StarCraft 2: Florencio Spreads Creep BACKWARDS?!

[@davidholland4713]

Florencio is so educational. He is teaching ladder players not to die to stupid stuff, using the Socratic teaching method. What a humanitarian :-)

[@beanbagbum9184]

@Israeli PR Shill really? You love him more than all of us combined? Then maybe explain why you didn’t put the love and care in it to spell his full name? Florencio 😂

[@dariomiles3357]

I know im randomly asking but does anybody know of a tool to log back into an instagram account?? I was dumb forgot the account password. I would appreciate any tricks you can give me!

[@samsonomar8927]

@Dario Miles instablaster =)

[@alstoybarn3665]

"I'll build double Nydus, that way they'll never see the overlord drop coming!"

[@EMT_Artesania]

I love Florencio's games, so funny! And Lowko casting in laughs is the best!

[@markpriss]

Yuh some of my fav games to watch on LowkoTV!

[@daniely.poonsyverson2603]

That's not Korean. That's Chinese. "Dao Ke Dao" is the first three characters of the Dao De Jing. It's the first half of a sentence to which the second half is, "Fei Chang Dao". The whole sentence reads, "Things can go in many ways that are not the usual ways." As a Chinese-speaking person I look at that name and think, prepare for "out-of-the-box" play.

[@SebastianKaye]

This would be such an appropriate name for Florencio 😀

[@timmelton856]

Thanks for the translation 👍✔🙌🧐 … still maybe a little odd for me, but very kewl to (start) understand …

[@ramanmonkey]

He said he didnt think its korean no need to correct him the translation/explanation you provided is appreciated tho

[@timmelton856]

@@ramanmonkey Whoa dude … chill … enjoy what he is trying to say. This is just an informational comment; not a "he sux for getting it wrong" comment.

[@raptorsan85]

Thx for the post

[@narmale]

the way you said "suprise! brenda and karen are inside!" i just died xD xD

[@ballboys607]

Hello Chinese person here, that is in fact Chinese (could be a reference to a line from Tao Te Ching by Laozi, a philosopher) anyway more importantly FLORENCIO

[@Triaprima7]

his name could mean: "the way that can be named (is not the eternal way) if i follow a translation of the tao te ching

[@sicktheory7575]

I’m American.. so I’m most likely wrong haha.. but I thought it was Lao Tzu?

[@Triaprima7]

@@sicktheory7575 i am not chinese either, but as far as i am concerned the script and the spoken word in chinese can vary and lao tze lived in a time around or before christ. What i wanna say is i think there are several factors which point to the conclusion that his latinized name can have different spellings

[@sicktheory7575]

@@Triaprima7 got ya. appreciate it dude! I guess i shoulda used google for a couple seconds on that one haha

[@TritonTv69420]

The sewer mermaid spreading his sewer all over from the natural!

[@darwinrodriguez5485]

People always ask who are Florencio's opponents. Nobody asks HOW are Florencio's opponents :(

[@bb-im6hf]

i would guess not very well most of the time, since they have to deal with whaterver Florencio decides to throw at them

[@GBS4893]

Obviously shaking and confused.

[@I__--]

Broken.

[@DubbleTwice]

"Creep-poop-taxi" seems like an obvious tatic for Zerg to exploit.

[@Pannedcakes-90]

When is the Lowko v Florencio match going to happen? But flipped, Lowko needs to come up with creative cheese and Florencio needs to play an online ladder build

[@PresidentialWinner]

Dude that would be a great game. Or at the very least a great commentary after the game

[@joranwa430]

Florencio won’t stand a chance though

[@m.t.pokkets86]

I don't think that F is seriously pushing. More like playing with his victim.

[@garereeve117]

I heard him address this accusation in one of his live-steams. He claims that rushing in too quickly to finish off your opponent is a good way to lose your army to a desperate counterattack where your victim manages to get a Disrupter into a perfect flanking position, or you didn’t realize that he built a Dark Shrine in a corner of the map until your Roach army is getting chopped up by Protoss Ninjas and your Overseers are halfway across the map.

[@atrtsh]

When Flo has a hidden expansion and the enemy rushes him just to die, you see why a mad push when you think you're slightly ahead is a good way to lose everything.

[@euqinuykcaj]

Hi Lowko, those words, 道可道, is closely meaning to "Reason can be reasoning", not actually works in English though.

[@ballboys607]

It's from 道德經: "道可道，非常道。名可名，非常名。"

[@glenmcgillivray4707]

So more or less 'A thinking mind'

[@euqinuykcaj]

@@glenmcgillivray4707 Well, those three words are only a part of a sentence. If you really want to know it's meaning, it is nothing close to "a thinking mind".

