It's Like A Puzzle For Me... | Is It IMBA Or Do I Suck

[@baronessthatcher3368]

The year is 2056. President ChatGPT-12 is serving is 5th consecutive term. East Korea announces victory over the Glorgons in the Siege of Frankfurt. Hamster still hasn't noticed that the "You Suck" stamp says "declinced" instead of "declined".

[@paulchi2221]

Pretty sure "Declinced" is on purpose at this point.

[@StayaYL]

I love that you wore glasses through the intro just for the effect of taking them off. XD

[@Sev017]

A move truly worthy of our Captain.

[@powerup9035]

That’s the highlight of this video

[@ottoback5375]

7:26 the captain is grossly overestimating how us platinum leaguers think during the game

[@lmao_nope]

Projecting GM top 100 thought processes at plat.

[@ThunderChanter]

I love the submissions, "Yeah I fucked up everything BUT his army control wasnt perfect so like really shouldnt I have won?"

[@abzeromusic]

I had a game where somebody flamed me for using a storm, despite the fact he was ahead in the game and did tons of harassment damage. He didn't micro out of the storms at all, missed all his Snipes with his ghosts. Then he told me templars are imbalanced 😂😂😂😂

[@chloesmith4065]

​@@abzeromusicif I had 5 MMR for every game I was ahead but lost because of imperfect army control (or extremely fair and balanced units such as the Ghost), I'd be grandmaster

[@impishlyit9780]

@@chloesmith4065 I highly recommend you get someone else to compare your replays to people with higher MMR. Either the word "imperfect" is used in place of "atrocious" here, or there are much bigger problems. Even most pros don't have perfect army control, and they would crush you on the spot. Now, ghosts, those are hard to deal with.

[@tarvoc746]

The name for people who are into rocks would be lithophile.

[@EllipticalReasoning]

I haven't seen the video yet and this comment frightens me

[@dusan-renat]

"Whatever army he thinks he has, he doesn't have it." mind blown

[@sparky573]

This is peak content. The editor's note was just icing on the cake.

[@ChannelMiner]

This Terran abandoned his all army key too early in his life.

[@matth1005]

Harstem flaming the protoss for building his gateway too fast but not noticing that he built a stargate just for decoration

[@ahuzel]

i wish my oponents also made decorative stargates u.u. I HATE oracles.

[@Mihdes]

The polka version of the standard mine drop, so good

[@NicolasGodin-zz6vr]

Props to Hamster for the reel at the end. Needed that the second it was mentionned.

[@Tsnafu]

@13:19 bitcoin pizza day - 10,000 BT for two large pizzas - £460 million at today's prices

[@eustaceomalley6071]

4:38 - Heya Cap't. The term you're looking for is "Rock Hound". it is an English slang term for someone that collects and has interest in all types of rocks and usually geologic formations.

[@xitaris5981]

In the first fight, the tanks do more damage to marines than to toss

[@piddywongg]

Crazy good commentary. Epic backhand coaching. Love it.

[@hvip4]

I can't even blame MaxRax. He didn't really make any bold statements in his complaint. He just doesn't realize that when the game is an uncoordinated clusterfuck, the mistakes add up and decide the tide even though individually they seem insignificant. It's more like complaining that he lost his life savings on a coin toss (pun not intended) 😅

[@Vevvev8]

If this guy at any point in the late early to mid game went for a base race with his whole army I feel like he'd win.

[@chloesmith4065]

Literally F2+A-move and win the game

[@djudju8047]

8:40 nah, you'd be on time, the french and the germans looked at each other for 1 year.

[@jeffreywilliams3421]

Anyone find it ironic that MaxRax has trouble with the zealot runbys, MaxPax's signature move?

[@ehk5948]

Oh it's been a while since I've seen an IMBA video! Happy day!

[@hakonmarcus]

I love the lowlights reel, we should have those in every vid!

[@tahmidt]

Man that french army analogy was top notch

[@superflypheelign]

Harstem, at the end of the game, it showed the Protoss Victory screen instead of the Terran Defeat screen. Doesn't that mean this replay was sent in by the Protoss, and not the Terran?

