[2020 GSL S2] Ro.16 Group B Match3 INnoVation vs PartinG

[@YoshiKirishima]

HOLY. FUCKING. SHIT. Parting vs Innovation G1 was legit one of the BEST, most IMPRESSIVE, most CREATIVE games of SC2 I've EVER seen! I wish the observer highlighted it better, but the big fight at 15:49 (14:25 gametime) was mindblowing. Parting had already planned the surround and started setting up from the moment Innovation moved out after losing his 3rd. He was keeping multiple HTs located around the map, ready to flank armies with storm or perhaps feedback drops, hence all the great defensive storms throughout the game. He had 3 HTs at the center left (which had been sitting there since 14:11, or 12:45 gametime, 1 minute 40 seconds before the big fight), and 1 HT at the bottom left near those proxy pylons (sitting there since 12:23, or 10:55 gametime, 3.5 minutes before the big fight). He brought all 4 of those HTs and arrived just at the perfect moment to get that BEAUTIFUL 360 surround, even using the accelerator fields to help get those amazing storm flanks. But wait, it wasn't just those 4 HT's storms. There was 1 crucial storm right at the start of the battle on the left, which whiffed. But that was all Parting needed to make sure Innovation would run to the RIGHT and thus get surrounded by the army. And with Parting splitting half of his army onto the high ground on the right , which Innovation didn't seem to notice, Innovation also sieged up a few seconds late. Like holy shit, that was just mindblowing! That was one of the most incredible moments I've ever seen in the history of SC2. Do you realize how difficult (or lucky) it is to get a 4 angle surround, let alone with HTs storming at the perfect time? Each of the 4 angles were executed with perfect timing and positioning. When you're watching pros, good Storms feel like a given, but if you tried playing Protoss you would be surprised at how slow HTs actually move and how limited the 9 range feels. If your positioning is slightly off, it means a storm can be precious seconds too late, or your storm will whiff. But what we saw was those 4 HTs arriving shortly after another to get several seconds of chain storm on the whole army. You don't often see surrounds like this in pro games other than perhaps Serral, because they are highly committal and the execution is incredibly difficult and the consequences for failure are severe. But it is a beauty when it pays off! From the crazy proxy and fights around the rocks in the early game with how Parting somehow saved his Robo and chased off the Marauders with his Immortal, to Parting trying to defend two very spread out bases with pylons/HTs located all over the map against Innovation's ruthless harass in the mid game, all that culminated into that pivotal fight where Parting demonstrated a masterpiece of an engagement. This is like a map maker's dream come true, the whole design of the center of the map and the location of the bases is so interesting and I'm glad we were able to see a game fully highlight its features, from the unique pathing with the bridges with accelerators, to the rocks, to the Rich Gas bases. Absolutely incredible reactions and flexibility from Innovation, but even MORE incredible play from Parting. It is insane how good these players are, yet people say the "skill" of players now is lower than back then. This game is literally like a dream come true, from start to finish this game has been so unique with amazing responses by both players put into very weird and uncomfortable situations. And Innovation's dive onto Parting's Disruptor army was so bold and almost gave me a heartattack, but Parting got good Novas off. After that it felt like Innovation again might be able to end Parting with his drops and with how weak Parting's army looked, and I was ready to feel heartbroke if Parting lost or threw after all the beauty that happened so far. (I feel like his HTs were working real well but he stopped making them, but I suppose in small number they are not reliable vs Ghosts). But those 3/3 Gateway units vs 2/1 Bio are really strong I guess! I wish the game were able to continue a bit longer and culminate into another climax, and it might have if Innovation just defended once he got 5 bases up instead of attacking at the end, but it was a great great game nonetheless. Absolutely beautiful play from both players, I'm just speechless. One of the greatest SC2 games ever!!! You can't ask for a better game than that unless you wanted it to also end with the map mined out and a big Carrier vs BC war or something xD 10/10!!!

[@JayMotionz]

Fantastic review.