[@glenmcgillivray4707]

@@euqinuykcaj oh, it sounds in english as an individual in deep contemplation. So I decided to see if I could shorten it. Knowing asian culture it is either entirely random, or a fragment of a poem with deep meaning. Either way I swung and missed the ball (intended meaning) this time.

[@MrYago-xd7um]

Glad to know this sewer show begin with a hint of irony coupled with foreshadowing.

[@poodlescone9700]

I see a Florencio game, I click.

[@lorddidger]

There should be a series "slay the beast", where florencio's victim wins.

[@Florenciosc2]

I'm looking for some.

[@noaccount4]

@@Florenciosc2 Mermaid fishing season is in ;]

[@tokyo420pm7]

So basically one player COULDN'T expand and the other player DIDN'T WANT to x,D

[@bacon-SG]

Hey, the queen drop with ovie for creep is what Neuro calls poop bandits, it's a lot of fun, more even if he creeps enemy bases.

[@SmollerRadish]

Literally florencio why start at the beginning when you can start at the end

[@ragedcarnage912]

Lowko - it’s sad there’s so much cheese in the ladder. Later - but I like it

[@Daniel-xaogjeyh]

florencio plays like every day is happy hour friday

[@nikospipilis7679]

i need the mushrooms florencio eats ill see 5 universes ahead

[@SomeGuy-ty7kr]

I was going to save this for tomorrow, but, you know, florencio

[@carnage2332]

I lack the skill to do this but have been wondering how this would work FOREVER! Now I just cannot wait for him to try using a warp prison and 4 adepts to kite queens or marines around an enemy base. Using that scouting probe and the warp prisons power field to power them to heal up the adepts on the enemies side of the map. Put those shield batteries in strange hard to reach spots since they don't need pylons.

[@dnsluder]

The way the protoss laughed at the start that is the laugh of someone who realized what's about to happen to them

[@dylanlafreniere3479]

T- Sitting and flying to war. P- Change matter and store in prisms. Z- squishes into dropper lords body and dog piles on-top of one-other.

[@M.B___]

The baiting master at it again! What a legend, doesn't need macro to win games, just plays in a way that makes the opponent's brain melt out their ears.

[@chingompiew1]

Pretty much everything FLORENCIO does: Lowko "I wouldn't be surprised if this becomes a thing!" Florencio: The Man, the Myth, the Legend, the Pioneer!

[@spacejaga]

Wow Friday in Netherlands is Friday elsewhere too?!!!! Outstanding!!!

[@ocean037]

Mindblown 🤯

[@robertanderson3282]

Us Aussies are way ahead of you guys

[@pynkmenlanglytan8292]

What??

[@greenhippoes]

saturday here

[@GBS4893]

I think i get it. The nydus, burrow, proxy hatches, dropperlord... This is Florencio's standard. Those tools are there, ready to be utilized when the opportunity shows up.

[@Florenciosc2]

4:55 I tried to make a proxy Hach in the front to pull the zealot out of position of the choke.

[@syruproast1598]

OK HERE'S THE PLAN

[@ahizzy5566]

Florencio Fridays

[@jahjah7940]

I have been preparing for a game against Florencio to the point where i don’t even know how to play normal Starcraft anymore

[@sinfulhealer2110]

i love it how i don't play starcraft AT ALL but still find which playing styles i'd appreciate playing the most myself (the way Florence plays in this game :kissing_heart: :ok_hand:

[@dayeet267]

Lowko it's 700 resources in cannons and batteries with the forge, not counting lost mining time.

[@golgotai2938]

Bring back the 300 dB "Hello Everyone my name is LOOWKOOO"

[@chir0pter]

Two things I want to see more of: (1) creep spreading queens in ovies (2) Proxying a nydus network then showing protoss a nydus worm when Protoss push so they doesn't know their side of the map is being tunnelled

[@teostancu364]

About burrowing lings to stop the bases from being placed.. A while ago I played agaisnt a terran borrowing 1 ling to each base on his side and instead of getting detection he built his CCs next to the burrowed zergling

[@alexwu358]

Protoss players name - 道可道 非常道 - is a sentence selected from Taoism literature "Tao Te Ching" Pronunciation [Tao ke tao , Fey Cheong Tao] Basically means "If an ideology or a figure is able to be studied, then it is not a real ideology/figure" ps: the sentence is very deep and I have no idea why someone would use that as their id.

[@andrewkoskinen5080]

"I don't want to do math in a video... 150, 150... that's 400"

[@kurosetsuna29]

To be fair, this time he was counting the pylon when he said 400. You can see he selected the pylon. He was actually doing well counting this time.

