A-moving And Multitask | Beating Grandmasters With Stupid Stuff

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[@SmolKTN]

Harstem: *loses game cheaply* Also Harstem: *We'll count that one as a win as well, so we went 2 2 in the end...* Us: *like subscribe*

[@samsonhaze6595]

MrTheoneandonly I did, I love this dude! His European accent and quick wit/relentless sarcasm make his videos so much fun to watch. I also enjoy seeing him play, the amount of key binds and macro/micro he is capable of is something I couldn’t do in a million years, in particular, trolling grandmasters with ridiculous build orders/strats that actually work ~1/3 times 😂

[@Jasonmoofang]

Are you kidding? We're totally here for the jokes. Keep writing that dream diary son.

[@P_Petkov]

"the garden midgets" was not expecting that lol

[@piscarys]

stopped playing sc2 years ago.. totally here for the commentary :D

[@mr_mcnuggets_6219]

“I chase his mutas with prisms” ah yes, what could possibly go wrong

[@friendofjim]

26:30 this is the content i come here for and "if i don't know what i'm doing how can my opponent know?" so wise :o

[@timlewis5707]

Hey Kev, I've been trying to come up with some truly stupid stuff as suggestions, and I think I've got 3 really dumb strategies that could make for some really interesting games: *1) All your Gas belongs to me now* - Aim to steal every gas on their side of the map (whether they have a base there or not), you can only attack your opponent once they've killed 6 of your gasses (increasing with each victory). This should include, as much as possible, stealing the gas in their active bases early in the game. _Bonus Challenge: Using 2 warp prism drop immortals + a probe to snipe their gasses, only to steal them again)._ *2) Coach yourself* - Play as if you're controlling starcraft through voice commands, or as though this is a coaching session. Every major action you take you have to say (in full) before you carry it out, in addition voice commands have to be a single command, ie. "Fly the warp prism into their main base" and "Warp in zealots at the warp prism" should be separate commands. I have no idea how hard this challenge will be, but it feels like it will be extremely difficult to multitask. *3) All blink errething* - Blink stalkers and blink DTs. Simple premise: can only build these 2 units, but since we've all seen you win games with blink stalkers alone, to make it slightly more challenging Stalkers can only be used on defence, Blink DTs can only be used on offence (this means until you have dt blink they can't attack). EDIT: Changed 2) and 3) since some of the other commentors pointed out they were duplicates of previous challenges. Hope these are suitably stupid to prove challenging, and dumb enough to make your opponents think you're an idiot... I know you've already used one of my comments for youtube plays, so if you need to pick someone else first I completely understand, wanted to give you some content thought :) Thanks for everything you're doing Kev! Tim

[@rkanava7245]

That stealing gas at start and with immortals would be very interesting against some races: Just snipe tosses stalkers and keep sniping gases, even without stealing hes income will be too low. Might also work against terran

[@noobo56]

2 & 3 have already been done in some capacity, might at least be fun to rewatch kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y4S8eZyqerKefcU - basetrades + ninja bases kzbin.info/www/bejne/gJuTlneKgZyZrdE - 1 of everything (he gets up to 2 of everything in the last game!)

[@rkanava7245]

Basically never let your opponent mine gas + kill high gas cost units and structures

[@timlewis5707]

@@noobo56 Thanks for pointing this out! I tried to think back to all the BGMWSS but it was hard to remember everything, I've added 2 different suggestions instead, let me know if you can think of any that they're too similar to! :D

[@Harstem]

Quality commenting lately Tim. I think I'll have a go at #3 next week. And perhaps #1 at a later date. Keep 'em coming!

[@leagueresurrection]

I love Harstem, and his jokes. You could drink too much and steal my "garden midgets" all you want. You're the king

[@petermacfarlane6]

"Battery overcharge won't be useful" *has to defend continual roach all ins with archons*. Kevin, Kevin, my dude

[@bookworm8415]

“The guy who invented English was a proper idiot.” - Harstem 2020

[@Poldax]

I can watch starcraft anywhere. I come here for the jokes and commentary.

[@michaelrib2258]

exactly!

[@comandantethorn9929]

12:45 "this is really annnoying" *proceeds to start drawing*

[@Mr2xR]

but did you notice what he was drawing? ;)

[@crashtiansClips]

@@Mr2xR Harstem *giggles*

[@P_Petkov]

I feel like the point of this challenge was to a-move and not micro your army and these were the most micro intensive matches I've seen in a while.