[@GanFloorscope]

Great review! I think the observer and casters also miss HT flank around 15:18 where PartinG bring a warp prism with HT storm drop to further halt INnoVation's army to defend his third base, you can see that part more clearly from PartinG's point of view VOD, INnoV's Viking shut down that warp prism instantly after that though Here's PartinG's point of view : vod.afreecatv.com/PLAYER/STATION/59258176

[@YoshiKirishima]

@@GanFloorscope Ohh dang you're right, you can see the very tip of the Storm on the left haha. I'm so happy they record and upload FPVODs, I only found out recently. How long have they been doing it?

[@the-nomad-show]

@GanFloorscope Thanks! Didn't know about the first person stream! Will rewatch the games with this. And absolutely stellar review @Yoshi. Great read.

[@SirIlliterate]

Hey man, I just wanna say that it's people like you and your raw, infectious enthusiasm that are responsible for this game still being alive. Keep being awesome

[@rcwills]

Tasteless: What an insane strategy by ... it's really interesting to see how it doesn't work." 😂😂😂

[@Marcv1285]

oh, man, I like parting's head shake at the end. It's like he can't even believe it himself. I'm glad we have that evil dude advancing to the next round, he sure makes the games interesting!

[@testthewest123]

Parting reminds me of MC back in the day. His style: Specialize on winning!

[@testthewest123]

@ If he was trash, he would not win games 30+ minutes. He wouldn't even get a win from a cheese against GSL players. He is a winner and he is playing with a handicap (protoss being underpowered), so he makes the best out of it.

[@testthewest123]

@ Lol...you don't even know what cheese is. No point in talking to you.

[@deathya1]

@@testthewest123 There's a difference between cheese and aggression. He's an aggressive player who likes to be in your face, but can also go to a long game and still win. He beat Maru in long Bo5 in some long 15 minute + games. PartinG is one of the best players to watch right now.. He's great in all areas of the game - macro, game knowledge, decision making, creativity, innovation, strategy, and has absolute God-Tier micro. He prefers to play unorthodox because that's his style.. and he's so damn good at it. Nobody plays like PartinG while still getting the results he does. Scarlett tries sometimes but she just isn't as PartinG when it comes to micro and macro.

[@appidydafoo]

15:39 I'm not even a big PvT fan but this was one of the best moments I have ever seen in all my years watching SC2

[@zachsmith4754]

That was archon toilet levels of destruction haha

[@havinfun44884488]

Yeah the storms were perfect! Perfect flank.

[@havinfun44884488]

zach smith bring back the Archon toilet 🚽!! 😂

[@JotakRTS]

I agree. I would say it is one of the best games I have ever seen of sc2.

[@Wheatsolo]

NotLikeThis

[@josephbrozprimaylon1822]

When you see INnoVaTion set up looks like unbreakable. But PartinG made it breakable in front of our eyes! Love this guy!

[@jackxiao9702]

The psi storm flank to destroy all the sieged tanks was my favorite.

[@stryderx1]

SMARTING

[@acoria7784]

Parting is the new sOs. All hail

[@tomleszczynski2862]

The amount of ads I had to mute, click through, or remember never to buy was just insane.

[@josephbrozprimaylon1822]

Actually big part of PartinG's success on game 1 are those observers all over the base of INnoVation

[@tigera6]

yeah, those Terran players somehow always forget to make the Ravens to scout their base for observer

[@dragonpower0]

Parting is such a micro GOD

[@JosepPi]

0:50 They are so happy! That is awesome!

[@ferologics]

it’s because they’re talking trash in chat xD

[@JLuz34]

05:14 - "oh shot him up the stairs" lol.

[@guptasinghy]

Parting is so good and aggressive in mid game and makes his opponents want to try non standard rushes to try and win early. parting had enough defence and good micro to hold.

[@DimaShinder]

Parting either plays god mode or forgets how to play lol

[@minhthucdao1]

great play by PartinG!

[@handeezyspeakseasy398]

Y'all need to chill with the spoilers

[@JRTIntervencion]

I'm the biggest (everybody says that lul) Tarren fan but man... PartinG is his own race to me. Always fun to watch, always fun to cheer for. Go INno, you can't miss Ro8! Go beat the winner of Dark vs Bunny and advance to the next Round. Grats PartinG, you did very well!

