Maru's Extremely Greedy Mech Strategy - Starcraft 2: Maru vs. Reynor

[@SC2HL]

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[@pojuh645]

im sad that they dont show the inputs per minute on iem katowice

[@momom6197]

I love it! Greedy builds are so enjoyable: extremely tense at the beginning when anything can tip the game, then very well-paced afterwards because both economies are quite strong.

[@momom6197]

Well, except for the times when they fall flat on their face to a 1-base all-in or a cheese. It happens.

[@hetaresgaming7771]

Like lowko said, these aren't going to get you great results on the ladder against opponents that you don't have a read on. Any 12, 14, 16 or any sort of early aggression at all is a GG, and Maru did this extremely riskily by guessing Reynor was not going to cheese him. In another one of the games in this series, Maru did a similar build without a ramp, and it almost went badly if he hadn't been extremely smart and maneuveured his way out of a sticky situation (though I think he still lost anyways afterwards in the late game)

[@doves5457]

@@momom6197id say having a majority macro with good defensive planning will always win over 1 base cheese… expanding just too easy to do these days

[@EternityGamesVids]

What an incredible build, honestly that completely reversed the tendency of TvZ, Terran is actually the one putting pressure and swarming

[@CaiZiMeng]

Terran under Maru is not Terran if you know what I mean :)

[@mydailyroutine8324]

He'll loose to serral anw.​@@CaiZiMeng

[@rouxypouxy9245]

Obv one plays the most broken race since 2018 the other is just the best terran ever​@@mydailyroutine8324

[@shotpulehod]

it was like that from WoL mate

[@mydailyroutine8324]

@@CaiZiMeng i was right lol. Maru has been destroyed.

[@Khaim.m]

14:12 That third bile...

[@holyslaya1645]

I saw that too! Pretty funny xD

[@avalonaura4076]

LOWKOOOOOOO! So glad to see that man in mainstream SCII. He's contributed so much to the game's retention.

[@2nerC9]

Love the Lowko commentary he's so good.

[@linweihao5475]

thats what i was wondering. needed to see this to confirm my suspicions

[@zack-z3o]

What’s the name of the female commentator?

[@XuanD]

​@@zack-z3ozombiegrub i believe

[@jaredkanju2064]

​@@zack-z3ozombiegrub

[@SC2HL]

@@zack-z3o zombiegrub!

[@superenderslayersuperender7460]

Pfff the video sections of 'Game', 'Mid Game', and 'Late Game' in reference to ZG's 4:02 comment lol.

[@_CatBug_]

Aggressive build Terran is so much more exciting to watch

[@recuerdameporf]

I love those brutal Terran mech, so satisfiying when crush those zergs

[@MrApresmoi]

Fun games. Plus, ZG and Lowko are great together.

[@DanStaal]

As long as Lowko remembers that he isn’t solo casting.

[@satriaamiluhur622]

Been following the game for 10 years and surprised that maru is still around

[@ashade2877]

I am suprised that the online community is still going strong. I wish it was stronger. I love this game so much.

[@LitheInLitotes]

Reynors hair looks like it was fished out of a toilet

[@eugeneponomarov7429]

MARU!!! What a game!

[@xeonnex9430]

i just noticed that was LOWKO after like 2 - 3 mins into the video. LOVE YOUR CASTING LOWKO!!!!

[@jaguh9069]

I'm always impressed by Maru expressionless no matter how intense the game was. 😄

[@CenJohan]

Shoutout to Lowko for completely shutting down ZG's commentary within the first 30 seconds of this cast

[@EJames-nm4qt]

More like an entire minute. Lol!

[@formprim]

You are such a poor guy, cannot handle a woman being an expert in public.

[@christianmathew398]

@CenJohan-I'm glad he did, nothing of value was lost.

[@laserdrip]

Excellent game. Maru's aggressive style was rewarded in the first game. Second game Maru defended like a boss to ultimately win.

[@Grandude77]

The building position in the 2nd game was inspired, the ramp became the 1st choke leading to another

[@Jchmcom]

1:36 Bugs Bunny?

[@agentxavier1752]

I literally din't realise I was listening to Lowko until he said 'Rolypolyupgraid' XD Got to love that Boy

[@Mellow985]

Great video thank you

[@kilvesx7924]

gotta say I'm loving this new meta where the solution to every vZ game is "play like a zerg :D"

[@Dantick09]

Maru is so good, came back even after getting pummeled for a while

[@SyzygyTT]

SC2, still the king of RTS.

[@dschortz]

What an incredible game!

[@XX847]

I've been away from the SC2 scene for a while.... Lowko on SC2HL? Hell yeah.

[@markhenry64]

zombiegrub is so smart every time

[@mariusevander2214]

8:43 , when the scvs are set to hold position would setting the zerglings to hold position make them attack the scv's next to them instead of trying to get to the unreachable units behind them ?

[@woddenbukkit1016]

Yes

[@SanityDrop]

Maru doing Maru stuffs

[@wolfclaw3812]

Usually Reynor's trying to eat you, your natural, and your computer from the get-go, but I guess against Maru, Reynor decided to take it slow?

[@ladhkay]

Omg maru!! what a game!

[@Butcho22]

7:38 anyone know which keyboard Maru is using?

