StarCraft 2: DOMINATION - Serral gets CHEESED by Cure!

[@brendanw1867]

Actually, Serral used this build from the first game vs Maru. The attack is built-in. He contaminated the factory several times to slow tank production. It will straight up kill if you don't have a starport to deal with the overseer.

[@totallynotminx4682]

I never noticed he did that, I was wondering why Cure only had a few tanks out so late into the game. Absolutely foul plays by the Finnish Phenom, for sure.

[@bloodydove5718]

Im honestly still surprised Contaminate isnt used all that often. Slowing down production and upgrades just seems so... incredibly useful. And its not like Overseers use their energy all that much. Would throw off so many timing attacks and soften opponents due to them not having as large or strong an army as they could have otherwise.

[@YodasMessenger]

That is soo fucking cool im getting nerd chills

[@ZC.Andrew]

That's amazing. We rarely see pro Zergs (or any Zergs) really even use the Contaminate ability.

[@bloodydove5718]

Coming back to this comment and thinking about it further, Using Contaminate more liberally would even give more justification to getting the overlord speed upgrade too. Gives Overseers even more survivability to squeeze out even more value out of everything they do. Just overseers zooming in and out of enemy bases stalling the means of production. I'd imagine this getting incredibly frustrating and force the enemy to spend more on defenses and/or attention they'd otherwise spend elsewhere. I seriously wonder why Contaminate isnt used more.

[@DrLife121]

"He's ready to slow this game down for another 10-15 minutes or so" *glances at video timer* *3 minutes left*

[@mido5126]

Aww man, i just love watching serral, it looks so much smoother than with any other player out there(Even tho they are all already freaking good)

[@Taznak]

Damn, using Blinding Cloud to lure the Marines to walk into the Banelings was devastating

[@YodasMessenger]

Jesus christ how the fuck does Serral make 2 back-to-back series against flippin Cure look this easy. What an absolute monster. Terrifying honestly.

[@natecw4164]

Lowko: I wonder if the triple reaper will be standard in a few months... Lowko in 6 months: Of course, this 6 cyclone 2 hellbat mine opener remains the standard since the last patch...

[@LowkoTV]

Hahahaha at this rate, looking at the new patch, I think it’ll be 10 Cyclones every game 😂

[@stan4427]

Loko! Seriously great commentating at the 23 minute mark. Don't comment much on your vids, but I like it when you get inside of the players heads - looking at the same problem from two angles and then from your own. Top tier SC2 analysis

[@gh3trenty4]

It's frustrating to even watch games against Serral. Can't imagine what the players feel 😅

[@icecream6256]

It was more frustrating a couple months or years back to see a zvt and they had to sit 10 mins staring at each other cause the terran dont want the ghost to die and the zerg dont want to overstep. I symphatise with the zerg more 😂😂

[@hockey1freak]

Recognize how methodically good Serral is, but my God his winning is boring AF

[@jimmygoh4210]

zerg unit is pretty OP if u play them right. creep spread is pretty much half maphack and then with infestor burrowing around the entire map zerg player pretty much have the potential for full maphack. With vision of your enemy units whereabout makes the game so much easier to play. u can easily climb the rank with just lings+bane+infestor play. Unless terran has unlimited scan or rich enough to invest lot of raven or observer for protoss.

[@etherdeef4303]

@@jimmygoh4210 sensor tower

[@jimmygoh4210]

@@etherdeef4303 sensor tower does not reveal burrowed unit and its benefit are no where near what creep spread could provide.

[@awrawrwar]

Zerg, how do you even beat it? It seems unbeatable! This guy! How in the world would you even stop it!? If somebody played perfect, Zerg seems unstoppable!

[@awrawrwar]

Okay I made this comment to be ironic but ....