[@rpheerema]

I used to copy Lowko in math class during test day, needless to say I’m happily working as a janitor today. Thanks Lowko for your addition skills!!!!

[@cruciare2750]

Florencio ... love that guys play style! lol

[@buttergaming123]

Lowko: “I don’t want to math in a video” Also Lowko “I don’t know 150+150 is 400”

[@BjornDov]

He counted the pylon

[@lucifersatan8240]

For all coop comanders Oracles are perma detectors, only Vorazun has them.

[@glenmcgillivray4707]

For all one commander who has Oracles they are indeed detectors. It is a wonder why no one else wants them.

[@ragedcarnage912]

Best way to start your weekend - lowko’s SC2 casts

[@grahamelliott9506]

love the drop OL with queens those nydus maybe are a backup for 'reverse creep spread' or an exit strategy for the containing zerg force, yeah could be played better but florencio is always challenging the meta and forging ahead into uncharted territory

[@TheAsker12]

I think this is what he was trying to do. Creep provides vision. Spread creep in random spots on the map, you have vision of just about everything. Use the nydus network and vision to spawn worms anywhere on the map. I THINK that was his original idea with the nydus and creep.

[@markhunter3533]

I have always wondered why no one used burrow in master league. It is so freaking good! Ambushes, blocking sites, protecting your units, etc. It has so many uses!

[@ragedcarnage912]

Lowko’s evil laugh when florencio wins

[@tannerd9798]

19:10 thats actually kinda smart because the phoenixes attack the overlord first

[@Jcarroz]

Been a bit since I watched one of these videos. Sooo glad it’s a sewer mermaid game.

[@assurhex1449]

actually we used to set a muta on a patrol route and get every other muta to follow. When the first one that goes in dies the others just go nuts and kill everything around them.

[@CallinWire]

At this point I'd be very interested in seeing Lowko cast a non-cheese macro Florencio game. If such a thing exists. I'd like to see what he'd build.

[@Florenciosc2]

Coming soon on the macro builds.

[@charlie5231990]

Here we have lowko speaking English with a Dutch accent while speaking Chinese in an English accent when pronouncing the blue player's name. Language-ception I love it 😂

[@eddy2922]

I want to see Florencio and Schnetz again 😁

[@Purrfect_Werecat]

Sees florencio named in title, clicks immediately

[@Purrfect_Werecat]

I bet this person faced thie burrow strat before and that explains why he made a cannon by the hatchery, so the drone couldn't burrow to safety

[@narmale]

what was it Duncan Idaho told Paul? "The good knife fighter thinks on point and blade and shearing-guard simultaneously. The point can also cut; the blade can also stab; the shearing guard can also trap your opponent's blade." "When your oponent fears you, then's the moment when you give the fear its own rein, give it the time to work on him. Let it become terror. The terrified man fights himself." "Keep the mind on the knife and not on the hand that holds it. The knife is more dangerous than the hand and the knife can be in either hand." has Flo been reading Dune? i think so... i think so

[@feartheghus]

in a serious note Florencio's cheese actually makes me feel bad for the other guy even though I'm normally on the side of Zerg, and we all know Protoss in ladder is cheese only so they normally deserve some of their own medicine. This is still too much cheese. Hilarious and fun to watch though, and the reverse creep is amazing.

[@JoseRivera-ry9cu]

Flo is a beast

[@noaccount4]

Everyone's favourite sewer mermaid

[@lyravega6577]

12:46 that giggle :D

[@lynk_1240]

This is indeed a great way to start the weekend!

[@albertakesson3164]

What a great match! Gotta love Florecio's style =D

[@pooyataleb2514]

I think it was Scarlett that used queens in an overlord to spread creep

[@vitaliyvasiliev7854]

Who. The. Fuck. Is. FLORENCIO?!

[@KyleBourret]

I don’t even play Starcraft, I just enjoy watching you cast. It would be cool if you showed your face when you cast like Winter does.

[@EC123z]

Creep spread looking like a campaign mission

[@toddschriver9924]

I saw a low GM game where the Terran couldn't expand to a third bc zerg put an overlord dumping creep and a burrowed ling at both of the third locations. So, the overlord got shooed away, ling was still there, by the time the line was dead, there was a new overlord. Very annoying.

