SC2 - Serral vs Clem - DreamHack SC2 Masters: Atlanta 2022 - Playoffs - EU

[@nathanielsmith9400]

Both these guys are micro gods. It was so hard to even keep track of what's going on the field.

[@damnplaylist]

Great win. Stressful ending in the last game whew ggwp to both players

[@ianrust3785]

It's been a while since I watched SC2 videos, nice to see Terrans having some success against Z lategame.

[@emansia]

My mind is blown by the amount of micro is done all over the map! Ghad daym!

[@arcem84]

19:18 accidental swarm host lmao

[@asdf-bm4df]

fantastic coverage and gameplay

[@SeandeDios]

That was an amazing relentless play by Clem! I hope more EU players start joining GSL. I wanna see them against Maru and her0.

[@avo616]

They gotta get out of Ro32 first 🗿

[@yaizudamashii]

Yeah I was wondering how Clem's style matches up against Maru. They are pretty different, with Clem almost never relying on tanks while Maru/Cure heavily relying on them, even against zergs. Should be interesting.

[@willwu6405]

@@yaizudamashii Maru and Clem collide several times. Maru spanked him

[@yaizudamashii]

@@willwu6405 ah yeah i'd expected that. Maru is pretty much untouchable now that Rogue is gone.

[@guy661]

no theyre not.

[@GawlJoey]

Dang first Reynor yesterday now Clem today NOOOO Serral my hero =[

[@yunfanfan9452]

Clem is such a micro God. The whole game I only saw once he failed to attend to one area of a multi-pronged conflict in time. The new machine.

[@reismw]

On the second game, do you beleive Serral was hesitant? like 33:00 he had open ~30 supply, couldn't he keep pushing?

[@SadFace201]

Genuine question, especially for that last game: Why doesn't Serral invest in Lurkers when Clem literally just does 2-prong attacks the entire game? It was a war of attrition that just ate all of Serral's bank as Clem took favorable trades all game long. Not to mention that Lurkers would allow Serral to hold onto more creep since preventing creep spread was clearly Clem's focus in a majority of games.

[@HelloImTuneli]

Serral was so close to dying all game that making a big transition would probably mean that he would die. Also, Reynor did go lurkers against him in the finals but the ghosts just kept sniping them all the time. I think that the hydra ling bane style is to account for the fact that the ghost pretty much counters every expensive zerg unit.

[@SadFace201]

@@HelloImTuneli Is it really that big a transition? I thought he already had hydras out a good chunk of that game.

[@HelloImTuneli]

@@SadFace201 You're right, it's not that huge. But if you are really close to dying, investing the time and money for the 2 upgrades and morphing several lurkers is quite a bit when you could be using that to buy hydra ling bane that's helpful immediately

[@Im_A_Banana]

ghosts op vs lurkers, and kind of most things

[@joasto31]

You can really tell how the casters want Serral to win :) Kind of funny how they turn every play into a positive for serral :) :P

[@TheOriginalGankstar]

"That gives me hope." funny stuff. Desperate for the Serral win.

[@astralseeker]

Maru, TY, Clem gameplay are insane

[@Armandillo2d]

Didn't Reynor beeat Serral on playoffs? I just saw that yesterday. Are they uploading them in different order? Why not show the bracket? Ugh

[@EvilSmonker]

You're mistaken my friend "ugh"

[@EvilSmonker]

bet the results of this match caught you off guard though then lol

[@borgvommork]

Great games! I also liked the commentary 🙌

[@BeKindToBirds]

Clem would be my very favorite terran if it wasn't so stressful and tiring to try and keep up all the action lmao

[@astralseeker]

MMA 10 years ago. TY, Maru & Clem nowadays

[@BeKindToBirds]

@@astralseeker Maybe it's because I have watched maru games for so long that I prefer different styles of terran than how maru generally plays. Same with serral. They play a lot of amazing starcraft but I tend to favor different styles and hope the players get to that same consistent level of excellence. Clem I think is really reaching his stride in games like this, he's still young and I think that he can get tilted a little easier. Same with serral and even maru these days, it's like they gg earlier that people who play a tougher from behind scrappy style. I think when you run out of people at your level to practice with you lose something. But I also think Clem will stick around and come back to the top again and again like serral and Maru in time.

