Can a Noob get into StarCraft Today?

Noob to Pro in StarCraft 2, this is my skill progression playing it for the first time and going into ranked mode.
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dragon roost island
inside a house LOZ
encounter SSB
event base sonic adventure 2
fortress super mario world
omori pyre forest
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fzero time for the kill
1 am Animalcrossing
dark area (inside bowser) remix
bayonetta riders of light
Hxh symphony
spectre's castle-ape escape
white land remix SSBU
super sonic racing theme
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[@Ludvix]

What game is next? Needs ranked

[@CGB_Crash]

I mean, Mortal Kombat 1 is about to come out...

[@KicksPregnantWomen]

play with my balls

[@JG-oc8ov]

Gears 5

[@onkive]

Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition

[@ShinyGBZ]

KOFXV is my current favorite modern fighting game, if you happen to have it I'd defo recommend checking it out

[@selearth3123]

ive been obsessed with starcraft for years and years, and i was dying when i heard "so it was time for me to take this win.." as he floats 5k minerals, pushing up a ramp into tanks while the silver terran player balance whines and then leaves the game. thats just art.

[@SigilSC2]

Coming from someone who's played since sc2 came out and is in GM, this was an interesting watch. I will say the feelings you described the entire time don't ever stop. You'll always feel like you aren't fast enough, or you aren't smart enough - because that's how match making works. I still have a 52% win rate, and I'm top 200 on the server. Think about that. I lose about half of my games. 25% of them are me getting completely stomped. It just makes the wins that much sweeter. It's 1v1, that was a win that *you earned* - all you. If you wanted to continue playing, the advice I would give you is to be hyper critical of any sloppiness in your opening. 2-3 seconds late on placing your gateway down puts you behind. 2-3 seconds late on putting the nexus down puts you further behind. Suddenly you're 10 stalkers vs 20 and you're just dead. Remember that it's not the speed that you do things, it's how efficient you are. Be ready and expecting to hit 150 minerals, have the probe there to place the gateway. That's not speed, that's being prepared. Having the first 4 minutes of a game as crisp as possible sets you up to completely roll through 80% of the ladder. My games are still partially decided by similar things, up to about the 6 minute mark.

[@Dyncommon]

Slightly lower rank (mid masters memer) but everything here checks out.

[@robbylava]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I *love* the new direction of this channel. Absolutely A+ content

[@hackebeilhaus]

dude sc has the best improvement curve imo, it just feels great getting better at the game and you can see the increments you improve at so well

[@vietnamgamer9490]

Not the game I was expecting but I’m so here for it

[@norad1353]

This really was enjoyable from someone who played SC2 casually during the early 2010s. Iplayed melee semi-competitively in around 2017 (found your channel around this time), and then Tekken and other FGs for the past 5 years. It's really interesting to hear your experiences on the various genres of competitive games.

[@RantingRaymond]

This was great! Starcraft is a hard game, props for sticking with it, and grats on your first win!

[@fluffybug229]

I think this is one of your tightest edited and best paced vids.

[@Fimbu1vetr]

Lol the one legit game you won you got BMed. Nice seeing your StarCraft experience 😊

[@bananacat3109]

This series is just a quest for ludvix to be good at every game

[@CosmicPrime69]

man, this is actually really entertaining!!

[@obamagaming9456]

I used to play this with my friend back in 2020 and 2021. We ended off both hitting diamond. My friend hit diamond on NA with Terran, while I hit diamond on EU by performing the worst cheeses of all time and getting away with it somehow. EU players really don't know how to deal with cheese. I beat 2 diamond players in a row by PROBE RUSHING. After that I just spammed a terrible proxy voidray build order and I hit diamond. Absolutely wild.

[@Ludvix]

Probe rushing is that like u just make a ton of basses out of the natural or are u spamming ur probs on the enemy lol

[@obamagaming9456]

@@Ludvix probe rushing is where at the start of the game as protoss you take your probes and you just walk them straight to the other side of the map in an attempt to kill your opponents workers. The reason this usually doesn't work is because your opponent should always have more workers than you when you make it to the other side of the map. This problem is made worse by protoss probes being the weakest worker units.

[@CaptainLester]

Good to know 1998 is considered super old, my bones are now turning to marrow. :(

[@Flairsurfer]

Waytoodank: The video Jokes aside, ive always wanted to learn star craft but it really is so intimidating to new players. Thank you for suffering for us so that we could see the process of learning it lmfaooo

[@Kevinkev1337]

I also sc2 late (like a year ago) because of the eSports scene and how cool it looked The game is so intimidating and just learning 1 strategy is so hard, let alone multiple branches of them. After a full month of grinding practice tool and ranked, I managed to hit my peak... Gold 😂😂 It's a game I would still love to go back to but only if my hands can keep up now

[@zing7779]

I've been watching you for years and I never thought I would see you make a video on my literal favorite series ever. Melee is my second favorite :) Quick thing, it's considered good manners to say "glhf" at the beginning and "gg" when you lose.

[@wiskonine]

chills when you got ur win

[@youdontknowwhoiam2449]

dude this is exactly the same experience I get when I try to get into playing ranked. You practice and practice to optimize your build order speed and every game you find out that the other player is still twice as fast as you

[@Ghostly-00]

I loved this and the Tekken videos too. I've been a big fan of watching pro Tekken and SC2 for a long time so it's cool that there's someone else interested in both of these very different games. Anyway if you're still interested in improving at SC2 I recommend a series of videos called "Bronze to GM" by ViBE, here on youtube. The guy is a great teacher.

