StarCraft 2: SERRAL'S PROXY HATCHERY! (Serral vs souL)

Best-of-3 series of StarCraft 2 between Serral and souL. In this series Serral players differently than he usually does. In the first game he opens up with a Proxy Hatchery rush... A little bit of Zerg cheese.
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[@cartermassey9030]

Me: Yay, a pro ZvT. Maybe I'll learn some new strategies. Also me: Ah yes, he's using the classic "way better than I am" strategy

[@LowkoTV]

“Just play like Serral” is a great tip.

[@prifes7364]

@@LowkoTV Just win 4Head

[@phillippalmer2269]

Suck-less = success

[@HamsterWT]

just git gud

[@duperderpydragon185]

It really do be like that tho

[@LincDN]

"A 17 minute game where it felt like [Soul] was losing the last 13 minutes of it" Welcome to playing against Serral

[@alexfrance8864]

Losing for 17 minutes out of 17

[@Durandurandal]

The hydra does regrow its heads (though 2 at a time, not three), yes, unless the wound is cauterized Ergo Hellion/Hellbat is clearly the counter

[@rilke5536]

I always tought that was why Hydralisks are called that way (Hydra+Basilisk=Hydralisk). Cut one, two appears

[@siegfried1422]

And their blood is also super toxic, so toxic that wearing clothes soaked in the blood causes a slow and agonizing death, even for a Demigod such as Heracles.

[@arabtrooper3929]

20:48 Soul: OMG he's targeting my Engineering Bay! Quick research Neosteel Armor.

[@cestlezooicimw]

Lmaoo 😂

[@mongmanmarkyt2897]

doesn't he lose the mineral/gas bc it was destroyed?

[@AdamSmith-sr3rh]

@@mongmanmarkyt2897 it gets canceled i think

[@aria_svitkona887]

@@mongmanmarkyt2897 if an upgrade is canceled you get a full refund, same with units getting canceled

[@cestlezooicimw]

@@mongmanmarkyt2897 yep, if he didn't cancel, but he did

[@Firnen718]

Here we go again.... Serral releases his Florencio side

[@mho...]

mmmh, that would mean serral playing an inferior strategy & hoping for an opponent that makes mistakes!.... unfair comparison!

[@gabydewilde]

it looked like it for sure, far less boring than the old serral. The old serral was more like, I macro, you cant do anything about it. The end.

[@nait5340]

Florencio did this with double proxy hatch into burrowed roach/ravager

[@Mysteltaint]

I guessed he signed up for his sewer science school

[@jason5811]

If this serral guy was any good, he’d put the proxy hatch in his opponent’s main.

[@bloodydove5718]

lmao, dont tempt him

[@IPromiseTomorrow]

I don't think you should under estimate him.

[@tomato_cultivator_tx2438]

im pretty sure the number best sc2 player knows what hes doin

[@Santa080]

@@tomato_cultivator_tx2438 r/whooosh

[@xxsir_slackxx9091]

i just gotta say this lowko is an amazing starcraft narrator and i really enjoy is dialogue and energy, i just had to say i barely play starcraft now like i used to as a kid but idk it just hit me, i was gonna click off before the video even loaded and do something else but it started and i hear lowko's intro and im just like "nah igotta stay to watch this match" i dont play much often but he gets me so involved in these matches explaining everything and i feel it feels good my cousin and i used to watch every video and play ranked together. good times.

[@hydralisko8820]

indeed

[@ohlookitisacat7404]

Basically, Serral is smurfing in GM.

[@nomad8473]

Lol

[@kakapoleon]

damn, that's accurate!

[@GundamReviver]

I'm pretty sure making a new tier and calling it serral tier would be a bit boring for serral. Has anyone thought of training alfastar exclusively on serral yet? Lol

[@thatsweetlilthing2]

@@GundamReviver AlphaStar*. And using one player to base an AI off of would actually be pretty bad. It only gives you a small breadth of information. In a game that has rock-paper-scissors balance with equal skill, you need to take into account those other factors.

[@project1175]

Serral Cheesing!? I MUST WATCH THIS!