[@summerstream4809]

26:23 AHHHHHHHHHH the exact same face that I make after beating someone who trashtalks and cannon rushes me

[@Shadowboost]

That o face

[@zackcheang8563]

"If I don't know what im doing, how can my opponent know what i'm doing?" I FELT THIS

[@brycelayton3177]

Harstem is like a robot programmed to have a really funny sense of humor

[@oneblanket2544]

Wall the natural to make it un-scoutable and take the third as your natural to confuse the opponent into thinking you are playing extremely greedy.

[@vitas75]

This is genius

[@TheQsanity]

That's how i play normally. I just don't wall off. Money comes first

[@codyheiner3636]

Have you forgotten that overlords fly??

[@russtuff]

"If I don't know what I'm doing how can my opponent know?" That perfectly sums up my game.

[@ayesayes1795]

Harstem: no one likes my jokes. Also Harstem: Garden midgets Me: liked, subscribed

[@TheJonathanMMM]

Stupid Strategy: You can only use the all army hotkey and except one brave worker every worker has to stay in the circle that a nexus makes. So probe transition has to happen with prism or recall. If you want it more hard: Make a hotkey for the brave probe, if it dies, you can actually only take a new base with building a nexus path, because of the circles.

[@Nuggetheadification]

Challenge: Be terran, pretend to be afk, when opponent starts killing your cc pretend to come back to the game, then fly cc to corner of the map, opponent will now spend time and resources making flyers to take out your cc, meanwhile you build up from your hidden bases! = Win

[@josephmontanaro1962]

"English is a pretty crap language" - most native speakers would agree with that assessment I think

[@TheOppaiLord]

Definitely

[@Gergo049]

I didn't watch the whole video so I don't know why he said that, but as a non-native speaker I like English.

[@georgeemack9419]

"Garden Midgets" bout dropped me, funny because of mental image and that Harstem clearly wasn't trying to offend anyone...Love this vid

[@Loppy2345]

A-move only army - proceeds to juggle archons in warp prism every game lol

[@dolecto]

Mr. Harstem you should try "Retaking Aiur" for one of your series At some point you should have 20 or so active warpgates at the same time, while banking A LOT of resources. Mass prisms and get them to the enemy main and do a massive warp-in. You cannot attack (maybe only harass) until after you do this massive warp-in. Just keep warping in en masse til you run out of bank (or if you lose your base). Doesn't really matter how you get to it, I just want to see massive warp-ins and some salt. good luck Executor Harstem :))

[@sgtchocochip8622]

The self-roasting from like 18 onwards is just gold i love it. you got my subsribe

[@CoDWikiTMOI]

lmao harstem when you went on that tangent at 18:00 about your jokes I was dying

[@catbertsis]

12:44 you naughty boy

[@xxxjimraynoratbg]

New Challenge: Play for a draw. That means you have basically two options: 1. Try to kill all of your opponents workers and make sure that he can't build new ones, either through destroying all his hatches/commandcenters/nexus or make sure that he has no minerals left to build new ones. Then stop mining as well and just do nothing ( no building of units, research of tech,etc,... , the exact conditions for a draw are here: liquipedia.net/starcraft2/Stalemate_Detection ). Wait for 3 minutes and hope that your opponent doesn't leave ;). 2. completely mine out the entire map asfap and try not to die during this process, but also don't kill your opponent. After some time there should be a point reached where your opponent has no money left to do anything and you also have to do nothing for 3 minutes ;). Maybe there is also another way of doing this, if you find one, feel free to try that one as well. I believe the main challenge here is, that you have to make your opponent believe during the entire match that there is still a chance for him to win this game, so that he doesn't leave.

[@menelik6652]

This is very opponent dependant

[@awon3]

Also he said that he doesnt want to do challenges that make his opponent feel bad

[@deadkoflon4717]

I love that you make challenges and jokes in this sweaty game.

[@weid7070]

Here's an idea! Yin Yang/Air and Land challenge: 1)You must have your army units split into exactly two groups. Flyers in one group and ground dwellers in the other. 2)Their vision should be kept from overlapping. 3) Their respective supplies should be kept as close to equal as possible (i.e. if one army takes an engagement and drops in supply the other must trade out to balance or refuse fights until the other is brought back up to speed). 4) All other elements of gameplay not explicitly listed remain at your discretion. Cheers! Love your stuff

[@MichaelSteinmetzSUP]

No one going to comment on how he called called them garden midgets instead of garden gnomes at 18:16? lmao

[@mathiasdu30000]

I don't know how it's called where he lives but in france a garden gnome is litteraly called garden midget so maybe he just translated from his language to english without knowing the true name

[@dankrue2549]

Came for the quality builds, stayed for the jokes. Keep it up, man!