[@Daniel-rd6st]

You stop Serral by playing zerg basically. He can beat toss and terran at any day of the week but is zvz has become his major weak point. Funnily enough, all other zerg players have a lot more problems vs the non mirror matchups than Serral. I still remember Reynor getting wrecked in the GSL he attended, as an example. And yet Reynor nowadays seems to have Serrals number (well probably literally, considering they are on the same team :p ) @@awrawrwar

[@SD-jf7nb]

Oh, irony, took second but I remember a world before having to adjust to aspies. He is probably hard to even cast: a lot of players struggle just keeping up with economy while defending, much less attacking, I can just about manage a two pronged attack, but take your eyes off your army for 2 seconds and it's gone. The style that got everybody tilted to start with I think was the hatchtek roach avisher, throw so much shit at them that they have to pull everything back to defend, a desperation strategy that works, but very expensive. In long games Terran static builds can run you dry. He's getting scarier now he's playing a more nuanced and economical game. Still, Creator killed him with a very basic void split, the main weakness of the toss being it's very propensity to pucker together into a nigh unstoppable death ball. Fear not, terries soon to be imba in whole new ways.

[@johnkalyvas4838]

It should be possible with perfect marine splits and target firing. AI level, over 9000 APM micro. Also perfect EMPs and snipes from ghosts, perfect unsieging to avoid ravager biles, perfect splits against parasitic bombs ect.

[@emlen5847]

​@@johnkalyvas4838snipe 8 times: kill 100 supply of zerg that costs 2000/2000

[@soul8bounce]

Those surrounds are the best thing in Starcraft. Honestly gives me the feeling of being overwhelmed.

[@xandara75]

He truly plays like he is the swarm, swarming from all sides

[@jeremyduke4938]

Serral is just too dangerous. He's soo freakin good.

[@fatcatzero]

Nerf Serral. Tape his pinkies to his ring fingers when he plays.

[@jeremyduke4938]

@fatcat0702 nerf serral. He should be required to sleep on a mattress from goodwill the night before tournaments.

[@nikolaosandreikos9087]

@@fatcatzero 😂😂😂😂

[@jessegauthier6985]

Ack. Fckin youtube pushed this comment in my face and spoiled the dam thing.

[@microqueen69]

@@fatcatzero He should play, at least, one match blindfolded.

[@jlichman1046]

Lowko- Cure is exploding he's going to slow this game down for the next 10 to 15 mins! Me- checks how much of the video is left - 3 mins 😂 damnit Serral

[@daemok4752]

Loko... "in the beautiful country of Europe" ...

[@potato6619]

Well, his name is loko :P

[@daemok4752]

@@potato6619 his name is Lowko but since Europe is a country I might as well misspell his name lol

[@CMF412]

I'm just a zerg fan; whenever I see Serral, Reynor, Dark, or Scarlett I watch. I know there are more but these ones are my fav. Reynors games are the only time I will root for the other races.

[@ZC.Andrew]

I haven't seen Scarlett much lately. I miss her playstyle so much. She had a unique approach to the race.

[@tacochaos5127]

"Serral is doing side quests now" laughed so damn hard at that one

[@mymusicplaylist2609]

Harstem should make a series, Is Serral imba or do I suck?

[@LDSG_A_Team]

Serral is just built different.

[@CrayXP]

52:25 this crazy fungal. So impressive :)

[@asdfasdf-mn8iu]

lowko, i need more videos of you casting clem and then doing the clem impression like "oh non, sacre bleu, c'est-une roach dans le main base" and so on, it's hilarious and i love it :O

[@yxzwayne]

Kinda tired to see all the burrowing infestors. getting one or two ravens along the army would be a trivial cost with massive returns

[@SD-jf7nb]

Terries are lazy, and medics furnish greater value in the early game, even going mass raven, before seeker was nerfed (about the time I quit playing t never great with them anyway), you still kicked a medi or two before going into 6 or 8 starports. Medics can evac scv, drop death on you enemi worker from behind, 4 ghost can nuke the ramp from you main to the nat, then lay 3 overlapping on your production and kill every structure. Stacks vertically, Raven just screens, used to be a point defense drone chingas.