[@byrondanielvilladamagana5828]

4:22 i love how kevin is giving a free tutorial for toss player but stops instantly bc of the reaper and starts asking whats the philia for rock 😂😂😂😂😂😂 i also love the nickname of MaxRax

[@VictorF0326]

This sounds like a ByuN complaint vs Shin's zergling counter attacks. They just keep walking in.

[@Framidan]

He just throw the game, if he had pushed from 6:30 to 7:30 would have won right there. If you can't deal with a prism, just build turrets. There was always an observer watching everything he did. If you see they activate battery overchareg, fall back. BTW I'm Terran with the same MMR that him and I'm strugling with protoss too, but my problem is with storms

[@Qlmmb2086]

Hmm.... antonym for highlights would be bloopers, perhaps.

[@istasi5201]

sick burn mister editor

[@firescorpionnibor6301]

antonym of highlight = deepdark

[@GoXDS]

obviously other issues, but the leftover medivacs after every lost fight just idling and being left to die just bothered me so much Lol. every single engagement, they're just sitting there or even move into the toss further to become food

[@williamwyckoff]

There's like a standard curve where all army hotkey and battlefield awareness overlap and this guy is sorely needing it.

[@disieh]

The CC timing of 1:38 is with perfect SCV micro, without microing its closer to 1:40. I don't know how much pulling one SCV to chase the probe adds to it.

[@xblackenedSunx]

Still one of my favourite series! Solid analysis and entertaining analogies.

[@stehlify]

The early reaper's hands are rated E - for everyone. Yea, everyone gets piece :D

[@owenthailand]

Not gonna lie, if this terran used F2, he would have won this game twice already.

[@dustinholtz9183]

Love the subtle reference to Four Out of Five by Arctic Monkeys

[@vietnamgamer9490]

I like that this guy at least admitted he wasn’t playing all that well and asked for actual advice rather than only complaining.

[@ezraa5985]

How many forms does hamster go through, to choose an IODIS?

[@TheGahta]

This terrans ability to screw up and be able to fail upwards to more opportunities to fumble is mind boggling

[@ingainloggningsnamn]

When did you get glasses?

[@xitaris5981]

When he needed to take them off for dramatic effect! Obviously

[@chloesmith4065]

Never know when you need the prop

[@PeterRudesindus]

Terrans should have to micro their tanks like Ravagers with visible indicators appearing on the ground. And mines should become spell casters also.

[@J6hn]

Zergs should have to micro their lurkers like disruptors with a individual manually selected attack points. And ultralisks should become spell casters also.

[@xitaris5981]

​@@J6hn I'm in favor of ultras becoming spell casters. That seems like the thing that was missing from Zerg 🤣

[@PeterRudesindus]

@@J6hn both of those things would just make Zerg more powerful. Also make it so Medivacs no longer Auto heal. Instead it works like Oracles. Or alternatively make Oracles work like medivacs.

[@cd6583]

tbh id be down for that if it works like zerg so without waiting to seige the tank or burrow the mine. it sounds pretty good

[@PeterRudesindus]

@@cd6583 The point is that many Terran units require no micro but force a lot of actions out of their opponents. Making it so they have to micro doesn't make the units worse, it just makes Terran more equal on a low level.

[@joshgoulash4889]

Move-out timer, lol hamster

[@pw3829]

Heey! I’ve played MaxRax before! I should submit a replay IIIODIS against his Terran just for the poetic justice.

[@Sara_Feingold]

In fairness, fighting against a lone warp prism and managing to take more damage than you dealt because you EMPed yourself while letting the prism escape is something I don't think I've ever seen a pro player accomplish ( ͡• ͜ʖ ͡• )

[@ColinJ388]

I mean to be fair, unbinding the all-army key is one of the first things the other youtubers will tell you to do so you're forced to practice better army control mechanics. Then again, they also won't tell you to pull workers off of mining that aren't actually being harassed yet.. so there's that.

