CLEM vs SOLAR: The Most INTENSE Terran vs Zerg Series! (StarCraft 2)

Amazing series of StarCraft 2 between Clem (Terran) and Solar (Zerg). This best-of-5 match of SC2 was played during the Dreamhack Atlanta tournament, with a prize pool of $75000.
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StarCraft 2 is a military science fiction real-time strategy video game developed and released by Blizzard Entertainment.
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[@mriconoclast13]

Lowko, I want to say thank you for totally transforming my SC2 gameplay. It had never occurred to me to play faster and to stop making mistakes! GSL here I come!

[@night4345]

You better win GSL, it's the only tournament that matters after all.

[@genehenson8851]

Brilliant advice!

[@BluMarine22]

Fr this guys videos made me way better in like 2 days😮😊😅

[@BluMarine22]

I literally just watch Clems terran and I get better at terran, I watch solars Zerg and I get better at zerg

[@Keln02]

Lowko not helping me be productive on a Sunday.

[@sommerkjrbo681]

I just finished a ton of paperwork and open KZbin and this is the first thing I see

[@diontranekr6567]

Cleaning just got delayed by an hour. Love it :)

[@frederichume2474]

😂

[@carlg4544]

Customers are getting mad at me right now

[@konradkeler1838]

Yep. My Bookdeadline is now an hour nearer.

[@Hranica8]

1 hour of Clem playing - exactly what I need before falling asleep 😊

[@boliveto]

both fans and haters agree on that one

[@andrewpan5014]

Just got back from shoveling snow in the freezing rain. Now I get to enjoy a Clem game while drinking some hot chocolate!

[@jensli]

Im just feeling wholesome after hearing that intro.

[@awrawrwar]

I like seeing Lowko bloopers. Like the time you went "i skipped the first two minutes because everything is normal" in a game with Scarlett, and you jumped to the not-zerg side to see she had a proxy hatch in the natural that was like 50% complete.

[@addisonhall2098]

What an intro! Amazing every single time!!!

[@tomleonhartITC]

He did the thing !!!!

[@justinliebenberg2321]

You had me at Clem. I don't need to read the rest of the thumbnail😂

[@mrwolf9095]

Same!

[@Spartsou]

ahhh, the OG intro, an hour-and-fifteen minute series, a can of root beer, and a King size Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. *this'll be fun* I'd be fine with blooper wheels, Lowko!

[@mattcargill8655]

That'd last me all the way until there was one hour and 13 minutes left

[@tphoeng8957]

If I had to choose which unit I would like to be to survive the battle? defenitely a Raven, I wouldn't even get deployed! :)

[@colinstrykert2874]

lol lowko bombing his prepped videos is the best thing this week, cheers! kepp 'em comin

[@daethalion1725]

I gotta say that last game was just a nail biter from start to finish. It felt like that last running battle just ran nonstop for the last ten minutes. What a great way to cap off the year!

[@LogicTechno1]

31:00 As a Dota player/ Esports enjoyer (way before I started watching SC2), yeah, SC2 was super confusing when i started watching it. References to different timings, costs, tech requirements etc. A lot of that knowledge costs from playing (or watching a lot). Ex. I watched Lowko for YEARS until i learned that scans are visible to both players. ( i thought only the player scanning knew where the scan was or if the terrain was scanning). Or how the micro for SC2 is vs MOBAs. In Dota, to cast an ability on a unit in a shared group, you have to tab between each unit, so it's confusing first seeing a group of 20 stalkers blink at once because it's like "how fast is that guy's repeat rate"? That said, an SC2 player would kill micro in any MOBA. If you can handle micro-ing a group of 3 different units (all with their own abilities, like vipers, infestors, with lurkers or something) then you would be a killer Beast Master or Arc Warden player, maybe even Meepo. Going from having to worry about 20 different units to like 2 is crazy. I would love to see Clem micro Lone Druid's bear like he can micro reapers.

[@Komatik_]

I think the difference is that you can learn to understand Starcraft by watching. MOBAs, that's more or less impossible, I think. A main reason for that being that in Starcraft what you see on screen is mostly what you get; in MOBAs there's a million stat-changing things that are not immediately visible or apparent that nevertheless mean the world with how situations play out.

[@psychaoticproductions3994]

I see Lowko posting video, i click like. I hear Lowko's classic intro, I'm writing comment. I'm a simple guy 😂

[@taldarim928]

Love the videos, keep it up!

[@jdspencer60]

59:16 Lowko: OOOOO AHHHHH the classic from like tv shows and stuff lol

[@Nekoyashiki-san]

Thanks for the cast. ^^

[@jayjay31337]

Wish we couldve witnessed Lowko in the C&C Generals days too. That was an awesome RTS as well.

[@Aabergm]

We 100% need that short of lowko being jump scared by his cat.