[@sundowneyes]

It’s like 2am here but why not

[@Inbal_Feuchtwanger]

27:00 How did Serral get to 206 supply? He obviously didnt do the extractor trick 6 times. On the production tab it looks like he morphs in 6 ravagers but that still doesnt explain how it allows him to. Edit: NM it looks like he made 6 spores and then canceled them.

[@langeredezammfasser]

So hypothetically speaking you would be able to get an "infinite" amount of supply (drones) as Zerg?

[@BassBiest]

@@langeredezammfasser Nope, when you are at 206 supply and you build a spore, you are at 205 supply and still can't build new units, you would have to build at least 7 spores at the same time to get one additional supply.

[@garyzhu690]

@@BassBiest so 400 supply would be the theoretical max

[@firebal6129]

@@garyzhu690 but it would be made entirely of drones

[@KakiAcha]

@@firebal6129 just 200 drones and the rest whatever you wish for.

[@jayemmzz8301]

That lose yourself reference though hahaha

[@LowkoTV]

Glad you captured and didn't let it slip.

[@Vizaru]

@@LowkoTV in just one shot you did not miss your chance to make that reference, what an opportunity of a lifetime

[@andrebrodbeck3883]

lol i had to laugh about it a lot. Thanks.

[@asparagii]

Moral of the story: Serral is a hydra.

[@Leonardodeboni0406]

...lisk? Jokes

[@Daniel-rd6st]

Hail Hydra!

[@arjunratnadev]

yeah the Greek one that is

[@infernalpaint1132]

They’d be no match for my beastly average APM of 29!!! (9-.-)9 Keep up the great work Lowko!

[@pokerraper1]

how do you do 1 action per 2 seconds... HOW?! I am slow but my average is 120 in a good game (not roasting, just really perplexed)

[@seekerhound]

@@pokerraper1 I actually play against a friend occasionally (neither of us are good). He generally plays propitious and will average around 45-55 APM. I'm always messing with him about what is he doing with all his spare time. (I average 80-90 APM as a Zerg so it's not like I have much room to talk)

[@PJOZeus]

Craith But the question is, is that actually 120 actions, or just spamming camera hotkeys to raise apm- I average about 80 apm terran, could easily get it up past 150 just for the sake of apm, but it doesn’t change the impact of the apm, still an 80 equivalent

[@pokerraper1]

@@PJOZeus if I spam cam its around 250, but I don't do that often because I get dizzy

[@infernalpaint1132]

Craith Only remaining digit on my left hand is a thumb with very little function. Pretty much try to go mouse only with the occasional inaccurate thumb slap to the keyboard. Gotta love hydraulic driven chains and open sprockets on a 30 ton jackhammer ;)

[@rev9115]

What is scarier than a Serral? - A proxy Serral

[@Peter-rn5bu]

22:20 so you can see the cost efficiency right here... well, i mean...

[@risiamoonfall975]

Who needs cost efficiency when you are mining the enemies side of the map and there still not past four bases.

[@Tecun9]

Sacrificing my lunch time to watch this awesome video.

[@mechdonald7848]

you can watch while eating you know

[@ik8303]

Sacrificing the birth of my daughter to watch this awesome video.

[@KingYang05]

Sacrificing a goat to watch this video

[@xavierreigneau6273]

Sacrificing my right nut for this video. #getonmylvl

[@xjesuslovescats]

so basically where are you from? It's 21:41 in Germany haha

[@RandolphTheWhite1]

10:55 "oohh...he just walked into his own corrosive bile's, which, believe it or not, is not ideal..." LMFAO. Lowko is always saying hilarious things

[@warrenliu743]

Every sc2 pro gangsta till they come across serral

[@KAris-kb8lv]

Playing against serrral must feel like one of those survival map, how long can you hold on until you will evantualy lose

[@f00dify]

17 minutes into the video: Serral: My Serral senses are tingling 26 minutes into the video: Me: if you are bitten by a radio active Serral do you gain Serral powers?

[@gabrielmendoza8281]

Lowko quoting Eminem while casting a Serral game, this is perfection hahahaha!

[@Nightmoore]

Lowko, here's some deserved props for uploading these in 1440 and 4k. They look glorious on a high-res monitor. Thanks homie. It's hard to go back to watching games in 1080 after a few of these.

[@travian821]

pros only play and watch videogames in 360p

[@georgewilliamgutarracampos6262]

I know this is impolite but Serral literally humiliated the terran player. I never saw a Zerg expanding that much.

