Is Mass ULTRA the counter to Sky Toss?! StarCraft 2 Tournament

[@fargonotic]

we don't have many huge moments in starcraft these days but rogue running in the corruptors and ultralisks with the dark swarm cover and obliterating the protos deathball was awesome

[@davidchang6023]

As rare as it is to see late-game wins for ZvT, the ultra/corruptor surround really is a thing of beauty.

[@kristeenlivesay2664]

My favorite part is that he was super aggressive with the Corrupter Hydra Lurker forcing a bunch of High Templar and Archons but no Immortals because they would be torn apart and the suddenly Classic had fully upgraded Ultralisks in his main when he never realized that Rogue had an Ultralisk Cavern. I’m very impressed by the fact that throughout all of that chaos Rogue was quietly macroing out his +3/+3 Chitinous Plating and Ultra speed so that by the time the Ultras were ever deployed it was two fully upgraded Ultras in the main base and more on the way.

[@Shadowlyger]

@@kristeenlivesay2664 The payoff is phenomenal. Lands a fungal on the fleet and suddenly ten Ultralisks stream in to rip through the archons, giving his corruptors room to cut through the fleet. Classic's whole army dies in seconds.

[@Shadowlyger]

Lowko: *Sees Ultralisk Cavern starting* No, cancel that! Rogue: Oh ye of little faith.

[@Shadowlyger]

I really like Rogue's Zerg style, has a real campaign feel to it with the constant nydus worms. What it really is is him attention taxing his opponent to death from every angle possible. If you fail to pay the tax, there's suddenly 20 lurkers chewing up your main.

[@estebanpineros9409]

Yup! Love to see it. Like Lowko said, very similar to lore-accurate zerg: a constant flood of critters coming out of everywhere at the same time, tearing in from all angles, devourign and consuming until the defenders collapse under their onslaught.

[@vooka8606]

Perfekt, i was just about to go to bed.

[@gallagher2259]

Your spelling has made me wish I didnt have the ability to read.

[@G00dN1ghT]

@@gallagher2259 how kind

[@gallagher2259]

@@G00dN1ghT its hard to watch a good video and then see the top comment is someone who cant even spell a 7 letter word.

[@bricelory9534]

I do feel like Rogue is figuring out late game Protoss really well. It takes work, but it’s getting results. Really liked Rogue’s G1!

[@msNovaSixx]

Thing i think for sky toss is they should have like 20-30 supply dedicated to counter attack or harras units

[@zaphirdk]

I agree - the playstyle in game 1 is just too boring. Too passive. It might be efficient, but it's boring as hell to watch. The nonstop aggression from Rogue, however, is amazing to see.

[@JanneMarjomaa]

Rogue`s just so cool. Banger of a match.

[@janl5242]

That never pushing by Classic makes me angry :D 10% on defense - 90% forward, Zerg would have to defend instead of sneaky attacking

[@jommsnow]

I like to imagine Dark telling Rogue and Shin to play in everything when he takes a break so Lowko will continue to have a supply of Zerg Games to cast. I hope that this Ultra strat becomes meta. This unit deserves its time to shine.

[@Mikivericks]

Thanks for the video, Lowko. Appreciate the hard work and dedication to bringing us all these entertaining games. ❤

[@FilbertFilibuster]

Classic is playing star craft, while Rogue is playing an RTS. Great game.

[@drmrc42]

Rogue is a monster :D

[@Stilllife1999]

Man, I can't wait to hear about lowko complain about zerg late game

[@BenjaminKoops]

What a game! enjoyed it:) Love Rogue's gameplay.

[@Taznak]

Archons get smashed so hard by Ultralisks

[@2Sor2Fig]

Sweet baby Jesus that intro.

[@hiddentruth1982]

Total eclipse of the heart. A great song by Bonnie Tyler. A strange name for it though.

[@SaltyBiscuit21]

I miss the old days of Doom Baneling magic box drop over the enemy's army or heck entire base. The good old days...

[@Stalazon]

Best match of the year. So far, of course. But zerg did phenomenally towards the end in all matches.

[@ItsPandatory]

Rogue said "4 spore and 7 queens ago..."

