StarCraft 2 Co-op: INSANE Mutation - Growing Threat on Brutal!

"Growing Threat" is by far the most difficult Mutation I've played.
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In this video I continue progressing and manage to complete the "Growing Threat" mutation mission in StarCraft 2: Legacy of the Void on Brutal. My co-op partner is in this mission is Lilbow, a very high level Protoss player.
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StarCraft 2 is a military science fiction real-time strategy video game developed and released by Blizzard Entertainment for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Legacy of the Void is the third and final part in the StarCraft 2 triology.
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[@ionshatter9622]

"So far, it's looking good" *Sees video length* Something tells me it's not.

[@broadbandtogod]

"Terrible, terrible damage"... Haha, nostalgia, brings back memories ^ ^

[@adamrosenfield2209]

every time I watch your videos I want to play more starcraft

[@RekijanME]

They don't mutate from killing units, but from attacking them. At least thats what the description said.

[@rae120]

I think there's a chance they mutate after dealing damage, but at the same time they mutate 100% when they kill an unit.

[@dariodimarziasalvatore971]

20 sit-ups for every Fail attemp as last time please be merciful #lowkochallenge

[@jeffreywijaranakula4059]

Props to you both dude! Well played! :)

[@paulm4258]

I like how you show the failed attempts and the thought process of changing tactics. Great videos Lowko!

[@harrisoncho3501]

First time ever to see some1 to clear this w/out Vorazun or Raynor. GJ lowko and Lilibow!

[@larshyer3367]

You know it's a difficult one when even the pros struggle for 8 hrs. Reminds me of old school games. Very well done guys

[@PeterAviro5370]

Congratuations lad!!!.... it was fun to follow your efforts on this mutator....very well done!!! xD

[@shinyshiny82]

Very nice video man. Really enjoyed watching.

[@MarekAndreansky]

Ascendants with their mind blasts and balls of death are overpowered ;) Well done both of you!

[@MalevolentSpirit234]

Description of Alarak's Ascendants: You're about to witness a Protoss light show

[@tickere5094]

Nice that u didnt just spam spider mines.

[@tahmidt]

Did anyone on youtube do that?

[@xenon333]

Why is it "nice"? This mutation is obviously gimmicky as fuck. So why would you not take advantage of the gimmick? Spider mines make "hard" easy.

[@CtG-Games]

Me. Artanis/Vorazun.

[@tahmidt]

CtG just watching your videos. They are really good but I wish you would actually speak :3

[@CtG-Games]

Well I could do that, but I'm not really in a speaking mood at 3 in the morning, which is when I wake up to do the mutation posts on BNet and play the mutation on SEA. Also, I'm worried that having a non-USAian accent would do more harm than good, y'know?

[@Urza26]

A truly epic victory.

[@OoOnomad]

duuuude congrats great team play !!!

[@Fafnerluver922]

Watching Lowko complete the mutation feels so good!

[@AkiraNikamura]

Finally you did it :) it was so much fun for me to watch your videos, plz more of them

[@Terkish1987]

Well done LOWKO Finally.....very well done

[@trios9262]

Congratulations Lowko! When i saw you were playing karax i thought more fails will come but you did it :) Nicely done

[@Fabroskii]

Brilliant work Lowko and Lilbow - the last few seconds were thrilling and watching you throw your chair back to the wall added to it :) Congratulations on persevering... but I'm sure the devs will take this as a challenge to make a harder one ;)

[@JD867]

Your sim city needs work. You lose more cannons than you should since you don't have enough batteries shielding them. That Alarak though is a BEAST O_o

[@GemmaKnight28]

Excellent job guys!!! ☺👍

[@shavais33]

I have this bad habit of commenting several months after the fact. Wow, Holy pee! Congratulations on finally beating that one.

[@vitorleite3095]

lel

[@slavenbozic1237]

You should have seen how Crank handled this... Raynor, Vulture spider mines, and done... they covered the map with mines and you can more or less afk.

[@ericcsf]

finally , you able to clear it

[@tonyzt5255]

Congrats lowko really fun video keep going :D :D

[@Static-EN-]

Lilbow and Lowko.. these two might just be one of the deadliest combos up to date

[@ANewPaul]

GREAT JOB LOWKO :D

[@martinmarigomen2767]

that was intense

[@hockleberryclover9768]

Great video!!!

[@slendernol27r87]

Epic gameplay ever

[@ilovepuppies8432]

congratulations

[@spawnofheck]

You are playing with THE Lilbow? If so that is pretty cool =D

[@manojdehariya5660]

ikr :)

[@ImaginaryMdA]

Oh, you better believe he is!

[@timebombboom1]

i love stedmon's lines

[@grezhull.5647]

Nice video. That car salesman face you made at 0:26 though...

[@Sanguiris]

A Co-op map where you have to relocate from a moving wall of death like in that one WoL mission would be nice

[@dionje5TV]

Problem is, only works with terran, cause the other races can‘t move their base structures.

