Maru’s DEFENSE AGAINST THE SWARM - Starcraft 2: Maru vs. Solar

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[@lhfirex]

I've seen so many games and highlights on 2000 Atmospheres and I still like it when we get a corpse floating up weird.

[@grenzviel4480]

ah, I still remember that big nuke like yesterday

[@Ember778]

Which one? The one where he nuked the enemy or the one he nuked like 100 supply worth of his own vikings? :P

[@eldrevo]

@@Ember778 Yes

[@StarboyXL9]

Based. We're still gunna be talking about that when we're 60 and our kids will be cringing thinking "Dad it was 40 years ago get over it!" XD

[@dovershrock1]

@@Ember778 credit ew we😛😃😃

[@scott1853]

I can't believe Solar defended all that early to late game aggression and still managed to take the map. I would've died everytime. lol

[@MrGeorgeFlorcus]

Most people in the world would have died every time, that's why these people are the best

[@Ryan-yx9kz]

Man i didn’t even scroll down and i got spoiled

[@MrGeorgeFlorcus]

@@Ryan-yx9kz The fun part isn't binary information; yes/no, winner/loser. The interesting part is how it happened.

[@Ryan-yx9kz]

@@MrGeorgeFlorcus still would be nice to not know beforehand.

[@sinelanguage5804]

I love Maru's play style, he's the ultimate Vauban Fortress terran, a real strategist. If he and Clem could fusion they would be the Supreme Starcraft Terran God.

[@maniacalcoast2742]

Whoa whoa whOA relax mister none of that forbidden power stuff here

[@ChocolatePancakeMan]

Damn, what a game. It felt like Maru was running circles around Solar all game, but Solar just put wrapped his hand in Broodlords and punched Maru in the face… repeatedly… until death.

[@natearmstrong8773]

Lmao @17:47 Solar accidentally kills his hive with vipers, the observer later mouses over it because he almost loses creep on his tech structures. After that he was desperately de-teaching

[@dane17eduard]

nice catch I was confused why at 19:07 he's just mutating into lair in this late game

[@window9213]

Strange how you can make a massive fuck up like that as Zerg and still win. Really strange...

[@zzz181085]

Solar countering mines with banelings is just an art. But Maru is just the best T.

[@ddd8828]

Feels like Solars been a punching bag on this channel for years. He played so fucking well this time.

[@edgardo400zx]

because its a zerg and there are too many zerg and it doesnt really change much on what they do. if he was say toss they would be praising him like crazy I cant even remember the name of a pro toss player only zerg, terran

[@guest273]

I have to second that comment that said Zerg is looking like 300/200 supply. Those late game fights looked supper efficient. Both players looking super strong.

[@gabormeszaros4896]

that seemed like the zerg is on 300/200 to me :D

[@SpectreInk]

@17:17 I had the most glorious flashback.

[@nabusvco]

Interesting use of the blinding clouds on the thors there.

[@scarletcat4735]

Nuclear Launch Detected! Maru: Panic! Solar: Panic!

[@justinfriesen9316]

The commentators don't get enough credit, they do an excellent job mixing comedy with informative comments. It isn't so funny that it takes away from the game play, but jokey making the game play more engaging.

[@plixxit3922]

Maru has main character energy

[@我想想-e5d]

love terran made a raven for the detection and some other supporting.

[@toddmorra3434]

3:09 "Okayly" - Artosis

[@jg62190]

Great game. The micro needed to play against Zerg is insane though.

[@jackdanco5537]

when i hear that these guys are the castors, i know its ganna be a good video

[@jackdanco5537]

9:49 "I must go, my people need me"

[@onyxfinger7431]

"he has almost no bio" *looks at the ghost count*

[@Ikkalyzte]

ghost doesn't start with m, it must not be bio

[@onyxfinger7431]

@@Ikkalyzte lol I didn't realise this, galaxybraincells you're one of ensteins alts aren't you ?