[@pvj163]

Brutal

[@Gabriel64468]

Game 1 was cool, but Game 2 was definitely the highlight. That felt over for either side at 3 different points.

[@OSU2010]

How to swarm 101 Maru😂

[@hayvan3605]

Reynor got outclassed so damn hard

[@Tomoyuki_Tanaka]

This was a great game!

[@jamesdi7261]

All the games are great and enjoyable!

[@NickMaovich]

who was commenting with Lowko? Is that Zombiegrub?

[@Klaus2319]

this game really need more upgrades(+5/+5) and more important is way more supply! start reach 500, test it extensively and finaly go to 2000.

[@clydecash5659]

I remember Blizzard having a policy again naming yourself after IP characters. This was the case in wow at least.

[@Ghostcleaner]

yo upload serral vs clem! those were some crazy games

[@lordlopikong6940]

Beautiful

[@artemirrlazaris7406]

If reynor follwoed up wit hspire muta, those marine drops probably would of traded really unfairly and then in corruptors/ broods to shut dow nteh skies, theres jsut a lot of bad trades with the lings... ultras are also a great answer for clustering marines in areas, but brood is a solid against terran... the mutas allow you to fly in harras, change the build style of the enemy and the nfly out and defend also. Ling/ roach against upgraded marines are just out matched will enver trade well... and will ahve a hard tiem pushing in a tank line or defended line, so flying units can circumnaviagate and force out different units and a movement of the defensive units, even a few dropper or nydus worms could of helped.

[@junyofficial1483]

Not sure if you're talking about game 1 or 2, but in game 1 mutas are not viable because that would be suicide against battle mech cyclones, at which point the second maru saw a single muta he'd add in a thor. 2nd game, reynor had no option to go into muta seeing that he pretty much went all-in 2 base roachling and failed to break a terran who went for a greedy 3 cc build. He wouldnt have the economy to go into muta. In the time he would have a decent muta count, Maru would have a way bigger army to crush and end the game. Reynor made the right decision in sticking to cheaper units to try and recover his significant economy disadvantage.

[@davorantonic5132]

Why is Reynor looking like Emmet Brown? 😶

[@jonnoda]

Eyyy it's ma boy lowko!

[@artemirrlazaris7406]

10:04 drone count doesn't really mean much, at that point since he is only mining from one base, and two bases will always mine faster as a base has a peak limit, 2 per mineral spread out.. so the damage is currently even... and he can do a droning form behind, I think he really needs a macro hatch or third... usually if you pushing that hard, you can get away with a corner base.

[@JigglePhysicsX]

Maru never ceases to amaze me.

[@natecw4164]

UThermal is on to something with his ZvP Infestor rush against battle mech. Fungal plus lings = dead mech in early game

[@joeking5215]

Finally Raynor was destroyed 😂

[@LPianapitham]

No toss in the last rounds …. So sad.

[@dragoslove]

Who was the non-lowko caster?

[@lordlopikong6940]

Zombiegrub

[@Alex.Akagami]

Owned

[@theeraphatsunthornwit6266]

Raynor hairstyle is questionable😂

[@serojachef465]

It is mindboggling how much effort it takes from the best terran player in the world to deal with a regular newb of a zerg.

[@jonathanbody3890]

MAAAAAARUUUUU

[@sublimeqt420]

DId Maru get some cosmetic surgery or is it just camera angle?

[@kleomenis456]

Try CoH 3. It's not blob Vs blob

[@edwin8549]

Maru GOAT. stop cryng zerg players, you look ridiculous.

[@AlexAlex-jd3ih]

"Как может матиматика так точно описывать реальность, будучи порождением разума?" Ну, если учесть, что она основана на материальном мире, для решения прикладных задач, то вопрос даже звучит странно. Хотя, если ты идеалист, тогда действительно на ум приходит только боший прамысел...

[@mikeknote5388]

How does she still get casting jobs, shes wrong about the state of the game so often.

[@zack-z3o]

What’s the name of the female commentator?

[@thomasknockout]

zombiegrub

[@alanhing91]

StarCraft 2 Korean world

[@yourboyvic]

Maru looks bored

[@popeneiad7968]

Obligatory Maru copypasta

[@Albin_Evald]

"2nd all in" doesnt make any sense. If the first attack was truly a all in, you would have lost when it failed. Otherwise it wasnt an all in. 10:25

[@cousinpatsey2471]

Not necessarily. All in just means it has to do damage, or you lose. If you deal significant damage, but not game ending damage, you could definitely all in again.

[@jorgemichaelquino7562]

ZG casting Maru games. At least try to hide the bias

[@tigera6]

ZG is not a fan of Maru, although shes a general Terran fan.

[@mnmarler]

She was desperate in that second game to make it look like Maru was losing when his supply never dropped below Raynor's lolol

[@tsundude4320]

Melee sucks vs terran go range

[@kleomenis456]

Blob Vs blob. 🗑️ Craft

[@myname-ns1rp]

female announcers. i know it sounds sexist but its an instant "wanna bail" when I hear one.

[@sc2youtube744]

Terran is so broken right now

[@mnmarler]

There's always gotta be that guy after a Terran win

[@wilhua3083]

not lowko again..... gonna mute as to not get annoyed watching a cool ass build