Larva (Z) v Flash (T) on Sparkle - Brood War REMASTERED 2019

Flash! Larva! Part 2!
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[@deebly_goncerned]

spoopy hallucinations. ive never seen that, ofc ive seen random animals but never hallucinated :o

[@FalconPaladin]

SPOOPS

[@vivacehome1]

my life for aiur

[@aaronhereau1871]

The Crystal's on Sparkle are there in order to give zerg a third gas on their island for balance purposes because zerg is so dependant on 3 gases. Assimilators and refineries cannot be built on the Crystal's but extractors can.

[@ganqqwerty]

oh wow

[@thecurbdog123]

Flash killed the lairs to prevent creep spread. Because if it stays there the zerg can nydus canal. So he killed them to force the zerg to research drop lords in order to expand

[@thecurbdog123]

@kommisar those lairs were part of the map and were considered neutral

[@FeydHrknen81]

I'm a Terran man myself.....so watching Flash dominate always puts a smile on my face.

[@qvandermeer]

I remember from when I played SC as a child having the biggest fun clicking on neutrals until they explode like a nuke. That still a thing in remastered? The hallucinated Kakaru reminded me of it

[@Doso777]

It's a thing in Starcraft 2, at least in some custom maps.

[@qvandermeer]

@@Doso777 cool! I'll try it :)

[@tiagocampos9824]

Wasn't that in Warcraft III ?

[@THAC0MANIC]

@@tiagocampos9824 it was

[@pierQRzt180]

I love your videos because one can find commented matchups on maps, so if one finds a commentary of a quirk map then one can search your library.

[@shawnberry760]

Two for twosday!! Thanks again FP! I’ve never seen a hallucinated kukaro before but I’ve always possessed them for scouting purposes. On single player campaigns I used to keep a stable of animals for fun.

[@LunarDuo]

This in, falcon is distracted by an hallucinated birb

[@FalconPaladin]

It's so shiny!

[@KP-jp9gv]

My days been stressful. Falcon for the save.

[@KP-jp9gv]

I think theyre attacking the hatches to get rid of the creep. Easy set up for creep while you cant take as terran.

[@dreaq54]

He killed that neutral hatch to prevent nydus canals.

[@FalconPaladin]

Ahhh that makes a ton of sense. Thanks!

[@Kujo-ot5jv]

Falcon, flash killed the lair on the island so larva couldn’t make a nydus canal there, zergs with hydras and nydus network on sparkle op

[@fireflymetotheblack]

Thanks Kujo, was wondering that myself

[@glebvinogradov9614]

yes, right considered that broodwar has imbalance in island maps terran and toss air stronger then zerg also In order to compensate for weakness of zerg in the island map, there is a gas at each edge of the map that can be extracted only by zerg

[@fireflymetotheblack]

Thanks again Falcon! Been away for a while taking care of my newborn NICU baby boy, keep up the BW brotha!

[@FalconPaladin]

I will, and I hope your daughter is okay.

[@fireflymetotheblack]

Thanks Pal! She is

[@EbeeDeeby]

Sneaky sneaky FP, almost as sneaky as the sneaky Wraiths

[@TheIndianaJames]

Falcon "is this speed correct?" Paladin!

[@FalconPaladin]

That's me!

[@RobinTheBot]

Larva didn't stand a chance there, lol. Build no army, build no defense, just relied on reacting to everything, and didn't get an expand before it was too late to Nydus his way out... Just looked sloppy. Are you sure that was actually Larva?

[@RJB_TV]

once you fall behind you're going to be reacting for most of the game. he picked the wrong bo and this was the result.

[@ganqqwerty]

such an amazing opening from the terran

[@balthazarmayrena600]

No one: Falcon Paladin in every video: Is this the right game speed?

[@MrMaddox57]

commercials will be the death of KZbin

[@kurzackd]

6:08 -- why pull back? Spore still wasn't completed. Could've tried for at least one more overlord, if not both. It was game over right there.

[@d_9294]

How come we never ever see island maps in SC2? That was one of my favourite elements of Broodwar and it's all but absent now..