[@Ikkalyzte]

@@onyxfinger7431 haha honestly I thought the same as you when I saw the ghosts, and had to come up with some reason why

[@Laneous14]

Infestor/Brood. Infestor/Brood. Infestor/Brood. That's it. I do like how sometimes Serral spices it up and gets an Ultralisk or two, but late game Zerg is unbearably boring. It's always the same: move your Broods somewhere they can attack and outrange and any time the enemy gets too close either fungal a group or mind control a large unit. Basically unbeatable and Blizzard can't fix it.

[@MrZiva82]

Don't forget spore forest of "static" defence, supply free, that can move around the map under the broods

[@zergrush_9704]

Protoss late game: carriers, tempetst, high templars and battereis. All do the same.

[@albertharyono18]

Maru + Clem VS Reynor and Serral on 2v2? Is there any? I would love to watch that. Haha

[@ARGssszzz]

Thors doing little to no damage to those flying pancakes of doom. Feels bad man.

[@adrianbundy3249]

BL v Thor is a funny matchup to me in this version of the game. It can so easily go badly for either party. There might technically be a 'counter' there, but its the kind where it seems your strapped behind on a missile forced to ride it. Ultimately I think, it goes down to control, positioning, and what help you give them.

[@ehcarbles1623]

They were all in very tiny area and blinding clouds made them useless for critical seconds

[@aaronalquiza9680]

Havent heard Tastosis in a while

[@bon3scrush3r]

Damn ..this was such a great game

[@tcmartinez08]

Dude I hate how overpowered Zerg is. It seems like the top starcraft players consist of 7 zerg 2 terrian and 1 protoss

[@kozatas]

Zerg is not OP, Solar is. %99,99 of the population can't hold vs Maru's insane multitasking while making just enough banes, teching beside, and controlling the map.

[@justsomeguy1671]

I think Terran players literally need to have more skill to win. I mean examine how much apm is need in order to deal banelings and lings in general. Lings are equal in strength(damage) to marines when they're stimmed. (I think correct me if I'm wrong) so basically in order for an equal fight to happen you have to have much more intelligent APM than zerg, who just a-move lings and banes to great effect, freeing up Apm to do other things.

[@vitorh3568]

Siege tanks can´t fire while moving?

[@langanderson8311]

9:51 a ghost is flying?

[@CCSABCD]

Yeah, that map is underwater so when things die they go up "floating"

[@kdrgaming3344]

That wasn't a "DEFENSE AGAINST THE SWARM" That was a brutal loss against the Swarm. Can you please stop blue-balling us with these misleading titles?

[@justsomeguy1671]

Ya not a lot of people look at or consider APM when it comes to the imbalances between races. Especially zerg vs Terran. While you're splitting to deal with banes, the zerg is readying his next attack, and also crazy how late game lings dominate tanks. Economically lings beat everything when you think about it. They can rush a planetary you have in a distant expansion and it's gone before you know it along with the scv's.

[@randomdude4136]

T v Z late game has to be the most stupid matchup ever lmfao

[@zergrush_9704]

P v Z late game, they are both will do nothing for moment when opponent will do mistake.

[@135791max]

Jesus, Maru should not have lost that fight at 16:50. Why were all his liberators seiged, Solar literally had no ground units except for investors, and there was no detection for them anyways. If those like 10 or so liberators were firing at the heavily clumped broodlords and Corruptors, that fight would have gone very differently.

[@KMUnLucky]

i think he was trying to prevent those infestors from coming in and neutral everything. There was enough infestors to take half the terran army, or all the thors. Even if it is for 5-6 seconds, thats enough for broodlords to kill absolutely everything.

[@135791max]

@@KMUnLucky Yeah, but 5-6 second of liberators firing at clumped up broodlords, with their aoe attacks, would obliterate those broods lords

[@somepersonwhoyoushouldntca156]

@@135791max not at those lib counts, Corruptors would have cleaned them for sure

[@135791max]

@@somepersonwhoyoushouldntca156 You're right, I thought Maru had more by the time of the fight, but he only had 5.

[@p90p90]

After 8 years I decided to youtube sc2 and wow things have changed alot! I know this might sound dumb but is this the maru from Prime?

[@CrassPunk99]

Yes

[@kozatas]

I sometimes watch Idra's generation's games to see how the skill level of players has improved. They were like diamond or master compared to these supergrandmasters.