[@SirChocula]

Not gonna hate, but Starcraft's been out for 22 years and you still can't spell Terran correctly, not sure if you're the biggest fan xD lol.

[@sanctuarygaming4984]

That late game composition of Parting is really intersting. TY did well against it last season but it seems powerful against Terran. Super cool and new way to play macro games.

[@FuXeD]

anyone know the last song?

[@meatmeat5344]

Are we sure parting isn't the 4th race?

[@teudaan]

Parting is playing out of his mind! GSL champion 2012 is back again!!

[@josephbrozprimaylon1822]

Man I got chills PartinG never disappoints!!!

[@V4Andy]

Parting is my new favorite player. Wow!

[@Zeuts85]

Wow. Just wow. If you'd told me Parting would be first out of the group I'd have said you were full of it. But it's not like it was fluke either! He totally earned those wins with just all around amazing play. Holy crap he's gotten good!

[@Cyberpansy]

Innovation didn’t want to go into a TvT with TY next round?

[@CyberS1renLucy]

1:38 anyone know its name?

[@karllml]

wowowowo great play by PartinG!

[@jongjtjt]

WHAT A BOSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

[@tzhmis]

soo many adds ugh gonna make me turn on addblock

[@flutterflowexpert]

2:53 i got so confused that i have already watched this game and blamed youtube for not showing that i have watched this video already and then!!! BOOM its a new game. same build! WTF!!!

I love Parting's playstyle. Probably plays that way because he's still half lit from a drunk stream the night before lol

[@kretarosdarker6395]

15:40 I can't believe they didn't censor this... *Kreygasm*

[@WorldOfDeepThought]

I wonder about the mouthfeel of spider people.

[@amai2307]

Inno got a mouthfeel from spider people tho.

[@joonjoon819]

PartinG is a fucking god. So glad he's still going strong.

[@neirdolife-thegamerinvestor]

that last game strat that innovation used would have worked if he added medivacs. gg though

[@goldcobraarima9819]

Parting = Big Boi

[@108stiches6]

jeez...this pod sounds like a round of 4 or 8.....

[@JambaJuice200]

Good games by parting.. i like his sincerity

[@bilindshushe2586]

Terrans. please ALWAYS MAKE RAVENS VS Protoss. please

[@commandertex4389]

All hail the dic boy. What a surround in game 1 I really thought he was going to lose

[@Xn3v3rX]

Feel really bad for anyone that placed bets on this match. God damn who saw this result coming.

[@hskaushikmurthy89]

We need SoS, PartinG and Hero on the same team. The kind of builds you could see🤩🤩

[@mewingcat22]

LiquidHerO?

[@A7xFo]

@@mewingcat22 LiquidHerO was never really good. He's obviously talking about CJHero

[@felipedrouillas7418]

Dance Gavin dance - Night Sway >.> nice song

[@beauwoodcock7327]

PARTING HAVE MY BABIES

[@blackhatson13]

1:20 Ah ... two guys with cunning smiles

[@meatmeat5344]

Inno throwing to avoid ty

[@amai2307]

Nice joke, tho a bit overused by now.

[@ABX8]

YOU LIE PARTING IM ALWAYS ROOTING FOR YOU!!!

[@dyanc8139]

BigBoyyyy

[@Loysekiu]

23:10 Partings face: damn it was soo nasty

[@alexbecks9215]

innovation shouldnt have started pushing so fast in game 1. He should have gone way slower. The siege tanks are tricky - and parting has proven that he plays phenomenaly the "blink into your siege tanks at the right time" game ( with all his observers every time)

[@jackster330]

what world am i living in?? parting beating inno in this group 2-0? and patting dark on the back after beating inno???? bosstoss

[@teudaan]

An army of marauders with tanks going up against a bunch of stalkers. "Artosis was going to go "this is a show case of how to counter stalker armies for noobs", Parting proceeded to destroyed the terran with stalkers. Artosis shit his pant, rethinking everything he thinks he knows about starcraft.