[@sashasemennikov157]

Yeah Council really screwed up with “reduce turtling”

[@Anlmal.wisdom]

I am not playing this game , but i was always thinking why ppl not playing phoenix instead of voidray . My thoughts was exactly what classic did to lift queen and oracles can start shooting drones . It also eliminates mistakes like beam into queen with oracles because its extra drone you could kill . Also when you open with phoenix you have better scout options or you can follow the aggressive play style to do phoenix into 2 oracles into mass phoenix and mass shading guy and pretty much destroy whole economy and win game on the spot (blink upgrade 6-9 gateways and all in with third nexus as option)

[@312_Ms]

If you don't cast another classic game, I wouldn't be mad.

[@gringo10337]

Ultrarisk :)

[@voltron6953]

Is there going to be a starcraft 3?

[@Troe1505]

Wasn't there a map with 4 levels of depth?

[@iamotaru]

i think classic is checking his bank balance for the incoming payout for the scheduled losing game.

[@cotyb5028]

I really hope blizzard does something about these sky toss and Terran mech turtle games.

[@kindenigma4119]

swarm host needs to be buffed. People are just afraid too because they have PTSD from the past SH iteration. But now toss and terran have so many more tools to deal with it that it makes no sense for SH to be as weak as it is anymore. Needs either a supply cost reduction/CD reduced.

[@hivetech4903]

There've been no pro level Terran mech turtle games post patch lol. Not only do they harass constantly, pushing into the opponents map & sieging up is not "turtling" lol.

[@cotyb5028]

@@hivetech4903 was talking about ladder..

[@mozey9366]

Nice point. But there's no need for swarm host to be 4 supply again. It's better in an interesting way. Actually, can we combine hydralisk upgrade. It's a little bit too much for a single unit. And give swarm host an upgrade too? I don't think swarm host is weak. But infestation pit becomes more useless nowadays. And microbial shroud doesn't work well for the units that's always combined with infestors. Like ravager maybe? Every unit, especially hive unit always has a great companion to work with. But microbial shroud doesn't work well on them. I know micrpbial shroud is a really strong spell that can turn the tide of war. I just say it doesn't work well with its companions. It looks so separated for infestor

[@hiddentruth1982]

Someone needs to make a map and name it Atlantis. That was protos can make a stargate Atlantis. If you know your cool.

[@geoffreyrichardson8738]

Yeh well played Rogue (game 2)

[@desertwind666]

As someone who hasn't played starcraft competitive in a decade and never particularly well, I would have won that game at any time from 10 minutes onwards. Repeatedly getting dropped by the same overlords?! Not reacting to Nydus at all? No attempt to shut down the zerg economy? Even just all armying the north side of the map and deleting the zerg economy after every bad recall.

[@Cellus5000]

Cant believe Lowko struggles w skytoss. Doesn't he know about the maneuver?????

[@عليالعراقي-ع2ت3ي]

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[@shanewang3813]

hellooO evERYONEE

[@kosmosXcannon]

9:24 I thought Protoss didn't struggle when they got to late game. More like they just struggled to survive to late game. In that sense they were better off before than the Zerg is now post patch. At least Protoss still had a chance at winning late game pre patch.

[@hivetech4903]

The official balance stats post patch show Protoss is very strong & winning most tournament maps right now, particularly in PvZ.... so you've got things backwards.

[@kosmosXcannon]

@hivetech4903 isn't that what i said? Zerg was better pre patch and Protoss is better post patch. Where prepatch Protoss at their weakest was still better off than Zerg post patch. At least prepatch Protoss could hope to last long enough to transition to skytoss and win. Where post patch if Zerg can't close the game before late game they kind of lose unless the other player kind of throws the match.

[@JavierMartinez-oe3qk]

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[@zaphirdk]

First....mandatory

[@geoffreyrichardson8738]

Lowko, mate, giving advise to players watching a REPLAY is not helpful

[@kawayima]

Classic plays like a noob

[@geoffreyrichardson8738]

Yet another example of the stuff up of the balance council, when lings are viable in the late game

[@kindenigma4119]

"tHiS iS wHaT hApPeNs WhEn PrOtOsS dOeSnT pLaY a PeRfEcT eArLy GaMe" can you ever just say someone got out played instead of letting your biases show dude? I hope to god you have nothing to do with the balance council....

[@p5ylance]

Go watch a different caster then

[@kindenigma4119]

@@p5ylance what a stupid thing to say so boldly

[@burgesj7]

You can leave the"my name is Lowko" out by now It would be smoother

[@ButiDontLikeYou]

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