's no point watching after the EMP. Removing half of an entire armies hit points with a single spell is game breaking.
then why even watch a tvp if you know what is going to happen? though emp is really powerful
@@primary2630Terran is super easy with all the forgiving mechanic and training wheel low risk high reward mechanics😂
@@primary2630 Good question. I like most of SCII but EMP just spoils the whole thing, so I only watch occasionally. As soon as I see it used, it's pretty obvious there's no point watching any more of a given match. It's not always used though and there's no way of knowing up front. I guess casters could put up an EMP trigger warning. I don't think they'd appreciate the extra work to discourage people from watching their videos though.
I remember using a pencil to rewind my cassette
27:00 xD
Do you actually come up with those funny quips off the fly or are they prewritten. Either way i have liked and subbed and ill watch the next series anyway.
Also im from kenya... we love soccer... my dream is listening to cast a soccer game
. . . the back pain is fine. Must be from having to carry around a Walkman in my youth.
Let's gooooooo!
"How's the backpain" winter why do you have to make me feel so old, I'm only 30.
Winter, love your work.
can someone explain to me why you dont upgrade shields first as protoss? i get that zealots have more HP than shields and ghost EMP screwing them, but in PVZ why not upgrade shields frst, you regenerate them again, this would be especially good for herO with stalker micro, no?
You said your answer. EMP and effective HP
1. attack upgrades usually serve you better than defense, save for very specific cases
2. armor upgrades increase your effective HP for singular fights. A lot of ground units don't get to survive many fights and you prefer them to be at top performance for the one fight they'll be in (think zealots).
3. most ground units have more HP than shields, so the increase in effective HP is more noticeable when you increase armor first.
The only case in which shields should be prioritized is with units that you can reliably retrieve alive from combat and quickly regn their shields. You'd need some sort of blink stalker+ shield battery + enough time to regen all shields setup for that. Which is unrealistic. Armor upgrade is a simple clean way to upgrade all your ground forces reliably without any need for specific tactics
you would have to comment on backpain after I had to defrost the pipes in my house next door and slipped and fell down the stairs out of my house. but I remember 8 tracks and floppy discs.
2:55 I'm a bit behind with my player knowledge, but what about Serral? Isn't he the best player in the world? I know Clem is absolutely incredible, but wasn't Serral an absolute undefeated menace?
Kindof odd how hero and dark decided to stop building workers at a certain point, then lost 5-8 minutes later due to running out of money.
I never comment, usually just content with watching, but that casset player and back pain comment hit to close to home haha 😂😅
Thank You
Om nom nom
smashing the like button for casette tapes, and always having a pencil at hand
how about archon team
mode?
New Winter video - I clicked, I liked and I started watching...
Oof... reminding me to like by reminding me how old I am was so uncalled for 😂
Clem makes Terran look imba right now. (Maybe it is)
Thinking about it, I'd say that any asymmetrically balanced mechanic is going to suffer from flavor of the patch, syndrome.
Especially when those patches are based on polls/trends, ignoring unrealized potential, and superior players make one of the available asymmetries appear unbeatable.
(ae: Serral getting Zerg repeatedly nerfed) Swinging things wildly, due to sentiment and not objective numbers.
the era of Clem...
Well, Clem's card will require another update to a 9 or 10,to MATCH Serral 😊
Clem so good
How come we dont see Psy storm in situations like these? I feel like vs that clumped terran ball it would do so good
For the pros the micro battle of Ghost vs High Templar favors the Ghosts so the Pro Protoss don’t usually build them as part of their standing army. In Diamond league Ghost vs High Templar micro battles are very common.
Also high templars hide in warprisms if such thing occurs. Which are easy for this level to shoot down looks like, no options open for protoss. Afaik.
I’m usually rooting for the Terrans, but I can’t help but root for the final boss all the time.
Also is it just me or are marines without stim defending better than stimmed marines?
Doesn't Clem feel like a Serral at this point? Just inevitable and relentless force of Terrain..
Don't appreciate being called out like that sir my back pain is fine....
Good to see underpowered Terran doing well recently
Its a joke about underpowered Terrans yes?
well hopefully they'll get the buff they deserve since so many people keep complaining
Good to see the easiest beginner race just got easier. Terran is OP with all the forgiving mechanic and training wheel low risk high reward mechanics😂
How on Earth do you know cassette tapes? You're not that old! (I am.)
bahaha i know what a cassette tape is and yes a scratched cd lol.
I used caset tapes and CD players XD
Running water over CD or licking them
Crazy wp😂
i found the like button sonny. good content kiddo!
clem vs. serral when
Ok, Ok. Yes. I did Buy the original. And yes I did have to buy a book size 5 gig hard drive for space needed, cost $349 for 5 gig hard drive. And yes my back hurts.. vision is good. But neck surgery tomorrow.. yes we worked hard for a living... and played harder.. die Zerg.. lol
I just wanna know what Jimmy looks like
Like just for making me feel old. Lol
wow
EMP seems too strong against Protoss
For the algorithm!
3rd, never this close!!
God this is such a sad joke. Protoss running from Bio Good Fking Lord
I thought Hero was doing fine in game 1 until he made Disruptors, then he got noticeably less cautious and seemed to care only about landing the next big hit on the bio. Guardian shields stopped completely, and he was just wading in as if every fight should be the last one.
Disruptors feel like a trap in PvT, like Terrans train to avoid baneling swarms from multiple angles while target firing and seiging up, a couple of giant glowing bombs are never gonna land unless the Terran straight up falls asleep at this level.
Sure Templar can get EMPd, but at least storms are harder to dodge entirely. Plus archons are always good anyway.