[@OpiatesAndTits]

Island maps are really imbalanced and heavily favor Terran and Protoss with I think Protoss corsairs edging out Valkyrie/wraith. Also since goons are really good all purpose units that can then be recalled into the enemy bases in numbers you can’t feasibly reinforce with just drops ships. Zerg have weak ground units, the best drop is like 4-6 supply (4 hydras or 2 lurkers), Terran do edge out on drops until toss gave recall as they can send 8 supply of Goliath’s per drop ship so 3 drop ships with 2 siege tanks and 8 goliaths trades well against 6 goons (12 speed zealots can clean it up probably but that’s 24 supply getting melted by any air). Sparkle is setup to give Zerg a chance with 3 gas they can quick hive and use Nydus to expand using those lairs. It’s a small effort to make it more fair because to get drop lords you need lair + speed (theoretically you could skip this but god their slow), and the drop upgrade that’s like 500 gas against the first drop ship is like 250 gas to acquire and fits into a natural part of the build, shuttles are 200 gas to get out and again fit naturally into what toss wants to do (drop, expand, reaver harass). Finally expanding tech for Zerg is gated behind the lair and hive. It’s easy to rotate tech but you have to wait for that upgrade to finish. Plus sending out your supply depots to do drops on a map filled with corsairs/wraith is awful. Zergs air is theoretically the strongest sky death ball in the game. Queens can parasite to track enemy armies or just ensare to slow units like corsairs, wraiths, and Mutas so devourers, scourge, or muta can catch up while revealing stealth. Scourge two shot many air units and can 5 shot capital ships with is highly cost effective. Devourers are the end game air superiority unit not only do they do splash damage that makes cloaking ineffective each spore up to the 7th reduces their attack speed by 12.5% and each spore up to 9 reduces armor by one. A mix of Mutas and devourers can melt enemy air units. But the real threat is the guardian. Outranging all static defense and every ground unit but the upgraded Goliath guardians high air to ground damage put a clock on the game forcing the Terran or Protoss opponent to engage the Zerg air to kill the guardians before the guardians kill their base. Even mass Corsair should struggle against that army once ensnared and acid spored. Valkyries damage caps out due to a sprite limitation making them a mediocre counter at best. Capital ships die to mass scourge. As scary as late game skyswarm is you won’t be sustaining that unit production and upgrades on the 1 gas most of these island maps provide. There’s no way the game lasts that long either. Corsairs tear Mutas to shreds as do valkyires. Even wraiths trade extremely well. Scourge will get shot down quickly by balls of Terran and toss sky. The drops from Terran and toss decimate the Zerg base. See how much damage flash did by landing production? 0/0 stimmed marine medic from 2 drop ships utterly gutted larva’s base and cleared the spores for flashes wraiths. Zerg just have no clean way to transition to their idea late game composition on island maps. The myth is that broodwar is a perfectly balanced game when the simple reality is it’s not. Good map design keeps the game actually competitive so each race can make use of their strengths to win. The games core balance just isn’t around island maps and it would destroy balance on say fighting spirit if it was changed to make it so. Sparkle attempts to address some of these glaring issues by giving Zerg an extra gas only Zerg can take in the main base (something to do with the size of an extractor I guess) while delaying the gas in the natural to slow Terran and toss down. I know it seems like skyzerg late game with queen support vs arbiter/carrier/Corsair and even scout or science vessel/balk/bc/wraith would be Hellah fun to watch at the pro level because you know they’d all make the most out of the advantages each side has and I could see, if the game could transition into that. It being really cool. The reality is that drop play ends the games before we get to that point. Even on sparkle as I understand it hydra/nydus is the zergs main play but I haven’t watched it because I hate islands lol. I guess that’s a long winded way of saying: island maps aren’t balanced so that’s why we don’t see more of them. It’s why sc2 doesn’t have island maps in competitive games. You can’t have the game highly balanced for both.