[@astralseeker]

@@BeKindToBirds Clem is a terran beast. I've been following him for very long (I'm french), but over the years, Maru have delivered the best sc2 games I've ever watched. Be it tvt, tvp or tvz, Maru macro, micro, game sense, positioning, early game, mid game, late game, and overall diversity of game style is zillion light years ahead of clem's ones. rewatch maru vs partying, vs trap, vs dark, vs ty of the last 3 / 4 years, and you find insane game play clem have never ever shown. mass raven, mass bc, mass reaper, all possible cheeses, 104 turret push vs partying, insane bc battles vs ty or byun, best tvt ever against ty, maru getting down to 4 vcs in mid game and wining series, destroying all the best korean players and wining 4 or 5 gsl . Clem has amazing micro, is extremely agressive with mines and currently the best european terran, but Maru in the past decade, have truly shown the most spectucular and diversified terran gameplay of the whole sc2 world. Not to mention over 1,3 million $ cash prizes.. Personally I see Maru has the best Gamer of the planet, -and I mean all videogames included-, because he plays the most amazing /complicated / clever game ever (sc2), he plays the most difficult of the 3 races, and he wins over ANY korean/european/NA players in more different ways than any other terran players ever shown. He is the true god of gaming :-)

[@BeKindToBirds]

@@astralseeker Eh, Maru is good but I think you went too far there mate. Like, waaaay too far. Terran being hardest is not backed up by data and marus record isn't the highest shining but rather one of the stars of a group of stars. Anyway maru is definitely one of the best of all time but let's retreat out of stan territory for a bit lol

[@juangarcia1046]

11:53 Damn, I need to see that widow mine shot

[@1lomi901]

Big oof The last thing I remember of a Serral vs Clem, Clem was dropping on 3 spots at the same time, while him and Serral were 1v1ing a Liberator and a Lurker on Clem 5th base. I can't wait for IEM next years ! Edit Spoil : what the hell, that triple evo chamber block....? Serral's defence on 4th game was insane. Those 6 lings + 2 spores perfectly placed because he knows he'll overwhelm Clem's marines at some point and he'll try to drop in the main ! Then those medivacs snipes. One single MVP viper double bomb on the medivacs too... damn man GG Clem. I have no idea what he's been doing differently from before, but back then, Serral was very good at deflecting Clem and finish him. Here, it's going the same way and suddenly Serral taps out !

[@aaronarmstrong406]

Catz is the best. After that speech on Harstem's channel, and his OVERWHELMING humility... I am not able to, practically or otherwise, give the honor of best caster of all time to anyone else.

[@JamesTheEighth]

He just needs to stop pronouncing 'series' as 'serious' :)

[@mortendmortensen]

Which speech is this?

[@aaronarmstrong406]

@@mortendmortensen kzbin.info/www/bejne/g4Wrh4t-opeYask

[@yilmazurgun]

Well play Clem 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👋🏻

[@chrishayes5755]

serral used to do different scouting strats, run bys when getting attacked + constant surrounds. what happened to that play style?

[@huuphu17]

Because the Terran in those times made tanks instead of widow mines I think. Tanks are slow and don't do enough damage in a single shot like widow mines do, often times against lings+banes tanks just got surrounded and destroyed without killing anything. The mines are just cheaper and much faster to make and set up, they are really great defensively against a charging melee army.

[@ademarlima1217]

maybe testing strategies for the world camp

[@ademarlima1217]

also terrans used to play a lot of macro focused, not like nowadays which is more focused on harassing so he doesn't have that much space

[@Jez4prez1]

@@huuphu17 yeah true, I do remember those tank heavy TvZ meta days, wasn't even that long ago, prob stopped being popular like 2 years ago? Idk.

[@megaturon1212]

Clem and Serral's APM is so high that they also micro the casters dialouges

[@thesilentmajority2765]

Take a drink every time they say "best in the world"

[@Glass_Half_Full]

Goes to show that not everyone is convinced that he is. Funny that you only hear them from eu casters. 🤔

[@jkkim6928]

Those noobsters think high pace means high caliber. Clem VS Serral is nowhere near Maru VS Rogue in terms of quality

[@mastadon]

​​@@jkkim6928 Maru lost to serral for last few face to face matches but keep telling yourself that. Korean sc2 is dying.

[@jkkim6928]

@Constant Gardener Serral loses to Reynor and Clem. Get rekt, delusional boy ;)

[@jhonjhon3715]

@@jkkim6928 Lmao, Serral is being both of them left and right, you're coping dude

[@MegaLqlq]

i want infestors to be able to cast fungle burrowed

[@M0ebius]

Sure, as long as they make sieged tanks able to shoot out of medivacs.

[@xIcarus227]

Lmao that would be preposterously overpowered, and I'm saying this as a Zerg player.

[@Necroneer]

Have no idea why people keep debating on balance in this comment section, just enjoy the games, feels to me like their balanced enough as any race is still very capable of winning. This was such a great series though, just checked their previous match where Serral destroyed him, glad Clem was way more active in this series.

[@themosthighvaluemaninthega9048]

People can and always will debate balance in competitive games across all genres of games (RTS, MOBA, FPS, Fighting, Racing, whatever, and etc...). It really is no surprise.

[@verumabsoluta5341]

Clem TvZ is just too good !