[@bookworm8415]

The fact that you know nearly anyone of note on the ladder... with personal notes, experiences, and histories. How do they not know its you. Lol

[@sspilex]

probably the name |||||||||||||| is having a pretty big role in that

[@anomy5643]

26:23 Harstem Ahegao Harstem Ahegao

[@HelloThere-nf9il]

I have a challenge. Only 1 pylon. Supply can only increase by building nexi.

[@magefront1485]

That overcharged battery heals 2 archons to full shield for like 3s, that is so good.

[@disconsolator]

This one was pretty fire when he insults your build order. And the drawing with the shadow

[@blackbacardi1716]

I've got an idea for a challenge: Play Starcraft 2 in BW mode, meaning you can't select more than 12 units at a time. More hardcore versions are selecting 1/3/6/ units at a time.

[@probablynotabigtoe9407]

You can A move me anytime 😜🌈 I wasn't going to put the rainbow in but predictive text suggested it 🤣😂

[@MrNicoJac]

Predictive text must be run by AlphaStar xD

[@fuba44]

Suggestion: the first unit you build is the most expensive unit you are allowed to build the rest of the game.

[@BackZero11]

new idea: pick a strat which you wanna play and tell your opponent at the beginning of the game :D

[@lichtfalter7583]

he dont like things like things like that which can insult the other player / make them a bad day

[@joaopadua7134]

Yeah I like your jokes despite them being kinda oddly specific

[@monke_kekw5173]

This vid title is literally the best rhyme by far

[@TheChiefKipSavage]

I was laughing my ass off this whole video, you're content is next level

[@1unkn0wn]

"I wonder if anyone likes my jokes?" hahaha

[@TheQsanity]

lmao these jokes @19:00ish are too good

[@Caiiiiiiiiii]

Stupid stuff suggestion: Misplaced nexus Start by misplacing every base by one hex. Every time you win increase the amount of misplacing by an additional hex. Hopefully you will have ridiculous mining by the end.

[@NumbFlynn]

Petition to officially rename garden gnomes to garden midgets.

[@zackdenkers3820]

should have told him "thats why its called beating grandmaster with stupid stuff" when he says your build is stupid.

[@claytonsmith3749]

Next strategy for the new patch: Proxy Nexus for offensive Battery Overcharge. Can proxy a robo or stargate with it.

[@christiandollerup8088]

Came for the SC. Stayed for the jokes.

[@eldra-Hey]

ur jokes is THE reason i tune in x)

[@SomethingLog]

Nexus recall in the enemy base. That one was a classic

[@spencerparks6286]

Very satisfying seeing you beat him with the "stupid" build

[@Sei783]

Whenever I get the same person a few times, I hold off on hitting the go button for like a minute.

[@Venezuelangel]

"...cuts charity fund. Still spends 12 thousand euros on strawberries, though" XD

[@2019inuyasha]

now you must caustic spray multiple buildings at the same time. you can still have an army out on the map.

[@krz8888888]

Love the friendly banter

[@ТкачукДенис-с6с]

22:00 "in general English makes absolutely no sense, must have been invented by a complete idiot" =) >< such a good point😂

[@vld.mihalache]

i was literally laughing when he was questioning his jokes

[@mojoe87]

FYI Harstem, Garden Midgets = Gnomes. I got you fam.

[@sinephase]

6:46 - NEVER WRONG!!! LOL

[@KonaTTV]

I feel like those were some perfect games to showcase the shield overcharge and we only saw it once :(

[@JeremySmith-wc4lh]

Your jokes are key to my viewership

[@migueljuan5374]

I'll really get mad if I lost to stupid builds but if it was Harstem I won't be even mad.

[@fuba44]

Suggestion: inspired by the last game, win with any build, but you must announce it to your oponents before you execute it.

[@enmarecordings]

in the second game an overcharge on your archons would have been great, but I have to admit, your jokes were on point....again.... :)

[@glitchress]

I love your jokes though. ;-; Dry humor is my favorite.

[@DobroSC2]

2:19 bug. "Base is under attack" when zerg attacked probe. 2 times 12:28 another bug with batteries

[@z0mb1e564]

Now you have to make a graphic of you stealing garden gnomes for your IODIS series lololol

[@8ritorneloz]

Absolute gold content

[@cahillp3]

I was waiting for mass Muta flyover archon until the end. Then I reread the title

[@tehplatypus222]

I don't think the super intense archon-warp prism micro counts as A-move. 😂

[@TheNZSamaritan]

Can't wait to see the next exciting episode of beating Yogo with stupid stuff :-p ggwp

[@generic8891]

How does this strat sound: *Combined Arms* -- you are only allowed to attack using armies that contain at least one stargate, robo, *and* warp gate unit.