[@slayerking8787]

dionje5TV and certain other commanders like dehaka.

[@JoseGutierrez-jd8ss]

I was thinking about trying mutation mode, but after watching the video, I will continue with regular brutal missions

[@MrSePP2401]

i went totally nuts even though u made it hahaha almost shouting in joy xD

[@itsTKtrue]

he did the "bye" thingy again :D

[@CommentatorMS]

Nice one

[@TimothyCWood]

We did it using Zag and Alarak. Banelings, Scourge, and Ascendants. As long as you micro well to back out from the nuke blasts it will work, eventually :).

[@receitasedicasfit3472]

Wow! very hard mutation, i will try today.

[@michaelbentsvi5441]

This mission is way harder than last week's. Last week was just frigging annoying with the vertigo, but this just pure hell.

[@yeoungjoon6995]

Oh my god... I never noticed that Karax could insta warp LOL time to level the perks up

[@markhanzelik9902]

hell yah i just did this as well with my friend on brutal, with a full volture raynor and air karax :D

[@M4pster]

I think you earned a like on this video xD. Well done!

[@superfrycook6360]

Alarak and Karax - When Solarite meets Terrazine

[@hagenvi2384]

yeey! GONNA DO THAT BOY!

[@CompletelyRandomNick]

"suplicants are here for sacrifice" not the best thing to do where every sacrifice makes your opponent stronger

[@LowkoTV]

+CompletelyRandomNick Sacrifices for Alarak and the Ascendents that is. They don't count t as kills.

[@CompletelyRandomNick]

LowkoTV oh i see

[@nick8472]

awesome job!!!! :-)

[@teleassc6861]

Did they nurf this? I tried hard all week and now it just worked like a piece of cake with Vorazun and a random Artanis against AirTerran :) Didn't even loose a bot - guardian shields, emergency recall, dark pylon teleport, disruption web etc ftw! PS: Love the excitement, as always

[@iXSIKOBOIXi]

The Silver Protoss players on the Ladder were right all along, you need as many canons as possible

[@LSCrazyCabCo]

epic i look for ward to the next one

[@dethraid]

nice job!!! i had some troubles beating it on hard lol normal was too easy hard was a bit hard.......brutal was near impossible...

[@SevanKonu]

You should build Energizers Lowko! For you cannons aldo for your teammate.

[@Someguy1357]

Great play! I think you could have afforded the 3rd lvl of solar efficiency for sure

[@horner385]

That upgrade is soo OP

[@zxKAOS1]

I agree. I feel lv3 is often worth it

[@jianpengyu9843]

Just passed with alark+Raynor. Spider mine gives my alark sufficient time to feed ascendants and when ascendants are fed nuclear nuke is no longer an issue (ascendants have 1040 shield).

[@Darchias]

Your Karax would be slightly improved if you moved your Chrono Boost on the Nexus somewhere else after your done making probes. Having it get your research out faster and make carriers faster for such a small thing is huge.

[@3psilon.]

This will forever haunt me as the one mutation I couldn't beat ;___;

[@vincentlai12]

Lowko: "Now I have done a little research and apparently people have beaten this on Brutal with Raynor. You can put the little turret dudes on the... um... Now I have done..." Haha

[@carterrk]

GG. That one was well earned. I didn't get to complete it.

[@RoboMasterxxx]

good job! i just have one little note to make ur karax play better. You need to warp in energizers, they make the allready good cannons, godlike!

[@Danut2]

Lowko, playing as karax, put some energizers near your cannons in their immobile mode. instant cannon on crack.

[@AtrumDelorox]

Woohoo! I don't know why you didn't do Artanis/Vorazun, but ok. Challenge mode it is I guess

[@KingOfBlades27]

Can't do it with those. Look at his levels on those characters :D

[@szirsp]

I have tried this with Karax at the beginning, but I soon realized that it was a no go. I also tried it with Alarak, leveled up templar seemed the way to go, but the smallest mistakes will end the game, and I'm just not good enough :( :) Then I beat it with Artanis tempest (+spider mines) soon after I also switched to Raynor and beat it a couple of more times (+void rays from my teammate for example). Zagara was also good.

[@trevoralden1468]

Soooo, you should do some custom mutation videos with different pros from around the league. 4/5 mutations at a time on brutal would be insanely fun to watch. +1; KAPOW

[@stormwind351]

that person with the purple eyes is insane

[@dionje5TV]

Groundon Reacts dr stetman

[@jasonyang867]

now, you have to get your gas as early as possible.

[@dhameoin]

Crank did it. Spidermines.

[@ss5gogetunks]

Every time you chrono without giving a heads up first it hurts :p

[@tranta98]

You know. The solar ray could be really usefull against these critical mass of broodlings on stim

[@larrykelbaughjr.1831]

A Zerg Commander, might do well on this map! Quick unit production... efficient economy...strong units...units self repair!

