PRO MATHEMATICIAN Proves The Terran IMBA Hypothesis | Is It Imba Or Do I Suck

[@williamrose3001]

The Terran won with literally 2 hellions and a dream

[@DarrylGlen]

Hahaha, in my head, I can so clearly hear Lowko saying that!

[@ammonite3702]

Also there was no threat..

[@gsgaming6976]

It is less than the Terran won and more that the Z couldn't stop running full speed headfirst into a brick wall and just knocked himself out. I kinda feel like he was lying in the email about being diamond yo. Or at least I'm wondering where all the shit diamond zerg are when I queue up for a match. If I could get a few rounds vs guys like that I might actually make masters

[@Figgy20000]

"I mean I could GG now, but if he builds zero drones and suicides 25 banelings and 50 lings into my wall, I have a chance..."

[@Figgy20000]

@@gsgaming6976 every Terran he faces ggs after the first bust. He found one that didn't and he got really confused

[@geoffreyju3885]

“Realizes his opponent would not pass the mirror test” probably the best roast in this series so far

[@dakotahpettry4257]

Big Brain

[@Steellmor]

That's perfect example of tunnel vision. It started from Zerg fixated on the fact that his opponent is ranked higher than him,so he must do weird thing to have chance to win,and when his strategy gained great result,his brain just short circuit with overexcitement,so he stuck in loop mode of repeating same thing that succeed once,over and over.

[@Figgy20000]

I don't think so. I think he literally just does this every game and legit has no idea how to use other units or macro effectively. It's like those people who only cannon rush and if it reaches a midgame they lose 90% of the time because they literally don't practice anything else.

[@Technoanima]

Bronze thinking.

[@EcnalKcin]

@@Figgy20000 That is why you need to know how to stall if your cannon rush fails and then go air toss while your opponent is still cleaning up cannons. It is amazing how many people deal with cannons by tiering into units that can't attack air. BTW: Diamond toss player here that only knows how to cannon rush, and doesn't know how any units work. Except carriers.

[@Willdroyd]

@@EcnalKcin cannon rushes zerg, zerg gets ravagers and roaches with 3 queens and he is on 1 base, SHOW UP WITH 7 VOID RAYS, GG

[@collapserelapse]

This is some of the most brutal decision-making I have ever seen, jesus christ. This guy clearly has never heard the saying: "When you're ahead, get more ahead"

[@henryviiifake8244]

Lol this guy choke-slammed the jaws of victory, took a sledgehammer to every one of its teeth, then tore its belly apart with a chainsaw to get that L. 🤣🤣🤣

[@anonymoususer9350]

He probably thought he was

[@tsenguun]

Yeah... the guy has negative IQ for sure

[@Guildelin]

@@tsenguun I'm gonna go with IMBA fuck Terran lol

[@tsenguun]

@@Guildelin haha yeap! Imba imba imba imba imba imba imba imba

[@bsmartr806]

The Zerg snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.

[@albertarvadottosen3512]

This game kinda shows that even though turning around games that seem lost is impressive, its just as important to not lose the games that seem won

[@trevc9177]

Well said.

[@starvalkyrie]

"I just threw. Is terran imba?"

[@flavrt]

"round up all the men of the nearby village" Harstem uses the history of Europe as a SC analogy.

[@EternalHappElements]

Crusaders call

[@Thomas-zg6sf]

I think what caused the brain-freeze of the Zerg player was that his opponent didn't GG out after the successful bust. He thought it is over and a couple of lings will seal the deal. The Terrain kept his cool and outsmarted him.

[@Stephanie-si8rs]

Replace Terran with a Toss. No big mobile building that can be transformed into a cannon, no repair gimmicks, no flames on wheels, air that takes forever to make, and having two probes left will never win a game.

[@LittleRainGames]

@@Stephanie-si8rs Ive won some games like this and I play toss.

[@Farligakurt]

This is like 1 of those campain missions when lings+ banelings comes runing at your base every 2 minutes and u have to hold out for 20 min ro win

[@lad4694]

That keyboard pissing analogy 🤣🤣🤣🤣👏👏👏 The stuff literary masterpieces are made of.

[@ALC0LITE]

I was crying laughing from that. So deadpan too

[@henryviiifake8244]

Hips don't lie. - Shakira (professional singer), 2005 Supply don't lie. - Harstem (casual KZbinr), 2021

[@Blutrik]

As a german, i can confirm his impression is 100% accurate.