[@richardlamarre3610]

I am sensing a theme here lol

[@frameshft5865]

A move is an Alpha move when it's harstem

[@PickleMyPixel]

thats why we are here, for the strawberry jokes xDD

[@mattivoutilainen2348]

The jokes are definitely the reason i tune in.

[@Arkain89]

you can hit on my mom anytime hars, no matter how many joints we've smoked

[@Firere345]

17:50 I will not STAND for this strawberry slander, no matter whose beautiful lips are speaking

[@tymgreentech]

We just pretend to like your jokes cause you're good at the game 😂😂

[@SidKnight]

"Your build was stupid" 🤣🤣🤣😵

[@MrSamuelspark]

Hi Harstem. You should do a video that uses really old builds like Parting Immo/Sentry from 2012 and 4 Gate from the early early days of protoss.

[@lelouchvibritannia7809]

Chargelot Archon. The marines of Protoss Marine Medivac the Chargelot Archon of Terran Zerg, the Chargelot Archon, Immortal, High Templar, Warp Prism with multi tasking drops 5 BCs in the main Nydus Swarm host killing your production DT cheese baneling bust skytoss of Starcraft II

[@imerickogut]

Definitely one of my fave episodes 😭 😭

[@Fortyboy1990]

WHO HAS THE STUPID BUILD NOW Harstrem for prez asap.

[@Access_Snipe]

I have amazing idea but it would require you to play Terran are you open to playing other races for BGMWSS?

[@hafter9644]

Is it really a move if you micro with a warp prism?

[@Lincotetracus]

I posted a comment with the link to the twitch of Yogo, to the video where he played these games, but when I logout it doesn't appear. Are links blocked, or am I shadowbaned ?

[@Harstem]

Probably both mate. In all seriousness I guess links are banned, I don't know how it works. KZbin does stuff by itself, I am just a mere spectator.

[@artexartexartex]

DM me that! Would love to see his reaction

[@Lincotetracus]

Here you go ! (If it works this time) www.twitch.tv/videos/646614014?t=00h04m17s

[@Lincotetracus]

Oh, I just realized I can probably just cut up the link and KZbin will not mind. Not the most convenient but oh well. ww w.twitch.t v/videos/646614014?t=00h04m17s Will it work, will it not ? Let's see ! (Spoiler alert : he's not nearly as fun and energetic as harstem)

[@swindonbadger7543]

come gather round zealots I expected you to roam , don't you come back till you kill me a drone, with this stupid build Im not gonna be chilling quite a surprise to hear you sing Dylan ^^

[@jeferson8769]

What about Proxy Nydus Worm near oponent and connect to your base?

[@Firere345]

Harstem must be top 1 EU trash talk 🤣🤣

[@rectsq]

New season this will be fun me Ice and chrome is the only stage I've lost on so far

[@kovasm.6088]

Harstem: Sees trail coming from shield battery: "that's really annoying" Also Harstem: Immediately draws dick :Dd

[@kovasm.6088]

Plz no I don't want to comment into the abyss someone confirm they can hear me.

[@tehguitarque]

With those roach all ins, a couple more shield batteries could have made the difference. How about a shield battery-is-my-pylon challenge? must have 1:4 ratio of shield bats to units (cyber counts as 1, so you get up to 4 units after getting that, not counting probes of course.

[@jphonevideo]

What about if you make two lists of 6 toss units, assign a number 1-6 on each list. Then roll two die during loading screen to pick main two units for your army. Same unit could be on both lists but cant be repeated on a single list. Wouldnt need to be a purely two unit type army, just try to feature those two units.

[@tadelli11]

great episode

[@evesp3678]

Hey Harstem I had a question/request. Would it be possible to get a 3rd/4th base guide? Like all of last season I was losing on Simulacrum and then about a week ago I watched one of your videos where you pointed out that the base I was taking as my 3rd is the "wrong base" on that map and you explained how you cant defend it properly. But now with the new season I feel like I'm back in the dark. How do you figure out what's the best 3rd/4th? How do certain matchups/comps change your decisions? Like do I change what 3rd I take vs mech instead of bio? I think it'd be very helpful to have a video that explains how you figure out the best 3rd/4th locations.

[@Legend71717]

suggestion: letting your oponent expand in his third or fourth, then building a nexus right next to it and mine

[@trevorsmith1159]

I love your jokes, carry on