[@michaelcarnevale5620]

serral defense is insane

[@joasto31]

I love how the casters always mannage to praise Serral

[@thanakornnarisirikul9261]

Last game was intense

[@zeheero]

What a stressful game, glad I don't have to play these kind of games lol.

[@atrudokht]

You are just not into real time strategic game. Some people like it, including me.

[@lyn4er]

Yes, you right

[@SargasGeorgiev]

Feardragon on the finals really!!!

[@chenethan4051]

史詩級的一戰，有夠緊張

[@theduke7131]

Terran still op I see

[@joachinlin5630]

bravo !!!

[@Manwu5]

Nothing better than the smell of a dead roasted zerg

[@netghosta]

seems to me that Serral quit 2 games a bit too early... kind feels like Clem gets under his skin...

[@tomleszczynski2862]

That game 2 quit was a bit shady. Serral still had plenty of resources and the supply was tied. Why did he just give Clem that win?

[@jkkim6928]

Resources? Lmao He had no time to remake an army before Clem would pop it as it came out of larva

[@Brah_]

Serral is out of minerals and has a bad army comp

[@tigera6]

Not vetoing that map AND playing Muta was the biggest mistake from Serral. All Clem needs to do was to deny Serral from mining the Gold base while defending agains the one-sided attack with better army composition. Thor Ghost Bio beat the crap out of LingbaneMuta and Ultra.

[@motan7864]

yeah such a noob, tell him how to play starcraft

[@tigera6]

@@motan7864 So you never watch Idra rage quit to Hallucinations units? Pro make bad decision at time too, doesnt mean we are better than them.

[@zergbot]

I think to make Ghosts more fair are to have them research snipe OR they need to change weapons (aka like smart servos) from the sniper rifle to normal rifle. They are too op and have been for 10+ years.

[@ane-rikkenoe779]

Ghosts are expensive and require a lot of skills to use. Zerg has op queens, creep, inject and banelings, Terran has OP stim, mules, medivacs and mines. All in all, it is pretty balanced, and it depends a lot on the map pool, which might be slightly in favour of Terran at the moment. Still, there are barely any TvT finals in big tournaments.

[@oza_lup]

@@ane-rikkenoe779 alot of skills to use LMAO

[@zergbot]

@@oza_lup I call BS that those Terran units need much skill. Most of the time it’s F2 (maybe burrow the mines and activate stim), the rest is pretty set and forget as all Terran units are ranged. Granted the Ghost requires significant micro but the overall versatility it has over all races endgame (including T) means it needs equally ridiculous micro from the opponent.

[@ane-rikkenoe779]

@@zergbot Have you played much Terran? Try a-moving a big blob of zerg units including speedbanes and see how many clicks Terran needs to use to be cost efficient against it: presplits, stutterstep, splits, stim, pickup... Clem is an absolutely insane player. And Ghosts are not great in TvT, Maru tried it fairly recently and failed miserably.

[@xIcarus227]

@@ane-rikkenoe779 it's pretty balanced but not fun. Even Zergs dislike queens but they're a necessary unit. SC2 has a lot of units which are either disgusting to play with or disgusting to play against.

[@Jaze2022]

I hope this comes across as constructive criticism. I have a pair of eyes and I don't need you to tell me every tidbit of action in the game. Give some insight. Talk about what could the players be thinking. Give predictions. Have some fun. Great players, great matches but the amount of talking just made it difficult to watch.

[@jamespidgeon8748]

I think ghost are pretty OP hard counter all Zerg but mass banes,

[@markpayton3895]

nerf ghosts

[@willwu6405]

I don’t think Serral is a goat. Artosis gave great examples of what is needed to become a GOAT

[@walden6272]

So what is needed to become Goat?

[@willwu6405]

@@walden6272 For Serral is at least a few GSL Code S titles and for Maru is a Championship title

[@Chuckerson100]

Clem micro is annoying, he is way too good

[@anthonylaine8424]

Serral a clairement laisser gagner clems sur les deux première va comprendre ....

[@TheCianzzz]

the caster is so bad for so biased toward serral, whatever serral done is superb, good, nice. while all clem done is ok, not shabby blabla.

[@benjamineidam]

And that's, kids, why Serral is not the GOAT. (yet)

[@tylerrichter4066]

Wow

[@дмитрийартем]

mine imba

[@teodoreh]

Thanks god Serral is loosing so Blizzard won't cripple Zerg any more!

[@lz4737]

Young players grow old.

[@TodaysYourLast]

zerg op

[@MrZeePeepz]

Plus I thought maru or dark or someone else at the time was the best playa lol. Literally serral has lost pathetic games. Just stop rubbing him up 👆

[@chedca]

serral vs hacker

[@gtamfinc]

пнах

[@atrudokht]

Zerg watchers are casual in accepting defeat while terran’s are so salty and immature

[@M0ebius]

lol have you read this comment section? So many zergs crying OP.