[@MrTubeStuck]

I will like your comment because you work for Nerv and would not want you guys to start the 1st Impact

[@Gunit935]

Is it nau?

[@alexs.2069]

i so have to agree, that almost made me fall of my chair :D

[@arealhumanname4150]

but, are you a s a s s y german?

[@meltorak123]

Harstem: "Powerful army, but no infrastructure at home" *looks at camera* "and no healthcare." Me: *cries in american*

[@deepvoid2871]

yeah try 3rd world bud

[@useresu301]

you're better off without a state funded Healthcare. stop gobbling up socialists' BS and do research on your own. (I'm in an EU country with "free" healthcare and the waiting times are ridiculous, so much so that if you want to prompt medical investigation, you'll end up paying for it in the private clinics from your pocket.

[@MrMcMuggel]

@@useresu301 buhu i have to wait forever. Meanwhile people in america die becouse they cant pay for insulin, so stop complaining. Free healthcare is not perfect, but it is better then the free market Healtcare of the Usa

[@asdzhmm4137]

@@useresu301 Please for the love of god specify what country you're from instead of saying "an EU country". The failures of your country aren't universal.

[@SchemingGoldberg]

The Netherlands has private healthcare, it is almost identical to the USA system. The problem isn't private healthcare, the problem is just corruption in the USA. Government health care in the USA would be even more corrupted.

[@keehosan]

From Harstem i expected: "The lips dont lie."

[@JohnDobak]

sHaDoW BaNNeD

[@CoachJEFF_CG]

I could tell Harstem had fun with this one. And the analogies were... incredible.

[@f00dify]

I think this is one of the first games I saw where the Zerg never did anything with creep spread nor had any upgrades for banelings, nor did they add anything higher than banes.

[@Karma-sc2kj]

Harstem would be an amazing math professor.

[@tsenguun]

Proud to be on this video! Now I can die in peace.

[@Freeze-WJ]

please don't be proud... not building drones for 8 minutes is nothing to be proud of. Nothing past 4:30 was anything to be proud of.

[@MrNicoJac]

Please learn what to do next time. You clearly have more potential, if you don't get tunnel visioned 😂

[@arturmonteirodacosta170]

Thanks for helping in providing us with such content!

[@viniciussardenberg706]

@@Freeze-WJ dude stop being an asshole, most ppl who write e-mails to harstem about IODIS juts want the free coaching and to write a juicy description, yeah he sucked no need to be an ass about it.

[@tsenguun]

@@Freeze-WJ thanks for your valuable insight. I'll take it to heart and will post your quote on my ceiling so that I can wake up every morning getting inspiration.

[@colliningraham8838]

When he started in " imagine your working in an office". I started laughing before he even dropped the rest. I knew it was coming

[@Z7Sakari]

That “healthcare” wink 😉 😂😂😂 pure gold.

[@mh1593]

Thanks for the reminder: I need to buy a pee resistent keyboard.

[@nemesis408]

That keyboard pissing ref killed me so bad.

[@DeniZubin]

"Always reminds me of Harry Potter, when they flush themselves down the toilet. Except it's a bunker" Beautiful

[@nikolatasev4948]

If the Terran had lost his Starport before producing a Medivac I don't think he would have won. So tsenguun had some point attacking it.

[@hatecrewblaze]

Lmaooo the peeing on keyboard analogy...i was stuck for 1,5hrs in a traffic jam and my mood was shitty af but this made me laugh so hard. Thanks captain!

[@jeremygrant1325]

Harstem's signature line "it's like this; imagine...."

[@StpMakinMeChangMyNam]

That feel when you're so far ahead you could go up to 4 bases, 80 drones, and max out on Banelings and literally suicide kill everything the Terran owns, but instead you sit on 20 drones and let him roast your Lings in neat little batches of 10-15.

[@BingChilingEnjoyer]

Or the feel when you only make zerglings when you could easily squeeze in a drone from time to time (at least). 22 workers on 3 bases isn't much. Also you can make a 3rd queen for triple inject and then make workers...

[@tomaskrampera6485]

110 lings. Also, Hamster, you are a hero and thanks for including the self-awareness test definition there.