[@tigera6]

Ironically, if Inno replace those Tanks with Marines and some Medivac, basically made the Bio army, he would have won. Those tanks are not effective against Stalker spread too far apart and make the splash damage useless.

[@olleharstedt3750]

Free Hong Kong, support democracy and human rights.

[@MoonyD911]

The bad thing for the winner is that he has to face TY. Had he thrown this match and came out in 2nd place, DRG is a much 'easier' opponent. Hope the winner beats TY

[@SxKirbyxG]

What an insane over commit by inno with his marauders. Definitely could have won that game if he siege'd further back and been more patient he could have won He didnt even take advantage of the short rush distance that his build was planned around

[@tigera6]

He would have won without those tanks, and using either medivac or Cyclone instead.

[@thewickedsoulirises]

Damn it!!! Regroup terrans!!!

[@eialves6263]

Smart of inno, he wants no part of TY.

[@quisut7167]

he tried really hard tho

[@eialves6263]

@@scarredable Notice during game 2, even Artosis was dumbfounded. He said that what Inno was doing was akin to someone who does not know a thing about starcraft. I'm guessing he gauged Dark first and felt confident going into losers or something. Or maybe I'm just thinking too much since I want TY to brutalize Inno lmao.

[@whirlwind872]

@@scarredable No way man, think about it - it's not worth it for players to throw matches when they have a very real chance of being eliminated in the losers match. PLUS, match fixing will get you permanently banned from playing starcraft professionally, as seen with Life (former world champion who would have been one of the best players of all time if he didn't try to match fix). It's not worth it for a player to risk their career, their honor, and their legacy - nor is it worth them bringing shame to the game they have invested their life into.

[@whirlwind872]

@@eialves6263 Inno's push would have decimated parting if he didn't do everything exactly perfect - he had an observer on Inno's army so he was in position in an arc so tank splash was ineffective, he had a shield battery with overcharge, he saved the sentry for guardian shield, and he instantaneously pulled every probe at his natural and surrounded the tanks while the stalkers focused them. If even a single one of those things wasn't done right, he would have been decimated. Remember guardian shield is a huge deal, its literally like having +2 armor upgrades on all your units, and tanks surrounded by 8-10 probes will die in less than 5 seconds (go ahead and calculate yourself). If parting had proxied, or sent stalkers out on the map to scout, or tried to harass, or had stalkers off to the side away from the shield battery, etc. he would have died. Literally if he did anything different whatsoever that game he would have died. So no he didn't throw the game

[@taragnor]

@@whirlwind872 Yeah, honestly I thought Parting was screwed seeing what Inno had. Really if there was any problem with it. It was probably that Inno went too all in with it instead of just trying to destroy the probes Parting was attacking him with. If he gives ground and kills probes, he would have won that game. As it was, it probably should have been a build-order loss for Parting, but his micro there was incredible.

[@jutauta]

I can hear Crab people XD

[@VoxMortis28]

Holy crap ads! Literally every five minutes! But yeah this was a fun game to watch otherwise!

[@comunistubula4424]

Not a SC2 player(only played the campaigns for fun)....but....here's a noob question, can you feedback the buildings? The command centers, that is....in order to make the use of the dark templars more efficient?

[@mystirboy]

Nope. You can't FB buildings and DT's don't have FB. Realistically 10 DT's with blink will even melt Planetary Fortresses faster than it can kill the DTs, though parting wasn't able to show that here.

[@pehliks]

no you cant

[@Radgerayden-ist]

Related fun fact, you CAN emp buildings like shield batteries

[@dauswq]

Ironically, Ghost's EMP can affect the building energy while High Templar does not.

[@avtar549]

That is because EMP affects shields, while feedback affects energy.

[@eltoropepe1816]

PARTING CHAMPIONS.

[@Framidan]

Yessss

[@poiuyt975]

There are very few players that I always cheer against, Parting is one of them.

