Maru vs Dark is my new favorite StarCraft 2 finals!! (Best-of-7)

[@antisk8]

The worker harassment line was amazing - “well, it is a blizzard game” hahahaha

[@henryviiifake8244]

Even though it's been going in for years, it still feels too soon 😬

[@lm-rh3qo]

i was dead

[@davidetosi2391]

@@henryviiifake8244 you mean "it has not yet stopped for years?"

[@dert4291]

what time pls?

[@Phoenix-zu6on]

40:10 @@dert4291

[@binbadende]

Only Dark vs Maru will be better than Maru vs Dark

[@christianhornlimann3079]

Impossible not to be a dark fanboy. Easily the most entertaining games out of this beast of a player

[@Intensi0ns]

Im a huge serral fanboy. When i play i try to emulate 5% of what he does flailing around like a fish out of water. But there is just something about dark that is so entertaining.

[@JacksonJoseph-Eugene]

21:23 (tech lab on fire, a horde of zerglings a few metters away) - "Go on out there Billy !" - "Do I get hasard pay ??" - ".... talk to me if WHEN you come back" ahah winter how do you find those punchlines on the spot, you're hilarious ! that's good material for the youtube shorts that are trending now

[@bigtruck1838]

Once Ricky came out I knew it was a definite victory

[@tobiasL1991]

Man I looked up this series and saw there was a legends part, where MMA, Mvp, Stephano and MC battled it out, man that was awesome to see!

[@clee89]

that was for gamers8. this series is from KSL.

[@tobiasL1991]

@@clee89 You are right, it's because it was in the recent colom so I messed up, easily the best fuck up of the month!

[@ntm4]

I love how Dark actually uses Ricky whenever he pops up.

[@phays10]

The roaches shooting themselves in their confusion. Winter is the fucking best bro. I don't even really play the gam anymore but his commentary always. Always brightens the day.

[@kalo8524]

It was very nice of Maru to constantly be out on the map. Trading marines for roaches while Dark was maxed out meant that Maru never had enough marines and Dark always had the supply to make more roaches.

[@M0ebius]

It’s because Maru got behind in a couple of those games and wanted to exert pressure on Dark to limit expansions, force out units instead of drones, and discourage counter attacks, all while Zergs lack anti-air against Terran medevacs. The problem was Dark’s defense was so on-point and was consistently a step ahead in reading Maru’s movements with impeccable Queen positioning.

[@DaveTestaSC]

Thank you for covering all of the KSL weeklies up until the Grand Finals of the Summer Slam! Greatly appreciated, and great casting Winter! *claps

[@JayyKq]

Korean Star League! Well said!

[@PsychokoreUndergroundRap]

You definitely had some funny one-liners in this one. Thx for the laugh and ggs

[@quintyss1290]

1:22:14 Ricky looking for his lost toothbrush in the grass.

[@zetekfr]

This 1st round is amazing!

[@snagsTS]

Absolutely sublime 1st match.

[@wroniec670]

4th is a beauty as well.

[@MSSynsyterGates]

the joke at 40:12 is hilarious.

[@billl.2441]

Love Dark. His games are just chaotic. Makes great games. Win or lose, Dark is a beast.

[@gloweye]

It's hilarious at the end of game 2 how that Liberator and Viper were both looking at the same hatchery with murder in their eyes.

[@JohnMelon]

Both player cards are super fkin awesome lol, love it. The Final Boss. The Man The Myth, The Maru.

[@silverlotus9960]

You know things are getting serious when Ricky is call into battle

[@LucianDevine]

Dark tried to do it on his own, but there is no shame in calling on Ricky when the chips are down!

[@kdude1575]

I love how Maru was just getting repeatably punched in the face during the first 3/4 of game 1, even losing those medivacs to queens and he still kept calm and kept getting back up. It's like that one episode of South Park with Randy Marsh vs. Batdad. "Hey Batdad, I didn't hear no bell."

[@chloesmith4065]

I know this comment is a month old but I actually played a zerg player named RandyMarsh on the ladder a couple days ago and it went about the same 😂

[@radvermin1541]

Normally skip first 5 min. Dark and Maru: first 30 second is the first 5 minutes.

[@Zazyr]

These 2 players are so ridiculously skilled it's like watching a different game...

[@antongoulko6641]

Hey Winter, just to let you know that threeper sounds exactly like gonorhea in russian. Every time you say treeper build, i hear gonorhea build.

[@LucianDevine]

Game 7 of the finals, and you know it's serious when Dark calls on Ricky.

[@borsho9889]

Maru was impecable in the first game. What an amazing push.

[@jerubaal101]

Last game looked like a ladder game. Maru cuts every corner and attacks with a huge amount of marines. Dark greeds as hard as he can and then defends with bunch of larvaless, gasless queens.

[@nickv9820]

FYI, this is slightly out of order - Ancient Cistern was map 1 and Dragon Scales was map 2.

[@ferjavm]

The viking of game 1 what a legend!