[@1_mensch]

I bet MaxRax watches Lowko and therefore unbinded his all army hot key :D

[@Lightkie]

7:20 How did the Reaper survive? The Adepts must have been on move command.

[@xitaris5981]

No one should be embarrassed to suck at SC2; even pros make embarrassing mistakes. However, you should be embarrassed that you suck at analyzing your replays after getting to Plat. It's fine if you can't see all the mistakes, but you should be able to see the flaws in your fundamentals and see a few key moments when the tide turns. It's not applicable to this video, but It's embarrassing how many Plat and Diamond IODIS submitters miss something as fundamental "I stopped making workers with 2-3 ccs for 1½minutes at the 5 minute mark because I tunneled on controlling my harassing units" or "my build order was so sloppy that my opponent was up 30 supply by the 6 minute mark even though we haven't fought yet"

[@TripWithTheMoon]

Very good episode

[@samloan1829]

20:34 this killed me

[@EllipticalReasoning]

6:45 I have definitely done that

[@TheGreenschuys]

This guy looked like vintage Artosis with his poor siege tank placement.

[@spookyweeb5563]

i think the antonym of highlight is probably a dark point.

[@Markfr0mCanada]

This may be a case of what is or isn't balanced being different at different skill levels. Protoss's ability to reactively warp in is only good if you have free supply and money floating. These are things which lower leagues excell at, so maybe it's relatively stronger down there.

[@paliyander]

22:20 i loved the lowlights xD

[@Erebus2075]

16:13 YESS i want to see lowlight off pro gamers :P where you smile and smack them for their biggest mistakes in matches xXD

[@Erebus2075]

and think it would be helpfull as training bc seeing the main mistakes are easier to avoid than doing the 1200apm octopus nydus,drop,queen,lurker harass, viper push we just saw ;P

[@cloackedsword8713]

Yeah i guess what Blizzard is mostly concerned about is to balance the game so that the plat dog has a pleasant experience.

[@sendicard]

I'll never understand why I'm stuck in silver when diamonds play like this. Maybe my league was glitched back when I was playing it.

[@enriquegarciacota3914]

Nice glasses captain!

[@AntiDoctor-cx2jd]

nailed it with the comparisons in this game. Showing up late to the first world war, just in time for the second world war.

[@pinkster112]

Super funny episode :)) Nickname 10/10 Imba claim accuracy 0/10 :))

[@vinniechan]

French solider in the 50's... are you forgetting Dien Bien Phu?

[@PantoniStrikesBack]

Maybe... lowlights?

[@Erebus2075]

11:51 "what would someone intelligent do" ehh, if its an intelligent Terran player he would be minimum 5.6k mmr, because under that they are seriously braindmgd to still lose enough for such low mmr... like they dont even need to siege, just an A move would have won right ;P when terran lose its because they have shot themselve in the foot on seemingly purpose at least 2-3 times in a match but sometimes over 12+ times and can still win :P

[@synka5922]

the line "if I dont pay attention to my army, I die. If protoss pays no attention, they are fine" is actually really accurate and reflects the Ladder as a whole. Its just that protoss gets worse and worse the better their opponent is at multitasking. Pro players struggle playing toss because they cant take advantage of this "strength" of protoss

[@mglegacy012]

Are we really listening to a Terran complain about going behind enemy lines with a drop ship?? Terrans are out of control my god

[@MaDMaX-ob1jl]

Lookin classy/sexy with the glasses look captain❤

[@momoaa]

Doesnt feel like theres much point game reviewing this mmr, the players have such obvious holes in their gameplay that they need to fix before a "real" game can occur, like terrans horrible army movement, toss parking his army in 3 tanks and losing all his robo units, ect.

[@Erebus2075]

dendofile, are tree's, dont know about rocks though xD

[@eliebrunschwig1593]

this is such great content, for masters league and above. Shame that is it such a niche community

[@wearedoomed9374]

Complaining about warp prism when you have medivacs lmao

[@seppo8383]

I don't really play SC2 but seems to me he lost because he didn't protect his tanks. He just send all with A-move and let all his army die without tank support. Isn't 3k good rating? Shouldn't player at 3k be better than that?