[@Vevvev8]

Yeah that map was covered in purple except for that tiny little blue corner on the bottom right. There was so much creep you'd drown in it.

[@gabydewilde]

its viable, 300 for a hatch, it blocks, spreads creep, makes larvae. He doesn't actually go all the way. With 110-120 drones you can build tech structures all over the map, get multiple hive's then make mass crawlers to free up supply. Let the terran death ball kill some of them and rebuild behind them. They have to abandon their base for much to long that way. Serral doesn't need this, he can just contain the 7000 mmr -.-

[@GBS4893]

Coming from Serral it's not too much of a burn i guess.

[@itellyouforfree7238]

watch serral vs maru. he expanded like crazy

[@creepz6872]

25:28 was pure gold

[@thanink]

He's choking how, everybody's joking now Spaghetti run out, time's up, over, bloah!

[@grishy8203]

"not the best engagement" for zerg is still pretty damned good

[@kasperprime3479]

At 25:25 you gave me the biggest smile lol your jokes are so funny. lololol.

[@zergterran7409]

Lmaoo its like soul is playing campaign with an expanding zeg base lol

[@alkehol8]

4:40 is this really a soft contain? how can he even do it harder contain? :D

[@Reztiips]

Lunkers Ultras and BL's hard camping the ramp.

[@alkehol8]

@@Reztiips can't deffend half of map, and if you would take less than that enemy outmines you

[@noequilibrium6179]

Probbably with 3 - 4 spines in his natural also.

[@airoe_ltd2108]

Curious question, but at what speed do they play at? The fastest? I know these are replays. ?

[@BlazingSun46]

Ladder and Tournament games are always played in “faster” speed AFAIK

[@LowkoTV]

All competitive games are played on the fastest game setting, yes. All of this is in real time.

[@guido5592]

22:08 that ravaged got its shit absolutely fucked

[@HistoryFacts5]

27:00 how did he reached over 200 supply?

[@pheonex4180]

I feel like I may have seen this game before. It's a little older, right?

[@chippercardinal6621]

Yeah. 1 month ago by SC2HL.

[@sammyjudeh1117]

But no one commentates as good as LowKo. 👍

[@chippercardinal6621]

Tru

[@erik_irgendwo]

pheonex every z v t

[@abyssalzei552]

26:22 He didn't make an anchor to fall back to.

[@somehuman1901]

Serral is the only zerg who can consistently beat a Terran.

[@dargansariani7274]

Noob here, however why no raven. I understand it is an easy kill and it isn"t really used for creep cleaning, but in the case of the first game where there is no pressure whatsoever for the Terran's base creepcleaning it would have been less expensive then 3 or 4 scans and would have allowed for turret harras or defense no ? Thanks for any remarks ! Cheers

[@davidabeillaud5521]

27:00 how serral is 206 supply ?

[@rhpmike]

Spore trick. Build spores (costs a supply because zerg loses a drone when it makes a building), then build units, then cancel the spores turning them back into drones.

[@Platschu]

3:15 I am not really a good Zerg player, but the Overlord could have made creep for the queens and help to spread it up to the terran main base.

[@pabloalfonsop]

Duuuuude!! The eminem song reference killed me LOL!!!

[@aceliu5997]

LOL one shot, love it. made me laugh. thanks

[@wefhy]

26:55 it's 206/200 supply... I haven't seen extractor trick in top level games for so long...

[@D3STINY22]

I'll say it again. Serral embodies the swarm. Zergs have bad late game but they make up for it with sheer quantity that overwhelms you and eat you.

[@gnawydna]

just curious, why did soul make cyclones and not siege tanks

[@duncanmcgregor4973]

HELLO everyone, his name is Lowko, and welcome back to another match of Starcraft 2.

[@Jindrolim]

Finland is in a different timezone than Poland ;)

[@Jindrolim]

@Unbreakable Patches 'murica intensifies

[@p_serdiuk]

It's the same overall timezone compared to US and Asia.

[@MarkSmith-ki1oe]

Why do you have to scan to get rid of creep?

[@Skiso85]

Would a kind soul please guide me. Where can i find those good proffessional replays. And how do i watch them with the SC2 client ?