[@matthewcrockett604]

That first game on faster and not fastest the whole time. Omg lol

[@weonsukher9386]

Well, you say that you check out every comment... and I just wanna say, keep it up bro! I've been a fan for some time now and actually enjoy and feel happy on how I see you getting better at casting! Brofist from the Amazon brooo (PS, post more Broodwar aaaaa hahaha)

[@FalconPaladin]

You got it, Wilson! Brofist back atcha! :D

[@NguyenMinh-ld2xi]

terrific Terran

[@MCHANNEY]

On this map pretty sure the big crystals are zerg only gasses, guess for balance reasons :D

[@damian_madmansnest]

Love the hallucinated kakaru!

[@АндрейМилошевич]

What is strange map?

[@InkySquid17]

Love me some sneaky twofers ;p

[@fatemakeus]

Terran is not OP, but Flash is OP..

[@djWOOF]

damn, thats a tight build order

[@H44nz]

soo easy for terran to beat zerg, especially on island map. What can zerg do with his crappy units?

[@tawsrutra6374]

He destroy that hatchery cause zerg can start from there with spore.

[@Maxoto]

Zerg's mineral nodes are farther away than that of the Terran's :(

[@Goopherr]

He can't hear you.. He's wearing space pods

[@BanzayIkoyama]

Consume does not consume energy. It makes energy. 50 energy per consume to be precise.

[@majermike]

yes. falcon's question is why didn't the defiler have any energy after consuming a defiler.

[@ricksexton8888]

you help to me to forget my pain :)

[@FalconPaladin]

I'm glad. :)

[@iamLI3]

why is this game not played at the proper speed...

[@cyberborberb6192]

awww soooo frustrating to watch a good zerg getting CRUSHED that bad

[@clever_taussig]

good one

[@Lyricyst28]

i would rage quit vs flash as well, id break my computer and throw things haha, methodical monster with terran

[@aaaaaaaard9586]

Well Flash and Larva are good friends, so Flash wouldn't be offended. But It's true that Larva rage quits many times (he often plays on his livestream where you can see him screaming).

[@majermike]

@@aaaaaaaard9586 lol rage quit

[@tiagocampos9824]

Dark swarm lasts approximately for ever ahahah

[@ben-dy2qn]

big fan support again！

[@djWOOF]

He killed the lair because of potential nydus canal

[@Maltbyr]

flash is a quality player

[@Milu89]

I would like to see more PvP PvZ PvT ANd TvT

[@dreamer6474]

I need more then one game a day 😃

[@taylorcrowell811]

Is Zerg a flawed race? I feel like I see more Zerg losses on this channel + in general casts. As a Zerg main this makes me sad :( What do ya'll think? Good cast btw

[@ruumple]

Hi falcon good fight :D 👍🏻

[@FalconPaladin]

Hi, ruumple! :)

[@ruumple]

@@FalconPaladin thank to you I will be one of the best starcraft players I will never surrender, I practice GG

[@DrZergling]

Speed 7 is normal. 7 x 2 is 2 x 7...

[@alexanderchenf1]

Beast vs Emperor

[@Yt-ug8xg]

ahahaha rage quite announcement :D

[@ДмитрийУделов-о3у]

I like this comment! Very very good!

[@robertzawilinski8047]

:)

[@FalconPaladin]

:)

[@Output-gx2wo]

Zerg has no chance of winning when against Flash..

[@qaibthai8996]

how do you not click on this video. WOW

[@ldavidtw2000]

I'm the second viewer and i demand candy

[@FalconPaladin]

Meet me behind the Piggly Wiggly at midnight tonight.

[@santangelo8660]

Consume turns life into energy... the irradiated defiler that was consumed by another defiler had almost no life... so it gave back almost no energy... Thats why you were so confused.

[@pierrefortin6457]

actually what happened was the defiler was killed by irradiate before the consumer could take effect

[@RoblOnTour]

😡 ragequit 😡

[@DeusEversor]

Heil Flash! :DDDDD Terra Invicta!

[@daisveinsson1223]

Been waiting for the next Brood War video. This was pretty underwhelming. Just a steamroll. Wish it had been a bit more competitive. But hey, keep em' coming. Great job though.

[@MrBest029]

Great.