[@Fimbu1vetr]

3k is like plat 1 or 2, so Maxrax is above average. Of course they look terrible when a pro like Harsten (6.5k? Protoss, 5.9k Terran) is coaching, but Maxrax is doing a good amount right as well. It looks easy watching the pros control their armies while macroing well but actually quite hard in practice.

[@seppo8383]

@@Fimbu1vetr I played only SC1 but SC2 I haven't played much. I don't think I would be at 3k, but when I played SC1 , I never let my tanks die like that.

[@MedicJR]

I think Medic is better than Maxrax as a username

[@Ioreks]

the replay seemed so fake

[@chloesmith4065]

It is hard to believe but games like this are indeed played on the ladder every day

[@niasty-uwu]

@@chloesmith4065 many such cases!

[@DiverDrive428]

Should have used F2

[@Erebus2075]

think this shows well how atrocious the ai is XD if you dont micro manage every marine or unit they wont be part off the fight ;D

[@Erebus2075]

8:18 its just op terran, ive seen maru do something semilar and get dmg :P terran mines and ghost are the most broken op units in the game, which only takes braindamage lvl off intelligence to use efficiently ^^

[@hivetech4903]

Yeah because a Maru game is totally comparable to Plat league where builds don't exist :/ Tournament level PvT is currently 56% (Protoss favored).

[@MaDMaX-ob1jl]

The communist reaper 😂

[@AntiDoctor-cx2jd]

This is one of those IODISes, where terran is legit crap but stays viable for a long time due to the race and having ok trades despite always being at half the army value.

[@chloesmith4065]

the double immortal and guardian shield and super battery barely beating like 7 Marines was wild lol

[@helljumper911]

They are both bad... But maybe they were nervous, or smth... I had shaking hands in my first ranked matches... and my macro, which is really great against AI... its worst against real players... not bc they are playing good... its bc they are playing dumb... In games when AI would have killed me 3 times, these ppl are still defending... playing bunkerwars. Battlecruisers, skytoss, canonrush... Thats the real SC2 ranked... it isnt fun at all...

[@SlimStarCraft]

Protoss actually is imba in the lower leagues, its easy to play vs the other races & does not require much speed

[@Fimbu1vetr]

True but Terran proxy builds like 2 rax marauders is even more imba

[@Erebus2075]

terran complains are hilarious xD totally explain why bliztard could created such a broken 'OP terrans :P

[@Iseenoobpeoples]

All army hotkey is noob, hotkey your units as they come out or hotkey the eggs for Zerg. 3 hotkeys or more for units will enable good control.

[@Amoeby]

Does anyone want to invest in harcoin though?

[@HarOuzDz]

1st

[@ingainloggningsnamn]

no u

[@BlindSpectet]

no u

[@inmundo6927]

11:04 That fight really hurt to watch. Protoss goes back allowing you to go to the third and kill it, or at least all the probes in there, while your tanks cover them (or if not kill it, then jump into the main with the medivacs, continuing to harass), but instead he goes into the super battery... kills nothing, and does not micro the marines back so they are killed by his own tank splash damage instead, effectively throwing any advantage he had up to that point out the window. Not to mention half his army being unsused at his base, instead of helping with a multiprong. Hell, he could have just A move and win the game at that point had he used it all together.

[@echidna8553]

So,isn't timba?this guy is way more worst then p,and he can still play 15minty If it's p ,he will gg at first time to push

[@xitaris5981]

"Way worse than p" isn't quite right either. Toss was making all kinds of mistakes too, there's a reason Terran was able to get a supply lead early and it's not just because of the lucky 12 workers killed. They're in the same league for a reason. He said he's 3000 MMR, but I'm guessing that's the highest MMR he's reached, but usually sits closer to 2800. Edit: I looked him up, his avg MMR is 2700 and he only broke thru 2900 for the first time less than a month ago. So that explains why neither player quite looks like a 3000 MMR player