[@glassberg5018]

"He would not pass the mirror test" is the best insult I've heard from you.

[@Atze.Tatze69]

Me as a german, laughed my ass of on the "I Fake seeh sired Base ans ssent Akross de Map" 100% perfect fake hollywood accent

[@pleasegoawaynowpleas]

Is Harstem's German English accent imba or does it suck

[@synomax4938]

As a german I can say -> Def. Imba

[@snowdrop9810]

Isnt he dutch?

[@birkbuscher6571]

@@snowdrop9810 hi is though the two languages arent toooooo much apart

[@pleasegoawaynowpleas]

@@snowdrop9810 I was talking about the fake one he was doing. Yes he's Dutch.

[@birkbuscher6571]

@Qimodis true

[@floriancazacu4504]

Man, from all the possible analogies for the beginning mistake I did not expect the office guy peeing on his keyboard... not at all. Well played, sir Harstem!

[@GotEmAll1337]

The REAL TRUTH is that Terran is OP in anything below GM ranks. They are *BY FAR* the easiest to plan composition (MMM is actually fool proof) and the most forgiving with bad macro (Orbitals)....and all together marines are OBJECTIVELY the best unit in the game. 50/0/1 for a fast moving, ground+air attack @ very high DPS, decent health pool, healable easily massed unit. Without perfectly utilized hard counters, they are unstoppable.

[@IzalorDantin]

actually at 14:33 he was trying to get all of the terran's workers to repair the starport so he could break the weaker side. that was slightly clever, but that would only work on a bad player lol

[@EternalHappElements]

Nah the wall is just too thick

[@jeremysawa7075]

I feel bad for the zerg units under his control.

[@bobfreeze]

Harstems sense of humor man, gets me every time

[@ricknightengale5339]

Back in the day there was a Terran streamer(can't think of his name) who was complaining hard about how OP zerg was. He was complaining that zerg only had to build 1 structure in order to get units. So he keeps sending reapers to the zerg base to harass and kill drones and eventually rage quits. All while banking 4k minerals and building virtually nothing at home. An amazing case of lack of self-awareness. In his defense I think there were some personal struggles going on, being a full-time streamer is can be hard. Especially when your trying to establish yourself.

[@stephenyao3918]

"no healthcare" killed me

[@BassicGene]

After that first huge attack, all Zerg had to do was throw down a roach warren, made like 10-12 more drones and then hit with a huge mass roach timing 2-3 minutes later and end the whole game. Another option was to just make a 4th base and go up to like 70 drones and win with a huge eco advantage in the late game using tier 3 units.

[@lelouchvibritannia7809]

This was physically painful to watch

[@NeoBladeSC2]

2:04 This is way spamming in the lower leagues is bad. Errors like this occur. Drone-Stack, if you want something useful to do. Worker Stack: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gXrHY4aQptiNa9U

[@jakes.5206]

Mixed the metaphors about player busting down the wall and being a politician. Player is the politician who overcommitted to building a wall and ended up spending four years to only achieve five new miles of it.

[@roydadancegod]

As a Math Degree major I was expecting maths and I have to say I am very disappointed in Tsengunn for not providing any mathematical proof whatsoever

[@jpawluk]

I think his proof went something like: since 22 > 2, if I divide by 0 then I should have won. The logic seems pretty solid to me. (I have a math degree too.) :)

[@roydadancegod]

@@jpawluk yeah but a true statistical proof of the Imba hypothesis would require a much bigger sample size than 1 video

[@Gid-J]

Do Starports have Killcounts? General Starport right there.

[@Markfr0mCanada]

So many games out there need this series.

[@A_Simple_Neurose]

Dude brings up the maths talk but doesnt realize he's fallen for the sunk cost fallacy himself. This is actual poetry. I'm not actually sure this is a serious submission anymore. This is the kinda guy who didnt sell gamestop to cut his losses. This guy... is a diamond hand...

[@letopizdetz]

I always thought people send replays as a joke. GME on the other hand is over $260 today, about 5x what i payed for it, sold enough to double my investment, the rest i'm leaving in as an experiment at this point.

[@A_Simple_Neurose]

@@letopizdetz Yeah I actually wanted to buy it while it was at $80 a couple days ago, but by the time i finished setting up the trading account it was already $140 and I gave up. Glad to know some people came out of that alright though.