[@Metaspace2]

Yeah I was actively following it through the match - even landing once to destroy creep tumors while fights were going on :-D

[@the1Blind]

That 4th game at 18.5 mins felt as action packed like others that go for 45 mins.

[@kenn4803]

Game one is 🔥🔥. 🤯

[@guillaumepellerin55]

The viking surviving 13mins in the first game was decisive!!!

[@puffman06]

how the fuck did maru win that 1st game lmao, dark had like 170 supply to his 100

[@snagsTS]

Upgrade advantage and sublime decision making and what seemed to be a slight brain fart from Dark. That 1st game was the Terran wet dream.

[@jmgutierrez962]

Lezzgo.. Dark opening with a 5 roach ravager harass..in game 1 as Maru opened up in a defensice way with a marine instead of a reaper..

[@geuros]

The 67 drone build is just retarded. Never ending all-in that has basically no downside, allowing Zerg to max out at 7:20, and you can still keep the Terran at worse eco than you have. But balance council cares more about Raven timings in TvP

[@chloesmith4065]

Yes, no other race can build nothing but workers and max out 7 minutes in

[@WolfGangDealers]

I cant believe I missed this one. Life really has been getting to me. I’m here now though and happy for the casting!

[@JohnSmith-zf3yk]

Y'know what I've always wondered? Why don't zergs leave a burrowed baneling in the mineral gaps terran like to abuse during drop harass?

[@Fanaro]

54:15 A thing of beauty.

[@bryanjacobs9680]

I love the fact that winter calls SCVs "the boys". It's just a perfect way to describe them lol

[@archangelmichaelhawking]

Game one coming back from 40 workers down was insane. Marines are so much better than roaches that push getting turned around was nasty.

[@chloesmith4065]

It's crazy. A lesser player (me) would've built marauders considering the enemy comp was entirely roach/rav. But no, for Maru, it is the Marine...

[@Seeker265729]

Damn that game 1 holy moly

[@umrete]

fun fact for you bois InControll was the first one that made me aware of Maru... his words were: _look at that kid, he doesn't give a fuck and he will do great things_ god rest his soul :(

[@chloesmith4065]

he was right... RIP

[@postpwnmalone]

Serral definitely plays like a Federal accountant lmfao that was hilarious

[@Ep0pteia]

Thank you for another incredible cast Winter. You the real mvp

[@ramandhanoya2880]

10:10 is probably the most cinematic fight I’ve ever seen in game lol marines fighting overwhelming numbers of roach ravages on each side with 3 tanks laying down cover fire

[@DrownedInExile]

Hell of a turnaround by Terran Maru in the first match!

[@kw8295]

The Queens had probably one of the sickest ambush snipes on full medivacs I've seen in a hot minute.

[@FinoClips]

There was Cinematic fights out here. Unbelievable

[@archidor1944]

That zergling micro at 32:10 is just beautiful.

[@EDDIXspider]

hahahah 18:05 you say go to eat Ramen and i eat ramen at this moment LOL

[@milesvandewetering5039]

Dark uses every part of the -buffalo- Terran

[@ironmonkey1512]

I feel like Dark throws in a cheese to take a rest

[@enriquegarciacota3914]

Red is indeed the faster color. And purple is the sneaky color.

[@davidreese5730]

Blue is lucky AF.

[@davidpage7900]

Viking with 9 kills.... survived almost the entire game without repair. WooT!

[@LucianDevine]

Just imagine how crazy a game it might have been if we'd have gotten game 1 Viking versus game 7 Ricky!

[@chloesmith4065]

He was ready for war

[@JROCK2000-wuv-u]

What a great series and small mistakes leading to huge changes in the balance of power

[@ArmstrongAlley]

That first game was incredible.

[@d.sherman8563]

Love the Warhammer reference with red is the faster colour😂. In the Warhammer universe the orks can will things into existence by simply believing it, and they believe painting things red makes them faster, so it does.

[@theelephantandtherider9536]

40:10 you had to do it to em didn't you?

[@johntucket9221]

That game 1 viking was amazing.

[@binbadende]

A 2023 reenactment of Flash vs Jaedong with walking queens and flying medics.

[@broastedgarlic7354]

Yea, but you'd never make a queen in a multiplayer game of BW.

[@binbadende]

@@broastedgarlic7354 Jaedong sometimes uses queens, but rarely (for ensnare). And there was one b-tier zerg pro who almost always used queens (but I do not remember his name).

[@AxltheTemplar]

The game one viking legit cost dark 800 mins in supply replenishing. Like holy crap.

[@BecauseWhyWithPancho]

"Oh he's doing something weird? Go fking kill him" strategy. Lol

[@pablorocha6985]

2 legends of Starcraft.. What a great game!

[@sherniebuck4660]

Damn. Game 1 was already like a game 7.

[@AZ3rgling]

Maru vs Dark is the best

[@joethestrat]

Im down for this slugfest!

[@joethestrat]

...get it... cuz... the larva...