[@JR-cr2zg]

LOL! You should watch the other vid of Lowko for this mutation. Zerg was a terrible idea for this mutation. Because enemy's units evolve whenever deal damage and zergling and locus from toxic nest were just their sweet protein!

[@larrykelbaughjr.1831]

Well, I did say, "might"! I didn't know about the other video! I'll have to check it out! However, if you put 1 seige tank behind another, & a third behind it, you get near semi-auto cannon fire! X2 per entrance, & you'll keep out anything from a base, + bunkers filled with troops! I just love the sound of seige tanks firing! LOL!

[@JR-cr2zg]

This "Growing Threat" mutation is voted in the top 2 of the most difficult mutation with "Shir Chaos".

[@HarshitKumar-lg1ol]

I watched both videos full 2 hours lol.

[@victorhugoguillenlopez4821]

What if you try to time your push when the hybrid are about to die? , they seem to be the ones exploding and doing the most damage

[@pofiPenguin]

what u can do with vorazun is place a dark pylon to make the bot invisible and have the hybrid attack the pylon, giving the bot just enough time to get out of nuke range

[@JR-cr2zg]

Theoretical is yes! Practical is No!

[@Defileros]

Swann / Artanis or Swann / Vorazun works wonderfully on this mutation, I won with Swann/Vorazun

[@jessebrown5247]

Does lowko realize yet that they don't have to kill your units to get upgraded all they have to do is attack your units

[@SirAdamK87]

Personally would've done Artanis mass tempest with Vorazun mass void ray

[@superninjacreed]

Well you finally got your difficult mutation mission like you asked

[@antonitomasik8946]

You should stick with Artanis and his life saving shields

[@space_lemonz4561]

How do you make your sc2 game looks so good it looks more harsh/realistic and the characters portraits actually move, mine is just frozen like a picture? Can someone tell me?

[@lukasjanalik2831]

anyone know how am i supposed to put any game off the screen but it will still be on. on iMac??

[@BenRaboine]

Raynor pure vulture mines make this so much easier ;)

[@reloadfreak]

Ben Raboine on my first try with the strategy I was able to clean up the enemies. Spamming mines works pretty well and on top of that the nukes can't kill it.

[@xenon333]

This is not a good thing tho. This proves just how gimmicky the mutation is. And it's not good, when there's only one (out of hundred) viable strategy, and when something else takes 2 of the world's top players to pull off.

[@xenon333]

***** Yes, but they still have to allow for at least one viable strategy from each commander. Zag is detrimental one here because her units are easily killable.

[@reloadfreak]

Kirill Nielson the strategy works but half the effort goes to the other person who pushed back the enemies while I was planting the mines. Believe me it still required strategy and planning. After the game, I tried playing with random players and I do get fair amount of losses because the other person didn't coordinate well. Sometimes the AI would bring out more air units and my vultures and mines can't attack it at all. So it's not quite as easy like the first time I beat it.

[@BenRaboine]

Mass bane works very well on this mission because the enemy can't mutate since every time they kill a bane, they die. Just team with someone with strong aa.

[@Demirbaykus]

Can you boost the bots with energizers?

[@MIMMOH]

I'm not even sure I want to attempt this one haha

[@AlinNemet]

great :)

[@jessebrown5247]

Lilbow is a Protoss player and Lowko is a Zerg player neither have raynor leveled up xD

[@MrKillrpig]

i won with zagara by building hives and massing spine and spore crallers around all the objectives

[@jessebrown5247]

Almost lost everything in the last 30 seconds

[@Rikard_Nilsson]

Bel'shir in itself needs to be slowed down a bit

[@franezenic1180]

Managed to do it on brutal with karax and artanis combo but this week is hard as FUCK Just build mass turrerts worked quite well with tempests

[@voyager419]

" just because i can " :D

[@samowen9717]

How he's like:"Alarak for early game aggression because he falls off in the late game and then Vorazun can carry" and then has trouble killing Hybrids when Ascendants with Power Overwhelming are easily the stronkest unit in the game and can rapidfire Mind blast for approximately sixteen asstons (technical term) of damage and the orb-thingy can just delete the broodling waves before they evolve. Wrong use of Alarak my friend.

[@ionshatter9622]

How do you get the colors on your commanders?

[@Miniek0]

You meen gold? Even them up to 15

[@stangundam01]

put shield batteries behind you defence, not in front and build more forces

[@GERHARDTJEAN]

Artanis Tempest/Karax heal and towers...

[@Snute16]

YO what happened to Stetman.... ahahaha high af

[@grolg4793]

Did Lowko just call that medic Mr?

[@timebombboom1]

the taldarim always have the most powerful units but most expensive(1000/1000 for motheship).

[@olala7846]

Have you tried immortals? they should survive under nuke?