[@JohnDobak]

hogs get slaughtered.

[@tsenguun]

Whoever thought this series was serious, do you really think people likes to get humiliated in front of thousands of people? I just submitted for the laughs and Harstem's jokes.

[@JohnDobak]

@@tsenguun Stunning and brave. :D You've got to hand it to the Terran, your zergling followup would have/should have beaten most terrans. The player had just enough and microd just well enough to survive. Based on the timing and speed of his movements I'd say he only pulls that off 1 out of 10 times he tries.

[@Sleep-NA]

TIL Harstem doesn't know that ducks can fly.

[@JohnDobak]

Harstem this Terran is a fucking hero. You need to do a reverse cast about how this commander saved his colony. Not only that he was so selfless he gave (You) the viewer credit for his heroism.

[@randolfvandudenstein55]

You Sir, have the best analogies! Moving workers in this particular way is like somone peeing on his keyboard... :D:D:D

[@danka3996]

I litterally peed myself after the office analogy.... thank you for that!!

[@gabydewilde]

Not just drones, he has enough time to take every base on the map, make drones and have money left for lings to run into the wall.

[@OsOkod]

Harstem as you mimic the germany i really laught so hard, i pronaunce always the english way really bad obviuos xD so i liked that part of you xD

[@alltheusernameswastaken8936]

4:40, hamster missed the space bar in between "psychologist" and "Gordon" ...imba confirmed.

[@hamster_designs]

Damn you Wikipedia!

[@alltheusernameswastaken8936]

@@hamster_designs :P

[@FrumpleJames]

I feel like our guy probably mains Zagara in Co-op. If he doesn't, he should, he'd have a whale of a time with scourge too.

[@fulldisclosureiamamonster2786]

Imagine maining a commander in a mode geared towards learning how to play every single one lol

[@StayHydratedGaming]

I feel like people like this get to diamond league just from learning 2 base all ins. He didn’t even try making workers until again until the 11 minute mark, idk what the rest of his games are like

[@nekrataali]

You can glide to gold with 60 apm if you have good macro and memorize some builds. Shouldn't be surprising people are Diamond in a game that's over 10 years old.

[@mateussiq1100]

The german impression OMG

[@GammaReed]

I unbinded my S key on drone to prevent 1:51 from happening, I recommend it, it's so great to be able to spam s without any risk :D

[@oldoddjobs]

This is the first time I've ever seen it happen..... Why would you select all your drones for no reason in the first place?

[@GammaReed]

@@oldoddjobs I never did the all drones things (guess some people do put them in a control group for apm spamming), but sometimes I move drones around and press S too early when I want to select the hatch. It's even worse when it's just 1 or 2 drones as you don't see it right away :(

[@Sparta-vu3jj]

I always love the description of the reply guys

[@justflyaway5901]

So we just dont get to know if he knew about the CC first. All of this suspense for nothing, come on Harstem 😂

[@Mouradif]

This is legit the most entertaining show on the Internet! I'm so jealous of people able to come up with the keyboard pissing coworker like that

[@jungle_run]

Also notice he never upgraded baneling speed.

[@benmckinlay1902]

What's interesting about this game is that the Zerg is playing poker (poorly) while the Terran is playing Starcraft. I have no doubt the Zerg can play a lot better than he's shown here but he's psyched himself out because of his opponent, someone he knows who is in his clan (i.e. playing poker, or playing the player rather than the game with disastrous results). I hope this guy manages to beat You some time playing his natural game

[@MarkVanTassel]

The science content on this show is generally accurate and well-chosen. However, in this episode I feel it is important to note that ducks can fly.

[@Cookiejarlid]

I envision that the ducks are overfed on bread crumbs and too fat to fly.

[@therandomheretek5403]

Depends on the breed, most domestic ducks are unable to actually fly.

[@Harstem]

Whenever I start a sentence I have no clue where it is going to end, usually it goes alright but sometimes in the heat of the moment I forget about those simple things. I will rectify this in my next episode.

[@alanoxford6219]

come for the SC2, stay for the pee analogy

[@KjcKiesh]

It makes me cry that you can play like this and be in diamond

[@FilippoSciarraViolin]

this is some solid silver league decision making

[@antimime666]

if this protoss, would of been gg the second the lings got through.