[@HaploBartow]

@@SD-jf7nb Except all you need is one raven. It's not like that will cut into your medivac count all that much, especially in the mid to late game. It will save you needing to scan to find burrowed units or creep tumors though. Having at least one raven really should be a 200% must in a TvZ matchup, honestly.

[@tiberiusx22]

I've always thought this. But they just don't seem to do it.

[@xandara75]

@@SD-jf7nb while understandable if you play against serral i think its a fantastic investment. Even just for the zerglings he puts under your bases etc and even more for his infestors

[@YodasMessenger]

you know i dont really know that much about SC2 so take this with a grain of salt, but Serrals build first game felt pretty map specific. The roaches allowed for a very clean and easy defense against the early marines and probably also took Cure by surprise. Maybe that little bit of shakyness is all Serral needed to be able to greed for the Gold base early on and snowball it into an income advantage. And then you have a lot of disposable income combined with a cheap and straight forward army that you can just throw at your opponent to contain them, ensuring that they fall further and further behind with time. I might just be analyzing this with the power of hindsight which makes this suspect at best since the scenario playing out exactly like that definitely biases my opinion of it, but i thought it was incredibly cool to see.

[@YodasMessenger]

I guess there is also something to be said about the advantages of playing something unconventional game 1. Its a bit of a gambit, if you win with it, the opponent is definitely shaken up atleast a little bit. Even if these guys are seasoned pros, noone is 100% tilt proof and your mindset matters a lot in a game as high-stress as SC2.

[@dajusta87]

There should be a way for the caster / commentator to have quick enabling of picture in picture. An idea to enable this intuitively is to have the ability to hover the mouse over the mini map and hold down a certain key, let's say SHIFT. As the mouse hovers over a part of the mini map, you hold down SHIFT and a small picture in picture screen appears in the corner of the screen, let's say top left or middle left. This method, you can see the main battle on the main screen, and then a picture in picture of a drop or harassment. Lowko, pls pass this idea onto the developers. They listen to you!

[@ОлегКадриев]

it isn't possible for the solo caster to use picture in picture without post prod.

[@SchmittySchfin]

@@ОлегКадриевHe knows that. That’s why he’s suggesting they add that in. And his suggested method would be absolutely possible to implement. Not trivial, but definitely possible.

[@ОлегКадриев]

@@SchmittySchfin The way he describe it literally was absolutely impossible for solo caster. He should simultaneously watch fight, talk about fight, watch minimap, find another action, hover mouse here, hold shift, follow camera on main fight and also move camera in PIP with pixel perfect control (PIP will be shakin like crazy if control like that)

[@nativat]

serral playing vs normal terran openings: gl hf serral playing vs terran cheese: *So you have chosen death?*

[@pavelar74]

The only thing that has to be debuffed is Serral 😄 Start a petition: Lets nerf Serral. We can make him play with one eye closed or one hand behind his back... Or just remove the keyboard that he is using with his feet 🤣

[@zeipastel]

15:55 serral is able to save a drone by a split second, even after the reaper shot sound !

[@Aabergm]

9:23 smash cut to a post-match interview with Serral saying, "yeah nah I had no idea what was going on, I was making it up as i went."

[@kentekeroth]

Love watching serral. The only one who can really play Zerg against Terran, who against any other than him is OP

[@lasio16]

What is Serral doing on minimap every round for the first minutes? Why he looks at spots he has no vision?

[@knivesoutcatchdamouse2137]

for real though, what is going on there?

[@SD-jf7nb]

You used to be able to hear things on mouseover, I used to mouseover likely spots, I could hear pylons warping in, buildings being constructed, etc.

[@knivesoutcatchdamouse2137]

@@SD-jf7nb that's crazy! I never knew about that....I wonder if it still exists?

[@xandara75]

he is setting hotkeys for jumping to these spots if im not mistaken.

[@soulvanquisher1]

Great coverage, thanks for the game, really enjoyed it 👍

[@dahn57]

It's not Zerg that needs nerfing, it's Serral 😛

[@ZC.Andrew]

His ZvP and ZvT are world renowned. But he struggles in ZvZ. So you can't nerf him, or he'll get steamrolled by Solar, Dark, Reynor etc.