[@JacksonJoseph-Eugene]

G1, the attack at 2:30 : omg Dark respects Maru that much ? it's the first time i see him hesitating to climb a ramp. he had vision, he cleared the tanks. Maru had nothing but a bunker, 4 marines and SCVs. but more importantly, he had his aura activated ! at this moment I knew that Dark would lost the game . Later he also missclicked and attacked his own roaches, and then he lost 4 vipers like a NA player... I think he was nervous or something

[@chloesmith4065]

It's easy to have nerves be a deciding factor when both players are this fantastic and the games are this close

[@milttron1385]

The first game Jesus Crist!!!! who was the pilot of this Viking, Maverick??????

[@TheLegendaryChip]

Maru said: Never back down never what?

[@LeoPacheco87]

“Well, its a blizzard game” Oof 😂

[@e7venjedi]

Liking the video to save an overlord today -- make it happen Jimmy! And also for 'the absolute most professional SC2'. [I don't know why but that intro makes me happy everytime 🙂

[@naimanpunk]

23:40 if maru just gundown the hatch than he would get more than killing the units...lost mining time and 400 mineral

[@Sotman.]

MARUS CARD NEEDS A BUFF! Serrals is way stronger for only 1 elixir. Buff Maru to 10 elixir and buff his abilities

[@allgood3322]

"I'd call it more like 55% 65% right now" 46:40

[@JayyKq]

The richness in this game is absolutely speechless from game 1!

[@yugonostalgia8961]

One of the most fun series I've ever watched 🥰

[@WhiteFangofWar]

Great matchups. Don't meant to pry but are there any specific Protoss tutors you can recommend who take requests? Tried studying your low APM guides and build orders but they don't seem to help- I've still lost over 1000 MMR this year. It's beyond frustrating.

[@GrippeeTV]

What league are you?

[@WhiteFangofWar]

@@GrippeeTVI was Diamond, now I'm Gold.

[@kalo8524]

I've stuck in diamond in teams for like 3 years. The second you get to diamond 1 every player you play against is at least M2

[@clee89]

I think many pros take students if you pay them for coaching. Even non toss pros would be able to teach toss up to GM.

[@hivetech4903]

Playing Random and learning builds from all races is what eventually got me to Masters, because then you know what you're actually scouting. What match-up do you have the most problems with and what is your typical build?

[@CantusTropus]

Winter making a Red Wunz Go Fasta joke gives me life

[@SerbanOprescu]

This was indeed a glorious fight.

[@Fanaro]

38:22 I heard one time that statistically, in British soccer, teams with red shirts were actually more likely to win.

[@Jackbrick101]

Awesome games! Some early GG's... would've like to see one or two of those games grind out a little longer! I like watching the chaos and the attempts to hold, even if success is low.

[@rhildor1]

Damn! GGs these guys really know how to go at each other

[@rocketrockinit]

Jimmy thank you for your internment

[@windmacher]

There's a typo/spelling mistake in the card for Maru - ... Amur instead of what I'm presuming is supposed to be Armour (Armor U.S. spelling).

[@fable4813]

What a banger of a series

[@NedwardFlanders]

those window mines was a great choice and a big multiplier

[@Erati243]

I really for the life of me can't understand why pro zerg almost never, like 97% of the time, make a few air units to deal with liberators and harass medivacs.

[@chloesmith4065]

It's funny, two corruptors can deal with liberators no problem

[@EyesonEthics]

Darks build in the 4th game was awesome great cast

[@robertbraden4454]

Wow! Only Maru could have turned that 1st game around

[@patricktimtiman7100]

Count my Like Jimmy!

[@medicinemandan271]

Would def say serral is better than dark. Darks commitments cost him more relative to serrals approach

[@ferjavm]

Probably but dark is the only zerg I like to watch xD

[@clorkmagnus]

Dark is more fun to watch. Serral is only there for the win. He lacks showmanship and very often gg the game before people feel satisfied. This is why I accept he maybe the best but he isn’t the best player to watch for entertainment purpose.

[@chloesmith4065]

Serral is very methodological

[@MichaelG888]

One of your best casts! "Red color is faster" sent me

[@jeaorbman]

I agree! Dark v Maru is my favorite match!

[@chloesmith4065]

Loved the terran fake forcefield game 6, split the zerg army up, let lings run into your main, lock ravagers out at the front. Lol. "I'm not locked in here with you, you're locked in here with me!"

[@12321dantheman]

i liked the part where he said 'it's busting time' and proceeded to bust all over maru's base

[@aj2228]

roaches should be 1.5 supply

[@chloesmith4065]

They actually used to be 1 supply

[@WholeCarrots_]

So happy Dark won here, he deserved it man.

[@walterfitz-william6597]

Ri-acks - take tri-barracks, but you start with reapers, so ri-acks. You could even roll your R for rriacks to give it spin

[@ronmartinez7809]

Oh my game 1 set it off so good

[@terran12]

Nice cast man.

[@amirmoradi9595]

"Worker harassment. Well it is a Blizzard game" 😂

[@logicomega7]

Isn't maru the best overall player due to the massive advantages of playing zerg?