[@alexlogan202]

Looks like SC2 is dead

[@GotEmAll1337]

15:09 an absolutely flawless flank and fungal, hard countered by ONE set-n-forget widOP mine. Just one of several examples this series alone where one no-brain widOP mine one-shots like 12+ f****** banes. This game is f****** trash.

[@Buckeyes216]

Should’ve added a new faction by now.. lame

[@MrZeePeepz]

There's no such thing as best in the world. They really gotta stop acting like kids. Best in the world comon. I've seen theses guys make mistakes and lose against lower players.. the BEST player in the world wouldn't lose would they now.

[@keriozaraki]

You mistake the best player with a perfect player

[@jewbacca7777]

Congrats, that's the dumbest thing I've read all day.

[@critical-thinker666]

10 fucking years and best Zerg comp are zerglinks and bane.... Insanity.

[@ademarlima1217]

and Terran is marine widowmine, it's not the comp that beats the enemy, it's the micro/macro

[@faylure9985]

@@ademarlima1217 Widow mines and micro/macro in the same phrase. Hah, good one

[@critical-thinker666]

@@ademarlima1217 it only shows how badly balanced sc 2 is, literaly no point for zerg to make any other units in 20 mins long game. still no unit for defence,still no flying unit to counter medivacs. prob most funny thing is marines running faster than zerglings off creep,thats most reatarded shit i have ever seen.

[@motan7864]

@@faylure9985 #salt

[@xIcarus227]

@@motan7864 he's got a point though, that unit is far harder to play against than it is to use. Similar to the Winfestor back in WoL which rightfully got nerfed into the ground. At the beginning of HotS when the Widow Mine was released, a very large amount of players quit playing ladder and SC2 in general, in large part due to that dumb unit. It was SC2's lowest population period. Nobody liked playing against it, especially lower ranked players who simply didn't have the micro skills to counter them. SC2 is a pretty balanced game, but some of the decisions they made early made it less and less fun to play as time went on. Widow mines, weak Protoss and especially Zerg anti-air, the ubiquity of marines, MULES compared to the other races' macro mechanics. Very questionable gameplay mechanics.

[@WoWUndad]

My name is Terran I build 1 reaper spend all my apm microing killing nothing then just dump extra 800 minerals on more command center 🤑🤑

[@faylure9985]

Widow mines carrying without even doing proper damage, hilarious unit. Insane preasure by Clem tho, gg.

[@jkkim6928]

Preasure is not a word. One sign of schizophrenia is word salad 🤔

[@faylure9985]

@@jkkim6928 I'm not in the mood to deal with you, stupid dipshit. Yes, preasure is not a word, it's a typo. When people speak 3+ languages tend to brain fart typos now and then, I don't expect someone like you to understand. Won't correct the typo either, you can fuck off.

[@jkkim6928]

#triggered

[@Jez4prez1]

@@jkkim6928 no u. u triggered salad

[@WoWUndad]

The evo chamber hellion block was honestly more skillfull than a terran players entire career Mr hellion misses and flakes all of his hellion shots, doesn't even react to the lings, and terran still can't be punished at all wow

[@faylure9985]

Yeah, because he just spammed widow mines. What an amazing unit. But hey, nerf Queens.

[@sparkleknight3679]

@@faylure9985 please, the game is balanced. Why do you have to bring balance whining into this, have some class

[@ealvin4065]

@@faylure9985 You know, burrowed banes are also a thing

[@xIcarus227]

@@sparkleknight3679 the game is balanced but Widow Mines are simply not fun to play against. No wonder SC2 entered its lowest-population period when Widow Mines were released. Every time you release a unit which is far easier to use than it is to counter you're creating stupid balance situations, and SC2 has a lot of those.

[@joha4805]

noone still wants to admit Zerg is broken as hell years later still. Terrans have to play like gods to win games at pro level. games clems win is because he is just out playing serral so fucking hard . if serral stays with him he always win cause Zerg is just broken.

[@Anavarel]

The hell are you talking about? Terrans have a counter to literally every tactic that Zerg could possibly use. Roaches and ravagers? Roll tanks. Creep spread? Just spam radars. Banes and zeglings? Lol, widowmines. Ultralisks and Broodlords? Snipershots go brrr. Not to mention the best minerals harass in the game. At the peak level of playing Zerg has no chance against Terran beside catching him early.

[@mathieuchoquette5606]

''play like god'' you mean make ghosts LUL

[@peterchui1964]

I will keep on stating the dumbest and most obvious point until it sticks. The winrates across all matches across all levels for years has been close to 50/50. It is by definition a balanced game. After years no one wants to admit that.

[@TheDragoonangel]

Zerg dont play Terran ... Zerg not understand Zerg is Btoken and Terran are just playing very quickly and with good macro at the same time

[@WoWUndad]

Zerg takes 8x more skill than terran. Terran is for pedos