[@NecronIsGood]

as a starcraft player it's so fun i would love to see you go for another shot 6 months later maybe try to get a coach or smth

[@damerksh1238]

awesome vid

[@ceck95]

the HxH music is just crazy

[@NightFore]

StarCraft is the very definition of "Better, Faster, Stronger". Every time you play, you look for better strategies, you try to execute them faster and you get stronger. But as usual, the start of a game is always accompanied by the accumulation of knowledge about who, why, when and how, such as the famous zergling rush, using the hold position to complete your wall, when to expand your base and how to control everything effectively. Improving is definitely what I consider the best part of the experience. Arcade mode is fun too.

[@Darkness2Maxrocko]

Age of empires time :)

[@zeke547]

Dope vid! though 0% chance you did all of a normal protoss build order on time and lost in bronze. highkey ignore everything else ab the game and focus on learning your build order on time (aka macro) + using the basic hotkeys for building units and you'll easily be gold 2 if you have it down pat. like at 05:07 you're not near maxed out and only got 2 bases by 10min.

[@Ludvix]

Looking back at it, majority of the losses was because I was floating way too many recourses and by the time they attack me I couldn’t retaliate back. Only very few losses was something like, forgetting to wall or some gimmick didn’t know about such as the nydus worm mechanic, so i did do the normal build order stuff (the one PIG the coach does in his series) I just wasn’t fast enough

[@zeke547]

​@@Ludvix I recommend checking out winterSc2's low apm series or ViBe's b2gm series (bronze to grandmasters and he has one for all the races same with winter.) If you are still interested in the game I would say fight a very easy AI and just play games that are just the build order to get muscle memory for it just like in melee. being on time is so important in a real time strategy game. But please trust me you will see improvements so so so much faster if you have sc2's macro down. Better macro is like better punish when you're both noobs in melee, you might both have bad neutral but if this mf is cracked making marines, taking bases, and upgrades you're going to incinerate every noob.

[@rhyanvalk7897]

Also never played starcraft but have played other RTS games although wasnt too good at them was a intresting watch

[@VincentNUGGET]

I love the vix

[@Orengi-kun]

Meanwhile my experience: learnt how to do proxy barracks by copying the build order from a tournament finals I saw. Practiced it until I could consistantly win by app 2:20 against the highest difficulty bots. 20 minutes after first hoping into ranked, I was already diamond in NA lmao. For extra "efficiency", send all your SCVs to the enemy base so you don't float any minerals.

[@Ludvix]

The force kill SCV is genius

[@DummyDummy-vg3fx]

This video deserved more

[@albishuan5252]

Should go pro in melee in one week

[@Darkness2Maxrocko]

I did the same thing with a lot of games but I play them across a month got the masters in sc2.

[@hyperonestarcraft]

omg I'm in a Luvdix video

[@Darkness2Maxrocko]

You should try and learn Go very beginner friendly board game would be fun to see how far you can get.

[@albishuan5252]

Luvdix moment

[@dragocrafterr8286]

Ludvix sc2 vid yooo I gotta fire my yt alg for not showing me this stuff

[@lucio8349]

Ngl I enjoy more the smash video and never played starcraft yet this video was very cool

[@gohnjoodman4008]

i got to plat in one day of having the game by looking up a guide on how to zerg proxy hatchery in their natural

[@UgandaMagus]

6:14 no matter how fast you are as a Terran/Protos, Zerg race can create/replenish army faster than you (if both players have the same ability level)

[@puppetmaskerr]

Well then its byfar the best race?

[@RiddlesOfSteel]

I wish Warcraft had built up a competitive RTS community in the same way 😢 damn you WoW

[@WLeM990]

Pogu

[@theHstandsforhypodermic]

pls be quake edit: damn

[@basilvitamin8878]

omori music!!!

[@Sasoripwns]

Same zerg player back to back. Big rip

[@honk1419]

i can not even fuqing beleeve

[@NZsaltz]

me neither honk1419, me neither

[@nodthenbow]

You would have done better by just focusing entirely on apm and macro build speeds/efficiency. It is nearly all that matters for a very large part of the ranked ladder.

[@Ludvix]

Yeah that is so true

[@CeriTsujimura]

provided if you can just do the macro part well apm can stay relatively low for half the ladder till the brick wall that is diamond appears

[@Eroil]

Now go pro in the Minecraft version of ssb called super smash mobs

[@Enhantedmango]

Play zerg Hydra/ling A move Success :)

[@zeke547]

as if protoss isnt A move enough LOL

[@Enhantedmango]

@@zeke547 yeah but zerg is cooler

[@TheNickBrotherhood]

Probably need to change the thumbnail. Most people ignore starcraft thumbnails with the exception with the small rts community that is on here

[@iercan1234]

Lmaooo

[@Jay_216]

Where da mee-lay at

[@Ludvix]

Next one :)

[@ShinyGBZ]

Nah what is this Lego Battles DS ripoff called Starcraft

[@aguy3082]

Lego battles DS is the GOAT

[@Darkness2Maxrocko]

Brawlhalla would be funny try and get diamond in a week.

[@ETgaming1]

short enough for my attention span nice 10/10 i still don't understand starcraft

[@CGB_Crash]

Bruh you wanna be pro at this game you're gonna need an adderall prescription lol.

[@raiden_is_dj]

Oldest esports my ass

[@dirkechoes1377]

StarCraft 1 IS the oldest ESport, if you're prepared to say it isn't then you're clueless. Granted, he's not playing StarCraft 1

[@ashhousewares9343]

Quake number1, 1996. I think the nr1 dude was named Fatality with a 1 replacing one of the letters.. He won a Ferrari one of the Devs put up as a price iirc ✌️

[@SigilSC2]

Quake was the first to really have notable tournaments but StarCraft (the original!) is what put esports on the map as something that mattered.

[@raiden_is_dj]

@@SigilSC2 at least on this side of the world