[@gusthomas467]

Know why Serral can experiment, successfully, with build orders that aren't "standard"? I think it's because of total mastery over defensive fundamentals. If things go wrong, it's okay! The game is not lost. That is what allows him the confidence to see the "weird" strategies through.

[@xandara75]

Its also because his vision is almost always perfect. after the early game he isn't caught of guard ever. Not a single time. It's awe inspiring to see.

[@pnnnnnnnnnn1234]

Always enjoying your commentary.

[@ryanwsu4]

“I was watching Lowko today. Turns out, gotta start using the all army key.”

[@Zeracan]

I think the trick to Serral is everyone knows ultralisks are niche choice units. "Oh no, the snipes start up" so just making them work or knowing when to makes Serral Serral.

[@mentalisttraceur]

Re: balancing based on Serral: reminds me of when Blizzard tried making overlord speed cost 50 instead of 100 a few years back. Serral immediately started getting it every game to great effect, and I'm pretty sure he singlehandedly got them to go "oops nvm" on the very next patch.

[@timmothyburke]

What do you get when you cross an unstoppable force with a terran army?

[@pavelar74]

You die! 🤣

[@MSDoL]

A first rate finisher!

[@andrewwalker9136]

FYI Lowko, Finnish NBA All-Star Lauri Markannen just completed a shorterned mandatory military service stint so can't see Serral getting out of it all together but perhaps a short one too

[@teachmehowtodoge1737]

Glad to witness the goat's games. 🐐

[@sargonyami4292]

We have updated from "don't do math in videos" to "don't do geography in videos". Europe is no country lowko 😂

[@simescoun22009]

the guy such a goat he is unranked, he is just the final boss of the pro players game

[@zeagias]

Serral defends his creep spread by pushing roaches prior to clicking his creep spread. This distraction causes the Terrain to react by quick picking up and moving then going back to w/e they are doing instead of coming back after to stop the creep spread. Genius.

[@RobinWyatt-w1u]

Great coverage, thanks for the game, really enjoyed it . 52:25 this crazy fungal. So impressive :).

[@lowkey_Ioki]

"Eenie meenie minie.... eeeehhhh _tosses d6_ ravagers! Sounds good to me"

[@ganstera2011]

@Lowko I strongly think that Serral is not Human! He is a zerg/AI/god hybrid... He is line a Isekai protagonist

[@andrewjones2295]

I love the throwback to resident evil haha the amazing beautiful country of Europe

[@jjjarod1]

Ty for the video lowko. ❤

[@frosty6960]

Playing against Serral must feel like when ur big bro bullies you and hits you with your own hand.

[@FragnarokNethermaster]

I love the fact that it was pretty much because of Serral that Zerg got nerfed like a thousand times and we still have people complaining that he’s not human enough Edit: I mean, having a unit being nerfed is a good feat (byun), but having the entire race nerfed over and over again for 5 years? That’s why he’s the goat, the goat!!!

[@Iwmar]

Don't know about 5 years but queens and creep got definitely gutted because of him.

[@yeyintnaing7823]

still I think queen need super nerf one of the annoying unit I hope disappear from StarCraft universe

[@Daniel-rd6st]

And what should replace them? Queens are the most important zerg unit. Only source of early game AA (save for spines, which can be easily dodged without queens) and are needed to transfues the hatches for additional produktion. You would have to basically redesign how zerg work and that is simply not needed, as the races are ballanced quite well. And we have a terran worldchampion right now, so if anything protoss could do with a little buff.@@yeyintnaing7823

[@mattferdon1708]

Aàa

[@FragnarokNethermaster]

@@Iwmar I mean, after he won with infected Terran they removed them from the game. When he won with brood lords they nerfed their range and speed to the ground. When he won marching the queens they nerfed them so that they would only be able to transfuse on creep. Along with the many, many nerfs Zerg’ve had over time.