[@laybunzz]

Harstem, strong contender for the Funniest StarCraft Personality award 😂😂😂😂

[@MultiWicht]

Don’t call me Shirley, Harstem

[@ethanlocke3604]

About that first thing with the optimal putting workers back to work. He doesn’t necessarily do that a lot, he could just also play broodwar

[@Kakubeki]

one of the funniest ones yet. so good.

[@You-ul8qw]

You?? Thats my name haha, that You however mustn't be me because I'm from the YD2K clan, and I'm a diamond 2 terran, not masters, I did actually send in an iiIodiS complaint recently (last sunday)... in that replay however I was playing zerg, but I would really like to know what I should've done better. *AHEM* I mean batteries and DTs imba.

[@candidate3512]

the first push was magnificent. The 2nd was a disaster and its more like hes trolling. And no man ever steps in the same river twice

[@PhantomKenTen]

I love the QED at the end

[@Harstem]

My 3 weeks of introduction to analysis coming in handy

[@PhantomKenTen]

@@Harstem I would think you learned that from Mathematical Proofs - A Transition to Advanced Mathematics

[@jerubaal101]

This is the only Zerg who has never heard of roaches.

[@josealejandroaburto7402]

8:56 So building a command center without minerals? That's maybe he lost

[@MrBimos555]

Flying a command center to that location.

[@Ole_Rasmussen]

Dinner. Harstem's IODIS. Pewd's Hardcore MC. A perfect 45 minute break.

[@TritonTv69420]

Love you harstem. Keep up your funny stuff. Haha

[@mar_sh4617]

We need a harstem compilation of different songs he sings little bits of.

[@MrSonicjew]

I love the mathematical proof discussion at the start aha.

[@jordandavenport5784]

If you don't keep building workers, then you won't be ahead for long. 3 base, only one had any drones all game. Imagine what any tier 2 units would do in that situation.

[@NilEoe]

Hartem doing a German accent is legit one of the funniest thing I've ever seen

[@gunkanjima3408]

Didn’t build a single drone after his first push 😂

[@MichaelM-ik7nz]

Thank you for making me laugh out loud at 2 am with one eye already closed...

[@rompevuevitos222]

"Man solves balance in gaming world-wide using math Devs around the world seething, "why didn't i think of that!?", they exclaim"

[@archangle2988]

Tsenguun i a man born in the wrong age ... he has the soul of an WW I Officer, Deep Trenches, enemy has Machine guns and Flametrowers, SEND MORE MEN! MOOOOOORE MEN!

[@davidabeillaud5521]

Maybe with a better ling micro... Crush bunker crush Factory reactor...

[@YellowEllo]

Pretty sure he did not have anything prepared to fix the drones. What he did is what I thought about doing as soon as I saw him do it

[@macurvello]

Wow, I love this series

[@paulharrington9642]

Thank you Captain, for a truly epic video to help me celebrate my birthday. I wish I had a duck pond on the top of my apartment to relax

[@ruludos1977]

before i even watch the video i am guessing the answer is "no"

[@primal9238]

Zerg lost due to being impatient, trying to end instead of capitalizing on his eco advantage.

[@primal9238]

@Lady Mercy Yeah, but that doesn't really factor in unit cost. Sure 4 v 2 might be the same as 32 v 16, but you can produce more quantity and quality due to that. Faster tech, faster/more buildings, able to resupply cap quicker after exchanges, etc. So there's other factors in there that stretches the advantage to more than that simple math.

[@Caspenar]

This is the same mistake I made in one of my first ZvZs

[@Zammmeh]

as one smart man said "the definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different results"

[@threatter1676]

Took me way to long to get the "does the sup lie?" joke.

[@pahakasvivenuksesta2653]

was fun video. TY take care

[@Whyisitsohardtofindahandle]

Observer key bindings for shits and giggles

[@TDDungeon]

If he wanted to continue attacking, even roaches would have worked out. Right?

[@nyx211]

Could've ended the game with mutas. Terran's only anti-air was a bunker with 4 marines at the natural. No turrets.

[@NikolaNevenov86]

I don't play I just watch these commentaries, but still after that first push seeing that 3-4 hellions can deal with the large zergling army, I'll be doing something different.

[@Haymitch14]

Not even 4 minutes in and I'm rolling. I love these

[@Aristocrat15]

Harstem is so savage today