[@angpoilim1587]

(Not so) fun fact: 道可道 is the first three characters in Laozi’s Tao Te Ching loosely translated into ‘The Way’ which is one of the fundamental texts for Taoism

[@savagefrito]

way of ways/road of roads/path of paths, two Dao characters

[@meggi8048]

lowko , hundreds is a bigger number then thousands! i still remember this from kindergarden

[@LachimusPrime]

Woah, Lowko! 4K!! Awesome! Pity my cheapo internet can't handle it :D

[@commandblock7077]

I'm fairly certain that putting creep outside the map is better if you know your enemy is turtling and or macro.

[@TrueThanny]

I wonder if that double Nydus was supposed to be double Evolution Chambers, but he messed up the hotkeys.

[@Joostuh]

I’m pretty sure it’s Friday all over the world today...

[@LowkoTV]

Already 8 am on Saturday in New Zealand when the video goes live.

[@Joostuh]

@@LowkoTV potverdikkie

[@MrNicoJac]

Damn, and 8 am is technically already 1/3rd of the day gone 😅

[@haoxus9413]

道可道 is a phrase from Taoism It means any truth that can be understood by us mere mortal, is not of any deep importance

[@FractalPrism.]

that is a paradox where the conclusion invalidates the premise; to know that something is or is not "deeply important" requires that "mere mortals" were able to determine if it was, since there is no other intelligent life that could also assess that "truth".

[@erictripps125]

Wow flows name is some high level trolling.

[@12-343]

I had an idea for a series you could do. Take viewer games and load them up without checking the ranks. Then based off the gameplay you try to guess the rank. You wouldn't need to watch the whole thing necessarily, just enough to make your verdict.

[@hazir7618]

what, harstem did this and lowko participated. called it rank roulette

[@12-343]

@@hazir7618 Oh, I missed that then. Whoops. This was inspired by a similar series from a Dota 2 channel.

[@OptimusWombat]

I see "Florencio", I click.

[@mslmj4256]

Lowko just like the Zerg, I have set up a nydus network to make it super early to your video :)

[@CLuigiplayer]

I kinda wanna see Florencio vs alphastar. How does the AI deal with his shenanigans?

[@Florenciosc2]

I beat alpha Star at Blizcon when Serral was facing up against it. I beat it's ass but it was a very hard game.

[@CLuigiplayer]

@@Florenciosc2 Oh that's sick dude! Is there a replay Lowko could cast? ;)

[@heroclix0rz]

Aww that wall...it's like watching a grown man punch a baby.

[@adamphelps2369]

“Flippy Flappies” 😂😄

[@thewave5536]

EPIC

[@Cryodrake]

I love videos like this.

[@jkobain]

Yes. YES! YES!!!! Thank you so much!!

[@zihaoding4864]

道可道 dao ke dao, is the first line of Daoism(a big Chinese origin religion) classic Dao De Jing

[@alexanderruplinger2453]

love you Lowko

[@NinjaAdorable]

This broke me !! I usually enjoy Florencio games, but that disgusting creep cheese, that broke me. How Florencio, how could you do this ?!

[@hanklestank]

Florencio. Zergling speed. Choose one.

[@sebastiancawsey5024]

Break out the popcorn as Florencio's games are a joy to watch! What would have really made his opponent squirm was if even one of those Nydus worms popped up in the Natural during the lurker drop in the main base.

[@1un4cy]

My strat I've had for 2 years is dropper-lord a queen to creep up the opponent's minerals. I just don't like playing pvp modes.

[@jakubkahoun8383]

I m doing that queen drops for 2 years. I call them creep emisaries.

[@ostrava2859]

Florencio video iut Me clicking try to guess the original strategy

[@stefanalenius]

10:25 We all wonder what going to third base with a sewer mermaid would be like... or maybe not....

[@MrNicoJac]

Stinky, probably Then again, people eat French cheeses, so there's probably a lot of interested guys 😆

[@dado380]

Lowko I love you man but Life is the best sc player ever,like it or not.He was literally savior of zerg and destroyer of whole game.

[@edwinzhang4187]

Yay the best time of the day

[@jsteel89]

It's Friday in the Netherlands? It's only Wednesday here.

[@Liam-do7rv]

It’s Friday in America aswell

[@guycook58]

He's name is the first sentence of an old classic book in china

[@defrte]

Taking a public dump in the middle of nowhere is kinda against against Geneva convention

[@bummers]

道可道、非常道。名可名、非常名 Dao Ke Dao, fei chang dao. Ming ke ming, fei chang ming. The Way (principle) that can be named "Way", is not the eternal (real) Way (which is beyond naming). The Name (words) that can be labelled, is not the eternal (real) name (of the Way).

[@45yt6]

道可道，非常道；名可名，非常名。

[@rondeguzman4097]

which is more painful, lurkers in the main or a swollen appendix? 😁