[@marcosbaez5025]

love sc2...allways....😘

[@JoeWeedson]

i dont get the title

[@verify8295]

How the fvck maru control all of that😮

[@wanglin406]

I hate you put me in the Terran side and make me lose

[@cylee4735]

FYI Maru then went on to win 2 games in a role and took the series

[@ybk9698]

We don't care so quit spoiling

[@ulicqueldromal]

We care so quit spoiling

[@Tokyo-go2du]

in a row* Quit spoiling human trash

[@aaronalquiza9680]

row*

[@peterbrown2632]

Does Maru’s dad pay Tastosis’ salary?

[@drditup]

woa!

[@Dimythios]

Click bait... Has it gone to this???

[@InfernalAlice]

Cool to see that zerg early game turtle is still completely stupid broken

[@alexangel4141]

man, these two had an incredible match, two players of great skill. One just came out on top, and you are auto defaulting to balance arguments to undermine insane zerg play? shameful.

[@ShadowTheHedgehogCZ]

Zerg is such a glass cannon race that unless you are programer, you are going to seriously struggle playing it. I just can't keep my army alive for more then few seconds. And the huge resource cost is a such a burden. If enemies death ball my bases one by one, it's over.

[@mch2241]

They talked almost whole game about how Maru is great and in the end he got totally crushed.

[@Ikkalyzte]

Totally crushed=epic 30min game?

[@Darthkeyblader13]

Dont tell me that early game aggression from Maru wasnt insane. solar also did an amazing job grinding past that.

[@peterchui1964]

They praised both players for their play all game. I might be wrong, but I get the impression that you're one of those people that are fishing for mistakes from casters everytime. For years there's always been people like that and I still don't get why.

[@offensivebias8761]

He won the series and the group so

[@karnudom]

@@peterchui1964 Agreed, unless the commentators say something very stupid or outright wrong, I don't know why some people complain about them so much.

[@yourfavoritetrader1496]

Zerg is broken....change my mind.

[@justsomeguy1671]

Ya not a lot of people look at or consider APM when it comes to the imbalances between races. Especially zerg vs Terran. While you're splitting to deal with banes, the zerg is readying his next attack, and also crazy how late game lings dominate tanks. Economically lings beat everything when you think about it. They can rush a planetary you have in a distant expansion and it's gone before you know it along with the scv's.

[@yourfavoritetrader1496]

@@justsomeguy1671 They need to nerf ling attack speed, once you get hive tech and upgrade attack speed the back stabs on your pf are incredibly difficult to defend even at the pro level.

[@huavancuong3080ti]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/lWqvfXaAjsdpgZY serral lost from army f2 a move and cast storm, T is hard to play i indeed

[@justsomeguy1671]

@@yourfavoritetrader1496 Also StarCraft is a game of incomplete information... But not as much for zerg who have flying houses all over the map, and creep and zerglings which cost nothing, are speedy and can burrow in expansions letting you know your opponents every move. I mean it's almost funny how stacked of a race they are. Everything is just so fast. All a zerg has to do is counter they don't need to think about a game plan just counter and spread creep and inject their APM use is not deep thinking APM it's just click all over, while Terran has to use finesse to win. Crazy imba game I tell ya

[@zergrush_9704]

​@@yourfavoritetrader1496 terran marines:😂

[@carlosvaldez3093]

i've been following Maru and a big fan of his for years now and know he is still in his prime but man, these past few games he looks so washed. or just no motivation at all.

[@michaeltimmermann4228]

He won the series 2-1 and the following 2-0 going to round of 8 would not Call that washed up lol

[@MultiHero]

@@michaeltimmermann4228 he’s a casual pay him no mind

[@spacecat8748]

Great game, but Maru fans disliking the video :(

[@nnm711]

I am a Maru fan, but Solar played a fantastic game here. Not going to downvote that kind of performance.

[@MDRB_PLN]

Imagine playing a race that is not Zerg and expect to win without playing x3 better than the Zerg player LMAO

[@alexangel4141]

Solar outplayed Maru this game. Incredible match between two highly skilled players and one came out on top. Stop trying to undermine it with balance arguments.