[@jonathanbravozulu7601]

YIEYIEEEE

[@Jacob-wt9cu]

Parting OP

[@DanceJona]

Overcharge won game 2

[@astasna]

garbage = poubelle

[@mikechan2942]

15:45 just shows even top 3 terran in the world makes critical mistake like that and lost the game - he was at almost 30 army supply advantage. This shows terran requires the most skill to win and need to play almost perfect game throughout to win. All the noob zerg and protoss that enjoys A move army and disagree are just stupid.

[@MelL-we1uo]

Lmao cry moar. Parting did a perfect flank and caught him off guard. Literally all Terran needs to do is make 10 tanks and slowly a move while sieging up. Have you ever tried to maneuver around a siege line? Keep flooding us with your Terran tears scrub

[@YoshiKirishima]

@Azedenkae Echevien And as a Terran, especially one who plays mech, much of the micro is done before the fight begins. We have the luxury to "setup" before a fight, which is a lot less stressful to me than being P or Z with limited vision and having to choose wisely when to commit to an engagement. And even if there might be less total clicks than stutter stepping MMM constantly (which is not hard lol), it is much more punishing to be P and Z and mess up the engagement slightly, for example if your Charge gets wasted cus ur zealots were stuck or you accidentally cancel it, or your HT is slightly too far and your Storm is a second late or it whiffs, or if you're Zerg you run in at a terrible time and you lose 40 banelings and your army and you only killed like 10 marines. As Terran you can mess up a lot but still come out fine in a battle or make up for it in some way (unless you play mech and you got greedy/lazy and didn't siege up beforehand). Also Terran units synergize very well in how you micro and move them, but as Protoss for example you have so many different kinds of things to do with each unit. I always find it so impressive when Protoss has to fend off some early tank push with their 1 Phoenix, 1 Oracle, 2 Zealots, 2 Stalkers, 1 Immortal, and 1 Sentry. Like wtf you have to do so much shit all at once in the right order and not mess anything up. Everything moves at different speeds and heavily depends on the other things also going as planned. If anything messes up or the situation changes mid-engagement, you may need to quickly adapt and change the execution of everything else (whether to FF or use Guardian Shield, what unit to pick up and what to focus fire with Stalkers, what to target with Zealots, etc.)

[@ericgoto2459]

wtf overcharge is OP

[@jabalsal9008]

No, the widowmines are op

[@whirlwind872]

No, shield batteries have low HP and you can target them down very very quickly, or, you know, back up for 10 seconds? until the overcharge goes on cooldown

[@amai2307]

@@whirlwind872 not to mention that overcharge isnt free - each one is less probes produced or slower upgrades.

[@Macroproxy]

TvP... you never hear the casters say "I don't think there is any way Terran can win" so much. When is the last time we saw a even fight go Terran's way? The matchup relies on Terran winning in the first 3 minutes with massive damage, otherwise its just over.

[@amai2307]

Lol more like match up relies on Protoss winning in first 3 minutes or doing massive damage at that timing. First game parting outplayed inno hard, deleting all marauders with one immortal. Second game he played almost better than perfectly defending cheese.

[@erikmcfarlane]

Both games completely thrown by innovation

[@alexandrel4569]

Wow A move zealots win to win in GSL... I like PartinG but that win is ugly...

[@brianwang9017]

I can see why nobody wants to fight Protoss because it felt like a BS race.

[@januszkurahenowski2860]

@@kimeg7294 It's the thing with tvp, you need a lot of micro and strategy to beat a move zealots and other cheap things. Winning is always a results of drops, harras, strong pushes etc but you can lose so easily to dts or a single warp prism.

[@bbbbbback]

Janusz Kurahenowski zlots should be deleted

[@beauwoodcock7327]

Waaaaaaaaaah whine more lol

[@TheDolmant]

@@kimeg7294 depends, while I agree in general with the armies that were played in these games I think parting needed more micro. Blink stalkers Vs marauder tank no stim? Disrupter prism high templar blink stalkers Vs bio ghost tank? I mean, parting is a glutton for punishment going for all the micro intensive units he can. In general, sure I agree that terran might require better mechanics. Toss isn't quite as easy as zerg though ;)

[@joonjoon819]

Tell that to zerg players. They would LOVE to fight protoss.