[@anothisflame8266]

Mostly online, usually google would be enougj. Just google the names of a major tournament and date. Also there's a folder in the directory for your starcraft 2 game (just navigate through your computer hard drive) that is called "replays" just place the files there and the client will recognize them.

[@axh2]

The second game was actually sad. It was like watching someone beat up a puppy... I know Soul would destroy me in 4 minutes if I ever played against him, but still the game seemed uneven to the point where you should read the Geneva Convention to check if that was legal

[@Viking-Ragnar]

I heard Eminem's Lose Yourself lyrics! Very cool Mr Lowko! 👍👍👍

[@charleouel9012]

whit the 3 BC the best idea wouldn't be to use the jump beind the enemie muta and fake you aren't jumping and just push some marine into the mutas whene the BC are warped in? Or thor I guess... Also probably a stupid idea but wouldn't viking be pretty good vs the Mutas? they got 9 range vs there 3 range and are pretty quick so if you want you can hide beind the BC after shoting whene waiting for your cooldown. (May be Muta can just spot them form far out and just not get into truble but still if they don't get into truble doesn't it achive the same thing as killing them?)

[@smaumau5397]

"Serral is stuck on roach ravager, so if the Terran gets to late game Serral is gonna lose" *Serral killing the Terran so it cant transition to late game* Lowko: Bruh

[@lamont6799]

yes, lol ! 25:30

[@nikoskapelonis2604]

Hi lowko :D

[@LowkoTV]

Hi Nikos!

[@jasonlynch282]

He should have jumped the 3 BC's behind the mutalisk vision. That would have been sick.

[@charlyr6774]

THE BOSS !!! IN ACTION

[@RockyLXXXVIII]

The whole point of Zerg is to make their units quicker and more efficiently than other races. A good zerg will just not allow Terran and toss to max out. Send in half your army to just suicide and cripple your opponent, get your entire army back before you opponent can recoup even half their losses and push in again.

[@josegertes2732]

Does anyone know the ecact build order of this? Ive been trying to get a good proxy hatch build order to mix up my gameplay.

[@gkoatb1512]

Great video! I’m trying to get better at Terran right now as I’m still new. A lot to mange at once but I’ll get there eventually! Keep up the fantastic work Lowko

[@cavemantero]

they really need to nerf ravagers and disruptors or buff siege tanks...there's just no comparison in how strong those two units are against terran

[@austenlavis5658]

Serral did it again in making 206 unit supply of 200!! Yes he must have drone tricked it bu gosh darn

[@floflotantan]

thanks for new intro :)

[@aquaductape]

What graphic settings is lowko using? Mine is at the highest but some units blend in the terrain. lowko's settings look very poppy and I like that since it's easier to spot units

[@kibateo]

when you hold a fucking 5 base advantage over the opponent lmao

[@5copeiek699]

Dude,could you add the markers on video line if score has changing?

[@TritonTv69420]

man serral is a polished killing machine!

[@alkehol8]

Is cyclone for ravager woth it for zerg?

[@milesscheetz9841]

Isn't this a pretty old replay? I know that first game because I copied the build order like a month ago

[@gunkanjima3408]

Potentially a game ending mistake by serral at 9:49 showing his tunneling claws upgrade. Fortunately for him he was ahead by a good margin

[@Midnight2630]

23:45 fortunetly Serral didn´t make any Ultralisk.

[@risiamoonfall975]

He probably would of , but he was maxed on supply and even Serral tries to not be hated to much with insults to injury.

[@erik_irgendwo]

Guess who wins ? When was the last time we saw a Zerg lose, must have been a while ago.

[@nftwhisper]

Long time no see Lowko, love u

[@996vtwin2]

He should have gone banshee in that first game.

[@hausgeisttsiegsuah6666]

So you say i am the only zerg who likes/win more games playing against mech then bio teran?!?i love they do that,it feels like a free win every game.btw im dia 1 on eu,maybe its harder to beat in master?

[@nekrosis8555]

Obviously serral is in the mindset of constant improvement instead of just laying down thinking "i'm the best". But every time i watch him play i can't stop thinking "Yup, he is the best"

[@insertgoodnamehere7102]

Do you know where I can buy Serral cheese?