[@LHZ-HUNT4R]

If we had lowko doing the same thing for aliens vs. Predator 2010 would've been the future fps game

[@jx1200]

The two random cyclones weren't mistakes, they were foreshadowing

[@bp8718]

Planned on using this for my bedtime audio, but had to save it for my breakfast content after the 1-1 start

[@samstints]

"You have to take it with a grain of salt." lol

[@TikkaQrow]

31:00 imagine getting 700 APM on a single unit with micro, that be League of legends. Now imagine doing that with a team trying to synchronize cooldowns. And YES, SC2 is as confusing as other e-sports if you never followed the game, or watch lots of series. I had no idea what was going on with anything until SC2 became free to play and i got to learn it.

[@celaldemirci956]

lol he did the opening

[@user-gr8jb1vd3u]

Thank you lowko for the video. FYI,starcraft is about a hundred units with 1 or 2 abilities each, whereas Dota is about choosing 10 ,five in each side, heroes from a150 heroes, each with 4 unique abilities, some passive and some active , and there are no unit controls,just hero controls, and there are a load of items too. Too memorize that is a skill I haven't achieved and I used to play in for 4 years😅

[@zapoyou2]

Love the smell of sc2 in the morning.

[@JasonMendoza-hd3ce]

i don't know this game basically at all but Lowko is hilarious and engaging

[@hollyguy1]

What unit would I be? A Thor, rarely ever made these days so I'd be home rocking to music all day

[@lucasaurelio2806]

He did it boys!🎉

[@brianwilliams1094]

43:21 clem raises the depots to fry the last zerglings, nasty

[@Mudling.]

This video will be very good lets watch it

[@JG-ti7id]

2nd

[@1977Janus]

Yes, do a blooper reel cut. Would be fun listening to.

[@GoGoGlenno]

I've just started watching after drifting away years ago when EG incontrol passed, rest in peice geoff. And one if the things I've enjoyed in the last few days is how similar things are. Maps etc. Are new, and some units and upgrades are new but it's pretty accessible still :)

[@beaverbuoy3011]

I love bloopers

[@rockjianrock]

Doing the ol Lowko intro? I was like WHAT YEAR IS IT

[@bryantstevens5789]

If you have any significant bloopers it'd be real funny to see them in the very end of the video, doesn't have to be every video but just when exceptional bloopers happen

[@saurianwatcher4437]

5:50 Tobey the dropper lord

[@shirtlessviking9225]

MaxPax Oracle has a long life time on the battlefield

[@GolemRising]

Remember kids, friends don't let friends build panic ultras. The more you know!

[@SamirJamesDuran]

Still waiting for Clem Vs Reynor (PvP)

[@admbeck]

30:33 Funnily enough dota pro players' APM was so low that valve removed the counter during one of the internationals

[@NikksTV]

It took me month or 2 to really understand what I was watching when you popped up in my feed so it's hard

[@burdisdawurd7472]

Can you please cast hero vs heromarine? That match is a great one!

[@grigorsamsa6564]

Spoilers Game 1, looking at Clem's 9-o'clock base, I was thinking that a Lurker drop behind the mineral line could do a lot of damage. Very easily accessible from the bottom side of the map.

[@adriananto5499]

Add the bloopers at the end of the video, I think it'd be great!

[@Starcraft2Raum]

GAME OF THE YEAR!!

[@Izik09834]

I think the main way to counter the Terran micro consistently is to kill off the medivacs with bomb and fungal as they save the units from banes

[@stalwart56k]

We want the blooper reel!

[@phlanxsmurf]

Hey My Name Is phlanxsmurf! Love it.

[@marctestarossa]

In my opinion one of the very few esports that are super fun to watch and easy to understand for people who don't play video games often is Rocket League. It's just the simplest of concepts that everybody knows: there's the ball, there are two teams, the ball needs to go into the other team's goal. every other thing is kind of confusing and there are too many things going on at the same time that the viewer doesn't know the significance of. With RL you just have the one focus point: the ball. And there are things going on on the rest of the pitch, and they're obviously also important, but they're not essential and you can still absolutely understand ingenious plays on the ball when they happen. And everybody loves to watch goals. Everybody understands without a problem who is in the lead, what happens at overtime and the concept of a golden goal.

[@prens7380]

I’d be a viper in Serral’s army. Or a Ghost in Maru’s Army. Or an inferstor in Dark’s army. Or a Prism in Hero’s Army 😂. I think those have the best chances.

[@grigorsamsa6564]

LOL I'm looking forward to Serralis, Maxpaxia, Clemburg, Lowkopolis, and Harstemborough

[@paweld]

what a game :o

[@Tribuneoftheplebs]

Im bored at work. Thanks for always entertaining me Lowko

[@bookshop7337]

Release the cat footage!!

[@williamwakefield1017]

Yes dude the old intro!!

[@jordanleighton6893]

31:31 I think it’s easier to understand what’s happening in starcraft than league, bc as a whole there’s less people interacting(two guys fighting in 4 places is easier to understand than 10 interacting in one spot) but parsing *why* the guy who won did so later is now difficult.