[@Davidfrost-yj5st]

Serral gives me the impression of the guy who is already imba but gets even stronger year after year. Terrifying.

[@WhereIsTheIntruder]

The ultras on g1 were on point and completely deliberate. Serral read the game perfectly and knew Cure had no resources to transition into ghosts, so the Ultras have a window where they can just slam the door shut against an army or pure marines and tanks.

[@xandara75]

People truly underestimate how scouting is one of Serrals absolute highest polished skills. He literally knows everything his opponents do at almost every point in the game. It's beautiful to see. As Lowko said Serral sees things as fast as him and he has perfect vision at all times.

[@JG-ti7id]

@10:20 truer words were never spoken! glhf

[@yamilabugattas3895]

I don't know about Zerg, but Serral himself could definitely use a nerf. If it weren't for the ocasional mistake, like that failed surround on the left side, I'd probably think it's a machine playing.

[@ed0c]

spinecrawler was clutch on final game

[@davidholland4713]

Hey, Lowko, how dare you feature games of Serral. That guy is totally imba :-)

[@KoryMcM]

Serral just casually altering SC2 meta.. 😅

[@a.c.s.6368]

so, another 55 minutes of lowko w...ring for serral, got it.

[@Hazza32]

That fungal was insane

[@ArtariusAurelius]

this game seems like it has a rock paper scissors dynamic, but only zerg has access to all 3

[@ZC.Andrew]

I wonder what Solar thinks about the Serral domination train!

[@chrisdaignault9845]

Wait, this isn’t the world Excel championships???

[@daikatarokamegawa542]

So, in theory, would a guy with strabismus have an advantage in competitive SC2, by virtue of being able to keep one eye on the minimap all the time?

[@weavorjjohanna5619]

what with the logo on the top right at the start of the video, it been 2 year seen i last seen a lowko video, it this a new thing ?

[@LowkoTV]

Dutch media law mandates it as of a little while now, it’s similar to PEGI ratings for example

[@weavorjjohanna5619]

@@LowkoTV oooohhh... no, well nice video as always, i often time listen to your cast when doing dishes

[@mentalisttraceur]

Re: people not watching Serral win videos: that's okay, I almost exclusively watch Serral game videos nowaday, sometimes multiple times.

[@slimguyneedsfood]

Love ya brother!

[@easycake3251]

So... what you are saying is dont nerf Zerg, nerf Serral ? Think he should be playing with one hand tied. Seems like a good start xD

[@Siirr22]

Is Serral IMBA or does everyone else suck?

[@archerfs6786]

Is just that Serral just plays as a counter player. Serral is just a good scouter.

[@july9566]

Honest question , does protoss stand a chance against serral?

[@marrenkirchhof]

I would love to see fast muta again

[@emilybjoerk]

The goat is op, plz nerf

[@sodapopinksi667]

I always skip to the end of the videos to see if Serral wins. If he wins, I'm not watching

[@gusthomas467]

nice one

[@vincenzokoopman7492]

Lowko did you speed this re0lay up?

[@andrewrobinson5179]

recently visited the beautiful country of Europe 10/10 would recommend.

[@Twisted4AGZE]

I'm sorry, why not 1 Raven just set to follow the Medivacs? Don't use it, don't micro it, don't waste time on it, but how many mules could you have vs scans?

[@tropicalterrarium1742]

for once someone doesnt put a spoiler in the title. I appreciate that Lowko.

[@xandara75]

it was a spoiler for the third game though. Still didnt help cure but well * shrugs * its serral

[@tropicalterrarium1742]

@@xandara75 It does not spoil the outcome. Like most of the sc2 vods.

[@juny9445]

1:13..zerg imba. Did my part

[@SD-jf7nb]

Play through the tears bitch! The Finnish Hammer!

[@Mehmet-ic1vi]

i rarely see zergs lose vs terran

[@spacecommie7447]

Serral is a beast, but even beasts trip sometimes.

[@SD-jf7nb]

Somewhere, 41+or51, he ganks a tank into a better firing position, but forgets to kill it, losing like half his hrdra, lol. Reminds of me of me.