[@TheMidnightShadow22]

Every time I watch a pro play Zerg, I think about switching to it. But then I play it then immediately switch back to Protoss

[@anthonyrepetto3474]

Yeah, Serral + Florencio-insanity, as well as leveraging spending advantage to keep terran down = *Sun Tzu Starcraft*

[@true_xander]

An average 3k ladder Terran will just reflect those harrasses with a tons of turrets around, couple thors on every base and constant drops to the zerg'z minerals

[@La3nus]

An average 3k Terran would have died to the roach push

[@spreadsheet1722]

Serral practically bullied soul from getting the third base lmao

[@thehappypenguin951]

Had to re-read the title to make sure that it's not Florencio playing as Zerg.

[@HauerPower11]

Ahh yes 200 food

[@FishboyAbzu]

I know I'm not a good player but soul really should have repaired those thors

[@Merumya]

27:00 hey! Did he just go to 206 supply? Thats cheating! of course he wins so much :o

[@Spartsou]

GG, gj Serral.

[@krixs1625]

If Reynor and Serral do archon mode with Zerg I think it would be an unstoppable war machine

[@asyrafilanuar4972]

ironically no. haha. they tried this in zvt. since terran is micro intense, two pro players with 500apm makes terran pretty much unstoppable. perhaps because terran main micro is in the army control, while zerg must communicate more to produce which side of the army and macro.

[@Treksh]

Thanks for the episode~

[@eddy7985]

No 'Hello everyone, my name is lowko!' at the beginning makes me sad :(

[@themargrave]

not me, to me it sounds forced and frankly annoying

[@heroclix0rz]

Remember his signature "BOI" signoff? 😆 Love you lowko!

[@duncanmcgregor4973]

makes me sad too

[@theraisinoftruth4370]

Yup, I'll just be here in gold league melting to mech.

[@Erebus2075]

if i saw 20 mutas i would have like 5-10 missile turrets at EVERY attack path, you can built a ton of turrets for the price of 20 mutas. thats why they lose so easily. if they just made tons of turrets they would be fine (5 turrets would do a LOT of dmg to a muta flock that engage, 10 would shut it down no prob and with 20 muta, 3 base to defend you could have 14 turrets on each base and STILL have used less resources because gass is more important than minerals.) equally to avoid the big bane bust that will eventually come from that, make 2 thors and 2-4tanks on each base and you are completely safe against like 50 baneling+support... the massive amount of missile turrets would also make the curroptor switch vs. BC's far less effective, actually it would create a safe heaven for terran to fall back to vs. every lategame composition Z can make... i hope to see these massive amount of turrets when T learns "how to play" ;) it is simply that terran players are bad at creating what is needed to defend what they see, instead they go for their own stuff and ignore that they need to be reactionary instead of being the aggressor in those situations... and seriously 2 turrets vs 20 mutas wtf did you expect obv you are going to lose doing that -_- also DO NOT A MOVE THORS! i mean seriously they hit from outside of view of the muta flock, 25:00 4 thors, if he had waited and taken 1 step further then shut all 4 at the same time 20 mutas would be dead and serral could do NOTHING to prevent it because he couldnt see them... instead he a moved and got only 1,5hit from 4! thors... terrible.

[@TheHighborn]

Imagine having 7k mmr and be 3rd lmfao

[@DiminishingEntropy]

Hey Lowkow did you see the match before casting?

[@cryptscriptse9639]

LOWKO

[@snowcraft-d3d]

Serral? Cheese? *What black sorcery is this?!*

[@yummyzerg]

26:45 Hail Hydra!

[@dayeet267]

i see sc2 +1 i see lowko +1 i see serral +1 i see proxy hatch +100000!!!!!!

[@fishheadbreakroom]

we are 1 hour ahead of poland in EET!

[@AtLeastVision]

27:02 206 out of 200 supply what?

[@twocows360]

god i love watching serral

[@ZenHorakti]

Because you learn a lot just watch him

[@bellidrael7457]

Pretty sure Winter cast this like, weeks ago.

[@josephhoward7035]

Watching these while attempting to get the lost Viking achievements.... it’s not going great so far :D

[@josephhoward7035]

Aaron Kerrigan They are so painful :D I ended up getting all but the last one and letting it rest for a bit but some day soon I’ll try again