[@alexangel4141]

Both races have insanely powerful T1 units, both races have units that trade efficiently, both races have powerful late game casters, get over yourself.

[@peterchui1964]

There are many, many terrans and protosses that beat zerg with a similar skill. Balance discussions are tired. Talk about something else.

[@MDRB_PLN]

@@peterchui1964 I may be kinda biased, but just from the feedback from this and other replays YT channels its under my opinion that Zergs tend to win more than other races, especially in LG. I don't remember talking about balance tho so that is out of the argument about my post. Like I said to the other guy if you don't like my opinion, which obviously is kinda ranty lol, keep scrolling because no one is forcing you into a discussion.

[@adrianbundy3249]

Doesn't matter what the Z winrate is, it isn't as big of a difference as you make it, especially when we factor into the far more important rate between two any given players (ie; their winrate vs X, which is why Clem is godly vs Z at the moment, to a degree even Maru isn't). Overall upper league stats are slanted by the players who inhabit them, and if the best players happen to be zerg (I am looking at you Serral), there should at least be a small factor for them in those results, which goes outside of what balance might otherwise dictate. Third: If you think Maru outplayed Solar here, you need your eyes checked. Yes, Maru was going very well with his common, and now tired trope of constant harassment style trying to pin Solar down (which he has beaten him using the same sort of style several times now, so Solar SHOULD know a bit, having lost to it). Solar played a lit game here however, actually managing to counter those splits well, and use his banelings perectly, on the fly, over multiple fronts at once, where they were MANUALLY microed so as to not be blown to bits by mines every which way, which vs what Maru was doing, was insane micro of his own. That took skill I think which is beyond most pro Z players save maybe the top 10 zergs if you ask me, to repeat that to that degree very often. He played a very strong game, and managed to hang on vs Maru. It might have fallen completely apart at several points there, if Solar didn't show a lot of his skill and control. No, in this game, I came out more impressed with Solar than how Maru played, looking at the skill involved to do some of these things.

[@tqq3732]

how do u get the role of announcing when 70% of your vocabulary is the word "like"

[@himynamesgod2163]

You use "like" profoundly as demonstrated above. You're going to learn today junior!

[@peterchui1964]

I get what you mean but that comment made no sense

[@passthepeanuts]

Don’t hate on tastosis they’re the goats

[@davidkissel2214]

Toodlod

[@hoppelhase12]

:)

[@moritzbruckner837]

after 10min it is just a lame game. sorry bois.

[@justsomeguy1671]

I think Terran players literally need to have more skill to win. I mean examine how much apm is need in order to deal banelings and lings in general. Lings are equal in strength(damage) to marines when they're stimmed. (I think correct me if I'm wrong) so basically in order for an equal fight to happen you have to have much more intelligent APM than zerg, who just a-move lings and banes to great effect, freeing up Apm to do other things.

[@missbelled6700]

please stop trying to talk about balance, it's painful to read

[@justsomeguy1671]

@@missbelled6700 I'm sorry you can't see it but it's painfully obvious... In games like age of empires there's 15 civ's the top players only use a select 3 or 4. Meaning those four are more advantageous than the others. I mean they only differ a tiny amount but in sc2 the races are totally different much harder to balance

[@missbelled6700]

@@justsomeguy1671 What are you even trying to say here? AoE civs absolutely do not differ "only a tiny amount" and I'm not gonna trust anything you think about game design or balance if you think that's the case lmfao.

[@justsomeguy1671]

@@missbelled6700 they differ a whole lot less than the StarCraft races don't you think.

[@JH-bb8in]

maru is really overrated

[@michaeltimmermann4228]

Look at his results they speak for themself, he lost this but won the next two and his next game 2-0 going to round of 8

[@JH-bb8in]

@@michaeltimmermann4228 oh didn't know he won. But I really feel like Maru's play style likes to drag on and on, and isn't as "dominant" as Serral or Clem

[@Darthkeyblader13]

@@JH-bb8in I think thats not giving enough credit to Solar here, even most pros would have cracked under that master class of early game pressure from maru here.

[@karlmarxstolemybike3382]

Maru so bad

[@michaeltimmermann4228]

Ok troll 😂