[@godofmonster7405]

nice shot from widow mines, spam widow mines and hope they can shot a group of baneling

[@Reliquarium]

I'd want to be one of Stats' probes. No one protects their units like Stats and his precious workers. 🖤

[@sirwickel4240]

1:08:16 moonwalking ultralisk!

[@mrwolf9095]

Nice 😂

[@titimtitim9465]

We need the cat footage !

[@CubeItself]

1:06:05 the widow mine pickup

[@iljaslundqvist9626]

Lowko, please do a blooper at the end of a video, I think it could be a fun addition!

[@genehenson8851]

Give us a short of the casting cat scare, please!

[@ChocolatePancakeMan]

1:06:03 Insane micro from Clem

[@cody4977]

Toby we love you

[@streakybacon2777]

How have I watched like all of your videos and just now learn that one of your cat’s name is Toby? One of mine is named Tobes, we’re basically the same person lowko.

[@tackion5371]

Swarm hosts definitely have the highest survival rate

[@naumanjaved5927]

The most durable unit in the game is a battlecruiser. Your odds of survival are best as a battlecruiser.

[@deraltejager7777]

There is another MOBA out there, they call it a Heroes Brawler

[@RuckNastyRealm]

Do a quarterly or end of the year blooper reel

[@thesquisheee]

Lowko blooper reel when?

[@discount_name9065]

Lowko never fails to spawn my pool 😁😁

[@DemocratLibertarian]

Yeaas! The thing! ❤😅

[@krzysztofkalinowski2998]

Hello every one in comment section. His name is Lowko and I love this intro!

[@jeremygardner3183]

I still stand by my opinion that nerfing the Baneling was the worst balancing decision over the past 4 years.

[@shastarpharune]

Why does zerg never make more spore crawlers? Would it not help with widowmine detection and slow down air drops?

[@N0noy1989]

That requires drones AND larvae. This isn't like a Terran spamming a ring of turrets. A spore is one less miner or soldier. In high pressure games, like fighting against Clem, the larva is needed for fighting. Also, you have to take into account the APM required. It's so easy to bury a mine compared to clearing it. Pulling a mine is even more insane, with probably only Serral having a high success with it.

[@RastamanLiveUp]

Your subtle jokes make the cast.

[@cuper3000z]

He did it guys he did the thing

[@user-vo8zx2uj1p]

I'd like to be a stalker in maxpax army, but certainly not a zealot

[@PhoenixCrown]

Hey Lowko I think you call him "Jimmy" the marine, after Jim Raynor. Recommend you call him "Jibby" when he's a pile of gibs floating towards the camera.

[@Gitalien1]

2:50 - A midlife reaper casually manages to kill a creep tumor set back in the creep, behind 2 queens and 5 lings... Solar is bad ou Clem is awesome? BTW, I'd be an obs in Zest army. Best survival chances 😊

[@sh4dowcheese564]

Let us hear de recoding!!! for the people🤣

[@zachbifulco1409]

Why isn’t solar making spires and corrupters to deal with the medivacs?

[@hydraxc2478]

Maru was the best Terran and player in the world, accumulatively for years and years. Clem has managed to surpass Maru recently, and Maru seems to have mildly regressed from number one to top twenty somewhere.

[@manuelromero3215]

Mis jugadores favoritos 😮😊

[@alexchng]

Random thought, but I miss when husky fans would call the 1-1-1, the “Destiny Cloudfist build” lol

[@mattmadrigali9515]

in for cat jump scare

[@deathezz]

Solar is one Form before morphing into a Serral

[@psluxton]

"...the harassment here by the zerg is insane though..." Yep. As soon as he got Vipers it was GG. They took out 3 Medivacs, 8 Marines (in the Medivacs), and many Liberators that should have slowed the Zerg down. Zerg have too many spellcasters, and the normal units also upgrade to "better" units (which is equivalent to Stimpacks on Terran). Adding multiple spellcasters with long range damaging and CC-ing spells is where they win 99% of the time. Without ALL of their spellcasters it's an even 50/50 and good games. 😔

[@Rorimac67]

Good Tip: Do things faster ! After some month of totally unsuccessful attempts to get better by working at my STRATEGY it came to my mind, that SC is only in 2nd place a strategy game but 1st place a high tempo performance game. That was the point when I quitted playing it. I was a slow gamer in my 20s (totally untalented in general I can do NOTHING fast in my live and mess up everyhing when I have to do it fast) and then in my 40s it didn't made any sense to try getting faster.

[@tobybeisly8217]

I swear I know more pets called toby than people XD

[@ricknewton459]

Had to restart a catst. Meowch.

[@asdfasdf-mn8iu]

You spoilered the outcome in the thumbnail lowko. Was that intentional?

[@GeneralJackRipper]

Terran is the best, because they always had the best music.

[@Laughing_God]

can we get a blooper real like once a week? that would a vid worth i would say

[@lazerith84]

Is the game as confusing? How many spell casters were used in the match. If more than 3 spell casters were used then yeah it’s pretty confusing -

[@sum1wholuvsmen913]

have my kids lowko