[@ed0c]

i feel like fungal growth needs nerf when i watch serral

[@orangepearlf40]

Compared to BW zergs, Sc2 Zerg faction is super-charged and dangerous. I hate playing zergs on the ladder. I bet Serral can still play like this with one eye closed.

[@ivands16]

The beautiful country of Europe??? 15:40

[@pietromariani3263]

I had to check whether or not i had accidentally sped up the video at some point Upvote if you want Lowko to rap about SC

[@chillynewberg2652]

"The beautiful country of Europe." -Lowko, quoting a dumb guy from the internet 😂

[@ductungnguyen253]

2nd! It's nice to see "4 minutes ago" in your video for the first time, Lowko

[@princetemujjin]

Ya know its not fair when you get demolished by an all army hot key. In terms of micro, terran needs to land good EMPs from god knows what direction. Lol.

[@Cyrx686]

People skip to the end of the video to see who wins and THEN watch the whole thing? That's bonkers haha. Geez..

[@thekornreeper]

Good games 🎉

[@polca4love]

Given how top zerg players abuse zerlings and banelings one would expect terran players to use more hellbats. Some reason why this is not so?

[@Daniel-rd6st]

They do in lategame. The problem with hellbats is they they are for one slow, require a lot of upgrades to oneshot zerglings, which you tend to go for late, unless when playing mech (which you rarely see anymore) and they also tend to clump up, which makes it easier for banes to blow them up (though it still would be an efficent trade for the terran).

[@knivesoutcatchdamouse2137]

With the new patch, they can't one shot Zergling even at +3 with Infernal Preigniters. 😂

[@polca4love]

@@Daniel-rd6st Can't they change to helios with an upgrade to solve the speed issue?

[@Daniel-rd6st]

Well they can do that without an upgrade (you actually need an engineering bay to transform helios into hellbats in the first place) and yes, that solves the speed issues, but transforming them takes time, so you might lose a couple before they can fight back and while in helios form they are also very vulnerable, which is the reason why you usually only see helios when trying to run past defenders and fry workers.@@polca4love

[@statuszero865]

Man cure looked awful there...

[@leejace]

Is serral that good or is Zerg over powered?!

[@MaximumSpice]

Not sure how much you know about League Lowko but where does Serral sit compared to Faker. Faker is considered the best league player since basically the beginning of League. Is Serral on that level? He just seems like such a machine

[@capitalcity1971]

I would argue that Serral is even more ludicrous because it seems like the dev's of the game are actively nerfing zerg since he keeps winning all the time. All while he still wins with despite the new updates and nerfs

[@MaximumSpice]

@@capitalcity1971 I mean you watch him play controlling such an insane race and he makes it look easy but we know otherwise. That said, Faker does the same on any champion. Hard to compare, one is a single champion, one is a huge number of things all at once. I wonder if Serral plays league at all?

[@haloforgeguy453]

Perfect can finally sleep

[@rhyvehr]

One of the best terrans in the world gets "walked over" consistently by zerg. Lowko's conclusion: guys you're being absurd stop complaining.

[@vickysetiawan5017]

Your title is obviously a click bait. And yet somehow I clicked it.

[@wilsonlepcha3204]

Is it just me or has the video speed increased ?

[@jaumesinglavalls5486]

the only way to balance zerg is banning serral from playing the game as zerg.

[@i_am_ergo]

40:53 In the comments to one of the previous videos, somebody else also pointed out that you tend to use "rigidity" to describe something positive when in reality "rigidity" is a negative trait. I think an easy go-to to memorize for situations like this would be "solidity"/"solidness." Otherwise, great matches and great casting, as the vast majority of the time!

[@JackTinkz]

Bro I play zerg and sometimes I hate how zero is super good high level but it seems like low elo zero is such garbage :-:

[@JacobFavino]

I love seeing terran get plastered lmao wow seeral is good

[@TheMasterhomaster]

LowKo eats a COUPLE of boogers for breakfast 😜